[Flashback]

“..Is there any angel or fairy?”

“Yes, in fairy tales”

“…”

“And in those who believe in fairy”

“I don’t believe in fairy anymore.”

“That’s when you kill all fairy and angel, child”

[Present]

“…here’s a present for the first place student.” A middle size, white box with red ribbon was leaned out to the girl.

Weeks of excellent studying passed. This weekend, Yonghwa could find time to take Juhyun out for shopping at the most luxurious mall in town.

After he told her to wait inside an Italian place, Yonghwa went on and came back with that present he claimed.

“A first place? Me? Who says that?” Joohyun asked,confused.

“Sonsaengnim Han told me you were excellent and real smart.” He said with adoring smile.

“I’m supposed to hear it first, am I? Why did she tell you but not me?”

She got him surprised again. Instead of focused on his gift, she now fussed about those facts. “If you hear it first, so you could brag to me, huh?” He teased.

“Maybe, but the point is I need to hear about my evaluation, samchon. It’s important” She said with a serious, yet adorable face.

“Alright, then you hear from me now – you are excellent, SeoJuhyun.” Then he ruffled her hair just to bully her, he couldn’t help doing that.

“Ahrasseoyoh, I will let that pass. Ahhh you stop this, bad samchon.” She tried to stop his bullying.

“Wow! You called me bad. I bought you a gift and that you say, jinja?” Yonghwa said in awe. But she knew now he just made fun of that.

“For the gift, I say thank you, samchon.” She told. “And I will do better in studying, okay?”

Of course, you will. You always strike for better and better and better – no ceiling! “Then how about open the box now?” He would ask.

Juhyun nodded, then turned to busy with her gift. Finally she opened the lid and what she found sitting inside was a white elegant touch screen mobile phone. It’s the new arrival version.

“Mobile phone” She mumbled to herself.

Yonghwa secretly observed her expression but what he saw on that face was blank – absolute blank, before she covered it with her smile and looked up to him.

“Thank you so much,samchon.” She smiled brightly. He wasn’t sure what was in her mind now.

“You don’t like it? Wanna check other versions? Other brands?”

“I’m sure it’s all same kind of kind, samchon – all mobile kind of phone.”

That meant she didn’t care in its difference.

There is a thing about SeoJoohyun, she isn’t quite impressed with material stuff and such. Or at least, she tries not to.

“With it I can check on you when in need. It keeps us connect when we are far apart, isn’t it useful” Yonghwa convinced.

“Neh, it’s very useful for lives these days.” She smiled back as an acknowledgment.

But inside, she thought to herself – besides him, there are not many people for her to connect with, not really. And it makes her feel burden somehow since she is used to her company but from now on this mobile object will demand and/or expect her to welcome all those calls. Hence she had a feeling most of calls will go in vein with all nonsense small talks instead of the face-to-face and deep conversations because she wanted so much to read into those eyes of him even she couldn’t figure him out, yet.

 “I heard it comes in pact with the large sized memory card and the best camera, right? Ahh then I can have the clear picture of the best moment I want to capture. Can you teach me how to use the camera, samchon?” She asked with smile.

After that Yonghwa was spending time teach the girl to use the mobile phone, and he added his phone number as ‘0’ line for emergency. He also taught her how to send message via some famous apps, and finally taught her to use camera app, and so he snapped the picture of her.

Joohyun was surprised with the unexpected snap shot, and that moment Yonghwa snapped another shot and the big grin plastered his face when he checked out that picture.

“You face is priceless, Joohyun. Haha” He laughed.

“Ahhh wae keuraeyohhh, samchon!” Joohyun whined. “Let me have a look first! That is my phone after all, right?” She demanded.

“Then you will delete it, huh?” He asked and then he did something to the phone.

“What are you doing now, samchon” She asked doubtfully.

“Sending your picture to my phone, no doubt” Yonghwa replied with grin.

“Undwe-yohhh! Samchon! Ahhh jinja!” Joohyun screamed with frustration but nothing could stop the man on his fun now.

Finally Joohyun could only stand apart, hand crossed, stern face. Her nostrils a bit flared.

“Done.” Yonghwa remarked with wider grin and handed the phone back to the girl.

“Chamm….such a bad samchon” Joohyun accused. “Now let me take your priceless picture to be fair” she said.

“Fine, go on” The man said and shifted to pose in his charming style, one hand was under his chin like the rich business super-model.

“Chongmalro? This pose?” The girl asked, she was amused the man had this side! Of course he did!

One moment he was cold and ignorant, another he was blue and absentminded, another he was so playful and arrogant, so what was the real you, samchon?

She took a picture of him nevertheless, just couldn’t hurt his gut doing such a confident pose.

“You should be grateful; many people would get killed to have me posed for them.”

“Chinja!” She uttered unbelievably. “Should I ask for your autograph, too?” She mocked.

“Better, you can take a picture with me like what those fangirls always want.” Yonghwa replied. He knew this was a bit too much of self-flattery but hell! He enjoyed this and he didn’t want to fathom on why or why –not.

A man sure was fond of flattery, especially when it came from someone close to him. As a man in the flame he loved to be the center of attention BUT this side was kept in check most of time.

Though not now.

“Aigoo.. look at you and your full-on confidence! What happen with my samchon!?.”

“He is happily living in the moment.” Yonghwa smiled.

Yes, he was happy as if suddenly his happiness was easy to find – it’s there.

“Oppa..” Someone called and touched his elbow very lightly.

Yonghwa turned around and found a beautiful familiar face that’s belonged to Im YoonA. She was known as the Korean national angel with such a young angelic face even in her 29 and that delicate figure any girls would ask for. YoonA smiled at him while Yonghwa still had that silly happy smile.

“YoonA” Yonghwa uttered the name in surprise.

“I never thought I would meet you here. What a chance!” She acclaimed.

“Yes. And since when you are back from Milan?”

“Last night and right when I want to find you just to give you some souvenir and here you are” She smiled to him while lifted up a bag in her hand to his eye level, inside contained a luxurious limited perfume made in Milan.

“I see. Now you found me. Thank for the souvenir” Yonghwa replied and reached out for the bag. “Can I open it now” He asked eagerly.

His eagerness made YoonA surprised in a good way. Since when has he very participated like this? She wondered. “Of course, you can.” She said with smile.

But right before Yonghwa opened his present. He remembered the girl. “I will open it later and will let you know if I’m impressed by your souvenir.” He jokingly said in matter of fact. “Now let me introduce you to someone. This is SeoJooHyun” Yonghwa introduced the girl while put his hand on the girl’s shoulder.

YoonA was surprised even more because she hadn’t notice Joohyun at first, but now she did and she couldn’t help but a bit took aback. Yonghwa oppa was with a girl!

“Joohyun is my niece. And Joohyun, this is ImYoonA. She is my hoobae back in high school.” Yonghwa continued.

Joohyun bended low to the woman and when she looked up she couldn’t help but stared at that beautiful face with her sparkling eyes and couldn’t hide her giddy smile. She had known this gorgeous woman from television and magazines and had heard the nurses talking about Korean National Angel every now and then. So to say, Joohyun was sort of a fan of ImYoonA. “Ni…Nice to meet you, YoonA-ssii. You look utmost beautiful in person…I’ve never thought I would meet you. Jinjaa you are like a real angel.” Joohyun said with excitement.

Yonghwa could never think Joohyun has this side. It made him smile.

“Err..Nice to meet you, too, Joohyun. Thanks for such a compliment. But every time someone praised me, my nervous hormone acted up and I couldn’t act properly…ahh I’m too old for being this shy, am I? haha” Korean National Angel replied while her nervous hand kept tucking a lock of her hair behind her ears. She tried to cover her awkwardness with her laughter.

“No, you aren’t a bit old!” Joohyun uttered “I think samchon is rather old not you.  And if samchon don’t allow me to call him “Ahjushii”, you can only be my “Unnie”, don’t you think so?” Joohyun kept drabbling.

At this moment, Yonghwa started to bind over Joohyun inwardly. “Look, YoonA, my niece is such a big fan of you and she even turned against me now.” Yonghwa said and stepped close to YoonA to pull her hand away from her own hair.

Yonghwa knew this habit of YoonA, she needed someone to put a stop unless the Korean National angel would absentmindedly keep tucking her hair forever. What Yonghwa didn’t know though YoonA got her head in the clouds only when she was close to him.

Her high school crush – one and only – the legendary prince charming – Jung Yonghwa!

“Right! I’m a big fan but I’ve just watched two of your dramas.” Joohyun confessed.

“Chinja? You watched my dramas.” YoonA asked with the beautiful smile.

“Yes, the one that you have to fight those bad people and the one you acted as a deaf girl. I don’t remember the drama titles. I just remembered broadcasting time. Everyone gathered in front of TV and –“

Before Joohyun could go futher, Yonghwa interrupted the girl “YoonA, if you aren’t in a big hurry. Let’s sit down and have lunch, my reciprocal treat for this souvenir. Then you two can even talk for the whole afternoon.”

“I’m in” YoonA replied with the sweet smile.

And then the three of them would sit down and have late lunch together. YoonA sat across Yonghwa and Joohyun was at another side of the table.

 “I didn’t know - Oppa has such a beautiful niece” YoonA would say to Yonghwa while smiled to Joohyun.

Joohyun turned to Yonghwa, waiting for him to open up for a story that she came from the island of the blue dolphins as she always told him to do so, but Yonghwa said none of it.

“I’ve just picked her up to stay with me.” Only this he said.

“Samchon picked me up from the island of the Blue Dolphins” Joohyun couldn’t help added in with serious look on her adorable face.

At this point, Yonghwa couldn’t help but laughed out loud, he almost choked.

“Oppa, be careful..” YoonA was the one giving him a handkerchief, showing her deep care.

Yonghwa took it “Sorry for my manner, YoonA-yah.” He told YoonA before turned to Joohyun. “Now you want to play an island girl again, huh?” He playfully asked.

Joohyun could only blink; she didn’t understand him. She thought he was supposed to tell…

“Joohyun-ah, just cut it already. No need to tell such a story.” Yonghwa told a girl in adorable tone.

Now Joohyun’s face revealed so much trouble. “But samchon… You must tell YoonA-ssii before I embarrass you in front of your guess! Just…here…this…I don’t know a thing about this – THIS!” She emphasized on THIS while motioned her hands to everything around her.

Just to give him a clue how alien-like she felt in this place, this luxurious Italian place she had no idea which fork or spoon or knife she needed to grab first since there were bunch of them aligned neatly on the table – she really had no idea how people enjoyed it here! Why can’t we all eat food with an easy and simple way! Perhaps she would try to follow suit what Yonghwa did but that would never make her a civilized person in a sudden.

She wasn’t one of them!

And she knew that.

But Yonghwa still had his laughter lingered, he just hadn’t got the clue and then he tried to stop and said “Because I can’t remember where you are from. It’s such a long tale.” He justified himself.

“Then I will tell it myself.” Joohyun told Yonghwa, just wished to put an end to this already.

 And now something fun had gotten into Yonghwa, he seemed to enjoy the way she bothered with her make-believed story. He thought it was special about her, so he let her be.

Joohyun turned to YoonA with the serious look.”YoonA-ssii, I came from the island of the blue dolphins. It’s located in pacific sea, outside American western coast, south-west of Los Angeles, but recent carbon-14 tests show that it might come from the shore of Alaska. I think it’s closest to the Santa Barbara shoreline, in California”

And then both Yonghwa and YoonA couldn’t help filled the air with laughter.

Joohyun could only frown. “I want to go to restroom.” She declared, decided to find some shelter for this humiliation she did to herself.

If Yonghwa was the only one who laughed at her, it wasn’t a big deal. But now even the Korean National Angel also laughed at her, she felt utmost embarrassed.

But before she turned around, YoonA grabbed one of her hands. “I’m so sorry. I don’t mean to laugh at you but I found you too cute when you focused on telling your wonderful story”

Joohyun turned to YoonA “It’s not your fault. I just don’t know anymore what I am doing here. I tried my best to adapt….because I came from the very different place… very different from here and.. and that island story, I don’t lie. Sometimes I really thought I were there, I was left alone and no one came to rescue me.. I -..” Her words now turned to sobs and right there her tears were shed from her eyes.

That made other two panicked, especially Yonghwa.

“…Perhaps I shouldn’t leave my island. I’m supposed to live there until I die.” And her sob turned to cry.

Yonghwa got on his feet in no time and rushed to hold the girl’s shoulders. “No way, silly kid! You did the best; you already adapted and fit well. I’m sorry..I’m sorry for making you feel this bad.” He said and tried to pat on her head.

“But...but at this outside is too messy. I’ll be alright myself but… I worry I would trouble you or embarrass you like this, samchon” She told him with sob and it looked so pity.

SeoJoohyun kept worry about how she would trouble him again and again. When she would learn there was no need for that.

“I’m sorry I embarrassed you.” She kept saying that.

“No, you didn’t and will never. I’m never embarrassed by you. You are such a lovely and brilliant girl. Why should I feel embarrassed having you around, huh? Shhh..don’t cry, good girl. Don’t  you listen to samchone anymore, huh?” Yonghwa put his hands on her cheeks and used his thumbs to dry her tears.

ImYoonA stood in silence, waching the scene until Joohyun was back to her normal self, calm and composed.

“I will accompany Joohyun to wash her face, oppa” YoonA volunteered and then grabbed Joohyun’s hand; lead the way to the rest room.

On the way to rest room, walking behind a Korean national angel, Joohyun really thought YoonA was such an angel came out from fairytale.

Angel helped Joohyun to wash her face, and gave her handkerchief to dry her face, even helped the girl arranged her hair, tucked it behind her ears. Angel treated Joohyun so well and so tender.

“Look, crying make your beautiful eyes swollen and your nose redden – it made you less lovely, so better don’t cry, ahrasseo?” YoonA told the girl with the smile.

“YoonA-ssii, I’m ill…I’m very ill.” Joohyun confessed. “I thought Yonghwa samchon would never told you or anyone about my story, but you are an angel, you would understand me, right?  I am ill because my inside was so messy and I couldn’t fight the ghost inside me.”

“I know you will be fine, good girl” YoonA tried to soothe her.

“But I was mentally ill. Other people call me psycho.”

YoonA was a bit stunted but she diminished it in one blink and smiled back to the girl. “And what is about that? Other people may call you anything they want - angel or psycho, sane or insane, weird or genius, but only you know who you truly are, right?” She smiled beautifully to the girl.

Joohyun could only nod with admiration to the older girl. “I came from the mental hospital where there are lots of psycho people, one moment they are steady and then they get nuts, be out of mind, turn to maniac and scream. Some are no harm, they keep laugh when the wind blows. Some are kind, funny and nice to talk with. But all in all, people outside called us mental cases.”

YoonA had never thought she would hear something like that….

“I came from such place, but I couldn’t remember where it began. I don’t remember why I ended up there and how it turned me to…“ She seemed like she would cry again.

At that moment, YoonA pulled the girl to her embrace. “shhh..it’s alright.”

…………………………………………………

ImYoonA led the girl by the hand back to the table where Yonghwa sat with so much concern to the girl. When he saw them approached, he stood up as to welcome with a loose nod in his chest.

YoonA smiled to Yonghwa and right there he noticed her redden eyes as if she had just done crying.

Yonghwa didn’t ask but he could guess, maybe YoonA heard something…

…a hurtful story, something’s not so beautiful but this is real.

“Samchon, YoonA-ssii allowed me to call her ‘Unnie’ already” Joohyun told with bright smile.

“Chinja? So now you’re an angel’s sister, right?” Yonghwa teased.

“Yes, and that made Joohyun’s an angel as same as me.” YoonA added in.

“Am I?” Joohyun asked with surprise. “Alright! Then I will put on an act of angel sometimes. Heehehe” She laughed.

Now the bright and lovely Joohyun was back, she smiled adoringly and filled the air with her cheerful, sweet voice. Yonghwa wouldn’t ask for anything more – just the girl in her tranquility.

Yonghwa thought he had to thank YoonA for this.

…………………………………………………………..

At the mall parking lot

SeoJoohyun was waiting inside the car while Yonghwa accompanied YoonA to her car after they three spent the day together.

Does the angel’s car must be white? Or does it have wings? Joohyun kept thinking nonsense to herself just to keep her mind busy.

Then she pried her eyes to observe all those cars around.

And what she found….

A little far from her spot, but she still could tell for sure. She saw them stand so close, hold each other…

‘They were kissing’

Someone snapped that shot.

Later that picture was spread around internet, on social page of newspapers, and every magazine with the head title of

‘The Angel’s kiss’

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Keunnn (end) for this chapter, ottoke???

hahaha this story YoonA was put on the role of an Angel :) Please looking forward to next chapter.

Please comment something

P.S. If I could find a time, the next chapter will be posted by tomorrow.

#YONGSEO_FOREVER