Chapter 11

"What happen to you, Ms. Oh?" Mr. Park slammed the files on the table while I was looking 
down to my feet with and fidgeting my fingers.

"You can't focus on the meeting at all! You barely taking notes on what the meeting was all about but instead continue spacing around." He was holding his waist, as if stopping himself from hitting me. Heck, he probably was.

"I'm sorry, sir. I really am." I bowed apologetically at him repeatedly. 

"Enough." He raised his hand, asking me to stop and then massaged his temples while sighing loudly. I thought he hate sighing.

"I can sigh if I wanted to because just in case you've forgotten, I'm your boss."

Did I just say that out loud?

"Yes, you did."

. Bad mouth. Bad mouth.

"Don't curse in front of me."

I pressed my lips together, hoping that it'll stop any unnecessary comments from slipping out again. Especially when Mr. Park was close enough killing me right now.

"Because you are definitely at fault today, here." He placed a bundle of papers on the table and lazily put his hand on top of them. "I need you retype all this meeting minutes so that you know how to write a good one and also how to focus in the meeting in order to do so. Completed by tomorrow and all of these must be on ym table the moment I stepped in the office."

"But sir-"

"Is there a problem?" He cocked his left eyebrow as he mockingly waited for my response. I looked down and again pressing my lips to ensure that I would not accidently sigh again.

"No, sir."

This is gonna be a long day.

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I turned my head to sides and stretched my arms forward. Some cracking sounds heard as I rolled my neck. I'm just 20 and yet the cracking sounds. Ugh.

My phone rang and I picked it up after seeing the caller ID.

"Eo." I said and leaned to the chair.

"Yah, Oh Jin Hye. It was already 11. You're not coming home yet?" Se Na asked right away.

"Don't think so. I've got a lot of works to do so, yeah." I shrugged while looking at the laptop screen.

"Oho." She prolonged the word. "Hard worker, I assume?"

"Shut up. This is ." She chuckled on the other line when she heard me.

"With you, what's not?" She laughed and then I heard Yong Guk's voice at the background. She muttered something to him before got back in the line.

"I gave you some privacy with Yong Guk tonight. Do what you gotta do while I'm not home."

"Yah! What do you mean?" I bet she was blushing madly right now.

"Nothing. I'm hanging up." I swapped the end ribbon before put my phone aside.

I continued typing for about 15 minutes before I hear my stomach grumpling in hunger. I decided to go downstairs and got some coffee and snacks to keep me awake. The rest of the building were dark with just some wake lights at the end of each corridor so it scares the crap out of me when I was going down and up the elevator. I watched a lot of movies, esecially horror and the cliche scene is when the lights when out one by one or when the elevator stuck in the middle and the lead actor saw reflection of ghost in the mirror. As resolution, I kept my head down while walking at the corridor so if there was some ghost nearby, I would just walked pass it.

The night passed like that and sometimes I would blinked hard because my eyes started to teary up and it pained my orbs as I kept on fixing my eyes to the bright screen. But then my pain flew away in the thin air as I received some messages from the machinegunsmoker guy. It sometimes amazed me how some small conversations with him could lit up my whole day. Soomehow this was like really stupid. I'm stuck in this teenage-online relationship.

@machinegunsmoker : already sleep?
@painkiller : it took ages for u to mssge me
@machinegunsmoker : u actually waiting for it?
@machinegunsmoker : id call it a progress
@painkiller : what progress?
@machinegunsmoker : the first step of developing our relationship
@painkiller : what relationship?
@machinegunsmoker : even playing dump have it limit
@painkiller : im not playing dumb
@machinegunsmoker : yea u r
@painkiller : duh whatever
@machinegunsmoker : we barely talk nowadays
@machinegunsmoker : n i miss u

I blushed at the words and silently giggled at that. 

@painkiller : it just that im busy
@painkiller : n we dont actually talk
@machinegunsmoker : i know
@machinegunsmoker : but i cant help it
@painkiller : u make it sounds as if were a couple
@machinegunsmoker : wait we arent?
@painkiller : u so stupid
@machinegunsmoker : no im serious
@machinegunsmoker : we arent?
@painkiller : anyway what make u stay up so late?
@machinegunsmoker : u

Again, I blushed like stupid.

@painkiller : shut up
@machinegunsmoker : im being serious rn
@machinegunsmoker : i cant sleep
@machinegunsmoker : coz i kept thinking bout u
@painkiller : enough
@painkiller : i may vomit
@machinegunsmoker : u r?
@painkiller : yes
@painkiller : n since when u r so cheesy?
@machinegunsmoker : since i met u
@painkiller : stop rn or ill off
@machinegunsmoker : okay okay i stop

The line went silent for a while when I decided to type again thing that had been bothering me for a while.

@painkiller : hey
@machinegunsmoker : what?
@painkiller : i dunno if i should ask this but
@machinegunsmoker : bout what?
@machinegunsmoker : wait dont say that ure gonna confess
@painkiller : no stupid
@painkiller : i think its time
@machinegunsmoker : for what?
@painkiller : idk
@machinegunsmoker : what do u mean u dont know
@painkiller : its just
@painkiller : time for us to meet?

It's like few minutes and I didn't get any reply from him. I waited for another couple of minutes before I snapped back. I shouldn't have asked. I shouldn't have. He probably think that I'm a freak now. Before I would talk about something else everytime the topic of us meeting being brought up, by him obviously. And now it's me who's requesting. Even I think that I'm a freak. Maybe he didn't want to meet me at all. Maybe it just my mind playing tricks that someone actually likes me. I always say that he's stupid. But it is actually me. I should've known better.

@painkiller : know what forget it
@painkiller : its okay if u dont want to

! Comes that again. I sounded so pathetic I wanted to bury my retarded thousand metres under the sea.

@machinegunsmoker : no its not like that
@machinegunsmoker : i mean wow
@machinegunsmoker : like
@machinegunsmoker : HOLYJESUS
@machinegunsmoker : WERE GOING TO MEET
@machinegunsmoker : IM GONNA MEET YOU
@machinegunsmoker : URE GONNA MEET ME
@machinegunsmoker : R U SERIOUS?!
@machinegunsmoker : this is gonna happen isnt?

I smiled at his sudden bunch of text and I can't believe myself. Nobody in my life ever happier to see me. 

@painkiller : we cant go back now
@machinegunsmoker : no we cant
@painkiller : u sure?
@machinegunsmoker : hell yeah i am
@machinegunsmoker : dont do any taking back stuff
@machinegunsmoker : coz im not buyin
@machinegunsmoker : n ill kill u if u did
@painkiller : no im not

And then we're picking date. We've got some small arguments over the date but after a while it ended. Friday. That's 4 days from now. 4 days and my life actually gonna change. 4 days. God, I don't think I'm gonna sleep for these 4 days straight. I don't think I can. God. Someone please help me.

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