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As promised, here is another chapter from this brand new story. I would really like to read what you think about this story so review, please!
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Chapter 2 - Unexpected
A few days before Eun Jae's wedding, Woo Bin was practically certain that something was going on. Ga Eul had cancelled all her trips to the coffee with him, saying she had to study. Whenever he called, she was always in a hurry to end the call and was never quite good humored. He missed their long talks. Since Jun Pyo and Yi Jung were away, he had no one else to talk with. Except Ji Hoo, but he was so busy with his work that Woo Bin didn't want to bother him. Jan Di was still mad at him, although a little bit had already been forgiven, for drinking nonstop and having such a lecherous life. She had understood that he had been hurt but, she shared Ga Eul's opinion that he hadn't been told the whole story.
So the only person with whom he could talk openly was Ga Eul. He had discovered in her the same thing that Yi Jung had, when he had fallen for her: her immense characteristic of finding good in everyone, even the in the worst people, where he had pictured himself. There was just something in Ga Eul that made her want to believe in happy endings and happy ever after, and Woo Bin had caught himself wonder how that should feel.
With that said, he stepped out of his car, parked in front of her apartment and rang her bell. Her voice answered, in the intercommunicate machine, outside her building:
- Hello?
- Ga Eul-yang. It's Woo Bin. Can I come up?
- Sunbae! Oh! Oh, ok! I'll meet you in the stairs… - she said, visibly perplexed, still opening the door to the building.
"The stairs?" Woo Bin thought. "Why the hell in the stairs? Why can't I come over to her house? This was getting strange…"
With amazing speed, he almost jumped up the steps to climb until her apartment. She had moved out her parents' house after graduating from high school and was now living in a brand new apartment (Yi Jung liked to call it "Their Refuge") near her school.
As he was arriving, he ended up meeting her closing the door, behind her. Woo Bin made a run for her, that she did not foresee and stuck a foot between it, grinning mischievously at her.
- Sunbae! What are you doing?
- You've been acting kind of strange, lately…
- Me…? Me? – she stuttered. – I don't know what you're talking about…
- Oh, I think you know… are you going somewhere?
- As… as a matter of fact, I am… I need some things from the grocery shop. What to join me?
- Dressed in your socks? Do you want Yi Jung to kill me for letting you go sick a few days before his triumphant return? - observed Woo Bin. She was definitely strange.
- Of course not! I was… I'm going to get my shoes…
- Can I come in?
- NO! – she shouted. As he expected.
- Ok, now. What's going on here, Ga Eul-yang! And I demand an answer!
As if on cue, from inside Ga Eul's apartment came a voice:
- Ga Eul, is that you? Have you brought the soy sauce I asked you?
Ga Eul didn't need to lift her eyes up to see that Woo Bin had recognized the voice, due to the sharp intake of breath he had just took. Feeling ashamed, she quickly said:
- I'm sorry. I really am… but she didn't want…
- … Me to know. – he completed. His gaze was fixed in the door knob, no courage to raise itself up.
- Ga Eul? – said the voice once more.
- Coming! – she shouted and then turned to Woo Bin. – Wanna come in, now? You guys could talk and…
- Ga Eul, she made you promise secret, didn't she? – he asked with a sad smile on his face. – It's okay, I understand. You're her friend.
- And I'm yours too! Sunbae, please… if you'd just talk…
- Who is that Ga Eul? – came the voice, even nearer from the door. – What is taking you so…
Woo Bin lifted his eyes up and finally meet his with the ones from the person inside Ga Eul's house. As he was, he could see she was also surprised to see him there. Swallowing hardly the lump that had formed in his throat, he picked up his courage to say, in the most neutral tune possible:
- Hello, Jae Kyung. It's nice seeing you again…
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