[LOVIN' YOU] Yunho - Friday Friends
Fridays never fail to bring back memories for me.
Friday of the tea dances where you were the star. It began innocently enough, but soon I found myself attending just to be able to watch you without any reservations because everyone else was drinking in your moves by the eyeful, too.
Friday of the peppermint chocolate chip ice cream after, when you talked about your dreams in earnest while spooning through paper cup after paper cup of the green goo.
Friday it was too, the first time you showed up on my street in the morning as I was leaving for school.
"Shinhye-ya, annyeong," smile full of crooked teeth, "you're going to the tea dance later, ne?"
"Ne," I replied. "Did you come all the way to ask me that?"
The fact that you didn't answer me even when we reached the school gates was negated by you turning up every morning after that.
And the Friday you asked me, 'Shinhye-ya, are we... good friends?"
Uncertain of your line of questioning, I could only nod mutely.
"We hang out like this every Friday... do you... I hope you like it as much as I do."
Again I can only nod, staring into the bottom of my peppermint chocolate chip-smeared paper cup.
"So... we're... Friday friends," you conclude.
"If that's what you want to call it..."
"we'll always be Friday friends, won't we?"
"Ne."
And it was on just such a Friday when you asked "I'll make it big in Seoul, one day, SHinhye. Do you believe in me?"
"I've always believed in you, Yunho."
I'll always remember the boyish confidence of that grin as you grabbed my hand in a silent 'aja!' - "Friday friends, fighting!"
And when you suddenly stopped showing up, it was Friday again.
The tea dance came and went without a sign of you, and people came to ask me "where's Yunho?"
It took an hour and fifteen minutes of agony to pick up the phone and dial your house number. Your sister Jihye answered the phone.
"Oppa's gone. I don't know when he's coming back - Appa's very angry with him."
And so it was a Friday when I found out that you'd run away to Seoul to chase your dreams.
I haven't had another Friday friend since.
I've always believed in you, Yunho.
But you left before I could even love you.