"You must be so cold right now... let's get you to some place warm."

He blinked a few times. And he glanced at her. And he glanced back to the older man before him. He couldn't figure out if he was actually dreaming this up... or the ice cold water he hadsplashed on his face earlier was giving him weird illusions. The man sitting in front of him laughed.

"Are you done staring at me now? Yes, I am here. You silly boy... are you not going to see me so often unless I specifically asked you to? Ah... Dr. Kang, why was his hair so wet? In this cold weather? Sijin, you know better than to be careless about things like this. You're going to catch a cold..."

Sijin stuttered. "A-ah! Father, it's not—something happened on the way here..."

"It's my fault, Sijin's father—" Sijin immediately turned to look at Moyeon, as she started apologising to his father. He thought the outing today was just her wanting to get him to wash her car, but to think she also had planned for this meeting to take place without his knowledge... wow!

"I initially wanted to get my car serviced and washed before coming here, but I ended up washing your son as well..."

He had another heart attack coming, as he kept staring at her and his father. Is there anything else she wouldn't say so casually out in the open? His father started to laugh as Sijin turned his eyes towards his own father.

"Hahaha... I see. Good for you. It's been a very long time since I had Sijin in my care, so I didn't get the chance to wash my son so often these days..."

"Father!", he exclaimed. How—since when his father and Moyeon get to be so close? How could they gang up on him like this? He blinked again. "W-wait... how did the two of you even met?"

"It's my first time today," said Moyeon as Sijin found it hard to believe. They sounded as if they had known each other for years, what did she meant that this was their first meeting? Did something happen while he was gone?

"I don't believe you. How could—"

"I took the call... when your father tried to reach you on the phone. That night after you came to see me," Moyeon explained as Sijin glanced towards his father, a bit guiltily. How could-he didn't realize...

"You were asleep by then, I didn't want to wake you up."

"I... I'm sorry I didn't call right away that time," Sijin hastily tried to explain before staring down at his hands. "I... thought it was better that I come see you personally to show you that I survived, rather than a phone call. And then I heard that Moyeon has gone to Albania..."

"I'm not scolding you," his father started to say. Sijin glanced up to his father. "But I really did want you to come see me, bringing your girlfriend along. I kept hearing a lot about her for a while now, but my son didn't seem to want to introduce her to me. If your mother was still around, ah... you'd probably won't see an end to her chatterings. If I didn't have your girl arranging this for me, until when must I wait for you to come show her to me?" The old man started sighing. "And now, should we start ordering something already? All this talking made me hungry."

Heat rose to his cheeks as Sijin laughed nervously. "Ah, yes... of course." He fumbled with himself to try calling the waiter over to their table, but then remembered something else he needed to do. Feeling a tad bit embarrassed; sitting in front of his father with Moyeon, he gently took Moyeon's hand into his own and smiled nervously.

"Father, let me introduce someone to you. This is Dr. Kang Moyeon. She's someone I would like to spend the rest of my life with."

A/N: Been thinking up to have this scene followed right after the first chapter. So might as well type it now.