"I'll wait for you to pick me up tomorrow don't forget!" Aera's message made Do Yun's phone blinked.
Aera had somehow managed to persuade Do Yun in picking her up tomorrow. And she was quite excited about it. Do Yun looked at her message and kept his phone in his pocket to go back to his room.
"Ah!" He wailed suddenly as he clenched his eyes and held the door of his room.
"Mr Do Yun! Are you okay?" Hyun Soo asked as she held onto him.
He slightly shook his head and replied in a low voice,
"It-it suddenly hurts a lot."
"Let me take you to your bed." D Yun nodded
It was almost closing hours of the cafe and Hyun Soo was about to leave. They were almost entering his room when Joon interrupted,
"Let's go I'll drop y-"
"Oh sorry! Didn't see that coming. You okay?" He quickly went near and checked Do Yun from head to toe.
"I-'m fine, you-you may go now Ms Hyun Soo." Do Yun got rid of Hyun Soo' grasp.
"But-" She looked at him being worried.
"It's already late." He didn't give a chance for her to speak further.
Do Yun knew that she wants to avoid him and so he didn't want her to feel that he was taking his health as his advantage of keeping her near.
"Mr Do Yun-"
"He said he is fine so...let him rest, Hyun Soo." Joon kept his hand on Hyun Soo' shoulder assuring her.
Hyun Soo nodded still being hesitant as she walked a few steps away from Do Yun.
"Ms Hyun Soo!"
He again called her out and Hyun Soo quickly turned around as if was waiting for him to call her.
"Be careful on your way." He looked at her and uttered monotonously.
Without waiting for her response he turned to go inside his room. While Hyun Soo stood there for a bit more to just to assure herself that he was all okay. As he laid down on his bed she sighed in relief and Joon again requested,
"Shall we go now?"
They both left the cafe. While Do Yun settled on his bed and looked at Hyun Soo going out. He has decided that he'll confess his feeling tomorrow, on Sunday in the evening to Hyun Soo. Little did he was afraid that what if...Hyun Soo doesn't feel the same then his confession will only bring more awkwardness and distances between them. But there was nothing else he could do, so he had decided to take a chance.
He lied down on the bed and his head hurt again,
"Ah!" He wailed again.
And as he closed his eyes he suddenly remembered his yesternight chat with Aera. He chuckled at how tipsy she was and how foolish she looked but then he remembered what she said,
"why...did you take favour from Sang Hyeon?"
"You've been living all these years in her cafe and she treats you as her son. Isn't this an unnecessary favour?"
"I dunno why but today I feel a bit afraid for you, what if...Sang Hyeon isn't how you've been thinking all this time."
"What does she meant by that? Aunt has always been nice to me but-but this is because- because she treats me as his son." He thought.
"This won't work. I-I have to ask Aera about it." He mumbled and got up.
Covering himself in a thick overcoat he went out in the chilly night. Little he felt that he is being tailed by someone but he had no time to tackle that person.
He went on his way and quickly took the first cab he saw and headed towards Aera's home.
He had many questions to ask and his growing restless wasn't letting him relax even for a second.
"Please drive fast, I'm in a bit hurry." He requested the driver.
The cab sped up and soon he reached the studio apartment in which Aera lives. He ran over the stairs even though his legs ached but he didn't care at all. He needed answers today and nothing could stop him.
He stood there in front of the door thinking that it was Aera's house. He knocked twice, but to his surprise, there was no response. Thinking that she might be sleeping he rang the doorbell. But there was still no response.
Here Min Jong who was following Do Yun according to his promise to his master, stood far away down, hiding behind one of the parked cars. He wondered what he was doing outside someone's house in the middle of a night.
It was all silent when all of a sudden Do Yun heard tires of a car screeching down on the road in front of the Aera's apartment. As he turned around and looked down he saw spot a girl stepping out of it.
Wearing an angelic blue coloured body con dress and fluorescent neon pink heels. Her hair was golden brown and blew along with the chilly wind.
Do Yun looked at her and he quickly recognised who she was and being surprised he barely whispered,
"Aera!"
He climbed down the stairs as he looked at Aera who was attending a call.
"Yeah! It's up to me. I went to find her background as you said, and I think she is somehow connected with the incident that took place twenty years ago. Her father died the same day on which the incident took place." She claimed.
Do Yun went towards her slowly when all of a sudden she said,
"I'll call you back Mr Yun."
She then quickly grabbed the collar of Min Jong from behind who was hiding. She made him lie on the ground, twisted his arm which tried to attack her. He was now facing the ground.
He tried to fight her using his power but Aera was more powerful than him. As he tried to freeze her hand with his power Aera picked up a nearby stone and manipulated it into a nail and dug it slightly into his neck.
"Ah!" He wailed.
As he begged her to leave him
"Who are you?" She asked as she pinned him down with her one knee on his back.
"You were at the hospital too, that day."
Do Yun looked at her powers which he never knew existed in Aera and mumbled as he walked closer to her,
"Just like me?..."
"Ah! Ah! Let me go!" Min Jong begged and in return Aera prod her knee more hardly in his back.
"I asked, WHO. ARE. YOU!" She yelled.
Her eyes were stuck on the man lying on the ground until she heard some steps approaching her. As she turned her eyes to her left she saw Do Yun standing looking at with his monotonous eyes while frowning slightly.
"Do-Do Yun-ah?" She stuttered as she let the man get rid of her grip.
Min Jong, on the hand, ran away as soon as he got the chance.
"Wha-what are you doing here?" She asked as she tugged her hair behind her ears.
Do Yun kept looking at her without uttering a single word.
"I-I can explain all-"
"Shut up!" Was all Do Yun said and his eyes looked at her weapon which she was holding manipulated from a useless stone.
She trailed his gaze and quickly threw the stone nail away from her.
"Do Yun I-"
"Since when you've been lying to me? Since when...you've been hiding all this from me?" He asked.
"Do Yun please-"
"Do I even know you?" He looked at her with his eyes holding contempt.
"Listen-" She took a step further but Do Yun stepped back making her stop.
"Who...are you Aera? Why are you here?..."