8. Traces of the past.

"Team leader, I can still drive you home despite the different directions," said Han Yo Min after Kim Na Ra stepped out of had car. She lowered the glass and kept looking at the girl walking down the sidewalk. "Are you serious?"

"Han Yo Min, I have to visit somewhere else, don't worry about me, thank you for accompanying me to the owner. Go home and rest because tomorrow we have a mission to great success!" Kim Na Ra's enthusiasm is so intense, she raises up had clenched hands and makes a cross across had chest, identifying it as the spirit of unity in the team.

"Ah! You're right, team leader. Tomorrow's a big job." Yo Min helped cross the clenched fist. "All right, I'm going now, take good care of yourself. Don't forget the energy for tomorrow." Her voice was quite loud from being in the car, while Kim Na Ra was standing on the sidewalk.

"Hwaiting!" Back covered glass, Han Yo Min's car drove away.

Kim Na Ra exhaled, feeling very loose. Today she's been so consumed with everything, choosing the building for the event to go around with Han Yo Min for the rest of their working hours. Then, tomorrow there will be more exhausting activities for the physical body. The decorations for the show are ready, starting with the sound system, the table for visitors, the pulpit and altar for the MC, the day after tomorrow is a charity event by a large company.

Complicated as well as challenges were used to Kim Na Ra's passing through, if it would break had head, then Na Ra would have died many times, and she would have been brought back to life as a zombie.

When her move, Na Ra turns the neck until it crackles, today is quite sore, but luckily it's not a scary Monday. Na Ra went through that crazy day yesterday that ended with Jung Tae Oh, a nice meeting because it was Tae Oh that got her home.

Soon the red light intersection, some people start standing at the corner of the intersection, all having a common thread like Kim Na Ra—about to cross over, standing next to the zebra when the light is still green.

One second the red light, so many moves around Kim Na Ra, is one of them, on the zebra face of every crossing foot with a rash of white striped asphalt that reaches the side of the road opposite - where they walk. Kim Na Ra reached for the phone, Kim He soo's name on the screen.

"Yeobseo."

"Noona, I'm coming home at night today, I have to train pretty hard, tomorrow's the first game. You're coming?"

"Ah, about that. Perhaps—" Kim Na Ra was hesitant when she thought about the job tomorrow. "I can't make any promises, but I'll come if I have free time."

"Well, that's all I want to say. Uh, one more."

"What?"

"Even though I'm a man, it doesn't matter if I have to say this." Kim He Soo turned it down. "Coach Jung was so charming when he did his job. the girls in the stands probably kept screaming when he joined the team. Noona, are you not interested in him?"

Na Ra stepped up. "Hey, what do you mean talking to me like this? Are you practicing basketball or flirting with your coach?"

"No, you understand me, don't you? Coach Jung is very handsome, like me. You should have been able to—"

"Kim He Soo! You're supposed to—" Kim Na Ra's voice carried by the wind when something touched had arm from behind, she turned and fell silent, Kim He Soo's voice was still heard, saying a lot of things, but it didn't reach Na Ra's ears because the focus had just been stolen.

Choi Daniel, he smiled there, sedated Kim Na Ra for a few seconds until a nearby car horn blew her away. Kim Na Ra looked down, she also pulled had hand out of Choi Daniel, returning to talk to Kim He Soo. "No more talking, more energy to practise, I'll wait for you at home." After it broke off, he looked at Choi Daniel. "Why is it here?"

"Public road."

"I know, but a coincidence doesn't apply to you."

"Yes, you would know best if I were a man of plans and all calculations, but this time believe me when I see you it's a coincidence."

"Why should I believe?"

"Well, you don't have to believe it, just listen." He saw the woman's ear, earrings in it, and smiled disdainfully. "Your fear is big enough for me, but it's not a zombie."

"You're scarier than any ghost, you can show up anywhere at any time, just like now." They've only met twice, but Kim Na Ra already feels that a meeting like this will never end, like an endless world. Seoul may be as wide as the palms, Kim Na Ra believes that, especially for a Choi Daniel, it's probably just the fingernail.

Kim Na Ra was able to look through the days ahead after this, Choi Daniel was in Gangnam, then Seoul, if tomorrow Kim Na Ra is in Itaewon, that man will be there too. She's becoming suspicious, that everyone in the world is Choi Daniel, but they're camouflaged as someone else in front of Kim Na Ra.

Ah, shit! What a sick fantasy! Facing Choi Daniel did blow off all that positive thinking in his head, that guy's like a dozen meteor rocks falling on earth.

"I have to go," says Kim Na Ra, she was reluctant to extend any conversation with Choi Daniel, so it would be better to take the luggage in turns.

"What's the hurry?" Choi Daniel matched the steps of Kim Na Ra, in the hands or neck of that man there was no camera strap.

"I have other affairs. So should you."

"True."

"Then why are you still following me?"

"I don't follow, just make an effort."

"Make what?" Kim Na Ra stopped, that man did the same.

Choi Daniel looked into the sky, then returned to Kim Na Ra. "There's been nothing in the stomach all day but water, so can you come and eat with me?"

"No."

Choi Daniel's thick eyebrow rose. "Why not? Don't you always say yes to every request as difficult as it may be, or do I have to be your stalker all the time like a ninja in hiding? I even know if yesterday afternoon you came to a coffee shop, ate raspberry cake and mascarpone." Instantly, he smiled with satisfaction at the expression of surprise on Kim Na Ra's face today.

"You know very well, when I want something, it's no big deal to hold the world." It simply shows itself, Choi Daniel is still Choi Daniel, though years have passed, but nothing has changed-except their relationship status.

Na Ra squeaks, sets. "Doesn't your maid cook till you don't eat?"

"What?" His voice sounded faint, his expression also changed. "I still live alone."

Really, is it like the old days? Or he's making it up to get somebody else's attention. Choi Daniel, you should have been an actor.

"I'm not asking."

"I'm just talking. Do I have to say that again? Will you eat with me or receive a report from a stalker at all times?"

This bastard, he's the smart one to lock people up with the compulsion of every sentence.

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Mapo-gu, Yanghwa-ro, Hongdae business area, Seoul.

After boarding the Seoul metro number two and down at Hongik University entrance station, just walk out of the station, through the crowded chain store. Kim Na Ra didn't even think that she would go back with him and sit in the subway after so many years, and the place they were looking at now was completely familiar to Kim Na Ra.

Deja vu, it seems like Choi Daniel did it on purpose. The Hongdae business area is familiar to Kim Na Ra, and while they are still in contact, Choi Daniel often brings her to eat her favorite seafood meal at a restaurant in the basement of a hotel.

The excitement of the hikers is evident, many foreign tourists often visit here—especially when in the middle of the night many shops are still open, quite indulges in visitors.

Kim Na Ra stopped despite Choi Daniel's continued progress, not realizing the woman was still far behind. Kim Na Ra was like seeing a shadow of her with Choi Daniel stepping in front of her, grasping and laughing at each other, so there was a sweet thing that happened even though most of the pounding wounds were painful.

It remained dormant among the rest of the human beings until the pull of a hand brought Kim Na Ra to had senses. Choi Daniel stood in front of her, exhaled, and touched the woman's ear even with the earring on it, it didn't seem to matter at all.

"Why daydream in such a crowded place? What if someone made you fall and you got trampled, did they all need to see me angry?"

No way.

"Mian," said Kim Na Ra.

No argument, Kim Na Ra accepted that despite being dragged by Choi Daniel, they entered a seafood restaurant.

In the past, Na Ra, eating in this place might have cost money, but she never took a penny out of her wallet, so Choi Daniel always moved in because seafood is her favorite.

If she is now able to feed herself and Kim He Soo, Na Ra would also easily spend tens of thousands of dollars on a seafood menu. Even now it's Choi Daniel who will pay for everything.

Choi Daniel didn't ask what food Na Ra wanted, the guy went straight up to the counter, looked at the menu on the display and called whatever he wanted at the waiter behind the counter. The visitor can even tell how big crabs and lobsters are in this place, they're all alive and put in the aquarium, so every menu they order must have been fresh.

The man returned and sat across from Kim Na Ra, he also said. "I ordered grilled lobster, sashimi salmon and seafood pasta. Wouldn't seafood pasta still be your favorite?"

Reflex nods, he is growing.

"Where are you going?" asked Choi Daniel.

"I have to book one for my brother, he comes home from basketball practice. I don't have anything in the fridge." Kim Na Ra only remembered kimchi.

"Let me do it." Choi Daniel moved faster, made Na Ra sit back down and sigh, and that must be the guy who pays for it.

From inside here, near the glass, they can see the scene outside the window, crowded pedestrians and cars parked on the side of the road. The old atmosphere comes back to say hello, Na Ra is used to it, it's like enjoying the past.

"Did you get the picture?" Daniel sat down again, taking off his jacket and throwing it over the shoulder of the chair.

"Dae, I hope you don't do that anymore."

"Why?" Daniel smiled.

"Aren't the pictures great? And just your face, what you did to that picture. Discard or burn it?"

"In the glove compartment."

Choi Daniel nodded, sounds better than Kim Na Raripped it.

"You must have heard the rumors from the media, right?"

"I don't care." At least at their second meeting, Kim Na Ra's speech was better than the first meeting and the woman was willing to respond to Choi Daniel, probably counting all the time she could spend on this restaurant seat.

"I'm glad that you don't care, President Choi is so smart to use his son's credibility." There was another meaning to Daniel's words, and Na Ra fell silent.

During this time, Kim Na Ra only knew that Daniel's father was into girls, there might be some meaning to the gossip that was floating around between Oh Da Hyun and Choi Daniel. It's a media play and a lead role behind it.

"Daniel, most days I come here, but your parents never show up. They must be very busy, and you're not coming home? Even at Christmas you're still in this house." Kim Na Ra had just piled books on the table and sat down on the sofa, and she had been wanting to ask about it for a long time, but she was kept in custody because she felt awkward. Had lips speak so easily this time.

Daniel shook his head, he didn't look at Kim Na Ra, the student leaned back on the sofa while playing the game on his cell phone. "No, my mom's long gone, and dad. He was probably playing with his women, nothing good came from his fancy life in his penthouse. It is better to starve to death than to come and eat."

Kim Na Ra was startled, a brief explanation that would lead the student to conclude that Daniel and his father were in disharmony, after which they both fell silent, only the freezing temperature in the air conditioning room.

Daniel put his phone on the sofa, he put Kim Na Ra's shoulder behind him. "Don't think of anything else, you're here just for me, your mind shouldn't go anywhere." A gentle kiss on the lips began their afternoon activity.

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