After an hour, Jungah was having breakfast at a cafe in the middle of Seoul. It was a cozy little place that she loved. She had become a regular customer and the owner, a 19 year old girl who has inherited the local when her parents died in a car accident, always stopped to talk to her for a while.
Jungah had in front of her a big cup of hot chocolate, which was steaming, as her skin under the hot water inside the shower. Jungah cheeks blushed again, remembering.
Next to the cup of hot chocolate, Jungah had a big piece of cheesecake with blueberries, which was in front of her as saying: "Eat me. I know that you want me. You want so much as you want Kahi."
Thinking about that last sentence, Jungah frowned and sighed again, grabbing the fork and she take a bite of cake.
"I guess it's true that I want her so much if even a blueberry pie is telling me." Jungah said, chewing. "But I'm telling you, that Kahi is tastier than you." Jungah said, smiling at her occurrence.
"What is tastier than our cheesecake, unnie?" Asked the owner of the cafe, approaching her.
Jungah looked up and smiled, wiping her mouth with a napkin before asking the girl to sit next to her.
"Unnie what are you thinking?"
"Nothing E-Youngie... Things in life that are so obvious that a piece of cake is telling me." Jungah said and E-young looked confused.
"I'm sorry unnie, but I don't know what you mean." Jungah sighed.
"What do you do when you want something, you want it with all your strength, but you're afraid to go for it, even if you know that that something will go for you anyway?" Jungah asked, looking at the girl with a brightness of despair in her eyes.
"I don't know what people would do in this cases, unnie, but I know what I'd do." E-young smiled. "What I would do is sit in my place, waiting for that someting to coming here to find me." Jungah bit her lip, hesitating. "If it's something, like you said, you want all your strength doesn't make sense to fight it, because it always find a way to reach you." Jungah nodded.
"But I'm not sure..."
"Well, you shold be, unnie." E-young said. "What is the point of life if you're not sure of what you want?"
"I don't know."
"If you don't know, me either." E-young said. "But what I know is that you're afraid. Afraid to face what you feel. Fear of letting yourself get trapped by what is comming to you. "
"Maybe."
"If you're afraid, send the fear to hell unnie!" Exclaimed E-young. "A woman of 31 years can't live in fear to feel, afraid to be happy. Because since I met you I've realized that it's not your true self which is in front of me right now. I'm sure the real you is someone much brighter that is hidden under the sadness that clouds your eyes."
"E-young..." Jungah's eyes were open wide.
"So whoever that person is, you shouldn't run unnie." E-young smiled, clutching Jungah's hand. "Everyone deserves to feel happy and fulfilled in life and you're fighting it, because you're afraid to feel like that again. I know that you are sure that you want that person, with all your strength." Jungah nodded.
"Thank you E-Youngie." Jungah said, squeezing E-young's hand. The girl smiled warmly.
"A pleasure unnie." E-young said, rising from her seat. "Now I have to go, but if you come back tomorrow, we'll talk again, okay?" Jungah nodded. E-young smiled and leaned down to kiss Jungah's cheek.
When E-young left, Jungah plunged in her thoughts. Jungah introduced another piece of cake in her mouth, chewing it slowly. Jungah took the pie plate and lifted it to her eye level.
"I guess E-young is right, right?" Jungah said to the cake. "I can't fight my feelings." At that moment the door of the cafe opened and Jungah's eyes widened.
Kahi.
Park Kahi in all her glory had come into the cafeteria.
The eyes of all people who were in the cafeteria were inevitably drawn to the figure of the woman who had just come through the door, wearing small blue shorts and a white shirt that clung to her body and made visible the defined chocolates of her belly.
Her hair fell like a waterfall of chocolate and gold down her back, while her dark tresses mingled with her blond streaks. Her white helmet hung loosely from her hand, threatening to fall down. And her eyes... Her eyes studied the place with fierceness and determination.
Because for Kahi the most important at that time was to find an empty table to have breakfast quietly and abundantly, as her stomach was singing out loud, asking to be fed.
But then Kahi's gaze fell Jungah, who was staring at her, holding a piece of cake in front of her face. Kahi smiled, like a predator who had sighted her prey.
Jungah panicked and quickly left the cake in the table and grabbed the cup of chocolate, taking it to her lips and taking a long sip. But when the hot chocolate came in contact with the inside of her mouth, her eyes filled with tears of pain, putting the cup back on the table.
Kahi smiled, approaching Jungah, who was now with her mouth open and her tongue hanging out, trying that the cool air around her calmed the throbbing pain in her mouth.
Kahi examined Jungah from head to toe. Her shorts jeans left her long and slender legs bare, while a red shirt showed a good view of her s and her long fair hair falling over her shoulders like a golden waterfall.
Kahi stopped beside Jungah and pulled out a bottle of water of her backpack, handing it to Jungah. Jungah looked up and saw Kahi's smiling face. Jungah's cheeks blushed as Kahi sat quietly in front of her, watching her with her chin in her hands. Jungah drank the water, without daring to look at Kahi.
"If you know that something is hot, you should't take long sips." Kahi said, tingling her head to one side.
"I forgot that it was that hot." Jungah said, closing the water bottle and giving it to Kahi. "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Kahi smiled. Jungah looked at Kahi, lost in the perfection of her dimples and the depths of her eyes.
"I was wondering why you're here alone." Kahi said.
"Breakfast." Jungah said, raising an eyebrow.
"You mind if I accompany you?" Kahi smiled, leaning forward. Jungah blushed and put her back to the chair.
"I don't know if it's a good idea." Jungah said.
"Why?" Kahi was approaching.
"Because it isn't." Jungah said, flatly. Kahi stopped and returned to her seat, little by little.
"Okay." Kahi said. "I won't have breakfast with you, but I want something in return." Kahi said, smiling again. Jungah looked at her curiously.
"What?" Jungah said with suspicion.
"I want you to have dinner with me tonight." Kahi said, with a relaxed smile. Jungah's eyes widened.
"I tell you that I don't want to have breakfast with you and you still invite me to dinner?" Jungah asked. Kahi nodded. "It makes no sense, isn't it?" Kahi shrugged.
"What is your answer?" Kahi asked expectantly.
Jungah opened her mouth to reject the proposition, but then she felt a look from the other side of the cafeteria. E-young looked at her with raised eyebrows, as if she was telling her to send her fear to hell and, if that was the person who was going for her, to let her be caught by that person.
Kahi, seeing Jungah unresponsive and not looking at her, sighed, lifting from her chair slowly.
"Well, I guess that your silence means no. See you around." Kahi said walking away from Jungah.
Jungah then reached out and grabbed Kahi's hand, causing both women to feel that familiar electrical sensation flowing through their veins, while each of the hairs of their bodies stood up.
Kahi turned slowly and looked into Jungah's eyes, getting lost into the sweetness that emanated from her eyes, into the perfection of her features. Kahi resisted the urge to approach her and kiss her as she had never kissed before. So did Jungah.
"I accept." Jungah said and Kahi's tight lips relaxed into a smile.