unconvinced, Elton asks him again:
- And how did you meet?
- At the end of the concert, he went out to smoke a cigarette and there ... Boom! We see each other, and we fall in love right away! ... When I told him that it was me who wrote these songs, you would have seen and heard him! He said to me: "Winwin, you are exactly like in my dreams! I fell in love with your lyrics at the same time as you, I can't live without you anymore, "she mimicked dramatically.
- Wow ... It's so beautiful, declaring the young man carried away with emotion.
Surprisingly, Winnie felt her friend more receptive, believing that this story held up, she quickly understood when he questioned her again:
- So you were on a date with him yesterday?
-Yes ! You got it all, I didn't want to tell you because in fact I was nervous to tell you directly so I made up this work story to stay with him. It was really stupid of me to try to hide this from you, you'd have ended up finding out the truth anyway, right?
- Hmm ...
- What, she asked, worried about having said too much, is something wrong?
- No ... Just that ... I still can't believe you're with the real Benjie, it's crazy that you fall in love so quickly and want to give up your law school to stay here, with him.
Strangely, in her words, Winnie felt that Elton was trying to unseal the part of the truth in this story, she was too good to be her. The "Winnie" he knew would never sacrifice her studies for love, and if she did, not someone she said fell in love with her.
- You know, think better, I'm starting to doubt.
What? What do you mean you doubt, she stammered, you don't believe in me anymore or what?
- No, you're not the problem. It's probably him.
- H-How is that?
- Well, maybe he wants to use you, now that he knows that it is you who wrote these texts, he will surely want more and will keep you prisoner under the pretext of love, you do not believe not ?
- M-No, no! What are you going to look for here? My Min-Ho would never do that, he told me that ... he loved me ever since was only waiting for us to meet.
Elton's sharp gaze was enough to make the young woman lose her ability, turning away as much as she could. Then Elton adds, questioning him again:
- In that case ... Wouldn't it be you by chance, Minogue? Won't you be pulling me away with a lie so you can do something stupid I hope? Like ... I don't know, becoming his stooge for example? Because if it does, we take the first flight to New York.
- W-Why are you thinking so much, tell me Elton? You know they say: love has its reasons that reason ignores, don't you? I don't know, I'm already twenty-three years old and I don't know if such a chance will come to me again in my life, and as a friend you don't think you have to be happy for me?
If Winnie wasn't telling the truth; she was right about that, if she had truly found her happiness here in Seoul, it would have been selfish of her only friend to part her. Finally, he allowed himself to be softened by Winnie and her doe eyes as much as by her fine words.
Elton came to take her in his arms and said:
- You're right, I'm happy for you. There are at least ... Thousands of girls who would like to be in your shoes, do you realize that?
- Hmm ... Huh, she replied monotonously.
- Do you realize when your relationship will become public? The photos, the paparazzi, the fans ... You will really experience a lot of stress.
- Yes...
- But don't worry, Benjie and I are sure to be there to support you.
- Thank you my friend...
- You're welcome, the young man added, parting ways with her, buddy!
Elton finally left his friend alone, but before leaving, Elton added:
- I'll pack my bags on my own then, but ... I won't leave until I meet him.
- Wait, wait, said the young woman following him, meet who?
- Well, the man of your life! I'm not going to leave without meeting him in person. Instead of standing there with your mouth open, organize this for us.
- B-But he's very busy, he ... He sure has a lot of celeb stuff to do today.
- But no ! You are his sweetheart no, he will find plenty of time for you, except if he prefers to travel to New York to see you ...
- No no no ! II will call him right away.
In truth, if Elton was so punctual it was to accelerate the confession process and especially definitively to withdraw from him this crazy idea of making a career in music.
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As soon as he got to his room, Winnie started to walk around in circles, waiting for Min-Ho to finally answer, and when he did, Winnie imploded:
- We're toast!
The high pitch of Winnie's voice forced Min-Ho to pull his phone away from his ear. The young man sighs then answered him:
- What are you talking about ? Explain yourself, and less loudly please.
- It's Elton, he agrees that I stay but on condition that he meets you, because I told him to convince him that we ..., she takes a breath then continues, that we're together and we're happy as a couple in Friends, are you still here? Hello? Hello ?...
- I'm still here, he reassured him, and I think I got it.
- Thank God because I have already forgotten what I was saying, you know it happens suddenly in times of deep stress ...
- Calm down, you don't have to be stressed. You did the right thing, I'm proud of your choice.
Winnie was puzzled, she didn't expect congratulations from someone like Min-Ho, for what little she already knew about him, her pride was placed in the highest circles. She made:
- Wow ... Uh ... Thank you, I'm surprised you said it like that, I suddenly feel more proud of myself! I feel like I was facilitated by Obama there uh ... Sorry, carry on.
- Well ... I'll finish a shoot in a little over an hour, I'll meet you at the WW Cafe. Don't be late, because if I come and you aren't there, I'll go right away.
- Okay, okay! Don't worry about it in an hour.
- Well, see you later and try to dress more decently please, this is quite busy cafe.
- Yes, of course, it is noted! I undermine myself like never before, understood!
Then Hyun-Shik hung up, thus failing to make his smirk noticeable, this girl had the gift of being ironic without knowing it and it almost always drew a smile from her. It wasn't yesterday. Even in her letters Winnie's embarrassment could be seen, she wrote down everything she felt indiscriminately. She did not hesitate to recount her days of autumn or summer, those cold snaps in winter and her spring walks, in these letters, Winnie put all her existence to the contemplation of Min-Ho, who did not know. never bother reading each one.
The meaning of his songs only moved to the rhythm of his more than surprising life. You could tell she was one of those brilliant high schoolers whose nightlife no one could imagine. From clandestine outings, to parties in the most unusual places, you could say that Winnie and Min-Ho had lived a more than divergent teenager. Winnie herself, despite her deafness, heard with her eyes this world filled with magic, while Min him; watched him from the other side of his glass barrier, shielding himself from the "dangers" that were always there.
Min-Ho had grown up from all the "hostilities" of the big city, he had always learned in the best schools. And at the age of sixteen, he became more passionate about a once commonplace gift, music. While downtown, this young African-American as tall as three apples was making her piano debut just outside the New York subway. Winnie did not have the same privileges as Min in her life. Modest background, average life, even this did not remove the joy of living from this little ball of energy which, even when deaf, developed a passion encouraged by his father. Before meeting Min-Ho on the internet, it was his father who sang his songs, every weekend the city feasted on its two budding musicians as passionate as they were talented.
Unfortunately at his ten years, Winnie's father was diagnosed with cancer, which put an end to their musical madness. Besides, Winnie refused to play music during this time. But six years later, Elton told him about a young man who had a voice as soft and deep as his father's. At first, the teenager didn't believe, thinking that her friend just wanted her to get back to music. However, one day, her father himself saw one of the videos of this boy.
- Winwin, you have found your new partner, he had said cheerfully, you see how the sky does not abandon you.
From then on, the young girl galvanized this beautiful star and sent him letters every Tuesday and Saturday, thus remembering those beautiful years when she sang with her father.
These opposing paths, these asymmetrical lives were not found as the only center of gravity, music. This was where it was all sacked, no more stories except the ones they wrote themselves mattered, only their talent, that magic in their words, mattered and nothing.
It was for this reason that Min-Ho was ready to use all the resources he possessed to keep Winnie on his side, because in the end she had given new meaning to his career, to his music. Without her knowing it, she took on a certain vehemence in the once monotonous life of Min-Ho.
- What you are proposing is good ... It's a little dark, you don't think so, he was told.
But Winnie herself, even when she was not that light, she knew how to marry the perfect phrases that brightened up dark days. And Min meanwhile, with his musical notes, knew how to give them back this feeling of heavy lightness. In short, Winnie and Hyun-Shik formed an almost perfect duo, but the young woman was far from suspecting this reality. For Winwin, she wrote songs and it ended there, far from suspecting the magnitude it had for Min-Ho; he only wanted more success and more money, she thought.
But that went beyond all interest, because, for him, his music was incomplete without that of Winnie. Although he still wanted to hide his face on this aspect of the story, he was still ignorant.
- Benjie! Are you sleeping or what, the impatient photographer called out, change your pose would you like?
The young man recovered and answered by executing:
- sorry, I was thinking of something else.