Chapter 56 - He is okay now

She smiles at him. "It's been a while, Do Sejin."

It's been a while. He still can't believe his eyes. She has reappeared in the world. He grabs her shoulder with his trembling hands. "Where have you been?"

"I was on a vacation." She tells him, amused by his reaction. "Did you miss me, Do Sejin?"

Miss her? That's an understatement.

"I felt like I was dying every second not knowing where you are..." He pulls her into his arms. She has lost weight. The lingering scent of Magnolia. He realizes that nothing is the same with her.

"Where is our child?"

She pushes him away. She blinks at him once. "Our child?"

Is she pretending? Do Sejin doesn't know what to say. If she lies, he can't do anything about her. He is afraid of her right now. She has a different look. He doesn't know who she is. She is Ahn Hana, but she has a different aura around her. Like the surface of the sea, she is glittering under the moonlight. However, like the bottom of the sea, the gravitating darkness insider her is unmistakable.

"I know that you were pregnant when you left." Do Sejin cannot run away from this. He needs to know the truth. His life hasn't been the same since he met her. If something happened to his child, he needs to hear it.

She shrugs her shoulder nonchalantly. She turns around and looks at the pictures. A sigh leaves her lips.

"Just because it was your spėrm, it doesn't make him your son."

He is relieved. He has a son. His and Ahn Hana's child. He releases his breath. A year of tightness in his ċhėst is released. "Where is he? How old is he? When was he born?"

She walks out of the house without a word. Do Sejin rushes after her. She keeps walking on the road, ignoring his calls. There is no way that he will let her run away like this. He clasps on to her wrist and drags her to his car. It's cold. She is only wearing a thin white dress.

"Don't go like that." He covers her with his coat. "Let's go back home. Everyone is waiting for you."

If she doesn't want him to tell about their son yet, he will wait. She needs time. He also needs time. They can't rush it. He will wait for her to speak up. He will hear everything that she has to say.

"I will take the bus." She points at the road. "Bus station is not far away."

"Are you kidding me?" Exasperated by her words, he pushes her inside his car. "Just sit there."

When they are halfway back to the S city, she chuckles in a low voice. "Thanks, Do Sejin. I guess I saved some bucks since you are driving me back."

Strange. If she was the same Ahn Hana, she would have never said things like that.

"Where did you go?" He can't resist asking.

"You won't tell me ever, right?"

She doesn't answer him. He peers at her She is sleeping. He sighs. He didn't expect that he would find her like this.

***

"Hana!" Jung Kwang-soo lifts her into a hug. She feels smaller now. He is just glad to see her alive. She has proven the world wrong. She has come back alive. "You scared me to death. Where have you been?"

She squirms in his hold. He lets her down. She looks up with a mellow smile. "Kwang-soo, why are you acting like you had no idea? Didn't you allow me to go on a vacation for an indefinite period?"

Vacation? What about blood? Why would she disappear like that for nearly a year? Jung Kwang-soo opens his mouth to ask, but he sees Do Sejin shaking his head.

What happened to her? They will ask later. "Are you hurt somewhere? What about your illness?"

"My head is fixed." She touches her scalp unintentionally. "I am hungry."

Jung Kwang-soo and Do Sejin share a look.

"I will make something." He gives her a small smile. "Just wait for some time."

Jung Kwang-soo holds her hands before she could refuse. "Do Sejin's cooking is the best. It has improved a lot since he started living alone. Tell me, Hana. Where did you go for your vacation?"

"Somewhere far away," She gives him a vague answer.

"How much far away?" He leans closer. "Out of our country?"

"I need to earn more money." Ahn Hana changes the conversation. "Did you give away my job to someone else?"

Jung Kwang-soo gets the idea that she doesn't want to talk about her vacation. Noticing that look in her eyes, he also drops it. "I would never give it to someone else. Your office is cleaned and dusted every day. Everything in that room is where you left it."

Do Sejin let them talk and goes to the kitchen to prepare something for her. He realizes that he doesn't know her favorite foods. He decides to make shrimp soup, hoping that she would like it as she did in the past.

Sound of the doorbell. Do Sejin looks at the screen and sees Bo Ji-Won's face. She is trying to break open the door. He unlocks it and let the storm come inside. She doesn't even give him a glance. She walks straight to Ahn Hana.

"Hana." She blinks her eyes, trying to accept what she is saying. White hair. Pale skin. Skinny. An otherworldly look in her warm brown eyes like she has been stolen by the fairies and returned to the world. A detached smile.

"What happened to you?" She explodes into tears and hugs her. "Why are you like this?"

"How are you, Bo Ji-Won?" Ahn Hana looks at Ji-Won's belly. "Your husband took my advice."

"You idiot!" She sobs harder in her arms. "I thought that you died. Where have you been? Did you get your surgery? What about your child?"

Ahn Hana pats her back and answers her each question calmly. "I was on vacation. I survived my surgery and afterward treatments. My son was born premature, but he is okay now."

Do Sejin gasps when he hears her answers. Surgery. Treatments. Premature birth. It must have been hard for her.

"Where is my nephew?" Bo Ji-Won looks around to see the baby.

"He is not here." Ahn Hana rests her chin in her palm with a distant look in her eyes. "Ha-Neul is in a safe place somewhere far away."

Do Sejin clutches his ċhėst. The name is Ha-Neul. He likes this name. His and Ahn Hana's sky.