Once at the residence, Jieun quickly enters the room and starts rushing to take a shower ignoring anyone even Eun-Woo.
They had all eaten lunch in the village earlier and now Jieun only thought of one thing, which was that she wanted to sleep even though it was still daylight. Her body began to feel tired and lazy to do anything else.
As soon as she was ready to take a shower and put on clean clothes she wrote a note and placed it on the bedside table saying, 'Just eat dinner without me tonight if I don't get up. No need to wake me up as I wanted to sleep so much '.
Then, Jieun continued to collapse on the bed. For quite a while, she lies there now she didn't even see Eun-Woo there like he is not visible at all. Didn't he want to rest? Take a bath or something? What on earth he doing outside anyway?
Still feeling dissatisfied with the man's change of attitude Jieun sigh again and again. But she cannot really think about it deeper at the time as her eyes got heavier and heavier and eventually closed. Sleep finally consumes her.
After feeling that she gets quite a long sleep, Jieun began to open her eyes slowly. She thought she would get up to start the journey back to the palace, but she woke up in her real world bedroom and she was a little relieved. At least in a few hours she won't be face to face with Eun-Woo for a while. So she can calm herself down a bit while trying to sort things out. By thinking for a while.
With that, as usual, she took a bath, wearing a proper clothes and get ready to go to college. Once on the ground floor of her house, her father's voice asked her there.
"Have you packed enough stuff?" Jieun tilts her head a little not understanding her father's intent while her hands deserve grabbing her father's famous egg sandwich.
"What do you mean dad?" She said while munching on the food. She clearly looks starving there. Her father's face was a little wrinkled there.
"Did you forget that today is the day you will start to live with your husband?"
Hearing the words 'husband' make Jieun choke for a moment and start looking for water to soothe her now sore throat. Only after drinking the water given by her father, she finally regains consciousness. Yes. Today is the day she will move into the house of her in -law. Means she still will meet Eun-Woo but the unmoving one.
"I totally forgot." Jieun told her father while was gaping a bit stupid at the time.
"Well, you still have time. Pack your things and I'll bring it later, while taking you off from college. Then sends you there."
"Alright." Jieun nodded listen well to her father.
"I will come visit you frequently dad. And you also don't forget to do so." Jieun saying.
She knew her father was reluctant to release her into the hands of others. But, since she is married and also due to the demands of the research that is being conducted, Jieun had to leave her father, her home. She actually feels sad about that too.
"I will. You don't have to remind me of that. Don't worry and now pack quickly.
Jieun then immediately finishes the sandwich in her hand and sip the milk greedily before running back to her bedroom for that purpose.
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::The college::
Once again, Jieun do a long pensive while in the cafeteria. That 'pensive' habit seems to be her favorite thing now after she enters the world of that Dreamland.
"Okay, spill it. What is the problem now?" Sarah asked after she heard the sigh repeatedly. She thought that all her friend's problems were solved after entering the special science department that she wanted, but still her best friend suddenly becoming like that. As if bearing the biggest problem ever.
Jieun now look at her friend with a lifeless face. She actually thinks of herself and Eun-Woo. She could not catch or identify the problem between them even when she think really hard about it. That's why she's like this now.
"Can I ask you something?" Jieun asking a bit serious.
"Just ask away girl. I already give you a permission a long time before." Said Sarah while eating a fried chicken there.
"I'm actually curious about the drama I just watched." Sarah frowned after hearing. She already knows about Jieun curiosity 'disease' but she didn't know its this bad until drama on television can even make her sigh heavily like that. It seems like Jieun is a bit too carried away now.
"And..." Sarah told her to continue telling the story.
"There one man and one girl who is a friend at first suddenly got married in an arranged married. But they promise to make this married to worked up. It's not like a contract marriage story or anything. Then, the man promises the girl that they will take it slow on the intimate part, but they broke the promise couple of time by kissing. The man started it first and the girl didn't refuse. " Jieun look at her friend to make sure she is paying attention to her story.
"Aha... Go on..." Sarah is listening well there even stop eating at that time. After all, they had already finished class today. They got a lot of time to waste now.
"Then something happens when both of them travel overseas and sit in the same room. The girl start to feel uncomfortable when she sees the man without shirt. And the man also seem shocked when he sees the girl after showering just wearing a towel. Then, they accidentally share a kiss. A very passionate one. But because of sudden interruption they broke the kiss off and next day the man started to avoid the girl leaving the girl confused and frustrated. What do you think this story is all about? "Jieun asking a little too fired up and curious there.
Sarah stares at her best friends who have finished telling the story before starting to speak.
"If I don't know you I will think that you are talking about yourself."
Hearing that sentences makes Jieun feel rigid for a while.
"What... what are you saying? I don't even have any boyfriend let alone a husband!" Jieun deny a little stutter.
"I know! It's just the story is to detail make me surprised instantly. Well, just forget about that. Hurm... Lets see... First I think there's some sexual tension between them."
"What do you mean?" Jieun clearly did not understand.
"I think the couple is feeling attracted to each other more than they thought they are. Convey they want getting intimate more than just holding hands, hugs and kisses. They already broken their promise to take things slow but their heart didn't actually want it. They probably didn't know that both of them actually already fall in love each other. So why take things slow? They just make themselves suffer. Unless it's just lust alone but I didn't think its that as the man reaction after the passionate kiss is showing everything. " Sarah explain make Jieun blinking for a while there.
'Am I already in love with him? ' Jieun now asks herself in her heart. 'Well, I know that I care about him more than before we got married.'
"And what about the reaction?" Jieun continue asking after she comes back from her mind.
"The man probably really wanted to make things far if not because of the sudden interruption and deal with it later. But, after the interruption only then he realizes that he is taking things too far and blaming himself about that, because, he is the one who suggests first 'taking things slow' but he's always the one who broke it. He's probably afraid if he hurts the girl as he cares about her so much. So because he always gets effected when he's in close proxy with the girl he just decides by himself that he needs to be in some distant. Probably until he can figure out how to control his feeling. Who knows? " Sarah added her opinion at length.
Jieun keep quiet to hear it. If its true, it means that he is suffering while trying to take care of her heart then. What a foolish. Jieun finally make a little smile there.
"So my suggestion to the couple is just ignore the promise and went with the flow. Why burdening yourself with something silly like that? Just fuck each other already!" Sarah said a bit vulgar making Jieun face a bit red now.
"So, what's the title of the drama anyway? Sound like a good plot. Maybe I try to watch it later." Sarah suddenly wanted to know.
"Aaa... Uuu..." Jieun who become surprise there not knowing how to avoid the question, but at the very moment her phone suddenly beeps. Indicates that there are incoming messages.
Looking at her cell phone screen, she said,
"That's Professor Melanie. She wanted to see me. I'll catch up with you later okay. Bye!" Jieun said to Sarah while quickly getting up from there.
What a perfect way to escape.. Inside her mind she really hopes that Sarah will forget about the conversation and not ask her about that again.