***
‘Something’s wrong…’
Sun thought while looking at Gyeonhui, who was walking towards her. It was clear that something had happened to Ojae. Otherwise, Gyeonhui wouldn’t have come directly to such a meeting.
After a while, he stopped in front of her.
“… What happened? Why are you here?”
“Ojae’s sick. He isn’t feeling well today.”
Sun bit her lower lip. “… Let’s go in.”
She wondered if he had read her mind, Gyeonhui spoke bluntly and stepped forward. She turned her head and looked at his back.
She saw that his hand had a plaster cast.
‘How did he get hurt?
She took a deep breath to shake off her sudden worry for him that suddenly sprouted.
It was essential to attend the meeting anyway, so she followed him to the meeting room.
***
“Why was there no call from Sun?” When Eunyoung returned to the office after lunch, she looked at her cell phone and said.
She had been sending messages to Sun several times since this morning, but Sun hadn’t even read them yet, nor did she answer any calls.
“I’m sure that she left her phone again. She does that often.”
“Scatterbrain.”
Eunyoung sat down, clicking her tongue.
‘Knock, knock.’
Then, with the sound of knocking, the door opened, and Ojae entered. He had a hollow face and looked like a walking zombie.
“Oh, my. You scared me. I thought you were a zombie.”
The surprised Ari at the moment pulled herself together.
“What’s going on?”
“Oh, did you get in touch with Sun?”
Ojae asked again after Eunyoung’s question.
“What? Didn’t you go with her?”
“I couldn’t make it because I’m so sick… so I sent Gyeonhui instead.”
“What!?” Eunyoung cried out frowning.
“I’m sorry, but I had no other choice…”
Ojae felt timid after hearing Eunyoung’s response, and the volume of his voice tapered off.
“No, no matter how sick you are, how could you do that when you know everything that has gone on between these two people?”
“That’s why I’m worried about them right now. It might still be hard for him because he breathed in a lot of smoke yesterday.”
“What do you mean, breathing smoke?”
“Oh, no. It’s nothing.”
Ojae waved his hands like he was embarrassed.
“Leave the office now. I don’t want to look at you.”
“… I’m so sorry.”
“Get out. Right now!”
On Eunyoung’s cry, Ojae left the office without even answering properly.
“He plays as he looks.”
When Ojae went out, Eunyoung couldn’t stand her anger and mumbled to herself.
“Didn’t you tell me not to judge people by their appearance?”
“What?”
“Oh, no. Nothing.” Ari smiled meanly and turned her head.
“Idiot, idiot, you’re such an idiot!”
Eunyoung’s cry echoed through the whole office many times.
***
‘Did she used to be that pretty…?’
Throughout the meeting, Gyeonhui couldn’t keep his eyes off of her. She usually wears jeans and a shirt. She was just wearing a dress today, but the way she looked seemed completely different.
‘Did she dress up for this meeting? She looked too dressy for this.’
Sun’s clothes were more like when she was dating Gyeonhui in the past.
‘… Did she already knew that I was coming instead of Ojae? Did Ojae and her set something up with each other?’
When his endless imagination went back and forth, Gyeonhui felt better and showed a smile on his face.
“We will repay you with imaginative and complete work.” A center official said after the briefing.
“Hmm. We’ll discuss the production costs as soon as the feasibility review of the business is over.”
He seemed to be uninterested in the contents of the meeting itself that they had spoken while he was organizing the documents.
“Sure. Thank you.”
A center official responded to Gyeonhui’s comments.
As he stood up, Sun followed him out of the meeting room.
“Hah…”
A long sigh leaked out of her mouth at the moment. She had the incident yesterday, and after a long meeting with a weakened body, she was exhausted. When Gyeonhui noticed her face, he spoke.
“Let’s go. I’ll drop you off at your office.”
“No, thanks. I can go back to the office alone.”
“Just go with me. I know you’re going to go back to the office anyway.”
“There’s no reason for me to go with you.”
“We can talk about today’s meeting on the way, so we don’t need to see each other again? Isn’t that better?”
Sun glared at him, but she was only walking out of the center like she was uninterested in changing her mind.
Over the parking lot, Gyeonhui headed to the restaurant where he had parked his car. However, another car was parked where he parked his car.
“This… what happened here?”
After looking around many times, he was sure that it was definitely this restaurant. He asked the owner who was coming out of the restaurant.
“Excuse me. Do you know what happened to the car that was here?”
“Was it your car? You didn’t answer the calls, so I’ve towed it.”
“What are you talking about?”
He quickly pulled out his phone and checked the missed calls. He didn’t know that the phone was ringing because he placed the phone on silent because of Chakyeong.
“But how can you…”
“… I’m so sorry.”
Then Sun intervened, apologizing to the owner and turned away.
“… Let’s grab a taxi.”
He reluctantly followed her. However, there were not many cars passing by, nor taxis on the streets.
“Whenever I need a damn taxi, there isn’t any on the road!” He vented his anger on the taxi.
“I’ll go first.”
Sun said like it was hard for her to be with him anymore.
“How would you go back?”
“There’s a bus going to the office directly.”
“A bus?”
Sun nodded shortly, instead of answering and headed to the bus stop. However, as she took a few steps, she stopped because of the pain in her heel.
“Ouch…”
She dropped her head to check the pained area. She realized that her heel was skinned against the dress shoes that she hadn’t worn in a long time.
Gyeonhui furrowed his brow as he watched her. It looked so painful to walk so far because her skinned heels were so sore. However, Sun soon stepped forward, pretending to be casual and seemingly unwilling to reveal that she could feel pain through her heels to him.
She’d rather walk just fine, but Gyeonhui, following her, limped on his foot.
“… Go slowly.”
He said, following her, but she didn’t slow down.