Eun-shil was silent during dinner, and Sunggyu only asked her general questions again and then there was only silence. She retreated to her room early, and sat by the window, gazing up to try to see the stars. She could name some but she couldn't see properly, making her felt more and more miserable. Woohyun came by for a moment that day but then he was gone. He was sorry to leave but he had to catch up with his work that he had put aside for weeks. Eun-shil had to let him go, though she least wanted to.

"Eun-shil?"

She turned to see Sunggyu walking up to her and then he was looking out of the window too. "The sky is pretty bright today."

She didn't say anything, gazing up still before saying, "But you can't really see the stars well."

"True... Which reminds me..." He looked at Eun-shil, blinking rather excitedly as he walked away from her, and went out of the door. Eun-shil watched him, curiously when he came back at the door after a few minutes, holding an amateur refractor telescope. She stood up and walked over to him, and then she was looking down on it and smiled brightly.

"Let's go outside?"

She nodded, like a child before Sunggyu went into his room and took out a thick jacket and put it on her. She let him lead her outside and he began setting up the telescope. Eun-shil held the jacket tighter which smelt like Sunggyu, making her rather comforted by it. Sunggyu then was adjusting the telescope and then he laughed.

"This still works!" He exclaimed and looked at Eun-shil who was already jumpy about it. "Come and take a look."

Eun-shil came closer and peered through the lens and she couldn't even close when she saw how near the stars were then. She kept on gazing with it, until she got a bit tired and stood up straight, still looking at the sky. Then, with a dazzling smile, she turned abruptly to Sunggyu, making him flinch a bit. Her eyes were bright and it was if she had never looked happier before him, Sunggyu had observed. The sight of her somehow tugged his heart, in a strange but not painful way.

It was a sight that made his heart skipped a beat.

"I still remember, at the orphanage where we would celebrate Christmas every year and the teachers would ask us to put a name of an item in a sock that we want for Christmas. I think I was... 9 years old?"

Sunggyu was a bit surprised and blinked rapidly, turning his gaze someplace else.

Eun-shil smiled to herself and kept the jacket tighter around her. "That time, I wrote that I wanted a telescope and put it in my socks. Woohyun told me that it'd be rather too expensive for the teachers to buy it but I was stubborn. He was only shaking his head at me."

"Did you get one?" Sunggyu asked, looking up the sky as well, feeling unnatural again.

"No." She said, smiling. "But they got me a pair of toy binocular. It doesn't work that well but Woohyun and I was always on the stakeout using them." She laughed a bit. "We would sit on the roof at the school and look at people from up there."

Sunggyu went on looking at the sky but he wasn't smiling. "My father gave me that telescope."

Eun-shil heart almost stopped, but she said nothing.

"I was... 11? 12? I can't really remember." He paused. "I asked for a bicycle and I got one but after a few days, I went into his room and saw this large package at a corner, wrapped up so nicely, just like a Christmas present... so I asked him about it." Sunggyu paused to take a deep breath.

"I asked him, whose present was that... And he was silent for a moment but then he said... you can have it. I told him I already got my bike but he said nothing. In the end, I just took it with me and found that telescope in it."

They were both silent. Sunggyu was looking up the sky but Eun-shil was gazing at the grass.

"I guess... it's yours."

Eun-shil was still silent, and she could hear her heartbeats in her ears. She bent down to have another look into the telescope but as soon as she did, her vision went blurred. She cried, bitterly and she bit her lips, unsure of her feelings. She didn't look up from the telescope and Sunggyu was watching her with a heavy chest. He walked over to her slowly, held her shoulders and without hesitation, he pulled her into his chest, and wrapped her head with his arm.

"I'm sorry I took it from you."

She sobbed harder.

"If only I knew then..."

Sunggyu's thought went to his father for a moment, asking himself why was he such a coward. Why did he buy the telescope for her but never had the courage to give it to her? He sighed as he held her tighter, saying sorry in his mind to her countless times.

Eun-shil stopped crying after a while and pulled away, feeling rather abashed to be in Sunggyu's embrace. Sunggyu reluctantly let her go and watched as she was looking at his chest, with her sad eyes.

"Thank you for telling me about it." She said, sniffing. Then, miserably, she tried to smile. "I'm sorry for crying." She looked at Sunggyu's shirt which was stained with her tears.

Sunggyu smiled as well. "Don't worry about it."

Eun-shil looked up, looking straight into his eyes. Her eyes were still glassy but they were clear and her dilated pupils were trapping Sunggyu's eyes into them. Sunggyu's lips were almost shivering as his eyes went down on lips that were moving, saying something but he couldn't hear the words.

"Sunggyu-sshi?" Her hand was waving in front of his eyes.

His eyes widened. "Huh? What?"

She said nothing as she went on looking into his eyes. Without warning, he wrapped her head and pulled her into his chest again, with his eyes widened. Eun-shil was so surprised that she said nothing for a moment before muffling into his shirt.

"Sunggyu-sshi?"

"Eun-shil?"

"Ye-yes?" She muffled, feeling Sunggyu's hand her head gently.

Sunggyu could feel that his heart was too loud against his chest and perhaps Eun-shil could feel it too, but he made no attempt to release her. "I think it's kind of weird for you to call me Sunggyu-sshi when I'm your brother."

Eun-shil widened her eyes, feeling her heart beat a bit faster.

"How about Oppa?" He said, looking away, still her head.

Eun-shil was silent for a moment, not knowing exactly of what to say. Then, with a gentle voice, she called out.

"Oppa."

Sunggyu cursed himself at that time, for many reasons. One was he knew he shouldn't have hold her so close to him for such a long time. Another one was making her called him Oppa when he knew well that rather than making him feel like it was just a sister calling him in such way, it wasn't the case at all.

Because the moment he heard her called him "Oppa", he could feel that she didn't feel like a sister at all.

Woohyun was barely sleeping, finding himself still awake at 3am in the morning. He was feeling anxious as he gripped Eun-shil's pillow and brought it closer to his face. He was too worried, and he was missing her so much that it was a bit hard to even breathe. In the end, he sat up against the bed's head, with Eun-shil's pillow in his arms,: he was sniffing her scent, and remembering her voice.

His head felt heavy when he went to work the next day and by the time he was supposed to visit Eun-shil at Sunggyu's house, he felt his body burning up and he was sneezing a bit. Nevertheless, he drove to his house and instead of going in, he gave her a call.

"Woohyun." Her voice was hasty, as if she couldn't wait to hear his voice.

"Eun-shil-ah..." He smiled to himself. "I got a call from the hospital this afternoon. They said that you are still under remission, so we can now proceed to the transplant."

Eun-shil felt her heart beating faster. "I am...?" She sighed gladly.

"Yeah, I was really happy to hear it too."

"When is...?" She couldn't finish her sentence as she was still feeling overwhelmed by the news.

"Tomorrow. We have to go back to the hospital tomorrow. Is that okay?"

" Yeah... Woohyun-ah, are you here?"

"I am but... I can't go in." His voice was almost quiet.

"Huh...? Why not? Is the gate locked? I'll ask Mrs. Shim to..."

"No, it's not that. It's just that I'm not feeling well..."

"Not feeling well?" Her voice was a bit higher. "Are you okay?"

"I'm okay. It's just that I'm afraid I'd pass this virus to you or anything because you remember what the doctor said, don't you? That you shouldn't get yourself exposed too much..." He said, as if soothing her.

"But..." She felt her breath getting rapid as she was trying hard not to break down.

"I'll be fine... but I'm sorry I can't see you today, Eun-shil."

She shook her head. "It's okay. Do take care of yourself..."

"If I'm still not well tomorrow, can you go with Sunggyu instead? I don't want your treatment to get delayed."

Eun-shil's gaze went to her lap. "Hmm..."

"You'll be fine, Eun-shil."

Eun-shil could that he was smiling, even through his voice. "Of course."