The Reason? - Yoon Jeonghan

Chapter 7

(There is the translation of a Korean nursery song in this chapter, I would just like to say that the translation is very approximative.)

       As the both of them finished the little apartment tour, they took a seat on the couch of the living room.

      "Tomorrow we will have to talk to our company about Jeonghan not being with us for an unknown period of time and having you instead. And some of us will have to start teaching you Korean as we don't know for how long you will be staying with us." Joshua said as he sunk deeper in one of the couches of the living room, Ophely and him had finished their detailed walk around the little home, which had taken a lot more time than it was at first expected for such a simple thing. But Ophely was happy that she had been able to already get used to the place in that short amount of time.

     "I'm a bit scared of that, I never had to work in an agency, or meet any big boss." Ophely pulled her legs over the couch and wrapped her arms over her knees, delicately placing her chin on too. "Is your boss nice?" She asked.

      "He's nice, but I don't think we'll talk to him much, he doesn't work on these things, he overlooks the company on a bigger level, we'll probably talk to one of the managers. Though he might want to go over the incident with you." A thoughtful silence issued the statement, both parties thinking over what happened and what would be happening.

      "Is there any way you would know what happened to Jeonghan and I? Like, any other supernatural things happening in his life? This feels like a fantasy story plot."

      "It does, doesn't it?" Joshua agreed, it wasn't every day that people exchanged bodies as if they were from a cliché romance story. "As for a reason for this to happen, I can't find any. Jeonghan had a normal life, nothing out of the ordinary. I can tell you that because we've lived with each other for years, and known each other for much longer. This is quite the mystery." He chuckled and looked out the window. The city stretched out over the landscape, the countryside invisible from the apartment. It was so far away, this place was the only thing that Ophely didn't want to live, but here she was - in the heart of what she hated the most.

     The city, bustling with life and energy, everything too easily accessible. There wasn't a moment nor a place to get to know yourself except in the few overcrowded parks. And as an idol, a public figure, Openly suspected that she couldn't even go there. She sighed again.

       "So I'll be working until Jeonghan comes back here?"

     "Probably."

      "Can we start in the Korean right now?" Ophely asked after a long moment of silence, "Since I will have to learn it anyway, why not start now?" If she could at least read the symbols, which she knew to be easier than Chinese and Japanese, then that would simplify living here a lot.

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      She shouldn't have been that eager to learn. It wasn't that the symbols were not easy to read, which they were, but it was those silent letters, just like so many in French. This (balk) would read like bak and not balk, then the (s), which represented the s but also the sh depending on the word. Grammar wasn't easy in any language. But thinking that this was easier than learning French, Ophely managed to motivate herself even more than before. Korean was actually a beautiful written language. However, it wasn't like a European language, you didn't read letters together and had to find the pause between syllables. Here, one square filled with symbols was read in a certain order (top left to bottom right) one by one. Easy, until you came across syllables that didn't read as written.