Hope's Child

Chapter 2: Seeing Him Again

It wasn't too difficult to explain everything to Juyeon. Changing her school took about a month.

I had been working at home so moving to Seoul wasn't having a huge impact on my job.

All our stuff took about a week of packing and sending stuff in trucks but Chungjae helped out as well and we were finally done.

Juyeon and I are living with my mother, in her two storey house while we stay in Seoul.

I had forgotten about the hustle and bustle of life in Seoul since I last visited half a year ago.

I had checked the fridge and there wasn't very much. My mother wasn't eating well with the little she had in the kitchen. I decided to go out and do some shopping.

I threw on my jacket over my blouse and helped Juyeon put her shoes on.

We headed to a nearby supermarket when I realised, Hob-, I mean Hoseok's studio was nearby.

What were the chances of me bumping into the guy I had left 5 years ago after finding out he cheated on me?

Well, faith really had it in for me.

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I was choosing some greens when Juyeon suddenly started tugging at my jacket and pointing at something excitedly.

"Mommy, look! It's the man that's in our pictures at home!" She started pointing at a man at the other end of the aisle.

The man who turned and looked at me was the same man who made me believe in love for the first time and the same man who broke my heart into tiny little pathetic pieces.

He looked at me with a surprised expression, but was quick to return to his neutral expression.

I prayed to every single god in existence that he wouldn't walk over, but of course, faith had it against me today.

He started walking towards us.

"Ah Eunmi, long time no see." He looked at me with that smile of his that I had loved so much.

In his eyes, I could see the pain that he tried so hard to hide. He looked at Juyeon and was slightly shocked.

"And hello little girl, what's your name?" He crouched down to her height and smiled at her.

Juyeon started tugging on my jacket again.

"Mommy, it's the man in our pictures at home." Within a second, my face had blown up into a massive red tomato.

I pulled Juyeon behind me and told her to be quiet. I looked back at Hoseok. He stared back at me with a curious smile.

Why does this man never stop smiling?

"Eunmi, it's been a long time. How about we go for a coffee and cake? I know a great place nearby." He seemed like he really wanted to talk.

It's been so long, and I've finally been able to patch up my heart and I just don't think I'm ready to talk to Hoseok again.

"Mommy, can we go have cake, please? I really want strawberry cake." She looked at me with those gorgeous eyes that she got from her dad. I felt myself soften and agree.

"Sure. I'll just pay for my stuff and we can head to over to wherever now." I grabbed some other stuff on the way to the till and paid for everything.

It's only coffee and some cake, how bad could it be?