She stood on the top of the hill, her white cream-colored dress swayed to the direction of the wind. She closed her eyes as she took a deep breath while she let her mind clear from the rest of her thoughts. It was just perfect, nothing to worry or think about, just the smell of the water and the clean fresh air. The warm heat of the sun beaming down on her face while the flow of the wind cooled her body.

Yes, it was just perfect.

"Luna!"

Her heartbeat stopped. She stayed still for a moment, not knowing what to do; she kept her eyes closed as her heart began to beat quickly. From the moment that she heard her name, she instantly knew who had called her. How could she not? From his low voice that is as soft as the skies, it couldn't have been anyone else. She quickly tried to compose herself, and tried calming her fast beating heartbeat down as she took a deep breath and slowly turned around and placed a smile on her face.

"Oh, Oppa-" and her attempt to some coolness... failed.

Just seeing his face was enough for her body to react, she didn't even realize that she was holding her breath until she found herself choking from the lack of oxygen. How was it that he always seemed to hold this power over her? A power that she had no control over, she couldn't even fight against it because she didn't even realize when it was happening.

"I thought I would find you here," he beamed his angelic smile at her. Of course, even that smile of his was enough for her to make her legs melt. Without knowing it, she returned his smile with her own.

"You were looking for me?" she asked softly with a questioning look on her face. He began to walk towards her, with every step he made, her heart began to pound louder inside her chest.

"I thought that perhaps you were tired of looking for me, so I thought I'd show myself to you now," he said with a crooked grin. And just like that he ruined the moment, like he usually always seemed to do.

"Aigoo, Oppa~!" she let out a laugh and playfully hit him on the arm. "Since when was I looking for you?"

"Way before you even met me," but he also couldn't hold it in anymore and busted out laughing along with Luna. He always acted like this, making jokes, sometimes funny but most of the time too

When they both finally calmed down, the two of them found themselves sitting on the soft grass as they looked onto the soothing river in front of them. No one said a word, but both just kept their heads ahead as they watched the water move in one direction.

"What runs but never get tired?" Luna turned to look at him as he asked the question. He was still looking ahead, his face showed no emotion.

She began to think to the answer to his question. Runs but never gets tired? That was completely impossible, unless you were some immortal being. She really thought hard that her head began to ache. "I don't know..." she answered as she stared at him waiting for the answer.

"Water."

He kept his face towards the river as he answered, but then he slowly turned his head towards her and he placed on a little smile. A smile that was not happy, but a sad one, one that seemed hopeless.

"Ahhh... I see," she didn't know what else to say.

"Aren't you tired, Luna?" she looked into his eyes and they seemed to be pleading to her. To give her an answer.

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"Hey, I want you to meet somebody," her friend was suddenly dragging her after the bell of their dismissal rang.

"What? -Why- Who??" Luna tried to question, but it was useless, her friend continued to pull her out of the school building without even acknowledging her.

"Krystal!" after a long while of being dragged to the street and finally reaching the bus stop, Luna called her friend's name. "What are you doing?"

"I want you to meet somebody!" Her friend just gave her a big smile that only meant trouble, she was up to something.

"I got that part," Luna gave her an annoyed look, "but not the who, the what, or the why part!"

"Just this guy," the bus came to stop in front of them, and Krystal led and got on the bus as Luna followed. "He's really cute! I think you'll like him!"

"Krystal!"

"What?" Krystal gave a what-are-you-mad-for look.

"Why?" Luna questioned her question.

"Huh?" and of course Krystal wasn't about to lose.

"Krystal!" Luna said her name louder this time, loud enough for people in the bus to give her a dirty look obviously telling her to quite down.

"Fine, fine, fine," Krystal sighed. "You're not actually meeting anyone."

Krystal stopped talking but Luna just gave her a glare that told her that she better continue or else. "I need you..."

Krystal looked up, and Luna just continued to give her the glare.

"...to go with me.."

"Yes...?" Luna couldn't quite figure out what she was trying to say, if it wasn't to meet a guy, then what was it?

"...audition!" Krystal suddenly just blurted like a child who's been caught for doing something bad.

"Audition? What do you mean?" Luna was confused, how did Krystal go from 'meeting a guy' to 'audition? It just didn't seem to connect.

"Well you know how my sister is a trainee?" Luna nodded her head. "Well... I want to become one too!"

"And you decide to bring me along into this because...?"

"You can dance! You can sing!" Krystal shouted, and again made the rest of the passengers look back at them with an annoyed look on their face.

"I maybe be able to dance, but I'm not that good," Krystal was about to cut in but Luna didn't let her. "And I cannot sing."

"Goodness, did you just really say that?"

"What? I can't," Luna replied as she got up from her seat to get off from the bus while Krystal followed.

"Yes, you can!" Krystal walked beside her while jumping up and down in attempt to convince her.

"No."

"No, you can't dance?" Krystal asked. "Or no, you won't audition?"

"Both," Luna let out an irritating sigh. "Krystal, why don't you just go audition by yourself? I'll definitely go with you and support you. This has been something you have been talking about for quite awhile now, it seems like you really want to do it, and you should!"

"But-" Luna cut her off.

"But, this is not for me. It never even crossed me once to do this," Luna continued to walk.

"Luna!" Krystal caught up to her. "Please! Just do this one favor for me! It won't hurt you, like you said, you've never thought about this before, so whatever the consequence is, it can't affect you at all."

Luna didn't say anything for a second, but just continued to look at her desperate best friend. Krystal obviously wanted her to do this with her. "But why do you need me to do it though? Isn't it individual auditions?"

"You know how I am, I don't ever want to do anything by myself," Luna looked at her one last time before letting out an exasperated sigh.

"Until how long do I have to be there?" Luna questioned her.

"Wah! So you'll do it?" Krystal smiled widely as she gave her friend a tight hug.

"Don't push it Krystal!"

"Okay, okay!" Krystal grabbed a hold of Luna's hands and once again dragged her but this time Luna didn't question her. "Unnie already have reserved numbers for us, so you and I don't have to wait that long until it's our turn!"

It would be like Krystal to already have this planned. Finally after a long while they reached the building. This was the good thing about being in the center of the city, you can go anywhere you need to in a matter of no time.

When they finally got there, the place was filled with people, inside and out. There seemed to be a long line just to go inside the place. "Krystal, how do we get in?"

"Don't worry, I got this covered," then she grabbed Luna's wrist and pulled her along into the crowded people and somehow, magically, Krystal had managed to get both of them inside the building.

They were about to continue inside when a man stopped them from behind, "Girls, you guys need to show me a pass or you guys can't go in there."

Great, maybe Krystal didn't have a plan at all and then Luna wouldn't have to do this at all. "Here," Krystal suddenly was showing the officer two cards with numbers on them. The officer took them and looked at them.

"Okay, you two can go," and just like that Luna's hope for escape disappeared.

"Okay, come on! Unnie said that our turn starts at around 5:30," Krystal said.

Luna flipped open her cell phone and saw 5:26, "Which means we have four minutes!"

"Hurry! Come on!" Krystal and Luna started running and within a minute they reached the outside of a room where more people were gathered. "Okay, good, it's not 5:30 yet."

Suddenly a man comes out of the room without a microphone in his hand and said, "Numbers 1230-1260, please come inside!" Just like that he left with many people following after him.

"That's us!" Krystal excitedly and gave Luna a big smile. "Come on!"

Luna gave her a nervous smile and followed after her. When they got in they were given instructions in how everything would be set-up, in which surprisingly Luna paid well attention to. They were to be separated into three groups, ten people in each group and each group will go into different rooms. Each room will consist of different judges who will be judging their individual skills.

As they were being told which group they would be in, Krystal and Luna were separated. Luna became even more nervous without her friend with her. How was it that Krystal managed to get her into this situation?

“Listen up guys,” the same man with the microphone said aloud and got everyone to be quiet. “One by one as we call each of your names, you guys will come up here and perform showing us your skill. Whether it be dancing or singing or even both.”

Everyone in the room was silent. The nervousness from everyone filled the room, no one talked but instead everyone was focused in their own thoughts trying to get themselves prepare when their turn is up.

“Kim Ji Eun,” the announcer called. “Your up first.”

As the first person got up and went for her turn, everyone else was seated in a chair. They were a nervous wreck. They were trying to make sure that they knew what they were going to do while they were up there. Everyone else but Luna.

She had no idea what she was going to do, she didn’t even know whether to dance or sing. Even if she did, what song would she sing, or what kind of moves would she make if she danced? She was more than freaking out.

Her body was shaking, and her head seemed to be thumping against her temples giving her a headache. Before she knew it three people have already gone, then four, then five and then six.

Suddenly a bottle of water was presented in front of her face, she looked down at the unopened bottle and slowly followed the person’s extended arms towards his face. He was giving her a small smile not showing his teeth.

Luna just kept staring at him for a while not knowing what to do, then he moved his up that was holding the bottle. She looked at the water bottle in front of her again, and then slowly she took the bottle from him.

“Don’t be nervous too much,” when he spoke Luna didn’t hear anything but the softness in his voice. “Drink it, that should help a bit.”

At any other time she probably would have doubted that water will stop her from being nervous, but right now she was at a state of mind where she was not thinking she would have believed anything anyone said. She was about to thank him when suddenly the announcer called another name.

“Lee Jinki,” and the guy to her left that had given her the water stood up. Luna just looked up at him as he passed her and went to the center of the room.

“What will you be performing?” one of the judges asked him.

“It’s Fortunate,” he said, “by Lee Jeok.”

“Alright, let’s hear it.”

He began to sing, and from the moment he started singing Luna was captivated. She never once took her eyes off him, it was as if there was something that was drawing her into him. For every word he sang, her heart began to feel something, something she did not know. The sound of his voice was so angelic and soft, that she had a hard time believing that such a beautiful voice belonged to a person.

He finished singing and Luna couldn’t move, it was one of those moments when you know that something beautiful has just touched your heart. His voice has been so beautiful, so different and so calming that Luna had even forgotten that she was here to audition. She had felt like she had been here to watch him and hear him sing.

He was then suddenly next to her again, seated in the same spot that he was at the whole time yet Luna didn’t even notice him once until he had given her the water that she was now holding in her hands.

“Finally our last person to audition, Park Sun Young,” upon hearing real name she was brought down to reality once again, but this time it was her turn. “Sun Young?”

It took her awhile to react to her name, and suddenly her whole body was shaken, and as she slowly stood up she felt like that at any moment she would fall.

“Don’t think, just feel,” she heard him speak, as she turned to look at him he was smiling. This time his teeth showing.

“Let’s go, we don’t have all day!” one of the judges said. She tried to quickly hurry herself into the center of the room, and when she got there, she would have done anything to disappear into thin air. Everyone was staring at her, every single pair of eyes were intently watching her.

“And what will you be doing today?” a judge asked impatiently.

Her mind was blank, after all those time waiting she was still not able to come up of what to do. She didn’t even know whether she would be dancing or singing.

“Ma’am?” she heard one of them say, while she stood just looking down the floor. “What will you be performing?”

She stood there, her body shaking, her mind wandering and her fingers holding tight into the water bottle.

“Ma’am, we don’t have all day,” a different voice said this time.

She suddenly looked down to the water inside her hands, and slowly turned her head towards him. When she looked at him, he was looking at her with that smile, as if he was telling her something.

“Don’t think, just feel…” suddenly the words he had spoken to her when she stood up echoed in her ears.

She smiled at him before looking back down at the water he had given her, she twisted its cap and opened it. Then she placed the bottled against her lips and began to drink the water.

“Ma’am, we’re going to have to ask you to step out-“ before they finished talking Luna had already closed the bottle and placed it on the ground next to her.

“We've loved each other"

Her mouth suddenly opened and words came out of her mouth. A beautiful melody that she found herself singing.

"Though we're parting now.
Still, different places share a single heaven
Please don't forget me”

He was watching her, -no, he was listening to her. Listening to every word she sang. She caught his attention the moment they were placed in the same group. Something about the way that had seemed lost and yet nervous at the same time, he found amusing. He came to sit next to her, but yet, the girl did not look at him even once. But he looked at her nervous face, she had seemed to be in another world the whole time.

"At the cold wind's touch
The sound of your laughter
And your eyes where I was mirrored
Come back to me.
I weep and weep still more for loneliness"

There was no doubt that she had a beautiful voice. She had surprised him even more when she began to sing, she was striking. He couldn't describe it, the tone of her voice was so powerful that it was enough to catch everyone's attention with one note.

"My lips were frozen,
So I couldn't speak these words"

She did what he had told her, she did not think, instead she listened to what her heart was telling her.

"We've loved each other
Though we're parting now.
Still, different places share a single heaven"

He could tell that she was in a different place right now, she had forgotten that she was in this room auditioning. There was something with the way she sang, so much emotions, so much passion, it was like she knew her feelings and thoughts.

"Please don't forget me"

Just like that, she finished singing. She opened her eyes back again and looked at the judges, they didn't move but still stared at her.

"Thank you," a judge finally talked. "You may go back to your seat."

Luna picked up the water bottle from the ground and made her way back to her seat. She didn't know where that song came from, she didn't know how she had suddenly thought of it to sing it. It had definitely been one of her favorite songs, but how did it happen, from being blank then in a matter of seconds she had suddenly began to sing.

She took her seat, and looked at him.

"You guys may leave, we will contact you when we have made our decisions by next week," before she was even able to thank the guy, the announcer spoke again. "Thank you all for coming!"

She stood up and picked up her backpack, and when she looked at the guy again, he was already ready to go and looking at her with that smile pasted on his face again. She began to inspect him, he was tall, dark hair and two bright brown eyes looking down at her.

"Don't Forget," he spoke, she was taken aback with what he said. "Nice song."

For one second there he had scared her, but it turned out he was just merely saying the title of the song she sang. She gave him a smile, "Thank you."

There was an awkward silence, and both didn't know what to say next.

"Ah! Here," Luna extended her arm out to him that was holding the water bottle, "thank you for this! Would you like it back?"

"Well... you already drank out of it," he stared, "I don't think it would be right for a stranger like me to drink out of it after." He laughed.

"Aha, I guess not," Luna blushed and placed her arm back to her side.

"You just owe me a water bottle, how about that?"

"Okay," she returned his smile as they both gazed into each other's eyes.

"Luna!" she turned around upon hearing her name. "Oh my gosh!"

It was Krystal, and she was already running towards her with an excited face, "It was amazing!"
Krystal gave Luna a tight hug. "Thank you so much for doing this with me! Let's go! Unnie is waiting for us!"

Suddenly Luna was once again being dragged as Krystal had a hold of her wrist. Before she can say bye to the guy, she was already away from him. She saw him smile and laugh and waved at her. Her heart skipped a beat, but in turn she gave him a wave back.

She tried to remember his name.

"Jinki," that was it.

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She didn't know how to answer him. Had she been figured out? Had he finally notice her avoiding actions towards him?

No. He possibly couldn't have.

"Oppa," she looked at him in the eyes, but that was a mistake. For he was already looking at her, as if he was looking into her soul searching for answers. "Jinki Oppa..."

She only called him by that name when she had something important to tell him. He knew that. But she didn't know if she should tell him the secret she's been keeping to herself for a while.

He didn't reply, and instead waited for her to continue.

"I'm leaving."

Two words, two little words, yet the both of them felt like that those two words had cut them deep.