Love Is Blind, But I'm Not (Chap. 3)
“Oit, blind bird! What’s up? Giving up on life?” a familiar voice greeted him while his Mp3 was playing a weird but catchy song, Bonamana by a boy band called Super Junior (geez, I wonder who's that^^). And he was so into it that he actually missed the three missed calls Donghae made.
“Almost, my true love betrayed me. Hey, its school day. Why are you here?” A hand knuckled his head, and the sound of a chair dragged to his bedside was heard.
“Technically, now it is way past three, and I really don’t have any idea why should I be there anymore. Plus, I texted you.”
Kyuhyun’s laugh suddenly bursted out. “What’s your problem, dude? I don’t even know how my phone really looks like, and--you expect me to read your text?”
“Oh...sorry~~” a sudden change in his voice.
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“Sungmin-shii, this dork here is my friend, Lee Donghae.” Sungmin pouted hands with the boy with hoodie in front of him. He got a nice face, but a weird smile.
“Are you guys schoolmates?” Kyuhyun smiled, but this time it was different from the one that he gave yesterday. This smile got a bit of frustration feelings in it. And a few pinches of sadness too.
Donghae could catch a glimpse of Kyuhyun’s sad smile, and put up a covered smile.
“Nope, we’re not. I’m in F school, Kyu’s homeschooled. But we’ve known each other since we’re small.” There’s no change in Kyuhyun’s face, and Sungmin could feel nothing worst than the feeling of guilt at that time.
But suddenly, Donghae pinched Kyuhyun’s left cheek, gave him a shock. “Yah, I’m wasting my time coming here not to watch your ugly sulking face. Cheer up.” And Kyuhyun’s smiled again, as usual.
Having to watch that, a thought crossed Sungmin’s mind.
It would be wonderful if I was the one who did that for him.
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Kyuhyun took a spoonful of rice porridge brought by Donghae a few minutes after he left. Sungmin watched him, unintentionally. Slowly, he came to Kyuhyun’s bedside, and watched him from there even more, up-closed.
Knowing that someone was watching him, Kyuhyun was feeling a little annoyed. He put down his spoon and moved his hands to the front, and met with Sungmin’s soft left cheek, eventually.
“Gotcha.” And Sungmin was glad that Kyuhyun was blind, or else he would have misunderstood the rosy-colored cheeks that he got at that time.
“Sungmin-shii, isn’t it time for you to sleep right now?” Kyuhyun gave him a suggestion, more to an order actually.
Not thinking of answering it, Sungmin climbed onto Kyuhyun’s bed and took away the porridge in his hand. “Yah, what does it taste like?”
“Like the food for the sick. Why?” Sungmin smiled, annoyingly. He didn’t know why, but at that time, there was a feeling, just a simple thought, that if he could throw away the porridge, he would.
“Can I have a chew of it?” Kyuhyun nodded abruptly. “Sure, why not?”
A spoonful of warm porridge gulped down, and his eyes were widely opened.
“This is so delicious! Did he cook it himself?”
“Well, yeah. As far as I know, Donghae is a better cook than my sisters.” Smiled, again. Sungmin put the porridge back into the blind man’s hand. A slight jealousy was tearing him inside.
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“Kyu-shii, can I have your cellphone?”
“What for?” he hesitated, but his hands already shoved his Samsung cellphone to Sungmin. A minute later, an arm grabbed his shoulders, and Sungmin’s sweet voice asked him to smile.
“Say cheesee~!” Kacha! And a picture of them was saved in his phone memory. When Sungmin handed back the cellphone, Kyuhyun asked him to put his address and phone number inside.
“Maybe later, after we both out from here, we can hang out together, well, if you are capable of be a friend to someone like me.”
“What, are there like; rules to hang out with a blind man?” Sungmin sighed. This sarcastic (but adorable) blind man is a man without self-esteem, or so he thought.
“It hurts, you know, when someone told me that it was fine to whatever others said when I go out with them, but the next time I wanna meet them again, they gave me a number of reasons. So if you’re thinking the same as them, then it’s okay. I understand.”
So that is why. He has been hurt, several time, that he can openly asked about others opinions on him. And that is why, I can’t let him to be hurt any longer. A fragile-looking man in front of me right now is the toughest that I have ever met.
Sungmin held his hand, putting Kyuhyun in a maze.
“So that’s why, you must contact me once you’re out. Geez, Kyu-shii...if I were a girl, I would really want to make you my inamorato.”
“What’s an inamorato?” without answering the question, Sungmin pinched his right cheek.
“You got quite a chubby cheek.”
“No I’m not.”
A sweet laughter filled Kyuhyun’s ears.
A few days living with this laughter kissing my ears, I don’t know whether I can survive without hearing it after this.
Sungmin looked at the smiling blind man in front of him.
A few days living with having this smile showering my eyes, and I know I just want to keep him by my side forever.
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Chapter 4
Chapter 2