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Warning: Alternate Universe

Summary: Right after Jun Pyo regains his memory, Yi Jeong loses his in another car accident. But this time, he forgets that he doesn't date nice girls. What happens when Casanova thinks that he's a one woman man, and that Chu Ga Eul is the only girl for him?

REMEMBRANCE

III. Tactics

"Is he still there?" Ga Eul bit her lip nervously, clutching the phone to her ear so tightly that it hurt.

"Yes he is," Jan Di hissed back into the phone although there was no way that Yi Jeong could hear her in the kitchen. "It's been an hour already! You need to come in now or I'll be stuck alone with the dinner crowd."

Ga Eul resisted the urge to stamp her foot on the ground. What she really wanted to do was stamp on So Yi Jeong's foot and push him back into his fancy Lotus car. Why did he have to make things so difficult? But she couldn't let her problems affect Jan Di. "Alright, I'm coming back. See you in a minute."

Taking one last gulp of her coffee, to fortify her nerves, Ga Eul paid the bill and walked round the corner. Five minutes later, she was at the shop. As she pushed open the door, Yi Jeong, comfortably ensconced in a corner table alone, smiled and waved at her. He looked so smug and cheerful that Ga Eul made a face at him, if only to cover up the fact that in spite of her frustration with him, he still made her heart skip a beat.

He chuckled and then went back to reading the book he held.

"Has he been doing that the whole time?" Ga Eul whispered to Jan Di as she put on her apron.

"That, and looking at his watch. And occasionally smiling to himself," Jan Di replied, handing a tray of food to Ga Eul. "I take it the two of you are now playing a game of Catch me if you Can?"

"Well I wouldn't be hiding if he'd stop hounding me."

And that was the last of their conversation as the dinner crowd swarmed in. In between taking and serving orders, Ga Eul found herself casting glances at Yi Jeong when he wasn't looking. Why oh why did he have to look so…

"He's so cute! Maybe I should go and introduce myself," squealed the young woman she was serving and for the first time in her life, Ga Eul was slightly tempted to maim a customer.

Gritting her teeth and wishing for the umpteenth time that Yi Jeong would go away and leave her in peace, Ga Eul resigned herself to his presence for the rest of her shift. She couldn't have expected to avoid him indefinitely. The first three days had been a resounding success. She had managed to leave school slightly earlier and avoid him when he came to pick her up from school. All text messages and phone calls had gone ignored and she had hidden in the kitchen or swopped shifts with Jan Di to avoid him at the porridge shop. Until he had wised up today, she thought sourly. But then again, he was smart enough to have realised that this was the only way of catching her, even if it meant wasting hours of his day. Maybe he had been waiting to see how long she would continue like this?

………………………………….

"Okay, so the plan is that we'll take the bus home together, right?" Ga Eul anxiously reminded Jan Di as they cleaned up the kitchen and kept their aprons.

"Yah, don't worry. I won't let anything happen to you. I should speak to Gu Jun Pyo and ask him to keep an eye on Yi Jeong sunbae. I know this is hard for you." Jan Di patted Ga Eul's shoulder comfortingly and both of them exited the kitchen.

"Jun Pyo sunbae?"

"Gu Jun Pyo!"

"Yah, finally you come out. Why are you always so slow? You'd be fired from Shinhwa if you moved at this pace."

Both girls stared, mouths slightly opened even as Jun Pyo came forward and rather unceremoniously grabbed Jan Di by the arm and began dragging her out.

"Who wants to work for Shinhwa with you there?! You'd be an awful boss—Hey! I promised Ga Eul I'd go home with her. Stop! Gu Jun Pyo!"

Ga Eul could only watch as her safe ticket home disappeared rapidly from view. Jan Di tried once to open the door but she gave up when Jun Pyo revved the engine and his Lotus roared to life and out onto the road. She didn't have to turn around to know that Yi Jeong was smirking.

There was only one reason why Jun Pyo would show up and that was because Yi Jeong had called him. "Please go away, I don't like you at the moment," Ga Eul said flatly as she headed to the counter to grab her bag. Which was missing. For a moment Ga Eul felt like pulling on her hair; she was so frustrated at being thoroughly outmanoeuvred.

"I've put your bag in my car. C'mon, I'll drive you home."

On the other hand, she could always pull Yi Jeong's hair. Narrowing her eyes, Ga Eul briefly contemplated the prospect of Yi Jeong without his lovely locks but gave up when she realised that he would still look as handsome as ever. God had not been fair to the rest of the human population when He made the former.

"I see where you learnt your Cro-Magnon behaviour from," she muttered as she put on her seatbelt. "Or did you teach Jun Pyo sunbae to treat girls that way?"

"I'll have to admit that Jun Pyo taught me that one. But then again, I've never had to resort to that until you. You're a hard lady to get hold of, Ga Eul yang." He smiled at her and Ga Eul resolved to avoid looking at Yi Jeong. One day though, she was sure his smile would not weaken her knees.

"Why don't you leave me alone?"

"Why don't you stop refusing to go out with me?"

"No!"

"There's your answer Ga Eul yang."

He was going to pester her into submission. Breathing in deeply, Ga Eul tried to calm her nerves. At least with the pre-amnesiac Yi Jeong, she knew what to expect. With this Yi Jeong, there was no telling what he would say or do. And it was havoc on her heart. Without his barriers, she was more vulnerable than ever. And she was not used to protecting herself from him, not this way. 'Oh, who am I kidding? He doesn't have to pester me into submission. I'll crumble like the proverbial cookie before he's halfway done."

She looked so worried that under any other circumstance, he would have felt sympathetic. Now though, Yi Jeong felt inordinately cheerful. He could sense that eventually, Ga Eul would accept him. It was just a question of whether it was sooner or later.

"Where are you taking me?" She suddenly asked, her face close to the window. He could see her reflection clearly, the way she was biting on her lip. Suddenly Yi Jeong's head was filled with thoughts that he'd rather Ga Eul knew nothing about and he turned away, focusing on the road.

"We're going to the new park, the one in the middle of the city." It was like a mini-version of Central Park in America but it was fully lit up, and a lot more secure. The trees were hung with golden lights all year round and Yi Jeong thought that Ga Eul would prefer a walk there to a fancy dinner somewhere else. Besides, they had both eaten in the shop.

Her daydreams were coming back to bite her on the behind. She had imagined Yi Jeong and herself talking long romantic walks there countless times and now that it was becoming a reality, she was becoming a bundle of nerves. Omo, what if this encounter ended the way it did in all her daydreams?

"Ga Eul yang, are you blushing? You look a bit red." Apparently he wasn't the only one with those kinds of thoughts. Okay, Ga Eul wasn't quite in his league. She probably stopped at kissing. Yi Jeong was looking forward to giving her more than kissing to think about. One step at a time, he reminded himself.

"I'm not! I'm just…cold." Covering her cheeks with her hands, she felt the burning warmth on her fingers and knew that she hadn't fooled him. To her great relief, he pulled into a parking space and she hopped out, eager to put some distance between them.

Yi Jeong locked his car and then walked towards the park. "Aren't you coming? It's still early; I'll have you back before ten o'clock."

He was so presumptuous sometimes. What if she had homework?

"I know you have no homework. I checked with your classmates."

"You did what?!"

"Oh, I forgot to mention that earlier."

"Why did you do that?" If her voice got any higher it would qualify as a squeak. "Sunbae! Answer me," she demanded as she hurried after him. "Do they know who you are? Did you tell them?"

He grinned. "I didn't have to. They recognised me."

Tomorrow, she would have an avalanche of rumours and gossip to deal with. Even if she denied that they were involved, by then there would be so many wild stories spun that the truth would be buried and ignored.

"They're going to think we…you…me…"

"That we are dating? Now whatever gave them that impression? But no harm done, especially since you aren't dating anyone in school."

Ga Eul's mouth dropped open. Was this part of a ploy to label her as his?

"Now this type of Cro-Magnon behaviour I taught Jun Pyo," he quipped when he saw that she realised what he had done. "Now come on, don't just stand there. We need to talk."

Heck yes, they had plenty to talk about. His ears would be burning by the time she was done.

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