PURSUE {Park Jihoon & Kang Daniel}

27

Tick Tock..

"Anna?"

Tick Tock..

"Anna!"

Tick Tock..

"Anna why have you locked the door?"

I sunk deeper and deeper down in my bed while listening to the repeated sound of the clock ticking on the wall above the door.

"Let me be. I deserve quarantine." I muttered loud enough for mom to hear me.

She continued knocking and tried to turn the doorhandle, but in vain. "Fine!" She said after a while. "Come down when you've stopped sulkig for whatever reason. There's someone here that I want you to meet."

I sighed heavily and stood up. I walked over to my mirror and looked at myself and realised that I really needed to brush my hair. It looked like I had been thrown around in a tornado.
I was dressed in a purple, cosy, big pyjamas and noticed that I still wore the socks from the day before.

Yesterday I had left their apartment and gone home only to regret my life choices and fall asleep to the sound of my head thumping. I could almost remember the pain.

I'm sure It took at least twenty minuites for me to dress and unlock the door. But instead of going downstairs where my parents were with some other person, I kept going forward down the short corridor to the bathroom to fresh myself up and take a pill for the remaining headache.

Who could that someone that mom mentioned possibly be? A final check on my hair and one pull on the blue blouse I was wearing and I was ready to find out.

I tried to sneak down without them noticing me to take a look before introducing myself. It didn't seem like they heard me but as I was about to turn by the edge of the wall to peek I almost bumped in to someone walking my way.

"Oh I'm sorry." A woman said and I replied with a silent "No no..".
I had never seen this person before. She was a few centimeters taller than me and semeed to be around my mothers age. She wore tight jeans and a suit jacket, you could also see that she dyed her hair brown not to long ago because it had this unnatural strong color.

The woman smiled and continued past me towards the bathroom. I slowly walked over to my parents sitting by the table in the dining room and sat down on one of the chairs.

"So who's that lady?" I asked. Both of them looked happily surprised, but not because of my question, but because of the woman. "She is your aunt. My sister." Mom said.

Well I had a guess that that was the case since she wasn't asian and neither were we. Also when she apologized earlier her accent was kind of odd.
"And her name is?" I asked while hinting my mom not to stop but instead keep going with the information. "You don't remember?" She asked in disappointment. But how should I know? It's not like she had ever told me.

Before she could answer my aunt came back and I stood up straight right away to politely introduce myself. I was ready to shake hands with her when she came in for a big hug. "Oh my god!" She began. "Look how much you've grown!"

It wasn't an uncomfortable action but it wasn't comfortable either. A good thing was that this aunt of mine seemed to be very nice so her tight hug didn't bother me.

"Last time I saw you you were only a baby." She said and pinched my cheeks, and I knew she enjoyed it because everyone does. All I managed to say through the streched mouth of mine was a simple "Hello".

She let go of me and took a step back. "Well, I don't know if you remember me." She said and glanced at my parents with all the right in the world. "But my name is Charlotte".
I nodded and replied with my own name and a discreet bow.

"So what brings you here, Charlotte?" Dad asked and took a sip from his cup of coffé that he held in his hand.

Charlotte's smile grew wider and she went and took out a folded piece of paper from her bag that stood in the corner of the room that she then gave to my dad. "I'm actually here because of work but since you live so close I stopped by."

Dad unfolded the paper she had given him and it turned out to be a big poster.

"You're setting up a business gala?" He asked after reading a few words from it and then we all stared at her in amazement. I recalled that mom had mentioned we had successful relatives but someone doing these type of huge projects? Wow.

She checked her watch and then grabbed her bag from the floor. "I'm sorry that I can't stay longer, but I'll visit you again some other day when I'm not as busy."

Yeah. I thought. I only met her like five minuites ago.
But that was partly my fault since I took such time coming down here.

Charlotte told us to keep to poster so that we could continue admiring her and I couldn't help but chuckle when I saw the puzzled expression dad made.

When she had said goodbye and closed the front door behind her I turned to my parents. "She's cool." And said that I wanted to know more.

They later told me that since she wasn't married she instead put her carrier before almost everything and that she had become something of a name in the world of events.
She also lived in our home country but traveled around the world a lot because of work.

I took the poster laying on the table and read it. I noticed that there were no date or any other important information written on it and that confused me untill I turned it upside down and saw that it said "Unfinished".
That believably meant that not everything was done yet and that they hadn't published it.

When I walked up the stairs again I felt my phone buzzing in my pocket.
I took it up and saw that I had gotten a text from an unknown number.

10.31
Hey Anna.
I figured since we don't know each other that well we could meet some day and talk? I'd love to know more about you.
Love, Charlotte.

~To be continued~

U wanted some drama?
Too bad for u~

Thank u so much for
the support and love.

I'm really grateful for how
patient you are and I'm
very sorry that I can't publish
more often because of
school and activities.
But that's one of the reasons
why I love you guys!<3

Nawww cute Bae~💕

(p.s something happened when I tried to publish so I had to do it another time)