I looked out the window at the falling snow.

"Look, Shin!" I exclaimed. "It's snowing!"

My twenty-three year old brother who was keeping himself busy on his laptop looked up at me and out the window. "Oh, it is?"

I nodded quickly. "Can I go outside?"

"Not now, it's already late out," he said.

I pouted and drew back from the window sadly. 

"You can always go tomorrow," Shin smiled reassuringly. "You can ask Eunhyuk if he wants to come over,"

I grinned and jumped in place excitedly. "Really?? I can't wait!!!"

Eunhyuk is one of my closest friends. Actually, he's like my best friend, like a brother to me. We had similar interests, mostly and especially dancing.

He and I met through dance class in high school where we had so many competitions and events all over the country for dance shows and all of that fun stuff. Eunhyuk and I are still close friends today.

I made my way to the kitchen and started to cook and prepare dinner for the two of us.

Shin and I lived alone in a small townhouse, just me and him. Our parents passed away a while ago in an aero-accident. They were only in their mid-40s when they did. 

My dad, Daesung Lee, was a representative for a company that he worked for. He met my mother, April Lee, who was a receptionist for that company coincidentally. I'm half Caucasian, half Asian; Ka ul Lee.

So it's just me and my bro living by ourselves in the small town of a big city.

"Dinner's ready~" I announced into the living room for my brother to hear and prepare to eat.

"I'll be right there, Ka ul," he called back.

I nodded and placed everything that I cooked onto the table.

"Did you call all of this?" Shin chuckled, washing his hands in the kitchen sink. "My little sister is so awesome~ I'm proud of you!"

I giggled. "I'm proud of myself, too! For cooking all of this just for the two of us... Every day... Every night..."

Shin laughed. "I'll learn to cook like you one day, alright? Or I could just take us out for dinner,"

I smiled. "As much as I love cooking, I wouldn't mind taking a break from it one day and going out to eat,"

He smiled and patted my head. "Keep smiling, alright? My little sister is so cute and pretty!" 

"That's my motto!" I grinned cheerfully. "Keep smiling and good things are bound to happen!"

Shin laughed and sat down. "Then I guess many good things will happen to you, Ka ul."

I shrugged. "We'll never know!" I sat across from him at the table and we ate our dinner with chill conversations and laughs.

 

 

 

 

(Lee Chi Hoon as Lee Shin, Ka ul's older brother ;D kekeke.)

 

 

UPDATE#2

The next morning, another day of break from college, I pulled on a knit sweater and my jeans and a pair of boots to prepare for the cold weather outside. 

"Don't forget your jacket," Shin reminded me as he walked by the front door towards the kitchen. 

I laughed and nodded. "I know already! I don't wanna catch a cold before the competition on Monday,"

"Have you been practicing well?" he asked from the kitchen.

"Of course!" I said. "Every night, every morning by myself and sometimes with Eunhyuk."

Ah right, I forgot to mention that I'm in college. I'm 20, but people say I look younger for my age. 

That's good, right? I mean 20 isn't even that old anyway. I don't think it's an old age at all.

Eunhyuk and I attended different colleges. We both majored in dance, though, so we were attending most of the similar state competitions including the one this upcoming Monday.

When it comes to competitions, Eunhyuk and I do our best and still compete against each other even though we are friends. Whoever wins will win, whoever loses will lose.

Whatever happens, happens. I'm still going to smile and nothing will bring me down! Even if I lose, it's not the end of the world.

"Where are you off to?" my brother asked, walking up to me with a warm cup of coffee in his hand. 

"I'm gonna visit Eunhyuk. Maybe make a snowman," I added with a giggle. "If there's enough snow."

He nodded. "Alright, be careful okay?"

I laughed. "Shin, don't worry! I'll be fine,"

My brother can be overprotective of me sometimes, but that's just him.

I headed outside into the cold but bright sunny weather and looked around. I frowned when I saw that there wasn't enough on the ground to make a snowman, but it was enough to jump and roll around in.

I giggled and jumped for joy as I ran down the street quickly and turned the corner to knock on Eunhyuk's door.

"What do you want??" Eunhyuk opened the door immediately as if he knew I was already coming, a crooked smile with his sarcastic facial expression when he saw me.

See, we're best friends like that. We know when we're expecting each other.

I threw my arms around my best friend and squealed. "Look at all the pretty snow!"

"I can see that!" he laughed and picked me up a little bit before setting me down. "You're eyes look bluer than ever!"

Apparently in very bright areas such as snow everywhere on a sunny day my eyes, originally blue, become very blue. According to Eunhyuk and some of my other friends, that is. 

I pulled Eunhyuk out of his doorway. "Let's go!"

"Can't you wait?? I need to change out of my pajamas first!" he pouted and crossed his arms.

I looked down at his attire and did not notice that he still had his cute matching red plaid pajamas on. I giggled.

He glared at me and pouted cutely. I pouted back at him and stuck my tongue out.

"Well, go change already!" I laughed.

He laughed as well and opened his front door wider. "Alright, wait inside. I'll go change in my room,"

I nodded and grinned. "Ne!"

 

 

 

 

 

UPDATE#3

It took about ten to twenty minutes for Eunhyuk to come back out of his room all ready. His nice parents offered me a lot of food while I waited and I accepted most of it since I kinda skipped breakfast this morning....

Eunhyuk lived with both of his parents. Being a college student, he had to raise his own money and pay his parents for the rent. 

Anyway, his parents' food was delicious. What a good breakfast!

"Ready?" Eunhyuk asked.

"I should be asking you that," I laughed.

"Eunhyukkie, have something to eat first before you go!" his mom said.

"I'm fine Mom..." he mumbled bashfully at his insisting but caring mother. 

"You'll get hungry later," she spoke in such a motherly tone towards her son. 

I couldn't help but giggle a little.

Eunhyuk stuck his tongue at me and had to accept his mom's prepared breakfast meal for him.

I waited patiently for him to eat it.

Finally, we headed outside back into the cold snow under the bright sunny sky with many white clouds. 

"I'm so full," Eunhyuk groaned. "Mom's food is delicious but it's way too much sometimes..."

I shrugged and smiled. "Either way we got some breakfast! The best from your parents!"

We walked across the snowy ground towards an open field by the lake- our field by the lake- where only we and only we hung out. It was our chilling place, where we relax and....chill. Chillax, yeah.

Eunhyuk and I do homework and dance freestyle out here in the open. When there was no snow or it was bad weather, of course. It was just in the middle of the small forest next to Eunhyuk's house. 

The lake was frozen from the winter season. In the spring there would be many ducks wandering about it, bathing and dipping their heads into the clear lake water as they swam through it. Now they were in the South. 

I sat down by a tree and leaned against its trunk, making an indent of my body into the snowy ground underneath me. The snow wasn't that deep, but it was deep enough for me to sink into when I leaned back.

Eunhyuk sat next to me and made weird noises as he sat. He groaned and exhaled deeply.

I laughed a little. "You sound like you're getting old,"

"I am old," he said, groaning again.  "My mom needs to remember that I'm a diet and that I'm working on keeping my body fit...."

"Tell her again," I shrugged and looked up at the sky as I lay back into the snow. It felt so good and so refreshing to be sitting in this cold snow under a bright sunny sky. "And you're not old," I added.

He laughed and looked up at the sky with me.

I took my phone out and put the camera on, pointing it towards my face and part of Eunhyuk's next to me. "Say cheese!"

Eunhyuk had a surprised look on his face with his mouth halfway opened when I snapped the picture. "Whaa--?" he was trying to say before I hit the button.

I laughed aloud, throwing my head back at his face in the picture.

Eunhyuk rolled his eyes and pushed me playfully. "Give me that!" he took my phone out of my hand and snapped another picture of the two of us. 

This time I was the derp looking one, laughing like a maniac next to him in the snapshot.

I laughed again and took my phone back, pushing Eunhyuk back playfully. "Okay, okay, one more..." I smiled and couldn't stop laughing a little as we took a new one.

He laughed and stuck his tongue out for the next picture. I smiled and hit the button, capturing our moment in the snow. 

"I like this one," I commented when I viewed the recent picture that we just snapped. 

"Take another one," Eunhyuk said. "My tongue looks weird,"

I rolled my eyes. "No one cares what you're tongue looks like!"

"Just take another one!" he laughed and took my phone to take one more picture. Both of us smiled for this one. 

He handed my phone back to me. "There, that picture is better."

I laughed. "Alright, alright," 

After looking through the pictures we took a few more times, we each took our own selcas with the snow of the ground as our background. 

I laid back and took a selca with my phone above me. Eunhyuk stood up and got the frozen lake along with other plants covered with snow as his background.

Then we sat back and relaxed once again. I played some music from my phone as I rolled around a little.

Eunhyuk laughed. "What a snow pig,"

"Snow pig??" I cocked my eyebrows and laughed a little. 

"Yeah!" Eunhyuk said. "A pig who rolls in snow instead of mud,"

I shoved him playfully. "Who's the pig?"

He smirked and tossed a ball of snow towards my face. "You are, Ka ul~"

I pursed my lips into a smile and peered at him through the snow that slid down my forehead and cheeks and then down to where my scarf was. "Oh no you didn't," I said through gritted teeth.

I grabbed a handful of snow in both of my hands and stood up in front of him. 

Eunhyuk jumped back from his position on the snowy ground floor and looked up at me. "Oh, Ka ul, you wouldn't want to do that, would you?"

I grinned with an innocent eye smile as I neared him. "I would!"

He helped and tried to stand and prepare to run, but I threw the two snowballs towards his arm and accidentally the lower part of his back. 

He turned around scoffed in surprise. "You hit me in the !"

I stuck my tongue out at him and turned to run away.

"Get back here!" he shouted and we laughed and started a wild goose chase around the frozen lake. 

I squealed and ran as fast as I could through the snow. It was slowing me down; I could run faster than this. 

"Be careful of the lake," Eunhyuk warned when we got closer to the lake's edge. 

I stopped and looked at the frozen water. "It looks so cool..."

Eunhyuk walked up next to me and casually dropped a snowball on top of my head. "It makes me want to go ice skating,"

I pursed my lips again and smiled, pushing him softly. He laughed and threw his arm around me. 

"This lake probably isn't safe for ice skating," I said. "Let's go somewhere else that isn't near frozen water,"

Eunhyuk nodded. "Wouldn't want to fall in,"

 

 

 

 

UPDATE#4

 

We made our way back to where the trees were and walked towards the thinner ones. We shook them so that snow flew off their branches and sprinkled over our heads.

I laughed gleefully and smiled as I held my hands out in front of me to catch the falling snow. 

From the corner of my eye, I could see something shiny and bright. When I turned to look, there was nothing but a forest floor of snow.

I blinked in confusion and went back to catching the snow with Eunhyuk. 

But then I saw it again, across the open field in the woods. 

"Did you see that?" I asked Eunhyuk. 

He blinked, turning to where I was looking and shook his head. The light has suddenly disappeared. 
"Nope," he tossed a snowball towards me unexpectedly. "But I saw that,"

I tried to catch it quickly but it melted through my hands. I glared at him with a smirk on my face.

"You wanna go?" I cocked my eyebrows at him and grabbed a handful of snow again.

He giggled with a gummy smile on his face and started to run. 

I laughed and ran after him.

As I ran through the forest, the light appeared again out of the corner of my eye. 

I looked at it quickly and stopped running. I stood where I was and stared.

What is that light? I thought, stepping towards it. It's almost as if it's calling me... 

Eunhyuk was still running through the woods further away from me, his guffawing laugh slowly fainting away.

I glanced at him and looked back at the light. "Eh, I'll get him later,"

The light was getting brighter and brighter as I stepped towards it through the thin snowy forest floor. When I was close enough, I could see someone standing in the middle of it. 

I blinked in confusion. "What? A person?" I said to myself. 

They reached out to me, I could see one of their arms extending towards me. For some reason, I was supposed to come to them so I kept walking.

"Ka ul!" I heard Eunhyuk's voice then. 

My ears perked at his voice but I couldn't turn to face him. I couldn't even stop myself from walking. 

What is this?? I furrowed my eyebrows. I can't move!

Well, I'm moving but I can't control myself. I can't stop walking!

"What are you doing, Ka ul?!?" Eunhyuk yelled, and I could hear his footsteps behind trying to catch up to me. 

"This isn't me!!" I yelled back. "I can't---!"

The light got closer and closer as I got closer and closer; There was a boy standing in the middle of it.

"Ka ul, there's someone there!" Eunhyuk yelled again. 

"I can see that!" I groaned and tried to fight against whatever was controlling me. Why couldn't I move myself?! I'm walking towards some stranger in the middle of the forest!

"I'll be back." 

I blinked and peered at the figure whose mouth opened a little at those words.

"Huh?" I tilted my head. 

Did someone say that?..... 

That person?

How creepy...

"Ka ul!!" Eunhyuk was a few feet behind me now. He stepped over a large branch and shouted my name in a louder voice.

I flinched and turned quickly to look at him. "Eunhyuk!" 

"Watch out!!!" he ran towards me at the same time I turned around to see what I was just about to step on. 

I jumped back quickly when I stepped onto the frozen lake, but I jumped a little too vigorously and slipped with my leg twisted towards the side across the ice.

I screamed in pain and collapsed into the snow next to the edge of the lake. 

By the time I looked up at the bright light with the figure in it, they had disappeared.

What had just happened?

 

 

 

 

UPDATE#5

 

"Are you okay?" Eunhyuk asked. My arm was around his shoulder as we slowly made our way through the snowy field back towards the neighborhood.

I nodded, wincing in pain a little when I tried to place my leg on the ground. 

"Keep it up," he said. "You sprained it, that's all. We'll just put a bag of ice on it when we get home,"

"Will it heal by Monday??" I asked worriedly, remembering the competition.

Eunhyuk didn't respond. I frowned and sighed deeply, knowing that my leg wouldn't heal in just two days for the competition. 

"What was I thinking?" I said out loud to myself. "I was following that light... And I slipped..."

"I know it's not your fault," Eunhyuk said. "But... How were you not controlling yourself? Were you drunk?"

I shoved him playfully. "No, I wasn't drunk."

He smiled. "I was just kidding,"

I limped towards the door of my house with my arm still around Eunhyuk. I sighed when I remembered Shin.

"My brother is going to kill me..." I muttered. "He even warned me not to injure myself before Monday's competition."

Eunhyuk frowned sadly and helped me up the porch. 

"I can still go," I said. "Two days is enough for my leg,"

He blinked. "No it's not! Ka ul, you need to rest."

I sighed. "I'll persuade my brother,"





"KA UL!!!!!!"

I flinched at my brother's voice and cringed behind Eunhyuk who flinched as well. He gaped at me frantically and jerked his head towards my brother telling me to talk to him.

"Ka ul," Shin sighed and repeated my name calmly. "Didn't I warn you not to hurt yourself before the competition on Monday?"

I pursed my lips and limped from behind Eunhyuk with my sprained leg. "Well... I warned myself not to get sick before the competition on Monday..." 

My brother crossed his arms and shook his head at me. "I should t have let you gone outside,"

"Shin, I'll be fine!" I said. "My leg will be alright in no time,"

"No," he said. "You're not going,"

"Yes I am!" I raised my voice and shouted back. "I have to, and you can't stop me!"

Shin rolled his eyes and nodded to Eunhyuk for him to leave.

"See you later..." Eunhyuk leaned towards me and whispered before turning to head out the door.

My older brother walked towards me and picked me up over his shoulder, carrying me up the stairs.

"Shin!!" I exclaimed in surprise. "I could walk upstairs by myself---"

"No, you can't." he interrupted.

I pursed my lips and pouted in silence as Shin continued to carry me into my room and tuck me into bed.

"I'll bring your lunch and dinner later," he said. "Until then, rest your leg. Alright?"

I couldn't help but smile at my overprotective brother. "Thank you, Shin Oppa."

He smiled softly in return and left my room.

I sighed and stretched my legs out in front of me, squishing my cheeks into the palms of my hands. 

"This is all my fault..." I said out loud to myself. "I shouldn't have... Ugh that wasn't preventable. I had to go out into the pretty white snow with my best friend, Eunhyuk!"

I pouted at the sight of my red ankle. Yet I got myself hurt from following that weird light...

But... What the heck was that light?
 

 

 

 

UPDATE#6

 

Later on, Shin brought dinner to my room and sat next to me while I ate. 

I blinked. "You cooked?"

He laughed a little and shook his head. "No, I just warmed up some of the leftovers from last night's dinner."

"Oh," I laughed and looked over the meal I cooked on my own one night ago.

"How are you?" Shin asked me as he placed a cold bag of ice on my injured ankle. 

I picked up a spoonful of macaroni  and stuffed it into my mouth, wincing slightly at the pressure on my leg. I nodded at him. "I'm okay,"

Shin laughed. "Don't talk with your mouth full, Ka ul." 

I pouted and swallowed. "Who are you, my mom?"

There was an awkward silence between us then. 

Shin sighed. "I'm just trying my best to take care of you."

"I know," I said. "Thank you," 

"Mom and dad aren't here right now," he pursed his lips and sighed again. "So I'll be here for you,"

I smiled at him. "I know you will, Shin. But mom and dad are always here,"

He smiled and nodded, pointing to my chest where my beating heart was. "I know, in there."

I grinned. "Yeah!"

Shin chuckled and patted me on the head. "You're still a little kid," 

I shook my head and stuffed another spoonful of food into my mouth. "No, I'm all grown up now,"

"But you're still my little sister, okay? My adorable little sister." he smiled again and stood up from my bed, taking my empty dinner plate with him towards the door. "Rest well tonight, alright?"

I nodded. "Ne!"

Yes, I eat dinner fast okay.




That night, I tried my best to get into a comfortable position to fall asleep in. 

Thanks to my injured ankle, however, I wasn't progressing.

I sighed and stretched out flat on my back and looked up at the dark ceiling of my room. I clasped my hands together and brought them close to my lips.

Please... Please let me be okay for this Monday's dance competition... I prayed. I can't miss a dance competition... Ever... I love dancing...

As if waiting for something to happen, I sat still on my bed silently and remained as still as I could.

Then I sighed. Can a miracle even happen in one night?

I rolled over slightly but as not to move my legs and blinked a few times to try and fall asleep.

Time passed and my eyes slowly became heavy and I felt drowsy. The lids of my eyes slowly closed over just as a dimming light appeared in the corner of my room.

I couldn't tell exactly if it was a dream or if there was a weird light in my room.

The light was nearing my sprained leg and there was some sort of a rejuvenating feeling that I felt as the light touched it.

I peered slightly at the light, at the shadow of a unicorn, before my eyes shut tightly into deep sleep.

And from that day on, although I was unsure whether or not the weird light in my room was a dream, I was sure of one thing.

Unicorns are real.

 

 

 

 

 

UPDATE#7

 

Okay, maybe unicorns aren't real. I mean they could be...........

But that light sure was real. The light from last night in the shape of a unicorn was probably a random figmentation of my imagination.

It is now the next morning, and a miracle had occurred overnight.

Because my leg was fully healed.

I stood up from my bed and looked down at my leg where I had injured it yesterday. 

There was no red mark, no awkward looking bone that looked dislocated, no sign at all that I had sprained it.

I bent down to put a little pressure into it, and there was no pain. 

Then I stood on it with my other leg raised from the ground to balance on the healed leg.

I blinked. I can walk... I can balance...

I took the ice pack from my bed and walked towards the door of my room slowly and carefully. 

I grinned to myself and spun gleefully, adding a small body roll afterwards. 

I can dance again!

As confused as I was, I was happy. 

A unicor--- a light--- had healed my leg!

And I saw it happen. Maybe. Well it might've been a dream...

Wait a minute... I stopped in the middle of the hallway and thought. That light... Isn't that the same light from the forest yesterday?

"Ka ul! What are you doing! Why are you standing??" Shin exclaimed in horror with a tray in his hands that had a plate of eggs with toast on the side.

I blinked at him and smiled. "Morning, Shin! My leg is healed,"

"Oh, will you cut the act and go back to bed?" Shin sighed and pushed the tray against me a little to turn me back towards my room. "I'm not letting you go anywhere until you're leg is healed!"

"But it is!" I said and started to jump in place. "See?"

"Oh my Jinki's!" he shrieked a little. "Ka ul, stop that! You'll hurt yourself!"

I laughed loudly. "'Jinki's'?? What kind of a word is that?"

Shin blinked and cleared his throat. "I have no idea."

"It sounds like a name," I commented. "Someone's name..."

"Anyway, get back into bed!" he said to me, "I have breakfast for you already,"

"Seriously, Shin," I said. "It's healed!" I pulled my leg upwards in front of me using the flexibility of a dancer, and pulled my ankle in front of his face.

"Put your foot down!" Shin gasped frantically and looked at my foot. He studied it carefully and furrowed his eyebrows in confusion.

"See?" I grinned innocently. "It doesn't even look like I sprained it at all!"

My older brother's mouth dropped, and so did the breakfast tray in front of him. He took my leg and looked around for any injury from yesterday.

"What the..." he whispered. "How the heck did this happen?"

I shrugged. "I saw a unicorn last night. I think it had some sort of healing power and it had light surrounding it, too!"

The same light... From yesterday that led me to injure my leg...

Shin peered at me and tilted his head as if I were crazy. "Ka ul, I don't know how this happened..."

"So can I go to Monday's competition??" I asked excitedly.

He sighed and crossed his arms. "You got lucky this time,"

"Hooray!" I cheered and threw my arms around him, laughing with joy and excitement.

"A light, you said?" Shin asked. "A unicorn.... And a light?"

I shrugged and smiled a little. 

What exactly was that light though?

He chuckled a little and bent down to pick up the spilled breakfast on the floor. "Maybe it was just an angel who liked your smile and healed your leg,"

"My smile??" I laughed and grinned widely. "That couldn't have been it,"

"You'll never know," Shin smiled and stood up. "Now did you still want breakfast in bed or make your own?"

I giggled and ran down the stairs happily towards the kitchen to make me and my older brother am awesome breakfast.

I'm going to find out more about this weird light I've seen around a lot.

The light that led me to injure myself..... But then right afterwards came back in the middle of the night to heal it.

Something fishy is going on around here.


 

 

 

 

UPDATE#8

"Did you feed the fish?" Shin asked me as I pulled on a jacket for the cold weather outside. 

It's going to be a long trip. I have a competition today! 

I nodded at him. "Yeah, I fed him! This morning right when I woke up,"

"I'm sorry I can't go to your competition," Shin said sadly with a frown. "I would've gone if I didn't have all of these exams on the same day."

"It's alright!" I pinched both of his cheeks and shook them slightly. "Your exams are more important. Why do you even have so many exams right after winter break?"

He shrugged. "Oh well. They won't be that bad, I hope. I studied a lot these past few days,"

I smiled. "I noticed!"

My older brother always attended my dance competitions anyway. Missing one is not that big of a deal.

I pulled on my shoes and stretched my leg up against the wall next to me to tie my shoelaces.

The benefit of being so flexible: you don't have to bend down to tie your shoes.

"I still don't get how your leg healed so quickly though," he said, leaning against the wall with a cup of coffee in his hand. He looked down at my leg. "Are you sure it's better?"

I nodded quickly. "Yes, Oppa. I'm perfectly fine! It's as if nothing even happened to it!"

Shin continued to peer in suspicion at my leg and sipped at his coffee. Then he looked up at me. "Be careful out there, okay?"

I ran up to him and embraced him, pecking a soft kiss on his cheek. "See you later, big bro,"




Eunhyuk blinked in confusion at me when I ran up to him where he waited at the bus stop with a few others.

Since we were going to the same competition, riding the bus of the same universities doesn't matter.

"Who are you?" he laughed a little and looked down at my leg. "Where is my crippled best friend who clumsily slipped into the frozen lake just a few days ago?"

"I was not crippled!" I pouted and punched him playfully in the shoulder. "And I was not clumsy. I had a reason!"

"What happened?" he frowned. "Don't tell me you're faking this. You've got to stay home and rest!"

I shook my head. "I'm perfectly fine!"

"Are you sure?" Eunhyuk asked, a little doubtful.

I nodded. "Yes! Why? Do you not want me to go?"

"No, that's not what I meant," he laughed a little and peered at me suspiciously. "That's weird, though. How did it heal so quickly?"

I shrugged but leaned in towards him to whisper, "I have something to tell you on the bus,"

Eunhyuk blinked. "Why not now?"

"Shhh!" I pressed one of my fingers to his lips and looked around. "Because we'll never know who's listening..."

He laughed. "It's not like some unicorn magically appeared in your room and---"

"That's exactly what happened!" I exclaimed before he finished his sentence.

"Wait, what?" he jumped back slightly with a puzzled expression on his face. "Seriously?"

The bus arrived and we allowed the others at the stop to board it before Eunhyuk and I did.

When we found our seats on the bus, Eunhyuk looked around nervously for anyone who could be listening. Then he leaned towards me and whispered.

"Tell me about that...unicorn...." he said.

I laughed a little. "It wasn't exactly a unicorn, just a really bright light in the shape of one."

"Oh." Eunhyuk blinked. 

"Maybe I was just imagining a unicorn there since I was half asleep..." I shrugged. "But there was really some sort of light by my bed...and I felt it on my leg."

Eunhyuk tilted his head in thought. "Maybe it was an angel........"

"I don't know," I shrugged again and sighed. "But you know, that was the same light that I saw in the forest the other day."

"The one you were following and slipped into the frozen lake?" he asked.

"Yeah, that." I said. "See, I did have a reason for not paying attention. It was as if I was...not on Earth anymore, as if someone was calling me to them."

"And this light who led you to injure yourself," Eunhyuk suggested, "Comes back in the middle of the same night to heal you?"

I shrugged. "Yeah, could be."

"A-a-are you sure you just didn't get a quick surgery on that?" Eunhyuk asked, still very confused.

 

 

 

UPDATE#9

 

"I'm serious," I told him.

He sighed and looked out the window next to him.

"Did you see that someone was in that light?" he asked without making eye contact with me.

I blinked. "Was there?" I couldn't remember exactly what I had seen in the snowy forest that day other than a very bright light.

He nodded. "How could you not see them?" 

"Well, I did hear a voice.." I tilted my head into thought. "But why me, I wonder?"

It was silent between us for the rest of the ride. 

The bus continued its way to our destination where there would be many other talented dancers from other universities. 

When we arrived, Eunhyuk and I stepped off of the bus and walked in with the other students into the large building. 

This was another university at the end of town, where the dance competition was being held at.

People from all over have come to compete.

"You sure you're okay?" Eunhyuk asked me as we entered the large stadium. 

I nodded. "Yes, Hyuk, I'll be fine,"

He sighed. "Well thank goodness you're alright." 

We looked around the wide stage in front of us where dancers would perform in front of judges and get ranked based on their performance and how they do. 

Once every few months, students who took dance in many different universities sign up, if they are interested, to compete in this dance competition to test their performance out of the whole state. 

Of course, I always took the opportunities to compete in these kinds of things. 

Problem is, I'm always either ranked 4th, 3rd, or 2nd, which was a pretty high rank. But I could never get first rank, and there was a certain reason why.

I noticed a blonde-haired girl nearby who walked out from the locker room.

Oh, great... It's her. My rival.

Hyoyeon was so beautiful and she is such an awesome dancer. I look up to her like an idol. One day I just want to beat her in the competition and show her that I can be the dancer like she is and reach her level.

The number one ranked dancer, Kim Hyoyeon, who always gets ranked first place in these dance competition of the whole state.

"She's so hot," Eunhyuk sighed and stared dreamily as Hyoyeon walked past us to the other side of the auditorium stage, seeming to be preparing quickly and busily for her performance.

I smacked him playfully and shushed him to be quiet. "You're so embarrassing!"

Eunhyuk knew Hyoyeon since all the way back in elementary school. They weren't close, but Eunhyuk said that she was really talented...and all of that talent has paid off from since then to today.

There were a few times when Hyukkie had some feelings for Hyoyeon. I would roll my eyes and tell him to just go for it, but later on he would get upset because he can't reach her level of dancing. 

Eunhyuk always got either 2nd or 3rd place in rank. Sometimes I would rank higher than him, sometimes lower. 

I felt that way about Hyoyeon, too, about not being able to reach her level of dancing. I admire her. I admired everything about her; I could never become enemies with her. 

Making enemies isn't my thing anyway. 

The announcements came on and the loud booming voice sounded through the speakers that surrounded the large auditorium. "The competition will now begin!"
 

 

 

UPDATE#10

 

"Time to go," Eunhyuk smiled and patted me on the back. "Good luck, Ka ul." 

 

 

UPDATE#11

 

UPDATE#13

 

 

 

UPDATE#14

Did someone give birth? I meant that the figure in the light is a handsome boy in his twenties who may or may not be an angel or some type of ghost with magical healing powers.

I sighed as I walked through our place in the forest, the open field next to the lake where Eunhyuk and I always hung out. 

"You're going there again?" Eunhyuk had asked me earlier. "After injuring yourself?"

"It's still our place," I told him. "Not even a blood stain on one of the trees could stop me," 

Eunhyuk had somewhere to go today with his parents, so I was by myself. 

The lake had melted into cold rushing water from the last time we've been here. The winter season was almost over.

I reached for my left shoulder and rubbed it, remembering that it was supposed to hurt from that spin the other day in the dance room. 

But that bright light had healed me again.. I thought, So I wasn't in pain anymore.

Speaking of bright light. I looked up at the sky towards the dim sunlight that peeked from behind the clouds. There wasn't a lot of sun to see today due to cloudy weather.

Either that, or it's really foggy out here.

I turned quickly when I heard a sudden noise nearby. 

What was that?

I followed the sound into the forest behind the lake and caught sight of the bright light. 

Immediately, I ran towards it.

Wait, Ka ul Lee, what are you doing? What if it gets you hurt again??

I shook my head and stopped myself, but the light started to fly away somewhere else.

I gasped and continued after it. "Wait!!"

I could get hurt again... I thought, fighting with myself mentally.

But the light healed me... Twice now.

And I saw him in the dance room... There's someone in that light.

I want to know who exactly it is. Angel or not, there's something about the light somehow reaching my instincts and call on me...

I turned a corner which led me out of the forest into another open field where there were still some trees and scattered leaves on the ground. The light was heading up a hill.

I ran after it, my eyes set on the light straight ahead of me.

Too focused on it that I didn't realize the ground suddenly disappear beneath my feet.

There were a pile of leaves that I was running through, and then I couldn't feel the ground anymore. 

I shrieked and screamed in surprise and slid through the leaves into the ground underneath them, about twelve to thirteen feet down.

I landed on my bottom with a thud.

I stood up and brushed dirt off of me, looking up at the entrance of the pit I had fallen through. 

"Why do things happen when all I'm doing is going after that light?!" I asked myself, sitting down in frustration with a pout on my face.

I looked up at the sky again where a couple of leaves were flying down to hit me softly in the face. The sky was a dark blue color, signaling evening soon. 

There was a cool breeze that got stronger and I heard footsteps nearby.

I stood up quickly and looked up. "Help!" I called. "I'm down here!"

A figure stood over the hole and looked down at me.

"Heyyy!" I shouted up. "A little help here??"

They threw down a rope which I grabbed so that they can pull me up.

The rope pulled me upwards towards the earth's surface. I climbed my way out and caught my breath next to the pit. Then I stood up to thank my rescuer.

He was a boy, a good-looking one, tall and slim with short brown soft looking hair flipped to one side.

"Thank you so much," I exhaled sharply in relief and bowed a little. "I didn't even see that huge hole there..."

He smiled and nodded. "Your welcome," 

I looked up the hill for any sign of the bright light and sighed in disappointment when I couldn't find any.

I turned to the boy. "Have you seen a really bright light around here?" I asked him.

The boy stared at me for a moment before shaking his head. "I haven't."

I peered at him. I'm sure the light had gone this way, and he was bound to see it before he rescued me.

"What's your name?" I asked.

"I'm Yixing." he said. "Yours?"

"My name's Ka ul," I smiled and shook his hand. "Nice to meet you!"

"Nice to meet you, too, Ka ul," Yixing grinned back.

I looked around at our surroundings. "Just wondering but, why are you here in the middle of the hill at this time?" 

He looked around as well and smiled.

"It makes me feel comfortable." he said, sitting down where he was standing. "To be surrounded by nature and wide open space, doesn't it make you feel free?" 

I sat down next to him and looked straight across, surprised to see a sunset right before my eyes which I hadn't notice before.

It's already late? I wondered. How long had I been out...

"It's where I usually hang out," he said. 

"I hang out with my friend nearby as well," I spoke, "But he wasn't here today..." 

I glanced at Yixing. For some reason, this guy seems really familiar. It makes me feel comfortable around him.

He looked at me so that we made eye contact. I looked away quickly and smiled.

"Why do you seem so familiar?" I asked.

... Why did I randomly ask that.

I looked at him from the corner of my eyes to see him blinking and looking back at me. 

Then he laughed. "I have no idea, but you're funny, Ka ul," 

I tilted my head at him with a puzzled expression. "Thanks, Yixing.." 

He stood up. "Shall I take you home then?"

"Huh?" I blinked. "Oh, you don't have to..." 

"It's alright," Yixing smiled. "It's getting late, anyway," he reached one of his hands out to me.

I looked up at him and took his hand so that he pulled me on my feet. 

"You live nearby?" he asked.

I nodded. "How did you know?"

"Oh, uh--" he laughed nervously, "I do, too,"

"That's cool!" I said, "Maybe we can hang out again soon,"

Yixing smiled. "That would be great, Ka ul," 

We continued our way in, out, and around the forest until we arrived in front of my house.

"Thank you again, Yixing," I bowed a little. 

He chuckled. "Just call me Lay, and you don't have to be formal with me. I'm close to your age remember?"

I blinked and nodded. "Oh, yeah! Alright, see you around, Lay."

Lay grinned and waved. "See you, Ka ul," 

I turned to open the front door of my house and stepped inside. "Shin oppa! I'm home~!"

I decided to let Lay in for a bit to introduce him to my brother. "Hey Lay, would you like to---"

When I turned back to him, he was already gone. 

I frowned. "Maybe he was in a hurry to get home..." 

Shin came in from the kitchen. "Hey, Ka ul," he said, "You coming in?"

I looked at him. "Yeah, I am,"

"Hurry and cook cuz I'm hungry..." he pouted and ruffled my hair out of place.

I laughed and sighed. "Yeah yeah, go cook for yourself," 

 

 

 

UPDATE#15

I sat in my room on the bed, getting ready to sleep. I pulled my phone out when it started to ring.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Ka ul!" Eunhyuk exclaimed. "Did anything happen? What'd you do all day?"

I laughed. "How about yours? What did you do with your parents?"

"I asked you about your day first.." he mumbled. "But if you really want to know, my parents took me out for some Korean BBQ with a couple of their other friends. Pretty chill day,"

"Sounds like fun!" I grinned. 

"And you?" Eunhyuk asked. 

"Well," I spoke, "I was by the lake again---"

"Did you fall in?!" he gasped.

"Let me finish, geez!" I laughed. "I didn't exactly get hurt, but I saw the light again and---"

"You got hurt!!" Eunhyuk gasped again. "Ka ul I told you---"

"Eunhyuk." I said.

"Alright, alright," he mumbled. 

"I followed it," I continued, "And I ran into this guy who looks like he's around our age," 

"I'm close to your age, remember?" Lay had said.

Wait... I thought. How did he know how old I was?...

"Weird..." I whispered. 

"And?" Eunhyuk asked. "What happened?"

"Oh, we should invite him to hang out with us!" I suggested. "His name is Lay. I think he's new in the area,"

"Really? Alright," he said. "Maybe sometime this week or next week. But what about that light?"

I blinked. "If I see the light again, I will catch it.."

"I'll help!" Eunhyuk spoke enthusiastically. "Let's go light hunting... Or is it angel hunting? But the word 'hunting' sounds a little harsh..."

I laughed. "I'm off to bed now. You should get some sleep, too, Hyukkie,"

"Yeah, yeah," he chuckled. "Good night~" 

I hung up and pulled the bed covers up to my chin.

I kept thinking about that boy, the one named Yixing...

If I call him "boy," it makes him seem too young. What should I call him?

"Lay, the handsome guy who rescued me from the pit?" I laughed softly to myself as I prepared the table. "Like, a savior maybe?"

An angel...

I shook my head at the thought of Lay being an angel. That couldn't be...

I sighed and stared at the ceiling until my eyes slowly shut and fell into darkness.

 

 

UPDATE#16

 

 

He drove me home and the car ride was silent the whole time. 

 

 

UPDATE#17

 

I stomped into the dance room the next night and turned the music up loud to a metal and screaming song.

 

I placed my bags and books down in the corner of the room before slumping slowly towards the middle in front of the mirrors.

 

Then I stomped again in place and threw my arms around vigorously, swaying my body back and forth to make it look like a dance move.

 

The radio was suddenly turned off and I heard laughing.

 

"Why do you look so mad?" Lay chuckled and changed the music to a softer pop song. He started to walk towards me.

 

I rolled my eyes and caught my breath on my knees from swaying too hard.

 

"What do you want?" I asked, walking towards my belongings for a drink of water from my bottle.

 

"I'm just practicing," he smiled.

 

I walked back to the center of the room and danced to the pop song he changed it to. "You didn't tell me you could dance," I said.

 

"Was I supposed to?" Lay smirked and shrugged.

 

I smacked myself in the head and continued to dance, spinning a little bit. Why does this guy seem like he's just teasing? Is he making fun of me?

 

He stood next to me and imitated the same spin. I stopped to glare at him while he grinned back.

 

I jumped forward and leapt left then right. He also imitated the moves.

 

I stood in place and started to move my feet, starting with my right foot sliding back behind my left foot. And then I did a mini plié before straightening and swinging my foot back to the front and kick forward.

 

Again, Lay did the same. Except he added a little kick to the back to turn around.

 

I peered at him.

 

I'll show him that I can be as talented and 'teasing' as he can.

 

The music went into an instrumental part of the song where I was able to move my feet in and out while tutting a little bit in my hands.

 

For hours as the radio continued to play various songs of different musical genres I threw my best dance moves out in front of Lay while he showed off some of his own. It turned into some sort of a dance battle.

 

After what felt like hours of nonstop practicing, I fell back onto the floor and caught my breath as if I had gotten out of a race. 

 

Lay collapsed next to me and caught his breath as well. He groaned and sighed in relief. "Well, that felt nice,"

 

I stared up at the ceiling in silence for a few moments. He stared with me.

 

"Where did you come from?" I spoke, panting heavily.

 

"Not from your planet," he said rather quickly. I laughed a little and took that as a joke.

 

"How did you know that this was my school..." I asked through heavy breaths. "You knew where the dance room was, too..."

 

"I guess I did some research," he shrugged. "Kinda through a college visit...?"

 

More like stalking... a random thought popped in my head.

 

I shook the thought off and continued to stare at the ceiling.

 

"Do you like unicorns?" Lay suddenly asked.

 

I made a face. Random.........

 

"Uhh... Yeah, sure," I said. "But I don't have one. I have a pet fish named Memo!"

 

At the word 'unicorn' I suddenly remembered the snowy winter night where I fell into the frozen lake and broke my ankle.

 

A unicorn healed it the same night.. I thought. I still have to find that light... The light who injured me and then right afterwards healed me.

 

He laughed. "I like unicorns, too."

 

I tilted my head. Speaking of which, the light hasn't appeared for a while. Where did it go?

 

"Hey, Lay..." I spoke.

 

"Yeah?" he asked.

 

"You don't...know any sort of ghost or angel rumors going around do you?" I asked.

 

He chuckled. "Actually, I do know."

 

I blinked. "Are they true?"

 

Lay shrugged. "Who knows,"

 

I furrowed my eyebrows. Something is weird about this kid... Not to mention that we JUST met not too long ago, and now we're talking as if we're best friends.

 

"Well, I should get going now," Lay sat up and stood, reaching a hand down to me to help me up. I took it and stood next to him.

 

"Do you know your way out?" I asked.

 

He laughed a little and shrugged. "I'll find my way,"

 

I pursed my lips and nodded as he bid me a small wave and left the room.

 

I ran to the window to look for his figure exiting the building. It didn't take him long to find the exit.

 

He was walking out and looked around and looked up where I was staring down at him. I quickly hid myself behind the walls by the windows.

 

I peeked through the corner of the window to continue watching him. Suddenly, a light emitted from him. His figure went bright and transformed into the shape of a unicorn.

 

And then he disappeared.

 

I blinked a few times before my eyes widened in horror.

 

"Was he the light all along?" I asked myself.

 

It's him!

 

I gasped and face palmed myself. I knew he looked familiar! He appeared to me in this very dance room before, when I got hurt!

 

He appeared in the winter forest as the light I felt I wanted to follow, but instead injure myself...and he healed me.

 

It's him! I found the light! The unicorn!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I found my angel.

 

 

 

 

UPDATE#18

 

The next day, I opened the doors of my windows and looked out into a bright sunny day.

 

I sighed and looked up at the sky, leaning an elbow against the windowsill.

 

Lay could not have been a ghost. I thought. He's too real to be one.

 

So it must mean that he really is an angel.

 

I tilted my head in thought and sighed again, turning to my cabinet and drawers for new clothes and a towel.

 

I headed out of my room and down the hall towards the bathroom for a morning shower.

 

 

 

When I stepped out after I was done, I wrapped myself in a towel and took a mini towel to wrap my hair.

 

All of a sudden, a circle of thin black air appeared before me and two figures stepped out, one female and one male.

 

I blinked in confusion before I realized what was going on.

 

A girl- a bit shorter than me- and a tall boy had appeared out of nowhere in my own bathroom. 

 

We exchanged glances and blinked at each other.

 

The boy blinked dumbfoundedly in surprise when he saw the state I was in and quickly disappeared into a black cloud of air. 

 

The girl widened her eyes at the boy who was no longer there. "Kai!" she groaned and started to panic.

 

I stood where I was, frozen in shock. 

 

Should I yell out for my brother or not?

 

The girl jumped in place looking around and continued to panic, rocking on her feet.

 

Wait, are they ghosts? Weren't there rumors going around about a ghost popping out of nowhere in front of people?....

 

But I don't remember there being two ghosts.

 

The girl looked at me and smiled nervously. 

 

"Hi, unnie..." she spoke.

 

And I let out a scream. 

 

 

 

UPDATE#19

 

"Ka ul! Ka ul!!" Shin banged on the bathroom door and yelled my name. "Are you okay?? What's going on in there?!"

 

"I- I-- uh---" I stammered; glancing at the girl in front of me. She signaled her hand towards her neck and shook her head as for me not to say anything. "I-- I saw a bug and it ran away."

 

Shin's knocking paused. "Oh. Are you sure? Do you want me to get it for you?"

 

"I'm fine now," I said. "I'll be down for breakfast soon,"

 

I heard him sigh in relief and walk away. "Alright, then,"

 

When his footsteps disappeared down the hallway, I looked at the girl in front of me again and blinked.

 

"Who are you?" I asked.

 

She smiled nervously and waved. "I'm Han Lae Na...but call me Raina!"

 

I blinked again. "Hi, Raina. Are you a ghost?"

 

"No!" she laughed, "Kai-- that guy here earlier-- wait, have you met Lay yet?"

 

She knows Lay?
 

I nodded slowly, clutching my towel. "Why?"
 

"Lay is one of Kai's brothers..." Raina said.

 

"He has brothers?" I asked.
 

She nodded. "So you've probably seen Lay's powers already, haven't you?"
 

"Lay has powers??" I made a face. "Um, who are you?"
 

"Let me finish," Raina pouted. "These guys have special powers, alright? Kai can teleport, and Lay can heal."
 

Lay's power is healing... I gasped a little and realized. Of course!! It all makes sense now! He's been healing me with that light this whole time!
 

"People are spreading rumors about these ghosts..." I said. "I assume it's you two?" 

 

She laughed. "Yeah! I guess... We don't mean to scare people though. Did you hear about the rumor of the angel?"

 

I nodded. "Is Lay the angel?"
 

Raina nodded. "Yeah, but he's not really an angel... He and his brothers are sort of alien dudes with cool powers."

 

Out of thin black air next to us, the boy appeared again and pushed Raina playfully.

 

"If you say it like that it makes us sound like we're not human..." he laughed nervously.

 

I blinked at him and hugged myself quickly, remembering that I was only in a towel.

 

"You are humans from another planet." Raina rolled her eyes and pushed him back. "Now go away, Kai,"

 

"Sorry," the boy named Kai bowed to me with his eyes shut closed and disappeared into air.

 

Raina turned back to me. "Anyway,"

 

"Wait, Lay mentioned that he's not from our planet..." I said, remembering the time in the dance room when he said that. "He wasn't kidding?!" 

 

Raina blinked and shook her head. "It's true. You can say that he and his brothers are some sort of sorcerers from another planet called EXO planet who need to find their lovers on Earth."

 

I froze. "Lovers?" 

 

She nodded. "Their missions on Earth!"

 

I felt my heart skip a beat and I looked down at the bathroom floor. 

 

Why...... am I Lay's… “lover”…………..

 

Why me?

 

I pursed my lips and raised my eyebrows in surprise, shaking the thought off. "No wonder he seemed so...different. As in, magically but not weirdly different...."

 

"There were his other brothers who had fire power, too!" Raina said, explaining more about Lay and Kai's brothers. "And another with thunder or lightning. These EXO Planet brothers are just so cool."

 

I blinked. "So I'm really... Lay's lover?"

 

She nodded and grinned. "That's right! And we're the first two out of twelve to be found apparently."

 

"How many brothers are on Earth from EXO planet?" I asked.
 

"Twelve in total!" Raina said. "So only ten more to go,"

 

"Really?" I nodded and grinned. "Then, can I help?"

 

She took my hand and smiled. "Of course, unnie! But, I think you should change out of the towel first..."

 

I blushed. "Right..." I laughed nervously in embarassment.

 

 

 

 

UPDATE#20

 

 

The next day I sprang up from bed and got changed quickly to prepare breakfast.

 

"What's the hurry?" Shin asked when I ran past him down the stairs into the kitchen.

 

"I gotta talk to Eunhyuk," I said.

 

"About what? Just call him," he said, sipping a cup of coffee. 

 

I didn't answer but continued to prepare scrambled eggs on the stove for him. I placed them on a plate and headed out the door with a piece of toast in my mouth. "See you!"

 

I ran out across the neighborhood towards Eunhyuk's house around the corner as fast as I could.

 

Why do I feel so excited? I thought to myself. Is it because all this time, ever since the incident with me falling into the frozen lake last time, it was Lay all along?

 

"Eunhyuk!!" I yelled. Coincidentally, he was just heading out of his house.

 

"Ka ul!" he glanced at me nervously. "What's wrong?" 

 

"Are you alright?" I asked, saving a piece of toast for him. I held it out to him. "Do you want some?"

 

He sighed. "I'm fine. What's up? What are you doing here?"

 

"We've got to talk," I said, swallowing the rest of the toast. "It's about Lay---"

 

"I don't want to hear any more about that guy," Eunhyuk interrupted and turned away.

 

"Wait, just listen to me!" I pulled him back towards me. He's still not over the fact that he got kicked out of ranks. "He's the light! The one always around me!"

 

He turned slowly to look me in the eye and furrow his eyebrows. "What?"

 

"Lay is the light," I repeated. "The one who I followed through the forest and then slipped into the forest lake... The one I keep seeing around, the angel everyone's talking about... It's Lay!"

 

I grinned and started to twirl around. "Lay is my angel~" I sang.

 

Eunhyuk made a face and scoffed. "You just met him. How could you be so sure?"

 

"I saw him!" I said. "It was right after we were practicing together in the dance room---"

 

"Why was he at your college?" Hyukkie asked.

 

"Um," I paused and thought about that. "Maybe it was a college visit? Anyway, I can't believe all this time it was him..."

 

Eunhyuk turned away to look up at the sky and laughed flatly. "Is he all that special to you?"

 

I blinked at him. "I mean, I guess you could say that... I want to get to know him better. He's beautiful, too," I laughed. "Like an angel,"

 

"How could you like someone you just met?!" Eunhyuk turned sharply at me and raised his voice. "He's just a dancer who dances better than all of us! He's just some guy who turns into a light or unicorn or whatever and heals people like an angel, so what?! How could you like HIM?!"

 

I gazed at Eunhyuk in surprise. "Hey... What's wrong?"

 

He sighed and looked away towards the ground. "I'm the one by your side all the time..." he brought his voice down and said. "I'm your best friend, we know each other more than anyone else does."

 

 

WHAT.

 

 

....Oh no. I thought. Eunhyuk, you------?!

 

"I'm the only one," he mumbled, "Who knows about your heart and bunny head tattoos on your lower hip."

 

"That's because we went to the beach together that one time... " I sighed and looked away from him. "And it just slipped off a little... What about Hyoyeon?"

 

"Ka ul," Eunhyuk said, ignoring my last question. "I've liked you more than a friend for a while... You can't fall for someone else. Not with someone who randomly appears in your life as unicorn light who injures and then heals you...and then danced his way into your life."

 

"Not for someone who's trying to kick me out of your life..." he added.

 

My expression turned into shock when I turned back to look at him. "'Out of my life'?? It was only ranks based on the judges!"

 

"Being at the top ranks with you is like always being by your side..." Eunhyuk said. "If I had to get kicked down, it's like removing myself from you."

 

That's a bit...overdramatic isn't it?...

 

"You can get yourself higher," I spoke. "You can work harder and---"

 

He took my hands and looked into my eyes. "Ka ul, I like you. Please, accept my feelings."

 

I shut my eyes tightly and looked down at the ground.

 

Eunhyuk...

 

"Eunhyuk, I know we've known each other for the longest time," I spoke. "I know that we know each other better than anyone else, and I-- I just see you as my older brother next to Shin..."

 

I only see Eunhyuk as a part of my family, nothing more than the best of dancing friends.

 

I felt him freeze in place and slowly release his grip around my hands. I continued to stare at the ground as I watched him take a few steps back and turn to walk away.

 

"I'm so sorry, Eunhyuk..." I whispered and stared at the ground with misty eyes. 

 

 

 

UPDATE#21

 

 

 

UPDATE#22

 

 

 

That night, I took my phone out when it buzzed saying that I had received a text message.

 

"Hey," Eunhyuk sent. 

 

"Hyukkie!" I replied. "How have you been?"

 

"Good," he sent back. "Can I call?" 

 

I chuckled and hit the green button. "Not if I call first!"

 

The phone rang and he picked up immediately. 

 

"I asked if I could call, not you call me!" Eunhyuk laughed.

 

"Too bad," I laughed and stuck my tongue out at him even though I knew he wasn't going to see it. 

 

"Hey, Ka ul..." he spoke.

 

"Yeah?" I asked.

 

"I'm sorry, I was being childish..." Eunhyuk said. "It's just that you were my childhood crush, but now we're all grown now and even going on our own paths,"

 

"Wait, you said Hyoyeon was your childhood crush," I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion.

 

"Well..." he laughed. "You can have two crushes can't you?"

 

I laughed with him. "No way, both of us??"

 

"Well you were pretty and talented dancers!" he said.

 

"You're a weird kid!!" I smiled, "But Hyoyeon is the one for you. You and I, we're friends, like family,"

 

He sighed. "I am forever friend-zoned..." 

 

"Way to say that out loud and make me feel bad!" I laughed, "Geez, Eunhyuk!"

 

"Well, true friends can tell each other anything, right?" he chuckled. 

 

I smiled. "I love you, bro~!"

 

"Yeah yeah I love you, too, sister," Eunhyuk laughed.

 

"So who is this 'Princess Fiona' you took away from that tall guy earlier?" I asked teasingly.

 

"Oh, uh....." he laughed nervously. "What about me? How in the world did I suddenly end up on the first floor of the mall before your friend almost kicked tall guy in the face?"

 

I laughed and replied to him, "If I told you, you'll call me crazy again. But hey! I asked you first!"

 

"Try me!" he responded. "I bet my answer to your question is more shocking than yours!"

 

I laughed. "Wanna bet?! Fine, I'll go first but you better listen carefully!"

 

"I'm listening!" he chuckled.

 

"So remember the rumors of the 'ghosts' and the 'angel'?" I started. "Well the ghosts aren't actually ghosts one of them can just teleport like disappear and appear in other places and his girlfriend tags along with him and the angel is Lay he isn't really an angel but I still see him as one and he has healing powers so like teleporting boy and him are brothers from another planet, there are more brothers and one of them can freeze time so when he froze time you were frozen so we moved you away from tall guy downstairs and he never found you,"

 

Eunhyuk was silent.

 

"...Are you still there?..." I asked.

 

"Okay, you win," Eunhyuk laughed. "My answer cannot beat that. Why is it that only you could move when time is frozen?"

 

Uh... Because I'm apparently Lay's lover....

 

"Because..." I paused. "I was a chosen one?..."

 

"'Chosen one'??" he laughed harder. "Okay, seriously---"

 

"So who is 'Princess Fiona'?" I asked quickly to change the subject.

 

He stopped laughing. 

 

All was quiet for a moment.

 

"Do you remember that girl's nickname from elementary school?" Eunhyuk asked. "The other girl, not you, that I had a crush on?"

 

My mouth dropped and I couldn't help but squeal. "Eunhyuk!! You and Hyoyeon?!?!"

 

Hyoyeon is Princess Fiona!!

 

I had totally forgotten that nickname for my own role model! The one I look up to!

 

"Hyoyeon left her boyfriend...?" I asked.

 

"No, he left her," Eunhyuk said. "So I hung out with her for a while then he sees us and argues with Hyoyeon and she leaves so tall guy argues with me then you guys come and... Yeah,"

 

I was silent.

 

"... Are you still there?..." Eunhyuk asked.

 

I laughed. "You're right, your answer cannot beat mine."

 

"Hey!!" he scoffed. "Hyoyeon said she was glad I kept her company. I finally talked to get after all these years..."

 

I smiled. "I'm happy for you, Eunhyuk!"

 

"I'm happy for you, too, Ka ul," he said, and I could tell that he was smiling.

 

 

 

 

FINAL