Love Me If You Dare

Chapter 37

A few weeks later.

The top floor of the Central Police building is the staff canteen.  During lunchtime, it’s packed with people.  The smell of rice and other dishes fills the place.

Lisa has two sets of meals on her tray.  One in a takeaway box and another on a plate. She turns around to look for a seat.  

Someone is waving to her: “Lisa, this way.” 

She looks over and sees a few officers from the team they work with most.  She joins their table.

“Professor Jeon is not here again?”  Someone asks.

Lisa smiles: “Yes, when he is busy, he doesn’t feel hungry.” 

Another officer smiles: “It’s so nice to have a student like Lisa.” 

Lisa corrects him : “I am actually his assistant, not his student.”

People tends to make that mistake all the time.  She has clarified her role numerous times already.  She feels it’s important that people don’t mistaken their relationship.  They are not a ‘teacher’ and a ‘student’ to each other.  Because if the relationship is to progress into something else later, she doesn’t want any misunderstandings and complications…

After lunch, a young officer walks her back to the lab.  

“Lisa, would you be interested to watch a movie with me?  “Galaxy Battleship” releases tomorrow.”  

Lisa smiles : “Sorry, I am busy tomorrow.”  

He looks disappointed : “Maybe next time.”  He says goodbye to Lisa.  

Lisa pushes open the lab door. Jungkook is sitting at his desk, working away.  He’s in the same position as when she left earlier on for lunch.  There is a small mountain of documents in front of him.  

There are no cases for them to follow at the moment.  So they are working on building up a database of crime statistics.  

It involves visiting serial killers, their family and any surviving victims.  For the past few weeks, they spent a lot of time talking to criminals in the prison, and going all over the city to trace their backgrounds.  It’s not as nerve wreaking as solving real cases but it’s still a physically and mentally tiring task.   

When Jungkook is working, he shuts himself off from the rest of the world.  He is so focused that Lisa wonders when he will get out his ‘shell’.

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He finally stops what he is doing.  With his eyes still fixed on the computer screen, he says : “Hi, the Criminal Psychology Beauty.”

Since she started work in this building, there are suggestions that she should be called the ‘Central Police Station Beauty’. Back in her university days, there are a lot of girls that were more attractive than her, so she never got so much attention.  But this building is filled with blokes, with hardly any other young female staffs around.  But ‘the Criminal Psychology Beauty’?? 

Anyway, she clears the files on his desk and puts down the takeaway box : “You have to eat something.”

“Alright.”  

Lisa is used to this.  She literally has to force Jungkook to break for meals.   

Jungkook looks pre-occupied. He is still reading a document as he shovels the food into his mouth.  He probably doesn’t really know what the food taste like.  When he eats, he is like a little kid that just wants to finish quickly so he can get on with other more important stuff in life.