"The rain fell, so you don't have to worry." /Youjin/

Chapter 2

"Are you stalking me?" She was now afraid of him while a few minutes earlier she was about to thank him.

"I'm not!" He yelled. "Do I look like a stalker to you? You're the one who can't recall who..." He hesitated on his words and looked at the convenient store nearby. "I'm hungry. I can see you're sober enough to go home by yourself."

She looked at him in disbelief. 'How can he be hungry at times like this? What an excuse.'

"Fine. Don't follow me." Eunbin walked away from him toward the street to her flat. She peeked once and saw him making ramyun cup at the convenience store. "He really is hungry."

[Tuesday noon]

The studio was a bit quiet as the professor was there giving out next tasks to each students. Yeeun finally made it yesterday so she could take the next tasks.

"That is all for this today. I look forward to see your modern art paintings. Class dismissed."

The only one who left the studio was the professor. The students were busy with their own projects. At one quiet corner, Yeeun poked Eunbin's cheek.

"How was it yesterday?" She got excited. "Any hot guys showed up?"

"Yoo Yeeun--ssi! The next time you want to go blinddating just make sure it matches your schedule." Yeeun was surprised seeing her bestfriend's sudden fit-throwing. Eunbin pried Yeeun's hand away from her face. She pouted.

"Wow. Based on this reaction....Let's see," Yeeun studied Eunbin's face. "You did meet a guy and didn't run away, right? Right?"

Eunbin furrowed her eyebrows. "I went to a blind date, then I WOULD meet guys, wouldn't I?"

"That's not my point. I mean, you met him there then you two went somewhere...."

"Is there someone named Kwon Eunbin here?" The studio TA's voice was louder than Yeeun's. Part of the studio looked at her while some looked at Eunbin. Eunbin herself was too immersed with her mind, that a studio TA, especially the killer TA Kim was looking for her. "If there's no such person I will..."

There was a commotion outside making the whole studio filled with intense curiousity. TA Kim seemed annoyed and repeated her question. "I repeat, is there a Kwon Eunbin here?"

"Oppa! Are you a model? Idol? How can you be so handsome? What are you doing here?" Were the questions that can be heard outside the studio.

"Who is it anyway? Is there a drama shooting in our campus?" Yeeun talked to herself. Eunbin stood up and walked toward TA Kim.

"I'm Kwon Eunbin." She nodded her head and TA Kim turned to face her.

"Go outside and take your friends away from the crowd. It's very loud." She said. Eunbin just froze in front of her. She just stared at TA Kim and earned a snap in front of her two eyes. "Go now!"

She just did what she said and didn't quite grasp what was going on. When she walked outside, two tall guys were standing in the hallways.

One of them recognize Eunbin judging from her navy painting apron, messy brown hair bun and her reading glasses. "Eunbin..... You're Eunbin, right?" The shorter tall guy called her name.

She tilted her head not knowing who these guys were. But she managed to answer "Yes, I am."

"Do you have time?" The other guy put his arms around her shoulders and the crowd was getting crazy. The girls started to talk about what Eunbin did that she deserved this attention, they started to hate on her after one of the girls mentioned that she already had a boyfriend. Eunbin seemed to be uncomfortable and ducked out from his arms.

"I have time, let's get out of here first." The two boys nodded and followed her outside.

They found a quiet campus bench by the tree. Eunbin sat in front of them awkwardly and started a conversation. "So, why were you guys there earlier?"

The shorter one, who were busy texting, looked up. "We happened to be near this area and a bit bored and hyung asked me to find you here. Then here we are!" He smiled like it was no big deal. "I'm Jihun, by the way. And he's Seungjun-hyung."

Eunbin looked at the Seungjun guy and he flashed a smile. She was still as confused as ever. "And?? Who is this hyung anyway?"

"He will be here in five minutes, just wait. He has a shy personality so a sudden show up in an art studio just to find a girl he was looking, surely not his style." Seungjun replied her. He could see that she had no clue who he was talking about. "You two are close, right?"

"I don't even know who you're talking about." She buried her face in her arms on the table. Both Seungjun and Jihun gasped at her reaction and simply started to convince each other that they took the right girl or not.

After few minutes, someone came and put a bag full of drinks on the table. "Hyung! Finally!" Jihun yelled.

Eunbin, who was still burying her face, started to look up on who was coming. She saw him and their eyes met each other.

"Kim Youjin-ssi?" She asked, not believing her eyes. She was in disbelief that he managed to stalk her really far.

"She is the right girl! She knows him!" Seungjun poked Jihun.

But before Youjin wanted to speak, Eunbin cut him. "Are you really stalking me? To the extent that you even know where my studio is?"

"Wait, I can explain." Youjin sat next to her. "I believed I have told you that I'm not a stalker. You really really have never seen me before?"

Eunbin now started to doubt herself. She knew she was no good at memorising faces.

"Fine. I will tell you." He opened the watermelon soda can and looked at her. "I know that you always drink this judging by your trash." He handed the can to her. "Can you guess who I am now?"

She just held her soda. She loved that soda but still couldn't tell who he was. She shook her head.

He sighed and answered. "I'm your next door neighbour. Does that ring any bells?"

She was surprised by his statement. "But on the 5th floor there are only two flats..."

"Then we practically have lived next to each other for a bit." He calmly answered her. Both Seungjun and Jihun just as excited being spectators.

"But I thought my neighbour was a girl...." She said that but then she doubted herself. "And I saw the flat number on her keys."

"That would be my sister. She brought me foods sometimes." He took another can of soda for himself. "And as to how I knew you're in this studio, your scrap papers always fall out of the bin and I saw your name with your department and such."

She was clueless and sipped her soda. Then her conscious started to kick in. "Then why do you need to meet me today? Can't you just show up later, without these two models causing chaos just to find me?"

Youjin seemed to be surprised when she said the word chaos. "Models? They're my best friends. But if they did cause chaos, I'm sorry." He took something out from his back pocket. Eunbin's small flashlight. "Last night you almost left this..." She was delighted and extended her hand to take the flashlight but Youjin's hands interrupted her. "But you will get this flashlight after you agree to have a date with me. Just for a day."

She was enraged. "And why should I?"

"We did a blind date last night, after all. I just wanted to see a movie today and I have a coupon for boy-girl couple." He showed the coupon. Seungjun and Jihun looked at the coupon and both were envious. "The next show will end by 11 pm and technically I'm not obliged to walk you home but we live next to each other, so I guess it's a win-win."

Eunbin didn't know what to answer. 'These guys are really weird.' She peeked at her wrist watch. It was  2.37 pm. "But what if I run away and you can't find me?"

"Then I will come here everyday."