“I want to have a little sister… but appa said it’s impossible since my real omma is now dead… I asked for ‘omma’ to give me a little sister… she laughed at me telling she would give me one someday… I can’t wait for that day to come…”

Those words from the little girl were still fresh in his memory… made his inside turned upside down… how could an innocent child easily stir his feelings…

Expecting for the little girl to be disappointed in the end… he’s hoping that may her young mind forget that wish as time pass by.

His thoughts then got interrupted when he heard the door opened…

Again… he chose to lock himself inside his office… waiting for the night to come to finally have a reason to go out… after what happened earlier with ‘her’ niece, he came to a realization that he shouldn’t make himself too attached on the little girl… for seeing Soojin always reminds him of nothing but his wife.

And yet… now… here ‘she’ is again…

As if no matter what he does to stay away… something would still pull her towards him…

“What do you want…? Can’t you see I’m busy…?”

He told her with his always cold voice.

“Uhmm… sorry for bothering you… Soojin and I will just go to the university’s fair… I’m wondering if you would want to join us…”

She thought of asking him for the whole day… even though she knows what his answer would be… she still tried her chance.

He looked up… she gasped as upon seeing his infuriated expression that all said the incoming rejection from him.

“Are you kidding me…? Join you..? I’m done babysitting your niece… and you of all people should know first who I want to be with… just keep your booty away from my sight…”

Just as she thought… but maybe she just wanted to be insulted again… maybe it became her routine to be daggered by his painful words… maybe it wouldn’t complete her day of not being tortured by his cold treatment…

But no… since yesterday… and especially this morning… something’s been pushing her to see him again… hoping she would be ale to see another side of him.

Her shoulders slumped in defeat… the same feeling of her heart being ripped apart struck her… and again… she could feel the moist forming inside her orbs.

“Mi-… mianhe… I… I should go… sorry for bothering you again…”

She stuttered… quickly turned around… hiding her pathetic looking face from the man who brought her pain again…

As soon as he heard the door closed… he collapsed his upper frame on his desk… his face turned to the side… gazing at the closed door… mouth half opened trying to gasped a fistful of air to breath…

Clutching once again on his aching chest… trying to interpret yet again the confusing and painful feeling that’s been bothering him for days.

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Her niece sure enjoyed the fair… running around and dragging her from booth to booth… good thing CL was there to help her control the little girl’s energetic self…

The fair was wonderful… colorful lights surrounded the field… there were so much booths with different activities in it… and later there would be a fireworks display to end the school’s celebration.

Everything that happened earlier at ‘his’ office were now completely out of her system… focusing her time together with her niece was the best resort not to remind herself the pain that almost ruined her day.

CL was too fond by the little girl’s adorableness… even compared Dara to her niece that she too should act like the little girl… too much waste of her beauty… Dara just blushed and shrugged off her friend’s teasing.

“Omma… I’m thirsty…”

The little girl tugged her pants as they were walking towards another booth… she looked down and brought the kid up to her arms…

“Oh… Soojin-ah… do you want to come with me…? I’ll buy us and your omma some drinks and food…”

Her friend got Soojin from her… the two went with the little girl still on her hyped energy…

She smiled to herself as she watched Soojin waved at her from the booth where they’re buying… and just then someone caught her attention.

Past the direction where her friend and her niece were… she saw ‘him’… in his most casual clothes… wearing just a shirt and baggy pants… with a red beanie on his head… he looked more of his young age…

Despite the crowd surrounding the event… her eyes still caught his figure… there she saw his smile once again… totally forgetting where that smile is being given to… she just admired it… memorizing every movements of his lips… not missing and forgetting every detail of his smile…

Not until someone woke her up from her so called ‘site-seeing’

“Yo…”

She heard a familiar voice coming behind her… there she finally managed to blink her eyes… there she finally realized where those smiles were for… there she saw her husband happily being with his lover…

She slowly looked back… almost forgetting the man who called for her…

And there she saw her him again… too bad the sun already set out… for she really wants to see his unique beauty whenever the sun highlights his physique…

But seeing him tonight doesn’t lessen that beauty… seeing him too in his most causal clothes brought up his tough image… thankful that at least the colorful lights still helped her see his weird yet soft aura…

“Hi…”

She smiled towards him… and she saw how his tiny eyes went into slits as he gave her back a warm smile…

Silence… she’s now used to his silence… he’s not really a talker… and maybe she would be surprised once he will suddenly talk more than one sentence or two…

“Are you here just by yourself…?”

And as usual she broke the silence between them first.

“I believe you were just looking awhile ago where my friends are…”

She raised a brow… he sometimes has this stinger side of him… but maybe that’s what she liked about him… for even his words were full of sarcasm… still could bring her some happiness.

“You really like being alone eh..?”

He asked her… his hands both inside his pockets

“No… why would I come here alone…? Of course I’m with someone…”

She defended… but he just shrugged… looking to where her husband is… maybe rubbing it to her face as to who she’s calling her companion… she followed his gaze but quickly looked back at him… can’t bear to look at the intertwined hands of the lovers…

She cleared to gain his attention back… he just looked at her at the side of his eyes… still his face turned sideways.

“Why are you here…? Aren’t you supposed to be with your friends…?”

He then turned to her still wearing a blank face.

“Can’t I wander around and leave my friends for a while…? I told you once that they are old enough to manage themselves… I just found you and wouldn’t be a courtesy to greet an acquaintance of mine…?”

Her eyes widen… as far as she can remember… that was the longest statement she heard from him… and instead of