Magic Shop
[Seokjin Card] Fix you (3) - Complete
Squeak-
When you open the rooftop door and come in,
The black sky spreads out familiarly.
If you turn your head and look up instead of looking down at the floor you always look down at.
You encounter Seokjin sitting on the edge of a water tank.
He wasn't always there at the same time, but sometimes he was there.
Seokjin looks down at Lee Yul and smiles.
At Seokjin's light tap on the seat next to him as if to tell him to come over, Lee Yul grabbed onto the ladder, climbed up, and sat down next to him.
김석진
How was your day?
이율
Just. It was the same - one day. What about you, oppa?
김석진
Me too. I practiced dancing, I practiced singing, I ate. It was the same.
Conversations with Seokjin are always calm.
It felt like I was bouncing on waves with no highs or lows.
이율
Someone said hello to me today.
김석진
What kind of person is she?
이율
She's the class president. She's pretty. That's why all the kids like her.
김석진
Hmm~
이율
He's been talking to me occasionally for the past few days. Did he feel sorry for me?
As he spoke with a small smile, Seokjin looked back at Lee Yul.
김석진
So you didn't like it? Because it felt like you were being pitied?
이율
.....um.....I don't know.
김석진
.......
이율
still......
김석진
.......
이율
A good heart... a little. I think it's more.
Seokjin looked at Lee Yul quietly and smiled.
김석진
Starting with that one person, more and more of your friends will recognize you.
Seokjin rubbed the back of Lee Yul's neck as if massaging it, as he smiled shyly at Seokjin's words.
이율
Ouch, it hurts....
김석진
Oh, sorry haha. It's become a habit for the kids to do this.
Seokjin laughs and takes his hand away.
김석진
Because you've been alone before, you understand the feelings of those who are alone. And because you've endured it, you've become stronger.
김석진
So maybe later on, your friends will like you even more than they do now. People with strong minds have a lot of willpower.
이율
.....Is that so....?
I told Seokjin everything.
The truth about my father's love life. That's why he sometimes doesn't come home. That he's bullied at school. The truth about my own low self that I never told anyone.
Everything. I poured it out.
I know that the person who hears it will also not feel comfortable.
Fifteen-year-old Lee Yul needed a place to vent something that had been filling him up inside.
Because it's too heavy. Because it's too burdensome.
이율
Sometimes, I suddenly feel sorry for my brother.
김석진
Me? Why?
이율
This kind of talk isn't good. I'm worried that if I say it for nothing, my brother will get upset.
Seokjin laughed lightly at the decreasing interest rate in his voice.
김석진
I'm not the type of person who thinks that deeply-
김석진
Listening to you doesn't solve anything for me. I just say, "Oh, I see." How can I possibly understand you 100 percent?
김석진
Just listen. Remember. That's all. Oh, I see. This is the situation Lee Yul was in. This is what he was thinking. That's all. I'm not serious, am I?
As if you had grabbed my hand and pulled me up when I was about to jump.
He always lightens memories and hearts that were heavy.
It's just nothing special.
Like a feather - something that will fly away if you blow on it.
Something that will sway and scatter when the wind blows.
My heavy heart was once again lightened by his laughter and his words.
이율
I want to become an adult like my older brother.
김석진
Ah- this is a big problem if you become an adult like me haha
이율
He's cool. He's my Daddy-Long-Legs. The Daddy-Long-Legs I met when I was 15.
김석진
Yeah, I'll grow taller.
Seokjin couldn't help but laugh at his joke, so he awkwardly let out a "haha" sound, and he burst out laughing on his own.
이율
If you're a celebrity, you won't be able to have a girlfriend, right? For a while?
김석진
Girlfriend? Yeah. I would. We're a team. I don't want anything to get in the way because of me.
이율
That's fortunate.
김석진
what?
이율
Because no one will be born to my brother until I get older.
Seokjin looks up at Lee Yul's words.
이율
I'm going to be your number one fan.
As he said this, Lee Yul took out a notebook from the small bag he had brought and handed it to me along with a pen.
이율
Please sign.
김석진
There's no signature yet.
이율
Even if it's just your name. Later, when you become famous, it'll be more memorable. Meeting Kim Seokjin back when he didn't even have an autograph.
김석진
Oh, you just called my name.
이율
Oh, yes. Sorry.
Seokjin smiles coolly as he apologizes, then picks up his pen and writes down the three letters of his name, “Kim Seokjin.”
이율
When will you retire?
김석진
Hey, you're talking about retirement before we even start?
Lee Yul wrote his name on the back of the practice book with Seokjin's name on it, tore it up, and handed it to Seokjin.
이율
Then 40 years old. I'll see you when you're 40. I'll be 33 then, so it'll be a perfect time to get married.
김석진
scary......
이율
Hehehe. Will you remember us when we meet again?
Lee Yul smiled as he looked at Seokjin.
이율
I'll be waiting for you when you grow up to be a wonderful adult. A wonderful woman.
김석진
Hmm...then I'll try to become a cool idol too.
Our passing winter.
My fifteen. His twenty-two.
Our future, vaguely envisioned, as wonderful adults.
Seven years later, February 24, 2021.
Lee Yul, who was doing his homework while listening to BTS's song on the computer screen, smiled as he looked at the close-up screen of Seokjin.
I am now 22 years old, the age you were when I first met you.
I am a strong-minded 22-year-old.
I became a full-fledged college student.
As my older brother said back then, I majored in social welfare because I wanted to be an adult who could understand others' feelings after going through hardships myself.
There are still ten years left until my brother turns forty, as we promised. I'm going to do my best every day to become an even more wonderful adult by then.
🎵Light will guide you home, And ignite your bones.
🎵And I will try to fix you. (And I will try to fix you)
[Magic Shop] - Lee Yul's request has been completed.
[Author's Note] - It's a bit late ㅠㅠ I think today's Magic Shop was completed thanks to the song Fix You ㅎㅎㅎ Now finally!!! Magic Shop's!!! Last request!!!