#20

So one day Jieun decided to go for shopping because she has been confined in the house for so long and wanted to have a free and realxing shoping alone . She then happily reach the store and exictedly visits to buy dress for herself . When she begins to look for a dress, some girls on the other side of the store spots her and assumes the girl from the pictures as she matches the description who was dating jisung So they rushed towards her Shouting and calling her *sluty bitch* ,jieun could see those aggressive girls running towards her from the corner of her eyes . She flinch and quickly runs out of the store to save her life from those girls . She then hid on the ends of the building and decides to make a run and hide somewhere save until someone comes to pick her up . She Runs as fast as possible inside a manga store as she thought that it would be a better idea to keep away from those fans of jisung and Little amount of girls visits a manga store . She then took a seat ,calm herself first and stated to call Mr Kim to pick her up as His office was not so far from the manga store . She dialed his no and he picked up on the second attempt . She started to tell him about what had happened on the store where she visited to buy dress and ended up being chased , And she request him if he could pick her up after he gets free , Mr kim thought to himself as an opportunity to impress jieun so he agreed and replied her that he would come and pick her up after his work is done which would take around One and half hour So she thanked him and gives the adress but before she finishes her word to say bye the battery dies and she sighs . She starts to think about mr kim and blushes and chuckles to herself . While she was daydreaming Someone waves at her face , being annoyed at it she gives him a *what the hell is wrong with you* looks but then realizes that it was mark and she happily hugs him. Jieun asks why mark was here and he replies that He always visits the manga stores secretly wothout letting the family members know or else they would call him useless and immature . Mark asks jieun how she ended up on manga store as he knew jieun was not a person who would read it or visit it in any cost . Jieun with a tired and sad expression dramatically and explains everything she went through in a little time and they begans to laugh . Mark then rushes to the near store and buys drinks , deep fries and chips for them . Mark insists jieun to try and read manga and she gives it a try by choosing a Sad story of a girl who loved a boy who didnt accepted her and ends up loosing her life . They started reading , eating and laugh when there is a funny scene but then at the end of the story jieun starts to sob silently when the girl on the story cried when she got rejected from her first crush Which reminded her of mr kim and her story . 1 hour and 30 minutes passed while reading the story, The story came to an end when the girl Sacrifices her life when the boy was about to get hit by the car while he was listening music and crossing the road with a red light, the boy ends up in the hospital and he recieves a letter from her friend which was left for him, It was as if she knew she was going to die.The letter says she will love him endlessly and would protect him even if he doesn't feel the same way like her and lastly says "Goodbye love". Jieun starts to sob loudly so mark finds her very cute and He suddenly gives a peck on jieun lips which made jieun to freeze in her place and mark just gave her a sweet smile .

Suddenly Jieun hears her name being called in a stammering voice from the doorway revealing Mr kim with a surprised facial expression .

Mr kim: ji...jieun ...di...did you call me to see this ??