Spellbound

audacious

1.

Walking in not-so busy Apgeujong area of Seoul under a sunny April in the middle of people who were busy looking for a place for lunch with their office colleague or co-workers, Lisa slide up her sunnies to the top of her brunette ponytail. People at the office call herLisa or Liz only because her name was mouthful. She's peeking at her wrist,looking at the newest collection of Emporio Armani connected smart watch andslightly looking at her accessories-less fingers. She hasn't married, or evenin a serious relationship at the moment, all sort of drama she had with her twoexes who eventually fizzled out made her take several steps back from dating.Now all she wants to do is to conquer all the life goal she had. 

Stepping on a low stair in front of a coffeeshop ready to push the glass door when her hand meet another hand.

"Oh sorry!" the owner of the hand quickly pull it to let Lisa push the door.

Lisa nodded and smile. Briefly scanning the guy. He's not bad at all, he actually has this sharp, manly features on his face, something rare in this era of pretty boys caused by the boyband fever in South Korea.

She sat on a table and peeking at the watch on her wrist again. 12.05 pm. she snickered to the fact that her companion is late. Her eyes roamed around the coffeeshop before the door opened, but Lisa had to earn another disappointment that it wasn't the one she was waiting for.

She saw another man get into the coffeeshop, looking really good in suit, his face feature is tough but soft, smile bloomed widely to see a certain point. Lisa followed his gaze, the guy who just came fasten his steps to meet another guy, the manly guy who almost bumped into Lisa at the door before—who happen to sit very near from her.

"Hyung!" he said, still with the sweetest smile on his face.

The older guy—the one with a sharp jaw stood up and welcomed him with a warm hug.

They hugged. Still hugging. Lisa is watching because it was a little too long for a friendly hug.

The two guys are now sitting next to each other, their back are on Lisa, it's true that they sat on a couch that facing the street so there's no other way of seating arrangement other than side by side. But you can always find another normal chair, not a sofa that usually occupied by couple... unless... they are couple!

Lisa raised her eyebrows, at this point she has nothing to do except for watching people and sometimes... judging them.

Lisa trying to enjoy her own coffee while texting her friend when suddenly she's distracted by the fact that the younger guy suddenly clutched the other guy's hand.

"I'm sorry, hyung..." he said after their longer conversation that wasn't snooped by Lisa, unfortunately.

"I didn't comeback here only to be humiliated like that." The hyung guy replied.

"No, hyung, you're back because you had to do the duty... enlisted in military." The latter grinned.

"Well, I was discharged four months a go, and I could just go back to Cali, and not here to get those boring, endless advices about love life."

"But I'm powerless here, hyung." The latter whined, "my parents keep asking me to get married and it's hard to push it back again... I've been dating her for four years."

The elder sighs, "do whatever you want."

"You're not mad at me, are you?"

"No... but you owe me the world."