Eternal life

Chapter 25

Young Saeng went out of the bathroom. He was refreshed, shaved his beard and got rid of the blood stains. His nose was still bruised but he put a patch over it, as it could help. At least he looked human again, ever though his hair was still unkempt. He changed his clothes and left the old ones inside.

Aeri waited as he will end his bath and approached him. She pointed at her bedroom. 'We have to go inside.'

'I told you I don't want...'

'I have bandages there. You have to, I can't open the door.'

He sighed and opened the door. The bedroom was really nothing surprising. It had small double bed in the corner and a lot of books near it on the bookshelves. It was clean in the contrast to the mess he created in the whole flat. It also smelled nice and had some decoration showing its soul – it wasn't an empty room, used only for sleeping, but was organized, well picturing the person which lived there – fragile but decided what to do with life.

Young Saeng took deep breath. 'It's... warm.'

'Yeah... So, as you can see, there's not much stuff. Please, sleep on the bed. It's my wish.'

He sighed, as he didn't want to, but on the other hand if that was what she wanted, he had to obey. 'Okay...'

'Now, do you see this closet?' She stood beside the white closet in one of the corners of the room. It was tall, with two door above and drawers below. She pointed at it. 'That drawer, open it.'

Young Saeng moved and opened it. Inside was a box. 'Ok, now this is what we need. Take it and sit on the bed.'

He sat and opened the box. It has some medicaments, bandages and ointment inside.

'That salve, the blue one. Take it and put on your hand.' She had this kind of professional, calm voice, when she gave out the orders.

He did as told. He started to dab the ointment in and Aeri was telling him where especially he should put more. She was pointing it, but not touching, expecting her hand to go through. Hence when once she touched and Young Saeng hissed, she jolted surprised. 'You felt that?'

'I felt something cold...'

'Oh... Sorry...' She continued to give advices how to bandage his hand, now fully careful not to touch him. 'Ok, we're ready. Now, we can go.'

'Remember, when I told do to stop being so positive about everything?'

'Does that really matter now?'

He smiled. 'I missed it so much.'

***

They got themselves in front of the lockers situated in one of the near subway stations. Aeri had an apologetic expression on her face, while Young Saeng was observing the locker as something could jump out of it.

'You've hidden the money there.'

'Not money, just bank account book.'

He pointed at it again. 'There. Because you didn't trust me.'

'Jisoo threatened me!'

'While you died 2 weeks ago and I didn't even walk into your room...' He hung his head low in disapproval.

'Well, I know that now! But still I moved that to those lockers.'

He sighed heavily. 'Where did you even got the idea?'

'I saw it in the movies?'

'You've could just put in your second home!' Some passers-by looked at him weirdly, because as for them he was talking to himself.