Prologue
Hardships and a Photobook
The 26 simple alphabets play an important role in words that you and I use everyday.
The letters that curve and straighten, to which they evolve into simple words like 'sun' and 'day'.
Life comes as a huge package. And there were two four letter words that described Life - Two four letter words that strongly contradicted each other -
'Hard' and 'Easy'.
In the four letter word 'Life', there are bound to be hardships that one cannot avoid, memories that sting your cells and words that tear you apart. But there would be memories and words that you'll treasure and remember because they are sweet and warm to the soul. And so we keep those. To look back and replay happier times.
After many years, only had Seo Eun learn the depth of the two words people always use (and abuse).
The four letter word 'love' and the four letter word 'hate'. They both glady contradicted each other like angry roomates.
Then when Baekhyun left, she felt the strong, powerful atmosphere that lingered around her.
The four letter word 'warm' and then the four letter word 'cold'.
But she remembered him saying so clearly he would 'stay' but now he was 'gone'. Liar! She thought.
But then she felt like she was stabbed in the heart for blaming Baekhyun because she knew he never lied. It was fate. Fate, the big fat bully.
There were too many of such words to list, so Seo Eun decided to rest her mind and call it a night.
After signing of in the last entry, she stretched her thin arms and closed the laptop. Caressing the smooth texture of her MacBook with scrawny fingers, she sighed heavily and cracked a small, tiny, smile. It quivered and it was forced, but if that was what could make her brain thought she was happy and then live a little longer, she would smile forever.
Weak and a little slow, she walked outside the balcony and was greeted by the night breeze. They were like silks and and ribbons that gently carrassed her skin like an old companion. The night was beautifully lighted with stars. They twinkled so much that one would have thought they were children alive. As her mind ran wildly back and forth on how life was and how it was going to be, the winds somehow turned monstrously icy, the cold was bitter ; biting her bones. Life seeped out of a eyes like sand in an hour-glass.
Seo Eun fought back all tears. She didn't want anyone to pity her, so never was she going to herself. Taking in a deep breath, she took a step back and half-mindedly waved goodbye to the stars and murmmured,
"Good night...I'll be joining you soon."
Hopefully, before Baekhyun remembers anything.
But then, the young man was already urgently rummaging through stacks of newspapers and comic books, running down coffee shops and shopping malls, re-watching movies and wearing old clothes.
Then he spotted a photobook. And all it took was one page - to summon back the past, memories hitting him harder than a tall truck.
He rememberred.
Then he muttered the four letter word.
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Since some of you were asking me about what it meant by Baek still texting Seo Eun, I editted it a little now, hope it's clearer! ^^
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