#hanri

“Hi Sujin” she places her hands in her dress pocket somehow that exists. “I haven’t seen you for so long, unnie! I was starting to think that you moved out” Sujin crashes into her with a hug which takes her by surprise, hesitating to hug the girl back. 

What am i doing? Sujin realises it wasn’t like her at all, running up to someone and hugging them. It was strange because it felt.....nice. 

Jaehwa chortles at the girl, “Sujin-ah i know you missed me but my waist might lose circulation if you keep holding on this tightly.” 

“Sorry unnie” she apologises sheepishly. 

“Hey uh Sujin” Jaehwa calls out as the younger grabs on to the door handle, halting her. “You should go study at Jipuragi today, it’s too messy for your books” 

Jaehwa let out a sigh of relief under her breath as Sujin nodded, heading over to the stairs to the upper floors. 

a few hours ago.... 

“Welco-” Jaehwa halts abruptly when she sees a man she knows far too well not to be able to recognise him. 

She flies almost quite literally to him, while he had a shit-eating grin on his face. But instead of hugging him like he expected her to, she shoves him down to the floor. 

“What the hell are you doing here you freaking idiot!” She whisper shouted, spinning her head around to check if anyone had seen him. 

“Aww are you worried about me?” he still had the grin on his face that she so badly wanted to punch out. “Obviously, if you get caught i will too,” she hisses at him. 

“Don’t worry about me, i just need a place to lay low for a while” Jaehwa bored her eyes into him. “And you chose this place? there’s literally two lawyers here you dumbass” she smacks him repeatedly, both of them still on the floor. 

“Ow, okay i’m sorry” he winces at each smack. 

“Han Daniel, you really get on my nerves” she huffs,smacking him one last time before getting up and going back to her paintings. 

Jaehwa walks back into the shop, rolling her eyes at her friend, who was currently playing video games on the floor. 

“Didn’t your boss ask you to do some weird tacky hacking” she crosses her arms, sitting on the couch. Daniel preps up his elbows, eyes still glued on the game, “you mean our boss”. 

“your boss, i quit already” she corrected him, laying down to watch him play. He glances at her, shoving a chuckle down his throat at how cute she looked. 

Their eyes locked, the souls tangling, twirling and trying to see more. Now no one else mattered. 

Like lovers, they face each other, centimeters apart, eyes trailing at each other’s lips, moving closer to close the ga-

“Noona!” 

Jaehwa jerks up, slapping Daniel along. 

Seojun smirked, laced with malice, raising an eyebrow at  both of them. 

“It’s not what you think!” 

They both yell out in unison, snapping their heads at each other, cheeks red. It definitely made the situation worse. 

“I didn’t even say anything” Jaehwa curses in her head, he’s never gonna let this go. “So” he leans against the door frame, “who are you?” 

“i’m Daniel, Jaehwa’s old friend.” he introduces himself. Jaehwa gives him a side glare, hissing at him, “you idiot he’s the son of the two lawyers”

“Seojun-ah keep this a secret, i’ll give you anything” she begs, Seojun’s smirk widens, eyes sparking. “Deal” 

“Yah Sujin are you going to come for our study sessions or are you going to ditch us again?” Su-ah asks as they walk to lunch. 

“i’m not ditching you guys” she playfully rolls her eyes, “anyways, i can’t come, i have things to do at the law firm” 

“see! you’re ditching us” Su-ah exclaims loudly, earning looks from the students around them. “Come to think of it, you’ve been going to Seojun’s mother’s law firm often” Jugyeong says, she could sense a tease coming. 

“byeonghosa-nim asks me to do a lot of things, i have to go there everyday to complete them” lame excuse she knows, but it was enough to brush off the tease. 

She spots Seojun walking in the opposite direction, telling Jugyeong and Su-ah to walk to the lunch room first. 

“Do we need to buy ingeoppang for your mother?” she asks. 

Hong byeonghosa-nim treated her so nicely whenever she went to Jipuragi Law Firm, the least she could do was buy her something in return. 

“Wae? Don’t tell me you’re going there again” he exasperates, putting his hands on his hips. 

“Of course i am” Sujin copies him, challenging his eyes, neither of them backing down. 

In the end, Seojun loses as he blinks and looks down, “Fine, we’ll stop by the cart before we head to Jipuragi, we’ll take my bike though” he walks away. 

Sujin smiles brightly, breaking her ice princess façade, before processing what he said. 

“Yah Han Seojun!” 

“Jae hwa” Daniel pouts, “i’m hungry” 

“Check the cupboards, there should be some snacks” she said, not looking up from her painting. 

He climbs out from the couch, rummaging through the cupboard to find nothing. 

“There’s nothing,” he sulks, letting himself fall back onto the couch. “Use my phone to order food” she replies, eyes still glued to the canvas board. 

“You know, you could’ve just let me in your apartment” 

“i know” 

“then why don’t you” 

“And risk my house looking like a disaster? no” 

He shuts up at her words, scrolling through her phone. 

His eyes strolled through, stopping at an app, Journal of the day. 

He clicks on it, glancing at her to see if she’s watching him.

i don’t know if i should be mad or happy. Daniel came to me today. Ever since i left, i didn’t think that he would contact me again, because i left him there like that. I missed him so much. we almost kissed today too. But Seojunie came and interrupted. I know he’s going to ask if he can stay at my house, but i’m gonna keep him with me at the studio so we can spend the time together for those months. i’m really grateful for him in my life. i hope he doesn’t go back soon

- Jeong Jaehwa 

His smile widens as he continues to read, swallowing down a chuckle. He quickly types something inside before going to order his food. 

why are you so cute Jeong Jaehwa. 

“RINGGGG” 

the students packed up their things, their chatter drowning out the teacher’s voice, excited to go home. 

Sujin swings her backpack on, hearing a whisper that sends shivers down her spine.

“Meet me at the school parking lot” 

She nods, heading out. 

She steps out of Saebeom High, standing at the staircase entrance, clutching on to her backpack strap. 

A familiar roar of a motorcycle engine fills the parking lot. She could feel her heart racing as she stepped down from the steps. 

Seojun passes her a helmet, ignoring the whispers of the other students as Sujin carefully gets on his bike. 

“Don’t scream, i’m not ready to go to the police station yet” he smirks as he zooms out of the school parking lot. leavin the students confused and shocked. 

Sujin could still feel her heart racing as she walked, the bike ride was anything but pleasant. 

Seojun laughs when he sees the girl’s face, still terrified from the bike ride. 

“What happened to the ice princess Sujin, why so terrified from just a bike ride” he teases, grinning like the Cheshire cat. 

“’just a bike ride’? Han Seojun i thought i was going to die!” she cried out, smacking him harshly. 

“Okay okay sorry” 

The both of them walked into Jipuragi Law FIrm, Sujin gently placed the bag of ingeoppang on the table. 

“Byeonghosa-nim these are for you” she says, smiling at her. “Oh! thank you Sujin-ah” Chayoung beams at her, taking a piece and passing the bag to her husband. 

Sujin places her bag down and takes out her books. CSAT was coming soon and she couldn’t risk failing not like she was going to. 

Seojun took one glance at what she was doing and walked up the loft. 

“Aren’t you going to study?” she asks, already working on the questions. 

“No, we just got back from school, i’m not doing that,” he groans. 

“Suit yourself” she hums.

“Kids, we’re gonna go out for dinner later, there’s food in the fridge okay?” 

“Ne eomma!” 

“Ne byeonhosa-nim” 

It was dark, around 7pm. Seojun went upstairs to the apartment to get the dinner as Sujin insisted that they should eat in Jipuragi instead so they don’t make a big mess. 

She stopped her movement when she heard bangs on the door, lights flickering. 

“S-seojun, s-stop it’s not funny” she stammers, fingers shaking. 

And suddenly it was pitch black, Sujin grips onto her pen tightly, the banging on the door still going. She feels her heartbeat accelerating, throat it finding hard to breathe. 

“BAM!” 

Sujin ducks down under the table when the door bursts open, peeking from the gap between the table and floor. 

She could hear the footsteps come closer and closer as she bit her lip to stop breathing so hard.

“Where is he?” 

“Find him!”