Fifty five

 “Oppa” it was a Saturday morning and his plan was to sleep in late. He woke up to her calling him, it was 8 am and she was downstairs, quite unusual. He guessed she wanted to do some studying. “Oppa can you get me my book?”

“Which one?” he slowly pushed the covers off and climbed out of bed.

“The hard covered, blue one. It’s on the top of the pile” her voice came from downstairs. He walked toward the books lying on the floor.

“Physics?”

“Yeah…” he picked up the book and climbed down the stairs.

“Good morning” He found her lying on the couch.

“Morning” He placed the book on the table facing her and was about to leave for breakfast when she called after him. “Yes?” she pointed toward the book again. His eyebrows rose when he figured out she was actually gesturing him to hand it to her. “Really?”

“It’s too far” he sighed and handed her the book. “But oppa…”

“What?”

“That’s not the one” it was blue, it was on the top of the pile, and it was physics. He was pretty sure that was the one. “This one is quantum physics. I wanted the one about molecular physics” she told him with a pout.

 “It was on the top of the batch”

“I was talking about the other batch” she simply answered.

He sighed. “And you can’t get it because…”

”I can’t move” she demonstrated an attempt to sit straight, which fell horribly as she whimpered.

“What’s wrong?” he went near her and supported her back against the cushion.

“Everything oppa. All my muscles are aching” she gave him a pout. It was obviously because of last night’s dancing.

She went to a pre graduation party the previous night. It lasted for five hours. He asked her why the partying couldn’t be postponed until the actual graduation but she simply shrugged.

He went back up to get her the right book, then sat near her and allowed her to relax against him.

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He was standing in the long queue at the market when she called him. He told her lying under a blanket would make her feel better, it didn’t apparently. She called him to ask him to bring her some heat patches since the pain was getting too much. He went back home with a plastic bag filled with heat patches and sprays. She was still lying on the daybed.

Her phone rang as he was about to sit down. She gave him a look and he went to the phone. “It’s Hyo Ri” he knew she wasn’t there at the party since she was visiting her parents in another town, that call meant