When I Reach You

S Coffee, the most corner seat.

Eun-jae, wearing a black hat tucked over her long, straight hair that stretched down to her wing bones, did not forget to be vigilant about her surroundings, shrugging her shoulders.

After Eun-jae’s explanation, an air of heavy silence flowed between the two for a long time.

There was no conversation other than the sound of the smart key interlocking with the table regularly.

As if thinking about something, the other hand was supporting his chin.

What kind of doctor is so handsome.

without realism.

At that time, his appearance, which he had not been able to see in detail because he was so distracted, quickly penetrated into Eun-jae’s interestingly sparkling eyes.

Even though I wanted to reap it, my eyes turned to him as if I was attracted to it.

The length of the bangs that barely touched the eyelids, the straight forehead that peeked out from the side, and the bridge of the nose that connected it were like a very well-formed statue.

Smooth and white skin that doesn’t seem to have any flaws, and moist and lively lips that look like they’ve taken a bite of a pomegranate.

It draws attention unnecessarily and makes a fuss.

While soaked in sentimentality for a while, the sound of the smart key stopped as it hit the table.

Eun-jae pretended not to be surprised and hid her emotions, grabbed the straw of the iced coffee in front of her, and drank all the way through.

Did he even feel his stare staring at him? His tightly closed lips opened slowly.

“Your cell phone was canceled because you couldn’t pay the bill?”

“yes.”

Did you call me for nothing? It was like a rabbit crawling into a tiger’s den.

Every time he asked a question, I kept shrugging my shoulders as if I was guilty.

It was because of an unavoidable situation, but it wasn’t my fault, so I honestly told everything!

Seonwoo consistently watched Eunjae, who was sitting across from him with a somewhat unfair expression, with cold eyes that seemed deeply misunderstood.

“So I couldn’t contact you, and I couldn’t.”

“yes.”

His eyebrows, which had always been straight, twitched greatly at Eunjae’s short answer. Arsenic grazed his face in disbelief.

“Are you saying you want me to believe that? Is it just right at that time?”

Iknow, right. In fact, it’s just that time.

I really didn’t know. I only knew that I couldn’t receive calls for a while, but I thought it was cancelled.

Since he had a knack for running away, the moneylenders had already been swayed by Eun-jae, who moved from place to place.

If you catch it, you miss it, you miss it right in front of your eyes, and as a result, they climbed as much as the medicine rose. Recently, when I went in and out, I was refraining from going out, as I had run into them more often.

That’s why I didn’t want to go that far and explain every word to this person I’d seen for the first time, no, I’d just seen it twice. I didn’t even have to.

By the way, I’m not going to sit in a cafe like this and drink coffee leisurely.

Eun-jae looked around, recognizing her situation again, and lowered her posture and voice, pressing her hat even more tightly.

“If you don’t believe me, check it out for yourself. I will confirm.”

Should I believe in those innocent eyes that face me innocently as if there is no lie, or should I not?

Confused, Seonwoo breathed in the air and silently picked up the teacup.

“At that time, I was really grateful, and I really wanted to repay the favor in some way. If I had planned to run away from the start, I wouldn’t have bothered to contact you this far. As the teacher said, you can just run away.”

I’m listening to the teacher again here.

Seonwoo clicked his tongue as if he didn’t like it.

A week ago.

My heart beat like crazy when I heard this woman’s voice over the receiver. The reason was unknown.

Unlike Seon-woo, who was ready to go right away, she said she would go where she was and made him wait another week.

It wasn’t enough that he suddenly appeared, touched my body, gave me a fake number, and disappeared, until the day we faced each other like this.

It was so insignificant that I couldn’t compare it to what I had been through for two weeks, so it was absurd, so it was clear that my heart was beating with excitement.

“If you run away, will I stay still?”

“I’m good at hide and seek.”

“I have a knack for tagging too.”

When Seon-woo, who was drinking tea, raised his eyes at Eun-jae’s words, Eun-jae quietly dropped his gaze back to his coffee.

“I risked my life to save you.”

But what kind of life… … . Well, it was a tense situation.

“i know… … . So you said you would pay it back.”

“If you had run away like that, I would have found you before the moneylenders did?”

ah.

Eunjae’s head rang as he sighed briefly.

Only then did I realize You got it wrong, this person was more than the moneylenders, no less. Trying to escape the trap, you got caught in a large net. It’s already too late.

Eunjae’s voice trembled slightly as he continued to speak.

“That’s why I contacted you.”

“It took a week to contact him.”

Seeing the man’s cynical expression, Eun-jae scratched the back of his neck in embarrassment.

“I’ve been a little busy.”

“wow.”

After a soulless reaction, Seonwoo, who stared at Eunjae for a while, crossed his arms on the table. He asked, pressing his upper body closer to Eun-jae.

“Anyway, did you borrow money? how much? If you use it wrong, it will go to the goal of your life.”

Whether it’s pushing or worrying, I do one of the two.

Eun-jae thought about that while listening to the man’s words pouring with rapid fire.

“I didn’t borrow it—”

“father? mother? Or, brother?”

You said you would repay the favor, but you never said you would respond to the census?

“No brothers, father.”

Oddly enough, I found myself very funny answering his questions straight away.

“My mother is in that hospital. I stopped by to pay for the hospital bill, and that happened.”

Even the words you don’t have to say are added.

“How much is that debt exactly?”

“It’s not exactly… … .”

I have never seen a document with the correct amount written on it.

A month ago, loan sharks suddenly came and turned the house into a mess.

Your father borrowed money from us while gambling and ran away, so you guys should pay it back.

“I only know that my father borrowed 50 million won about 20 years ago.”

Unfolding his raised arms and holding the teacup, he lazily leaned back in his chair and muttered in a low voice like talking to himself.

“I must have run a few thousand already.”

At the man’s words, Eun-jae drank his coffee and spoke indifferently.

“200 million… … You said?”

I haven’t seen or touched money that big, so it’s not too realistic. So it was just insensitive.

“200 million? They are pure robbers.”

His fingers, which had risen back up on the table, now began to move as if they were playing the piano.

“Then what should I do now?”

“What?”

But, why are you always talking half-heartedly?

The age difference doesn’t seem too small.

“How do I keep in touch with you consistently and reliably?”

His gaze, which was directed at Eunjae, gradually turned downward, and he nodded his chin toward the cell phone in her hand.

“Should I save it?”

“Perhaps?”

Before Eun-jae could say anything, the belongings scattered on the table were swept into his hands.

Standing tall, he looked down at Eun-jae and turned toward the exit.

“Wake up, then. Go save it.”

***

W hotel lounge.

Have you ever been to such a high place in your life?

It was hard to believe that I was sitting in a building that seemed to reach the end of the sky.

Besides, it’s such a nice restaurant.

There was something more unbelievable than that. It was the latest cell phone in his hand.

I paid the delinquent bill, but I couldn’t save the cell phone that had already been canceled, so I had to get a new number.

While waiting for the computer processing to take place, Seonwoo looked down at the cell phone Eunjae was holding dearly. The screen had been cracked for a long time. Seonwoo said while taking Eunjae’s phone.

“Let’s buy a new cell phone.”

“yes? no.”

“It’s a ‘yes’, it’s a ‘no’.”

“It is not.”

“I’m afraid they’ll say I didn’t answer the call because my cell phone was broken. Now that scares me.”

Buying me a new cell phone isn’t enough, now dinner alone at a hotel that looks expensive.

Eun-jae stared at him with eyes full of questions as he sat across from him and sliced ​​a well-roasted tenderloin steak with a knife. Even an insignificant movement was graceful and orphaned.

Could this person… … did you fall for me

Well, the beauty I still did… … .

“Don’t get me wrong, it’s a routine to have dinner at this hotel.”

He cut off Eun-jae’s miscellaneous thoughts at once, as if he had read his eyes, and as if telling him not to attach too much meaning to them.

Well, why is a person so proud of me?

So what the hell do you want from me? No matter who sees it, I would believe it even if it was the side that repaid the favor.

Watching him slice the steak into the right size and put it in his mouth, Eun-jae turned his head and glanced around the restaurant.

All sides are made of glass, so if you turn your eyes from any angle, you can see the sparkling night view.

Eun-jae was more engrossed in the buildings and the night view emitting soft light outside the window than the fancy food in front of her.

As she stared out the window with her chin resting, she met Seonwoo’s gaze.

It was the first time I had ever seen someone who came here to look outside, so Seon-wu burst into laughter when he saw Eun-jae.

what, why are you laughing? Are you crazy?

Seonwoo pretended to wipe his mouth, which had risen involuntarily, and quickly captured it.

He woke up Eunjae, who was meditating, by making a ‘click’ sound with his fingers.

“Mr. Ji Eun-jae. Watch it later and eat it first, because it won’t taste good when it cools down.”

“yes.”

While cutting the steak neatly, he asked Eun-jae a question.

“Where are you staying now?”

“Just everywhere… … .”

I don’t know why, but the man seemed to have a lot of questions about me.

“What are you good at?”

“Me?”

Eun-jae fell into thought for a moment as he nodded while drinking non-alcoholic champagne that was bubbling with carbonation.

What are you good at? I never thought about it.

Even though I’m the type to learn anything quickly because I’m just good at learning, I’ve never thought that I’m exceptionally good at something.

“cleaning? Wash? dish wash? what… … .”

I don’t know why this word popped out, but that’s all I’m doing these days, so I don’t have anything to say right now. So it seems.

“Should I take this as meaning that I am good at all housework?”

As the man drank the champagne again, it seemed that the corner of his lips had somehow ascended to heaven, and Eun-jae’s dry saliva went down in a gulp.

It is not clear what the standards for being good at are, and what the standards for men are.

Yeah, what’s the point of showing me cleaning and washing and washing dishes in front of you?

“yes. Why?”

“You said you would repay the favor.”

Oh, did I come to repay the favor? It’s not even a magpie, what did you come to repay the favor?

Eun-jae answered while putting the steak cut into bite-size pieces in her mouth.

“No way, housekeeper, you’re not going to ask me to do that, are you? I’m not that professional.”

“It’s too small to put a price on a life like that.”

With a smile on his face, he opened the wallet he had put on the table. Before long, a piece of paper with something written on it was pushed in front of Eunjae.

“I have something to check. Be here by 9:00 tomorrow morning.”

It was a yellow piece of paper with an unfamiliar address written on it.

Eunjae tried to recite the address written on the paper slowly in his mind, then asked Seonwoo again.

“Where is this?”

“My house.”

“yes? Why am I going to the teacher’s house?”

“That bastard teacher’s voice is very annoying.”

He narrowed his brows and muttered lowly, revealing his displeasure.

“Do I have to listen to the teacher until I come out? To be honest, I’ve never been their teacher.”

“No, why are you angry?”

“I’m not angry, that’s how I speak.”

It’s a pride. If you know, you should think about fixing it.

Eun-jae spit out the words he couldn’t say outwardly and glared at him obliquely.

“Anyway, why do I have to go?”

“I told you, I have something to check.”

I couldn’t fathom what he was saying as he strangely mixed flat and respectful words.

It’s like a legion of people who are fat enough to eat them.

Is this person a good person or a bad person?

what do you want from me No, is there anything you want?

“Just tell me what you want now.”

“Let’s check that out tomorrow and talk about it.”

I wanted to say something, but I was speechless, so the man tilted his glass of champagne and smiled thinly.

“I’m curious too.”

He smiled with one corner of his mouth and drank all the champagne left in the glass.

“What can you do for me?”