Memory

Chapter 14

Few days passed, and Young Joon's housing area is raining heavily day and night. Hee Joo is still there in his house, looking out the window in the guest room she is sleeping. At the moment, there was a knock on the door.

"Hey, dinner's ready. Come out now." Young Joon counters as he stands outside of the room, holding the doorknob. Young Ji didn't seem to be responding and her eyes were focused to the rainy roads, not realizing his presence.

"You okay? It's like you're having deep thoughts." wonders counters Young Joon and walks up to her and soothes her. For a moment they were quiet, only the rain drops sound can be heard clearly.

"I just... I don't know why is it so hard for me to remember. For these few days I tried to recall everything but nothing pops up in my head." Young Ji responds in frustration, as if she had lost her mind out of it.

"Don't be so hard on yourself to remember. Things takes time, right?" Young Joon assures in comfort, calming her down. It was hard and aching for him seeing her like this. He knew she must be the woman he's looking for all this time, and he didn't want to scare her away from him. For him, having this different named woman of Hee Joo's look alike is enough, that's what he thought.

Some time later, Young Ji seemed to finally cooled down after weeping over her amnesia. She joins Young Joon for dinner that had been prepared minutes ago. That moment comes to silence again. The food chewing sounds surround them on the dining table. Young Ji suddenly looks up to face Young Joon.

"Hey uh, I wanna ask you if you have any other stuff of your fiancee's in here." she blurts out. It was surprising for him that she suddenly asks for Hee Joo's stuff when she had been aggressively denying herself as his fiancee since the day they met. It almost choke him.

"I might have...? I'm not entirely sure. I'll check it out later for you." he replies hesitantly. She might have starting to realize she is who I think she is. Thought Young Joon hopefully. It kind of excites him knowing she starts to get warmed up about being Hee Joo herself, kind of.

After almost digging out the entire house for Hee Joo's belongings, he carries a box with her name labelled in front of the box to Young Ji's room, just as Young Ji herself have been waiting while looking at her phone.

"Here it is. A box full of her stuff. I hope what you can find in there might help you any way." Young Joon mutters and shrugs.

"Thank you, I'm sorry for making myself a burden for you to help me with this." says Young Ji feeling a bit guilty.

"And letting me stay here," she added. No words come out from Young Joon's mouth to respond her but he nodded and smiled instead.

Just as he left her room, she quickly unwrap the box and started to rummages the stuff inside. She stopped as she saw a photo frame that somewhat to be the engagement of Young Joon and Hee Joo. She grabs for it and leave the box open for a moment to look at the photo.

"Could this be me?" she questioned as she rubs her index finger to the glass of the frame. She looks at it that seemingly she had all the features of Hee Joo's face. Just as she is about to put back the photo frame, she noticed something that caught her attention on the photo.

She saw a familiar figure behind the tree where the crowds gathered in a spot of the engagement party. She looks closely and realization hit her. Her jaw dropped in disbelief as she had realized Jin Woo knew them for a long time. Looking at the looks of him hiding, what seemed to be angered and determination in his eyes on something unknown. Young Ji quickly runs around the house, looking for Young Joon frantically.

"Young Joon!" she exclaims and she heads downstairs, almost trip herself. At the same time, Young Joon startled at the shout and dropped a book on his hand. Young Ji finally reached to him, looked like she was sweating from running around the house.

"What is it? What's with the scream?" he asked, feeling bewildered. She sits beside him and show him the photo frame of his engagement party. For a moment, he looks at her a few times, wondering what is wrong with the picture.

"May I ask what am I looking at here?" he asked, feeling even more confused.

"I noticed that Jin Woo was in the picture when you were partying, which apparently he was hiding behind the tree. I was wondering, did you invited him to join you for the engagement party?" she speaks.

"No, I didn't. I knew that if I were to invite him that day, it would make it awkward between he and Hee Joo, since they were... um, exes." he replied, still confused to all this. Young Ji felt a heavy weight crushed down inside her.

She got up from the couch and silently went up the stairs, speechless. What is on her mind right now? He wondered, watching Young Ji walking up the stairs in a disappointed expression. 

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"Come on, pick up the phone, Young Joon." uttered Mi Jung in frustration. Considering that Young Joon didn't appear to office these few days, Mi Jung felt worried (like any other women like her would be). She starts to get rage and eventually she throws her phone beside her.

"Would you just calm the heck down? You're just making the situation worse." Jin Woo speaks as he lights up a cigarette and smokes. Annoyed by the cigarette smoke, she smacks his shoulder hard. He squeals in pain and gently rubs his shoulder.

"What was that for? Geez."

"You don't smoke in my office, asshole. Don't you know smoking would kill you?" said Mi Jung almost sounded she was being sarcasm.

"I know that you being a complete bitch would kill the entire workers in this company," he replies and laugh. She smacks him again, pissed off of him. Eventually he throws away the cigarette and drink bourbon that was served on the table.

"We gotta do something about Hee Joo matter. If we don't act fast, sooner or later that girl would remember what had happened that day." voiced Mi Jung, leaning on the sofa, thinking. Then suddenly she turns to Jin Woo.

"Don't you know where your fiancee's whereabouts? Aren't you worried?" she asked.

"Of course I don't know where she had been to. And hell, you'd think I'm not worry about her? Ever since we quarreled, I'm scared that she might leave me." he responded, ruffling his hair anxiously. For a moment, they went quiet. Mi Jung suddenly realized something.

"I think Young Ji could be at Young Joon's house. Only he's the one she would look for, especially about recovering her memories." She said as crosses her legs.

I can't lose Young Joon to that girl, never. I want him and only him. She thoughts as she drinks the remaining drink in the shot glass.