After office hours, Noah straightly went to a small restaurant past his office to have some beer all alone to cool off his frustrated mind. He was grumpy for the whole day after hearing about Luna's Jeju Island trip with Alex.
"Damn that creepy jerk! He went with Luna all alone! And she didn't even pick up my call... Am I so incompetent for her? All my efforts, all my sacrifices... It doesn't mean anything to her! F*ck my stupid heart!" He was blabbering all by himself as his mind was going dizzy from drinking...
"Sir?"
Noah flinched with the call and saw Soo-Ha was standing behind him with a curious gaze.
"Ohh? Miss Soo-Ha? Why are you here?" Noah was quite surprised by the unexpected meet as he inquired her gently.
She slowly walked to his table anxiously. "I came here to drink and cool off my stress. But why are you here in such a small restaurant?" She reciprocated his question quite firmly.
"Woah really? Even I am here too for the same reason! Whenever I feel sad and lonely I always come to drink here!" Noah responded to her slowly with a sad smile on his face.
Soo-Ha's heart ached again unconditionally to see him in a despair state... "Are you sad and lonely today, sir?" She asked him.
Noah was getting quite tipsy with the drink effect. "Yeah... I was all alone so I came here... Do you want to join me?" He interrogated her gently as his eyes seemed with an urge to getting rid of the loneliness.
Soo-Ha sighed a bit with his question. "Okay, sir. I will join you!" She smiled kindly at him while taking the opposite seat to him.
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Luna's POV:
It was around 8 pm. I was walking towards the beach being absolutely irked about what happened today to calm down my puzzled mind. Honestly, I was surprised to see the fragile side of Alex and was thinking about it all day. To develop such a phobia, a person has to undergo severe physical as well as mental pain... So, is his scar on the right hand related to all these?
With my sad eyes I looked up at the sky, it was a full moon night... The beach was shimmering with beauty in the moonlight. I saw a couple walking on the beach holding their hands affectionately... Somehow it reminded me back in Yesan while I used to wait for Ji-Hoo's holidays to visit a beach... My life was so simple as well as happier...
"Found you!" A gentle voice startled me from behind.
I turned back and it was Alex, standing with his compassionate smile... He was holding a bunch of beautiful buckwheat flowers in his right hand.
I stood there all silently gazing at him while he slowly approached me.
"I knew, you would be around the beach to seek calmness! I was looking for you in the hotel..." He spoke very tenderly as he was glancing at me.
"Why?" I asked him while being lost in his dense eyes...
He smiled at my query a bit. "Here, I picked all these flowers for you. I wanted to give you all these as a token of my apology for today's rudeness!" He responded abruptly while handing me the flowers.
While watching the beautiful flowers in moonlight, my heart unknowingly fluttered with his warm approach. I looked at him with my sad eyes before accepting it.
"I also have something to admit as you said... Yes, I have claustrophobia. I am all empty from inside and that's why I can't define emotions and feelings... But the way you held my hand firmly while I was breaking down... It made me realize again how special you are for me... Can you hold me someday again if I break down in pain?" He asked me very softly while his eyes seemed in despair...
The heartwrenching confession throbbed my heart in ache as I was lost in his eyes in the moonlight... Slowly I took the flowers from his hand with a sad smile on my face. They were picked with utmost tender, I could sense that.
"Do you know if you give buckwheat flowers in the moonlight to someone, it means the person is the most precious one in your life... And in my life, you are the first person I have looked to as a woman... I don't know anything about feelings, but my heart always beats whenever I think about you... I just wanted to let you know that... For me, you are broken but the most beautiful one..." His eyes were filled with tears while he was opening his heart to me affectionately...
I quietly stood and stared at him being emotionally laid back as he looked through my broken soul perfectly. My heart was aching so much as he deliberately looked similar to my lost love...
(Phone ringing)
Alex took out his phone and gazed at it for a while with an anxious look.
"Miss Kim, I need to take the call, please wait here!" He walked away slowly up to a distance to pick up the call.
I was glancing at the beautiful flowers he gave me with a painful smile... Even Ji-Hoo always used to give me handpicked flowers. How can two different people born in two different times be so similar?
I watched him from afar as he seemed very stressed while talking over the phone. Instantly a man wearing a black cap passed by me towards Ji-Hoo. The man seemed very cryptic as the way he was walking towards him.
Suddenly, in the moonlight, I saw something horrendous! The man was carrying a gun! And he was walking towards Alex firmly... Maybe, he had targeted him!
My soul shook in fear! What's this? Why is this man approaching him?
"Mr. Choi? Mr. Choi!?" I called out Alex deliberately but he didn't even listen to me as he was busy on the phone.
The strange man soon realized that I have noticed his gun while turning back at me. His eyes looked extremely dark and vengeful. He started to walk towards him more hastily!
Damn! What am I gonna do? How can I stop him? He will harm Alex! I was panic-stricken.
Without thinking of any second thought, I desperately started running after him! I need to reach Alex first! Even if I need to jump in between them I will gladly do it! But I need to protect him! I can't see him dying in front of me...
"Stop it right there! Stop! Noooooo!
ALEXX!" I screamed loudly with my voice choked in fear...
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(Gunshot Sound)
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