7

Jiyong woke up without Chaerin, he scoffed then getting ready for work.

“Morning, Eddie.” He greets Eddie at the front desk.

“Morning.” Eddie said, “Ah Jiyong… come here.”

Jiyong went to him.

“Here.” he gave him an envelopes.

“What is this?”

“Salary.”

“But you said…”

Eddie smiles, “Motel good, tourist many sleeps here, thank you! Your paper is work good.” He pointed at leaflets.

“Ah really?” he’s even happier that the Motel’s getting better.

“Guests love Theia cooking, love traditional food! You right!”

“Great!” he said, “anyway… where’s Chaerin?”

“Chaerin? Oh Chaerin go with Agatha, to market, Agatha said to see her Asian store in market.”

“Agatha shows her an Asian groceries in the market?’

“Yes yes.”

“Wow… she must be happy, since Chaerin is missing eating ramyun so much.” He smiles.

+

Youngbae hold his breath wehen Dara detached her lips from him.

“Are they gone?” She asked.

He looks at her lips, “Maybe not yet…” he went forwards but then Dara’s cellphone vibrates. “Damn!” he hissed.

“Hello.” Dara answered. “Red car on VIP parking area? Plate number? Ok… ok…”

She hung up, “what’s up?” Youngbae asked.

“Mr. Yang prepared a car for us in vip parking area. Let’s go!”

They run to the other side, still being careful of guards who might appear anywhere.

“That must be it!” Dara pointed a red car.

“Why red?? That’d be so obvious and it would be so easy for Ash to go after us.” He sighed.

“So you prefer running?” she asked.

“No.”

“Then get in, you whiny baby!”

Youngbae driving out of the town with direction from Dara.

“How is Mr. Yang knew?” he murmured.

“Oh that…” Dara also mumbling.

“Does he following us all this time?”

“Close to that.”

“So?”

“I… ugh kind of digesting a tracker.”

“You what??” Youngbae startled.

“Yeah, you heard me.”

“A tracker, but w—wh… how? Oh my God…”

“Kwon is not just a big company, it’s a mega company, not all people are good people you know, sometimes we gotta face these bad people, Kwon enterprise invented a tiny tracker for this kind of time usage. I know this might be a risky trip, so I digest one and in the email we sent to Mr. Yang, I left message in a code only certain people in Kwon understand.”

Youngbae unable to speak, his mind seems blank when he listens to her explanation.

“A-and how will that gone from your body.”

“Oh the gastric enzymes will dissolve it, I’m sure you—as a doctor—understand that.” She winked.

“Woah…” he shook his head, “But why didn’t Jiyong digest one too?? At least we will know where is he right now”

“Ya! Did he knows that he will be kidnapped and thrown away somewhere??’ she raised her voice, “besides, who wants to digest a tracker when you’re in honeymoon?”

“Ah right…” he said, “Hey, is it true that Chaerin in Greece?”

“I hope Ash didn’t played us, but I gotta check.” She d the space under her seat, “gotcha! I knew Mr. Yang would prepare this for me!” she waved a mini ipad.

“Daebak…”

Dara’s finger tapping the ipad lively while Youngbae driving.

“I couldn’t be more happier to know that Chaerin might alive.” He said.

“Hmm…”

“I’m sorry we didn’t know about Jiyong but…”

“That’s okay.” Dara replied.

“I hope he’s okay too…” he said.

Dara sighed, “please, I don’t want to have hopes.”

“Why?”

“Because it will be more hurt if he’s not okay.” She said. “I’m not gonna lose a brother again.”

“Again?”

Dara paused, “Forget it.”

“Hey! Tell me!” Youngbae said.

“Forget it, okay!”

Youngbae paused, “Ok, whatever happened to your other brother… I’m sorry…”

They were in silence for a moment until Dara spoke.

“I lost a brother, 15 years a go…” she said, “my parents divorced, they had a huge fight about custody and I don’t know how was the result but my mom took me, and my father left with my brother. He was my only friend, we were so close and I love him so much.”

“Seems like you don’t know where is he right now…”

“Do you remember the Ferry accident ten years a go? My father’s name was in there.” She said, “There were some unidentified victims too, mostly children because they have no IDs… so yeah…”

“I’m… sorry…”

Dara weakly smiled, “Don’t worry, I met Dami at university, we became bestfriend and when I told her this story, Jiyong were there, he promised me to be my brother, and he’s been a good little brother for me and Dami. He fulfilled his promises.”

“That makes this even more sad.”

“It is…” she sighed. “But I’m happy when I know he’s about to marry Chaerin.”

“Why? They seems to be hating each other too much, I’m worried.”

Dara laughs, “Jiyong always surrounded by materialistic girls or a social climber, I’m afraid he’ll end up choosing one of those fake women.”

“But aren’t he and Chaerin fated to be together since they were little?” Youngbae asked.

Dara chuckl