A Office door opened.
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Shadows coming through it.", "Different shapes.", "Different sizes.", "Finding their way out the office one by one.",
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One of them moved differently from the rest.
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Young.", "Block-like face.", "Structured.", "Golden yellow hair catching the light coming from large glass windows.", "Pink lips.", "Short black glasses sitting precisely on his face.", "The kind of person who understood exactly how they looked and had made decisions accordingly.",
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He saw Ji-eun.", "Moving with Kim Tae-soo.", "And redirected.", "His path finding hers without hesitation.",
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"Ji-eun."
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She stopped.", "Turned.",
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Kim Tae-soo stopped beside her.", "His eyes going somewhere else entirely.", "The city below.", "The distance.", "Somewhere that wasn't this conversation.",
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Ji-eun.", "Her voice finding a different register.", "Something in it that knew exactly what it was doing.",
"Lee Ji-hoon."
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He smiled.", "The smile of someone who had been smiled at enough times to know what to do with his own.",
"Leader of the Golden Star Guild.", "As she already knew.", "As everyone already knew.",
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"Seeing as tomorrow is no promise.", he continued.", "I would like to formally ask you out on a date.", "What do you say.",
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She looked away.", "Just for a second.", "Something in the look that wasn't a no and wasn't a yes.", "Something that belonged entirely to her.",
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"I'm busy tonight.", she said.",
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And walked.", "Forward.", "Continue with Kim Tae-soo.", "The way she walked past most things.", "Without breaking pace.", "Without looking back."," as Kim Tae-soo followed her.",
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Lee Ji-hoon's eyes found her as she went.", "Moving across her.", "Landing where they landed.", "His mouth doing something slow.", "His tongue finding his lips.", "Something serpentine in the quality of it.",
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His voice.", "Low.", "To no one specific.",
"What a woman.", "Some men are truly lucky in this world.",
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Two glasses.", "Champagne catching the light the way champagne does.", "Gold and pale and full of small rising things.",
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Ji-eun and Kim Tae-soo.", "At the edge of the rooftop.", "The city below.", "The stars above.", "The space between them and everything else vast and indifferent and beautiful in the way vast indifferent things are sometimes beautiful.",
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They raised the glasses.", "Found each other's.", "The sound of it happening.",
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Clean.", "Brief.", "Bouncing once off the rooftop.", "Then rising.", "Finding the stars.", "Becoming part of the night around them.",