97. It’s only the two of us

In the lobby of the Consencio building.

“I’ve come here too early,” Eunwoo mumbled to himself while looking at his watch.

Even at rush hour, the traffic wasn’t heavy, so he had arrived at the building half an hour earlier than he was supposed to.

Eunwoo thought about going down to the shop on the basement floor where the Kidz Fan products were displayed, so he started walking toward the elevator.

“Huh? Dr. Park?”

At that time, a familiar voice called him.

The person approaching him with a smile was Eunyoung.

“Eunyoung, it’s been a long time.” Eunwoo greeted Eunyoung with a smile.

“Yes, it has. How’s everything?” Eunyoung asked.

“Great. It’s so good to see you. Are you going home?”

“Yes, what’s up here?”

“I have a dinner appointment.”

“With Sun?”

“Yes.”

“Ah…”

Eunyoung mumbled the end of her sentence. She recalled that Sun said that she still had something more to do, but Eunyoung knew more than anyone that it was just an excuse. However, Eunyoung thought this was something unexpected because she thought Sun would see Gyeonhui, not Eunwoo.

“Why isn’t she coming down?”

“I came half an hour earlier.” Eunwoo smiled awkwardly.

“Would you like me to call her?”

“No, I’ll just wait at the basement floor and check things out there.”

Eunyoung saw that Eunwoo was trying not to rush Sun.

Eunyoung felt sorry for him.

‘Does he know that Sun started seeing Mr. Woo again?’

Eunyoung looked at him in sympathy because she already knew how Eunwoo thought about Sun.

When Eunyoung agonized for a moment, she started speaking.

“Dr. Park, did you hear it from Sun?”

“Hear what?”

Looking at him questioning her again, Eunyoung organized her mind. However, the sooner he knew, the better for everyone.

“I know this is not my business, and telling this to you is a little impudent, but…”

Eunyoung hesitated.

It wasn’t as easy as she thought as she actually tried to tell him.

“Is it something about Mr. Woo?”

He might have reread her face, so Eunwoo spoke before her.

“Did you already know?” Eunyoung was surprised and asked him again.

Eunwoo slowly nodded with a smiling face.

“Yes, because Sun doesn’t hide it from anyone.”

“… Are you okay with that?”

“… Well..” Eunwoo answered with a sunken voice.

“I… think I made a mistake. Please don’t bother.” Eunyoung hurriedly wrapped up her words, feeling sorry for him.

She didn’t want to rub salt into a wound.

“Wait a minute.”

Eunyoung made him wait for a minute and walked to the security officers.

When she talked to them for a while, she came back to him and gave him a visitor’s pass.

“Go up to the office.”

“No, I can wait here.”

“You said you still have half an hour. Sun will be sorrier if she finds out that you waited for her for so long. You know how she is. Just take it, please.”

After hesitating for a moment, he took the visitor’s pass she handed.

“Just tell her to go out together with you because the task she’s working on isn’t something urgent so that I can also save some extra pay for overtime pay.”

Hearing her witty words, Eunwoo answered with a smile, “Thank you.”

“Go on.”

Eunwoo bowed to her and got on the elevator.

When the elevator door closed and he was no longer seen, Eunyoung finally exhaled a long sigh that she was holding for a while.

She kept thinking that maybe what Sun really needed was Eunwoo’s warmth.

“Sun… have you really made the right decision?”

Eunyoung shook her head in sympathy. However, it was her life, and she was the one that was responsible for her own life and decision.

That was how everyone lived their lives.

***

‘Whiring.’

The elevator went up fast. Eunwoo was lost in thought while leaning against the wall of the elevator.

“… Are you okay with that?”

“… Well…”

Eunwoo recalled Eunyoung’s eyes in anxiety and his own voice that couldn’t hide his mind from her.

Eunwoo placed his head on the wall and closed his eyes.

‘Dring.’

Meanwhile, the high-speed elevator arrived at the floor where the Kidz Fan office was located.

Even after the elevator door opened, Eunwoo still didn’t move even an inch.

“Am I really okay…” Eunwoo asked himself again.

Apparently, he couldn’t answer his own question either.

He knew that he just had to let her go because he didn’t want to be left as a burden in her mind. However, Eunwoo still missed her so much.

He smiled bitterly and pushed the ‘open’ button.

The elevator door started opening slowly…

***

“She should be fine…”

Eunyoung looked at the path of the elevator that he just got on anxiously.

However, this was an issue that they had to go through.

She shook her head as if she was shaking her anxiety away and confirmed the time.

“Why is he so late?”

Eunyoung looked at the main entrance door in the lobby. However, she couldn’t see Ojae waiting for her.

“Eunyoung!”

At that moment, not the main entrance, but from the back door, Ojae’s voice was heard.

When she looked back, Ojae was running at her in a nice suit, and his hair was bouncing off his head.

“Why, why did you come out so early? Huck, huck.”

He was breathing heavily but still smiling.

When Eunyoung watched him running with all his might to her, she started feeling warm in her mind. However, she also wanted to tease him.

“Why are you so late?”

“I’m sorry. I really tried to come early…”

When she looked at the clock, they were three minutes late for the date.

“I won’t be late again. I promise.”

Ojae said as if he was promising those words to himself.

‘Is he naive… or just simple…’

A smile spread out on her face, but she soon hid her smile, lifted her chin up a little, and started speaking.

“Then why did you come from the backside of the building and not the main entrance?”

“Because I’ve come here with Gyeonhui.”

“Oh… that’s why… you were late..”

Eunyoung nodded as she understood the reason for his tardiness.

“And the traffic was heavy too. It’s not just because of Gyeonhui.”

Ojae kept making excuses.

He didn’t want her to think about Gyeonhui in the wrong way when she already didn’t like him so much.

Gyeonhui was a family for Ojae, even if people liked him or not.

Looking at Ojae, Eunyoung burst out laughing.

‘You really care about your people, don’t you?”

“I mean…”

“I like it. You must if you think he’s your family.”

“Do you think so? Haha…”

Ojae smiled awkwardly soon after.