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

Chapter 21

Eunbin woke up in her room. She looked around and made sure it was her room. She quickly checked her phone. It was Thursday, 9 in the morning.

"The last time I know it was Wednesday...," she checked her memory, "...so last night I..."

She recalled the kiss and started to blush. Her clothes were still the same. Her bag was on the table. She saw something on the kitchen counter, immediately got up to see closer.

It was two rolls of kimbap and a note.

'You'll be hungry when you wake up. Eat this.'

She knew it was Youjin. Her hand unconsciously grabbed the kimbap and shoved it inside her mouth. "What did happen exactly after 'that' happened?" She kept eating the kimbap and checked her phone again. A sudden bitter hit her. Occurrence with Youjin made her momentarily forgot that Inhae asked to break up with her.

Eunbin quickly washed up and text Inhae.

Eunbin: 'Oppa, let's meet today.'

[at Youjin's house]

He sat on his bed. Almost wanted to keep smiling like a crazy person. What happened last earlier made him couldn't stop smiling.

[Youjin's flashback]

"I thought you want to taste soju." He tapped her head. "Did it melt your pain away?"

Eunbin was fazed, no words escaped her trembling lips. She touched her lips as her body weakened and collapsed in front of him. Youjin quickly caught her.

"I guess it did." He carried her on his arms and walked till he found a cab at the intersection. He rested her head on his lap. It usually took more than 10 minutes to reach the flat, but to Youjin it felt like seconds. He didn't leave his sight on her for once.

He carried her on his back and walked to her flat. On their way, he already found her flat keys inside her bag. He had it in his palm so it would be easier for him to open her door.

Eunbin's flat door was finally unlocked. Youjin put her on the bed and covered her with blanket. He wanted to leave immediately, but just couldn't move his feet. Hence the fact that lots of work to be done in the morning, he took a seat next to her bed and watched her fast asleep. He didn't sleep a wink.

"Can I....," he caressed her hair, making the loose strands away from her face, "steal you for real?"

When he realised, it was already 7 am. Youjin hurriedly went to the nearby local market to buy kimbap rolls. He bought two rolls and came back to Eunbin's flat.

"I can't be here any longer. They will find me here." He took Eunbin's post-it and wrote something, occasionally checking her in case she awoke. He sighed. "Just live well. I'll be watching."

[end of flashback]

Suddenly his door was knocked and he tried to keep a straight face. "Hm?"

"Let's have a brunch." He heard his sister's voice, Yejin. "I'm home, don't you want to see me?"

He quickly got up to his door. "Why you're here?"

Yejin saw his facial expression. "Did something happen? You look happier." She poked his cheek excessively. "It looks like you've been smiling a lot."

"Don't touch my face." He shifted his gaze.

"I don't know what it is but I like seeing you happy like this. It's good for your cheek's unused muscle. Just look at that cheekbones, stiff as ever..."

"Don't you say you want a brunch?"

[at a brasserie]

Yejin ordered salmon salad for her and chicken breast salad for Youjin.