Before he felt he glimpsed one more time at Ji who curled up in bed, in the fetus posture.

   “Sleep tight, Sleeping Beauty” he whispered and got lost behind the entrance door.

   “Choi Seunghyun-ssi!” a squeaky male voice approached him as soon as he closed the door behind him.

   “Ah, Lee Baek-ssi!” Seunghyun quickly bowed politely trying to conceive an apology speech for his over an hour lunch delay.

   “Ah, Choi Seunghyun-ssi I am so happy to bump into you! I am really, so deeply sorry I wasn’t able to come at out lunch meeting today!” the man said bowing even lower. “It really didn’t rest on me…” he kept on bowing. “Omo!” he suddenly stopped “You waited for me until this late hour?”

   “I…” Seunghyun tried to speak.

   “If I’m not too bold, may we brunch in 30 minutes and reschedule our interview?” Mr. Lee said bowing again.

   “Umm… sure” Seunghyun smiled really happy for how things turned out, but most of all the word ‘brunch’ made him really startle since he hadn’t had any meal just yet.

   The girl curled down next to her cart and she simply stared at the empty bottles from Seunghyun’s room. Her smile was still frozen on her face and her eyes were still bloodshot with strange sparkles running through them.

   “Agassi!” her manager’s voice brutally torn her away from dreamland.

   “Sir! Umm… gwajangnim…” she jumped up, wildly brushing her waistcloth and bowed several times.

   In pretty weak English the manager remembered the hotel’s conduct rules and God knows what else he might’ve said in there, because she lost her focus when Seunghyun’s sweet perfume invaded her space. She spotted him passing right behind the manager, but he didn’t even glimpsed towards her. She blushed and lowered her eyes to the ground, almost crying.

   The manager thought he was the reason why she started crying, and he felt really bad about it.

   “Look, I know it has to be difficult for you…” he said slowly touching her shoulder.

   The manager funny accent caught Seunghyun’s attention. He turned around to look at him but all he could see was a somewhat fat man cheering up a maid. He softly smiled caressing the pink patch on his hand as if it was a cute stuffed animal. His Bohemian state of mind was gruesomely smashed by Ji’s loud voice.

   “Yah, what’s up??” Jiyong shouted almost jumping on top of him.

   “What’s up with you?” Seunghyun asked in a serious tone.

   “Mian…” Jiyong cooled down “Why you’re angry?”

   “I’m not angry, I’m hungry!” Seunghyun pouted.

   “Let’s  grab something to eat!” Ji caught his hand.

   “I can’t. I have a meeting in 20 minutes…”

   “The one for the magazine?”

   “Yeah…” he answered in low voice. He started walking towards his room but seeing he wasn’t followed, he also stopped.  “You’re not coming?” he asked Ji pointing to the door.

   “Ani! I’m going downstairs to have lunch” Jiyong smiled. “The boys called me, otherwise I would still be sleeping…” he started explaining but Seunghyun’s lost eyes made him stop. He rolled around looking for the reason and he found it in the young maid’s big eyes. She was standing still in the same place where her manager left her after their little ‘chat’. After her boss tried to calm her down, he left and she honestly wanted to follow him but her eyes met Seunghyun’s and she simply froze. Now they were staring one at the other.

   “Yah! ‘Non speaking’ girl!” Ji wanted to continue on their discussion from earlier but his senior’s steps cut him off.

   Seunghyun walked up to her. When he had less than half of a foot to reach her, he simply stopped and took a deep bow.

   “Kamsahmnida!” he said a little amused by the girl’s huge eyes.

   “That means ‘thank you’ “ Jiyong grabbed her shoulders from behind and whispered into her ear.

   “Mm…” she answered without realizing “I know what it means, but why?” she whispered back.

   Just when she was about to find out the reason, a squeaky voice bothered the three of them:

   “Ah! Choi Seunghyun-ssi!” the round man from earlier ran towards them, extending his hand like he was ready for one of the well-known western greetings.  

   “Ah…” Seunghyun tried to remember the man’s name but he failed mostly because his eyes were discreetly following the girl as she was getting lost behind the elevator’s closing door.  He smiled at Jiyong who’s posture didn’t changed at all – he was still resting his hands on some imaginary shoulders. They both smiled and while Ji revised his position, Seunghyun stretched out his hand to greet the smiling man.

   “Choi Seunghyun-ssi, are you ready?” the man asked Seunghyun after they shook hands and took a short bow.

   “Umm… Yes! Yes!” Seunghyun finally remembered that he had agreed to take the new interview. He said goodbye to Jiyong, took a last glance at the elevator she used to disappear and followed the man with a shy smile.

   “Aish! This is not happening!” Seunghyun whined opening his room’s door. “I think I’ll just order something to eat… It’s already past 5 and I haven’t ate anything!...” he said entering really disappointed that his ‘brunch’ turned out to be just a cup something sweet to drink..  Well, at least it was a good interview. He really did had fun… and just one banana smoothie… He threw his coat on the armchair next to the small coffee table and he allowed his body to free fall on the extremely soft and silky bed. He wasn’t yet asleep but he just couldn’t move not even to make himself more comfortable. He just smiled in resign and closed his eyes but in less than one second he curled up in the fetus posture.

   “The hell are you doing here?!!” her mind shouted as loud as she could, but since the lips didn’t released it, no one could ever hear it, not even her hand that rolled the round handle and the boor burst out open in total silence. She peeked inside. She had hoped that he won’t be there, but the loud breathing made her step inside really quietly. Just to make sure if he was ok! she said to calm down her screaming survival instincts. She smiled seeing his way of sleeping. She rolled her eyes around, but except the bed anything else was just the way she left it this morning. She slowly rolled to leave the room, when his voice stoned her.

   “You could at least cover me up. I’m freezing in here…” he mumbled without moving.

   The girl stopped in front of the door being too afraid to even move. She just prayed that her heart ‘noises’ won’t wake him up. Everything turned really quiet, so she though she just imagined it. She took a quick sigh and rolled the door’s handle again.

   A big hand caught the door when it creaked a little open and froze her to the point that she actually felt her heart slowing down its beats.

   “You know, I really meant it…” Seunghyun said using his other hand to ruffle his back head. “I think I'll get a cold. I’m really feeling chilly lately. Please close the door!” he said pushing the door back, closing it.

   She stood there, petrified, without even moving one inch.

   “Are you ok?” Seunghyun asked trying to get a glimpse at the girl who couldn’t dare to move. “Oh!  “Ganhosa” he said taking a step back to bow politely.

   “Huh?...” were the only letters capable of getting out of her lips.

   “Nurse…” he translated into English, smiling.

   How could he possible know what she was studying for?! She looked at him with big, bright eyes and time seemed to stop, freezing everything around, even his smile. 

Soon enough, minutes turned into an eternity for her... a wonderful eternity sprinkled with rainbows and flying unicorns. The answer of any question in the Universe popped up into his eyes making her to just keep staring. He smiled awkwardly and got ready to talk when a noise cut him off… again.