1 Identity

"Ki-bum do you have any more classes after this? Tomorrow is the weekend, let's party tonight. I've invited the pretty girls from the architecture department", asked Park Ha-jun.

"Really? Then let's go eat some fried chicken for dinner and go to the club". Ki-bum answered happily.

That night, Song Ki-bum and Park Ha-Jun with some of their college friends drank a lot. Some of them went home earlier than expected just because they were too drunk to stay awake. Only Ki-bum, Ha-Jun and a few girls remained.

"I'm going out for a while," said Ki-bum to Ha-Jun.

"Don't go too far, we'll be heading out soon".

Ki-bum nodded his head at Ha-Jun and immediately left their room. After several minutes Ki-bum went out, a girl also went out of the room. Ha-Jun saw it and smiled slyly.

Ki-bum was standing in front of a shop near the club smoking a cigarette. Suddenly a girl approached him. Ki-bum saw her and immediately put out the cigarette.

"What's wrong So-Hee?"

The girl hesitated for a moment but immediately took a breath and said the words from her mouth shyly.

"Ki-bum, I've been watching you for quite a long time. Do you want to go out with me?"

Ki-bum smiled. He raised his right hand then put his thumb and forefinger on So-Hee's chin and pulled her face closer.

"If you like me so much then can I kiss you?"

So-Hee's face turned red at that time. She closed her eyes and nodded her head nervously.

When Ki-bum was about to kiss her, he caught a pair of eyes watching him from across the street. Ki-bum looked surprised and immediately stopped his intention to kiss her. He removed his hand from So-Hee.

"I'm sorry So-Hee. Can you go inside first? I have some things to take care of." Ki-bum smiles at her.

So-Hee looked confused by Ki-bum's sudden change of mind and just nodded her head obediently.

When So-Hee was about to leave, suddenly Ki-bum called her. "Wait... Please tell Ha-Jun that I'm going home first. Thank you".

After conveying his message to So-Hee, Ki-bum walked to the end of the zebra cross waiting for that person to approach him.

As Ki-bum watched the person waiting for the traffic light signal to cross the street, several thoughts popped into his head.

'This fellow really hasn't aged at all since the first time I met him. Is he an alien? No. What kind of alien looks amazingly handsome like this? How tall is this guy, 180? No. He looks taller than me. 188? Definitely! He is even good at dressing, wearing the latest style releases of the season!'

Ki-bum really looks like someone in trouble from the outside. Sometimes holding his chin and thinking hard, to suddenly ruffling his own hair then back to being a normal person again. The people who passed by him were completely scared by him.

But seeing this man again made Ki-bum suddenly remember when he was little, he remembered an uncle always coming to visit him at home or at the kindergarten. He always brings him Manju cake even though kids don't like to eat it. But since Ki-bum likes him, he'll eat it and take the rest home.

Sometimes he visits him once a week, sometimes every several months.

"Uncle, don't you have to work? Why do you always visit me?" Ki-bum asked curiously as a child.

"Hmm. Of course I have to work. My job is to deal with some bad people and calm them down so they don't go berserk. And of course I have to visit my master regularly," the uncle replied Ki-bum with a smile on his face.

At that time Ki-bum did not really understand the meaning of the title master and of course immediately forgot about it.

And suddenly that uncle stopped visiting him for quite a long time. Ki-bum didn't know why that uncle never came back, but he wouldn't forget him. Hoping that maybe one day that uncle would come back to visit him.

Then when Ki-bum was seventeen years old, that uncle really reappeared again in front of him. They both looked shocked at that time when they saw each other.

Ki-bum wonders 'why does this uncle look exactly the same as the last time he saw him?'

"Sorry for not being able to visit you all this time, Master"

"Wow, please don't call me Master, Uncle. I'm just an ordinary student. But it's really been quite a few years since the last time we met. I think maybe we should talk for a while."

That uncle just nodded his head in agreement.

"Let's stop by my house." said Ki-bum.

Ki-bum pushed him while checking around to see if anyone had seen the two of them. They both went to Ki-bum's apartment.

Upon arriving at his apartment, Ki-bum dump his backpack to the couch and tell the uncle, "Just sit wherever you like."

He walked to the kitchen and took out two bottles of mineral water from the refrigerator and returned to the living room.

That uncle didn't say anything. He looks around the apartment and finally sits down after seeing Ki-bum is back.

"By the way, what's your name Uncle?"

"Call me Yoon, Master."

"So where have you been Yoon? Hmm. Looks like your appearance hasn't changed at all since the last time we met."

He didn't say anything but took out a box of Manju cake from the paper bag and placed it on the table.

"The battle took a long time to finish this time. Sorry for the delay"

Pfft

Ki-bum almost burst out laughing when he saw Yoon take out the Manju cake out of the paper bag. But managed to hold it in and took a piece of Manju cake and devoured it.

"I don't know what fight you're talking about Yoon, but please don't forget to visit me again because I'm lonely", said Ki-bum with a made-up sad face.

Yoon looked surprised when he heard Ki-bum say that he was lonely.

"I'm sorry master. I will visit more frequently--"

While Ki-bum was deep in thought, the person he was waiting for had arrived in front of him. "It's been such a long time since we've seen each other, Master."

Ki-bum was startled when he heard Yoon's voice. It had been four years since he last saw Yoon. He always left without telling and came without notice.

'Has his voice always been this sexy? No. That's not the point. The point is why does he always appear wherever I am, even though I have moved out of my old apartment and studied at a faraway college? Is he stalking me? Or is he a ghost?' Ki-bum thought.

Ki-bum took a step back from Yoon and took a random woman's hand and spoke hastily.

"Can you see this man in front of me?" Ki-bum asked.

That woman didn't answer right away. She blushed when she saw the man Ki-bum pointed at.

"Yes. Of course I can see him. He is a very handsome man."

Ki-bum was silent again after getting the answer. After a few pauses that woman was talking to him again.

"I was wondering if I could have his number."

Ki-bum didn't really listen to that woman's words and immediately jumped into his wild thoughts again. Yoon couldn't ignore the woman to which he gave her an answer.

"I'm sorry miss, I belong to this man."

Yoon answered her question with a friendly smile while pointing at Ki-bum and trying to get Ki-bum's grip off of her.

Ki-bum was dumbfounded when he heard what Yoon just said and immediately came to his senses.

"I'm sorry." That woman immediately apologized and rushed to the other way, leaving the two of them with a blush on her face.

Yoon took a step forward. When He is about to speak, suddenly Ki-bum asked him a question.

"Who are you?"

Yoon signaled to Ki-bum by moving his head to the right while making way.

"Let's walk. I'll explain."

The two of them walked side by side on an empty street. It was getting colder at midnight so there was no one around.

"Aren't you cold?"

Ki-bum just remembered that he left his bomber jacket at the club. He then looked at Yoon. Yoon looked back at him.

"Hmm. You must be cold. Here." Yoon takes off his long coat for Ki-bum.

'Since he can easily give out coats and not feel cold at all. It means something off.' thought Ki-bum.

"What are you really?" Ki-bum suddenly asked.