Rainbow shards: Violet shards

I don't know how one can survive without breathing so I don't know if this is real. I expected to meet him soon but I did not expect meeting him this soon.

He's. . . . grown.

The look in his eyes were a mixture of someone I knew and someone new.

The shape of his face is much more defined than the last time I saw him.

The same look, same pain. . . something that I had caused.

"Joey. This two were admiring your work. . ."

"oh! Hi. I'm Joey Kim."

"Hello."

"Do the 2 of you know each other?"

"What?"

"you two look like you've seen a ghost. Is something wrong??"

"Ah. . . mian. ."

"Anyway, there are more inside, please take your time."

"thank you."

the awkward silence returned

"I have to go greet my guests, I'll leave you here then."

I ran.

As I walk-ran to my other guests, I could feel his eyes following me.

After so many years, my heart still beats for him. I wonder if my return suddenly caused our fate to be entangled again.

I wonder if returning really is the best decision I have made in my entire life. Not that any of my other decisions were perfect either.

I was talking with one of the senators when a hand held mine.

He had this solemn and lonely look when I turned. As if he is nervous.

"May I have this dance."

Those words. As if it shifted a big change in my life, it made me wonder if this was even real?

I hold his hanging hand and he lead me to dance. The music, I don't even know what it is and this is not even a party but we danced. In the middle of the paintings and vases made from the memories I made with him.

I stand there staring at him even after the dance.

"I still love you, Kim Jojo."

"Let's date, without an alarm getting in our way."

and suddenly, everything became very very fast.

He held my waist and pulled me into a kiss, with all these people looking, with his girlfriend looking.

I pushed him and looked elsewhere.

"I'm sorry, I have to go."

and I left.

Leaving the gallery and everyone and everything else in it.

. . .

Everything became clear as she walk away from me the moment we met. This place, this art, is a diary, a journal of how we came to be.

"Yukjo. Mianhe."

"Oppa??"

"I . . am really an ***. you can curse me, you can get angry, but I really can't ring your alarm."

"I probably never will, since my heart have always belonged to one person."

I looked at her scared face.

"Mianhe. But I really love her, JoAlarm be damned."

I walk away from her and follow Jojo.

I held her hand and felt the billion electric shocks in my skin.

"May I have this dance?"

She might not even be thinking, just as I am not thinking.

We dance in the middle of the gallery, by a song that I have no idea who played.

I wonder what she is thinking?

I smile.

she might not even be thinking at all.

She remained passive, even after I confess to her.

But when I kiss her, when I felt the lips that I missed so much, I felt it. The billion bolts that existed for the two of us only.

She pushed me, and ran away, with red cheeks flamming.

"So. . . ."

He was the one earlier.

"Hi. I am Kim Yuno. Joey's business partner."

Both of us gazes at each other, trying to assess each other.

"I am Hwang Sun-oh. I am. . ."

"Feather."

"What??"

"Come with me."

I followed him to a painting of a feather in different colors. It was inside a raining background with pearls in the ground.

"Feather. That is the name, it is pretty bland for a name, but this is the only painting that is about her ex. Or so she said."

I brushed my hand on the painting.

I saw it.

The memories of seeing her first, the color somehow reminded me of the night I saw her first.

"She remembered it."

"Joey is a very talented artist. Every work she makes is a hit. "

"This will be available for bidding next month. A lot of people will be attending the auction night where 2 of her greatest work will be auctioned. It will be this one and one of her previous work."

"I'll send you an invite."

"Instead of that, give me her number."

"I can't. so, an invite or not?"

. . .

I fell asleep on the tub as my mind went back to the kiss.

'what is he thinking?"

I skimmed over my lips and remembered him again.

My phone suddenly buzzed and the faces of my beloved appeared.

"How is my prince and princess."

"Mama!!!! We miss you so much!!!"

"I miss you too."

"When will we see you?"

"Hmm, just a bit more."

"Can't we just be there with you?"

"I wish you can but mama is so busy, she won't be able to look after you. "

"We'll be really quiet and good. We want to be with you."

"I miss you too so much."

I smile looking at their almost teared eyes. I know for a fact that those tears are for show. I just enjoy seeing them think that they are fooling me.

"If you be really good, we will be together after 3 good night sleeps. Can you do that??"

"Yes mama!!"

Both of them leaped in joy as theu jump up and down the bed they are sharing.

I watch both of them in happiness

'Yes, let's forget about that. I am no longer a teenage girl who only has herself to think now.'

. . .

As the auction near, I try to enjoy the parties and avoid Sun oh at the same time since he always manage to go to every events I hold.

"Can't you just please block him from the invite list?"

"Is there a reason too."

"He just kissed me the last time I was a meter near him. That is sexual harrassment."

"Then sue him."

"Just block him off."