Chapter 151 - Total psycho [1]

Moon Jiwoo's eyes fell on the calendar, and she read the date on top of it. The corner of her lips curved upwards when she realized that around two years had passed since she had last moved at here from the Underworld.

It would be a lie to mention that she did not miss him throughout this entire period of time. Everyday she was reminded of it, and the first few months had been quite difficult for her.

She had a hard time without him, and everything just felt so unusual. Many nights she had gone to bed crying, and she suffered a lot in the first year.

But then, as the time passed by, she started to get used to everything, and as that happened, things became much less painful to her. 

She wasn't able to erase him completely from her life. That wasn't possible for her yet, but she knew that she had made some improvements from the beginning.

She was aware that Oh Sookyung was a man she could never stop herself from having feelings for, and there was no way she would be ever be able to forget about it. It was not as if she made effort to move on from him completely.

It was just that she liked her life right now. The pace was just perfect for her. Everyday she lead a simple life and managed to find happiness in small things.

Right now, she was able to smile and have fun every once in a while without being in pain, and that was enough for now. 

Although she was reminded of him and missed him, she treated the moments both of them had together as memories she was quite fond of. They were something she would like to grow old with.

Sometimes it managed to hurt her, and she wondered how it had been for her if she hadn't ce back at here on the surface. But it didn't manage to keep her that occupied.

Yes, there was so many things she wanted right now as well, but more than that, she did not want for anything to change due to the fear that everything will be getting scarier for her if that happened.

That was something she did not want.

She believed that she gone through enough pain for a lifetime, and that was one thing she did not want to experience again.

"Daerin, where are you? I need help at here."

Hearing that voice, Moon Jiwoo knew that her boss was calling for her, and she instantly turned her attention away from the calendar to look back.

Over this period of two year, she worked at a flower shop. The flower shop wasn't something she would consider to be popular, but it made enough for the boss to pay her a decent amount of salary.

Working at a flower shop wasn't something she ever imagined herself in, but now that she was in this place, she did not find it being bad. Moreover, working at here managed to lift her mood up at times.

The boss at here was a middle-aged lady, Yoon Mirae, and for the most part, Moon Jiwoo could say that she was kind and friendly. Jiwoo felt as if the lady took care of her as her own daughter, and she was grateful to her due to that.

Moon Jiwoo did not know many things about flower but wanted to work at here for she had grown fond of them after those walks at Sookyung's garden.

One thing Moon Jiwoo had learned was that the middle-aged woman was quite fond of the flowers, and she tend to get scary when Moon Jiwoo messed them up.

"I am coming, Boss!" Moon Jiwoo voiced out.

Walking over to where her boss was, Moon Jiwoo noticed that the lady was trying to organise some of the flowers, and seeing how she was having difficulty in lifting up a stack of flowers, Moon Jiwoo went to lend her a hand with it.

Wearing a smile on her face, Jiwoo moved closer to the lady and helped her with lifting it before placing it to where Mirae pointed her at.

She could feel that the stack of flowers had quite a weight to it, and it did feel heavy to Moon Jiwoo as well. Nonetheless, she managed to move it successfully without stumbling on her way.

As Moon Jiwoo had expected, her power had decreased by a lot once she was at the surface. She wouldn't say that she was completely powerless, but with all the abilities she had, she was close to a normal human, the ones without any power.

Teleporting had become really difficult for her, and her healing abilities had gotten slower by a huge amount. She wasn't able to run that fast or use electricity that effectively, and her combat skills have lessened by a huge percentage when compared to before.

Moon Jiwoo did not have much of a problem with it. In fact, she found herself being quite content with it since this made her seem more like a normal human.

The only problem she had was that she had to drink blood on a regular basis, and fortunately enough, Soohyun helped her with the supply of that. This was a thing she was really grateful to her for because Moon Jiwoo did not know what she would be doing without her.

However, she rarely met up with the woman, and she hadn't revealed about the entire thing to Soohyun. Soohyun must have heard of the part of the story from Sookyung, and despite that, she was happy that Soohyun did not back away from helping her.

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After Moon Jiwoo was done helping the lady around the shop, she clapped both of her hand together before her eyes went towards the door. The sun had already set, and it seemed that it was quite late at night, seeing the time on the wall.

"This will be all for today," Mirae said, "You can go home for today, and be early tomorrow. There are some extra work that is needed to be done, and I have to inform you on something important."

Moon Jiwoo nodded and stated, "Yes, I will be going then, Boss."

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As Moon Jiwoo was about to open the door to her apartment, she felt someone tap on her shoulder, and the sudden action caused a gasp to escape from her mouth. 

Turning her back on the door, she looked back with widened eyes, and shock was clearly visible upon her features. Her heart was beating rapidly within her ċhėst due to how she was caught by complete surprise.

Seeing a familiar face before her caused her calm down considerably, and she voiced out, "Youngjae, you almost caused me to have a heart attack!"

"That's why, you have to pay more attention to your surrounding, Daerin Noona. I was standing there the entire time, but you still did not notice me."

Im Youngjae was a boy she had gotten quite close to after coming back to the surface, and the intial meeting between them wasn't that special. 

The boy just came to order flowers at the shop regularly, and as they held conversations together, they realized that they got along quite fine. 

From then on, they hang around together often, and this is how the friendship between them started. Up until now, it had been going quite well, and two of them did not have any major disagreements between both of them.

Moon Jiwoo took the boy to be a cute little brother, who could get annoying at times— not that she was that bothered by it much— and he treated her like a older sister as well.

"Who would even try to attack me in the first place? Now, what do you want?"

"Yura is waiting for you at the restaurant opposite to your house, and I just came to pick you up. Let's hurry up! She must be getting impatient, and you know, how cranky she gets once that happens."

"You could have just called me instead of coming all the way here," Moon Jiwoo pointed out.

"Well about that, let's just say that she is in one of those mood swings of hers, and she actually threatened to throw those soju bottles at me. 

No, actually she was about to throw one towards me before I ran at here. I did a smart thing, right? I wonder if that girl is in the right mind most of the times. I am telling you. She is a total psycho!"

Moon Jiwoo let out a chuckle and said, "You should have acted smartly if you are this scared of her."

"I didn't even do anything much. I just commented on how she looked, and that's all I promise."