When Your Pain Becomes Mine

“No, that’s not what I meant. I mean, it’s just strange that Mr. Kwon delivered coffee for us that he had never done before… Hold..on. Wait a minute. No way…”

At that moment, Ari saw the coffee cup that Eunyoung was holding.

“What? Why is Eunyoung’s coffee bigger than ours?”

Hearing Ari, Sun also compared her own coffee to the one that Eunyoung had.

Eunyoung’s coffee was a larger size, and Sun and Ari’s were both smaller.

“Hmm, hmm.” Eunyoung turned her head to the other side, awkwardly clearing her throat.

“Wait… wait. Something’s strange here…”

Like Ari said, the way Ojae looked at Eunyoung, his behavior, and even the different sizes of the coffee cups, all of them were strange enough for Ari and Sun.

“No… way…”

Ari and Sun looked at each other without saying anything.

Both of them shook their head at the same time and sipped the coffee that they were holding.

“I’m seeing Mr. Kwon.”

“Puawp!!! What!?”

Once Ari and Sun heard Eunyoung, both of them spewed the coffee all over the floor at the same time.

***

At lunch.

After Ari finished lunch, she came down to the basement of the Consencio building.

“It doesn’t make sense…” Ari mumbled to herself like she still couldn’t believe it.

“What’s the problem? Mr. Kwon is such a nice person.” Sun said.

“Did you already know?”

“Not everything but briefly. I had no idea about Eunyoung’s mind, though.

“Wow… this is such a surprise. It was you yesterday, and it’s Eunyoung today.”

Sun asked Ari again while looking at her with a smile, “By the way, where are we going now?”

“We’re almost there. It’s there.”

“There?”

Sun doubted whether she had seen it right because the place where Ari had pointed to was a dermatologist office.

“What’s this place?”

“People often get tattoos on their eyes a lot these days, so they don’t need to put makeup on in the busy morning.”

“Tattoo?”

“The more you take care of yourself, the more women get beautiful.”

“But… still…”

When Sun heard ‘tattoo,’ she hesitated.

“Just trust me.”

Ari grabbed Sun’s arm and led her to the place.

“W… wait a minute. Just one thing before we go in.” Sun said, stopping still at once.

“What?”

“… It doesn’t hurt, does it?”

“What?”

“… Does it hurt?”

“No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t hurt at all.”

94. The final blow

In Gyeonhui’s office.

“You said that we have a forum today?” After Gyeonhui confirmed today’s schedule, he asked Ojae.

“Yes. The Vice President will also join it.”

Hearing that the Vice President was going to join it too, his face hardened a little. However, Ojae still looked excited and was texting Eunyoung with a smile on his face.

“Do you really like her?” Gyeonhui asked.

“Yes. I love this.” Ojae answered with a naive smile like a child.

Watching Ojae, Gyeonhui was outraged. He then looked at the coffee tree. The white coffee flower was still blooming and brightening the office by showing off its own beauty.

“I understand…” Gyeonhui smiled too.

Even though he heard that Mrs. Shin would join the forum today, he didn’t really feel bad about it. He knew the reason more than anyone without having someone explaining it.

“… Cheonsun…”

He watered the coffee tree slowly while smiling. However, suddenly, he felt stinging around his eyes.

“Ouch! Ouch!!!”

The pain felt like his eyebrows were being pulled out, so he screamed.

“What? What now? What’s wrong?”

“I don’t know. It feels like somebody is pulling my eyebrows. Ow! ow!!!”

After that, he felt pain like his eyes were being scorched by something hot.

“What do we have to do? Huh? What!?” Ojae panicked and repeated the same things over and over.

Gyeonhui panicked too and shouted, covering his eyes with his hands, “Cheonsun! Find where she is! Right now!!!”

“Okay, okay.”

Hearing Gyeonhui screaming, Ojae pulled himself together and hurriedly left the office.

***

“Ow…” When the eyeliner tattoo was finished, Sun moaned shallowly. “You said it wouldn’t hurt.”

“Pretty hurts.”

Sun felt like Ari had deceived her, so she looked at Ari resentfully, but they had already done the deed.

“Look at it.” Ari gave Sun a mirror.

Sun looked at her eyes that were a little swollen.

When she thought about having a tattoo, she thought it would be very dark and noticeable, but it was not the case for her at all; the eyeliner tattoo looked very natural and wasn’t noticeable.

“Do you think it’s well done?”

“The swelling should go away, and the color will become more defined. Until then, we don’t know yet.”

Sun still looked at the mirror anxiously.

“It looks like it’s going to be swollen more.”

Still feeling the irritation on her eyes, the swelling didn’t seem like it was going to subside.

“It will take a couple of days.”

“What? Hah…” Sun exhaled a long sigh of frustration.

There was no way she could not see Gyeonhui in two days, especially when they worked in the same building.

“It’s just two days, and your sixth anniversary will be very comfortable after that.”

Hearing Ari’s advice, Sun nodded slowly.

At that time, Ari said, pointing to the skincare promotion advertisements on the wall.

“Hey, while we’re here, let’s get that done too.”

“I haven’t done it before.”

“This is a great time to do such a thing. It’s cheaper only when we both do it together.”

“No… it looks like it’s going to hurt a lot.” Sun wasn’t willing to do it, so she hesitated.

“If it doesn’t hurt, people wouldn’t do it. It will just sting a little, and that’s it.”

“Really?” Sun asked her again in doubt.

Before Sun changed her mind, Ari quickly shouted at the nurse, “We’re going to do that too.”

“Both of you?”

“Yes.”

Ari even paid the cost with her credit card, so Sun wouldn’t run away while smiling brightly.

“Is it really going to be okay?”

Sun still was anxious and looked at the advertisement on the wall again.

On the poster, there were words written like this: “Prepare your Summer! Cleanly! Confidently! Wax!”

***

In front of the dermatologist office.

“Are you sure that she is here, not in an eye doctor’s office?” Gyeonhui asked Ojae in doubt.

It was definitely near eyes, not on the face or the skin.

“Yes. According to Eunyoung, they told her that they would go there.” Ojae confirmed the name of the dermatologist’s office again and answered him.

“What is she doing here? Why does it hurt so much?” Gyeonhui said, rubbing around his painful eyes.

“That’s… they’re going to have a tattoo…”

“What? Tattoos? What tattoo?”

“An eyeliner tattoo…”

“Hah….”

When Gyeonhui understood the situation, he couldn’t help but shut his mouth.