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by ^D___B^
"HUANG SHU MIN!!!!" JieLun shouts at last, "REMEMBER? IN SCHOOL.... I SAID THAT I WANTED TO WRITE A SONG FOR YOU?"
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FLASHBACK:
IN SCHOOL:
"Ay..." JieLun reached over and touched her ear quickly.
She enlarged her eyes as if to say, "What are you doing?"
He smiled childishly, "Look."
There was suddenly a plastic piece between his fingers, something to play the guitar with. He had touched her ear with it.
"Thanks," He smiled, waving the plastic piece, "I just took some inspiration from you."
She looked at the plastic piece with large curious eyes and replied, "Inspiration? I want to hear it. Wo Xiang Ting."
He laughed, knowing that he had got her attention, and feeling gleeful. "Well... I'll let you hear it when I'm done. But..." He checked her expression with his eyes, "I might take some time."
JieLun cleared his throat nevously. "Ni Hui Deng Dai Hai Shi Li Kai? Will you stay and wait or go away? I mean..." He blushed, "to... to hear your song."
"Deng Dai. Wait." She replied.
END OF FLASHBACK
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"REMEMBER??" JieLun shouts.
ShuMin is standing still now, but she doesn't face him. His words has got her attention.
"IF YOU JUST GO LIKE THAT," JieLun asks, "HOW ARE YOU GOING TO HEAR YOUR SONG???"
She turns around, her face as cold as the day the boys nicknamed her Swan, "Give the song to Jolin."
She sees that he is speechless, so she continues walking. In her heart she feels insanely jealous that Jolin has his affections. But its only natural, she knows, only natural... Because they are perfect.
Suddenly she feels someone grab her hand.
She turns around, and sees that it is JieLun.
"Ai," He says, "Shuo She Me? (What are you saying?)"
He looks tired in her eyes, so tired suddenly. In school he was still so innocent, full of dreams, the world full of possibilities. Yet now, looking at him, she sees a man, not a boy. A man who has seen the world, and has seen his dream having to fit the practicalities of a world which revolves around money, who has seen his music being judged by awards he hardly cares for.
"Shuo She Me?" JieLun repeats. He hasn't shaved, and he is wearing a his dark blue basketball cap almost over his eyes. In that instant, she doesn't see ZHOU JIELUN, but rather, a tired friend.
She frowns, "What's wrong?"
"I thought..." His eyes lower to the ground, "I thought I told you long ago that its your song."
"But now you're with Jolin, I don't want to give her the wrong idea." She thought the answer was simple to him, not enough for him to run all the way to quizz her about.
"Shuo She Me?" JieLun repeats again, this time with a hint of smile on his lips.
"AI," ShuMin frowns, "JieLun, you must have become stupid."
"No," JieLun grins like a small boy, "YOU HAVE."
"WHA-???"
"Who told you I'm with Jolin???" JieLun snaps at her, feeling satisfied that she is at loss for words.
"I... I thought-"
"Yes?" JieLun smiles, "Bian Ben Le Ba? (You've become stupid?)"
"You mean..." ShuMin searches his eyes, "You're not together with her?"
"What do you think?" He rebuts.
"But the both of you are perfect together..." She reasons, "It only makes sense... She's pretty, she's talented. And she's-"
"Mm..." JieLun nods, "I know all those."
She frowns, "Oh... ..."
He hits her head lightly, "Sha Gua! Haven't changed at all..."
"But... I still have to go..." ShuMin says with conviction.
"Shuo She Me?!" JieLun says for the fifth or sixth time.
"I'm in a wedding dress... And you're ZHOU JIE LUN.. The press-"
"So shouldn't you let me help you?" JieLun folds his arms, "You're penniless, homeless and in a wedding dress."
She agrees reluctantly, "Hao Ba(Okay)... Does that mean I still have my song?"
"Mm..." JieLun pretends to think, "On one condition..."
She looks at him.
"Qi Shi Wo... Man Gan Dong De... (Actually I'm... quite touched...)" He mumbles, "That you will come here to look for me. Actually I'm thinking... since.. since you've run away from your wedding... Does that mean... Erm...." He gulps, "I don't mean to say anything... I just mean... Do you think we can... I mean since I'm not with Jolin... ..."
"Ni Zhen De Bian Ben Le! (You've really turned stupid!)" She interrpts him, "Can you come to the point?"
"Erm... its nothing," JieLun says, "Let's go and get you changed." JieLun looks at the girl standing next to him, with her hair undone and her wedding dress making her stand out in the streets. Damn, he thinks, after so many years and she could still make his heart race.
"Your song is a swan song," JieLun says, "Know what it is?"
She shakes her head.
"Did you hear this myth? A swan only sings once before it dies, and that song is a swan song." He explains as they walk to his recording studio nearby.
"So why is my song a swan song?" She is curious.
"Because its the song that marks the end of our silly but beautiful past," He elaborates.
"Oh..." She blushes, "This was about the same way you explained why you kept giving me blank stacks of paper."
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FLASHBACK:
"A picture says a thousand words."
"But I can't draw," Jay replied. "Anyway a blank paper says so much."
"Huh?"
"Ever heard of," He drew himself to his full height for the sake of pulling off a suave speech, "How if you have too much emotions to say you can't put them into words?"
"Mm."
"That's what a blank paper means."
"Too much emotions to put into words," She echoed him.
The next day, he gave her a stack of papers 10-cm thick.
They were all...
blank.
Empty sheets.
"Use it for drawing," He told her.
But between them, they knew the actual meaning.
END OF FLASHBACK
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They reach his recording studio, and JieLun leads ShuMin into his dusty den where he dreamt of her night and day, and wrote songs for her, and loved her secretly.
"I'll play your song for you," JieLun sits at the piano and she sits beside him.
He began to play the song for her... ...
Time
Time again
I'm always caught by time before it allows me
To fall in love with you
I don't mind a swan song
Just one song in my life
Like how you are
How love is...
The rest of the song JieLun just hums, his fingers running smoothly as though the piano keys is made of water.
"Diao Ba!" He smiles as he finishes.
"Swan song," She thinks aloud, "The song to mark the ending of our past?"
"AI!" She glares at JieLun suddenly, "What does the word 'our' mean?"
"Erm, it means..." JieLun looks at ShuMin in her wedding dress, and thinks how he can almost marry her this moment. "Ke Yi... Qing Ni Ma? (Can I... kiss you?)"
She almost laughs aloud. At this day and age, which other guy would ask a girl before kissing her?
But then that is why she likes him.
So maybe time had won...
Only for a moment.
Because Chen Shi Jian Mei Fa Jue (before time realised), he has really taken her away...
He presses his lips against hers, and then she surprises him because it isn't the simple lip-to-lip kiss they had as kids.
THE END
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