My stomach rumbled in acknowledgement as soon as I stepped into the provision store earning a pat of with discipline.

I noticed a new person stood in place of the Mira I was familiar with as I picked a basket and walked to the fast-food shelf and as soon as I was done, I headed to the counter.

“Good Morning. ” she smiled at me while I just stared at her like a total idiot as she was offloading the submitted goods to calculate,

“Ma'am? Ma'am? ” she waved at me who didn't even flinch at bit.

“Are you ok?” she asked looking surprise at me,

“Yes, I just ah... remembered something.. I'm Vivian, and you? ” I introduced very much shaken yet I was trying hard to stay cool while waiting for the bill.

“Eun Ji, ” the counter politely answered still summing up the amount and stealing a glance at me,

“I come here regularly, you are new right? ” I calmly questioned smiling at her,

“No.. That will be 500 Won. ” she responded professionally while she smiled like she should to a customer,

“But... this is my first time seeing you here.” I informed searching my purse for the required amount,

“Yeah, I live out of the country but I came to visit my family and this place is ours... So... ” she responded cooly while waiting for me to pay.

“Nice to meet you, I hope we get to meet again, Dong Yi.. sorry Eun Ji, You look a lot like a friend I used to know. ” I revealed sadly behind my plastic smile; almost moved to tears but clears her throat pushing them back. I brought out funds and gave it to Eun Ji to foot my bill.

“She must have been beautiful.. ” I guess I'm bad at hiding emotions that was why she must have replied me with sympathy after she received the money and packaged the paid items.

“Very... ” I responded while I waited for the items to be handed over,

“You know, I have a birthday party tomorrow and i'll need a friend to go with, it's around 9:00pm. ” she said to me, after handing the items over.

“Yeah, sure, I'd love to. Here's my number, call me when you're ready.. ” I happily scribbled on the paper offered by Eun Ji and slid it to her.

“Sure I will, have a beautiful evening, Vivian...?” she waved me goodbye as i turned to leave the store but halfway I stopped at the door and turned back to Eun Ji,

“It's really great to meet you, Eun Ji. ” smiling before leaving through the door with my hands heavy with breakfast and my heart was heavy with happiness.

In the evening...

“This trip was WONDER-FILLED!! ” I exclaimed to Yeong Su, who had stolen me from the office and drove me to the museum plus different unplanned places I didn't know existed.

He treated me so well that I gathered knowledge and food from every stop. The trip was a nice escape from work, if I must admit.

For the fact that the whole history about the man I once met was not so multivating or consoling, disappointment was all she felt. The Queen was assassinated by the barbarians that the traitor in the palace helped invade the capital.

General Yin Sun died of his fatal wounds from the war with the same barbarians but no story of her little gift Min Soo, Dong Yi or even Yeong Su, sitting next with me.

The nick name given to King Seon Jo was terrible, only if they had known him like I did, they would know he was a brave man who could sacrifice anything for his country, family or anything and anyone he valued.

But as the world is, they would only loud your most silent mistake and silence your loudest good. As if he could hear my thoughts he puts a hand on mine with a reassuring smile that I appreciated by rubbing his palm.

“I thought that.. maybe things would have been better, but it seems I expected too much. ” I confided looking at through the side mirror.

“Not every part of history is true.. ” he tried comforting me, but I wasn't doing much good,

“But there's a drop of truth in it... ” I looked at him worried,

“But you, how come you know about your past life and not the others? ” I asked curiously still holding his hands,

“Well, I used to 'not' know until I went to pick up my grandmother at a temple back at Thailand, as I waited for her, a monk who walked passed me, came back and said that I was a strong and important man in my first life. ” with his eye pinned on the highway and his smile reaching his eyes,

“First life?... how did you feel?” I crossed my legs giving him my attention fully after I rested my head on my palm.

“Like he's into drugs..?! ” he whispered close to me like he didn't want someone else to hear, sarcastically.

“Hahaha.. That was what I was expecting.. hahaha” I laughed honestly and he waited for me before he continued,

“But later on, I started connecting dots that proved that yes, I was born first in the era of King Seon Jo during the Ming Dynasty. ” he said it with confidence as looked at me before setting his eyes back on the road.

“Then, how did I enter the picture? Or was I... ” I looked at the road before us leaving the question unfinished,

“...To say the truth I don't know, but I just recognized you immediately, because you were also a dot I connected... ” he said as his hand tightened around mine, I acted surprised but I wasn't.

“Me, a dot?! How? Yeah that corner... ” I said directing him towards my house, old habits.

“I may have seen you like, a lot in most of the dreams about my past life enough to know you were there. ” he said after taking the corner leading home,

“Dreams? What dreams? ” is it bad that I just wanted him doing all the talking? This Yeong Su intrigued me more, because he was so knowledgeable, seemed wiser and everything he said made sense.

“I say dreams but that monk would say memories from my past life. ” he joyfully answered with it so obvious that he enjoyed it,

“Apart from that life, any other life you remember..?” I asked now having cold feet about going home.

“Hmmm... no, just that one... Home safely, Check! ” he said imitating an Android–which was wonderful to see–before turning off the engine.

He turned to look at me with a wink before we both came out of the car and walked to the building's door steps, I guessed he wasn't going up with me. Realizing going home was inevitable,

“Thank you for today, I had a very good time. ” I appreciated smiling at him while he nods

“My pleasure. ” he said as he followed me to climb the stair, I hoped that he was going with me to my apartment but the hopes fell when he stopped at the second to the last stair up.

I quickly buried the space between us to hug him so as to reassure myself that I wasn't dreaming and he crowned my effort by returning the gesture there by radiating warmth to my heart .

Hugging this Yeong Su felt kind of different and I didn't want to know why because all that mattered was not having to hide the experience of where I had been and I didn't have to....

Geez I realized that I had hugged him for too much longer than required.

“Sorry.. I just. got. you know, carried away.” i apologized following it with an awkward laugh, but he was darling enough to step closer this time to continue from where i stopped telling me that I didn't need to be cautious around him.

“I want to get to know you more, if you could make a lonely and self destructing man find peace and happiness with your companionship, you are worth it... ” he said completely sweeping me off my feet and hugging me as comfort came into the picture.

Ok, this Yeong Su was way better, he had a way with words and I liked it.

When finally he let go smiling, he dropped a kiss on my forehead that I wasn't expecting and it that got me internally screaming. But yet,

“Good night. ” I muttered quietly smiling, as I looked into his bright brown eyes that reflected the light coming from the lobby,

“Sweet dreams, ” he replied watching me go up the staircase,

“Hye Jin ah. ” I heard him calling out.

I turned to him and he said, “You are beautiful today, I mean everyday. You are always beautiful. ” with a smile that made my gut melt.

GEEZ!!!! Why did he get me stirred up when I least expected it? Girl.. this guy could work wonders with his with words and timing, I just couldn't believe this guy was the same Yeong Su.. Oops, I have been staring again?! ,

“Thank you very much, Good night. ” I waved him returning to enter...

“Vivian. ” he called again and I turned responding,

“Yes, ” with my stomach dancing each moment I spent here under his gaze. He began walking towards me and with each step he took, he said,

“Until I saw you, I never believed anything of this sort was possible, but you gave me a reason to believe that there's so much more–to me, to know, to live for, to hope for, to be happy for.. ” he stood before me, towering over me,

“... and so much to love ... ” he added taking my hand in his. He took another step closer calmly looking at me with appreciation dancing in his eyes. I could feel his emotion yet I couldn't connect, all because of him.

Why hasn't he shown up yet? Why was it the others and not him? Was this another test or.... he wasn't meant to? Was he just another lesson to be learned?

“... Thank you, for coming to me and setting my life on a better pace. ” he embraced me closer, placing a longer kiss on my forehead. But I found myself longing and praying for another who wasn't even here.

I was wishing he was the one I was–embracing, looking into his eyes, sharing warm days with–hearing this words from but he wasn't. I could feel tears gathering in my eyes so I blinked them away.

“Rest well.. ” he whispered into my ears before he let go and I nod smiling as I walked into the lobby to the elevator. As the door opened, welcoming me into an empty elevator, I walked in and let the tears pour down like a fountain.

On getting into my apartment, I found a package at my doorstep and I knew that I wasn't expecting any thing from any body yet I picked it up and read the message,

“Our heart is like a bracelet, it can be gifted or stolen, shown or hidden, scattered or together, kept or thrown away, preserved or destroyed... –no name”

Who was it from?? No idea! But I recognized the penmanship, it was the same as the one wrote me the letter at the wedding few days ago. How?? Why?? What did it mean??

“Oh you're back, the delivery guy came after you left this morning, so I had to sign for you. It came with a complementary chocolate and I thought that you might reject it since it was nameless, so I ate it.. ” he said to me unapologetically,

'You did what?!?!?' I turned to look at this guy who had the effrontery to eat the best part of an package.

“You look like you require the chocolate, I'll get you another one from the provision store. ” he said to avoid his angry neighbor.

We've been neighbors since I moved in a few years back. They rarely saw me except I was leaving for work or returning and sometimes at the provision store.

Pretty, quiet and kept to herself was all he knew about her though occasionally. He has tried talking to her but she would just smile and wave or nod when she wanted to anyway.

But today he wanted her to talk longer with him that's why he decided to eat the chocolate but it looked like a very costly mistake.

Not wanting unleash my frustration on him, I just waved it out and keyed the door open, got in and shut it in his face.

“Some people are just so talented in knowing how to unleash the drama queen in you at a very wrong timing.” I quaked in total irritation.

How could a young man behave like a Seoul market loan shark? What in the world was that he thinking?

I fumed but when I realized that the reason for my anger wasn't the chocolate because he had said he would get another, I tried to figure out what was making me angry and frustrated...

“It's definitely not the chocolate...” I repeated while sitting to open the package and when I opened it and saw a sketched portrait of the bracelet I remembered what the problem was..

“Wait, this was the exact one I saw at... Kings fabric!” immediately I picked my purse, keys and ran out.

“Who so ever sent it to me, must know about it. ” I hoped while running to the elevator that was almost shutting close but as when the occupier saw me, he stopped it with his hand.

As I hurriedly got closer, I saw the goblin who ate my chocolate and whispered a thank you before hitting the button that indicated the last floor. I guessed he saw the portrait in my hand so he asked me if he could take a look, although I was already pissed at him, I let him do it.

“It's beautiful, it looks like a woman's, is it yours?” I mentally groaned before nodding a yes.

“Are you in a rush? You look like you need help. ” he sincerely sounded But I quickly gave him a 'what the heck?' look that made him rethink his words,

“I didn't mean like bad help or crazy help, I meant good kind of help, a friendly kind of help that I should... I'm sorry.” he whispered finally.

I shook my head and waited for the elevator to get to the first floor and when it did, I took the portrait from him and dashed out to find the mystery person.

After flagging the last taxi that I prayed to stop unlike the others, I became exhausted tearing up that I might lose this first or the only only opportunity to find him.

When I looked at the time that read 10:00 pm, I began to reason, what company would be opened till now? What was I even thinking?? What was the plan even if I got to King Textiles?? How was I even sure that it was from there?

Tomorrow was another day that I could do it but right now, tiredness and weakness mixed with emotional stress was all I felt so, I decided to go back home.

On my way back, I saw Mr. Goblin coming out of the provision store with full shopping bags in his hands and I began to feel hungry.

Every food I had with Yeong Su had been exhausted and my stomach was rubbling with hunger. Either I would make some noodles or toast or just order something, that would be better than sleeping angry, hungry accompanied with the feeling of uncertainty that...

'Pwrakkk!' I heard behind and sharply turned to see Mr. Goblin squatting over his spilled items, the shopping bag just ripped open in his hands.

'Gosh?! Can this guy ever be lucky in his life?? ' I muttered angrily because I just couldn't ignore him and yet I didn't want to start any conversation with him.

Apart from the fact that his blonde dyed hair and his multi coloured dressing was annoying, his clumsy and gobbling skills irritated the black out of me.

He'd been trying for years to have that neighbor to neighbor relationship but I wasn't interested then nor now nor ever! He was far too annoying for my liking, How could a man be so uncaptivating like this one??

But I couldn't believe myself when I walked over and picked up a few item to carry in for him; although I heard him say thank you but, who cared?

From the ground floor to the elevator to his door i didn't utter a word, even when he was explaining why his shopping bag ripped out of negligence, I didn't even breathe.

But he kept on talking when it was really obviously that I wasn't interested in the conversation. I just wanted to help him get these things to his apartment and go home, peace in, peace out.

On entering his apartment, I was taken by surprise that first, he used an electric lock when everyone in the building used keys.

Secondly, his apartment's painting was different from everyone's, apart from that, I liked the way it felt cozy like mine. He lead me into the kitchen and asked me to open the refrigerator for him so he could keep every thing but it was already filled to the door, with junk.

What a great fridge you have. Well, typical bachelor's, a single one at that. After closing the door, I turned to leave,

“Thank you for help... " He said stuffing the already full fridge,

"Its ok. " I shunned as walking out of the kitchen to the living room,

“Wait! ” I heard and stood as he came out with a nylon bag and handed it to me.

“Just for thank you. Nothing more. ” he stretched his hands handing it over and after hesitating, I received it and thanked him.

“Am Ha Joon. Nice to meet...... You? ” he introduced happily,

After much questions of Why am I talking to this guy? I answered, “Vivian. Thanks for this...” and left.

Right now sleep was all I longed for. Eating was no longer on the list after bathing that is; I fell into bed and in no time, I had no idea of what happened next.

Work was exhausting today, Yeong Su had an important emergency conference so I would not able to see him for a week! What would I do with my life now?

Food! Food! Food! Was the response my mind was chanting. I got to the fridge to gobble down a bottle of chilled juice so to calm the angry mob protesting in my stomach as I thought of what to eat.

The sketch had been lying down where I had left it after no answers or even clue came from King Textiles, no, I hadn't told Yeong Su yet cause I didn't want to build up empty hope.

Nothing in that fridge enticed me like I hoped it would when I passed by the Provisions store. Now i had to go back to the store to find something, what a great way to start the evening..

On getting to the elevator, I remembered Mr. Goblin hadn't been around for some days now and i couldn't be more happier that he wasn't here to frustrate the quietness of the floor.

That guy was the main reason I didn't even bother to know my neighbors because I'd always seen him around looking like the commercial poster for a Paint Company wearing bright colors that weren't even made for each other.

I always hate saying that about him but the truth ain't sweet, love. As the elevator doors opened–speaking of the devil, Sis–he appeared with his World War III colour combination.

What was up with this guy? Must he wear baby pink with bright red?? Couldn't he wear something else?? Oh Gosh!!! Who wore sunglasses in the elevator?? What's up with...

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!! Wait?! Why is his lips shimmering? Oh Korea! Is that lipstick? Silver shimmery lipstick? On this battling colour combination?