"Why is the door locked?" Sooyoung scratched her head. Yuri's door didn't want to budge when she turned the knob. "She never locks her door."
"Call her," Jessica said impatiently.
"Yuri! Open up, it's Sooyoung and Sica!" Sooyoung called, knocking hard on the door. A moment passed by, but not a single sound could be heard from the other side. Sooyoung then turned to Jessica. "What now?"
"I don't know..." Jessica whispered. A very bad feeling rose up inside of her all of sudden. She couldn't explain where it came from, or what it could possibly mean, but she knew the answer was probably just behind this very door. "She didn't tell me where she went when she left me this morning. But knowing her, I thought she could only go to Iustit."
"If she's not here now, she will come soon, then," Sooyoung said, sounding more confident than she actually was. "She can't disappear when work is a mess. You weren't able to change her that much."
Sooyoung's smiled awkwardly, attempting to lift up the mood. Jessica gradually smiled, too.
"Let's go have some spicy noodle for breakfast. We can watch Iustit's entrance from there, so we'll see Yuri once she arrives. And," the shikshin let out a small sigh. "-I'll treat you. Just this time."
Jessica, despite the anxiousness, couldn't resist this offer. Not when it was spicy noodles. The two girls had just turned around and were about to leave when--
"Good morning, ladies."
A voice, not so familiar to Sooyoung but too familiar to Jessica, greeted them jovially. This caused both girls to stop dead in their tracks, turning around in an instant. The door to Yuri's room was already open, and in the doorway stood the last person they'd expect.
"K-Kwon Jiyong--?!"
"What a surprise, Jessica." The young man smiled, amused at her reaction.
"What are you doing here?!" Sooyoung, just as shocked as Jessica, shouted at the person standing in the doorway.
"Come in first," Jiyong said before stepping aside, gesturing the girls to enter.
Despite of the bewilderment, Sooyoung and Jessica complied. Kwon Jiyong's presence could mean no good, Sooyoung was definitely aware of that. But she believed if Yuri had really let Jiyong in, her best friend must have had a reason. The tall girl already had an idea what that reason could be, but be her assumption right or not, she knew Jessica wouldn't be happy. It was possible that Yuri had called her grandfather to seek for help, trying to save the Jung Enterprise. If it was the Yuri three months ago, Sooyoung would never imagine her to ever want to see her family again for any reason. But then, Jessica came and she had changed Yuri so much. Now Sooyoung didn't have the slightest doubt Yuri would do everything for her girl, even if it's begging the family she had purposely distanced herself from years ago.
"Calm down, Sica." Sooyoung whispered into the blonde girl's ear, seeing the still horrified look in her eyes. It was like Jessica had seen a monster, not her ex.
Sooyoung glanced at Jiyong, spotting him looking at Jessica with the same smile from earlier. Her eyes then wandered around the room while she wondered where Yuri was. Everything looked normal in this office, Sooyoung realized. The only thing that was wrong, and by wrong she really meant wrong, was that instead of Yuri, her hated cousin was present.
"I bet you're wondering where Yuri is."
Kwon Jiyong broke the silence as he closed the door and made his way towards Yuri's desk. He walked around it and slumped into the chair, twirling one round. With an eyebrow raised, he looked at the two girls who were still glancing all around the room.
