You Said Remember Me

12

Donghae returned to his car and remained in his seat without doing anything. Why had she suddenly left? Was she panicking that they'd find something out about her so she wanted to leave before they found out that something? Where would she go? Obviously she had no relatives or friends nearby...where would he locate her?

"Do you want to go out and grab a few drinks tonight?" Eunhyuk's voice answered after Donghae picked up his phone.

"Not tonight, something just came up," Donghae told starting his car.

"What came up?"

"My suspect is missing."

"Um...I guess that's bad."

"I'll call you up during the weekend so we can hang, ok?"

"That's fine. Good luck."

After hanging up Donghae turned around the corner of the street ransacking his memory for anything she could have said that had hinted anything. It didn't take long to actually remember that she'd told him herself that she'd been transferred jobs. If she worked at the tech college she couldn't have been transferred far. Donghae sped toward the Incheon Tech College and climbed up the steps hurrying toward the front counter.

"I'm not sure exactly. It doesn't list in our records, sorry."

"Can't you find out for me? It's important."

"I'll try to contact the dean of the psychology department but you might have to wait a while. With the new year approaching everyone's really busy."

Donghae waited while the woman typed something into the computer.

"What did you say her name was?"

"Victoria Song."

The doors opened behind him and he could hear someone walk toward him, "You're looking for Victoria?"

Donghae spun around to see a thin tall man standing behind him dressed in sweats.

"I'm Song Philip, you are?"

"Investigator Lee Donghae."

"Investigator? What would Victoria have to do with an investigator?"

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Victoria opened the door and let Melodix run toward her small tray of water. After the walk Victoria felt refreshed herself. She'd be making loads of money this fall or more if she were offered an outside project in the school to do. She had classes everyday of the week and she knew those classes would all keep her busy grading assignments. Victoria washed her hands and found a sandwich to munch on while she waited for the rest of the day to pass by.

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"So that's what happened," Song Philip said thoughtfully from across Donghae.

They were now seated in a small café at a circular table with two cups of coffee in front of them. Donghae had learned that Song Phililp had just returned from his expedition in Chile and was not yet aware of anything that had happened to his friend during the time he was out of the country. But as Im Jee Su had said he and Victoria seemed on pretty close terms.

"She told me she was transferred to a different job. Did she ever talk to you about it?" asked Donghae.

Song Philip seemed to ponder about his thoughts before going on, "We talked through e-mail but I haven't heard from her in the past week, so I'm really not sure. But her job couldn't be far from here."

"I see, thanks anyway." Donghae said prepared to get up.

"Is she doing ok? Do you know if she's taking care of herself well?" Song Philip asked abruptly.