rewind

by WG

"Why did you drag me out here?" She asks, looking at him while crossing her legs. 

"Nothing. I just wanted to talk." He replies, smiling at her.

She scoffs, "We haven't contacted each other in years. Obviously it's not 'nothing' if you call me out to Han River at three in the morning."

He laughs at her, eyes twinkling with something that wasn't so much happiness as it was sadness. The two found themselves sitting at the bench on the farther end of Han River, a place they'd always hung around since they became friends and something more all those years ago, despite the fact that things were different now. Much more different than they'd ever thought things would be.

"So, how is life treating you, Ahn Sohee?" A typical icebreaker.

She sighs, tucking her cold hands into her pockets and her chin into her scarf, letting her breathe show in the cold air.

"It's been good to me. I'm sure you've been knowing for a while that I left JYP and signed with BH. Since then I've been living a quiet life and enjoying the privacy I couldn't while I was an idol. Life has been very different since then. But a good different." She says.

He nods in understanding. He shoves one hand into his pocket for warmth while the other brushed through his hair as she finished talking.

"It must be nice, huh? Living in privacy." He comments which earns a laugh from her.

"Do you expect me to say that I miss being an idol? I don't. That was an old part of my life and I have moved on. The privacy is amazing. I can finally do things without being hounded by every one around me. What about you? What brought this on?" She turns to look at him and finds that he's looking out into the quiet skyline beyond Han River.

"Actually, I was listening to your guys' new album the other day."

"It's not mine anymore."

"Yeah, whatever. You know what they say, 'Once a Wonder Girl, always a Wonder Girl'."

"Okay, whatever. What about it? It was an amazing album."

"I don't know. I was listening to one of the songs and it kind of resonated with me. Well.. technically, they all resonated with me. But this one in particular pushed me to call you out here."

"And what song is that? What song could have possibly made you thought of me? Maybe Oppa? or Rewind?"

"Yeah."

"Wait, what? Oppa reminded you of me? What the!"

He manages to laugh despire the nostalgia beginning to stir in his stomach.

"No, no, you silly. It was Rewind. That song made me want to have this conversation with you."

"And what conversation would that be?"

There was a silence so deafening that they