Love In Death

I

It was clear frosty weather, and as the noon came up over the hills, I could see that patches of snow still lay on the roads of the hill-station. I would have been quite happy in the bed, with a book and a hot-water bottle at my side but I promised the Parks that I 'd go to their party, and I felt it would be cherish of me to stay away. I put on a turtleneck sweater, an overcoat and pair of my shoes, and set off down the moonlight road.

It was a walk of just over a mile to the Parks'house, and I had covered abot half the distance when I saw a girl standing in the middle of the road.
She must have been younger than me or near my age.

She looked rather old fashioned - long hair hanging to her waist and a red and white bobby print dress, with a hanging bow in her neck, and ankle length boots, that reminded me of the photos in my grandmother album.

When I went closer, I noticed that she had lovely eyes and a winning smile "Good evening," I said. "It's a cold night to be out."
"Are you going to the party?" she asked. "That's right and I can see from your lovely dress that you're going too. Come along, we're nearly there."

She fell into step beside me and we soon saw lights from the Park's house shinning brightly through the deodars.

She asked me my name I replied Taehyung.
The girl told me her name was Lili. I hadn't seen her before, but I'd only been in the hill station a few months. There was quite a crowd at the party, and no one seemed to know Lili.

Everyone thought she was a friend of mine. I did not deny it. Obviously she was someone who was feeling lonely and wanted to be friendly with people. And she was certainly enjoying herself. I did not see her do much eating or drinking, but she flitted about from one group to another, talking, listening, laughing and when the music began, she was dancing almost continuously alone or with partners, it didn't matter which she was completely wrapped up in the music.