New Moon Ch.1

Kim Tan sits at his usual café in Cali writing in his journal when his good friend Summer runs up to his table with her surfboard and dripping hair. She speaks in Korean, though she is American, "Tan, I just rode the best wave of my life. , you should have seen it." She puts her board against the wall and sits in the chair opposite him.

He leans back in his chair and looks at her surprised, "Jinjja? I'm sad I missed it!" He runs his hand through his hair taking in everything, as she goes into intricate detail about the whole thing…" oh man, it was so wild," she exclaimed as she took his glass of iced water and gulped it down. The waitress walking by, who was listening to their conversation in amusement, came to add more water.

Shortly after this moment and a peaceful silence between the two friends as Summer caught her breath from her attempt at telling Tan her story all at once, Tan noticed a girl standing on the boardwalk with a suitcase: she looked very out of place and a bit distraught. He was looking at her so intently that Summer's gaze followed his and noticed the pretty Korean girl as well.

She was scanning the area for something, or someone, and then she found who she was looking for. Stella, the waitress who was just at their table, was making eye contact with her and the tension was now palpable. It did not take long until they were in front of each other next to the restaurant, yelling, clothes flying everywhere—from the suitcase that is. Stella managed to grab a bag of money from what Summer and Tan now understood was her sister and fled the scene, leaving the poor girl crying as she begged Stella to wait.

Summer's heart started to ache as she watched the scene; she always felt the suffering of others very easily and she could tell Kim Tan was also distraught by it. Before they realized what was happening, Kim Tan's other friend, who Summer kept forgetting the name of as he was very annoying, approached the girl and stole her bag of bean powder. Summer's left eyebrow raised in question, "Omo! Does he think its drugs?"

Kim Tan did not hesitate to run after his friend since the girl was now chasing him, and Summer followed suit. It was not hard to catch up to them as the friend knocked himself into a volleyball net and shortly after spilled the bag of bean powder in an attempt to keep it to himself. He then started having an allergic reaction to the powder. At this point Summer thought the day could not get any more intense.

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Following their hospital visit with bean-powder boy and the boardwalk girl, who they now know as Cha Eun Sang, they then had to talk to the police. Summer knew very well that Kim Tan did not have a good standing with them, so she attempted to diffuse the situation. It did not go well. The policeman didn't believe any friend of Kim Tan's could be telling the truth, and said he would indeed need to check if this Eun-Sang was trying to smuggle drugs into the U.S.. Kim Tan also lied about her being his girlfriend, so now the policeman really did not trust her and decided to hold onto her passport.

"What's going on? What's he doing with my passport?" Eun Sang looked from Kim Tan to Summer, worry filling her eyes every second. Kim Tan sheepishly grinned, "It'll be okay, they need to verify the bean powder isn't a drug and then you'll get your passport back." Summer rubbed the back of her head and smiled as well, "Yeah don't you worry, Kim Tan here will take care of you," she then looked at him, winked, and looked back at Eun Sang, "I have to go get my board from the restaurant, I'll see you guys later!" Before either of them could respond she had run off.

Kim Tan rolled his eyes and led the girl back to his car. She was afraid he would leave her, and he found that very cute. She wanted to go to her sister's house so he obliged, not knowing this was just the start of his night.

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Summer felt a good energy between the two, though the situation was very odd and she still felt bad for the girl. But she was a strong believer in everything happens for a reason so she smiled a bit to herself and decided to leave the two for a few days. She had a feeling Cha Eun Sang would hang around for a while, seeing as her sister is a complete .

She got her surfboard from the restaurant and decided to sit on the beach for a bit under the stars to watch the waves. It was a new moon, so there was no moonlight, but she knew what the new moon represented, so she decided to put good 'seeds of thought' out into the universe:

I hope Kim Tan will find what he has been looking for

I hope Cha Eun Sang will find the peace she is in need of

I hope I can make father proud and one day take the business seriously…

I hope I can find love and that no one will know but him, how big of a softie I really am…

She laughed at her last thought, feeling silly, as she dug up the sand with her hand and put it back down again. She didn't know how long she did that for, but as she started to yawn she realized it was probably best to head on home. She stood up and brushed the sand off her bathing suit, grabbed her board and looked up at the sky one last time before smiling to herself and starting the walk.