Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You
- Rating: General Audience
- Relationship: Im Nayeon and Myoui Mina
- Tags: Fluff, Estabilished Relationship
One Shot.
Sometimes when she was busy with household chores, doing her part to keep the house running, Nayeon found it helped pass the time to sing. It certainly wasn't something she would have gone so far as to call a talent. She'd never gone so far as to sing in front of other people, not even her past partner, Jihyo. She remembered listening to the wireless growing up, being able to hear the big bands drifting up from downstairs and singing along in the privacy of her room, playing with her dolls and trying to imagine the future she would have, when she had someone who looked at her the way the songs said, who made her heart sing the way all those singers seemed to dream about. She'd always had a particular weakness for Westlife, Boyz II Men, CĂ©line Dion, Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie, and never thought too much about why that might be.
The fact that most of her dreams had revolved around her past partner, of the two of them building a life together and always being there for each other, sharing jokes long into adulthood, swapping lipsticks and dresses and perfume should possibly have been a hint that not everything would be so simple. She'd been too young and naive then to really understand what she was dreaming of, or why it wouldn't work.
As she'd gotten older, she'd found herself singing less and less, and while she was with her past partner, she hadn't wanted to sing at all. There hadn't been an awful lot of music in those years of her life, even with all the parties and several friendly meeting they'd attended together.
Since embarking on this new life with Mina, Nayeon had found that music was starting to creep more and more back into her life. They enjoyed listening to the Spotify, the two of them had taken it in turns to share their favourite songs. Most of all, Nayeon loved the evenings where they pushed the couch back and danced together in the lamplight. She supposed perhaps it shouldn't have been a surprise that Mina was such a good dancer, but it had still taken Nayeon off guard on the first night Mina had taken her hand and twirled her gently onto their makeshift dancefloor.
With that, music had started to come back into her life again, and she found herself singing more and more under her breath when she was on her own. All of the songs she had loved then seemed to have more meaning now. It was such a cliché to find that they were no longer abstract. With her past, she had just told herself that most people never really experienced those dizzying heights of love. Everyone around them had seemed to support that theory. Most of them had been comfortable.
She was standing in the kitchen, gazing out into the garden as she did the dishes, with an apron over her clothes and washing up gloves to protect her hands. She could have achieved something similar with magic, but both she and Mina appreciated the value of concrete things. Unbidden, a song drifted across her mind, and Nayeon felt her lips curl up into a smile as she began first to hum it and then to sing to herself, letting the music fill the space around her.
"Our dreams are young and we both know. They'll take us where we want to go. Hold me now, touch me now.. I don't want to live without you."
She turned off the tap and picked up the first plate, pausing a moment to took a glance on her empty backyard before continued singing a song which was starting to feel like it had been written for her in this moment.
"Nothing's gonna change my love for you. You oughta know by now how much I love you..."
Her smile grew as she continued, "One thing you can be sure of I'll never ask for more than your love."
She broke off for a deep breath, and found that the next line ached a little behind her ribs as she picked the melody back up again, setting the plate in the drying rack. "Nothing's gonna change my love for you. You oughta know by now how much I love you..."
She scrubbed some glasses, humming the plaintive melody until she finally drained the bowl and picked it back up again.
"The world may change my whole life through, but nothing's gonna change my love for you"
Nayeon stunned when she heard a very familiar voice echoed through the room. She peeled off her gloves and carefully set them aside to dry, turning to find Mina standing in the doorway, leaning against the frame and watching her.
Nayeon felt her cheeks flush a little, but she laughed, shaking her head.
"Oh.. Hi, Minari! I should have known... And, just how long have you been standing there?"
Mina smiled. "Not too long, Nayeonnie, but long enough to admiring your mesmerizing voice. Can you blame me? I've never been serenaded by such an angel before..."
"I think for it to count as serenading, it has to be directed at you, doesn't it?" Nayeon teased, taking a step towards Nayeon with a toss of her curls.
That won her a chuckle. "Probably. But that was beautiful, thank you... I felt far too privileged to wish drawing attention to myself. You should sing more, Nayeonnie. Your voice is very beautiful."
Nayeon's bunny smile was appearing once she heard the sweet compliment from her girlfriend. "Well, I don't really know that I'm good at it. Also.. Are you seriously trying to tell me that all of those men or women who were falling all over you back in Japan never tried serenading you?"
Mina laughed, pushing away from the doorframe and closing the gap between them even further. Her arms came to rest around Nayeon's waist, and both women gazed into each other's eyes.
"Sadly no, and I doubt I would have given it much truck if they had. They were all far too interested in more direct ways of getting what they wanted. I suspect it's more something that I have come to appreciate with age."
"Well, they do say that with age comes wisdom..." Nayeon replied, her eyes were dancing whilst Mina shook her head, still smiling as she pressed a kiss onto Nayeon's lips.
"You are incorrigible, Nayeonnie, but it is one of the things I love so very much about you. And I promise that for as long as I live there will always be someone to watch over you..." her lips curled up in a mischievous smile, "My sweet, embraceable, irreplaceable you..."
End.