Ga Eul woke up to the vibration on her chest. She was gripping her phone tightly in her sleep, pressing it to her chest. She hadn't realized she fell asleep that way. Her phone was ringing non stop and the vibration was…uh, disturbing. Who would be calling at this hour, anyway? She checked her bedside clock before answering. It was exactly midnight.

"Hello?" she muttered sleepily into her cell phone, not bothering to check who it was.

"Ga Eul yang," the familiar voice fully woke her up. She sat up on her bed, straight up. Why was he calling at this time? He was supposed to be on an out of town business trip. He wasn't set to return for two more days.

"Sunbae?"

"You don't sound so happy hearing from me." Ga Eul could almost see the pout that was forming on his lips. He so learned that from her.

"No, I'm just surprised is all…I don't know what time it is there, sunbae but its pretty late here." She told him. She propped her legs to her shoulders, enjoying his company even just through the phone. She missed him. He left three days ago, just hardly two weeks after his accident.

"I know." He told her simply.

"Of course you do, I can't imagine you not knowing about the time difference in different countries considering you've lived in Sweden for four years." It was funny how she said that minus the bitterness. It was different for them now, somehow the four years seized to matter when they exchanged those three words. It was cheesy and incredibly corny and cliché, but it was true.

"No, I mean…I really do know."

"What do you mean?" she asked curiously. He was speaking in an unusually mysterious tone.

"Ga Eul yang," he didn't answer her question. She wasn't surprised.

"Sunbae? What is it?"

"Happy birthday." Ga Eul felt her heart melt into a puddle as she realized the significance of midnight. It was her birthday, and he was on the phone. She finally got her freakin' birthday call.

"Sunbae, I…thank you." That was all she could say, really. She looked back on her last four birthdays but not with bitterness anymore, somehow all those years without his call made this one all the more special.

"You really didn't think I'd forget, did you?" Ga Eul smiled to herself. He's been so great to her lately. Always bringing her lunch to work and taking her places, all while hopping on one foot.

"Well, for the last four years…" she meant to say it a joke, but Yi Jeong's line went quiet and Ga Eul clamped her moth shut.

"Ga Eul yang…"

"No, no…I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that." Yi Jeong didn't see it but she was hitting her head now. She was such a big mouth at times.

"It's fine, Ga Eul yang. I totally deserve the occasional 'in your face'" Ga Eul laughed slightly. His tone was light again.

"I miss you, by the way. What were you doing when I called?" Ga Eul could practically hear the smirk on his face.

"I was asleep, sunbae. Couldn't you wait to call at a reasonable hour?" she joked.

"Well, I'm making up for lost birthdays, Ga Eul yang." GA Eul smiled but couldn't help the sting in her heart. It would have been a perfect one if he was actually there. But he said the business trip was important and she would never make him choose between her and his career.

"What time is it there, sunbae?" she asked.

"It's…a few minutes after midnight, I think." Ga Eul scrunched her eyebrows. It couldn't be the same time for the both of them, as far as she remembered he was somewhere in America.

"You're probably looking at your Korean time, sunbae." She told him, Yi Jeong probably really did miss her if he didn't even have the presence of mind to look at the right clock.

"Of course I am." At that moment, Ga Eul heard a knock on her…window? Keeping the phone to her ear, she walked slowly to her still draped curtains. She slowly opened the curtains and screamed to the phone when she saw a handsome face smiling at her.

"Ahh! Ga Eul yang, are you trying to kill me?" he said to the phone. She quickly opened her window to let him. She cracked open a small space first before sticking out her head so she was face to face with him.

"You can't come in without gifts." She said, jokingly. He replied with a surprise kiss on her lips.

"Sunbae!" she blushed deep red. Deep, deep red.

"What, I can't kiss my girlfriend?" she still wasn't used to being called that. And the smirk on his face didn't really help my embarrassment.

"Anymore smooth words from you and you're not getting in, mister." She stuck her tongue at him. He smiled, but as much as he would love to continue their cute little banter, his arms were turning numb from all the hanging.

"Ga Eul yang, if I promise not to get into another accident again, would you let me in? Or would you rather I get another trip to the hospital, this time by falling off a window?" Ga Eul laughed at his compromise. She opened it fully and let him in.

"What are you doing here? I thought you had a very important trip?" she asked as soon as he was all the way in.

"No, I said it was important. This is very important." He cupped her face with his hands and there was her heart again, melting into a big useless puddle. Damn Yi Jeong!

"I'm glad you're here." was all she could say before his lips crashed into hers. Ga Eul was taken aback by the impact then started to relax into it. His kiss was nothing like she knew; he was gentle and passionate at the same time. It was such a rush for her so anyone could imagine her disappointment when they broke free for air.

"I have this for you." He took out a purple flower from her coat jacket and handed it to her. She smiled at her now favorite flower.

"I actually have two bouquets in the car but I figured if I brought those while climbing up…well, I wouldn't want you to get jealous of the nurses or anything." He was smirking and Ga Eul just wanted to kiss, uh, slap that from his face.

"Why did you go through the window, anyway?" she asked, curiously.

"What fun would it be if I just went through your front door?"

"Is that a romantic side I see in you, sunbae?" she smirked at him. Yi Jeong faked a surprised face.

"I'm always romantic, Ga Eul yang."

"No, you're always smooth and cheesy. But now, with your window climbing activities…you're kind of, sort of romantic." Yi Jeong had to smile at her cute way of defining him. He kind of, sort of liked it.

"So what do I get that from doing that epic act of love?" he walked to her bed, sitting down. He took a pillow and hugged it to his chest, while giving her a pout she knew too well.

"Well, you can consider me officially won back."

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"And then what happened?" the little girl looked up in delight at her mother who was sitting next to her on her bed.

"What are my two favorite girls doing?" came Yi Jeong's voice as he sat on the other side of their daughter. The little girl gave her father an equally bright smile.

"Mom's telling me your story!"

"Oh, did she tell you how she practically begged me to have her?" Yi Jeong said, teasingly, earning a smack from Ga Eul. After almost ten years of marriage, she still hit as hard.

"More like you crying for me to take you back." she teased back. The little girl between them couldn't help but laugh at her silly parents.

"Is that what you've been telling our daughter?"

"Yeah, I haven't even got to the part when you sang to me in the rain, complete with boom box and all…" Ga Eul faked a dreamy expression then sighed. Yi Jeong turned his attention to their amused daughter.

"I wouldn't believe everything your mom tells you, sweetheart. She's kind of…"

"You wouldn't want to continue that, So Yi Jeong." Yi Jeong laughed at his wife. He loved moments like this with his family, just them.

"Wait, I want to know how it ends!" Milly's little voice screamed through her parents' banters.

"Happily ever after, right?" she smiled at the both of them. She really didn't need to be told about the ending. The look her parents shared said it all.

"You can bet on that, sweetie."