Girl In The Winter's

Chapter 34

Lee Soo Hyuk looked at Ayumi sharply and it made the girl feel uneasy as if she was caught committing a crime. They were silent for a moment, an awkward atmosphere bursting to the surface, no one opened their mouth, Dr. Lee still stared at Erik and Ayumi alternately, while Joonie looked confused by the suddenly awkward condition.

"I bought him dinner" said Erik, casually breaking the silence.

"You...what?" Ask Dr. Lee could not believe what he heard.

"I bought him dinner because he saved my sister."

"He... what?"

"Do you have a problem with your hearing?" Erik asked coldly, his eyes staring at Dr. Lee sharp who was also staring at him was no less sharp.

"Your sister?"

"Joon Seo, now that he's here, don't you see him?" Erik asked still in a cold tone.

"How are you, Soo Hyuk hyung?" Joonie waved his hand in front of Dr. Lee seemed to have just realized his existence.

"Oh.. Joon Seo, are you here?"

"Yes, from earlier," Joonie replied with a forced smile.

"What's wrong with your face?" Ask Dr. Lee pulled up a chair and sat down to join them.

"I was robbed."

"You're robbed?"

Joonie nodded, "Luckily Noona came and saved me," he said with a smile looking at Ayumi.

"Are you okay?" Ask Dr. Lee with an anxious look, which Ayumi answered with a nod and a smile that made Erik grumble his teeth.

"What are you doing? Did you beat them up?" Dr Goda. Lee who made Ayumi bow down embarrassed.

"He called the police right in front of them, didn't he, Noona?" Joonie answered Dr. Lee smiled proudly.

"Actually, I don't know who I'm calling," said Ayumi softly as she bowed.

"You what?" Joonie asked in disbelief.

"I was too afraid to remember the police's phone number, so I came from the massage alone," continued Ayumi who made the three men look at her in disbelief.

"So that's why you ran away?" Joonie continued after recovering from his shock.

"I ran because they were after me."

"They're after you!" Erik and Dr. Lee was together, which made Joonie look at the two of them in wonder.

"No, they're not after Noona, but they're running because they think, Noona, really called the police."

"really?" Ayumi asked as she widened her round eyes.

"Yes, I heard it when they swore, 'fuck, we better go now!'" Joonie's words show what the robbers say.

"Well, I shouldn't have run."

Joonie nods in response to Ayumi's words, while Erik and Dr. Lee could only let out a sigh of relief because the girl was fine.

"What are you doing here?" Erik asked after realizing that the pointy-nosed man was not without reason to be in the same place as them.

Dr. Lee raised his eyebrows casually, "I'm having dinner with my colleagues."

"So, why aren't you with them now?" Erik continues to relax which makes Dr. Lee furrowed his brows.

"Did you kick me out?"

"No, I'm just asking."

"You seem to mind if I join you guys."

Erik was silent for a moment, his sharp eyes staring at Dr. Lee was cold, "Are you going to leave if I say objection?"

Ayumi turns her attention away from Joonie towards the two men before her, and she can feel the tension around them, as well as Joonie. He furrowed his brows thinking how could that tension be? All he knew was that they were friends from High School. Joonie does not really like Yuri Erik's fiancee who happens to be Lee Soo Hyuk's sister, but not with the Doctor he likes it enough even though it sometimes resembles Lucifer.

"Have you come here with the other doctors?" Ayumi asked distracting the two men who were still staring at each other intently.

Dr. Lee looked at Ayumi and at once the look in her eyes turned soft, "Yes, they're there." With his head he pointed at the group of people sitting at the table outside the second floor of a luxurious sea food restaurant not far from them.

Ayumi looked at the group she knew them all and one of them had a pair of eyes that although from a distance she could feel that the eyes were looking at her sharply, the eyes belonged to the obstetrician, Dr. Mi Rae's.

Dr. Lee followed Ayumi's slightly shocked gaze, and now she understood why the girl looked frightened.

"Don't mind that witch" said Dr. Lee looked at Ayumi.

"Magic grandmother?" Joonie looks around looking for an evil figure called Dr. Lee's. So did Erik, but he could immediately find the figure when he saw the sharp eyes full of hatred watching them all.

"Hyung, can you take us around first? I want to see the view of Busan at night" Joonie said excitedly, and Erik could see Ayumi's sparkling eyes when he heard her request, and he involuntarily smiled.

"We'll see" said Erik, standing next to Joonie and Ayumi.

"Ayumi, you come home with me!" Dr's orders. Lee made the three people who were preparing to go look at him.

"But aren't you with your friends?" Ask Ayumi who looks confused.

Dr. Lee shrugged one shoulder indifferently, "I can go home first," he replied casually.

"He came with me so he came home with me. We're leaving now!" Erik's orders with his cold voice made Ayumi and Joonie nod.

"I told you, he came home with me!" Erik's cold snarl stopped the activities of the three who were wearing their spring jackets.

"Ayumi, you come home with me!" His orders were in a firm voice and did not want to accept rejection.

"Don't talk rudely like that to him!" Furious Erik who does not like the tone of Dr. Lee who now looks surprised by the anger of his famous friend can control himself well.

Ayumi looked at Erik who was about to step closer to Dr. Lee with eyes filled with anger. "Erik, enough!" Ayumi's hand held onto the arm of the man who was now looking at her in disbelief as he could hear the girl again calling out her name. Different from Dr. Lee and Joonie are surprised to hear Ayumi calling the sharp-eyed man's western name.

"I'll go home with him." Ayumi while looking at Erik calming down, she then turned to look at Dr. Lee was still watching the two of them.

"Senior, we're leaving now" he continued, walking away from them all, Dr. Lee immediately walked up to him quickly after he came to his senses from his shock.

Erik and Joonie can only stand staring at the departure of the two of them who are getting away towards the car park.

"So.. What is it?" Joonie asked without taking his eyes off.

"Him?" Ask back Erik who was also still staring at the back of Ayumi who had now turned and began to disappear.

"Iris," Joonie replied, which caused Erik to stare at her, how could his sister have found out about Iris, "Well, my guess is correct." Joonie smiled in anguish after seeing the reaction of his brother.

"How did you know about... Iris?"

Joonie was silent for a while before he finally answered Erik's question, "You always call him when unconscious, Hyung," joonie said weakly when she remembered she had almost lost her only sister some time ago.

Erik took a deep breath, and walked to the parking lot without answering Joonie's question, who seemed to know the answer without him telling. The two of them fill the journey home quietly, although there are many questions Joonie wants to ask about why her brother left Ayumi and chose to fight with another woman? Given that he knows how Erik loves a girl named Iris, who is none other than Ayumi.

"How did you know that?" Erik asked to break the silence in the car, and Joonie was grateful that he no longer had to feel tense sitting next to his older brother who was frowning from earlier.

"That eye can't lie, Hyung, even if you're cold to her but your eyes are always looking at her softly, I almost thought that you two just fell in love at first sight."

"You guys?" Erik asked after realizing that his sister was using plural instead of a single word.

"Aishis... Hyung, don't you see how Noona looks at you? At first I thought all women would see you like premium beef." Joonie said casually regardless of the killing gaze from his brother for likening himself to beef.

"But he saw you like a plague to be avoided."

"Yeah! After calling me beef, now you call me a plague?"

"I mean, every woman who sees you they would want to meet you, but Ayumi Noona was like to disappear after seeing you, but her eyes look at you longingly as well as the way you look at her, Hyung. I thought there must be something between the two of you. I grew more confident when Soo Hyuk Hyung came and for the first time I saw you couldn't control such emotions, your possessive soul came out."

Joonie looked at Erik who was concentrating on driving before he continued.

"Hyung, do you know that you're such a cold, expressionless snow puppet?"

Erik smiled as he nodded, "You're like my students back at UBC who nicknamed me ice dolls."

"Well, they're smart!" Joonie yelled as he patted her hand, which made Erik look at her with a piercing look.

"Sorry, Hyung."

"So what exactly do you want to say?"

Joonie is now sitting on his side facing Erik seriously, "I mean, you are a man who has never shown the emotions that are in your heart, but tonight I saw you secretly smiling sincerely, she said, I see you angry and I see you jealous."

"I'm not jealous."

"You seem to want to swallow him alive just because he smiled at another man, Hyung! Admit it that you're jealous."

Erik was silent for a while, but Joonie refused to budge and kept looking at him forcing him to confess his feelings, and Erik finally relented and he let out a heavy breath that made his dimpled sister's smile appear.

"Well you're right but just a little, remember just a little!"

Joonie smiled triumphantly at his sister's confession, "Alright, but because your little jealousy makes my confidence even greater if there is a relationship between you, but... it all instantly proved to be true by the time he called you by your western name." Joonie nodded in satisfaction with his accurate prediction results.

Erik was silent again, they were entering the parking space under the man's apartment, after parking the car, they did not get out of there and just sat with their hands still at the wheel.

"So why did you break up?" Joonie asked curiously, "Don't tell me it's Soo Hyuk Hyung?" He looked at Erik, who was breathing a lot and opened his seatbelt and got ready to get out of his car.

"It's not because of him, but because of my own stupidity," he said softly as he got out of the car leaving Joonie with curiosity.

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