Love Is Blind, But I'm Not (chap. 4)
Life was at the same pace as it was before. Eventhough his hand were still wrapped, Kyuhyun just couldn’t wait to start his vocal lesson once again.
“Well, it is good to have you here again, Kyuhyun. I’ve been missing you so badly since you were hospitalized.” Ryeowook, his small sunbae-nim hugged him and clung onto the blind man, despite him being injured and unbalanced.
But Yesung's stare made him loosen his hold onto the tall blind man.
'Geez, this boyfriend of mine is surely scary.' And this was in Ryeowook's mind.
Kyuhyun just couldn’t bear to miss out more lesson than he was. Deep down in his heart, he was thankful to God that despite the blindness that covered his world in dark, his voice is such a treasure that he cannot afford to lose.
It was his brother’s idea to put him in his friend’s music centre after he first realised his dongsaeng’s talent. At first, Kyuhyun was hesitating, and thought that his singing at home before this was just for fun.
But when Yesung, his brother’s friend and also his vocal training teacher listened to his wonderful deep melancholic treasure, he was automatically considered as his student.
And now, with those kind of pushes from the brothers, Kyuhyun himself just couldn’t live without music anymore.
***
He was at break when a call reached his phone. Since his bag was at some distance from him, he just asked anyone near to his phone to pick it up and answer the call for him as he was trying to walk where his bag was.
“Yea~who’s this?” Yesung gentleman voice was heard, and a few seconds later, without even reaching to the phone, the vocal teacher handed in the phone into Kyuhyun’s hand.
“Someone named Lee Sungmin, as written on the screen.”
And Kyuhyun’s face turned bright.
“Yah~brat! I told you to call me, didn’t I?? It’s been two weeks since we’re both out from the hospital, and you didn’t contact me; at all!” Sungmin clear voice was yelling at the end of the phone. Kyuhyun couldn’t help it but smiled.
It wasn’t because he forgotten, but Kyuhyun, didn’t want to disturb Sungmin’s study. Being a student, he knew that it wasn’t easy to have times to focus on your studies, especially when you’re a university student like Sungmin.
“I just want to figure something out.” Kyuhyun’s deep voice was like a muse to Sungmin’s ear, and silently he covered his mouth, excited. He has been missing the voice so much that he couldn’t get enough sleep in the past two weeks.
“And what’s that?”
“Just how much you missed me?” and then he laughed and told Sungmin that it was a joke.
But Kyuhyun knew, that was exactly the thing that he has been curious about, that it wasn’t a joke after all. He wanted to know, if Sungmin also can’t live without him, as he couldn’t live without Sungmin.
And Sungmin, at the end of the line, was wishing that if only Kyuhyun didn’t say that it was just a joke, he would told him; how badly he wanted to see Kyuhyun’s smile right now.
***
He saw a boy crying, and a middle-aged man was cursing something at his wife. The wife herself was crying.
He saw things scattered around in the small apartment unit, a view that he can’t afford to see in his own house.
He saw a teenager entered the house, running towards the little boy, hugged him, wiped his tears, and told him, “It’s okay, hyung is here.”
“Hyung is here, Sungmin-ah.”
***
A cold hand was staggeringly; as if the owner couldn’t really figure it out where was his face actually, caressing his face.
“Sungmin-shii? Are you awake now?” the tall figure where he landed his head at spoke. Sungmin rubbed his eyes, as he was trying to get out from his sleepiness.
It has been months since he dreamt the same dream. A dream that he doesn’t even know how to classify.
Was it really a dream? Or was it a nightmare?
But for sure, the dream came from a memory. A memory that he tried to erase, and he did; but a few parts of it were left out from the deleting process.
“What’s with the funny feeling? Sungmin-shii!! Were you drooling on my shoulder??” Kyuhyun’s later comment made him giggles. A few passerby watched the two men; one were laughing like crazy, and the other one were slapping the winds as he didn’t even know where his buddy were to be angry with.
And whispers were heard, as always. Kyuhyun’s babblings turned silent. And Sungmin didn’t even have to wonder why.
All of a sudden, he stood up, pulling Kyuhyun to stand along with him. Didn’t have any clue what Sungmin were about to do, Kyuhyun was freezing like a statue when Sungmin suddenly shouted in front of the pedestrian in the park where they were having a picnic at,
“YEAH~~! I’M HANGING OUT WITH MY BUDDY, THE SARCASTIC BLIND MAN, AND YOU KNOW WHAT?? IT’S NOT EMBARASSING, AT ALL!!”
Responses to his (which Kyuhyun considered as a suicidal behaviour) announcement, was a loud applause by a group of violinist that were practicing nearby, and a few B-boy kids who were whistling and cheering for Sungmin’s bold action.
“You’re crazy, did you know that? And what’s with the ‘sarcastic blind man’ thing?” Kyuhyun started to comment as they were sitting down. Sungmin smiled, as he grabbed Kyuhyun’s left hand that were holding to his Mp3.
“That thing just now, just consider it as our promise.”
“What promise?” Sungmin pulled Kyuhyun’s hand up, and kissed it, out of the blue.
“A promise to be together, if you don’t mind.”
***
Sungmin can be so...unpredictable sometimes. Kyuhyun couldn’t help but admit it. Especially now, that he already knew where Kyuhyun is having his vocal lessons.
He can just popped out of nowhere and grabbed his hands anywhere he wished to take him. Sometimes, he just don’t need to bring his stick anymore. Sungmin just wouldn’t let go of his hand. He started being like this since they did the promise two months ago, on their second time of hanging out together.
Kyuhyun consider himself in a dream, and of course, he didn’t want anyone to pinch him right now.
And Kyuhyun just wanted to keep dreaming that dream, for sure.
***
“Kyu, can I come in?” Siwon’s knocks on his door startled him. He turned off the Mp3 that was playing from two hours ago and sat up.
“Sure, come in.”
As Siwon were sitting next to him, Kyuhyun could hear a little bit of tension in his breathing pace. And Siwon considered himself was caught off-guard as Kyuhyun asked him first.
“What’s the matter, hyung? You sounds so not relaxed right now.”
And Siwon just couldn’t take it any longer.
Kyuhyun needs to know it, and agree.
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Chapter 5
Chapter 3