"Uh…" The young man smiled sheepishly, "In your hands, that baby, I'm taking care of him…kinda."
"And you are doing a horrible job at it!" Jiyoon whisper-yelled, "How could you leave a baby a bush, in the cold, at night, alone?"
The young man rubbed the back of his neck, "I had to hide him so he wouldn't get caught in the fight."
Jiyoon's eye twitched in irritation, "How can you even think of fighting when you're supposed to be taking care of an infant?"
"I…uh…" He swallowed a hard clump in the back of his throat, "It wasn't that I was thinking of fighting! It just sort of happened."
"How does fighting just sort of happen, if you didn't cause it in the first place?"
"These guys are just always after me, kinda."
"Then avoid them!"
"But, I can't."
"And, why not?"
"I'm a spy, and I'm supposed to spy on them."
Jiyoon fell to her knees and dropped her jaw in frustration, "What do you mean you're a—"
"Can't you tell by sniffing m—…" Then, the young man wriggled his nose as he sniffed the air.
Jiyoon rose a brow in amusement, "What did you just say?"
"You're human." The young man took a step back cautiously.
"Yeah," Jiyoon nodded, "Why wouldn't I be human?"
"You're really a human—a human being!" The man's eyes widened as he ran his fingers through his hair, "How did you get this far into the woods if you're human?"
"Huh?" Jiyoon squinted her eyes at the young man, "What are you going on about?"
"I mean, you shouldn't have been able to go through the barrier, and—and…maybe I should shut up."
"What are you going on about?" Jiyoon asked again and pursed her lips in curiosity.
"Nothing." The man shook his head and reached his hands out, "Just give me Jinhan, and I'll be on my way."
"Hang on!" Jiyoon held a hand out and thought to herself for a while.
This young man was going on about how she was human and how she shouldn't have been able to go through a barrier in the woods. This woods, was supposed to be a supposed legendary place of magical juju where werewolves prowled at night. She's been hearing howling wolves all night long, basically following her. And, she suddenly comes into contact with some random guy in the middle of a closed off opening in the woods who claims that the baby she found hidden in the woods is his. There was only one logical explanation that she could come up with.
"You're pranking me." Jiyoon spat out and began laughing hysterically.
The young man rose a brow and smiled uneasily, "What?"
"You're just toying with me!" Jiyoon burst into a frenzy of laughter, "It makes sense! My classmates didn't want to give me $50 a pop, so they set up a trap—a prank—and, and they probably know you from back in middle school or something and they asked you to go out into the woods, and scare me! And this baby, he's just your younger sibling or relative that you brought with you to get a kick out of it. And you hid him where I would find this ribbon and you planned to scare me, and oh my goodness gracious you knocked me off my feet and got me! But, I will not lose this bet, and I will return to the rest of my classmates—I mean our classmates, and I will win this bet. And they can suck it!"
"You came into the woods because of a bet for $50?" The young man looked at Jiyoon with a horrified expression, "Don't you know what's out in these woods?"
"Supposed rumors say horrible things about these woods," Jiyoon pursed her lips, "but I am not a believer in such drastic and farfetched rumors."
"You don't believe—"
And then a howl ripped through the air. The young man cursed under his breath and grunted as he walked towards Jiyoon and grabbed her arm pulling her to follow him, a blush crawling up his neck. Jiyoon struggled against him and broke free from his grasp. She tried to run away into the tall grass, but hesitation got the better of her and the young man quickly scooped her off her feet with lightning speed. He climbed swiftly to the tops of the trees and Jiyoon kicked her feet for the young man to release her as she screamed and cursed him out. But, he balanced her and shushed her to stop shouting and listen.
"There's something coming." The young man whispered with a deep blush covering his face, as he held Jiyoon tightly to his chest.
