Ha Na tried as best as she could to shake off the creepy yet comforting vibe she felt from the woman from the plane.

 

" Of course she knows my name" Ha Na said trying to comfort herself" I'm the daughter of one of the most influential people in Korea if not in all of  Asia of course that knows me"

 

"Unnie who was that lady?" Becky asked. Ha Na couldn't help but groan. Honestly she hated the shorter woman but she was the sister of one of the most influential socialite in their circle and enduring this woman meant being friends with vicky, her sister.

 

“I don’t know she’s probably one of those scam artists or something” Ha Na prayed that was true even as she looped her arm in Becky’s “Lets forget about her it time to go home ka jah “

 

*****

Ha Na gulped as she prepared herself for what would happen with her arrival she knew her mom was going to yell her head off.  She lined her eye with the retinal scanner and waited for the door to open. She looked shocked as the scanner blinked red to tell her it didn’t recognize her. She did it again and again with no luck.

 

Ha Na rolled her eyes and groaned “How can we have so much money and yet still have broken things?”

 

she then put in the combination which was 02-06 aka Sin Myeong oppa’s birthday. She could only stare in shock as the scanner blinked red again.

 

“Wh-wha-what the heck is going on?” Ha Na checked the number of the condo again. It was still apartment 206 the apartment that she’d begged her mother to buy her 3 years ago since it was close to Sin Myeong oppa’s apartment.

 

Ha Na was still panicking when her phone rang “ Yoboseyo ? Umma did you forget to pay the bill for my apartment ?!?! Yah umma i can’t get into my apartment!!!!”

 

“I know Hannie-yah” Her mother’s soft voice said “ Ha Na, I’m cutting you off. This stunt that you pulled by running to Europe when I told you to find a job was the last straw. As of an hour ago all of your credit cards are invalid, your accounts are frozen except the one that you made when you were 12 which you have never touched and that has about 200,000 won. I already told Sin Myeong-ah not to help you. You can ask your friends for help, but knowing them, I don’t know how much help they’ll be.”

 

“Umma you have to be joking-” Ha Na started as panic of the situation that she had landed herself in started to hit

 

“No joke at all. Your father and I were building an empire at your age. It’s because we had you later on in life that we’ve spoiled you so much. Ha Na you’re too smart for this nonsense. I’ve booked a motel for you to stay at for a week and left you some clothes but we’ve sold most of your things. Baby this is time for you to sink or swim.” her mother said softly in what could only be described as a broken voice

 

“Umma please you can’t be serious!!! Umma Umma YAH YAAAAH!!!” She screamed only to hear a dial tone. Ha Na looked around in shock as some of her neighbors came outside to check on the noise. Ha Na knew they’d heard what had just  happened or at least seen her Mother take her furniture and stuff .

 

What shocked her was the fact that they all seemed to be enjoying her misfortune. These were the people who she’d made homemade soap for for christmas and here they were smirking enjoying someone else's misfortune.

 

Ha Na knew she was spoiled and she could be rude but she was never rude to the wrong person only those who were under her and these people weren’t under her so she’d been nice to a damn fault. What the hell was wrong with them?

 

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“Aish Teukie I’m leaving right now yah yah YAH AHJUMMA!!!!” Joel screeched as Teukie kept singing. Teukie knew Joel hated when she sang because Teukie sang like she was a trot singer. At the very moment she was singing Partition as calmly and seriously as one could while sounding just like the famous trot singer Kim  Hyun Chul

 

“Aigoo I’m going right now I already made the appointment that is in an HOUR. Yah ahjumma stop the nagging Aish.” Joel whined as she buttoned up her jacket pouting at the idea of going out on this brisk day.

 

she smiled as she walked around. She knew that picking a store that was so close to Gangnam was going to be a blessing and a curse. She knew that as a black woman she would get a lot of looks and some s who would be like they didn’t want to eat the food that she made and hell that was their problem. She also knew there would be a lot of people who would come because it was a chic idea and the fact that the store was run by foreigners would make the appeal even better.

 

She couldn’t help but shake her head as she saw all the pretty chic woman drinking their macchiatos with their cute little dogs and the men who were dressed to impress either as they lounged around or went to work. She smiled as she felt out of place in her  pretty little boots , jeans and sweaters. All the clothes she had on came from department stores’ clearance section. To these people clearance probably meant getting a thousand dollars off on Louboutins.

 

She walked into KSM agencies. She took off her jacket and walked up to the elevators. She almost bumped into a quivering body that was rushing away. Since she had her earphones in she barely heard the whispered apology as she got on.

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Earlier

“Oppa please, plllleaaassseee, pllleaaassseee” Ha Na begged Sin Myeong hoping he would help her

 

“No I’m not helping you I totally agree with your parents that you’re completely irresponsible. I started this company when I was younger than you are and look where i am” Sin Myeong childed as he continued to read his files

 

“Oppa has a better brain the Ha Na does.“ she said pouting

 

“Oppa doesn’t like it when Ha Na puts Ha Na down and oppa especially doesn’t like it especially when Ha Na talks in third person .Oppa finds it weird.” Sin Myeong said as he looked up at her just to glare

 

“Just talk to them huh?” she pouted sitting on his desk as she puffed up her cheeks and puckered her lips out. She knew he always fell for her aegyo

 

This time he looked at her with a blank face “ I can’t tell them to take it back because I’m the one who suggested it to them”

 

“MWO?!?!! WAE WAEYO?!?!?!?”Ha Na screeched asking why

 

“Because Hannie, you need to learn.” he placed his papers and glasses down on the table and stood right in front of the quivering girl “ Yah look at oppa. Look I love you, baby. You’re the only family I have left you know that right ?”

 

She nodded even as her heart broke a little more knowing that when he said family he literally saw her as just that... family. “If you love me oppa why would you do this?”

 

“I’m doing this because I love you. I see the sweet Ha Na ,who could read by the age of three yet would pretend not to be able to so that this poor Oppa wouldn’t feel stupid ,acting like a Royal ”

 

Ha Na gasped shocked at his words. Never has he ever cursed at her even when he was annoyed with her “OPPA!!”

 

“No listen to me Hannie Yah. I love you but something has changed. And you’re not the same sweet little girl I knew who would cry because she saw the sky crying. Now you’re mean and rude and spoilt . As much as I hate my father for what he did i can see the silver lining and how much I’ve grown because of it. Hannie, you aren’t growing in fact I think you decreasing as a person and I refuse to let that happen. I’ll try to help as much as i think is right but it’s time for you to sink or swim”

 

The girl just looked numbly as she got off the table and started to staggered out “ Yah Ha Na call me when you reach your motel please take care of yourself”

 

“My-my-my pho-pho-phone is of-of-off oppa” The girl sobbed. turning around she saw Sin Myeong’s face, he looked calm she hated that he either looked calm or angry, he never showed any other emotion.

 

“I know” he said softly “ I meant use a regular house phone. I ,at least, know that motels have that” as he said that a dark shadow went across his face

 

“But oppa you know what happens at motels”Ha Na said in a scandalized whisper, referring to how motel were not where people slept but a place for having “I’ve been pre propositioned 3 times in less than the day that i’ve been there. Whenever i tell people i’m there to JUST sleep they look at me like i’m crazy”

 

“It gets better.” Then he let her have one of his few special smiles “ At least you aren’t a little boy getting prepositioned”

 

“Oppa i’m sorry” She said feeling guilty

 

He just nodded and shooed her away “Go home”

 

she left even though she was still terrified “ Pabo” he said shaking his head the retreating figure “ don’t you know that your mother would never leave you completely alone”

 

a couple minutes later his secretary buzzed him to let him know that he had an appointment with a Miss Oh. Now he remembered that he had an appointment with her but didn’t understand why she needed or got his services.

 

He stood up calmly as the door opened expecting an older korean woman.When his secretary ushered in a small and slightly thick black woman, he was caught of guard. Her clothes caught him even more off guard as he looked at her jeans. He was fully annoyed if she had a business preposition then she should’ve came dressed in the right decorum.

 

She looked up at him and his heart slightly stopped. Something about her eyes caught him off guard. Maybe it was the way that they twinkled almost as if she was in on some secret or the fact that they scanned so lightly over him that he felt like she saw everything that he’d ever tried to hide about himself.

 

She smiled again “ Hello my name is  Joel Ojo but everyone just calls me Oh Joel” she said as she bowed and sat down. He shook his head of the spell that she’d put him under and sat too glaring at her

 

“Nice to meet you my name is Kim Sin Myeong. Ms. Oh, I hate to be rude but I don’t remember making a meeting with you” he said briskly

 

Her eyes flashed but then she seemed to turn to the side and almost glare at the space next to her.

 

‘ Okay’ he mentally decided ‘she has to go’.

 

“ I can’t do that you see I’m here to help with a problem” she flashed her smile again shocking that she knew what he was thinking. Something about that smile irritated him; it seemed as if she was hiding something while laughing at him for not being in on the secret.

 

“And just what kind of problem is that?” he asked getting frustrated with the tiny woman that was keeping him from doing his work

 

she huffed and looked at the space again “Ara ara” she grumbled saying okay “ Umma, i’m here to talk about your Umma” she said in perfect korean. Now he was even more annoyed if she’d known korean she should’ve started out with the language.

 

“My mother has been dead for about twenty one years no-” he started

 

she just gave him the no sherlock look and said bored “  twenty one years, one month,  three weeks and 4 days right ?”

 

all he could do was gape at her yet she continued on “ Your umma was 34 to your 10 when she died right? She had on this really pretty scarf because she said she wouldn’t be caught dead looking like a fashion accident, pun intended. Her favorite color was yellow because it is the brightest color on a toucan bird. That is Teukie umma’s favorite bird isn’t it Leo nim?” she said calmly as she looked at him. Her eyes flashed again and she slid back on her infuriating smile

 

“Ho-how-how do you know all of that?” he demanded enraged that that kind of information on his mother had been leaked out. He’d dealt with gold diggers before claiming to be his mother or saying they knew his mother and wanted something but none of them had been this knowledgable.

 

“because Leo nim. Your umma told me those things. I know this may seem crazy but i can speak to your umma” she said as she leaned forward staring him in the eye, she stayed that way for a good minute as they both assessed each other. After what seemed like forever she sat back in her chair and smiled before continuing “ your umma came to me for help after she died. You see I’m a Watcher; my job is is to help spirits that still have a job to finish on earth. Teukie- nim and I couldn’t figure out what it was that I  was meant to do it was only until I was 13 and you were 17 that she said something happened. She said she saw you sitting on a bench in front of a seven eleven crying for her” she gave him a sad smile “ that’s all she saw, why were you crying ?”

 

He was angry and shaken. There was no way that she should know these things she had to have been sent by THAT woman. It angered him that she had had him followed just to come back and mock him.

 

‘Watcher my ’ He thought bitterly

 

“Get- Out” he bit out as his knuckles turned white as gripped the desk.

 

“Look I know you’re surprised but I really need you to help me-” she started as she got up to move closer to him

 

“I knew it” he barked as he came around the desk and gripped her “how much is she paying you? With the type of clothes that you’re wearing not a lot or do you get money after a job well done?”

 

Even though his grip was slightly bruising she didn’t even flinch she just stared at him for what felt like eternity then said softly “ Yah pabo oppa, I don’t know who she is but teukie is seeing a side of you that she’s never seen before and she doesn’t like it. I’ll just see myself out and before I leave she wants me to tell you Hamlet or Macbeth?”

 

 with that, she gently took his hands off her forearm, patted his cheek and walked out the door.

 

For a good five minute all he did was exist. He could almost swear that he wasn’t breathing or blinking and it felt as if his heart had stopped pumping and that his lungs refused to take any kind of oxygen in. He stood there feeling dizzy yet alert, confused yet assured,  terrified yet exuberant and all he could think was... Hamlet or Macbeth.

 

How could she know that?!

 

He felt like he was having an out of body experience but he knew he just knew this was different

 

How could she know that?!

 

He finally lived as he finally took in that breath of air and blinked. He thought about it for a minute and knew he was still right “ I’d rather be Macbeth” with that he gave chase after the mysterious Joel Oh.

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As he passed the front doors and looked around anxiousness coursed through his body. He just couldn’t find her. He checked on both sides yet he saw no signs of her.

 

Had he just made her up? Was he in such desperation and depression that he was making up angels that could see his umma?

 

Just then a laugh caught his attention. He looked up and there she was sitting on a bench that just a minute ago he’d sworn was vacant. She sat staring at him with that same smile as she ate a chicken skewer from one of the nearby food vendors

 

with his eyes trained on hers, almost it seemed as if to give… strength, he walked towards her they stood staring at each other assessing each other for a reaction. Just when he thought he would break first she smiled slowly in what seemed to be a real smile; not that infuriating fake smile. “ which one is making you stand here? Hamlet right?” she asked excitedly “ Teukie won’t tell me the inside story she says that it’s a bedtime secret” at that she pouted then perked up again “ Its probably Hamlet though right? I can’t understand the reason why it would be Macbeth”

 

He stared at her for a good minute as he tried to wrap his mind on the fact that she knew way too much not to take notice of her. He still didn’t trust her completely but something in him made him answer as he searched her face for answers “ No I chose Macbeth. I didn’t wallow in my problems and wait until the last scene to act like he did. I started off doing what I felt was right and died doing what I wanted.”

 

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Hi guys I’m trying to edit these chapters so that I can remember where I was going with this story. I some ways I remember but in other ways I don’t i sorta want to say eff it and delete this story but this is my baby and Ramyun is no quitter.

Pray for me y’all lol.