The Celebration

Lee Rang couldn't help but embrace her in his arms. She was too perfect, too fragile in his arms and where her selflessness came was still a mystery to him.

Finally with so many requests and pleas, he finally stopped kissing her and sat on his car seat to drive but still he denied to let her hand go. He kept her hand close to his lips so he could kiss them anytime he wanted and whenever his warm lips touched her cold hands it sent butterflies to her stomach. Soon they were back to her apartment or as Lee Rang called it, ugly shag.

When he parked and saw no movement from aside he looked across the seat and saw the most divining thing that he could ever see. In his past 400 years of life he never felt attached towards something so vulnerable. Hjejin's eyes lids were closed and her chest was moved upwards and downwards as she sleep. He didn't wake her up in the car ride because he knew she was drunk last night and couldn't sleep properly but now she was becoming irresistible.

He unclasped his seatbelt and opened his car door as he was about to pick her up he remembered he wasn't healed enough properly the not to mention he was dieing and that was all that imoogi's fault.

"Hey! Wake up." Lee Rang said. Hjejin's eyes tightened and she murmured something inaudible but it wasn't enough to wake her up. "Yah! Yah! I will kill you if you didn't wake up."

Lee Rang's eyes widened as he saw Hjejin's eyes opened and looking at him seriously.

"Go ahead, try me!" Hjejin threatened me very confidently.

Lee Rang couldn't help but chuckle, a human threatening him to kill her and he couldn't even raise a finger against her. That's much power she had over him, what was going to become of him now he was ruined.

"I'll pick you in evening," Lee Rang confirmed and looking at Hjejin's annoyed face he knew she didn't wanted to go but either way he continued. "Nope, nothing gonna work on me now. The plan remains the same I'll pick you up and we will go there together."

She took the bag in which her dress was and nodded. She got close to Lee Rang and a strong sense of pain striked in her head and she winced in pain. Lee Rang grabbed her shoulder. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah must be because of the alcohol from last night."

"I swear— if you're pretending to be sick just so you can ditch me at the last moment by making me worry about you I'll go crazy."

Hjejin looked at Lee Rang's worried face, he genuinely cared for her. She smiled through her pain and reassured him. She proceeded towards her apartment. She unlocked the door and went inside her apartment and her ghastly headache was gone, dealing with all these mythological things now she could believe in anything miracle, magic, witchcraft anything that was the only good thing she could expect to happen to her today.

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Hjejin sat on her apartment silently and once again her phone rang for the 24th time. It was her mother but she choose not to pick up the damn phone. She was tired of all this nonsense.

But apart from that, for Hjejin, all of this just didn't seem real and if it was real then it doesn't make sense, Lee Rang as he said, he loved her even though she was just a human and he made it abundantly clear that he hated humans so how could he love her when he hated her entire species and for the first time Hjejin laid eyes on him when they first met on the traffic signal she somehow knew that she had so much compassion for him when she didn't even knew him.

And on the other hand Lee Rang was in the same concussion. It was very absurd  because in his life he only cared about two people; his brother and Yuri even though he didn't have man and woman feeling towards Yuri he greatly cared for her but what he felt for Hjejin was much more complex he just couldn't control himself when he was with her.

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Lee Rang knocked on her apartment door, he called her phone so many times but he couldn't get in contact with her and he knew exactly what she was planning but he wouldn't fall for it. Today he would go to her parents and introduce him as their daughter's... boyfriend... he guessed and if they didn't approve of him then plan B, hypnotizing them and he wouldn't let anyone ruin it, not even her.

He barged open her apartment and let himself in. "Bab—Hjejin!" He whispered. But didn't get any response and in a second he jumped on the worst conclusion he looked for her everywhere not that her apartment was that big to take that much of time and atlast he checked the bathroom when he opened the bathroom.

Hjejin screamed. "GET OUT!"

She had tousled a towel around her body very quickly as she heard someone unlock the bathroom door knob. Water was dripping from her black hair down her shoulders, her colar bones were completely visible just like her breast line even she was holding the towel there.

Ignoring everything Lee Rang got inside, putting hands on her shoulder and yelled at her. "Why weren't you answering me?"

"I didn't hear you, I was taking a shower."

"and what about your phone?" He asked again in fury.

"My mother kept on calling me so I switched off the phone. Will you let go off me, you'll get wet and I have to change."

Reassuring that she was safe he let her go and then he saw her. She was flawless, water was dripping down her body and every part it touched was flawless, the neck, legs, hands, that lips that he wanted to kiss so badly. He felt hot but seeing her shrugging at him uncomfortably he left the bathroom and closed the door behind him. He directly went outside to calm himself that woman would be the death of him.

For waiting half n hour she finally came. Lee Rang was waiting for her at front of her apartment. She walked through the  stairs in her red heels as her hair gently blew in the winter breeze, looking stunning in her off shoulder red knee length dress that tightly fitted around her waist. She walked towards Lee Rang who was completely in awe by her, again he looked at her collar bones and the memories of her bathroom swim through his mind and he shook them out of his mind.

Quickly he said. "Let's go, shall we?" and he hurriedly sat inside the car, Hjejin followed him inside confused.

In the whole ride he focused his eyes on the road because if he took one glance at her there would be accidents.

Confused by his actions Hjejin asked politely. "Do I look that bad in this dress" Lee Rang didn't answer her. "well I guess this is not my style but— hey you aren't even listening to me."

"Please let me drive." He confessed very sternly.

Hjejin kept herself quiet and switched on her phone, there were so many miss calls some were her mothers, some Lee Rang and there were 3 miss calls from Lee Jung-Suk. She truly felt bad for him but she knew she was just a disaster for him, he was sweet, innocent, kind but she never loved him and more than that she never deserved him.

Soon they arrived at her step sister's birthday celebration, she hasn't seen them in years.

Her step sister Wheein, was same age as her and they went to same school & class together and unlike many step sister she was kind to her when she was her classmate but when they became sisters Hjejin distanced herself from her, her step father was never attentive towards her same as he was to his own daughter and then her mother these three were her only family one by blood and two by law now.

She took heavy breaths as she walked out of the car, looking at her tense face Lee Rang slided his hand into her hand and said. "Shall we?"

When they went inside, camera flashed at her after all she was a billionaire daughter and Wheein, who just saw her sister entering jumped and ran towards and her and gave her a big her.

"I really thought you won't come just like my last birthdays but I waited for you and look you are here, let's cut the cake." Wheein squealed in joy, when her eyes fell on Lee Rang she giggled. "Oh! That's the guy you are dating, he's really handsome."

After they let the media take photos and interviews Hjejin family sat on the dinner table. Hjejin father was happy about Lee Rang's presence so he could talk to him about business but his wife shove him off saying. "No business talk on dinner table."

It was a long table Hjejin sat straight opposite to Lee Rang and her mother sat on her left. Wheein sat on Lee Rang's left and her step father on his right. Everytime she looked at Lee Rang, he wouldn't made any eye contact with her and her sister and him kept on giggling and whispering to each other. Hjejin didn't felt jealous towards her sister but she was definitely envious she drank the whole glass of wine and excused herself to washroom.

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