Chapter 352 - Deuxième Rencontre

At exactly twelve in the afternoon, Viona came out of the shop where she worked. She had changed her clothes and washed her face. Not long afterward, from the front, Adam's simple sedan was coming towards her.

"Have you been waiting for long?" Adam asked quietly as he lowered his window.

"No, I just came out of the shop ten minutes ago, Adam," Viona replied softly, shaking her head.

"That's great, come on in," Adam said quietly.

Viona nodded her head then grabbed the handle of the car door and opened it slowly and then got into the car quickly, because the mall they were going to was quite far away. Viona immediately put on her seat belt without Adam telling her. Throughout the trip, Viona laughed at Adam's jokes. She even shed tears because she was too amused to hear Adam's words.

"You are very beautiful, Anji, if you laugh like this. Let me fill the space in your heart, Anji," Adam said quietly as he glanced at Viona, who was wiping her tears after laughing.

Because he didn't want to make Viona cry even more, Adam finally stopped his jokes. He returned to focus on driving his car to a mall closest to the village of Elora. Adam had been waiting for this time for a long time. He had longed to spend time alone with Viona for a while now. However, because of the busy schedules of the two of them, who never met, this was the first time that Adam had been waiting for to arrive, so he was very excited today.

Arriving at the mall, Adam chose to park his simple car in front of the flower shop. He then invited Viona, who was looking at the flowers in the shop, to enter the mall.

"What flowers do you like, Anji?" Adam asked quietly as he entered the mall.

"Red rose," Viona replied quickly.

"Is there any other reason you like the flower?" Adam asked again.

"Nope, I've just liked red roses for a long time, Adam," Viona replied back, smiling broadly.

"Oh you. Let's go up or you want to buy something first before we enter the cinema?" Adam said quietly as he looked around the mall looking for snacks.

"I've been wanting to eat tteokbokki for a long time, actually, Adam," Viona said honestly.

Adam raised an eyebrow to hear Viona's words. He, who didn't really like Korean food, felt strange hearing the name of the food mentioned by Viona.

"It is a typical Korean food made from rice flour cooked with spicy and sweet spices and sometimes topped with mozzarella cheese," Viona said excitedly, trying to explain to Adam.

"What food is it? It's hard to say it, Anji. It must taste very strange," said Adam briefly.

"Aw, it's tasty! Really, you suck. Oh, well, let's go to the cinema and ..."

Viona could not finish her words because apparently the cinema was closed due to renovations. The look of disappointment seemed to be drawn on her beautiful face which made Adam feel guilty.

"Anji ... I'm sorry, I should have make sure before coming here," Adam said regretfully.

"This is not your fault, because it is being renovated, right? Okay, let's go hunting for snacks. Earlier when I got on the escalator from the first floor I saw someone selling mochi. Let's just eat mochi, Adam," Viona said with a big laugh.

"Mochi?"

"You don't know mochi?" Viona asked in a rising voice when she saw the confused expression on Adam's face.

Instead of answering the question that came out of Viona's lips, a small shake was shown by Adam, which indicated that he didn't know mochi. Viona immediately pinched Adam's arm in exasperation.

"Adam, you don't know anything, let's just buy some and taste them for yourself, so you know what mochi is," Viona said quickly, as she pulled Adam's hand to walk to the escalator to go down to the first floor, where Viona saw the mochi vendor.

Being held by Viona made Adam smile faintly. He looked at his hand that was being held by Viona. It felt like there was nothing he could describe right now. His heart blossomed when this woman, who had stolen his heart for ten months, touched his hand.

After the escalator stopped on the first floor, Viona immediately ran to the shop that sold mochi. She immediately took the green tea flavored mochi and put it directly into her mouth in one bite, so that her mouth was immediately full of mochi. Adam chuckled at what Viona was doing, but he couldn't help but finally tried one mochi directly. His facial expression immediately changed as soon as he bit mochi.

"Isn't that good?" Viona asked quietly, as she covered her mouth to avoid the contents of her mouth coming out.

"Yes, I just found out that there is a snack this good, Anji," Adam answered honestly.

"You're lousy. Let's eat some first, then we'll have some to be packed for Mom and the kids at home," Viona said quickly.

Adam nodded his head in response to Viona's words. He then grabbed one more mochi and followed Viona's previous method by directly putting it into his mouth without biting into it first. Seeing Adam was imitating her way of eating made Viona laugh. She then grabbed another flavored mochi and went back to eating it straight away. Since she married Fernando, she never used to eat snacks like this anymore, because Fernando always forbade her because he thought snacks on the roadside were unhygienic.

After contented in eating five mochis, Viona told Adam to pack a hundred mochi. She wanted to buy them for her mother and siblings at the orphanage too. When Adam was about to take out his wallet to pay, Viona quickly fended Adam's hand.

"Let me pay, Adam. I have enough money," said Viona softly as she took out the 50 dollar bill to the cashier.

"But you can save your money, Anji, let me be the one ..."

"No, no, no ... I'll pay, it's not that much anyway. Alright, let's go home, Adam. I want Mom and the kids to taste them too," said Viona, quickly cutting Adam's words.

Adam then put his wallet back and grabbed the grocery bag containing the mochi with a smile. They then went out of the mall to the car to return to the orphanage. On the way home, Viona asked Adam to pull over for a while because she wanted to get rid of a fairly large rock in the middle of the road.

"It's dangerous if you let it in the middle of the road," Viona said quietly as she got back into the car.

"I didn't say anything. Anji, "Adam said teasingly Viona.

"Never mind, let's go home, Adam. I can't wait to see your mother's expression when eating mochi," Viona said with a smile.

Adam then stepped on the gas pedal of his car and continued on his way home. After driving for nearly twenty minutes, they finally arrived in front of the orphanage. Viona who got out of the car appeared to be shocked when she saw so many things outside.

"What happened? Are we moving out, Mom?" Viona asked in a trembling voice to Mrs. Deborah who was talking to someone.

"No, Miss, we are not moving," said Fernando, suddenly appearing from behind the cupboard, smiling broadly.

"What do you ..."

To be continued