Yongsun walked in carefully, as though afraid of stepping on any ants on the floor. Byulyi was back-facing the door, seated on the sofa. Yongsun couldn’t see her face, all she could see was Moon Byulyi’s right hand on the arm rest fiddling with her phone, locking, unlocking, locking, unlocking.

“Miss Moon, I’m sorry for disturbing, I’m just here to collect my tote bag.” Yongsun carefully spoke, her eyes wandered around the room, hoping to see the rainbow tote bag, yet her tote bag is of nowhere to be found.

Byulyi didn’t turn back, with a cold tone. “Do you enjoy being late?”

“No, I was actually early, it’s just that when I reached… I saw that you’re quite busy...” Yongsun hesitated, before she continued. “I thought it would be better to wait for awhile.”

Byulyi remains silent, her hand continues to fiddle with her phone. Locking and unlocking, the lock sounds of the phone fills the silent room.

Yongsun stood there for what seems like ages to her awkwardly, before she could no longer take it. “Miss Moon, if it’s inconvenient, I can come again another day.”

Byulyi stood up suddenly, she turns and look at Yongsun. “If you’re feeling upset, what do you do?”

Yongsun looks at Moon Byulyi, she sees that her bangs was slightly messy, bloodshot red eyes, her face was no longer that angry compared to earlier on, instead there was signs of anxiety.

“Me?” Yongsun asked unconsciously.

She nods.

Yongsun thought for a moment. “Well, I do have quite a few solutions, but the usual ones I do is only two kinds, shopping and exercise.”

“What kind of exercise?”

“I like badminton.”

“Really?” Byulyi’s eyes lit up brightly like the stars. “how’s your standard?”

“Normal people can’t win against me.” Yongsun proudly stated, tilting her head slightly as she grinned.

Byulyi walks towards the drawer beside the bookshelf, opens the drawer and took out a sports bag, she turns and look at Yongsun. “I would love to challenge you.”

With that, she walks towards the door and opened it, she gestured for Yongsun to follow.

Yongsun was baffled, she stared at Moon Byulyi. “Excuse me Miss Moon?”

“Yes?”

“What about my tote bag?”

“In my car.”

Yongsun had no choice but to follow her. Once outside, Byulyi walk towards the secretary whose head buried low with the work she’s doing. She slightly tapped on the desk, the secretary looked up and immediately stood up. “Don’t say that I’m out.” The secretary nods her head immediately several times.

Once in the car, Yongsun searched high and low, left and right for her tote bag, yet she couldn’t find it. Byulyi starts the car and starts driving out of the car park, then she turned towards Yongsun. “Stop finding, I remembered I left it at home.”

Yongsun was speechless, she was slightly angry, she felt like she was being played.

Byulyi continued. “Where do you usually go for badminton?”

“A swimming complex near my company.”

“Good, let’s go.”

“I didn’t agree to join you. I don’t have a habit of playing badminton at this hour.” Yongsun was starting to get annoyed.

It was red light, the car slowly came to a stop, Byulyi’s phone starts to ring, she looks at the caller ID, then proceed to switch off her phone. “If you accompany me to badminton today, I can guarantee you’ll land an important role with Jung PD’s film, how about that?”

Yongsun was pissed, she hates that Moon Byulyi was using that kind of tone towards her, neither does she needs that kind of connection. “What’s the meaning of this, is this a business trade deal thing? I don’t need this kind of deal or connection just so I can have a role? And honestly speaking, I couldn’t care less about a role that I didn’t get via my own ability. You’re too full of yourself, Miss Moon.”

Byulyi was silent, she took a deep breath: “Fine, then just direct me there.”

The green light lit on, she stepped on the accelerator and the car sped off.

Soon enough, the car was parked beside a sports complex building, Yongsun pointed at the building. “The roof top.”

“Where do I go up from here?”

“At the right side there’s a lift which goes up directly to the roof top.”

Both of them got off the car, Byulyi took her sports bag and walked towards the direction in which Yongsun directed.

Looking at her back view, Yongsun couldn’t help feeling lonely for the girl. As much as she was offended by her earlier on, she couldn’t bear the thought of Moon Byulyi playing badminton alone, with a soft shout: “Hey…”

Byulyi stopped, she didn’t turn around.

“How do you play badminton alone?”

She shrugged her shoulders. “Maybe there’s another person there whom plays alone too.”

“Other than you, I can’t think of anyone else that plays badminton alone.”

Byulyi remains silent.

Yongsun starts walking towards Moon Byulyi, and as she passes by her, she said. “Fine, on the account that you introduced me to Jung PD, I’ll play a round with you.”

Hearing these, Byulyi can’t help but to let out a smile and quickly follows behind Yongsun.

As they entered the lift, Yongsun looks at Moon Byulyi. “Whoever loses will have to pay the bill.”

“Call.”

Due to Yongsun frequenting this sports hall often, she had a locker here for herself with all the stuffs she needs. While changing, Yongsun caught a glimpse of Moon Byulyi’s figure as she s her dress shirt, even though Moon Byulyi is very slim, it seems like she had very toned muscles instead that makes her look slim. She started scanning Moon Byulyi from the top, before she stops at the abs, very well defined indeed, and then she was disappointed as Moon Byulyi covers the well defined abs as she wore over a rash guard. Wait, why is she disappointed? That was weird. Yongsun thought to herself, before she felt a pair of eyes staring at her. She looks up and makes a direct eye contact with Moon Byulyi, for a moment, she thought her eyes was playing with her as she thought Moon Byulyi was blushing?

As Byulyi s her dress shirt, she felt a glare beside her. She didn’t dare to look over for some reason, ignoring the glare, she took off her dress shirt and took out her rash guard from her sports bag. She wore it over, closed the locker and turned to walk towards the door. Then she saw it, Yongsun was just right in front of her. She was wearing a cropped top rash guard, with a very very short shorts, it wasn’t that short, but anything above the knees was considered short to Byulyi. The tight fitting rash guard manages to show the curves that Yongsun had, which unknowingly made Byulyi blushed. Before she knew it, she saw Yongsun’s eyes meeting hers.

Almost at the same time, both of them breaks away the gaze from each other. Yongsun turned away towards her locker and pretends to be packing her stuffs. Byulyi cleared and immediately left the changing room.

On the court, it was almost like a bloodshed battle. It surprised Yongsun that Moon Byulyi’s badminton skills was that excellent, the force from her smacks were all very strong, and maybe due to her being taller by that 1cm gave her that advantage? Yongsun was starting to lose, terribly, she couldn’t catch up to Moon Byulyi’s scores.

Byulyi did another smack, Yongsun tried so save it, but before she knew it, she tripped over. Byulyi immediately ran over towards Yongsun, she bends down and held Yongsun gently while checking her feets. “Are you ok? Are you hurt?” Yongsun looks up, she saw a sweat-dripping Moon Byulyi in front of her. Her face was full of concern, it was endearing at some point, Moon Byulyi was finally looking a human, not a cold blooded one. Yongsun smiled, “I’m fine.” And then she pouted, “But I’m too tired to continue.”

Byulyi lets out a laugh, she looks at her watch, and said. “We’ve been almost at it for an hour, I would say you have quite a good stamina. Let’s end here for today.”

Both of them returned to the changing room for a quick shower.

Once Yongsun was done, she sees Byulyi already done sitting by the reception waiting for her.

Seeing Yongsun out, Byulyi gave an apologetic face and brings out both her hands in front. “I’m sorry, I can’t settle the bill. They don’t accept card…” She’s cute.

Yongsun quickly took out her wallet and walk towards the counter to settle the bill. “You shouldn’t have, I lost anyway.”

After settling the bill, both of them walks into the lift. “After badminton, what do you do next?” Byulyi asked.

“Eating of course, I was starving throughout the game. I only had my breakfast today, before I had to rush down to meet you. I doubt I would lose to you if I had lunch just now”

“Sounds good, I’ll treat you to dinner.”

“Let me think about it for awhile.” Yongsun pretends to be hesitating.

Byulyi really allowed Yongsun to think about it, waiting for her answer.

After exiting the lift, Byulyi asked. “Have you decided?”

“Not yet.”

“You’ll still need to eat, let’s go.”

“I wasn’t thinking if I want to eat or not.”

“Otherwise?”

“I was thinking, which is the most expensive restaurant in this city?”

With that, both of them laughed heartily as they walked towards Byulyi’s car.

They didn’t go to the most expensive restaurant in the city, instead Yongsun chose to bring Byulyi to a regular, small but busy small restaurant which sells delicious internal organs soup. Yongsun didn’t want to be in a place that was awfully quiet, or extravagant, because that would mean that she would have to spend an extra effort to make the atmosphere not awkward between the both of them.

As Byulyi follows behind, she was slightly overwhelmed by the crowd in the restaurant. It wasn’t that big, and thus there was basically only a maximum of maybe 30cm between each table? Yongsun thought that Byulyi didn’t like the idea of having her dinner here after seeing her ex