Clicking the key into the lock, she jiggles to make sure that the door is secured and properly closed. She stands up and looks into the café and checks to see if everything is in place. Her Geonaute wrist watch, gifted by Jaebeom, read 11.37pm. She heaved a heavy sigh, straightened her knapsack and walked towards the nearest train station. Before she could plug in her headphones, she hears light foot steps following behind her. She quickens her pace and makes a sudden turn around.

“Crap! You startled me!” The man staggers.

She lets out a sigh of relief “Oh it’s you! You haven’t been stalking me have you?” It's the dude from this afternoon, she realizes. Daniel was it? She mused.

“Well.. after our exchange today, I kinda felt like we needed to have a proper introductory session. Hi My name is so-and-so wasn’t gonna cut it for me.”

They stopped for a moment. She turns around fully facing him and he stops abruptly. It’s dark and she squints to make sure she’s seeing this scene right. “Right, so firstly I must apologize for giving you the wrong idea here but I didn’t think I was gonna leave a lasting impression by stammering my words this afternoon. I’ve had the rest of the day to gather myself…” she clears “so can I just say this, thank you Daniel for this afternoon’s surprise, but I’m not interested.” She smiles guiltily and shuffles her converse shoes and walks backwards slowly, and turns towards the direction of the train station.

He stands there, watching her walk away, chuckles and runs after her. He catches up and stops her in her track “Hold up. Don’t you want to be friends at least? Because I do.” He stretches out his legs so he matches her height.

She lets out an impatient sigh “Fine. Sure. We can be friends. Can I go now?”

“Let me walk you back.” He offered.

“I’m taking the train.”

“Then I’ll take the train with you” He insisted.

She stops again. “Is there a reason why I cant brush you off nicely? Why’re you still here again?”

“I’m trying to be friends, remember?” he smiles again.

She tries to reason with herself. Telling herself that he’s not a handsome weird- stalker who just wants to be her “friend”. She suddenly notices, his eye mole beneath his right eye and how his eyes wrinkle up when he smiles. Or how….

“Friends accompany each other home, you know” He presses on.

“Erm yeah sure they do. “ She continues to walk.

“So I’m going to take a guess, that you haven’t had your dinner yet?” he openly nudges her, as if they’ve established some close friendship.

“Mmmmhhhmmm….” She fiddles with her headphones and attempts to plug it into her phone. She wants to not ignore him so bad but she cannot help but think that he’s being pushy for a reason. Maybe he wants free smoothies for the rest of his life? She pondered. Or maybe he needs a job? Damnit G, whats wrong with you?! So many things buzzing through