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"Am I going the right way?" I mumble to myself. I look around to try and find someone but the street is empty. I walk down to the corner and turn when I finally found someone.
"Uh, hello." I walk up to the man and he stops to look at me, he's really tall compared to me. "How do I say this? Umm." I pull my phone out and get on the translator app but the man seems to realize what I'm trying to say and he puts his hand out. When he sees how I'm confused, he points to the phone, I hand it to him. He gets onto maps and looks over at me.
"Where did you want to go?" He asked with a deep voice.
"Oh um..." I look at the paper I had with the name of the place and show it to him. When he sees it he looks at me again.
"Follow me. I go there too." He says and starts to walk in the direction he was going in before I walked up to him.
While we walked, I look around and see that we were around a market place. We don't stay there for long but I took a couple of pictures of the street name so I could come back some other time. The man that was with me looked back a couple times to check on me and everytime he did his eyes would shine. I couldn't really tell what he looked like because he was wearing a mask and hat.
10 minutes pass and we enter a building. I look around a bit but couldn't find who I was looking for.
"Uh, are you looking for someone?" The man asked, when he sees me looking around, he also took off his mask.
I pull up a picture of a woman, that I was looking for on my phone, "Do you know her?"
He nods and takes me over to a group of people. "Ji Hee? Someone wants to see you."
A woman steps away from the group and makes her way over to us.
"Hi are you Sacaría Nelson?" I nodded, she steps closer and gives me a hug. "How are you?"
"I'm good, you?" I look up and to see her eyes were watering a bit.
"I'm good. I'm sorry about what happened."
I nod at her, my eyes get watery too. I pull away from the hug and turn to face the man that brought me here.
"Thank you for... how do you say taking me here?" I ask Ji Hee.
"He brought you here?" She looks over at him and he nods. "Thank you for bringing her here."
"No problem." He smiles at us then walks away.
"Ok so. Your belongings are already at my house so we can go after my shift is over alright?"
"Yeah no problem. Where do you want me to go?"
"Just follow me ok?"
"Yeah."
"Oh! I'm still surprised by how much you have grown since I last saw you!"
"Well I was only, what? 3 maybe 2." We both laugh then we walk over to the desk that's inside.
By the time it was 12, my stomach started to growl.
"Hey Ji Hee, can we get something to eat?"
"Yeah, but is it alright if you go by yourself?"
"Yeah that's fine."
"Ok there's a restaurant if you turn left at the corner that does take out. Here," she pulls some money out of her wallet and hands it to me, " take this and get some food, and a drink for me if you have enough."
"Ok I'll be back soon." She waves at me as I walked out and listen to the directions she told me to go in.
When I made it to the place, I waited a few minutes before it was my turn to order. After I order the food and drinks, it took about 5 minutes for it all to be done. I got back to the building and sat down on one of the chairs they had since Ji Hee wasn't at the desk anymore.
"Oh sorry Sacraía, I had to do something."
"Its ok here's your drink and change." I hand it to her and she sat down across from me.
"Thanks."
"I also got you some food." I handed her the box.
"Ok then, let's eat!"
~2 hours later~
"So, this is your room."
She showed me the room, I would be staying in. I looked around and spot a desk in the corner and the bed right on the opposite side of it. It even has a walk in closet.
"Do you think I could maybe add some shelves? I have a lot of books."
"Yeah, I can ask my friend to come over and help."
"Thanks. Am I allowed to hang things on the wall?"
"Yeah I can even help you if you want."
"Great, could we do it right now? I also wanna show you the some pictures and drawings I've made."
"Yeah, let me get the tape real quick." I nodded, she went to get it while I looked through the boxes to find the pictures and drawings.
We spent about 15 minutes hanging them up and we spent another hour unpacking and putting my things away.
"So what's that place you work at? It looked pretty major." I ask while we rest and get a drink.
"Oh, Bighit is a small music production company." She says as she hands me a water bottle.
"Oh, ok."
"So, how was your plane ride here? Any problems?"
"Mmmm... not any that I can think of. Maybe that my Korean is really bad."
"Well that I can help you with."
"Oh can I go buy a snack? I saw some convienence store on the way here."
"Yeah just don't get lost anywhere." She hands me some money since she has mine. I had it sent over and she had it transferred to won, cause I didn't know where to go to do it.
When I get to the store I go down and look at the aisles. When I look up, someone runs into me.
"Uh, sorry. Are you okay?" He asked me.
I didnt fully understand what he said but I did hear an ok. Probably asking if I'm ok. I look up to see him and I just nod, this guy is taller than the last one I met and he had his mask pulled down. When he saw that I was fine he smiled and I could see that he had dimples.
"Do you need help finding anything?" He asked me and this time I didn't understand anything.
"Sorry, my Korean isn't good." I tell the man and he just nods.
"Okay, do you need help finding anything? I could help you." He says again but in English this time.
"Uh, no I'm not looking for anything specific. Just wanted something sweet." When I tell him he nods then starts to look around and walks to a different aisle. 'Great he probably didn't even mean that. I should've just kept my mouth shut' I think in my head and just continue to look around. A minute later, the guy comes back over to where I was and hands me something.
"You'll probably like this. It's one of my favorite sweets from here." I take it and look to see what it is.
"Umm, thanks." I give him a small smile.
"No problem." He smiles at me and then he goes to the pay for what he had.
When I get done finding some snacks I go pay and leave. When I get back to the house I hand Ji Hee one of the snacks I had.
"So did you get lost?" She teases me.
"No, but I ran into someone and they helped me find a snack."
"Oh what'd they look like?"
"He was tall and when he smiled at me he had these dimples. And he also spoke English."
"So first you get lost in the street and you meet a random guy and ask him for help not to mention he was pretty handsome, then you run into another guy and he helps you. Wow, you're getting the guys fast."
"Its not my fault. Oh and who was that guy that took me to you? He said that he was going there when I asked him how to get there."
"That was someone who worked there. But you finally admit that you got lost this morning, huh?"
"No I just needed to know what street I was on. I wasn't lost."
"Stubborn, aren't we?" She laughs as I pout and playfully smack her arm.