C11 Chapter 10: Helping Hand
~Do you hear me? I'm talking to you.
Across the water, across the deep blue ocean.
Under the open sky, oh my, baby I'm trying.~
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A musical group in the corner of the rectangular room started playing at the sight of the hand signal from Mr. Harashi, just like how the man instructed them. The two vocalists were seated in the center of a small stage platform. Their hands were holding onto their microphones as they smiled towards each other, wishing each other good luck inside their heads.
One was a man while the other was a woman.
As the man in the left sings his heart out, his raspy and deep voice, yet soothing to one's ears reigned over the silence in the whole room.
The song, 'lucky', was sung in an acapella version, a perfect song to start in such a cold night to warm the hearts of their guests.
The man had his hands over his bowler hat as he nodded his head at the beautiful woman beside him. They both had confident smiles on their faces while wearing their costumes like they were to attend a ballroom party.
The soft tunes and melody from the piano and guitar behind them continue to glide into the air. As young and aspiring singers, they both can picture the beautiful notes floating around as the sweet romantic ambiance fills the room.
The woman crosses her legs and leans onto the golden microphone in her hands. Her sweet voice turned the room into a colorful canvas, yet she was unaware that she had sung while witnessing two end strings knotted together in one room, clueless of the beauty of one chaotic beginning.
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~Boy, I hear you in my dreams.
I feel your whisper across the sea.
I keep you with me in my heart.
You make it easier when life gets hard.~
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As the duo enjoyed themselves while giving their best in their performance, a pair of frail shoulders seen in the distance was tensed and strained with pressure. Two amethyst eyes shifted from the colors and lines on the white marble floor, one tile after another. His line of sight had turned blur like a mist against a glass.
His breathing was irregular as the nonstop squeezing he felt inside his stomach made him breathe for air at the immense pain he's been enduring long enough. He's almost at his limit.
As the clock ticked every second, the sweat from his forehead started dripping down to his temple. He counts the seconds that have passed inside his head to keep his conscious mind from blacking out because he feels as if the world is spinning before him, at a slow and hypnotizing pace.
On the other hand, his weakened knees were close to giving up. Everything around him was obscure. He couldn't hear anything other than the vague music and whispers around him, but that was until he saw a hand with a handkerchief that had the darkest shade of blue he had ever seen in front of his eyes.
A hand?
He felt someone shake him lightly by the arm, it was his mother for sure. His eyelids blink numerous times causing his long lashes to flutter beautifully against the chandeliers above them without effort. Despite the unclear details he sees around him, he can see the figure of three expensive pairs of oxford shoes in front of him.
Right, he forgot. They're currently attending an expensive dinner with a few strangers. How ironic. Jin wants to go home and head to the Yens instead.
Using all the strength that's left inside him, Jin slowly lifts his chin. Under his drowsy state of mind, his eyes and blurry sight aim at the tallest figure he's seen standing in front of him. The person was taller than Jihyuk, who Jin assumed, is the tallest person above the average Korean male height.
Fighting the dilemma he's experiencing at the wrong hour of the day, he ended up staring while squinting his eyes towards the person in front of him, unable to see the person's face clearly. Since the person standing before him was extremely tall. For once, he thought it was the Woo's bodyguard upon looking at the shape and length of the man's shoulders.
They were twice wider than his.
As Jin's eyes feast at the bulkiness of the man's chest and measure his long arms, it led his blurred sight down on the cloth in the man's hand. Jin curled his toes, slowly, his shivering fingers tried reaching out to the cloth in respect of the person's kindness.
He didn't want to keep the person waiting as the man might be busy keeping the Woo's security in check. Jin especially hates the feeling of burdening someone from doing something. More importantly, his head was focused on how small the cloth looked over the person's hand.
But as their hands were growing near, Jin's head suddenly spun. He ends up grabbing at nothing but the air as his knees completely give up on him causing his body to incline forward. Jin was ready to die in shame and brace himself at the loud and painful impact he'll feel against the cold floor.
"Sweetheart!!" Asami jumps in shock.
At a speed of light, before everyone could blink upon witnessing the incident an arm was fast enough to catch him by the waist and a callous palm went up to cup Jin's small jaw to support Jin's head.
For a moment, Jin felt like his body was floating in the air. He can't feel his legs or his foot touching the floor. It looks like this bodyguard saved him from making a fool out of himself.
Jin groans in pain as he closes his eyes, surrendering to what his body has been wanting since he came out of the elevator.
He shamelessly leans his head towards the warm object pressed against his cheek and slumps his face on the wall in front of him. He should be fine here.
They could start the dinner without him
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~They don't know how long it takes,
Waiting for a love like this...~
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Jin's surprised the wall isn't that rough against his forehead and it's...warm? Do luxurious restaurants have their walls covered in cloth? Perhaps is this the curtains?
His adorable brows met, but why is it emitting an intoxicating scent?
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~Though the breezes through the trees,
Move so pretty you're all I see.
As the world keeps spinning round,
You hold me right here and now.~
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Author's note:
Another chapter for you my babies~
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