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“What’s this?” she asks as he hands her a small black box with a golden ribbon and the Royal Emblem printed on its center. It’s the end of their weekend, and she’s already late while he has events to attend, so they really don’t have time.
“Something to keep you company,” he says with a nod and a smile and then disappears behind the obelisks. She throws the gift on her backpack and runs.
The flash drive in the box is an odd thing to find a couple of hours later. She discards the box but keeps the ribbon—she discards pretty much everything that has the Royal Emblem, just in case—and then plugs it in her laptop, curious as to what she’ll see.
Music files. She rolls her eyes at the cheesy names and the heartfelt lyrics as she plays them while working, while driving, while doing her daily routine. It’s quite a long list, too. She’s in the middle of writing a report on Wednesday when she stops at the sound of a heartbeat.
On the playlist, it says: My Heart by Lee Gon.
She mentally slaps his shoulder.
His heart does have a nice rhythm, though, steady and at ease. She has no doubt it’s his heart—it’s such a Gon thing to do—but she does wonder how does he come up with these ideas.
On Saturday morning, she arrives to find him waiting, the obelisks as part of their life as the bamboo forest itself.
“How have you—” he starts, but she cuts him off with a hug. A long one. Not that he minds, but it starts being odd after a minute or so.
“Is there any—”
“Shh,” she says, “I want to hear the live version.”
“Oh.”
Well, this is going better than he thought.