Photo of the day
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 2
Young Jae shows eun mi to his apartment since she has no where to live.
"..and that is my house." young jae said as he points it to her.
"so this is what a house looks like!" eun mi thought.
"did you make this house for yourself?" eun mi asked which made young jae turn his head and laughs.
"hmm? is it funny what I just said? I was serious." eun mi thought.
"I did not build it. My dad bought it for me since he's in Japan for business." young jae said as he opens the door for her.
"oh...then you're by yourself now?" eun mi asked as she sits on the sofa.
"At first, I'm not used to it. A few weeks later I thought it was better if I can handle by myself now." young jae said.
"What about friends! don't people sometimes invite their friends over?" eun mi asked.
"you're my only friend. I don't want to be close to anybody." young jae quickly said after eun mi.
"then, why am I your only friend?" eun mi asked.
It takes a moment before young jae answered her question.
"My mom..divorced my dad and she left me and my sister with him. So she married a man in Russia and stayed there. My dad doesn't want us anyway but he was the one who payed our school fees and let us finish college. When we were old enough, He left us his convenience store so we should at least work. He bought us a house and so we won't be sleeping on the streets. My sister, Park Young Jin, became dangerously sick a few months after dad left us. They didn't care about young jin's condition instead my dad just payed her hospital fees. Then...young jin..."
"T...then what..? young jin..?"
"young jin...p..pa...passed away.." young jae continued as tears kept coming out from his eyes as well as eun mi drops a glowing tear on her right eye.
"what did I do..! I just asked a very foolish question!" eun mi thought.
"eun mi..." young jae murmured.
"w..what is it?" eun mi asked when her head is turned away from him.
"Do you know..why...why I became..close..to you...?" young jae asked while tears kept flowing nonstop.
"I don't..know.." eun mi answered.
"After young jae died, I always imagined young jin was still beside me, happily as ever. Then I saw her body about to be hit by a truck. When I saw her crying face, a smile appears in my face." young jae said.
"..hit..by a..truck..? crying..face..? wasn't that..me..?" eun mi thought as she gazes at young jae pitifully.
"I really can't believe I saw her face again. I began to be cheerful again that made me see her bright smile again." young jae continued.
"young jae..what..do you mean?" eun mi asked shyly.
"Do you want to see her picture eun mi?" young jae asked.
"..uh..well, if it's..okay for you.." eun mi said.
"..o-..oh-...oh my..sh-..she looks..a lot like..me.." eun mi said when she became very speechless after seeing the picture.
"That's why I you're my only friend. you don't know how much I wanted to see her face again." young jae said.
"young jae'ssi...I think that was..your sister I saw last time.." eun mi thought as she sighs.
-
"President, you need to get some rest."
"Don't tell me what to do!" President Myung Dae said.
"But your condition..."
"There's nothing going to happen to me! now help me get out of this hospital!"
-
"Where do you want to go Mr. President?"
"Drop me off there" He commanded.
"But sir.."
"Do you want to get fired!?" He shouted.
-
"Go get some rest and just leave me here."
"What are you going to do, President Kim? Will you be alright?" The secretary asked.
"There's no need to worry about me now go get some rest." The president said.
"I understood."
Secretary Han drives off leaving the president standing there.
"How will I explain to them..?" Myung Dae thought as he enters a convenience store.
"yah! eun mi! don't leave the door open!" young jae said as he laugh.
"wah~ It's so cold." eun mi ignored young jae while she relaxes the cold beverage cooler.
"oh! welcome, sir." young jae greeted the old man, Myung Dae.
Myung Dae goes to the beverage cooler to get some beer which he saw a girl(eun mi) leaning on the beverage cooler.
"excuse me miss but can you move for a second?" myung dae asked her when he means that he's going to get beer from the beverage cooler she is leaning on to.
"..ah..I'm sorry! I shouldn't do things like this, right? I'm so foolish!" eun mi apologized and kept puts her hand on her head.
"you're quite fun, miss. ..uhm..may I ask your name?" myung dae asked her.
"My name is Shin Eun Mi." eun mi introduced herself.
"Nice to meet you, Miss Shin Eun Mi. I'm President Kim Myung Dae." myung dae introduced himself as he reaches out his hand.
"..uh..may I ask you something...?"
"what is it?"
"what is..'President'?" eun mi sheepishly asked which made myung dae chuckle.
"Miss Shin Eun Mi, have you been to school before?" myung dae asked.
"what's a 'school'?" eun mi asked again.
Myung Dae goes to the man in the cashier(young jae) to ask something.
"excuse me but does your sister ever been to school before?" myung dae asked young jae.
"I'm sorry sir but she's not my sister." young jae said.
"Then, who is she?"
"..uh..she is my.." young jae starts to think when eun mi approaches young jae and smiled at him reminding her last time when young jin approached him as she smiles beautifully.
"she is my...girlfriend." young jae finally answered that made myung dae's eyes widen and eun mi looking puzzled.
"ah..I see..then I should get going now." myung dae said.
"thank you for coming"
"young jae!" quickly called.
"what's the matter?" young jae calmly asked.
"what did you just said to him? 'girlfriend'? I have no idea what word is that." eun mi said as her eyes look straightly at young jae.
"yah eun mi! let's go get something to eat!" young jae said.
"young jae! I have been waiting for you to say that, you know!" eun mi said with a smile on her face.
-
"Mr. President! did you left something?" the secretary asked.
"secretary Han! make a call to the boys that a someone will be visiting them." myung dae said.
-
"wah~ it's delicious! do you always eat here?" eun mi asked while she keeps eating.
"It's delicious, right? I sometimes go here. This is where me and young jin used to eat everyday." young jae said.
"no wonder she has a nice brother like you." eun mi said that made young jae's heart skip a beat.
"ah..really! why am I feeling like this?" young jae thought.
"mi sun.." dae jung murmured.
"what?"
"should we go with her?" dae jung asked in a serious look.
"I guess we could see her a bit." mi sun said as she sighs.
"no..I mean..we should stay with her until she comes back." dae jung said as he faces mi sun.
"If they'd allow us I think it's not a problem. but when will we leave?" mi sun asked.
"When the time comes" dae jung murmured.
-
President Myung dae goes to the convenience store but figures that it's actually close. He goes around looking for them but nowhere to be found.
-
"What!? why would we let a stranger in? that's insane!" hyun ki shouted to secretary Han and quickly hangs up.
"who was that?" dong jae asked.
"The secretary of that stupid old man said that someone will visit us here." hyun ki replied.
"ah..really! why does he have to let some stranger in?" dong jae said.
"maybe it's not a stranger.." dong sun said.
"maybe it's a girl!" jung su said cheerfully.
"maybe it's just Miss Hee Young." hyun su said.
"she always go here to let us get attracted to her." dong sun said.
"she won people's hearts except for us." hyun su informed.
"well, she won't win me." dong jae said.
"you're really stupid, dong jae. how she like you when you never even laid eyes on girls before." hyun ki teased.
"yah! who said that thing!" dong jae shouted.
"well, she always likes me." jung su butts in.
"just how many girls do you have, jung su?" dong sun asked.
"hyung Du Myung's girls are more than yours, jung su." hyun su calmly said.
"shut up brat!" jung su shouted.
They all keep arguing until they left the living room.
-
"ah really!" young jae cursed.
"what's the matter young jae?" eun mi asked.
"I left something at the restaurant. I'll just go get it tomorrow morning." young jae said.
"I know! you go get it while i'll be the one to open the store, okay?" eun mi said as she runs to the store.
-
"I wonder if customers got disappointed because the store was closed in a while.."
"oh! there you are!" a voice pops at eun mi's back.
"oh! ahjussi! are you going to buy something?" eun mi asked then myung dae grabbed her hand to the car and drives off.
"ahjussi! where are we going!? I'm scared!" eun mi shouted.