The K2 (AMBW) (UPDATING)

Memories

Kim Jeha has been walking on the road for a long time now. He was hot and sweaty from the blistering sun. He kept sticking out his thumb to every car that drove by. But they all just drive past him.

He kept walking and saw an older Korean man who was tending to his truck. It looked like it had broken down. Looking at it like an opportunity he walks to the elderly man.

"Damn it." The old man kicked the tire out of frustration. Jeha walks up and looks inside the blue pickup truck.

"If you can't fix it, then be on your way." The old man said to Jeha.

"Why don't you call your insurance to fix it?"

"Do you think I would be here if I had one?"

"Well, call a tow truck then."

"If I had the money, don't you think I would've done that?!" The old man was starting to get irritated. 

In the car, Jeha saw an elderly woman, who he could presume was the wife fanning herself. He puts his bag down in the backseat waving his shirt trying to cool him down.

"Can I have gloves, sir?"

"Do you know how to fix it? Are you sure you aren't going to make it worse?"

Jeha lifts his body out of the truck and looks at the man "As if the car could break down even more?"

He puts his hands out for the gloves that the man had on his hands. The elderly pauses in suspicion but then finally hands them over.

Jeha fixes the car with an offer of a free ride. He could guess the elderly couple were farmers of some sort. Riding in the back in the middle of the summer was making his white tank stick to him.

When he reached their house he immediately took in his surroundings. There were some apple trees but the apples had fallen and rotten. The old man helped his wife out of the car telling her to be careful.

"All right, where's your bush cutter?"Jeha said out loud.

"Bush cutter?" The old man.

"I was going to trim your bushes for you."

"Oh no, no" the old man waved his hands "I don't have money for that."

"I don't want money." Jeha walks over to what looks like a storage shed. "Are they in there?"

The old man was walking frantically away from Jeha. "I said no!"

Jeha froze in his spot. "I'll feed you as promised and you can spend the night here. But in the morning you need to leave." The old man then waddled into his home.

Jeha felt bad he wanted to help in some sort of way. He could tell that for some reason that topic was sensitive, so he didn't press any further. 

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On the plane, Avianna was on the plane from Spain to Korea. The flight attendant came by and stopped at her guard.

"Shouldn't she eat?" The flight attendant said.

"Oh, she told me not to wake her up." Her guard said to the attendant in a fake voice.

"Oh ok, well let me know if you need anything." The attendant walked off and when she was out of sight. She felt the guard check her pulse. Avianna had a sleeping mask that shaded her eyes from the light. The guard gave her sleeping medication before they got on the flight.

She was awake however but she didn't move. She hated plane rides it reminded her of when they took her from her mom. When she was little she remembered being in the hospital. A stern Asian lady came in and told her to put on her clothes.