Dreaming Alone
-Chapter 8-
Saying A Lot In Anger

"It's not my fault! I missed my train!" Julia argued.

She was getting really agitated now, she was trying to explain but they spoke very limited English and still had traces of the French accent. She was trying to explain what the Euro-rail tour actually was, undisturbed by the speeding, scarlet sports car.

Jin saw the distressed Julia, arguing with the officers, he took of his sunglasses and grinned mischievously. Without thinking of opening the door, he jumped out of the car, as it had its roof down, then came hurtling towards Julia shouting-

"Oooohh! DAARRRLIIING!!!" he stopped running until he was near Julia and embraced her roughly. "Oh! My darling, my sweetheart, oh my baby, I missed you sooo much!"

He was still holding her until he looked at the officers and thanked them.

"Officer! Thank you, thank you!" he grabbed both officers' hands, whom were torn with amusement and admiration. He took out his passport from his breast pocket.

"Paglo, paglo! Oh, yeah- Passporto! Moi Mr. Kazamo, et-er- elle á Mrs. Kazamo!" he thrust his passport, just flashing his name, then grabbed the now shocked Julia, he muttered quietly to Julia whilst holding a delighted grin in place. "Where have you trapped your self?"

The officers both agreed trying hard not to burst out laughing and took off, whilst Jin was embracing Julia. The police car sped across the road until finally disappeared. Julia finally freed herself from Jin's grasp pushed him onto the side of the road.

"How dare you touch me!" Julia burst out angrily. "How could you touch me? Who do you think you are? What do you think of yourself? I told you not to follow me! What the-"

Jin wasn't used to any girl shouting at him, he walked towards Julia menacingly.

"Shut up, shut up!" He cut across her, "What do you think of yourself, huh? I wasn't following you and neither have I any desire to touch you!"

Julia tossed her fringe out of her eyes, she was quite embarrassed so she kept her gaze low.

"It was thankful that I came on time, because you had made your programme to go in! Firstly I help you and then she, ugh- OY TAKE HER!" he shouted at the police-car-free road.

She hung down her head and froze on the spot, she was about to argue back only to see that Jin wasn't there any more, he'd jumped back in his car. He reversed right beside the spot Julia was standing under, he accelerated, but to Julia's hidden surprise the car didn't start. Jin was sitting patiently, waiting for Julia. She shook her head and smiled, the things he would do. He could be alright sometimes, Jin, really.
She got into the car, still smiling, and miraculously, it started. Jin, whilst steering, cast one surly glance towards Julia, who was avoiding his eyes.

"I'm sorry," she said quietly shelving her pride. Jin grinned, looking at her in amazement.

"What did you say?" he joked.

"I'm sorry," she repeated once more, "I said a lot of things in anger."

Jin chuckled appreciatively looking at the road ahead of him again.

"Oh never mind, Senórita! In big countries, little mistakes happen!" he smiled slyly.

Julia breathed a sigh of relief, then asked him the question on her mind.

"What's this Senórita, Senórita business?" she questioned.

"My first girlfriend was from Spain," he said shakily.

"Why did she leave you?" Julia asked wide-eyed, in what would be an innocent voice.

"Erm...she didn't think much of Japanese people," Jin replied stonily.

"Oh," Julia said gazing at the beautiful green trees trotting by.

"But you like Japanese people, don't you?" he asked in mild concern.

"When will we get to Zurich?" Julia asked.

Jin chuckled, "Oh what is there in Zurich, real Europe is this!"

He waved at the pristine scenery around him, turned to face Julia and then began more softly.

"So beautiful, so pretty!" he was still gazing at Julia and speaking in that soft voice, "Sometimes, I fear that it might get spoiled!"

Julia turned to look at him, and then he snapped out of his trance.

"Er, you here for the first time?" he asked, hastily changing the subject.

"Yes," Julia replied. "Could you please drive faster?"

"What's the hurry Senórita? We have to catch the train tomorrow, so we have plenty of time!" he said calmly, no sooner were the words out of his mouth the car gave a final sigh and went into coma.

"Hehe, Europe looks prettier on foot anyways!" Jin gave an apologetic grin.

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"There's only three of us in the house, my mum is more like a friend than a mother, so I've never felt the emptiness of friendship!" Julia smiled whilst walking on the sidewalk in the shade of the cool forest greenery.

"Well, you can't depend on your friends your whole life, Senórita," Jin smiled. "You need a partner who is always there for you in life!"

Jin walked forward, yet Julia had fallen behind.

"I can't walk anymore!" She gasped, really tired.

"What should I do? Carry you?" Jin sneered sarcastically. " Look, right now I don't have enough money for a hotel- lets try and see if we can have a place at that house for the night."

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"So we can move in now?" Jin asked happily at the man who accepted, then he cooed sweetly at the baby in his hands, "Oh baby, coochie choochie! Thanks!"

***

"Wow, what a beautiful room!" Julia awed at the large room.

"YES! BED!" Jin gasped jumping at the soft king-size bed.

"Which room is yours?" Julia asked Jin.

" Ah...the situation is...we only have one room," Jin replied awakening from his dream state.

"And you're thoughts are that we are going to spend the night together in one room?" Julia hissed.

"We have no choice," Jin replied, hiding his smile.

"We do! I'm not staying here for a minute!" Julia said, walking away from the fire and grabbing her hand-bag.

"Don't worry, you can calmly sleep on the bed, I'll take the sofa! No problem!" Jin said happily.

"No way! I'm leaving!" Julia snapped.

"Ok bye!" Jin happily plopped his head in the quilt.

"I'm not joking you know! I'm really going!" Julia said, shocked.

"What? You mean I can have all his bed to myself? Good and goodbye!" Jin got up and then dug his head in the pillows after he'd finished.

"Ok!" Julia cut in, "bye!"

She stalked off while Jin waved and a muffled good-bye was heard.

***

Julia fumbled with the matches, gave up and threw them. She heard whistling - a hopeful tune, but it was only Jin. Jin came in slowly and looked around, it was a dark stable with hay and wooden doors. The floor was just ground. He took his back-pack off then began taunting Julia.

"WOW! What a beautiful room," He mimicked in Julia's high voice, he looked at the large planks holding it and ran a finger down. "How clean and lovely it is!"

He gave a fake cough as the dust seared in his eyes. He went to the partly boarded up window and grabbed the ripped dirty cloth as it was doing the part of the curtain.

"And the view...oh, it's wonderful, don't you think so?!" He mimicked sarcastically.

He trailed his feet and the bag to the center where Julia was sitting. He slumped himself next to her.

"Really, you have have wonderful taste Senórita! People should look up to you for advice, ne?" he snapped snidely. "We had such a great room, but you'd much rather spend your night here than with me in that room, oh god I- I hate girls!"

Jin rummaged inside his bag and brought out a packet, but it was obviously a burger, he handed it to her.

"Here, eat!" Jin commanded.

"I'm not hungry!" Julia' s eyes were mere slits and her mouth was in a pout, her voice slicing the now night air.

"Ok, don't eat!" Jin dropped the burger next to her, unnerved by her expression, "What do I care?"

Jin was playing with his banjo. It was a lovely tune yet an angry Julia was sitting shivering by the now roaring fire crackling merrily. He stopped playing and walked over to her. He opened the burger packet and motioned for her to eat, yet she still refused.

"Look, I-I'm sorry," Jin began quietly.

Julia's eyes widened in shock and amusement.

"What did you say?" Julia said, her turn to taunt.

Jin shifted uneasily.

"Look, I said a lot in anger," Jin said keeping his gaze low.

Julia looked at Jin, then she saw the sincerity in him. She smiled warmly at him.

"It's alright, in big places like this, mistakes like this happen!" Julia mimicked Jin.

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