chapter 9

The air was nice that beautiful afternoon,Kim na-ra  had travelled all the way to Liverpool a day before for a surprise visit to her boyfriend of 10 years when she discovered the harsh truth that he was about getting married  

"we have been together for ten years sang ook,I flew all the way to Liverpool to visit you, you told me you loved me just yesterday",

"yes,i do,I love you na-ra I still do"

"how can you say you love me when you just decided to drop our 10 years relationship for God knows who "

"that's it, don't you get it",

sang ook  shouted back 

"for ten ,ten good years and I still don't know you, just like now I am telling you I will be getting married tomorrow and no tears not a drop of tears, for crying out loud you don't have feelings,I just think you are still with me because you think it's more safe to be with me"

"what are you trying to say,I love you"

"loved"

"excuse me ?"Kim na-ra asks

"I mean you loved me when we first met but not anymore, and now this idea of loving me is what you love not me , sorry".

"sang ook honey aren't you coming in,a blonde says as she walked up to him to hold his hand,hi you are the other women right , are you here to attend the wedding tomorrow?"

and here she is single at 28, on this beautiful afternoon instead of walking the beach together with her boyfriend, sorry ex boyfriend she is seating down in the beach with a bottle of whatever this wine is called hiding her eyes behind the sunshades.

       then she picked up the phone to call her best friend  On the second ring hyun-a picked up the phone

" How is your sang ook,hope everything is alright,why are you calling me by this time of the night,has he proposed yet,,,,,,,,"

 and then kept asking questions upon questions which Kim na-ra cut in crying 

"he Is having an affair, is having an affair,"

"what do you mean he is having an affair?"

"he Is getting married tomorrow and he didn't  bother to deny it I saw the skinny girl at this place and she told me not to bother him anymore she even called me the other woman do you believe that I am now the other woman"Kim na-ra says crying

" you must be kidding me that guy when i see him i will kill him he is better not to come to korea,even i could come and meet you at liverpool if you want me to"

 " No, no, no, don't come To Liverpool just leaving him i promise i'm going to get my revenge eventually, but i don't know what to do anymore"

 "calm down, calm down, do you know where you're going to spend the night ?"

"well all the hotels are booked for the night and am in a foreign country where I don't know anyone the jerk even allowed me to spend the night at his place yesterday,that may even be the reason he didn't come home," 

" let me see what i can do,probably i'll call my brother to come and get you But where are you?",

and that was when kim na-ra told her the address which she quickly put the address down  

" it's nice here anyways,I will probably find it difficult to  sleep anyways so I think I will just kill myself on this beautiful day".

"come on na-ra you should be strong and"

but Kim na-ra phone turned off.

her bottle of wine still remained one more to go when she looked up to see a guy standing in front of her,and for some unknown reason her heart skipped a beat, but she couldn't see the stranger face in the dark it was already night time.

"noona, is that you?"

 the stranger asked

Kim na-ra smiled her innocent smile as she tried to stand up to leave this beautiful stranger along carrying her bottle of wine but she mistook her steps an fell flat on the floor and the next thing she knew she was already on the air, the stranger had lifted her up.

"put me down, put me down this instant or else"

"calm down woman,it's me Justin, hyun-a younger brother"

and with that she stopped struggling,but began struggling with her mind,"oh my goodness now he has seen me behaving like a child", Justin then carried her to the passenger seat then closed the door and drove off.

On entering the house justin showed kim na-ra all around the house , giving her time to get changed, after he left, Kim na-ra took her time to freshen up Later meeting justin in the kitchen while he was preparing dinner .

"wow so you can cook",

she said as she went to get water to drink

" 9 years really did a big one on you" 

Kim na-ra says as she look at him to observing him 

"Just yesterday you were 11 years old and now probably 20 right ?"

Then Justin drop the onion he was cutting and dropped the knife looking at her with a look that She couldn't explain,all of a sudden our body shivered  Like she was feeling cold and there was this little smile that crept up his face, at that minute she realized this wasn't the little justin she knew

 This Justin, she didn't want to know what he was thinking, so she gave herself some space sitting down on a stool across from him    

Then he said you with a deep voice "actually it  is 21 years "

" Excuse me what do you mean?"

" i mean i'm 21 years now ,did my 12 years birthday 3 days after i left korea " 

"Oh okay i see now " she says as she drank the whole cup of water 

After drinking the water  she looked up to see justin staring at her with an expression she couldn't read.    

" what are you looking at?"

"i'm thinking it's nice to see someone who isn't afraid to talk in front of me"

" so you mean people are scared to talk in front of you"

" no, it's just that it comes with being the heir of lee corps"

" Well,sorry to burst your bubble though i'm a korean You are still my best friend kid brother who runs after me everywhere i go  "

"Dinner is ready let's go and eat it before it gets cold' Justin says 

" hope to make sure you bring the bottle of wine with you so we could drink the last bottle"

" but i hope you won't get drunk, you drank one already,one is enough for today"

"  really? now if we don't drink the last bottle then none of us is going to sleep  "

Then they went to eat on the dining table "wow you even eat on the dining table you are truly the heir of the corps "

"funny but not funny"

Then she looked up to see justin looking at her again the same feeling creeped up, the same way he looked at her before,  She then quickly drunk the wine in her wine glass 

" slow down you will get drunk at this rate" what's the  use of being cautious everyday,I have always been the cautious child always pleasing my parents but not today,today"

she says as she raised her glass for a toast "let's throw cautious in the wind".

 FOUR YEARS LATER

    The sound of alarm woke Kim na-ra up as she got up from bed her hair disorganized,then she dragged her tired feet to where her son  slept the  night before with her brother , working to his bedside.

"honey it's time to wake up, Mama's got a job to go to this morning"