Chapter 4 - A New Step

"Mr. Lee?", Yerin enquired. "What is it?", Mr. Lee replied. "What if my grip was broken apart a long time ago?", she asked him. "Well, I don't know about that but all I know is, our grip is what we can create and also destroy. So, it is completely upto you.", he replied with a warm smile on his face as they were on the way to the cramp school. "It's tough.", she sighed. "But not for so long.", he said. " Here we are.", he continued as he stopped the car before a huge building. "Bye Mr Lee.", she waved at him as she gave a glance at the building. "My choice?", she murmured to herself. "Then I'll have it for once.", she said as she headed back towards the school.

"Where is Seojun?", Won Shik enquired. "Sorry but I can't tell you that he said if there's a new member then he won't be in the band anymore which is why he is with another girl right now!", Young Soo exclaimed as Won Shik glared at him. "Don't tell me I just did it?", Young Soo enquired. "Oh yes you did.", Won Shik replied with a big smile on his face. " I'm so dead!", Young Soo cried. "Hey! Where are you going now?!", he enquired. " To catch that jerk!", Won Shik replied as he left the room. " Why can't I keep my mouth shut?!", Young Soo cried. "Where are you, Seojun?", Wonshik murmered to himself while he was on his way to look for Seojun.

"Seojun?", a voice approached Seojun. "Sorry can we continue this another time?", he apologized to the girl standing beside the window of the library. "What? But you just reached here. I can't let you go without having your lips.", she replied as they both stood up. "I heard you abandoned that famous senior from the dance club also in the rooftop for another junior. Are you going to her again?", she enquired. "Ga Yeon, don't cross your line. Did you already forget the reason why I agreed to do this with you?", he warned her. "Alright. I'm sorry for crossing the line but the deal says you can't leave until you grant me my wish.", she said as came closer to him. "Kiss. That's what I wish for my genie.", she continued as a smirk made its way to her lips. "As you say, ma'am.", he sighed as his lips made its way to hers.

"I can leave now, right?", he enquired. "No wonder they say you are good at everything. My heart's still beating like crazy. How can you feel nothing? I mean I know your mom had abandoned you when you were young but you can't related feelings and that together at all, you know.", she replied him as she took out her lip-gloss. "Are you done?", he asked her. "I'm leaving and hope that we don't have to encounter again ever.", he continued as he left. "And I hope we encounter each other every day.", she murmured to herself.

"This can't get any worse, right?", Yerin murmured as she was in the rooftop of the school building. she had turned off her phone as Mr. Lee and her mother's assistant were constantly calling her. She didn't know what was was going to do after her mother approaches her. She didn't have any answer to why she skipped the cram school. All she knew was that she had to get out of her mother's grip even if it was for just once. "You did well.", she praised herself as she was gazing at the carefree blue sky.

"I wish I could be as carefree as you.", she murmured to herself. It was new for her. She didn't know why she was acting this way. Ever since she was born, all she knew was that she had to wake on the road her mother had built for her nut this time she wanted to look for a new road where her mother could never find her. She felt as if she wanted to do something else in her future and just when these feelings were approaching her, she was humming. It was as if her feelings were being conveyed by words and without any warning she was singing,

"𝑇𝒉𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝒉𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡

𝐴𝑖𝑛'𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡

𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑛𝑖𝑔𝒉𝑡 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑡𝒉𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠

𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛

𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠

𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝐼𝑓 𝐼 𝑡𝑟𝑦, 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝒉𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒

𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑠𝒉𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑚𝑒

𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝒉𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑡𝒉 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑔𝒉𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒

𝑇𝑜 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔𝒉𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑡𝒉𝑒  𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟

𝑁𝑜𝑤 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝒉𝑎𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔𝒉, 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑐𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑

𝑇𝑜 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝒉𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑒

𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝒉𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑖𝑓𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑒".

"Who am I kidding? he won't pick up my phone.", Won Shik murmured to himself as had come to the rooftop. "Maybe not here-", he said as he was interrupted by the melodious voice of Yerin.  

"𝐴 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑑𝑎𝑦-", Yerin turned around to find a masculine figure at the entrance of the rooftop. "Ah sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. I was just looking for my friend.", Won Shik apologized to her. "You don't need to. You must be busy, I'll leave than to give you space to look for your friend.", she said as she headed towards the entrance. "Do you want to become a singer?", Won Shik enquired as he grabbed her wrist. "Singer? Never thought about it.", she replied to him as she got her wrist out of his grab. "Then start thinking about it now.", he said. 

"What?", she enquired.  "Join our band.", he replied.