Dark Autumn's

30. Apricity

Cold Seoul, autumn 2021.

Perhaps, it would be a wound to remember how the father told him how the father of his daughter had left them. Yes, Lea knew enough about her past and hoped everything would work out as it should. Because life will continue, no matter if it gets better or worse.

So, the responsibility he took this time exceeded his own life. Her little daughter, too, needed affection and surely, only she herself could give it. Well, all alone.

Lea returned to the job that she had lived for some time without any reason that she could not remember. For all he knew, he had married and had a family, then now had a beautiful little Princess.

Sitting in a chair made of wood, Lea took out a small notebook to write down some ideas that suddenly flinched when she saw the ancient building in front of her two manics.

"Their meeting started in a traditional house that looks quite ancient!" inscribed. Then look back at one corner of the building that became a tourist destination for these tourists.

This time, Lea was in town because of work. He's been here for almost a week, and he misses his little princess, Aurora.

But along with the sight that he turned on the sturdy pillar of the house, a young man walked with a camera on one of the soles. His clothes and hair are neatly arranged, more impressed retro style. Lea squinted, convincing at what she saw.

No stranger at all, he had seen the man, but—entah where.

Like an obsolete cassette re-played and viewed on a modern television monitor, the image in memory is disjointed. Making dizzy until suddenly appear uncomfortable feeling in his stomach—mual.

"Damn! Why is my head suddenly dizzy like this?" he murmured slowly, closed, massaged the increasingly heavy temple, then returned to pecking eyes on the figure who increasingly attracted his interest—more made him want to know.

But what happened in the next second was, accidentally their gazes met. The two Netra were bracing together the wind sweep that caressed her face as well as flying a few saplings of her long hair, Lea was stunned, stagnant on the face of the man who was staring at her this time. Suddenly her heart was heartbroken, her petals trembled, and her beautiful bead began to water.

The shadow where the face, the smile, even the sharp gaze was exposed was real before him. Like a monochrome image, a flash of events that he did not know at all and he remembered it was in his mind.

Ilove you...

DAMNIT DAMNIT!!!

Lea complained, his head getting dizzy and really he could not resist the turmoil arising from his stomach any longer.

God, this is not good.

Lea could see the man walking closer to her. Lea tried to get up with an increasingly blurry look, standing staggered because for some reason, her body reflexively wanted to leave just like that. Until his body was in someone's arms when he almost fell down.

"You okay?"

These sounds? Have I even heard of it?

Lea did not answer, which was in his mind just away from the reach of the man he did not know.

"Miss, you're so pale! Let me help you to the nearest hospital!"

Lea refused, but in the next minute she remembered nothing, and opened her eyes again. Welcomed by the aroma of disinfectant, also the smell of drugs that are so pungent. Leah knows where she is at the moment. Hospitals.

The green curtain that surrounded the place lying was tightly closed, there was no one and Lea could sigh in relief because the man she had avoided was not here with her.

However, it was not in accordance with his own speculations. Suddenly someone opened one side of the curtain, then appeared someone who from the beginning he wanted to avoid, standing even looking at each other again.

Beautiful Eyes.

"You're awake, miss? Sorry I went for a minute to buy a drink in the hospital cafeteria!" the man said, leaving Lea aghast and winking a few times in nervousness.

For God's sake, Lea was eager to run. He didn't want to get caught up in a situation like this. In fact, he now owes a debt of gratitude to the man who is now opening one of the bottles of drink, then thrusting it to him.

Damn, it was not usual for him to lose to his own body like this.

Trying to get up, Lea struggled a little until the man reflexes helped her to bang from the white bed she occupied.

"Thank you!" he said, while denying the man's palm so as not to touch him.

"I'm not a bad guy! You don't have to be that wary of me, I just want to help!"

For the sake of the infusion that was piercing one of her hand muscles, Lea cursed herself why she became this weak.

"The doctor also said, you only need to rest a while! After that you can return home with enough rest!" continued the man, conveying what the examiner's doctor said to him, a few moments ago. "— will I take you sam—"

"No need! I'll go home by taxi!"

The man's words came to a halt when suddenly Lea interrupted with tears that just slid away. Leah also didn't know why she was crying right now.

"Pardon me!" said the man, feeling bad and also guilty with a straight look, when he saw Lea crying. Then a few steps away from Lea who was increasingly touched.

"Please leave me alone!" pinta Lea with a raucous voice in tears. Roughly wiping the tears that fell soaked her cheeks.

"Well, I'll go now!"

Leah bowed, not wanting to see the man's face at all. Because it hurts so much. The man reached into his pants pocket and pulled out a business card from his black leather wallet. Put a business card on the nightstand not far from Lea sitting.

"Th-this is my business card! You can contact me if need something, or—"

"I understand! Now, please leave me!" sahut Lea still without taking his eyes off the blanket that covered part of his body.

"I'm leaving now!"

A hint of guilt suddenly seeped into Lea's mind as the man had already disappeared behind the curtain. Until he unconsciously turned his gaze to the nightstand, where the man had put his business card there. Slowly Lea reached out, grabbing the white paper. His manic perfectly patterned on what came back to surprise him at this moment. The name of the man, with the name that had been in his mind all along.

Vallen Hudson's.

Lea was wide-eyed, her heart felt chaotic.His breath felt increasingly suffocating in the esophagus.

"That guy... "

He really exists. She's real.[]

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