-Disclaimer- I don’t own anything at all (sadly)! Merry Christmas to all my lovely readers! I know it’s been a while since I last updated – I’m very sorry for that – but I hope you’ll like it. Thank you so much for reading the previous chapters! I hope that you’ll enjoy this 11th chapter (Can’t believe we’re already so far)! Have fun reading and leave a comment at the end to let me know what you thought of it ^^ P.S. Unfortunately I cannot promise anything for the next update – I’m trying my very best, but there’s so much going on =_=

“Cha Eun-Sang?”, Eun-Sang suddenly heard Young-Do asking, but she couldn’t figure out how he could still talk while he was kissing her. She could feel and see his lips attached to hers, so why was he talking? How could he be talking? “Cha Eun-Sang! Cha Eun-Sang!”

And suddenly her vision started to shake and she felt like someone was shaking her and then it suddenly got bright again. Cha Eun-Sang blinked once, then twice.

“Yah! We need to get off now!”, Choi Young-Do exclaimed to her and upon realizing that she wasn’t moving, he grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the bus and onto the busy streets of Seoul.

They continued walking down the streets, in complete silent and still hand in hand. While Young-Do didn’t mind this, he did mind that Cha Eun-Sang seemed so lost in her own thoughts.

“Are you going to tell me what you’re thinking about or will I have to guess it?”, Young-Do asked her after a few more minutes spent in silence. When he noticed that she wasn’t reacting to his words, he thought about repeating his words, but exactly at that moment Cha Eun-Sang turned to look at him

“Guess what? There’s nothing to guess at all. I’m just tired okay?”, Eun-Sang snapped at him and pulled her jacket closer to her body. Young-Do instantly mourned their loss of contact but kept his mouth shut. The air was cool, but it wasn’t that that made Eun-Sang shiver. She was thinking about the dream she had had in the bus and what this meant for her future – for their future even!

Young-Do who was now several steps behind her only raised his eyebrows at her behavior. He hadn’t meant to make her angry, he had thought about teasing her a bit more but her reaction truly surprised him and he couldn’t help but to wonder what had caused her to snap at him. Their evening had been going so well (except for that encounter with Yoo Rachel and Kim Tan). Was she thinking about that? Could it be that she didn’t want to be seen with him? But if that were the case then she would’ve reacted way earlier and not now. Had it something to do with her falling asleep on the bus? Was she embarrassed?

Young-Do simply couldn’t tell and it bothered him greatly. He had to do something to clear this situation up or else he wouldn’t be able to sleep at all. He knew that she wouldn’t tell him exactly what caused this change of mood – she was simply too stubborn, but he would at least try to lift the mood a bit, thus he sprinted forward, blocked Eun-Sang’s path and kneeled before her, but with his back to her.

“Hop on.”

“What?”

“Hop on.”

“Why should I?”

“Yah! Cha Eun-Sang! Just accept my piggyback ride!”

Minutes later

“See? That piggyback ride isn’t all that bad, right?”, Choi Young-Do demanded after a few minutes, but instead of getting an answer he heard a very quiet snore. “Well that hasn’t happened to me before…”, he muttered and held her a little tighter to make sure that she wouldn’t fall down. He chuckled lightly to himself and continued to ascend the street towards their neighborhood. Young-Do had to admit that he never would’ve thought that he’d be calling a neighborhood like this ‘his’ or even ‘home’. But that was exactly what this neighborhood to him now was – it had become his home.

As a child he had often watched movies, where children kept on saying they wanted to go home or even sayings like: ‘Home is where the heart is’…he had never understood it, but now he believed he did and he wanted to keep it, to cherish it, to protect it with all his might and to never let go. Young-Do could barely think back to times when his mom was still around, had he then felt this good?

“If you could only hear my thoughts, Eun-sang…you’d be surprised how cheesy I became! Yah! That’s your fault!”, he muttered quietly and froze as he heard his name being uttered by Cha Eun-Sang.

She moved a bit on his back and suddenly he felt her warm, soft lips on his neck, followed by his name once again and only seconds later this was followed by a snore. Choi Young-Do didn’t know what to do. He was at a complete loss of words, he could barley move and his breath was coming out in short huffs. He knew that he was looking like a complete moron, standing in the middle of the road, eyes probably as wide as saucers with a sleeping girl on his back.

‘If you only knew what you’re doing to me, Eun-Sang…’, he thought to himself and continued walking to their home.  ‘Get a damn grip! She’s sleeping…she probably doesn’t even know what she’s doing…Okay, she CAN’T know what she’s doing – she’s sleeping! Gosh! Now I’m even rambling in my head! Seriously! She turned you into a complete fool, a lovesick fool…’

Young-Do groaned as he carried Eun-Sang to the rooftop, his back was hurting, but he didn’t want to disturb her peaceful slumber. She had gone through a lot recently and he was mostly at fault, the least he could do was let her get some sleep – even if she had acted in a strange manner tonight. Once in front of the door, he tried to get the keys out of his leather jacket, but the keys were too deep inside the pocket, he could hear them rustling, but somehow he couldn’t get a grip on them.

Just as he was considering waking Cha Eun-Sang, the front door opened and a slightly smaller guy than Choi Young-Do stepped out. Immediately he recognized him as his former best friend’s brother, Kim Won, the CEO of Jeguk Group.

“Choi Young-Do, I was wondering when I’d get to see you…”, Kim Won spoke quietly and looked at the pair from head to toe. To Young-Do it seemed that Kim Won had looked at him disapprovingly, but that look was so short that Young-Do wasn’t sure if he had really seen it or just imagined it.

Without any further words Kim Won stepped aside to let Young-Do enter. Young-Do felt anger at the knowledge that Kim Won had a key to their home, that he had made usage of it and that he had been in their home for god knows how long.

Quietly and delicately he put Eun-Sang on their bed, took off her coat, shoes and socks and made sure that she was comfortable before slipping out the front door, Kim Won following after him.

As soon as the front door was closed, Young-Do turned to look at the CEO. It had been a while since he had last seen his former friend’s brother, but he hadn’t changed a bit. He still wore the tailored suits, neat haircut and impeccably polished shoes.

“How long have you been here?”

“What? No hello? I’m hurt, Young-Do!”, Kim Won exclaimed feigning hurt.

“Oh, please. You and I both know you didn’t come here to make some small talk – at least not with me. So why are you here?”

“I came to check up on Cha Eun-Sang…and by extent you too”, Kim Won spoke quietly and leaned against the closed front door, he folded his arms over his chest and guarded Young-Do. Kim Won noticed a few changes about the lad, he seemed happier than the last time he had seen him – which had been before the downfall of Young-Do’s family. Kim Won had to admit to himself that he was rather surprised to see this, he had witnessed several people and families losing all of their money and ending on the streets – and most of them didn’t look as happy and well-fed as the young man in front of him.

“How…?”

“How did I know that you live here? Remember that night you got really drunk in that bar and woke up at Eun-Sang’s place the next day?”

Young-Do couldn’t help but to groan at that. “Of course I do, and from the way you’re mentioning this I take it that you’re Cha Eun-Sang’s mysterious friend who paid my bill and helped her brining