Kim Jungwoo, known as the unsociable beauty of the campus, paint himself as an ordinary junior college student. But that was just a mask to cover his anxiety-driven life filled with nightmares and self-doubt, which resulted for him to seek for the '...
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I looked at my Sky-Dweller Rolex watch with a smile when I saw that my work was almost finished for the day. After four meetings, I was exhausted and drained but there was something that kept me going, my meeting with Mr. Kim.
By nature, I am a kind person. I never expected people to return the favor or even be grateful for it. I always felt contented that I did something good with one small act because I believed that that small gesture will produce good karma in my life. A cause and effect kind of thing.
But when Mr. Kim told me that he kept my jacket and even had it dry-cleaned, somehow I felt delighted with unexplained joy. That, and also the fact that our company decided to move around the neighborhood where his shop was coincidentally located. I don't know what you may call it, but I thought 'coincidence' was an understatement.
"You look happy today, sir?" Sherry, my secretary from New York, asked me suddenly when she placed several folders on my table.
"Just happy to go home," I lied.
"Right! Have you begun unpacking? Do you want any help?"
"Ugh. Don't remind me of it. I heard based on statistics that a normal individual takes about one hundred eighty-two days to unpack! Can you imagine? It's a pain to move houses,"
"That's why you need to get into a relationship! You need to get a girl and help you out," she said with a smile.
"Or I can call for a moving company to help me out," I replied uncomfortably. I looked at her heart-shaped face and saw a hint of disappointment passed on her eyes. I believed Sherry, my secretary has a little crush on me. We've been working together for almost two years now. Ever since she was assigned to be my subordinate she's been making subtle 'moves' here and there. But I always brushed it off with a smile or a joke and never lead her on. I have a strict code of professionalism and I won't let a horny secretary ruin what I had built up over the years. "Are these all the proposals I need to look into?" I asked her as I shifted through the folders.
"Yes. It needs to be sorted out before the general meeting next month,"
"I'll have this finish next week," I replied to her as I stood up from my chair. Then, I gathered my phone on the table and grabbed my black jacket from the stand, and shook it out. "I'll head out now. I have somewhere I needed to be," I told her as I held the door open as a sign that our conversation was over.
"Oh, right! The team was thinking if we can have a team dinner tonight, sir? Since it's a Friday?" she added.
"Ah! I can't. I'm meeting up with someone then I'll go straight home,"
"Okay, no problem, sir! I'll tell the rest of the team then," she replied as she walked out of my office.
