Winnie's words take a long time before phrasing them as neatly as possible.
🎵This night is cold in the kingdom
I can feel you fade away
From the kitchen to the bathroom sink and
Your steps keep me awake🎵
- Well ... when I was in high school I was ... I dated a boy who was ashamed that I was deaf, so he ... he hid me from his pals and flaunted himself with it. another girl while we were together.
- Let me down slowly ..., he cut him off, that's where this song came from, isn't it?
She hesitated a little before answering, lowering her head:
- Yes...
- And how long did you put up with that?
- Well ... I would say ... Three years ...
- Three years ! Are you crazy or what?
- It's okay, don't judge me. Things are not the same for everyone, for someone who is used to being loved by everyone, things are not like mine, like me who is not loved by anyone because of my faults. Being deaf, ugly, black, girl ... Things don't go the same way with me.
🎵Could you find a way to let me down slowly?
A little sympathy, I hope you can show me
If you wanna go then I'll be so lonely
If you're leavin', baby, let me down slowly🎵
- Who told you you were ugly? Who Said Being Deaf Was A Flaw? And who told you that your differences are making you flawed?
Winnie looked up; was he thinking?
- You say all that ... So that I can agree to work for us, right?
🎵Let me down, down, let me down, down, let me down
Let me down, down, let me down, down, let me down
If you wanna go then I'll be so lonely
If you're leavin', baby, let me down slowly🎵
- Think whatever you want, but I won't let you talk about a girl with as much talent as Winwin. The one who says at all costs that she wants to talk to the stars, help those who have lost self-confidence, smile to smile ... I can't hear you describe her like that and say nothing!
Winnie lost her mind, is that the good she was talking about? She tried to restrain herself but finally broke down and burst into tears. Min-Ho didn't think she would cry, so he exclaimed, coming to bring her handkerchiefs:
- Hey, don't cry! I'm not saying that to make you sad, I didn't think you were so similar, since yesterday you were just playing the badass.
- It's all your fault! ... exclaimed the young woman, sniffing, I hate you now! I hate you !
Winnie was determined to cry as Min-Ho did her best to stop her, but to no avail. The young man saw only one solution, to hug her. He procrastinated for a moment and then finally decided to do it, hugging her, urging her to stop. Winnie, even though she was upset, had never felt so good. Not because it was her idol hugging her, no; just because someone was consoling her.
Usually, when she was depressed, the young woman opted to console herself on her own so as not to disturb others. It was the first time she had been hugged to comfort her. But it wasn't just his own, for even if he had to get used to it, Min-Ho didn't like such contact much. He didn't even know what to do to calm her down effectively, he just rubbed her back gently, hoping it would work. This kind of contact for him, was nothing sincere so he preserved it as much as he could, he had so hugged people without feeling anything but the simple fact of making him disturb him as high as possible. point.
🎵Don't cut me down, throw me out, leave me here to waste
I once was a man with dignity and grace
Now I'm slippin' through the cracks of your cold embrace
So please, please🎵
He was so touched by people that the simple fact of feeling a skin against his gave him great embarrassment. Yet this time, he didn't. Neither embarrassment nor disgust. On the contrary, he felt sad for Winnie. He really wanted her to stop crying, which she did after several minutes. Around his neck he could hear her say:
- You smell of orange, it's nice.
🎵Could you find a way to let me down slowly?🎵
Strangely he felt embarrassed this time and pushed her away sharply. The young woman stood in front of him and declared:
- You have a real problem with human interactions, you should train on teddy bears or your girlfriend, your hugs suck.
- Ah ... Ah yes? Well know that many people think the opposite.
- Ah yes ? She turned and took a bun from the table and ate it, and who for example?
- Uh ... Lots of people! Anyway, I don't have to prove anything to you, believe what you want.
In truth, no one. Because no one had had the opportunity or the permission to do so.
His lie did not hold water, but out of gratitude forever Winnie preferred not to stir the knife in the wound. She tasted the buns under the accusing gaze of the man in front of her;
- What? I came here for my breakfast, I'm super hungry. Plus, you don't know what you're missing, these buns are delicious.
She stretched out her hand to her mouth and Min-Ho immediately repelled her, saying:
- Take that away from me, I don't want your disgusting ball of flour.
She winced before shrugging her shoulders, saying:
- Too bad, you don't know what you're missing.
...
Finally, they were served a better meal. Winnie took longer to taste hers, reflecting on her compound, more complex than her buns. The two young people occupied themselves by telling sometimes funny anecdotes, sometimes not of their lives which, in this case, were filled with them. Winnie told Seung the story of some of the texts she had sent him, after which he also did the same with his own.
- For "Scream on my mind", confessed the young woman, I was thinking what it would do to me to be shouted at me by my father after I ran away to go to the club.
- Did you really do it?
- Yes ! I was deprived of a date and it was Tonny's birthday, I absolutely had to go. But when I got home my dad was waiting for me on the front steps and ... stop laughing! And he started signing me, so we started arguing over signing and I don't know why I was wondering, but what would it do to me to hear him yell at me?
- And now what does it do to you?
- Uh ... Nothing because I didn't have a chance to hear him, he died before my operation so I don't have time to ... No, no! Don't make that face, I'm fine; let's not spoil the mood or I will feel guilty for bringing this back.
- I'm really sorry, I didn't want to ...
- Don't worry, it's over now and it's this period that inspired me "good goodbyes", and you interpret it so well that I have not regretted having it for you sent.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome, let's have a drink!
- Good idea, to what?
Winnie thought about it then eventually declined:
- To our beautiful meeting.
She raised her glass and Min-Ho smashed hers against it and replied:
- And our shitty lives that give others hope.
- Exatly! Health!
Min-Ho drank his glass of red wine, but immediately afterwards noticed that Winnie hadn't even tasted his. He then said to him:
- Why don't you drink me? Want to get me drunk while you stay sober to take advantage of me or what?
- Come on, I'm not as twisted as you are. It's just that he doesn't drink alcohol for physiological reasons.
- What do you mean ?
- Well, the acids that stopped slowing the effect do not work effectively in my body so I quickly get out of control after a few gorges, in short ... I'm not made for drinking, you understand better?
Min-Ho stared at her for a long time with a grimace in the corner and admitted to Winnie:
- You are really.... strange.
- I know, I am told all the time, answered simply Winnie while eating. Ah yes ! And for my flight, what do we do if I accept the contract?
- In principle, that would mean that you would stay here, in Seoul, and that I would have to lug you around like a little lucky charm.
- But ... What about Elton? What will he do?
- If you accept, you will stay and he will surely leave without you. You told me he already had a career in New York, right? It's time to forge yours too, so I advise you to accept.
- Hmm ... You say that because there is your interest in it, we know you people of the business show.
- You're wrong, I'm not doing this for me ... Well, a major part is for me but ... Beyond the interest, you have talent and it would be a shame to waste it.
Above the gain, Min-Ho was right. I was talented, and maybe it was time I too advantage of it, but at the same time ... What would I do with Tonny?
🎵If you wanna go then I'll be so lonely
If you're leavin', baby, let me down slowly🎵
🎵Let_Me_Down_Slowly_by_Alec_Benjamin🎵