Nathan wasn’t good with other people. There was a time in his life, before his mother died, that he was bright and sociable, but he’d walled himself off since then. Him being named leader was based on work effort, not charisma. And it was rare that people got close at all to him, let alone him finding someone intriguing. That basically never happened. But it happened now.
Sunyi was like him– a little shyer. Quiet. Wrapped up with thoughts. But she was funny and cool and talented, and Nathan liked her. And he knew it was a long shot and a long ways away, but if he didn’t do it now, he’d forget or chicken out. So in the Beijing hotel, once everyone was asleep, he slipped the envelope addressed to her under the door that he knew Echoes was staying inside. He didn’t know much about classical music or anything, but people talked big about Sydney Opera House. It was a whole big thing. So on one of the sightseeing days they got in Sydney, Nathan had gotten them tickets to see the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Opera House.
IF she didn’t want to, that was okay. It was kind of weird– getting a ticket from a guy you didn’t know so well in an envelope shoved under the door. But Nate figured he’d at least try. You never know, right?
Sunyi looked up from her spot on her the bed of her hotel room when she noticed the envelope slide under the door. She missed Seoul, but that mostly meant the instruments she had to leave behind because as hard as she and Tanye had tried to work it out, they could never fully justify dragging a tuba or a bass across the globe. She picked herself off the bed, walking over to the door on the other side of the small room before taking the envelope in her hands. The handwriting on the front of it was unfamiliar to her, and when she peaked inside, her eyes widened once they recognized what was in the envelope.
Sunyi grabbed the door handle as she pulled the tickets out of the envelope, still not fully believing that someone had just slid two tickets to see the symphony at the Syndey Opera House under her door. Without thinking, she pulled the door open, poking her head out into the hallway to presumably find whoever had given her the tickets.
“Hey, wait!” she called out towards the silhouette that was shrinking down the opposite end of the hallway. She didn’t know what possessed her to catch up to them, but she found herself inevitably slowing down once she recognized that it was Nathan. “I, um,” Sunyi had already started tripping over her words, her eyes landing on every other spot in the hallway besides the boy that had been occupying her thoughts for weeks now. “Did you, uh...” she gulped, whatever courage that had made her catch up to him now completely abandoning her. She held the tickets and envelope ever so slightly up in his direction. “Did you leave these?”
