Girl In The Winter's

Chapter 39

Time passed quickly, Yuri had been discharged from the hospital a few days after Erik and Ayumi's last meeting. It was really their last meeting, after that night Erik never met the girl again, they tried to avoid each other, they would just watch each other from a distance.

Ayumi and Dr. Lee was getting closer, they always spent every day together, like their lovers would have lunch together in the hospital cafeteria and it made anyone see him feel envious because of his second compatibility. On weekends they will go on dates, from watching movies or exploring tourist attractions in Busan, and the last activity that makes Ayumi feel happy. They go to Beomeosa or Beomeo temple located at the foot of Geumjeong mountain which has been around 1300 years old, as well as see a three-story stone pagoda that became a treasure of South Korea, they even visited various kinds of parks in the 3rd largest port city in the world, and one of them is the United Nations park.

Slowly the girl had already started to accept the presence of the man beside her, his treatment is very caring and also good little by little can start filling his heart even though at his own time he still likes to cry because he misses Erik and all he can do is hug his minion doll. But Ayumi has not been able to take off the necklace with a snowflower that the man gave her even though Dr. Lee had given the necklace with the initials pendant to both of them.

May is the last month of spring in Busan where all the flowers have bloomed perfectly, each garden decorated with colorful flowers in a neat arrangement, cherry trees planted almost on all the sidewalks of the road have bloomed completely making us feel as if we are waded by pink flower petals when we walk in between. It was during this beautiful season that her mother died.

Profs. Choi, Kevin and Ayumi are performing the annual ceremony of her mother's death today. His father and brother wore neat black-black stellans as well as himself who wore a knee-length black skirt complete with stockings and a black blazer. They walked along the cemetery located not far from Beomeosa, the cemetery was like a burial place in Indonesia planted with green grass and a headstone as a sign.

Somehow every time Ayumi came to the tomb of the woman who had given birth to her, there was always a great vibration that reached her heart. Suddenly he felt a sadness that whack his heart, as well as a sense of longing. Although he had never met the woman he should have called the mother, the bond between them was as strong as the relationship between mother and child. Even when he first came there with Kevin, he wept bitterly as he huddled before the mound, hoping that if he did so his mother would live again and hold him tightly. But now he was getting used to it even though the sadness remained.

After returning from the tomb Kevin and Ayumi decided to go for a walk in Haeundae after they had previously changed into casual clothes. Kevin is like a celebrity he wears a baseball cap and sunglasses as a disguise, although a little in vain because still some people recognize him but he does not bother, he said, he casually embraced his sister's shoulder which today looks relaxed with short white pants, pink stripes and light gray long cardingan, complete with his sneakers and hair in his pigtails he looks like a student on vacation.

"So you can now forget, that man?" Kevin asked while drinking his mango juice, they are currently walking down a luxury store in the elite area.

Ayumi simply took a deep breath and shook her head in response, "But I've decided I will start thinking about my relationship with Senior Lee more seriously," Ayumi replied as she drank her strawberry float juice.

Before he went to his mother's grave, he had done a great thing even though it was difficult at the beginning but finally he felt relieved after stripping off the necklace with snow flowers, put it in a small box to be next put in a large box along with his minion doll. From today on, it was all just objects of his past that he had to bury deeply. Now on the neckline of the line is seen a new necklace decorated with initial pendants himself and also his lover. Ayumi smiled as she imagined how Dr. Lee tomorrow when he sees her wearing the necklace.

"Why are you smiling like that? You must be imagining a no-no" said Kevin, shaking his head.

"No," Ayumi answered briefly while bowed.

"Yeah! I saw you smile again."

They were laughing because Kevin teased her when the round eyes caught the body silhouette of the person they were joking with.

"Oh, what is he doing here?" Ayumi furrowed her brows when she saw Dr. Lee walked not far from them.

"We'd better follow him, who knows he's having an affair. And if that's true then I have a reason to punch him" Kevin said, prompting Ayumi to protest.

"Yeah! He wouldn't do that." Ayumi believed in the pointy-nosed man, although in her heart she was a little afraid that what Kevin said was true.

Kevin pulls Ayumi to follow Dr. Lee leaves, Ayumi's eyebrows furrowed when she saw the man entering one of the famous wedding dress boutiques, the, and at once he knew the purpose of the man coming there and if his conjecture was true then the man he was trying to forget was also there.

"No, we better go." Ayumi smiled wryly and after thinking for a moment Kevin finally guessed the reason for the girl to behave like this.

"This is your chance to strengthen your heart more. Come on, I also need to use their toilet,” said Kevin in a hurry that seems to no longer be able to hold it, said Kevin, finally, half-heartedly, he followed the man.

"I'm here with my friend who just came in, Lee Soo Hyuk, do you know where they are?" Kevin asked who made the waiter blush and without asking again he led them to the top floor which served as a clothing fitting.

"You better go first, I'll go to the toilet." Kevin immediately turned to leave Ayumi alone. The waiter said that he would find Dr. Lee in fitting room 4. He walked down the corridor on the left right there are doors with writing, office, room 1 fittings, room 2 fittings, room 3 fittings and finally room 4 fittings at the very end.

Ayumi held her chest to calm the sudden pounding of her heart, after taking a deep breath she ventured to knock on the door but it turned out that it was not tightly closed, he opened the white door a little while his smile rose when he saw the figure of Lee Soo Hyuk sitting with a foot on the sofa in maroon. Ayumi was about to enter a greeting when she heard Yuri's soft voice that seemed to be trying on her bridal outfit.

"Oppa, have you done it?" yuri asked as she stared at her reflection in front of the glass, with one employee seen tidying up the wedding clothes attached fitting wrapped the girl's slim body.

"Do what?" ask Dr. Lee was lazy while playing his phone.

"Decide the girl."

Lee Soo Hyuk is now looking at his sister with his sharp eyes.

"Oppa, don't tell me you haven't done it!" yuri shouted while looking at the DR. Lee couldn't believe it.

"Why should I decide, Ayumi?"

Now Yuri gaped at her brother's question.

"Did you forget, I asked you to approach her so that you could dump her and hurt her just like when Soo Hyuk Oppa dumped me because of her" the girl said angrily.

"He had nothing to do with Soo Hyuk's rejection just yet, he hadn't even met the girl when he rejected you."

"Oppa, don't tell me you've fallen in love with that woman?" Yuri asked in a growling voice, her eyes staring at her brother who is still sitting waiting for his turn to try the suit stelan his mother had ordered. Dr. Lee was silent for a while while staring at his sister who now looks about to explode.

"No," she replied briefly which managed to make Yuri calm down a bit.

"Then you decide she's as soon as possible.I hear you're getting closer and it looks like she's already starting to fall for you. Seung Won oppa is about to marry me, and you're the man he thinks loves so much that he'll look up to her" Yuri smiled at his evil idea, "Wouldn't that be perfect, he would feel the heartache I felt when Seung Won Oppa left me first, "he continued with his evil grin, his eyes staring at his brother who was just sitting silent.

The sound of falling objects made the two of them stare at the door and immediately their eyes widened to see the two people who were the object of their conversation were staring at him with the look of injured and angry eyes.

"Soo Hyuk Oppa," Yuri said stuttering, her body suddenly frozen with fear caused by the angry gazes in both of the sharp eyes of the man who was about to become her husband.

"Yumy." Lee Soo Hyuk immediately jumped to his feet when he saw the figure of the woman who had filled his day was staring at him with the look of injured eyes and it made his chest feel tight.

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