Finally at his destination, Mari Hospitals HQ, Yo-han stood at a spot staring at the height of the skyscraper, lost in the 'New age' music oozing into his ears from his headset.
Just the knowledge that Dan-bi is sitting in one of the rooms in the building was enough to ease his worries and they all faded away in no time while he stood on the same spot, staring like a tourist admiring a monument.
He thought about how childish he was for worrying so much and that brought a smile on his cold face while he closed his eyes and engrossed his soul into the ' Journey of the Angels' music by enya that was entertaining him. Lost in his own world on the street of country S not minding what passersby think about his action.
After savouring the moment for a while, he decided that it was time to go. He had a satisfaction already and didn't bother going in to meet Choi Dan-bi. Even though they didn't meet physically just the thought that she is not far away satisfied him and he would not ask for more.
He took a few steps and headed in the direction of the nearest taxi stand unhurriedly.
Unknown to Yo-han that when he was having his short moment, he had been spotted by a certain girl who rushed all the way down the tall building, impatiently shouting his name and running to catch up with him.
Due to him paying all his attention to the road and listening to his music, he couldn't hear her calling him. " Yo-han, wait, wait Yo-Han wait."
After walking not more than ten steps, a hand suddenly pulled the headset away from his head and as a reflex action, he spontaneously and swiftly grabbed the hand with his left hand and raised his right hand to land punches on whoever the culprit is but he froze when he saw the figure standing before him, hiding her face behind her reflexively raised left arm, scared of getting hit.
"Dan-bi, is that you, Choi Dan-Bi??" He looked sad for his reactions because he had scared her with his actions.
She slowly withdrew her arm and her face was now visible. She looked up to the terrifyingly handsome creature standing in front of her, not uttering a word, she hugged him tight instantly, burying her face in his chest.
On the verge of almost getting squashed from the tight hug he managed to voice out an apology. "I am sorry for scaring you, I have no intentions of hitting you, I am not as violent as you may think of me, it was just reflex."
"I understand, I know you don't mean any harm, but I was scared...." she finally uttered her first sentence and hit his chest a few times. She looked into his blue eyes and continued " I ran all the way here, I didn't even wait for the elevator to open before teleporting to the building's exit just to meet you, I have been calling your name but when you didn't answer I noticed you had an headset on so I managed to catch up with you and tried gaining your attention but what I met was a fist flying in my direction, who would not be scared?. Hmmn?"
" I am sorry" he said and he pulled her out of his body to face him before scolding her. " Why haven't you being picking your calls, you didn't even respond to messages, why, do that one more time and I will never care anymore".
" So you do care, ehn?, I did not know you care so much I thought you were ignoring me before, yesterday you didn't come for lunch, why?" Dan-bi asked shyly, a little bit embarrassed thinking back to the night when she kissed him goodnight.
"Ignore you?, I wasn't ignoring you, I had things to do and I could only spare my lunch time to attend to those matters, I even came looking for you after lessons ended but you were nowhere to be found, I called and texted, but you answered non, who is ignoring who here?" Not angry but while trying to explain himself he had gone a little farther from being calm.
"Its not like that, I misplaced my phone while rushing to the hospital yesterday, I was really scared, I was scared of loosing two things the same day, my Granny and you, I could not calm my self, I was really clumsy that I ended up losing my phone." She explained with her throat drying up as she speak.
"What makes you think you are going to lose anything, don't be a pessimist, it won't help, I wasn't ignoring you, why would I?." Yo-Han said assuredly."Moreover you are my manager, what can I do without you?" He said jokingly.
She calmed down when she heard him and became elated immediately. "Aye Master Han, when is the next auctioning, let's make some money!" She exclaimed.
" Have you forgotten the deal, you have nothing to do with my money, just do your job." He said with a wild smile on his face from her exclaimed tone.
She pouted her mouths and wanted to say something else but before she uttered a word Yo-han said " Immediately after school tomorrow meet me at Gong central park. Don't sleep in and don't be late....I am leaving now go back in." He said and ushered her to move at the same time.
She protested asking if she could go with him to where he was heading to. Yo-han thought about her proposition and finally agreed. "Don't complain when you get there, deal?"
"Deal" she replied without giving it a second thought.
She grabbed Yo-han's headset just like earlier and placed it on her head but removed it immediately and handed it back to him because she found the genre[1] strange." Your taste of music is really bad, they sound like ghosts!" She yelled.
"Its your problem not mine, I didn't ask you to join me, and also it doesn't sound like ghosts, they are just humming and chanting" He said before putting the headset back on.
" Thats not fun at all" she commented as the duo walked side by side to the unknown destination.
The two finally arrived at Yo-han's destination. It was the public library which Dan-Bi wasn't expecting, she thought they were going sightseeing like before but fate had to give her only bookworms as friends, she didn't know what to do with this book worm of a friend.
She wanted to convince him to go somewhere else but based on their agreement she decided to mourn her mischief inside her head instead.
She thought it is worst enough that he had brought her here but when Yo-Han fetched some books for himself and did the same for her, she couldnt take the torture any more. "What are this for?, I can't study I am sad remember." She said trying to find a way out.
"We are supposed to be in school by this time, why waste the time, its too precious to be wasted. Study, it will take your mind off whatever makes you sad."
" Its too boring" another excuse.
" Don't you study?, you should have gotten used to it by now"
"I do,...not every time though." Feeling guilty of the accusation, she retorted.
"What if we do this everyday after school work then?." he asked.
"Okay then, but not today, please." She requested with a puppy face which he couldn't turn down.
"Okay, but try to keep yourself busy" he said before engrossing himself in his work.
[1] New age: "Boadicea" by Enya.