Reason Two: You Say the Sweetest Things

Later that afternoon…

            When Ryeowook returned home from having lunch with his two hyungs, who were both in far better moods by the time they were done eating, he was feeling a little more depressed.  He’d had more time to reflect on the night before and on his rush to leave in the morning and felt bad that he had no time to speak with Kyuhyun.  He was regretting now not waking his husband up when he woke, although he thought originally that it would only make him mad to lose out on more sleep. 

            As Ryeowook headed into the kitchen, he noticed a piece of paper sitting on the table and walked over to look at it, not knowing what it was.  One glance down identified it as something written in Kyuhyun’s sloppy scrawl and he picked it up to read it. 

Ryeowook,

            I want you to know that I feel really bad about last night.  You’re right about the fact that I haven’t paid as much attention to your needs as I have to mine lately and that is very selfish of me.  I’m sorry.  I’m getting nervous about the upcoming performance and I was just excited to see you come home last night because I knew that you would keep my mind off of it.  I wasn’t thinking of the fact that you’d just walked in the door.  I was only thinking of me.

            But when you say that I only think of you as a cook and convenient , I feel so terrible that you would even say that.  I hope you don’t really feel that way.  You mean so much to me that has nothing to do with either one of those.  I love you so much and I never want you to feel as if I am just using you for anything.  Whatever I need to change so that you don’t feel that way, I will.

            I want to talk to you about this as soon as possible.  It bothers me to even wait a single day, so I wanted to write this in the meantime.

                                                                                                Love Always,

                                                                                                  Kyuhyun

            Ryeowook sank into one of the chairs as he read the note.  This was not typical behavior of his husband to pour out his emotions into writing, or he’d be a songwriter himself.  Ryeowook must have reread the letter four or five times before he finally set it back on the table—although he refused to actually let it go—and began to think over the argument from the night before.  He would not have the chance to talk to Kyuhyun on the phone and a lengthy text just seemed wrong when Kyuhyun had taken the trouble to actually write out a note. 

            Ryeowook found the pen Kyuhyun had used still sitting there on the table and nearly began writing at the bottom of the letter itself when he realized that if he wrote a response there, Kyuhyun would probably read it and then do something truly careless like throw it away in the garbage.  Ryeowook looked down at the piece of paper in his hands.  He had no intention of ever parting with it for the remainder if his life.  He stood up and brought it to his music room where he kept all his important paperwork and stored it in its own