The Reason? - Yoon Jeonghan

Chapter 18

     "Fine." He smiled down at her while she kept staring in front of her. "But don't think that I am happy to go there.

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      Ophely regretted her answer the moment she had uttered it, then when they had gone back to the apartment and Jeonghan told them the plan, and that night when she tried to sleep and it kept coming back up, the next morning when she was tired to the bones and not gotten one ounce of sleep (managing to doodle a few ideas while she was sleep deprived), but also during breakfast when she knew she was soon going to leave, followed by when she was ready and walking out of the door with the other person who was dragged into the mess. But she regretted it the most when she sat in front of the old lady in the little cabanon with jewels that screamed 'fake' from kilometres away.

      The elderly woman was nice, she couldn't deny that, but the stare she kept receiving was off-putting. Jeonghan had managed to drag her out to the seer. And she didn't like it, forcing him to stay out of his body for the time being as she refused to touch him.

     "It's a pleasure to meet you." She had started saying, slowly removing her rings from her fingers, smiling up to her ears and voice aggravatingly happy. She creeped Ophely out very much. "I can only presume that there is something going on between you two and you would like me to find the answer to."

      "That's what it is." Jeonghan said, nodding at the old lady and making Ophely's hair fall from its badly made bun. The old lady smiled at him before continuing to remove her ring, placing them deliberately on her short table, which sat in between her and the couple. Ophely couldn't like the woman much more than she did previously.

     Turning towards Ophely, she raked her eyes up and down her body before looking straight into her eyes. "And I suppose your girlfriend dragged you here after forcing an answer out of you." Maybe Ophely had expected too much from the old woman, she couldn't know what had happened and wouldn't even be able to comprehend it. Though she had half of the story right. Ophely, in Jeonghan's body, clearly didn't want to be where she was right now.

      "We are not together." Jeonghan quickly butt it.

      "And I am the girl here."

      A silent blank followed as the seer looked between the two in surprise. Then confusion. Before it stopped in bewilderment. She gaped at them happily, clapping her hand together, as if she had just hit the lotto.

      "My grandmother had told me about people like you!" She clasped her hands together and shook her head. To Ophely, the woman was definitely bonkers. Afraid, she held onto Jeonghan's hand, going back to her own body immediately, and calmly stared out at the woman, not changing her somewhat neutral facial expression. Jeonghan could sense that the younger girl just wanted to stand up and leave the place, but he said nothing and just looked at the seer. "She had had a few couples like you in her life before she died, you are the first ones for me. Ooh!" She definitely was crazy and a screwball. Ophely couldn't stop her disgust showing as the woman lunged for her free hand, palming it up, down and sideways before letting it go onto the table and doing the same with Jeonghan. "She was right, you people do exist. Destined by the stars and tangled by the strings of fate to meet. However, they had to force the inevitable to happen. You have exchanged bodies because you need each other more than you could believe -" Ophely had had enough.

      "I prefer getting my high school diploma than being stuck in a man's body."

      "That is completely understandable. However there are a few things that can get you back in your body, but only for a short amount of time, I can not tell you how to stay in your original body forever, it is for the both of you to find out on your own." Ophely sighed out angrily. The batty lady knew, yet she preferred to make both of their lives complicated. Why had she even agreed to Jeonghan's idea?