feat. @seonlite / backdated.
it’s not everyday you’ll find your neighbour trying to communicate with you through written notes held against their window directly across from yours — not unless you’re a musician with a guitar, and no, he doesn’t mean taylor swift, though it appears she’s had a rather similar experience, albeit a more welcoming one. dohyun, on the other hand, isn’t receiving notes from a blue-eyed cutie, but instead, a journalist? columnist? reporter? who wouldn’t get off his back the past couple of weeks, all to get him to agree to an interview for her seemingly tabloid site.
and the verdict? it’s a no from him, of course. anyone that knows dohyun would know that he shies away from unnecessary publicity, especially from superficial media outlets that do not have the least bit of clue as to what music really is. to these people, musicians are public figures they can bank on for clicks and views — they barely give two hoots about the arrangement of his next song, or its elements of inspiration. no, all they care about was who his last song was written about and if he was still seeing them, or if he even did, to begin with. the last he spoke to said journalist, he realised just how little she knew about music, or the music industry, and he saw absolutely no point in having someone like her write about him. she’d probably just make him out to be a fickle lover with tons of love interests. now, he’d really turn into taylor swift.
an exasperated sigh leaves his lips as he grabs the nearest sketchbook by his coffee table, popping open the cap to the marker lying around as he prints a big, fat “NO” across the page. a small smirk laces his lips but not long enough for the other to catch a glimpse of it from her apartment, flipping the sketchbook around and holding it up for her to read his inscription. ‘no’, he mouths again, perhaps, the hundredth ‘no’ he’s given her that week and it was only wednesday, the morning of wednesday, might he add. he flips the sketchbook to a blank page, scribbling across it in large font, making sure to capitalise the most important word in his question: “what part of NO do you not understand?”