Before//Book 1

🕖Chapter 36🕖Day 2

🕖Daegu - 10:00am🕖
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A fluffy touch on my face wakes me up. "Mhmm" I groan at the source.

"Wakey wakey."
My eyes adjust to the light and the outline of Mr Hyungs features loom over me.

"Oh , wow good morning." I smile hazily, a bit shocked at how close he ia to my face.

"Look so, me , the wife and your man are going out for a family day today, we'll be back around eleven-ish, we're just going out together and then down to a restuarant and look we would invite you but-"

"No I get it," I smile reasuringly. "Your a family, go and do what familys do." I laugh.

He tips his hat to me. "Right well, we'll be off soon. Now, don't worey because you'll have all of tommorrow to do whatever you two want to do and we won't be in your way!"

I stretch my arma above my head as I sit up, realising I fell asleep on the sofa.
"Thats ok, thanks Mr Hyung." I smile blissfully. I feel extremely tranquil today after last night. It felt like we were an old married couple who had been together for years and were dancing away to old love songs in our kitchen. It made me feel at peach.

I enter our bedroom to see Tae putting on his coat. I pout and frown at him to make me feel bad for me.

He pouts back as he opens his arms for me to hug. I hug him tightly and close my eyes as I breath in his deep scent.

"Have a nice day okay?" I tell him as I observe his upset face.
"I'll try." He sniffs as he puts the strap of his small leather bag over his shoulder.

"And buy me something won't you?" I joke. "Pah."

I follow them out to the porch where I hold Tae's hands and give him a small kiss goodbye. "Don't forget my present." I whisper.

"Oh surely."

We both laugh . "Bye." Tae smiles as he brushes a bunch of stray haird from my face when the wind puts them there. He steps down the porch to join his parents and waves slightly before they start walking off.

"Bye." I call after them.

I smile and laugh to myself as I watch the three bodies slowly turn to dots as they head off into the distance.

Oh well, a whole day to myself and nothing to do. I haven't been alone a single day over this holiday so suddenly being all alone is strange for me.

I walk around the too clean house and explore Mr and Mrs Hyungs bedroom which I never did before. Nothing lays out except clothes for tommorrow and some deodorant.

The bathroom only has toothbrushes and tootpaste tubes out now.

The fridge is empty and the cuboards too.

My room is as bare as it was when I first got here. Theres no sign that anyone lives her anymore. I think about the next family who will get this house. Will they even know what happened here? Probably not, its my life not theirs. I don't know what could have happened in here before I got here.

I finish packing my suitcase and choose what to wear tommorrow and leave it out on my bed. I hear the clock ticking as I walk around the clock. Its so still. So quiet, dead and gloomy.

I decide to make use of my day and grab my camera. I snap a picture of the window I first seen Tae hanging out of.
The first night we talked.

"This is where I met you." I smile to myself as I narrate my Summer story.

"We came here a lot," I snap the huge cherry blossom tree . " We got to know eachother here."

I stroke the silky flowers and smell their buds.