Chapter 29

In Ara's bookstore, the junior trainee boy put his mask on and stood up from the cashier table after sending back all the customers from that lightroom.

He walked towards the switchboard, switched off the light, and came out of the store.

He turned back to shut the main entrance, but it was opened with no door, so he was shocked. "Where is the door to this store?"

Then he looked left and right and noticed the broken wooden door. So he took it and leaned it over the main entrance. Then he walked along the sidewalk, where the street light gave off brightness.

The sun rose, and Dae-Seong's car arrived in front of Ara's house. When he looked at Ara's side, she was sleeping peacefully, and he turned to Do-Yun, who was also napping.

So Dae-Seong halted the engine sound gradually and put his elbow on the steering wheel. As that hand's palm blocked his chin from falling, he turned his whole upper body towards Ara, who was sleeping with her head leaning on the seat.

The dawn sunlight was falling on the car as he admired Ara's sleeping beauty.

Meanwhile, Do-Yun and Ara were squealing from sleep at the same time. So Dae-Seong turned back to his position quickly, and they woke up with a little sigh.

"Oh, we came!" Do-Yun cheerfully said this as Ara looked at her bookshop.

"Thank you, Dae-Seong!" She said this, getting out of the car and shutting the door.

Dae-Seong drove the car toward their dorm.

Bitgaram's tensed face muttered as he walked out of his room, "Where did they go for the whole day?"

Bitgaram asked as soon as his gaze looked at them entering, "Our works are still in progress, where were you guys going for the whole day without informing us?"

Dae-Seong replied to him while moving towards his room, he didn't even turn to him or halt his foot. "Let's do it after I bath!"

And Bitgaram turned to Do-yun, who had already entered his room, and shut the door.

"These guys!" Bitgaram groused as his gaze shifted to Dae-Yun, who was coming out of his room, squeezing his sleepy eyes and yawning broadly.

At Ara's house, she was bathing inside her restroom. After she completed bathing, she was drying her hair as she casually walked towards the window.

At the time, She shuddered and bounced back with a raised heartbeat as she noticed her neighbourhood grandfather peeping in suddenly from the window.

After her senses realised that he was her neighbourhood grandfather, she relaxed her breath and yelled, "Why are you peaking?"

"You came!" Grandfather surprisingly voiced his concern and put breakfast on her table after coming inside.

"Don't come like this often!" She warned him.

He twisted his lips and frowned at her, so she toned her voice like she was requesting, "Please, don't do this!"

Then he nodded satisfyingly and got off the stairs.

After having breakfast, she came down to her store and opened the main door. The sun's rays passed through the door, and the shadow of book layers fell on the polluted floor.

She sighed after she turned to check the book layers, so she moved towards the place where she always placed the broom.

Then she started to clean the place from the stairs to the main entrance, cleaned the front entrance too, and watered the flowers.

When she was about to finish watering, two dogs (her friends) entered the store and sat near the door by their heads, facing her frowning glare as her hand was still holding the watering tool.

After that, she moved to her cashier's table. And sat on the chair with a deep, spilled sigh towards those dogs.

Her eyes widened in wonder, her glamorous eyes glowing more in amazement at seeing her drawer filled with a lot of money that she had never seen in her whole life.

Her wondering voice remained as she touched the money gently, "Is this real?"

"Wow, so much money!" Her mesmerised sense took that money in her two hands as her spellbinding glance beamed at the money.

She collected it carefully as she ferreted around the area in fear. She ran up to her house like a tiny mouse running away while holding food in its hand. She screamed in a whisper while her excited foot was stepping inside her house, "I got so much money!"

The noon passed, and the sun kept spreading heat around the earth because it was only 3:00 PM.

Ara was sleeping at her cashier's table soulfully, not minding anyone around her.

Her head was on the table, which was the most comfortable sleeping position for a sitting position.

A few minutes later, a young man who had a thin, tall body in a comfortable dress covered his half face with a mask and put on a hat too. He stepped into Ara's store as his silky eyes saw her once, and he moved directly towards the book layers and searched for a book.

Ara's face was visible to him as he peered through the cap between lined books.

Those dogs lifted their heads at him, seeing him once from a sleeping position, but didn't bark at him or act aggressively; they stayed silent and went back to their sleep.

He kept looking at the sleeping Ara, and his hand didn't search for the book.

Half an hour passed, and he was standing right there, his gaze still looking at her.

At the time, the opposite store owner, who had a thin body, was the same height as him, and had soft little big lips that suited his handsome face, casually noticed the weird person had been standing in the same place for a long time at Ara's store.

That opposite store owner's worried eyes checked once at all his customers who were in the process of selecting books, and no one came to the cashier's table to scan the book.

So he rushed to her store by crossing the empty, narrow road.

He went into Ara's store and asked the young man, whose focus was fully on sleeping Ara and who wasn't even aware of who was standing next to him, "What have you been doing here for a long time?"

That young man rubbernecked at him, and his silky eyes narrowed at him.

The opposite store owner furrowed at him and raised his voice a little bit. "Are you going to rob her?" and tried to grab his hand and tie it behind his hip.

But before his hand touched him, that young man knocked on his wrist, which made it more painful to lift the hand, and looked down at his nose scornfully.

He moaned in pain as he held his hurt hand and glared at that person.

"I'm not a robbery boy!" His deep voice sounded like a warning to him.

The opposite store owner confusingly squeezed his face and growled at him, "Then why are you spying on her?"

As he rolled his eyes without answering him, the opposite store owner kicked his knee.

As he fell, kneeling, the opposite store owner tied his hand behind his hip. And then he smirked and gloated, "I know how to fight too!"

Then the young man moaned in pain. Those dogs were watching them only and didn't do anything, and he shouted lightly as he was concerned about her sleeping, "I'm her friend!"

"Let go of me!"

But the opposite store owner didn't trust his words, so he pulled him out of the store and pushed him out by standing at the entrance.

That young man frowned at him as his mind's voice warned him, "Don't do anything stupid, she hates you now." he sighed as reality hits him and bit his teeth angrily, tightened his wrist, and glowered at him.

"Go away from here!" The opposite store owner yelled at him.

Then the young man moved from there.

He turned to those dogs that were watching him, and he hissed at them furiously, "She feeds you well."

"Can't you even keep her safe?"

They put their faces down like they were going to sleep and didn't even mind his fury.

So he bit his bottom lip in anger as he rested his hands on his hips.