About You: Love & Sacrifice

Flashback 1

Oxford University, United Kingdom. 2016

"Ash, fuck. Why slump anyway?"

Younha squatted down gagu as suddenly her package book slumped from her grasp. Because the skirt is a bit short, the gesture is a little difficult especially in front of the locker of many men.

One book had already been reached and another was a little away from his hand. Younha shifted her legs, covering her thighs with books.

"That's your?" A narrow-eyed man with a plain black Hoodie picked up the book and thrust it at Younha. He then got up, received the book and did not forget to say thank you.

"Thanks." -." Younha smiled, slightly shrinking as she looked at the man. "Are you Asian people? Your face like Korean."

"How did you know?" The man with Korean. "Is my face the market? Or do I look like an idol? Jungkook BTS maybe?"

They laugh together especially Younha who feels no longer alone in this campus. Fortunately there are still Koreans, at least he has the same nationality.

"I'm Jihoon. Lee Jihoon's." The man extended his hand.

Younha smiled and grabbed that hand as well. "Kim Younha."

"Why haven't we met since the beginning of the semester? I was always lonely. My English isn't fluent yet, I'm a little hard to adapt."

"I think you're smart." Timpal Younha put his package into a locker. As Jihoon leaned against the door of the other locker, he nonstop looked at Younha's face from the side. To her Younha was very pretty, just like that Jihoon smiled a smile of her own.

"Where do you usually eat lunch?"

"Oh, usually I'm in the campus cafeteria. On Saturday I go to a church near here, they distribute food after Sabbath service." Jihoon clenched his bag which he had placed on the floor a moment ago. "Well, students like me have to be frugal. Living in a country of people is a difficult challenge."

Younha nodded, gnashing softly before starting the word. "Do you want to eat together? I treat. Today, I got a salary from my private protege."

"What are you teaching?" Jihoon frowned while thinking of possible opportunities for Korean girls like Younha. "Don't tell me you're tutoring Korean?"

"Not only Korean, I even trained K-Pop dance on them."

"That's really cool. Why didn't I think about it before?"

"You can dance too?"

"No, hehe." Canda Jihoon rubbed his nape.

"We're leaving now?" Tawar Younha.

Jihoon nodded and they stepped together towards the stairs occasionally greeting the students in groups. Although awkward to be a little familiar at the first meeting but Jihoon is very random, he is good at starting topics and jokes. Start small talk and good relationship from lunch together.

...*****...

"Will you go straight home?" Jihoon asked after their lunch. Incidentally today's lecturer permission so that Jihoon's class was only given a light house assignment—but heavy for Jihoon's brain that fits Pasan.

"I have one more class." Younha said flatly. "Thank you for today. Seneng really has a country like yours, so I don't forget how to speak Korean."

Younha laughed softly. "That's your private, I have no right to know about this. But if you can feel relieved after the story, I will be horrified and as much as possible give input or response. But that doesn't mean I want to know your life, it's kind of reciprocal. Like a writer, he will be very happy if his work is appreciated in the form of criticism and advice. Didn't you?"

"I'm suspicious of you?" Jihoon raised his eyebrows next to his. "Your message is accepted at this university, you're not smart but genius."

"You must be the same, right?" Younha laughed casually, more sounding like ridicule. "You must also be so smart that you chose this university. Or a little support from the crazy rich your family."

"You what know? I haven't told you?"

"Ei, you think I don't know?" Younha asked back. "One Dior branded clothing stel, a Celine simple bag, a Rolex watch, an Adidas shoe, a pair of Flawless piercings, not to mention a small twist in your bag. Oh, maybe there's a Black Card?"

Jihoon is made gaping by Younha, with the girl very carefully obscuring Jihoon goods such as professional stylish. He was a little embarrassed by the smart girl in front of him.

"Well, cool!!" Jihoon clapped his hands and gave two thumbs up. "Then it's better for you to be my manager, I think someone like you deserves a light job because you're smart, I think a lot of companies will hire you later and before that happens I want to recruit you first."

Younha nodded. "Yes, I'll think about it."

"I'm actually lazy to go to college."

"What?"

"I must hurry the master to be able to seize my father's company which is now controlled by witches. Uh, my stepmother means."

Jihoon starts the story and Younha just nods and clears in response for not knowing what to answer. Jihoon was very open, even the ins and outs of his family he told Younha who was only known one day.

"I also have a half-brother. Not from my stepmother, she's the heir to Daisy Corp." Jihoon continued while glancing at his watch, still ten minutes before Younha's class came in. "His parents died in an accident, he was not able to manage his own company and finally the father raised him as a subsidiary and his company is managed father now."

"Daisy Corp.?" Younha asked with a frowning forehead and then sat down, Jinan company? "I have a friend from the company. He's now at Harvard."

Jihoon looked at Younha fixedly. "Jinan? Yoon Jinan?"

"true." Younha Manik. "Yoon Jinan is my best friend. Then you're brothers? Why not at the same university?"

Sipping his drink, Jihoon gave a rough snort. "She's smart, not like me whose brains fit. Everyone loves him, even Dad." Jihoon spoke with another expression, not as enthusiastic as before. Younha gets a little awkward, like there's something complicated about Jihoon and Jinan's relationship. And all this time Jinan also never told me if he had a brother.

Younha blinked slowly, then hurriedly tidied up her clothes. "Can we meet again next time?" Said rising. "Sorry, I have class now. Don't worry, I'll pay. I told you just now. I appreciate a frugal student like you anyway."

Hearing that Jihoon also got up and chuckled softly. "Sorry, I didn't mean to lie to you." He breathed a long breath. "You did unravel all my secrets, so my identity as a frugal student faded because of you."

"No need to bother the Director." Younha's laughter was a little mocking. "After all I'll be your man, I'll have to bribe the boss a little bit to accept me later."

Younha patted Jihoon on the shoulder and then went to the cashier. After the slender body was lost along with the closed canteen door, Jihoon sat back in his place, playing the straw from the half-drunk while smiling and muttering to himself.

She so Cute.

...*****...