Hyo Joo got choked by her food when Chae Won told them
that she met Joong Ki. She nods while her left hand is busy
hitting her lung, coughing the food out from her wrong pipe.
Geun Young immediately gave her water which she drank
until its run out.

Chae Won stared at her, worryingly. She didn’t think that
her news will almost kill her chingu.

“She’s fine. You said you met him again, Chae Won-ah?” Geun
Young gets back to the topic, ignoring Hyo Joo who’s still
trying to catch her breath back.

Chae Won hesitated for a while before she made up her mind
and tell her two best friends everything that happened.

“Since then, he kept coming back to my café every day. He
only came in the morning, but sometimes when he doesn’t
have a schedule he came alone and just sat at a corner
table for hours. It happened almost two weeks now.”

“Two weeks?! And why do we only know this now?” Hyo Joo
demanded.

“I’m sorry. Both of you are busy with your works. I don’t
want to add more to your concern.” She felt bad for not
telling them sooner but she can’t do anything about it.

This is the first lunch they had together since the last
time they met over a month ago. Hyo Joo got so busy with
her upcoming brand that’s going to launch next week and
meetings with clients while Geun Young’s schedules made her
barely sleep.

“You can call us, you know.” Hyo Joo sighed.

“This is something I couldn’t tell over a phone call or
text message, chingu-yah.” Chae Won smiled. She left her
food remained on her plate and drank her apple juice.

Suddenly Geun Young’s phone is ringing. She paused a second
to see who’s calling and then pick it up. “ne, oppa… yes,
I’ve finished my lunch. What? You already waiting outside?”
she turned her head to looked outside the restaurant and
found his manager’s car. She sighed. “yeah, okay. I’m
coming now.” She said as she hung up the phone.

Geun Young is still in her tight schedule but she insisted
her manager to take a lunch with both of her best friend
because she misses them so much. Now that the lunch is
over, she had to go, and Chae Won knew that. She smiled,
“you should go, Geun Young-ah.”

Geun Young felt bad because she had to leave early. “I’ll
call you both, okay?” she said while waving her hands and
after she saw them nodded, she hurriedly walking to the car.
Chae Won and Hyo Joo looking at the car leaves in
their seat.

“So…?” Hyo Joo opened up a conversation again.

“What?”

“I want to know more.”

Chae Won took a breath and shook her head.

“Nothing more. I ignored him the best I could. He didn’t
talk to me either, unless he wants to order something. He
usually just sat there, reading a book or something.”

Something from Chae Won’s voice made Hyo Joo thinking that
she’s a bit disappointed. Maybe Chae Won thought that
Joong Ki came everyday to talk to her, but in fact he didn’t
do anything other than enjoying his free time in her café.

“Well, if you’re not comfortable with him hanging out
there, asking him to leave.” Hyo Joo simply said it, made
Chae Won looked at her with disbelief.

“Hyo Joo-ah, how can I ask him to leave? He came as a
customer. And my employees seem to like him so much. I
heard them debating about who get to serve him the other
day. Auuh, those girls, did they forgot there are still
other customers? Joong Ki-sshi looked like he was enjoyed
them serving his orders too.” She leaned to her chair with
her hand folded.

Hyo Joo stared at her. “geureso, are you jealous?” she
asked accusingly.

“What? No, it’s not like that. I was just…” Chae Won
stammered with her words. Her cheeks became flushing.
Hyo Joo read her chingu’s reaction for a moment and then
she leaned to her chair.

“This is not good.” She whispered to herself.

“What’s not good?”

Hyo Joo looking into Chae Won’s beautiful round eyes which
stare back at her --confusedly. It made her hesitated for a
while. She loves her chingu so much, but as a best friend,
she had to do this.

“Chae Won-ah. You remembered why you and Song Joong Ki
broke up in the first place, right? Now that