p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"Emina opened the door to her shoebox apartment, quickly shucked the graduation robes off and they fell to a pile on the floor. Graduation day at the university was long and rather boring, and she couldn't get away from the ceremony early. Her eyes fell to her phone, which had tumbled out of the pocket of the robe and onto the floor, and she remembered what her supervisor at BigHit said; em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Call me when you've graduated, and we'll see about that full-time position./em/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"She grabbed the phone and made her way onto the small balcony of her apartment, jumping the railing onto the rooftop of the flat below hers and climbing up the air-conditioning units so she was seated on the roof of her apartment, letting her legs dangle over the edge. Her little vantage point. A place where she could go to chill, just to watch the world go by. She dialled the number of Youngha's office and let out a breath, watching a police car weave its way around cars with its lights and sirens on./span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""Hello, this is Youngha"/span/em/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""Hey boss, it's me" she smiled and looked over to where she could see the BigHit building a few blocks away. Her apartment would really be in the prime position if Youngha was serious about the job. "Just wondering if you were still holding that position for me"/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""Emina, it's wonderful to hear from you. I spoke with the CEO today, and he is very happy for you to join our company full time."/span/em/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"Emina kicked her legs in joy and lay back against the concrete roof, the setting sun providing a gentle warmth as she stared up above at the sky, happy as a lark./span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""He told me to tell you that he was very impressed by your work, and your full time position will really be what you did during your internship, with other responsibilities added in. If you can come by the office tomorrow, we can start getting things underway. Don't worry about formal dress, as it's only an orientation dat for you. It'll be a half day, so can you start at 9am?"/span/em/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""Yes Boss. I'll see you at 9" she hung up and let her arm pillow my head. A job at Big Hit Entertainment. Home of the legendary boyband Bangtan Sonyeondan. Despite the month-long internship, she never got the chance to meet the boys at all. Her job was purely to provide translations for articles and to do English subtitling for various videos, and Youngha had her working solely with BTS related content. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"The sun had set fully now, just a light strip along the horizon where it dipped, and the lights of Gangnam-gu blazed brightly. Emina sat for a while, watching people go about their evening business. She felt like a god sitting up here. The people the size of ants looking like they could be squashed with a little poke. Eventually she climbed down and set about reheating her dinner./span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"Since her flat was so small, a two-seat sofa served as both a lounge and a bed while the kitchen cupboards doubled as storage space. The stove was disconnected from the gas line since the prices were so high at the moment, and her meagre income from the internship and part time job just covered the rent, bills and food, so she bought a cheap portable gas stove that used cheap canisters to work instead. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"She put the leftover meat in the microwave and set about making some ramen noodles, leaving them to stand while the beef reheated. Once that was done, she tossed the two together, added a splash of sauce, span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanfried onion, and curled up on her couch to eat. As she did so, her phone rang. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Unnieeeeeeee" /ema young female voice floated down the line, a whiny tone quite evident. She sighed. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""What have you done now Bell?"br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" / !- [if !supportLineBreakNewLine]-br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" / !-[endif]-/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"It's not my fault this time Unnie!/em" Bell assured, causing Emina to chuckle. Yeah right. em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;""Jongda ruined the entire cupboard, after I spent all day cleaning it and tidying it"/em/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/em/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""Do you still need me to come and beat Jongda's ass for you, Bell" Emina was laughing heartily now, watching the city lights twinkle out of the window. "You've survived 6 months without me, I'm impressed"/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Thanks but Jongda reallllly gets on my nerves at the moment"/em /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"She heard a door open and shut from down the phone line. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""Is that him?"/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Yes"/em/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""/span/emspan lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"Put him on"/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"There was a series of muffled noises as the phone was passed over, and Jongda's voice grated against her ears. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Noona. Hi"/em/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""Hi Jongda~" she began sweetly. "Do I need to come around and knock your ass into next week for making Bell's life difficult?" she continued in that same sweet tone, fluttering her eyelashes for no real effect. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"What?" /emhe spluttered. "em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"No noona. I'll behave. Come and visit us soon though" /emJongda hung up and Emina pocketed her phone and picked at her ramen. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"She missed her little dongsaengs, making a mental note to swing by the university and say hi. She put the bowl down by the sink, slipped into some pyjamas and pulled the blanket over her. em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Fuck pulling the bed out and making it/em, she thought. As she slowly slipped into sleep, eyes on the lights of Gangnam-gu, she smiled. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"I wouldn't change this for the world. /span/em/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"She grabbed the phone and made her way onto the small balcony of her apartment, jumping the railing onto the rooftop of the flat below hers and climbing up the air-conditioning units so she was seated on the roof of her apartment, letting her legs dangle over the edge. Her little vantage point. A place where she could go to chill, just to watch the world go by. She dialled the number of Youngha's office and let out a breath, watching a police car weave its way around cars with its lights and sirens on./span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""Hello, this is Youngha"/span/em/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""Hey boss, it's me" she smiled and looked over to where she could see the BigHit building a few blocks away. Her apartment would really be in the prime position if Youngha was serious about the job. "Just wondering if you were still holding that position for me"/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""Emina, it's wonderful to hear from you. I spoke with the CEO today, and he is very happy for you to join our company full time."/span/em/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"Emina kicked her legs in joy and lay back against the concrete roof, the setting sun providing a gentle warmth as she stared up above at the sky, happy as a lark./span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""He told me to tell you that he was very impressed by your work, and your full time position will really be what you did during your internship, with other responsibilities added in. If you can come by the office tomorrow, we can start getting things underway. Don't worry about formal dress, as it's only an orientation dat for you. It'll be a half day, so can you start at 9am?"/span/em/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""Yes Boss. I'll see you at 9" she hung up and let her arm pillow my head. A job at Big Hit Entertainment. Home of the legendary boyband Bangtan Sonyeondan. Despite the month-long internship, she never got the chance to meet the boys at all. Her job was purely to provide translations for articles and to do English subtitling for various videos, and Youngha had her working solely with BTS related content. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"The sun had set fully now, just a light strip along the horizon where it dipped, and the lights of Gangnam-gu blazed brightly. Emina sat for a while, watching people go about their evening business. She felt like a god sitting up here. The people the size of ants looking like they could be squashed with a little poke. Eventually she climbed down and set about reheating her dinner./span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"Since her flat was so small, a two-seat sofa served as both a lounge and a bed while the kitchen cupboards doubled as storage space. The stove was disconnected from the gas line since the prices were so high at the moment, and her meagre income from the internship and part time job just covered the rent, bills and food, so she bought a cheap portable gas stove that used cheap canisters to work instead. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"She put the leftover meat in the microwave and set about making some ramen noodles, leaving them to stand while the beef reheated. Once that was done, she tossed the two together, added a splash of sauce, span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanfried onion, and curled up on her couch to eat. As she did so, her phone rang. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Unnieeeeeeee" /ema young female voice floated down the line, a whiny tone quite evident. She sighed. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""What have you done now Bell?"br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" / !- [if !supportLineBreakNewLine]-br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" / !-[endif]-/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"It's not my fault this time Unnie!/em" Bell assured, causing Emina to chuckle. Yeah right. em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;""Jongda ruined the entire cupboard, after I spent all day cleaning it and tidying it"/em/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/em/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""Do you still need me to come and beat Jongda's ass for you, Bell" Emina was laughing heartily now, watching the city lights twinkle out of the window. "You've survived 6 months without me, I'm impressed"/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Thanks but Jongda reallllly gets on my nerves at the moment"/em /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"She heard a door open and shut from down the phone line. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""Is that him?"/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Yes"/em/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""/span/emspan lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"Put him on"/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"There was a series of muffled noises as the phone was passed over, and Jongda's voice grated against her ears. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Noona. Hi"/em/span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""Hi Jongda~" she began sweetly. "Do I need to come around and knock your ass into next week for making Bell's life difficult?" she continued in that same sweet tone, fluttering her eyelashes for no real effect. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;""em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"What?" /emhe spluttered. "em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"No noona. I'll behave. Come and visit us soon though" /emJongda hung up and Emina pocketed her phone and picked at her ramen. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"She missed her little dongsaengs, making a mental note to swing by the university and say hi. She put the bowl down by the sink, slipped into some pyjamas and pulled the blanket over her. em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Fuck pulling the bed out and making it/em, she thought. As she slowly slipped into sleep, eyes on the lights of Gangnam-gu, she smiled. /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;" /span/p
p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Noto Sans KR Regular',sans-serif; color: #1f3864; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"I wouldn't change this for the world. /span/em/p