The Reason? - Yoon Jeonghan

Chapter 33

"Since we couldn't really make a birthday party for you, we made a 'first day at school' party!" Soonyoung giggled as he pulled out from the hug and pulled the girl inside the room, towards where a table had been dressed with colourful sprinkles and a pretty chocolate cake with her name on top.

Ophely laughed some more, all of her tight nerves, due to the stressful day, had suddenly gone all mush. She couldn't hold herself straight, or even just stand up completely. She collapsed into an awaiting chair, whipping at her misty eyes as she thanked the boys. "Thank you so much, you didn't have to."

"But we wanted to." One by one the boys gave her a single hug, showing her how they cared for her.

"And we missed you all day long!" Came another chirpy and hyper voice, this one belonging to Boo Seungkwan who wouldn't keep his hands to himself and embraced the girl with tight,ness and fervour.

All the while their manager watched the scene unfold from the doorway.

"Manager, why don't you come join us?" The second eldest of the group asked him, leaning against the wall beside the entrance of the practice room.

"You're the ones who care for her."

"And you don't?" Jeonghan asked with a little smirk, knowing that he was right. "Just come over, she wouldn't want you to distance yourself." He stood up away from the wall and made his way towards the table, to join in on the festivities, followed by their manager.

The rest of the afternoon was spent in happy chatter and while eating the food that the boys had brought over.

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The days at school went one after the other. In the morning and until four in the afternoon, she would be at the school taking Korean lessons and improving her speaking and writing skills. The progress she made was seen daily.

And after coming back from her in school classes, Ophely would turn to her French lessons by distance. She would look back at what her old timetable used to be and work on the work she was given by her teachers. During those moments the boys didn't disrupt her knowing that she needed to be immersed in the language to understand what was taught better.

However, on the second Friday, Ophely was all caught up with the work on both sides. There wasn't really homework in Korea, the teachers preferred the students to revise rather than work. So Ophely had no work for her Korean classes, and the French teachers had reduced the workload to do at home since the Holidays were coming close. But Ophely knew that she would get a lot of difficult work to do when the next week came. Teachers in France always loved to give hard work the week before the holidays, an excuse to give them lengthy work to do, since it wouldn't take time from other lessons.

So Ophely was done with school and was walking back to the company building when she thought about the quiet moment she had right now. So she changed path and went to a more crowded part of Seoul, where she could find street vendors and have fun.

Ophely let her hair flow around her as she looked around the streets, filled with people and lights. She had never been able to witness places like this in France, firstly because she lived in the countryside, but also because it wasn't very French to do that. On market day you could find street vendors with their stalls selling easy to eat food, but it wasn't the same ambiance.

She was going to make the most of her afternoon.

She walked for a while, looking at what was being sold, slowly making herself choose what to eat for dinner, and what to have as a little dessert treat.