In a busy cafe somewhere...

Park Yu-Min was the first to ask, “How have you been, Se-Yeon?”

Han Se-Yeon replied nonchalantly, "I've been alright. It's still the school vacation right now, so I'm just passing the time lazing around. Oh, and I'm studying for the TOEIC test, too. What about you, though? Isn’t the autumn season about to start soon? Aren't you really busy these days?"[1]

"Nah, I still have a little bit of time left."

"Oh. But that means... in a little while, it'll get really hard to meet up like this, doesn't it?"

“Yeah.”

"Eh-whew..." Han Se-Yeon groaned grandly. "Jin-Ho's in the army, and you're too busy to hang out... I'm the only one with nothing better to do. If I only knew this would happen, maybe I should've stayed close to my other friends."

“Are you saying that to make me feel bad?”

“I guess lots of things happened way too quickly for me. I still can't get my thoughts straight.”

Park Yu-Min could only look at Han Se-Yeon sitting across him with pity. It had been only two weeks, yet her complexion looked quite poor. Her skin was puffy and scratchy, while her usually well-combed hair looked disorderly with misbehaving hair strands jutting out from here and there.

Her appearance could be explained away by other things, but the lack of vigor in her face was the definite proof Park Yu-Min was looking for. "Se-Yeon... Were you drinking?"

“Are you insane?” Han Se-Yeon stared back at him in dismay, then threateningly shook...