When Your Pain Becomes Mine

"... What did she say about it?"

"Well..."

"I know. You don't need to tell me. I'm sure that she didn't say anything good about me."

"Why do you think so?" Her face sank as she asked.

He slowly started speaking, seemingly frustrated to talk after he thought about the situation for a moment, "... Because I've done nothing good for her."

'Wait until I call you again.'

'You were like a little dog that always used to obey my orders.'

He recalled the words that he had said to her in the past.

Her shaking eyes, her trembling hands, he remembered all of it.

During his self-analysis, Andrea watched him calmly.

"I came here because I didn't know what to do, but as soon as I saw her face, I realized what I have to do..."

He seemed determined while he was clenching his molars and struggling to continue.

With his eyes closed, he organized his thoughts and calmly raised his body from his seat.

"I'm leaving."

With a bitter smile, he exited the director's room.

Andrea also breathed a long sigh of sadness.

'Ring, ring.'

Then Andrea's phone rang out loud.

"Hello?"

"Si... Sister!

She heard Ojae's desperate voice over the phone.

"Ojae, what's going on with you, too?"

"Is Gyeonhui there?"

"Yes, he just left the room. What's going on?"

"Oh, my. He just had surgery today and was recovering, but he suddenly disappeared."

"What surgery?"

Andrea was surprised and asked him again.

'Kung.'

Then she heard something fall in the hallway.

Andrea went out to the hallway, dropping the phone. She saw that Gyeonhui fell on the floor in the middle of the hall.

"Gyeonhui!"

She rushed and shouted his name while holding him in her arms, but Gyeonhui was unconscious, and his head only shook weakly.

***

'Click, click.'

It had been a long time since Sun had arrived at the company from the orphanage. She sat in front of the computer, but she couldn't go back to work again.

Ari, who was anxiously watching her, moved a chair and approached Sun.

"Did something wrong while you were there at the orphanage? What happened?" Ari looked at Sun's face and asked her carefully.

"... No, nothing had happened. I just came right back after delivering the boxes."

"Oh..."

Ari no longer asked, but the strange reluctance from Sun was enough to understand the situation.

"Oh, did you see Dr. Park's text?"

"Dr. Park?"

Sun took her phone out in the bag and saw the text.

Sun didn't even know that Eunwoo had called her because she was so frustrated with Gyeonhui a while ago.

"Don't you have an appointment with him today?"

Hearing Ari, Sun was in a hurry to check the schedule.

She noticed the note with a circle saying 'the night market.'

"Oh..."

It was today that she had promised to go to the night market with him.

'Did you forget about our appointment today? I'll wait for your call.'

His affectionate message made her mind more difficult.

***

The living room of Gyeonhui's house.

Ojae was on the phone while walking around in the living room.

"Yes, Sister Andrea. He is okay now… Don't worry about him too much."

After Ojae talked with Sister Andrea, he sighed shallowly.

Ojae looked at the upper floor, he hurriedly went upstairs.

When he entered Gyeonhui's room, he saw that he was sleeping while Dr. Seo checking his IV.

"How is he?"

"Well, luckily, there's nothing wrong with him for now. However, he will have to take a break for a while. He still needs absolute stability."

Dr. Seo's anxious words made Ojae more frustrated.

"I told him to stay in the hospital, but he wouldn't listen to me."

"It's okay if he doesn't push himself. Don't be too concerned."

Hearing Dr. Seo, Ojae breathed a deep sigh.

"Thank you for coming here."

"I would obviously come here as his personal doctor. He'll probably have a difficult time."

"Sorry?"

"Nothing. I'm leaving."

Dr. Seo said something incomprehensible and quickly left with his medical treatment bag.

"... What was that?"

Ojae tilted his head in doubt.

Then, Ojae's cell phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Hello, this is a secretary from the vice president's office. The vice president is asking if you have anything to report to her?"

"Oh, yes, yes. Can you please tell her that I'm going to report to her soon?"

"Sure."

The female secretary hung up the phone with a clerical tone.

"This is crazy… Hah…"

Ojae scratched his head and mumbled to himself, seemingly under stress.

Ojae looked at Gyeonhui anxiously for a moment and exited the room.

"Ma'am! Ma'am!"

Gyeonhui heard Ojae's voice while he was looking for the housekeeper through the door.

Ojae's footsteps sounded like they were going downstairs and farther away.

Slowly, Gyeonhui turned his head and looked to the side.

He noticed the red scarf on the nightstand table.

He reached hard for the red scarf.

He continued to reach for his scarf, but he couldn't reach it.

His weary body was not listening to him; he felt like the red scarf was away from him for an eternity.

He reached out with all his might while biting his lower lips tightly.

However, the red scarf was pushed by his finger and fell to the floor.

The scarf went over the other side and was no longer visible.

"Hah…"

He clenched his fist and bit his lower lip again.

His eyes closed in pain tightly and were trembling quietly.

***

"Let's go home."

After confirming the time, Eunyoung first dusted off her hand and rose from her seat.

"I'm staying tonight. I've got something left to do with the storyline for the animation production."

Ari said, with her eyes fixed on the monitor.

"Why are you suddenly staying late? You haven't done this before in your entire life." Eunyoung asked in doubt.

"I'm just doing my job, so we can grow faster to get out of this building.

Ari said it in a whisper. Ari then glanced at Sun in sympathy.

"I didn't know that you can actually think."

"What? Do you think I don't?" Ari pouted her lips.

"Because that was very thoughtful, but just go home today."

"Why?"

"If you're staying late, then Sun won't go home until you leave the office."

"Oh..."

"I think she also has an appointment with Dr. Park tonight, so let's just leave the office soon for her."

"... Sure."

Ari nodded after realizing what Eunyoung meant.

"Oh, I'm going home. Aren't you going home, Sun?" Ari asked aloud intentionally.

"What? Yes, I'm going home soon too."

Sun checked the clock and said it like she was absent-minded.

"Oh my. I have to go."

'Bzzz.' her cell phone rang right at that moment.

It was Eunwoo.

"Hello, Dr. Park. Yes, I'm sorry. Yes, I'm going down now. Thank you."

Sun stood up from her seat in a hurry.

"Aren't you guys going home?"

"We're going home now." Eunyoung and Ari answered at the same time while holding their handbags.

"Well, I'll get out first."

"See you tomorrow."

Ari departed from Sun while exaggeratedly waving her hands.

When Sun went out, Ari breathed a long sigh.

"My poor sister..."

Ari shook her head and tried to leave the office with her handbag.

"Where are you going?"

Then Eunyoung stopped Ari, who was trying to leave.

"Sorry? I'm going home."

"Didn't you say that you have something to do tonight at the office?"

Eunyoung put the bag back down and sat down.

"No, you told me to go home."

"It was before Sun left."

"Sorry?"

"Now, let us focus on working."

Eunyoung turned on the monitor again and started working.

After Ari understood Eunyoung's thoughts, she plunked down in her chair with her lips pouting.

"... Ch!"

"You said that we need to grow faster, so we can get out of this building. I just wanted to do that too. That's all."

"... Ch..."

Ari turned the monitor back on.

Eunyoung smiled while watching Ari over the monitor.

Soon, however, Eunyoung sighed sadly as she gazed at the hallway.