“Thank you for saving me”, said the girl in the black dress and white shirt while looking at the tall handsome man in front of her, thanking her in return. He was perfection incarnate, a surreal beauty she wished she could stare at forever. Their eyes met, their hands met. Her small hands against his big ones.
And just like that, it became the most natural thing in the world. It felt like she had known him her entire life — and yet it was the most special time of her life too. How could a moment be so unreal and so normal at the same time? She had no idea.
She was a ball of nerve until that touch, he made the stress go away. The pain too. Complete peace. A few seconds forever frozen in time.
Wait. The pain too? She was late to take her pain medication, the very strong kind that people get addicted to (and yet, barely helps her). And because coordination is not her thing, she had also hurt her hip the moment she arrived at the venue because she closed the door of the taxi on herself. Hard. She had a bruise to prove it — a bruise she kind of wished she could keep forever as a reminder that this day was actually real.
But at that moment, she wasn’t in pain, she wasn’t this permanently sick person, she was just…alive. And she would have given everything to just stay there to feel that peace forever, the one she has been craving for more than 2 years.
But she had to part from him and once she went away, it hit her: that man she spent years dreaming about had just been there, reachable, palpable, real — and she finally felt her heart beating out of her chest, the trembling coming back.
“Wait, did it really happen?”, she asked herself confused, as if she had already forgotten everything. It had happened but she couldn’t realize it yet. (She still can’t). Ever since, she has been trying to relive that moment in her mind, feel that contact, chasing that perfect peace of mind and body that it gave her.
He felt like a friend. He was a friend. A best friend for the rest of her life — that she hoped to meet again one day because damn, for that girl in the video, to not feel hurt, even for 3 seconds, was the most unimaginable thing ever.
PS: She made it home slowly but surely, even without the adrenaline rush that was long gone by then. Hip shattered, spine broken, nerves inflamed. Oh, but MIND COMPLETELY BLOWN AND HEAD IN THE CLOUDS.
Thank you, my Jin. 💜
Sunday, it is. I’m almost there. I couldn’t sleep. I’ve been trembling since last night. This is just surreal.
Do not fall. Do not faint. Do not cry.
All of the above, after.
Ready or not, here I come Hi Seokjin. ✋