Surprise

Short story

Surprise ?

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After such a long day those time had passed, he sat alone in his house, wondering how would he end his night being left alone in his own house.

He took a sip of his freshly ground warm black coffee while listening to whatever it is in the television. He looked at his mobile phone and felt slightly awkward as there isn't anybody text him even though the time was only fifteen minutes passed 11 at night.

He sighed as he took another sip of his coffee. How the pleasure of the warmth of it went down his throat to perhaps the deepest core of his stomach..

He grunts alone,

"And I thought that he would be here again to accompany me tonight,"

He lifts his shoulders up as he out the half empty cup of coffee back down in the coffee table in front of him. He put his mobile phone on the couch he sits on. He takes the television remote and switch the channel to a different one but it seems like there isn't anything that interest him at all at that time. He finished the warm coffee, he took the empty cup and went to the kitchen to clean it up.

His phone that is in vibration mode suddenly rang. He couldn't hear it because if the water at the sink slowly pour down as he clean the cup.

As he walk back in front, the phone only left one missed call. He turned off the television as he walked to his bedroom, forgetting about his mobile phone in the couch at the living room hall.

**

Inside his bedroom, he prepared himself for bed but somehow, outside of how house, a man wearing his dark denim jeans walks towards his front door from outside, still trying to reach for him. He heard the voice mail operator speaks again, he grunts as he keeps the mobile phone back in his pocket,

"And where could this bubly bear be hiding?"

He sighs as he stops right in front of the door. He knocks on it selveral of times but at that time, Kyungsoo is in the bathroom, brushing his teeth.

**

After a while, Kyung gets out from the bathroom, taking his face towel to wipe his wet face, he out the towel aside as he took off the t-shirt that he wore. He sat down on his bed, not realizing that the curtain in his room is partly pushed aside...

**

Outside the man that has been waiting for him felt slightly devastated,

Ahhh, maybe he's still at work," he sighs and before he took another step away from his house. The light from Kyung's bedroom turned off. He smiled slyly as he walked towards his bedroom...

"AHH, maybe he's inside,"

He took a peek at him that put himself down on the bed... And with a sly smirked in his face, he knocked on the window, but still hiding himself to be seen.. 

"Bubbly bear...,"

He lightly said his calm name to him...

**

In the house when he's about to go to sleep, he heard somebody knocked at the front door of his house.. he opened his eyes again and is at his surprised to hear somebody called for him from outside...

"Bubbly bear...,"

He looked to the window... He couldn't see anybody there but he had a hunch that it could be the man that he has been waiting for.

Doubtfully, excited, he pushed the pillow in his hand to the side,

"Could it be him?"

He rushedly vets out from his bed and walked to the front door...

How to his surprise to see him, standing there outside of his house, holding a cake with a candle that's already lighten in his hand. He gives a smile across his face

"Happy anniversary, my bubbly bear,"

He could only see his smile underneath the mild light from the candle but he knows that those smile a genuine to prove his love for him... a smile spread across his lips

"Kai,"

He wraps his arms across his body, trying to avoid the cake in his hand.

Kai smile precisely when he sees him right in front of him.

He took the cake from his hand as he out it in the table in his house, he pulled Kai inside the house with him

"And I thought you'd forget about it,"

Kai smiled,

"How can I, my bubbly bear... You're my only one and the only man I ever love in my life...

He smiled as he wrapped his arms around his body. Kai kissed his lips passionately before the two of them blew the single candle together to celebrate their everlasting time with each other...

© Nana Kim Asakawa 2020

Pheonix arise

Short story.

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Pheonix Arise.

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And suddenly as the light of day fades away in a glimpse of time as the darkness dwells throughout the universe, she takes a few steps back as she wants to run away from where she is at that time.

How she could feel her heart pounds so harshly, she wasn't sure if she is still breathing, she seals her eyes for a moment, she grips her fist with all of her might as she tries badly holding back the fear that took control of her in a splendid short of time.

"What is happening to the world?"

Her feet are still moving backword but somehow the land that was empty and free once before isn't that way anymore.

She tries to hold onto herself as she could suddenly feels the earth ground she steps on starts to grumble up.

"What?!"

She stops when she could feel her back touches one of the biggest stone she ever seen while she's in that place.

She turns around but the light she could barely see, she is sure that she could no longer see an empty space anymore.

She blinks her eyes several of times before she inhales a deep breath and completely close it,

"Becarefull with what you would see along the way to your destiny, Mikaila... Either it is good or bad, but becarefull..."

She could hear the sound of the old man that she met earlier before she continues to pursue her destiny...

She surely doesn't want to be shattered apart after her long journey to reach until it is there right now. She had met a lot of things that she managed to compells but she certainly doesn't want her fear of silence and dark terrorise her journeh. She sighs as she grips her fist; shakes her head from side to side,

"No, Mikaila... You have to do this... You have to do this..." She tells herself.

But somehow, in the silent of night with her life seems to be torn apart, she could be a strong fish of wind suddenly blows towards her direction. She sound of its wing flaps could barely be feel but, she is sure that it is somewhere there.

She suddenly hears his breathing that is close to her, she opens her eyes and how the brighter light from the flaming body of the phoenix shines the darkest night before...

The man that's on the phoenix looks at her sarcastically,

"It seems like s young lady like you too sometimes need a little help,

She looks at him,

"Naoki,"

He looks at her charmingly,

"You seems to be lost, to where if I may ask is this young lady is going?"

She sighs,

"To find my destiny,"

Naoki thought for a moment,

"Destiny?"

Slowly, she nods her head,

"Yes, my destiny,"

He hums slightly; taps on his chin as he thought for a moment, he look at her,

"Where would your destiny might be hiding, my lady?"

She sighs as she looks down,

"Sadly, at the other side of the universe,"

He slowly nods his head, understanding her problem,

"Oh, I see,"

He looks away for a moment before slowly he turns his gaze back to her,

"Well, then, since you already helped me with my destiny, why not I return the favour by helping you in search of yours?"

He offers her his hand,

A smile spread across his lips when she could still see the kind heart in theman that she met before in front of her right now, she accepts his hand as he pulls her up on his ride. He turns around and looks at her direction,

"And now may I, a man that lives in between two world make your wish come true?"

Slowly, she turns her gaze up and look at him,

He holds her hand as he gently kiss it.

Suddenly, her cheeks turns bright red as she remembers the time when she felt his lips gently touched againts hers for a short second before...

"Oh, stop it, Naoki," she gently pushes his shoulder. He smiles slightly,

"Then to your destination we shall go to,"

She smile as she touches on his hips, he looks at her

"And I think you should hold me tightly as the ride could be slightly fierce,"

The phoenix that was at its ease before spread his wings widely across the sky. Mikaila widens her eyes before she wraps her arms around him. He smiles before the phoenix pushes its body up the thin air of night.

"Whoaaa,"

She said said nervously... He smirks slyly before he looks at her,..

"Hold on tight, my lady,"

Their eyes met before their lips touches again... She's surprise at first but slowly. She returns his kiss.

The light of it brightens the whole sky, at least at where it is at. The three of them perish in the thin air as with the speed of it it exchanges itself in between the distance and time.

© Nana Kim 2020

( Sorry if there's errors. I won't edit the story unless needed one day hahaha xD )

Comments, critics are appriciated. Kiss kiss. 💋💋💋

Understand The Three Act Structure

During the first act – the Setup – your story’s major characters are introduced. Here, you’ll display your setting and make the primary rules of your universe apparent – and you’ll kick it all off with a bang, some kind of sequence that catches the audience’s full attention within the first 10 minutes.

This is also where your Inciting Incident will take place. This is an incident that catches your protagonist off guard – something that interrupts their usual routine and sends them down the road you’ve paved for them.

Shortly after this comes your first plot point – a major change in the story that forms the bridge to…

Act II: The Confrontation. Taking up the lion’s share of your screenplay, Act II is where most of the action takes place. This is the meat of your story, with all the sub-plots, nefarious villains, secondary characters, globetrotting, investigation into mysteries, and smaller twists and turns.

During this act, the stakes get ever higher… until you reach your second plot point. Again, this major twist changes the game and signals an upcoming Act transition – and in the case of Act II, also provides a moment of crisis for your hero. In a dramatic sense, this is where all hope feels lost – where it seems your hero cannot possibly prevail against the stronger forces rallied against them.

Yet despite the odds, they carry on to Act III – the Resolution. The final confrontation takes place; the action and drama reach a climactic crescendo… and then (in what is known as “falling action”) the story tapers off.

Things calm down again; the battle is over and we’re given time to appreciate how both the world and your hero have been irrevocably changed by what has happened.
THE END.

Still In a Denial

            Sometimes, most people say that my heart is cold, so hard, stiff as a steel rod. I like to spend my time alone. When I’m left at home, I do my work but I prefer to be kept inside my room. I have friends, but not many friends actually understand me as I tried to understand them. People ask what I am doing tomorrow night. I gave excuse so that I can just be by myself. I don’t want to be unseen but I don’t really want people to see where I actually stand, what I’m doing with my life. Weather I'm still standing strong or falling apart, let me be hidden behind the shadow that nobody would know. I still smile people that I met along the way in my life. Greeting people that I met, I'm never afraid to say Hello but somehow, surprisingly, I met you along my way to move ahead.

            At first, I admit that I was afraid of you. The way you approached me, for the first time, it frightens me somehow. It made me think of who you are, but it was only my assumption of a person that I don’t even know about. I should run away if I was afraid but somehow, the curiosity of knowing who you really are made me want to get to know you until at the end, I’m bound to you. I wasn't sure what was the reason I’m interested in you; f who you are, where you’re really from. An identity that was made, I know for sure that it’s not who you really are.

            As the time kept on passing by, skipping each second, each minute and  day, we are getting much closer than it was before. You’re still not telling me who you are. I can only say that you’re still a mysterious man that I met in my life. You spent your time talking to me. We made each other smile, maybe never cry but who knows what our heart are saying when we never kiss and tell. Somehow, we made mistake in our life, we still stood right next to each other. We talk about our life, the problem that we had, we try to figure out at least a solution.

One day, I felt so lost. So lost it seemed like there's nothing else anymore that I should do apart from hiding myself from the problem that was there, instead of fighting against it. You asked me and asked me again what was wrong. I couldn’t tell you at first but at the end, I told you my problem and the decision that I decided to make. I thought that you'd agree with me with my decision, but instead you got angry at me for thinking of such foolish thing to do. You scolded me, why should I hide myself from my own existence when I should just avoid the trouble, another man that was disturbing me, wanting to be with me, but he belong to somebody else I know. You said that what I wanted to do is wrong.

            I know that I never listen to anybody else apart from myself, but I listened to what he had said to me and I'm still living a happy life. You gave me strength to fight for what’s right. You made me believe in myself even though my anxieties are fighting against myself.

            It was today as years had passed by in between our life. I’m still here with another story to create, living my regular days like it always have been. I waited for you but sometimes you’re never there. You lived your daily life, as busy like you always have been. I'm always happy when you got a promotion, a job as who you really are. I know that you only have a little bit time, only a few hours for you to take a rest as you return back home so late at night. You don't really have enough sleep but you still tell me that you're doing alright if you have time to be right next to me, right by my side. I couldn't see you for quite some time. Sometimes, even though it's such a long time, I'd still have to smile, praying, hoping for the best thing in your life. I still want to hear the softness of your voice talking to me, your breathing as you were in a deep sleep, your gaze that you gave to me, with a song that you sing, telling me that you love me. I am not denying it, but it meant so much to me even though you might think that it’s just nothing. You did something to make me smile. I thanked you for being there in my life.

            Even until it is today, I still would never admit my lost. I always want to be a winner in my life, but I know so deep in my heart, you're the man that I truly love and I’ve been missing you so much in my life.  Maybe sometimes I think that destiny could just be another thing that happened in life, but my destiny being with you, it meant so much in my life even though I'd never know what tomorrow will happen.

Still In A Denial,
Scarlet Matsumoto 2018.

Forbidden Heart: Chapter 1

Tittle : Forbidden Heart.
Genre : Complex / Love
Writer : Scarlet B. 2017

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It was on Monday morning on a bright summer day. Everybody already prepared to go to their work. It’s a regular thing for everybody who are working in Japan to wake up early because the sun already rose up at 4/30 AM. Inside a room, it took her quite some time for her to even open her eyes, but somehow after a hard try, she grumbled and managed to open her eyes, “Oh Wani… You got to wake up… You got to wake up!!” she said but inside of pushing the blanket away… she pulled it back up to cover her face before she continued to sleep…

**

The time was already 8.10 AM. The road on the street of Tokyo was like always. People were walking pass by towards their work or a start of another day in their life. The cars were on the road going towards the direction they were heading to but somehow in those busy time, Wani rushed her way towards the office she got to go for her first day of practical as a secretary/ Even though it was her last year there, she still have trouble to wake up early. Her sweats fell at the side of her face as she was panting for air to breathe, “Oh! I really hope I’m not that late!” she grumbled alone. She looked at her watch as the time already passed another minute. She remembers that it was her and some of her junior that was assigned to that company. She surely hope that she would arrive there first before whoever it was is there. She stopped right in front of the manager’s office before she knocks on the door but unexpectedly before she could, somebody walked out from there room.

He bowed down to the manager behind him, “Yes, sir. I’d go straight to that department right away,” he said to Mr. Fuji before he turned around and out eyes met for a short time. He smiled to her before he walked away from there. She was startled to see him there, ‘So Matsushima?!’ she grumbled in her heart. He was one of the best student in Tokyo University and she is only a student from Malaysia! Looking at him suited up well, she wonder if she could managed to get the position at the company. She looked away from him and she bowed down to Mr. Fuji when she heard him calling for her name.

Mr. Fuji called her into his office. She walked in confidently but she doubted to win against Matsu at this match. She gripped her fist and she sighed slightly. ‘Oh, just go for it!’ she said to herself before she walked inside the office.

**

After sometime had passed, during the lunch hour, she already managed to do her job properly somehow earlier that day. She was surprised to be put in the same department with Matsu. They barely talk to each other but every time they met, he couldn’t stop smiling to her. Wani furrowed her eyebrow. She grabbed the orange juice in front of her and she took a sip of it before her mind continue to play around with her, ‘And I wonder why is he being so nice to me?’ she said alone. She ate the curry rice she bought earlier. She knew that Matsu is younger than her but why does she felt weird when he stood so close to her?

The image of him smiling to her kept on reappearing in her mind and how she wanted to to faded away and never to reappeared again! She sighed and continued to eat her food at the cafeterias before somebody stood right beside her, “Hey Wani-chan! Finally I found you!” she heard a man spoke to her. “Mind if I join you for lunch?” he asked her. Slowly, she looked at who it was that talked to her unexpectedly.

How she was startled to see who that person was. He smiled to her as their gaze met with each other. Wani was gutted, ‘Matsushima…’ she said in her heart.

**

“I really hope that everything would be okay today,” Matsu said to Wani. She had a small laughter. She looked at him casually, “I hope everything would be okay for you!” she said. He looked at her strangely. “Why just me?” he asked her. Wani smile slightly, “Aren’t you everybody’s favourite?” she said. He laughed at her, “Nee Matsushima kun?” she asked him. He snorted slightly, “Just call me Sou chan and don’t worry too much! Both of us will be alright!” he said to her. She nodded her head, “Yeah right,” she replied. Wani knew that both of them don’t have anything in common at all.

She is just a regular student and he is the diamond in everybody’s heart. She looked at him enjoying his lunch and why does she felt like she wanted to get out from there? She don’t want to see his face but why she felt like she don’t want to be further away from him but unexpectedly, a beautiful girl walked to our direction. She smiled to us before she touched on Matsu’s shoulder, “Marsu kun…” she called him gently. Wani fell silent for a moment, he looked at her, “Reiko chan,” he said. Reiko laughed slightly when she just joined in with the two of them. He smiled to her. “And I didn’t expect to see you here too!” he said. Reiko flipped her beautiful long hair. She touched on Matsu’s shoulder. She leaned closer to him so she could whisper to his ear but Wani could hear her clearly. “Well. I guess I got to be where this gorgeous prince go,” she said to him.

Irritatingly, Wani just smiled to her, hiding the anger that emerged in her deepest heart. Wani smiled to her sarcastically, “Then I guess it would be a pleasant day indeed for you,” Wani said to Reiko when at the same time, Reiko gently caressed on his cheek. Matsu smiled slyly to Reiko.

Wani finished her lunch, she puts the fork she was holding ini her hand down before she looked at the two of them, “Well, I’m already done with my lunch and I think I should get going because I got something else to do,” she said to them. She lied. She just want to get out from there. Matsu looked at her direction, “But…” Matsu said. Wani just smiled to him, “Good luck for you two today,” she said to them. She stood up and turned around but accidently, she hit against somebody’s shoulder…

**

Wani was gutted when her shoulder’s accidently hit against that man. The man stopped walking. He looked at her sarcastically. Matsu stood up if anything would happen in between the two of them. Wani bowed down to the man, “I’m really sorry!” she said to him. Arrogantly, the man don’t even looked at her face but he replied to her irritatingly, :Next time, watch where you’re going,” he said to her. At that time how Wani felt like her life has crushed down. She just bowed down to him once again, “I’m really sorry,” she said to him again. He rolled his eyes and ignored her.

His friend walked beside him, “Hey Kento! Let’s get out from here!: his friend called out for him. Arrogantly,, walked away from there with his friend right by his side. Wani furrowed her eyebrow, “And who do you think you are, Kento san?!”  she said irritatingly. Matsu walked towards her direction and stopped right beside her. He looked at her direction, “Are you okay, Wani chan?” he asked her. Wani didn’t even look at him. She heard Reiko’s heels walked towards her as well to be right beside him. Wani sighed unpleasantly, “Don’t mind me. I’ll be alright,” she said to them. She didn’t even looked at Matsu that was concerned about her. She inhaled a deep breath, “If you’ll excuse me,” she said to them and she walked away from there. She didn’t even look at their direction. She left Matsu and Reiko behind. Matsu was clueless, ‘What’s wrong with her?’ he wondered alone.

Wani walked away from there. Matsu wanted to go after her but Reiko held his hand. Matsu felt his heart pound slightly, he turned his gaze to look at Reiko. Reiko shakes her head, “Just let her go,” she said.  She looked at him deep in his eyes, “Let it just be you and me right now….” She said to him. Matsu was confused for a moment. He knew that he felt nothing for Wani at that time, but…

He turned around, he pulled his hand away from Reiko, “Yeah, whatever,” he said and walked away from there. Reiko followed him somehow, desperately.

**

It was late in the evening. The first day of their practical wasn’t that hard but the company was quite strict with their work. It was only another hour before everybody would go back home, they were still doing their work regularly but for those students, they were too anxious to even speak to anybody. They stood right in front of Mr. Fuji and they looked at his direction. Matsu, Reiko and the other girl were already called out to be at that department but devastatingly, he said that Wani isn’t qualified to be working with them at that department. Wani was devastated at first to be parted with her ‘friends’

Matsu looked at her, “I really hope you’d do better at the other department,” Matsu said to her. Devastated, Wani just smiled to Matsu regularly. She sighed slightly, “Nah, I’ll be just fine at the other department here,” she replied him. Reiko looked at Wani sarcastically before she looked away from Wani’s direction. She smiled slightly, “Oh! Do’t worry girl! I know you can do better at the other department!” Reiko said to Wani ironically.

Mr. Fuji looked at Wani, “We’re really sorry to separate you from your group, Miss Wani,” he said to her. Wani just nodded her head. She smiled to Mr. Fuji, “Won’t worry, sir. I’ll take this as an experiment to be working here,” she replied to him. Mr. Fuji nodded his head before Wani bowed to them. The turned around and wanted to walk away from there with a broken heart. She took her first step but accidently, she hit somebody again by his shoulder as she didn’t notice that he was there. The documents that he was holding in his hand fell down on the floor.

Anxiously, she bent down spontaneously and grabbed those files before he could and she returned it back to him. She bowed down, “I’m really sorry, Sir!” she said to him. She didn’t even realize that Mr. Fuji bowed down to him. It was too silent around her. Wani turned around for a while and she was shocked to see everybody else too bowed down to the man she accidently hit against a moment ago. She felt her sweat fell downa t the side of her cheek as she too bowed down to him anxiously.

She felt her body triggered slightly, ‘The man must be somebody here…’ she said in her heart. She felt her heart started to race furiously, ‘And this is going to be a terrible start for me here…’ she said anxiously in her heart. The man in front of her looked at her from head to toe. He grabbed the document from here. He looked at Mr. Fuji, “Fuji san, where is this lady be reported to?” he asked her. Wani raised her eyebrow when it’s like she recognize that voice from somewhere… Mr. Fuji stood up and looked at the man’s direction, “She will be reported to the second floor, marketing department under Mr. Fuma,” Mr. Fuji said to him. Wani was stoned standing there, still bowed down and knowing nothing at all.

The man looked at Mr. Fuji straight forwardly, “I want her to be reported as my secretary in this department tomorrow,” he said to Mr. Fuji. Mr. Fuji bowed down his head, “Hai, Nakajima san,” he said. The man walked away from there. Wani heard his footsteps before she stood up and looked at who it was. How she was startled to see it was the man she accidently hit against at the cafeterias earlier. She sealed her eyes shut, ‘Oh! This would be trouble,’ she said silently. p