Thursday, July 16, 2009 @ 5:16 PM
Chapter 23: Only Inches ApartSuggested song/music: Checkmate - Uknow Yunho
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAKM2M49-6M)
Xiaoxi pretty much threw herself onto the floor in defeat when Yunho wanted to re-choreograph the dance again. They have not even written the lyrics to the song, and yet he is already modifying the dance. How does he know if the song would even fit the dance? Her body totally relaxed on the floor, not intending to get up on her feet again. “Yah, get up! Don’t stop dancing. Your body is already in the mood for the dance!” Yunho bent over to pull her up by her arms, but lunged forward as he wasn’t standing steadily. Xiaoxi’s eyes grew wide as she watched Yunho’s face got closer and closer to hers.
Once the car was pulled to a stop, Li Yin rushed down the vehicle and sprinted for the tree. She grew giddy as she threw up what was still undigested in her systems. Leaning against the tree for support, Li Yin saw stars in the sky. She always had a weak constitution. Li Yin felt a hand patting her back gently, trying to soothe her, and a napkin appeared before her. Accepting it gratefully, she quickly dabbed at her mouth. “You’re afraid of speed?” Junsu looked worried and guilty. Li Yin shook her head. “Only afraid of insane drivers.”
Stepping out of the lift, Li Yin could tell at once that there was renovations going on at Junsu’s level in the building. Cans of paint were lined along the corridors, and a few workers were walking around with rolls of wallpaper. It was only when she was standing directly before Junsu’s apartment did she realise that it was Junsu’s place which was undergoing renovations.
I guess you can say that Li Yin has gone numb after all the surprises today. Unlike what Junsu has expected, she did not gasp, nor did she space out when she saw the newly furnished living room, and the gigantic poster of himself which was hanging on one of the walls. “You like revealing your chest a lot?” Li Yin pointed to the poster that showed Junsu wearing a red hoodie which was unzipped, revealing his muscles and six packs. A pair of tight-fitting leather pants hugged his figure snuggly, and his hair was styled in short spikes. There was no word to define the level of attractiveness the poster was sending out. Li Yin almost mistook the poster to be from a magazine shot. Junsu smirked. Looks like she wasn’t completely unaffected by the poster after all.
Xiaoxi felt herself stiffen as she felt something soft pressing against her lips, and a pair of eyes looking straight into hers. That pair of eyes slowly closed and she felt herself being pulled into a warm embrace, that ‘soft thing’ never leaving her lips. ‘Oh gosh… is that his lips? That soft thing touching my lips? Why is he hugging me? What on earth is happening?’ questions whirled in her mind. She felt the ‘soft thing’ applying pressure on her lips, and an intoxicating sensation overcame her, hypnotizing her to shut her eyes and simply melt in the feeling.
Sitting crossed-legged beside Yunho, there was a slight blush on xiaoxi’s cheeks as she played with her fingers. He stole glances at her before quickly reverting his attention to the floor before him. There was an awkward silence again. He did not know what came over him, but something just told him to do it. Something urged him to do it. His conscious mind was the culprit. “I… sorry for just now…” Yunho stuttered. Xiaoxi remained silent, only tilting her head slightly to look at him. “So I guess… a couple?”
“A couple?” xiaoxi looked at him bewilderedly. Had she heard wrong? This man just suggested to become a couple with a jinx. Not just anyone, but the jinx. Yunho scooted closer to her and placed his arms around her reassuringly, as if he could read her mind. “Would you tell me about your past? Why are you called a jinx?” he rested his head against her shoulder. Somehow his scent made her feel at ease. His presence gave her courage. Images from the past flowed freely from their bounds at once…
“Help!” Guigui’s shout was barely audible as she got carried further and further away from land. Nobody was near enough to hear or see her, except for one person - Yan xiaoxi. She was too terrified at the scene to scream for assistance, and she most definitely could not swim. Her eyes widened as she watched her friend struggling in the torrent, gasping for air. Slowly, the water inched over her head and she totally disappeared beneath the ocean. Too late. By the time Junsu ran over in search of his girl, he could only spot xiaoxi spacing out by the shore, and Guigui was nowhere in sight. Or perhaps that sentence should be amended. He did manage to see Guigui’s corpse a few hours later…
Ever since that day in which xiaoxi witnessed Guigui’s death, weird things started happening. Unexplainable odd things. It was already bad enough to be called a ‘murderer’, for she had indirectly caused Guigui’s death. In addition to it, she was being called a ‘jinx’ because people who were close to her gradually got involved in accidents. Some were minor accidents such as slipping and suffering from a fracture, others who were more serious was hospitalized for a month or so due to car accidents. This persisted for such a long time that xiaoxi grew to isolate herself, even requesting to self study for theory lessons so that she wouldn’t have to sit in for class. Can anyone actually imagine the amount of stress she was feeling emotionally?
Tears started building up in xiaoxi’s eyes as she buried her face in her palm. Yunho pulled her into his embrace, running his fingers through her hair gently. He couldn’t find any comforting words to say, therefore he provided her with himself. Xiaoxi’s arms wrapped themselves around him slowly as she cried into his shirt. He could feel the wet patch slowly spreading, but he couldn’t care less about it. He secretly promised himself that from now on, Jung Yunho will take on another role. He will become a guardian angel, xiaoxi’s guardian angel.
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