“Yah! Meijia-sshi! Stand still will you?!” Yoonsae exclaimed.
“Wah! Yoonsae-ah… I’m so excited! It’s only a month until my wedding day!” I replied.
“Yah! I know! That’s why we’re hurrying with all the preparations… you know, you’re he sole reason why Eunjae-sshi, Jihyeon-ah, and I are all stressed out lately!”
“Aish! Can’t you people just be happy for me?!” I sneered.
“Yah! Who said, we aren’t happy?!” Jihyeon butted in. “We’re actually very glad that you’re getting married…look at all the effort that we’ve put into this?! Besides… we all know how much you two love each other…” she explained.
‘Coz I can’t stop!’ my phone rang.
“Yeoboseyo?!” I answered it. “Oh… oppa! Where are you? Mmm… you want me to go there? Ne…arasso… I’ll be there in about twenty minutes. Bye…” I hung up and looked at the girls and smiled.
“Yeah, we heard… come on, let’s take that dress off you so you can go meet PRINCE CHARMING!” the girls said in unison.
“Arasso! Kamsahamnida!”
***
“Oppa!” I called him when I arrived at the café. “What are we supposed to talk about tonight?” I asked.
“Uhmmm… Meijia-sshi… I have to Jeju Island… tomorrow,” Heechul said.
“Huh?! Why? For how long?!” I asked quickly.
“Appa told me to go there… I’ll be gone for a month…”
“A month?! A whole month?! But oppa, our wedding is in a MONTH!” I exclaimed.
“I know… but I’ll be here on our wedding day. I’ll be here the even day before our wedding,” he replied.
“But…”
“Meijia-sshi… our wedding day is important… I won’t forget… I’m excited about it too you know… I just… I really have to go on this trip. Mianhe…” he explained.
“Oppa… can’t I talk to aboji?! Maybe I can persuade him to let you stay,” I asked, nearly begging.
“Meijia-sshi… Mianhe… but just stay here and get ready… I’ll go to Jeju Island… I’ll meet with one of our sponsors there… he said that he might not e able to attend the wedding ceremonies so he will just meet us, and since I’m going there for business, I asked him to meet with me at least… even without, yet,” Heechul explained.
“Aish! Arasso! You say there’s nothing I can do about it… then you should go. Just be careful ok?”
“Ne… eomma…” he teased and smiled in a naughty way.
***
“Be careful, oppa… and eat healthy food… and”
“Meijia-sshi! You’re worse than my eomoni, you know that?!”
“Aish! Arasso! Just… come back on time… I’m really gonna miss you!” she replied.
“And I’m gonna miss you terribly…” he replied as he took her into his arms and held her tightly. “Saranghe…”
I looked up at him and said, “Saranghe…” and we kissed. We shared a long kiss, in hope that it could last us a month… knowing deep inside, that no matter how long the kiss we share would never be able to lessen the longing he and I would feel…
“I’ll call you every three days alright… and I’ll just send you text messages… Anneong!” he bade and kissed me on the cheek. I craned my neck as I followed him with my gaze. And just after a few minutes… he wasn’t visible to me anymore.
One day past… then two… and then, the third came. I longed for his call so badly that I found myself checking my cellphone every minute of that day.
‘Coz I can’t stop!’ finally! “Yeoboseyo!” I answered it quickly. “Oppa! How are you?”
“I’m fine… but I miss you…”
“Yeah, I do to… so badly…” I replied. I was nearly crying.
“So how’s everybody? The girls? Eomoni and aboji? How are you?” he asked.
“Were all fine… everyone’s getting more and more busy each day.”
“Hmmm… how about the preparations? It’s not too hard, is it?!”
“Aniya… it’s nothing we can’t handle… oppa…”
“Mmm…?”
“I miss you so much! Please comeback soon…” I begged.
“You know I can’t do that… but I’m doing my best to get my work here done as early as possible… ok?”
“Arasso…”
“Saranghe, baby…”
“Hmmm… Saranghe…”
“Aren’t you sleepy?” He asked.
“Yeah kind of… but I’ve waited for your call the whole day… I won’t hang up now…” I replied.
“I neither… actually, I was thinking more on the lines of… me singing to you before you sleep…”
“You would?”
“Hmmm…” and he did… he’s got the most wonderful voice, my Kim Heechul… and he never seems to get tired of singing to me… haiz…
I think I fell asleep that night… before Heechul even finished his song… and I regretted missing his FINALE… besides… I’m gonna have to wait his next call for two days again… Aish!
That thing went on for two weeks. Five times… I waited for his call again. It was supposed to be the sixth… but he didn’t… he didn’t call that night, nor the night after that, not even on the next third night… I was so worried. I cried just thinking about it…
Then, one night… I received an sms. It was from Heechul… but was only a quote…
From: LOVE
Message:
…Thank you…
For coming into my life
For making me better
For being my friend
For accepting me
And most of all…
For being MY Meijia…
But he didn’t call…
After another two nights… another quote… but no call from him.
From: LOVE
Message:
The word “miss” is also a part
Of the word “love” so when I say
“I miss you”
It also means that “I LOVE YOU”
Saranghe Meijia-sshi…
***
‘Coz I can’t stop!’
“Yeoboseo… oppa?!” at last! it was like i waited for ages to here his voice.
“Meijia-sshi… I’ll be coming home in three days…”
“Really? What airline? And flight number?” I asked excitedly.
“Anyo… you remember that sponsor I told you about?”
“Yeah… what about him?”
“Well, he’s giving me a flight home on his private jet. It’s an early wedding present for us,” he explained.
“Really?! That’s so generous of him, oppa…”
“Yeah… he’s really kind… now… I’m going to let you rest… see you in three days, my love… Saranghe…”
***
In the airport… I was so ecstatic on his return… so I went to the airport to fetch him…
One airplane…
No Kim Heechul…
Two airplanes…
No Kim Heechul… yet…
Three planes…
And still no sign of him… Aish! How I wish that he would arrive soon! Just then, a private landed on the tarmac, and familiar people started pour out of it. They unloaded a really big box, I think that’s the gift that he talked about. But still no sign of Kim Heechul.
His eomoni spotted in the crowd and waved for me to come closer to them…she looked… a lot older than I could remember… as if this past month had given her more than headaches… even tears…
“Meijia-sshi…” she called.
“Eomoni…how are you?” I asked, “and where ‘s oppa?”
She just looked at me as tears flooded from her eyes… then she looked at the big box I saw earlier. “Is-is… is that…?” I stuttered as I pointed at it. She nodded… “Oh my God… oppa…” I was on my knees. Crying. I couldn’t believe what was happening, yet I couldn’t stand up.
“Come on, Meijia-sshi,” it was Kibum, Heechul’s dongsaeng… he helped me up and half-carried me to the car.
“W-what happened…?” I asked.
“Hyung,” he said with tears in his eyes, “hyung had cancer, Meijia-sshi.”
“C-cancer?! But I didn’t know… I never knew about it…”
“He didn’t want you to know… we thought that he could recover from it. His doctors in the US were confident that they could at least lengthen his life for at least another year… but they were badly mistaken. And now, hyung is gone…”
“Since when?”
“Since Sunday last week,” he replied.
“Sunday?! But… that can’t be!” I exclaimed.
“Huh?! Why did you say that?!” he looked really confused, honestly… I was too.
“I-he just called three days ago… he called to let me know that he’s finally coming home… plus he sent me quotes… so you see?! He couldn’t have died before that! Hmmm… maybe it’s…
“Meijia-sshi… you said he called you?!”
“Ne! he did! Here’s the record on my fone!
“But Meijia… that really is impossible…” he said and examined the fone.
“Did anyone else used his fone when he… wealth…
“Anyo! I turned it off when he died Meijia-sshi…that was his dying wish… he was scared that you’d call, and he won’t be there to answer it anymore… I turned his cellphone of Meijia-sshi…it’s been off since the day hyung died… that was exactly…
"…two weeks ago…”
“Wah! Yoonsae-ah… I’m so excited! It’s only a month until my wedding day!” I replied.
“Yah! I know! That’s why we’re hurrying with all the preparations… you know, you’re he sole reason why Eunjae-sshi, Jihyeon-ah, and I are all stressed out lately!”
“Aish! Can’t you people just be happy for me?!” I sneered.
“Yah! Who said, we aren’t happy?!” Jihyeon butted in. “We’re actually very glad that you’re getting married…look at all the effort that we’ve put into this?! Besides… we all know how much you two love each other…” she explained.
‘Coz I can’t stop!’ my phone rang.
“Yeoboseyo?!” I answered it. “Oh… oppa! Where are you? Mmm… you want me to go there? Ne…arasso… I’ll be there in about twenty minutes. Bye…” I hung up and looked at the girls and smiled.
“Yeah, we heard… come on, let’s take that dress off you so you can go meet PRINCE CHARMING!” the girls said in unison.
“Arasso! Kamsahamnida!”
***
“Oppa!” I called him when I arrived at the café. “What are we supposed to talk about tonight?” I asked.
“Uhmmm… Meijia-sshi… I have to Jeju Island… tomorrow,” Heechul said.
“Huh?! Why? For how long?!” I asked quickly.
“Appa told me to go there… I’ll be gone for a month…”
“A month?! A whole month?! But oppa, our wedding is in a MONTH!” I exclaimed.
“I know… but I’ll be here on our wedding day. I’ll be here the even day before our wedding,” he replied.
“But…”
“Meijia-sshi… our wedding day is important… I won’t forget… I’m excited about it too you know… I just… I really have to go on this trip. Mianhe…” he explained.
“Oppa… can’t I talk to aboji?! Maybe I can persuade him to let you stay,” I asked, nearly begging.
“Meijia-sshi… Mianhe… but just stay here and get ready… I’ll go to Jeju Island… I’ll meet with one of our sponsors there… he said that he might not e able to attend the wedding ceremonies so he will just meet us, and since I’m going there for business, I asked him to meet with me at least… even without, yet,” Heechul explained.
“Aish! Arasso! You say there’s nothing I can do about it… then you should go. Just be careful ok?”
“Ne… eomma…” he teased and smiled in a naughty way.
***
“Be careful, oppa… and eat healthy food… and”
“Meijia-sshi! You’re worse than my eomoni, you know that?!”
“Aish! Arasso! Just… come back on time… I’m really gonna miss you!” she replied.
“And I’m gonna miss you terribly…” he replied as he took her into his arms and held her tightly. “Saranghe…”
I looked up at him and said, “Saranghe…” and we kissed. We shared a long kiss, in hope that it could last us a month… knowing deep inside, that no matter how long the kiss we share would never be able to lessen the longing he and I would feel…
“I’ll call you every three days alright… and I’ll just send you text messages… Anneong!” he bade and kissed me on the cheek. I craned my neck as I followed him with my gaze. And just after a few minutes… he wasn’t visible to me anymore.
One day past… then two… and then, the third came. I longed for his call so badly that I found myself checking my cellphone every minute of that day.
‘Coz I can’t stop!’ finally! “Yeoboseyo!” I answered it quickly. “Oppa! How are you?”
“I’m fine… but I miss you…”
“Yeah, I do to… so badly…” I replied. I was nearly crying.
“So how’s everybody? The girls? Eomoni and aboji? How are you?” he asked.
“Were all fine… everyone’s getting more and more busy each day.”
“Hmmm… how about the preparations? It’s not too hard, is it?!”
“Aniya… it’s nothing we can’t handle… oppa…”
“Mmm…?”
“I miss you so much! Please comeback soon…” I begged.
“You know I can’t do that… but I’m doing my best to get my work here done as early as possible… ok?”
“Arasso…”
“Saranghe, baby…”
“Hmmm… Saranghe…”
“Aren’t you sleepy?” He asked.
“Yeah kind of… but I’ve waited for your call the whole day… I won’t hang up now…” I replied.
“I neither… actually, I was thinking more on the lines of… me singing to you before you sleep…”
“You would?”
“Hmmm…” and he did… he’s got the most wonderful voice, my Kim Heechul… and he never seems to get tired of singing to me… haiz…
I think I fell asleep that night… before Heechul even finished his song… and I regretted missing his FINALE… besides… I’m gonna have to wait his next call for two days again… Aish!
That thing went on for two weeks. Five times… I waited for his call again. It was supposed to be the sixth… but he didn’t… he didn’t call that night, nor the night after that, not even on the next third night… I was so worried. I cried just thinking about it…
Then, one night… I received an sms. It was from Heechul… but was only a quote…
From: LOVE
Message:
…Thank you…
For coming into my life
For making me better
For being my friend
For accepting me
And most of all…
For being MY Meijia…
But he didn’t call…
After another two nights… another quote… but no call from him.
From: LOVE
Message:
The word “miss” is also a part
Of the word “love” so when I say
“I miss you”
It also means that “I LOVE YOU”
Saranghe Meijia-sshi…
***
‘Coz I can’t stop!’
“Yeoboseo… oppa?!” at last! it was like i waited for ages to here his voice.
“Meijia-sshi… I’ll be coming home in three days…”
“Really? What airline? And flight number?” I asked excitedly.
“Anyo… you remember that sponsor I told you about?”
“Yeah… what about him?”
“Well, he’s giving me a flight home on his private jet. It’s an early wedding present for us,” he explained.
“Really?! That’s so generous of him, oppa…”
“Yeah… he’s really kind… now… I’m going to let you rest… see you in three days, my love… Saranghe…”
***
In the airport… I was so ecstatic on his return… so I went to the airport to fetch him…
One airplane…
No Kim Heechul…
Two airplanes…
No Kim Heechul… yet…
Three planes…
And still no sign of him… Aish! How I wish that he would arrive soon! Just then, a private landed on the tarmac, and familiar people started pour out of it. They unloaded a really big box, I think that’s the gift that he talked about. But still no sign of Kim Heechul.
His eomoni spotted in the crowd and waved for me to come closer to them…she looked… a lot older than I could remember… as if this past month had given her more than headaches… even tears…
“Meijia-sshi…” she called.
“Eomoni…how are you?” I asked, “and where ‘s oppa?”
She just looked at me as tears flooded from her eyes… then she looked at the big box I saw earlier. “Is-is… is that…?” I stuttered as I pointed at it. She nodded… “Oh my God… oppa…” I was on my knees. Crying. I couldn’t believe what was happening, yet I couldn’t stand up.
“Come on, Meijia-sshi,” it was Kibum, Heechul’s dongsaeng… he helped me up and half-carried me to the car.
“W-what happened…?” I asked.
“Hyung,” he said with tears in his eyes, “hyung had cancer, Meijia-sshi.”
“C-cancer?! But I didn’t know… I never knew about it…”
“He didn’t want you to know… we thought that he could recover from it. His doctors in the US were confident that they could at least lengthen his life for at least another year… but they were badly mistaken. And now, hyung is gone…”
“Since when?”
“Since Sunday last week,” he replied.
“Sunday?! But… that can’t be!” I exclaimed.
“Huh?! Why did you say that?!” he looked really confused, honestly… I was too.
“I-he just called three days ago… he called to let me know that he’s finally coming home… plus he sent me quotes… so you see?! He couldn’t have died before that! Hmmm… maybe it’s…
“Meijia-sshi… you said he called you?!”
“Ne! he did! Here’s the record on my fone!
“But Meijia… that really is impossible…” he said and examined the fone.
“Did anyone else used his fone when he… wealth…
“Anyo! I turned it off when he died Meijia-sshi…that was his dying wish… he was scared that you’d call, and he won’t be there to answer it anymore… I turned his cellphone of Meijia-sshi…it’s been off since the day hyung died… that was exactly…
"…two weeks ago…”
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