Diaries of a Distance

Chapter 38

"Yura, where do you want to go?" I asked her after a while.

"Somewhere high."

"Where would that be?"

I could see her head turn to me. "Don't you know your way around here?"

I took my eyes off the road for a second. "Don't you know your way around here?"

"How long do you think I've been here? Chsh..."

"Where did you live before then?" I questioned her.

She paused before replying, "Incheon."

"Incheon? No wonder you don't know your way around here."

"You live in Seoul and you don't know your way. What rich boy's car doesn't have a navigator?"

"Mine."

"I know that", she retorted.

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"You should have stopped if you didn't know the way", Yura wailed.

I gave her a dirty. "What? With the way you were edging me on? I just wanted you to get some fresh air."

"Yeah, well it sure is fresh up here", she said.

I ended up driving up a hill since she said she wanted somewhere high. And bout getting down... we were planning to do that tomorrow. It's eight o'clock now and Yura rang home to say she was sleeping over at Tae Hee's house. We were still in our school uniform and standing outside, leaning on my car. Stretched ahead of us were thousands of lights from the skyscrapers.

"If you want to go down there are a thousand ways", I informed her.

"That's OK, I think one night up here would be fun", she said lightly.

I took this chance to investigate her. "Why were you being sulky before?"

"I wasn't."

"Don't lie."

"Don't ask."

I grinned. "It's quite dark up here... anything could happen between a guy and a girl all alone up a hill you know..."

She turned to me and an expression I've never seen Yura could do was put on. She grinned back and her eyes seemed dreamy. "I know..." she breathed. She shifted closer to me.

Wth? Her seductive face looked full of stupid drunkness. I laughed. She laughed. But the next thing I knew, sh1t, she was crying. I crouched lower to see her face but she hid it. She was sobbing gently. I put my arms around her and gently pulled her in to let her sob on my shoulder. I didn't bother her with any questions, she could tell me when she wants to.

[Yura's POV]

It's different and nice of him to let me cry without questioning seeing as he's the I-demand-to-know type. I stopped the tears and exited his embrace.

"You remember about my parents being... assassins?" I asked him, wiping my tears with the back of my hand.

He nodded.

"Dong Wook is my father's best friend's son", I stated.

Jae Wook look surprised. "How did you find that out?"

Damn, dilemma. I can't tell him about going to Dong Wook's house to be his pretend girlfriend... "Shin halmeoni and I make good neighbours and she asked me to come over", I half lied. Well, she did ask me to see her. "And then long story... but I found out."

"You call her 'Shin halmeoni'?" Jae Wook shrugged. "So then... why are you so upset about that?"

I told him about my suspicions and the phone call home.