A couple of days went by. Nami didn’t correspond much. But she did send one lengthy text of encouragement. Almost as though she had known that Cami needed someone to pierce the black bubble of depression that had swallowed her up overnight.
“I just want you to know that you’re not alone. I’m here. I may not text much, but that doesn’t mean that I’m not thinking of you. Please don’t give up hope. Never stop fighting to reach the light. I was thinking of you as I wrote these lyrics.”
Then over the next two days at odd hours a line or two would come through.
“Wasn’t born to be a pale shadow
Of a bright and shining star.”
A few hours later another text appeared.
“I know who you are.
I know who you are.”
Did Nami know who Cami was? Because she sure didn’t. But she’d like to. What exactly was she doing here? Why had she been born?
Maybe Nami could read her mind because her next lyrics seemed to answer Cami’s question.
“I was born to become your light,
To be infused with all that’s right.”
Then the next day, just a snippet.
“Surely I’m meant for greater things…”
—
Cami awoke one Thursday to an announcement concerning a posting on BTS’s Twitter account.
“Namjoon of BTS announced today that he is preparing to release his new mixtape. It’s entitled Echo. He is set to release only the first song at six p.m. tomorrow.”
A picture had accompanied the announcement. Cami checked BTS’s Twitter account. The same picture popped up. It reminded her of his song Forever Rain. It was a photograph of a puddle of water that had been disturbed by one raindrop that had caused a flurry of ripples to cascade out from the center of the puddle towards its edges. Ripples echoing. The puddle of water was reflecting a bright light.
Cami was suddenly very excited. This was great and unexpected news! No one had known that Namjoon was working on another mixtape, had they?
6 p.m. tomorrow. Of course, that was Korea time. She was seven hours behind them. It would release at eleven in the morning for her. She wouldn’t have to stay awake all night long. She could even sleep in! Ugh. Except that she had schoolwork to do.
Cami read the article online twenty-four hours before she found the link in her Twitter account. She had checked Nami’s direct messages all day long, but nothing had come through. Until seven o’clock the next morning. Nami had sent her a link to her new song.
