Chapter 8:

Jae Joong:
 

Enchanted by a fairy,

As she plays a delightful song.

Bewitched by a witch,

As she casts a spell in a song.

Captivated by a charmer,

As she possesses magic in a song.

Fascinated by a pixie,

As she imps a wing in a song.

‘Listening to her music, I’d like to play with her. I don’t know exactly what she is composing, I did not ask. Is it for a piano piece or for an orchestra, a one piece or volumes of arrangements? So many questions I should have asked. There is a whole lot of possibilities.’

He noticed she stopped, and after awhile of watching her play, he knew she’ll soon start from the beginning. A thought came to him, he quietly but quickly took out his cellphone from his pocket to record her playing. He quickly prepared before she begun again. A cellphone in hand, he timed it and started recording as she prepared to start again. Smiling, he quietly held the cellphone with both hands to stabilize it better. His eyes went back and forth to her and the screen.

‘Someone often takes a video of me or my group singing or dancing to songs.  I don’t think I personally ever video someone else music, especially on my phone. This is the first. Well, there is a first for everything.’

She stopped playing and wrote on her music sheet and he stopped recording as well.

A video of you,

Caught myself taping you.

A video of you,

Caught myself watching you.

A video of you,

Caught myself smitten with you.

A video of you,

Caught myself infatuated with you.

A video of you,

Caught myself bowl over with you.

‘I wonder what my friends will think once they hear her unfinished song. Most probably they will be as fascinated as me, and will fall-in-love with her.’ A tiny smirk and a pout, ‘Should I or should I not share with them this video?’

Your song,

I love to listen to your song.

Your song,

I love how you compose your song.

Your song,

I want to keep to myself your song.

Your song,

I should share to others your song.

Your song,

I want the whole world to listen to your song.

‘I should ask when is your exam, so I can find a schedule, and I could go to watch. I wonder, what would it be like to watch and listen to you perform in front of an audience? That is, if I can get there and not make a scene.’

I want to see you,

I wish I could see you perform in front of an audience.

I want to hear you,

I wish I could hear your song in a roomful of audience.

I want to find you,

I wish I could fulfill a dream of you performing in a roomful of audience.

I want to experience you,

I wish I could know what it would be like to be with you with an audience.

I want to perceive you,

I wish I could catch the reaction of others to be with you with an audience.

‘How long are you planning to continue in composing your song? Are we not going to sleep? Are you going to sleep at all? I believe, you still have classes tomorrow.’

As you sit there in your own world,

I get jealous all of a sudden.

As you stay there in your own world,

I feel left out all of a sudden.

As time holds its hands in your world,

I feel time is running all of a sudden.

As your life blooms in your world,

I am left here waiting all of a sudden.

As you flourish in your world,  

I want to join your world all of a sudden.

‘I imagined going over your back and reaching over and play with you.’

As we play this song together,

Sitting side be side by the piano,

Our hands playing the melody,

Our hearts joint together,

Making our own memory,

A happy moment of you and me,

Sometimes we look at each other,

Playing a song with harmony,

Smiling as we play our song,

Enjoying the melody of our song.

‘Maybe, you’ll pull an all-nighter. Sleep is pulling me to wonderland. Might as well get comfortable in the sofa and get a shuteye. No sense going to bed alone.’

He moved to the sofa, removed his slippers and lie down. While he could still hear her playing, he closed his eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep.

Your song sends me to dreamworld,

Only wanting your arms around me,

To share this small bed with me,

Wanting to put my arms around you,

To drift off with you to dreamworld,

Wanting to share this moment with you,

As I sleep alone with your song to dreamworld,

Hoping to dream you with me in dreamworld.