Chapter 5

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Jiyong felt dejected when Dara left. "It's your fault...you can't blame her reaction..."he said to himself. He knew that Dara's reaction towards their unprecedented meeting would be at most a normal reaction. He inflicted so much pain to the girl, and it will be hard for him to get her back. But he is determined, especially now that he found her.

He run outside and went down to the lobby to follow her, but much to his dismay, Dara was nowhere to be seen. He ball his fist due to the frustration he was feeling. He went back to his apartment and get his phone to call someone.

"Hello Sir."

"Jinwoo, come to my office later. I need to ask you something."

"I understand Sir." After the call to his secretary, he then dialled Seungri's number.

"Hey Ji, what's up?"

"Seungri, is Chaelin with you right now?"

"Chaelin?no, she already went home. Why?do you need something from her?"

"Huh?no, its just that...Dara already went home."

"Oh?So...how was the talk?"

He sighed at Seungri's question then answered.

"There's no talk that happened,"

"Huh?why?"

"I...she...she doesn't want to talk to me. She hates me, I saw it from her eyes. It seems she wasn't prepared to see me. And I thought I was ready to tell her my reasons but, the moment I saw her in front me I wasn't able to utter a word. I tried to make her stay, but she immediately stormed out of my room when she realized it was me..."

"Ji, you can't blame her. She was hurt. Just give her more time ok?"

"I know..."

"Little by little Ji. Don't worry, we will help you. Oh, and for starter, I have Dara's address."

"What?!How did you get it? Did you ask Chaelin?Did she gave it to you?"

He heard his friend laugh at the other line. He was annoyed and he swear to himself that Seungri will pay for it when they meet.

"No, she wouldn't give it to me, especially now that she knows you are my friend. I just followed her, and I will be a dead meat once she know what I did."he chuckled.

"Thank you, I owe you one"was all he said.

"Yeah sure, I'll just message you her address. Gotta go. Bye"

"Yeah, bye. Thank you again" then he drop the call.

A few moments more, he readied himself and go to his office.

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Dara felt so exhausted on her return to her apartment. She know she will meet Jiyong, but she did not expect it to be very soon. She rested herself on her sofa when she heard her doorbell rang. She immediately get up and open the door, she felt relieved when she saw Donghae. He smiled at her.

"Hi."he said sheepishly.

"Hi."she replied.

"Uhm, can I come in?"

"Oh?y-yeah sure. why are you here?is problem last night already ok?"she asked while giving way to Donghae.

"Yeah. Mom just got into an accident but she is already ok. Good thing they brought her to the hospital immediately."

"Is that so? You should've told me so that I could have accompanied you."she sulked.

"Nah, it's okay. It's just a minor accident. My sister just panicked. In fact, mom already got home this morning."

"So...why are you here?"she asked again.

"Oh!I just want to checked on you, because I leave you and Chaelin last night. How was it?"

Dara did not know how to answer his question, because she herself doesn't know what had happened. And Donghae would not be delighted to know that she woked up on another guy's house, especially if that guy is her ex. She knows that Donghae dislike Jiyong very much, and she doesn't want her friend to feel agitated on what happened. And also, she knows she and Chaelin will get a good scolding from him if he knows the truth.

"Dara?"

"Huh?"

"I said how was last night? Did you guys have fun?"

"Ah...yeah, b-but I think we got a little drunk.You know how me and Chaelin when we go to a club."she said and then laugh as if what she said is very funny.

She got a little nervous when she saw the way Donghae looked at him, its as if he can read her mind and he know that she is lying.

"Is that so?that's good then" he replied with no hint of doubt on what she said, which made Dara sighed in relief.

"Y-yeah. Uhm...is that all? I mean, do you have any other reason for coming here?"she asked to divert the subject.

"Ah...yes, I just thought that maybe we should already discussed about your boutique? It was almost finished and I think we should plan the launching."

Dara facepalmed herself when she heard what Donghae had said. She almost forgot the reason why she came back. "You just arrived yesterday, and you already forgot why you're here?!" she mentally scold herself. She was cut-off from her reverie when she saw Donghae waving in front of her, as if she was being hypnotized.

"Dara...are you okay?You seems a bit off."

"Eh? sorry Donghae, I'm just tired. Yeah, I think we should start discussing about the launch, I will go to the site tomorrow to see the development of the store. Then let's have a meeting with our investor. Have you met them?"

"Yeah, but only their General Manager. She said we could have a meeting with them after your boutique is finish. Maybe next week we could meet them."

"Really? That's good then. I'm really excited. I hope everything will go smoothly."She saw Donghae nodded on what she said then smiled at her.

"Don't worry. It will be fine. Will you really go back to Canada after the launching? I mean, you can stay here you know..."

She genuinely smiled at him and nodded. Donghae and Chaelin had been bugging her to just stay and don't come back to Canada. But she has many reasons why she can't do that. And one of the reason was the name Kwon Jiyong.

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