Woo-hyun was a busy man, day and evening. If he got here to see her within the meantime, he would have barely slept. As if that thought was right, his face was fairly haggard. Nevertheless, his eyes have been clear and reassuring.

It had been a very long time since they confronted one another like this. Yoo-hwa, who had been hesitating with out understanding what to say, opened her mouth.

“Thanks for taking me residence. So long.”

It was an oddly easy goodbye that she thought of for a very long time.

Luckily, Woo-hyun appeared to have understood what it meant. That she didn’t intend to inform him to return inside, and that she hoped they might separate right here.

Woo-hyun stared at Yoo-hwa along with his eyes lowered. He didn’t have something to say, nor did he appear to be he was enthusiastic about something. After protecting silent as if he have been holding on to time and stretching it, he lastly opened his mouth.

“I’ll come again tomorrow.”

It was a goodbye that wasn’t as gentle because it appeared.

“… Yeah.”

Yoo-hwa barely managed to reply as she choked on her feelings, then rotated and entered the password. After that, she opened the door with the important thing in her pocket and went inside. She may really feel Woo-hyun’s gaze till the door closed.

Thud.

The door closed, however Yoo-hwa didn’t enter the home and leaned towards the door. In contrast to how she casually got here inside, she couldn’t take a step.

She wanted a while alone to suppose. She didn’t wish to convey Woo-hyun residence but.

In contrast to these ideas, her physique was caught to the door and didn’t transfer.

This is able to be the closest place to the skin world, and Woo-hyun.

Leaning towards the door, Yoo-hwa quietly leaned her ear towards the door and listened.

She couldn’t hear the footsteps shifting away.

She was faintly relieved by that truth.

***

She wakened on the feeling of brightness exterior, and the contemporary air of daybreak surged by the window. She checked the time with half-closed eyes, and it was a bit of previous 6 within the morning. She turned and tossed for a very long time as a result of she couldn’t sleep, and when she did go to sleep, she wakened immediately. As she raised her torso, the white cover was stained blue within the daybreak gentle.

She met Woo-hyun yesterday.

As she stared blankly on the truth she thoughtlessly realized, she felt nervous. Yoo-hwa swept the blanket with the palm of her hand. The dry and chilly sensation of the blue-colored cover, which resembled the ocean, was clearly conveyed by her pores and skin. She felt unusual as a result of it had been a very long time since she had skilled this.

Yoo-hwa left the mattress when the sunshine of daybreak retreated, and the white gentle got here in. Because the morning had come, she headed to the toilet with out hesitation as a result of she thought she couldn’t dawdle anymore. She took a fast bathe and dried her hair with the hair dryer, however she didn’t know what to do now.

She opened and closed the cupboard and checked out her telephone as soon as. There have been two textual content messages on the telephone.

[I will pay you tomorrow for the work you did until now. Thank you for your hard work.]

Though she didn’t put it aside, she knew who it was as a result of she had memorized her boss’ telephone quantity.

[I hope you live well.]

It was a quantity she was seeing for the primary time, however it gave the impression to be Seong-woo for some cause.

A baby who cared about her and stored glancing at her, saying that she overlapped along with his personal sister who dedicated suicide.

Yoo-hwa contemplated and responded to Seong-woo.

[I’m fine. I’ll be fine, so don’t worry.]

After sending it, she obtained up. She modified garments and thought of merely going to the mart. She felt unusual, as if there was a wind on her thoughts, and her coronary heart was pounding, so she couldn’t keep at residence in any respect. And with nice timing, her fridge was additionally empty.

Grabbing the notepad the place she wrote milk, cereal, kimchi, and many others., and her pockets, Yoo-hwa opened the door and her coronary heart nearly dropped.

She noticed Woo-hyun leaning towards the railing of the hallway, the place the hazy morning solar was hitting, along with his arms crossed. Though he was extra exhausted, he was quietly taking a look at her with even clearer eyes. In contrast to Yoo-hwa, who nearly fainted in shock, Woo-hyun wasn’t shocked in any respect, as if he had heard her popping out, and gazed at her.

With out realizing that her mouth was open, Yoo-hwa glanced at Woo-hyun up and down. The soiled knee, the black jacket, and the sneakers she noticed yesterday.

He regarded precisely the identical as yesterday.

Come to consider it, whereas leaning towards the door final evening, she hadn’t heard Woo-hyun’s footsteps shifting away till she obtained up. She thought she hadn’t heard the sound of him shifting away as a result of he was good at hiding his presence, however he didn’t appear to have moved from right here from the start.

“… You didn’t depart?”

“I couldn’t.”

The returning voice was hoarse. Yoo-hwa swallowed dry and stared at Woo-hyun, after which dropped her gaze to the ground.

“Then aren’t you going to sleep?”

“I can’t.”

“…”

“As a result of I can’t get up.”

She stopped respiration as he mentioned he couldn’t sleep as a result of he was afraid of it being a dream.

She was the identical.

In contrast to what she was considering, her mouth blurted out one thing totally different.

“I used to be on my method to the grocery retailer.”

At that, Woo-hyun checked out his wristwatch.

“It’s nonetheless early for enterprise.”

When she checked her telephone after listening to Woo-hyun’s phrases, it was a bit of over seven o’clock within the morning. She got here out of the home unaware of the time as a result of it was vivid.

As a result of when she was at residence, her coronary heart fluttered.

And Woo-hyun stored fluttering within the wind of her coronary heart.

“That’s proper. I see. I got here out with out even understanding it.”

Yoo-hwa replied with a relaxed expression.

“Are you… Are you going to remain right here?”

It was solely after she mentioned it that she realized her query was unusual.

“Yeah.”

However Woo-hyun answered the unusual query as if it was one thing apparent.

“As a result of that is the place closest to you.”