For once, he isn't all scuffed up when she sees him (well, there is a thin scratch on his eyebrow but it already stopped bleeding) but he still sits down next to her anyway despite every particle in his body telling him otherwise.
"You're going to get robbed one day," he says.
Nari tilts her head confusedly and he motions at her Prada bag.
"You keep showing off your expensive stuff, you're going to get robbed one day. Or worse."
She grimaces, recognizing the truth in his words. "I don't have anything else. My family doesn't exactly shop at Macy's and Target, you know." She holds up the drinks again.
"Coffee?"
Jeno shrugs. "Sure." It's a little too sweet and it tastes like caramel, but he drinks it anyway.
"You're not hurt today," she notices.
There was the barest trace of disappointment in her voice.
He shrugs. "There wasn't a fight today."
Not exactly true, but he wasn't going to tell her that.
He didn't want to tell her much, to be honest.
He doesn't think a delicate, fragile little princess like her could handle it.
She hums and goes back to sipping her coffee, staring up into the sky. There were no stars save for a few tiny pinpricks here and there.
Not much to look at, to his opinion, but she stares at them like they hold all the secrets of the universe and her big chocolate brown eyes were going to drink it all in till they could hold no more.
They don't speak and he finishes his coffee and is about to leave, but she asks him a question.
"What's your last name?"
"None of your business," he says gruffly.
"I bought you coffee. The least you can do is tell it to me."
She raises her eyebrow and he thinks he sort of hates that look (he thinks it looks a bit imperious) but he ignores it.
He mulls over telling her another name, but then decides against it. "Lee."
"Jeno Lee." She says his name as if she's tasting it in her mouth and it was like smooth Swiss chocolate melting on her tongue and she nods once.
"I like it."
"What's yours?" he asks, though he doesn't feel any curiosity behind the query.
It was more out of fairness than anything; if he told her something, he expected something back in return.
Nari bites her lip and looks nervous for once. "I… don't think I should tell you."
"Tell me." It was a demand, not a request, and it comes out brusque.
She fidgets and mumbles out a name. "Sohn."
A flicker of astonishment goes through him, although judging from all those designer brands, he shouldn't be surprised.
"Sohn? Like Sohn Corps?"
Nari flinches, but nods. "I'm Sohn Wonyil's daughter," she whispers, averting her eyes.
"Huh." He wasn't really surprised.
The Sohn's were known around the country as one of the top three richest families in Seoul and the twenty-sixth richest in Korea.
Coincidentally, the Sohn's lived in the mansion a little close to where they were now.
"And you really expect me to believe that Daddy lets his little princess stay out without a bodyguard all the time?"
Nari snaps her head around to glare at him, eyes blazing.
"My father barely acknowledges my existence ever since my mother died, let alone cares about what happens to me. He lets me live off his…his filthy money as long as I don't dirty the prestigious Sohn name and—"
She catches herself and stops talking, her chest heaving and her eyes sparkling with tears.
She'd stood up in her anger and it was impressive, if a kitten's fury could be called impressive.
"So what if I stay out till dawn? He wouldn't care," she finally said in a tiny voice.
Jeno stares at her, a little surprised at her outburst. "Fine, so you have Daddy issues."
He turns back around and stares ahead with steady eyes. After a while, she sits back down and he ignores when she dabs at her eyes, smudging a little eyeliner and mascara on her wrist.
"Sohn Nari…"
He tries out her name and she looks at him with shock, but he tastes nothing on his tongue from that name except for the barest, faintest trace of vanilla, if he could give a name to that taste.
"I guess it fits."
He stands and walks away and she doesn't call after him with another question.
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