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b]TOGETHER [/b]
PART 1
“Lenna…Wake up!” an old woman’s voice started echoing throughout the room.
Startled, I quickly opened my eyes. Only to see the smiling face of my mother gazing at me.
“Mother, what time is it?” I whined as I quickly covered my face with the pillow beside me because the light from the windows was hurting my eyes.
“Time? It’s time for you to get up. What time did you sleep again last night? You are spending so much time on the computer lately to the point that you’re neglecting your health. Look at your eyes. It already has dark rings around it. You’re starting to look like you’re sick or something,” my mother started to nag.
“Oh mother. . . Don’t worry. I am not sick,” I just uttered.
“Get up. I already arranged your breakfast,” my mother said as she quickly left the room.
---A few minutes later….
Lenna couldn’t believe what she was seeing. Right in front of her were two precious papers…. a plane ticket and a concert ticket.
“Mother? What’s this?” she asked, confused and still unable to believe.
Her father and mother both laughed after seeing the expression on her face.
“We know how much you want to go to Korea to watch the upcoming DBSK concert. So your father and I decided that for your birthday, we will be fulfilling that wish of yours,” the old woman said with a smile.
Joy and excitement quickly registered on Lenna’s face. “Oh! Mother. . . Father . . . thank you so much,” she said as she gave her parents a warm hug.
---- Later that afternoon….
“You’re going to Korea?” Yuki asked.
“Yes, I still can’t believe it. I am actually going to see them perform live,” Lenna said with a giggle.
“Lucky you. I wish my parents can also give me a plane ticket and a concert ticket for my birthday,” Yuki said with a sigh.
“I wish you can come with me. Going there alone isn’t fun at all,” Lenna said with a sudden sadness in her eyes.
Yuki smiled. “Just have fun. It’s your birthday remember. You should make the most of it. That kind of opportunity only comes once in a lifetime.”
Lenna slowly nodded and sighed again. Suddenly a feeling of déjà vu quickly entered her mind.
“What’s wrong?” Yuki asked with concern after seeing the confused look on her friend’s face.
“I suddenly get the feeling that this scene happened already,” she quickly answered.
“You’re doing it again. You’re making me shiver already. Anyway have you dreamed about U-Know lately?” Yuki asked as she tried to change the topic.
“Yes, last night … I think. But I can’t really remember the details anymore. My mother suddenly woke me up and everything just disappeared before I can actually understand what I was dreaming about,” Lenna replied.
“I wonder what it would feel like to actually have one of the DBSK boys in my dreams every night,” Yuki uttered with a giggle. “I know I would just keep on sleeping and sleeping, if that ever happened to me.”
Lenna laughed. “Frankly, it’s quite frustrating Yuki. Imagine in your dreams, you’re with someone but when you wake up . . . you suddenly find out that you’re not. Sometimes I just don’t want to sleep anymore. I am already getting tired of those dreams. It is just giving me false hopes of meeting U-Know and being with him,” she said with a sigh.
“Oh, I’m sorry that you feel that way,” Yuki uttered. “Well come on, don’t worry about it. A dream is just a dream. The important thing now is that you’re going to Korea and you’re going to see the DBSK boys live,” she said with a certain glitter in her eyes.
Lenna just stared at her friend and smiled. She was already starting to wonder what will happen next.
--- The day of arrival finally came…..
Lenna took a deep breath as she then slowly looked around the place. She was already in Korea ... inside the hotel room that her mother also arranged for her… She was staring outside of the window … wondering what to do next.
“Why do I feel so strange?” she started to ask herself. “I know I should be happy that I am finally here but . . . why? I feel like I am not satisfied. I feel like something is still missing,” she uttered as she silently stared at a single star that was visible in the sky.
---- At the same time, in the DBSK boys’ hotel room…
U-Know kept on staring at a star that was all alone in the big dark sky. “You poor thing. You’re all alone tonight. Where are your friends?” he uttered, as if talking to the star.
“Hey, what are you looking at?” Xiah asked as she suddenly just appeared right behind U-Know.
“Uhmm, nothing. Just a lonely star,” U-Know answered.
Puzzled, Xiah also stared at the sky. Then he smiled. “You’re being weird again. What’s wrong? You had a dream again, didn’t you?” he suddenly said to his friend as he faced him.
U-Know nodded. “I really can’t get the girl’s face out of my mind. It’s starting to bother me,” he answered.
Xiah sighed. “I really don’t know how to help you. We don’t even have a name to search for … just a face that only you can see and recognize. And honestly, we don’t even know if that girl that you keep dreaming of, really does exist. What a weird way to live your life. Maybe you can learn how to draw so you can actually get the girl’s face out of your mind … plus we can also have an idea of what she looks like.”
U-Know tried to smile. “As if I have the time to do anything else except do shows, concerts and sleep. Honestly, we’re all lacking in sleep already. So I really don’t have the time to learn how to draw. And besides, I think it’s just my imagination is going wild. That’s why I keep on dreaming about that girl. I really don’t think that she exists.”
Xiah just kept silent. Somehow he was lost with words. He really didn’t know what to say to his friend. He knew that U-Know had been dreaming about a girl for the passed year and it was already bothering him in his daily life.
----Unexpected….
Lenna was happily strolling down the street. She had decided to go window shopping and also try to eat some of the local foods she had read about. She was very excited to go out and explore. She had been in Korea for almost two days and she was already bored. The DBSK concert was still several hours away so she decided to have a look around first before actually heading to the place where the concert was supposed to be held.
She was looking at one store to another. She had already bought some small souvenirs that she had placed safely in her bag.
Suddenly something caught her attention. She started to look at a store. It was a bookstore that sells old books. Somehow the place looked familiar. She just kept on staring and staring, wondering what to do next.
---- Fated ….
U-Know was silently staring out of the window of their van. They were already going to the place where their next concert was going to be held. He was about to look away when his heart quickly started to beat very fast and hard.
He couldn’t believe his eyes. He just saw the girl in his dreams.
“Stop the van!” he quickly shouted to the driver.
Startled, the driver immediately stopped. The other DBSK members were all surprised with their leader’s action.
U-Know quickly got out of the van and went straight to where he had seen the girl. But as soon as he reached the exact spot where he saw her, she was already gone. He tried to look around. But the girl was nowhere in sight. He then looked at the store in front of him, it was a store that sold old books. He was about to go inside when a group of girls suddenly blocked his way.
“Oppa, please sign this,” one of the girl’s said excitedly as she tried to give him a paper and a pen.
U-Know didn’t know what to do. He sighed and just took the paper and started to sign.
More and more girls started to form around U-Know. They were all screaming and shouting his name.
Just a few more minutes passed and U-Know was already being safely escorted back to their van. And as he sat down, and stared outside of their van… he could feel his heart beating wildly. Somehow he wanted to go back and take a look inside the store. He wanted to see …. Maybe the girl he was searching for was there. But he knew he couldn’t do it now. Not with all the fans already screaming and banging outside their van.
As their van started to move away, U-Know’s heart sank down to its lowest point. He could feel his heart was crying. And even if he didn’t want to go, he knew he had no choice.
---- Missed….
Lenna happily stepped out of the store. She had just bought a book that she found very interesting. It was an English book that told a love story about two lovers who were separated and eventually found each other after years of being apart. The story intrigued her. Somehow something about the story caught her attention. The book was already old, but she didn’t care. She liked the story and it was all that mattered.
As she started to look around, she noticed a group of young girls screaming and shouting not far from where she was standing. Then she noticed a black van that was slowly moving away.
Instanly, she felt strange. Somehow she couldn’t explain the sadness that filled her soul.
Lenna tried to put on a smile. She should be happy, she told herself. She found a good book and she was going to a DBSK concert in a few hours. She tried to brush off the weird feeling she was having and just started to think about where to go next.
And as she slowly moved away from the store, a cold wind quickly passed by.