Chapter 125: 'I want to kiss you....'

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I dropped the phone beside my pillow and hugged my blanket as the DJ continued reciting the titles of all the songs.

‘... ‘The Spring Within You’, ‘Magic Dust’.... I must say that your agency is the most honest agency in the world.’

And Rum laughed. ‘They described the album right.’

‘They did. ‘Light and darkness of human emotions’. That can’t be more accurate… so what’s the source of all this?’

Rum chuckled slightly and hummed a little. ‘Well, I’ve met tons of people. Seen a spectrum of emotions… good ones, bad ones… the fact that I’m even calling them good and bad makes me a hypocrite, you know… Emotions are merely vessels of our reactions to the world around us… who’s to say that they are good or bad? It’s alright to feel anger… or sadness… or even jealousy… we can’t expect ourselves to be—well, to be happy all the time…..’

‘This seems to come from the heart,’ said the DJ. ‘The heart of mankind indeed.’

Something swelled up in my chest and burned the back of my eyes. I s