79. When The Flower Blooms
“… We’re done. It’s over like you just said.”
Her delicate voice was delivered to him through the rain.
“… Sun…”
“I’ve already sorted it out. There’s nothing more for us to talk about or to do with you. I’m sorry.”
Her voice was calm, and her expression seemed bold. However, the pain in her heart was still being passed on to Gyeonhui.
He couldn’t say that he was in pain in front of someone sicker than him. He struggled to speak more.
“… I know. I didn’t think you would have forgiven me easily.” Gyeonhui nodded bitterly. “Give me just a day.”
“Gyeonhui…”
“I can’t send you off yet. So help me to finish it.”
Her eyes shook.
“I’m telling you that allow me to let you go. I haven’t thrown you out of my mind yet.” His voice echoed in her ear. “It’s only a day.” He emphasized once more.
She looked at him still, unanswering.
“… That’s all I want.
He walked through the rain and began to move away.
“Gyeonhui…”
She was left alone, and it seemed like her heart was broken as she recalled his name again and again.
She wanted to rush and hug him, but she could barely endure her desire. Her body remained underneath the thick clouds motionless, but her eyes followed his back until he disappeared.
“Hah…”
Her delicate sigh sprang out from the heavy rain.
***
‘Bzzzzz.’
Eunyoung’s phone rang again, but she didn’t take it. Ojae was still watching her, and then finally, he started speaking.
“… Who is it?”
Hearing Ojae, Eunyoung smiled but didn’t answer.
“Is it your ex-husband?”
Eunyoung’s expression sank deeper after hearing Ojae’s words.
“Do I really have to tell you about my personal life because I work for Consencio, which is such a great company? Oh, that’s right. It’s great. You can just get rid of a company like us whenever you want.” Eunyoung nodded with a sarcastic tone.
“You know I didn’t mean that,” Ojae said.
“Then why do you care?”
Eunyoung looked at him and asked. Ojae grew speechless at that moment and could not speak.
“Don’t intrude yourself recklessly into someone’s life. You could get hurt.”
Eunyoung smiled bitterly and filled her glass. Meanwhile, her cell phone rang again.
Ojae reached out with a firm expression and picked up her cell phone. Even before Eunyoung tried to stop him, Ojae answered her phone in an instant.
“This is Eunyoung’s phone, who is this?” Ojae spoke as boldly as he could.
“Eunyoung? Who is this?”
Ojae heard the man’s voice over the cell phone. “No, I asked you first. Who are you? Why do you keep calling her this late?” Ojae said.
Eunyoung looked at Ojae without saying anything.
“Hey. Who are you!?”
“Why, why do you keep asking about me? Who the hell are you?” Ojae said.
“Hah… There’s nothing for us to discuss, so put her on the phone.” The man’s voice was delivered outside the cell phone. Eunyoung’s expression sank endlessly.
Her sad expression made her gaze droop powerlessly.
An unknown feeling like a volcano erupted in Ojae’s mind.
“You wanna know who I am? I’m Eunyoung’s boyfriend.”
His trembling voice echoed loudly inside the bar. Eunyoung looked at him with widened eyes.
“There, so don’t ever contact her in the future. It’s disgusting.” Ojae finally hung up the phone.
Soon after, the phone rang back, but Ojae hung up on it again.
“Hah…”
His fingertips trembled, and his lips dried. However, he started speaking after drinking some cold water to hide his nervousness from Eunyoung as much as possible.
“If he calls you again, tell me, okay?”
Eunyoung was watching him calmly but looked at him with her lips tightly pursed.
“You don’t think that was very cool, do you?”
“Sorry?”
“It was ridiculous that you were trembling and stuttering like you were scared. I see it.”
“… I just helped you, Okay? Can’t you be nice to me at least once?” Ojae seemed to be sorry.
“Then why did you bother with it? I told you that it’s not your business.” She responded in an angry voice while looking at him.
Ojae was a little surprised but started speaking calmly. “So, do you want me to just leave it like that? I didn’t want to see anyone bothering you anymore.”
“Just leave it be if you can’t take the responsibility. That’s what you can do to help me.”
Hearing her cold words, Ojae couldn’t say anything. However, soon, he looked straight at her and started speaking as if he had made up his mind.
“… I’m not sure what I did wrong, but if I see something like this again, then I’ll jump on it and do exactly what I just did earlier again. Do you understand?”
Eunyoung’s expression hardened as soon as she heard him. Eunyoung smiled as if she were frustrated, and she mumbled to herself.
“You’re the craziest and the stupidest man I’ve ever seen.”
Ojae didn’t like her words, and he was upset.
“What? Did you just say I’m stupid? How can you say…”
Then Eunyoung suddenly reached out and pulled his collar.
At her sudden action, Ojae’s eyes widened, and he was astonished. What followed after was not her heavy fists but her moist lips.
***
The next morning.
Sun woke up from her bed because of a weird feeling of moisture on her lips.
“Arf… arf.” Labong looked at her and wined.
“Hey, Labong.”
It was Labong who licked her lips.
“Hah…”
Breathing a sigh of relief, Sun tied up her hair because of a rushing headache.
“Was it a dream?”
Meeting with him last night was like a distant dream.
The sound of rain, his face, and his voice were surreal.
However, a message that came on her phone indicated that what happened last night was not a dream.
‘It’s only one day. Today.’
When she checked the message, she closed her eyes and sighed for a long time.
After taking a shower to alleviate her frustration, Sun checked her phone once again while she was getting ready to go to work. He didn’t send any other message. However, she kept checking her phone unwittingly.
“… What am I doing?”
With a bitter smile, Sun tried to pull out a pair of flat shoes from the shelf and wore them. However, after a while, a pair of high-heels caught her eyes instead.
It was the heels that she had never worn outside of her last business meeting because they were so uncomfortable to wear.
However, she still pulled out the heels and put them down slowly onto the floor.
After a while, she put her feet in her heels and looked at her face in the mirror again.
“… Because it’s the last time.”