When Your Pain Becomes Mine

32. A week ago

A few days later, in the new Kids Fan Office.

The office was filled with a variety of office supplies.

"It's spacious and comfortable. It's good."

Ari seemed satisfied.

"Should we have come sooner?"

"Really? How could you say that now?"

Eunyoung glanced at Sun and said.

"Saying 'good' just means that it is good. I don't think it's wrong to say something's good if, in fact, something really is good."

Ari, looking displeased, said while pouting her lips.

"By the way, we haven't seen Mr. Woo these days. Is he around here?"

Upon hearing Ari's question, Sun slowly shook her head.

After their parking lot rendezvous, she hadn't seen him for a few days.

"Maybe he has been in shock. Is he suffering from a panic attack?"

Ari, hearing the whole situation from Sun, asked carefully.

"Usually, people like him get shocked by little things. I mean, she ripped his hair off after all."

"No way…"

Sun remembered the moment she pulled his hair.

"The more perfect a person is, the weaker their mentality is."

Sun sighed with a firm expression.

Every single day, he used to contact her, but he hadn't called her for a few days. That got on her nerves.

'Knock. Knock.'

Then they heard a knock on the office door.

"Good morning."

Ojae was the one who opened the door and entered.

"I'm here to check out the event items that will be included at the orphanage campaign."

"Does the assistant manage the event product too?"

Eunyoung asked, seemingly in doubt.

"Most of them are in the MD department or on the planning team, and Kids Fans are in our special care."

"Oh..."

Eunyoung nodded.

"But, where did he go?"

Ari interrupted the conversation and asked.

"Oh, he has gone somewhere."

His trip had to be kept a secret from outsiders, so Ojae also made up a story.

"Is there anything wrong with him?"

"What do you mean?"

"Oh, no. Nothing."

Ari smiled awkwardly and turned.

"Now, let me see your products."

"Oh, yes."

"Ouch..."

However, when she hurriedly did it, she cut her finger on the box paper.

"Oh, again? Please be careful."

"It's no big deal."

She pretended to be okay while biting her hand in her mouth and pulled out a doll and gave it to Ojae.

While looking at the dolls, Ojae looked at her wounded finger rather than the dolls.

***

A hotel in London.

While staying in a suite, Gyeonhui looked out the window with his arms crossed. The gloomy British weather had calmed down.

"... There's not even a text."

Whether he did something wrong or not, she was always the one who contacted him. This time, however, she had not even given him a text.

Then, his cell phone rang.

Surprised, he picked up his phone in a hurry.

However, it was his assistant Ojae.

"... Why?"

He answered the phone in a weak voice.

"Have you not seen the DNBM CEO?"

"... No. I couldn't meet him."

He had not seen a trace of the CEO of DNBM in the London office.

The mayor said that he had stayed here for a while a few months ago, but he doesn't know where he is now.

"Hah…"

He exhaled a frustrated sigh.

Failing to produce significant results before the next general meeting of shareholders could be a considerable blow to his position.

"When are you going to come back?"

"I'm coming back right away. I can't wait for him here forever."

He looked at his luggage that was already packed.

"Well, the campaign is going well with Kids Fans as you directed. I'll have to watch it, but the reaction to their products is good so far internally."

He looked at the images of the Kids Fan characters that Ojae sent to him.

He liked the concept of helping the injured and weary characters with trail markers. "

"... That's great."

"I think the kids will love them. Don't you think?"

Hearing Ojae, Gyeonhui recalled her face.

He remembered when he saw her in the parking lot; she was in tears.

As he tried to hang up the phone, Gyeonhui slowly opened his mouth as if something had come to mind.

"Hey...."

"Yes?"

"Has she hurt her hand?"

"Sorry?"

"Cheonsun."

- Ah…Yes, she did on the box paper. It's amazing. Did you feel the pain there?

"... It seems so. Bye."

He hung up the phone and smiled bitterly.

"I even feel her pain on the other side of the world."

A little while ago, he felt pain in his thumb.

He could have guessed that it was her because he felt the pain on his clean fingers without any scar.

"Why are you getting hurt so often, Sun?"

He knew that she fell down often, but he didn't think that she would get hurt so much.

Her fingers, toes, knees, and shins were bumped and bruised. No matter how much pain he endured, she would always come to his mind.

'If you're just as sick me, then you shouldn't be doing this. No, you can't do this to me!"

Her words made him scowl.

"What the hell do you want me to do then!?"

At that moment, her face came to his mind, and he cried out in a shaky voice. A hollow cry echoed through the spacious suite.

After a while, he was informed that a taxi had arrived from the front desk.

***

'Really, maybe it's because of that...'

On the way home, she remained anxious. Sun arrived near her home.

She pulled out her phone with conflicting thoughts, but she couldn't press the call button.

When both of them argued, the person who contacted the other first had always been her.

Before his release, she had not caught anything in her hands because of her unknown fear of him. Thus, she had to hang on until he told her that he had been released. Then, she could do things for herself.

Sun, locked her mind as she slowly shook her head.

She didn't want to repeat that life anymore.

An uncomfortable thought kept yelling her to press the call button, but she dropped her phone, seemingly determined.

A long sigh erupted out of her; her stomach did not feel well.

Then her cell phone rang in her hand.

She quickly picked up the phone and checked the caller ID.

'I think it's time to get some snacks for Labong.'

It was a text from Eunwoo.

"Oh, that's right."

She remembered it until the morning, but she totally forgot about it.

As she looked up, she noticed a sign at the veterinary hospital that was still lit up in front of her.

***

"How close is she..."

Eunwoo looked out of the hospital and muttered to himself.

Then, when he saw her walking from a distance, he quickly sat and pretended to look at the chart.

"Ring. Ring. "

"Hello, Dr. Park.

The sound of the doorbell rang, and he heard her voice.

"Yes? You're here."

Eunwoo looked up and greeted her nonchalantly as if he had just noticed her.

"The snacks you gave him are almost gone. How did you know that I needed more, though?"

"The last time I gave you snacks, they weighed 50 grams, so I just figured that you might need it by now."

"And... Do you even remember all the purchases of every customer?"

Eunwoo shrugged mischievously as if it were no big deal.

She smiled at him as if she couldn't stop him from doing it.

"Try salmon powder this time. It's popular because it's domestic salmon. It's also hard to find."

"What? Are you selling it yourself?"

"Is it obvious?"

"Yes, definitely," she said.

They laughed at each other.

"How much is it?"

She pulled out her purse with a pleasant smile. Eunwoo interfered.

"It's for dinner when you paid last time."

"But it's a product that you're supposed to sell. You can't do this."

She quickly checked the price on the wrapper and pulled out the cash.

"No, it's fine."

"No. You have to take the money.

Sun denied him several times and put the cash into Eunwoo's hand.

Eunwoo had been reluctantly paid. Looking at Sun, he just thought of a good idea.

"Well, that's fine. I'll try this instead."

Upon hearing Eunwoo's words, she looked up at him.

"What about having lunch tomorrow? I'll treat you this time for Eunyoung and Ari too."

"... Isn't it a little far from you?"

"There's a pet fair in the Samsung neighborhood. I'm going to take a break in the afternoon."

"Pet Fair?"

"I went there all the time when I was in the US, but this time, the fair's going to be held in Korea, so I'd like to check it out."

"Well, it sounds like it's going to be fun."

"It is. Information about healthcare, food, fashion, beauty… It's very beneficial. There will be a lot of useful information for Labong too…"

Eunwoo looked at Sun's face and asked while insinuating.

"Oh, but the schedule... wait a minute. Tomorrow is Friday."

Sun's face brightened as she checked her schedule more closely.

"I can take a half-day off. There is no special schedule tomorrow."

Her answer also brought a smile on Eunwoo's face.

"That's great. Then we'll meet you tomorrow at lunchtime."

"Great, I'll see you tomorrow."

Sun departed with a smile and left the hospital. Eunwoo guided her back with his hands in his coat pocket.

"What do I have to wear tomorrow..."

Eunwoo was already struggling with what to wear tomorrow.