03: losing touch

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Where you been? Where you at? What's on your mind?
They say every life precious but nobody care about mine



A day later

Donghyuck was walking under the beautiful evening sky. He had just left Jaemin's house after a long talking session with him. For Donghyuck Jaemin was that one person he could talk about anything. The word 'secret' didn't exist in their dictionary.

A few bright stars and the moon could be seen. A plane flew silently across the peaceful looking sky.
Donghyuck was about to turn to his home street when he suddenly heard yelling.
The shouts were echoing from the park across the street. He hesitated but walked a couple steps forward to see better what was going on.

He saw a woman crying on a bench. Then he noticed a tall man with a beard standing in front of the bench, yelling at the woman, who also now yelled back at the man.
They were clearly having an argument about something.

Donghyuck stared for a while.
Eyes locked,
Shouts and cries echoing in his ears.

He felt fear climb up from his legs to his upper body. His legs and hands started shaking slightly but he was still staring.
The yelling got louder in Donghyuck's head and he felt like his legs were going to give up. Dizziness filled his head for a few seconds.

"No.. no not here" Donghyuck whispered to himself, realizing he was having a panic attack in the middle of the street.
He looked around and saw stairs. He sat down on the stairs.

His heartbeat got faster.

He felt his hands tingling and losing touch,
soon the same happened to his toes.

Tears filled his eyes and the sight in front of him got blurry.

His breath hitched badly as he started gasping for air and tried to wipe his tears with his shaky hands.

"Hey hey, are you alright?" An unknown voice asked.

Donghyuck couldn't look up or say anything. He just shook his head.

The stranger sat down next to him.

Donghyuck was relieved that he wasn't alone, even tho he didn't know who was he sitting with.
The stranger's voice was soft and it made Donghyuck feel safe.

Donghyuck buried his head in his hands.
A tear fell down his cheek.

He felt a hand, carefully wipe the tear away.

"It's okay" a soft voice said
"Just remember to breathe"

After a while Donghyuck had calmed down and came back to his senses. He carefully opened his eyes and felt a soft wind hit his face.
He looked around and was met with a pair of dark but kind eyes.
Those eyes belonged to a black haired male.

Donghyuck was sure he had seen those eyes before.

"Hi" the guy spoke up

That's when he remembered.
Mark.
Mark from McDonald's.

"Are you alright? You didn't seem to be at your best a while ago" Mark said, snapping the younger out of his thoughts.

"Oh uhm.. god this is embarrassing" Donghyuck whispered to himself

"It was just a panic attack nothing for you to worry about"

Mark nodded calmly. They sat in silence for a minute.
The air was getting a little chilly and some of the brightest stars were already shining in the sky.
Donghyuck stared at the peaceful night sky.

"thank you" he said with a quiet voice.

They fell in silence.
Then the black haired male turned to Donghyuck.

"want me to walk you home?" He asked

Donghyuck was slightly taken aback by the sudden question, but nodded with a smile.

Mark stood up first and picked something up from the ground.
The light brown guitar.

"You play the guitar?" Donghyuck asked

Mark chuckled, "yeah, I carry this around everywhere" he said pointing at the instrument.

"What about you, do you play anything?"

"I've played the piano since I was a kid" , Donghyuck said shyly "I like to sing too".

"Oh really? Cool" Mark said surprised

They walked in silence. Not awkward, but comfortable silence.
It was already dark and the streetlights were lighting up their way.

Mark suddenly took the guitar from his shoulder and started playing some chords. Slowly the chords turned into a calm song.

Donghyuck knew the song right away and started humming the lyrics to 'candle light'.

"불어 candle light, candle light,
candle light, baby
함께해 모든 고맙다는 뜻이야
이럴 왠지 왠지 왠지 baby"

Mark watched Donghyuck as he sang with a sweet voice.

The younger felt the pair of eyes on him
"You know your staring is really obvious"

"ah.." , Mark chuckled "you have a beautiful voice"

"Thank you.. you play really well." Donghyuck quietly said.

After a few more meters they were standing in front of Donghyuck's door.

"This is it, thank you" the brown haired boy thanked.
"anything I can do for you in return?"

"Your number" the older male smiled

They exchanged numbers and Donghyuck was just about to close the door when Mark yelled after him.

"Hey! What's your name?"

The sun kissed boy laughed
"It's Donghyuck"

"See you Donghyuck, I'm Mark by the way!"

"Yeah I knew that already!"
the boy shouted and closed the door, leaving Mark in confusion.

"how did he- what"

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