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Ga Eul looked up and gasped. It was a certainly familiar face to her. It's the same guy who asked her out 2 years ago. Brandon Schmidt. He's a handsome guy and girls actually fall for him in an instant with just his charms. He's a blond guy with blue eyes. He's absolutely gorgeous. His family is also in hotel and restaurant business like Ga Eul's so their companies usually meets in conferences. He's perfect guy but Ga Eul just didn't think of him that way. That's when Ga Eul first met Brandon. They always bump into each other in conferences in New York and then one day, Brandon asked her out. Ga Eul thought that Brandon was just being friendly but it became a lot more as the days go by so she limits her responses to him. He's very persistent though so she cut their connections and changed her number for the first time.
"Brandon?" Ga Eul said with her British accent. Yes, Brandon is a British man but he also speaks a lot of different languages like Korean, Japanese, English, Spanish and Chinese so that's why he understands Korean.
Ga Eul turned to Shin Hee with a questioning look. She just responded with a shrug. "Uhm… Sorry, excuse me. I'll leave you two." Shin Hee bowed and went outside.
"Hi Ga Eul." Brandon said in Korean. "Don't worry. I can understand Korean, remember? So you can talk to me in your language."
"Oh, yes… I forgot about that, sorry." Ga Eul paused and looked down on her documents so that it would look like she's concentrating on signing them. "So what are you doing here?"
"Well, I have some meetings here in Korea so I just dropped by to visit you." He said in a friendly tone although Ga Eul still didn't feel comfortable with him around. "So Ga Eul… Why haven't you contacted me? It's been two years since we last saw each other." Slowly, he walked to Ga Eul's desk and still, she continued signing her documents without taking a look at him.
"Yeah… I've been busy lately." Ga Eul simply said while trying so hard not to sound nervous. Somehow, she feels that something wrong's going to happen.
"Hmmm…" Brandon nodded and took a few steps closer. He leaned on Ga Eul's desk with his two hands supporting his weight. With that, Ga Eul looked up to him and saw his eyes looking at her directly. "So, can I ask you out tonight?" He said, still maintaining his friendly tone.
Ga Eul gulped as she drowned herself in his gorgeous blue eyes. She tried to concentrate on what's happening but she can't bring herself to look down. "Uh, sorry… But I'm busy today. I have a lot of things to do."
Brandon raised an eyebrow with the look of fear in Ga Eul's face so he smirked. "Uhuh… And what are those things, if I may ask?" He leaned closer, his face just inches from Ga Eul's.
Meanwhile, outside, Yi Jung just arrived at the restaurant holding peonies in his hands. It's Ga Eul's favorite flowers. He was late. Ten minutes late to be exact so he hurriedly went inside and walked straight to Ga Eul's office. He found Shin Hee outside and smiled. "Is Ga Eul there?" Yi Jung asked.
"Yes, but she— Wait sir!" Shin Hee was interrupted when Yi Jung opened the door slowly right in time when the man said, "And what are those things, if I may ask?" The tone of the man's voice is quite… wrong. Yi Jung saw the man leaning closer to Ga Eul and she was clearly afraid of what the man's going to do as she leans her head backwards. Yi Jung felt his blood boil and banged the door. The two immediately look at him.
"Hey!" Yi Jung shouted, anger obvious in his voice. He tightened his grip in the flowers he was holding.
Smirking, Brandon stood straight and faced him. Ga Eul stayed quiet in the background as she saw Yi Jung's angry face. She was still frozen about the things that happened. It was so sudden that she didn't know how to react.
"Oh, and who might you be?" Brandon asked in an irritated tone but he kept his cool and just smiled at him.
"So Yi Jung! Her boyfriend! So back off!" Yi Jung replied angrily without thinking. Ga Eul widened her eyes and felt her heart beat faster. What the hell is Yi Jung saying?, she thought.
"So Yi Jung? Oh… I heard a lot from you from Ga Eu years ago… But I can't remember her telling me that you're her boyfriend." Brandon said thoughtfully. He tried to remember what Ga Eul always told him about Yi Jung. "You're the famous potter, right?"
"Yes." Yi Jung said through gritted teeth.
"Nice to finally meet you then. I'm Brandon Schmidt." Brandon held out a hand but Yi Jung didn't take it. When Brandon realized that Yi Jung's never going to take it, he put down his hand and smirked. "Okay… I guess I need to go now." Brandon said and turned to look at Ga Eul who was still looking at the both of them. "Ga Eul… I need to go now. I hope we can catch up on things… Well that is…" He glanced at Yi Jung's direction. "if you're boyfriend allowed you to. Bye then." Brandon finished and took Ga Eul's hand. He kissed it and winked at her. Ga Eul felt her cheeks hot and looked away from him. She looked at Yi Jung who was watching like a hawk to the both of them.
Slowly, Brandon exited the room but before completely exiting, he stopped beside Yi Jung for a brief second and said, "I don't care if you're her boyfriend. I swear I'll take her away from you." And then, he walked out.
Yi Jung still felt angry and was taken aback at what Brandon said to him that he didn't notice Ga Eul stand up and went to him. Ga Eul waved her hand in front of him and Yi Jung snapped back to reality in an instant. She glared at him for a moment and crossed her arms in front of her. "What the hell did you just say to him? Boyfriend? Really, Yi Jung… What the hell happened to you?" She glared at him again. When Yi Jung just looked down and stayed silent, she continued her rage. "Oh, why did you have to say that? You could just tell him that you're a good friend of mine or something." She snapped.
"Well, he wouldn't stay away from you when I say that. He would still bother you endlessly." He mumbled.
"I can very well handle that, thank you very much." She said sarcastically. Yi Jung looked at her with his right eyebrow raised. Ga Eul sighed. "Okay fine. I can't." She said, defeated. "But still, I can't believe you said that! What's gotten into you?"
"I… I don't know…" Yi Jung stuttered. Ga Eul sighed.
"Yi Jung-ah! He will surely tell Omma or Appa about that! The press will know. Everyone will find out! Yi Jung! Augh! You ruined my peace! Everything will be a mess!" She shouted at him furiously. She glared at him again and felt her hands balled into a fist. Yi Jung badly wanted to say sorry but he can't bring himself to speak up. It's the first time Ga Eul shouted at him like this. He looked at her and she was in the verge of tears.
"Get out!" Ga Eul said and pointed at the door. Outside, she can see all her employees looking at the scene wide-eyed. It's the first time they saw their boss angry.
"Ga Eul-yang…" Yi Jung started.
"I said get out! I don't want to see your face anymore!" Ga Eul screamed. Reluctantly, Yi Jung obeyed. He bent down to put the flowers down before walking off. His feet were heavy but he continued walking, afraid that once he turned around his tears will start to fall carelessly.
Ga Eul's face softened as she saw Yi Jung's back slowly fading in front of her. She instantly felt guilty for shouting at him like that. She looked down and saw the flowers Yi Jung brought. Peonies. Her favorite. Suddenly, she felt something wet on her cheeks. Tears? Why is my heart throbbing?
She wiped her tears quickly and closed the door of her office. She picked up the peonies and turned to smell it. The flowers are obviously freshly picked and it didn't help when she knew that. She trembled and collapsed on her knees.
Oh, Yi Jung… I'm so sorry…
That day, her mind thought of only one person. So Yi Jung.