| Fan Fiction |
by Seo.Tai.Mi [Sung.ii.ee]
Young Saeng was totally lost deep into his thoughts, not attentive to anyone that would pass by him on the streets. He didn’t care. Not as if he ever cared. He was listening to his favorite song, on the MP3 player.
“Ah! Sorry, sorry! Please excuse me! I didn’t want to! Aah, what am I going to do now…” a girl bumped into him.
“It’s okay. Just be more attentive next time.”
“Ah, it’s not only that I bumped into you, but…” she pointed down, her face turning an extremely flushed red, in embarrassment.
Looking down to where she pointed, Young Saeng spotted her drink spilled all over his shoe.
“I’m so sorry! I’m awfully sorry! Please excuse me!” she bowed three times.
“Whoa, calm down! I said it’s okay… “
“It isn’t okay at all! Ah, what am I going to do now…”
“Gosh, calm down… Here, I’ll buy you a new drink.”
“Ah? No! After what I’ve just done? No, no, it’s not right!”
“Look, I have to go to an interview for a job, I can’t chitchat right now…”
“Where are you going? That way?” she pointed to the main building, where he was going.
“Y-… Yeah, I’m going there. Why?”
“Omo! I’m going there too!” she clapped her hands, showing a slight tint of a smile.
He was right – she’s really pretty.
“Y-… Yeah… Isn’t it awesome? Maybe we will work together!”
“You’re right!”
“What are you applying for?”
”A secretary. I can’t apply for something else. You?”
“I’m trying to be a designer. I’ve tried so hard for the last couple of years…”
“Then I see no reason why you should fail!”
“Too bad I’ve failed every time I tried… I almost gave up trying!” Young Saeng laughed at his own words, then became totally serious. “Thus, there was something that kept my confidence, something that kept telling me to try.”
Young Saeng didn’t feel like he’s going to succeed before he met her. His confidence boosted just as she bumped into him. Her eyes, her appearance, her presence brought something familiar to him.
“By the way, I’m Young Saeng.” He smiled, offering his hand.
“Ah Bee. Nice to meet you!” she shook his hand, smiling larger.
“Ah Bee? Nice! Can I call you Abby?”
“Sounds alike to me… Okay then!”
Young Saeng’s heart was filled with happiness after hearing her positive answer.
“Shall we go now? “
“I think we’re already late…” Abby looked at her hand watch, then sighed and stomped her feet. “Ah! It’s closed! Omo… It’s only my fault… What should I do now… Ah… I’m so sorry!” she bowed again.
“Aren’t you a polite little miss!” Young Saeng smiled at her.
Seeing Young Saeng’s seductive smile, Abby couldn’t do anything but get lost in her trail of thoughts. A series of severe palpitations shot across her human flesh, revealing an extremely adorable blush.
“You’re blushing from such a slight compliment? Aw…”
“St-... Stop it!” Abby jokingly smacked Young Saeng’s arm.
He laughed, putting his hand over the spot she hit.
“Do you have anything to do now?”
“Not really… Why?”
“Since we’re both that bored, shall we go watch a movie, or something, I don’t know. You suggest something.”
“Well… I agree… Let’s go for an ice cream…?”
“Alright then. Anything you’re okay with.” Young Saeng shrugged his shoulders.
Reaching the ice cream shop, Abby was acting just like a child, seeing ice cream for the first time in her life.
The reason of her behavior is pretty obvious – well, she’s an angel. It’s her first time on Earth, as a human. She was sent to make Young Saeng’s life take a positive turn after all those years he suffered several failures.
Young Saeng was looking at Abby pretty skeptical.
‘What’s wrong with her?’ he thought. ‘She looks like she hasn’t entered an ice cream shop in her life.’
“Whoooaaa~” Abby was looking at all the sorts of sparkling ice cream, reading the flavor tag on them. “I… I…”
“What is it?”
“I don’t have any money on me…” Abby sunk to the floor, still craving for at least a scoop of ice cream.
“I’ll buy you some, it’s no problem over this!” Young Saeng got a hand in his pocket, searching for money.
“No! No! Please don’t!”
“You’re really weird, you know that?”
“Ehm… I… I know… But I don’t want anyone to pay for my things so I just have to get some money and buy!”
“So, yeah, I’ll have a mango and… What do you want?”
“EH?! I said I don’t want any that I haven’t paid for!”
“Do you have that flavor?” Young Saeng asked the shop assistant, making him laugh a bit.
Abby pouted and looked at the pretty pink raspberry ice cream.
“Mango and raspberry please.”
“That’s 2.5$, please.”
“2.5… Wait… Shouldn’t it be 5$? I mean… It’s two cones, right?”
“Huh? Oh yeah, 5$… But… Come here a bit.” The shop assistant signaled Young Saeng to bend over the counter so he could whisper something in his ear.
“Oh! Now I get it…”
“Have fun!” the shop assistant pushed the ice cream cones to Young Saeng.
“Here you go!” he gave the raspberry one to Abby.
“Heh? Oh, thanks… But… I don’t get it, why do you do this?” Abby took the ice cream and started eating it.
“Um… Well… Let’s say just that I’m in a good mood.”
Abby smiled at Young Saeng.
“What does it taste like?”
“Really nice! It’s my first time eating ice cream!”
“Wait… You mean… You haven’t eaten any in your life?”
“Huh? What, is there anything wrong?”
”Wow, I grew up with this and I meet someone who hasn’t eaten in her life…”
“Ehm… Well…”
“Nevermind. So I guess you like it.”
“Of course!”
”When the heck have you finished that?!”
“Oh, I did? Never realized.”
“I suppose we should come more often, then?” Young Saeng chuckled.
“Sure! But… We have our interviews for the jobs tomorrow, right?”
“It won’t last all day! Do you think you can come?”
“Hm… Of course!”
“Sweet! Then… We’ll be meeting at the interview… Then we’ll come here, is it okay?”
“Totally okay with me!” Abby smiled. “Not wanna sound like a kiss-up, but I think I’ll need your e-mail or cell number… In case there’s anything coming up and I can’t go anymore…”
“Are you sure it’s only for that?” Young Saeng raised his eyebrow, grabbing Abby’s phone from her hand.
“Hey!” Abby easily smacked his arm again, making him laugh.
“Stay calm, I’ll type the number wrong!” Young Saeng laughed even more and harder.
“Why you little…!” Abby grabbed his arm with both her hands and started shaking him.
“Here you go!”
“Thanks!” Abby stopped shaking him and took her phone. “That means we’ll meet tomorrow.”
“Mhm… Catch you later~”
“Toodles!”
[ Abby’s house ]
“Wah! This was a long day…” Abby threw her backpack on the nearest armchair and sunk in the couch, switching the TV on.
She grabbed her pocket watch and flipped it over, blowing the dust from its interior.
“What will I do now…? Do I have a fixed schedule I should work after?”
“You only have to do whatever you can to make Young Saeng succeed in his life – You’re his angel, after all.” Saint Peter answered from the pocket watch.
“But… Uhm… How? I mean… Mkhh…” Abby dropped the watch and tried leaning herself over everything to keep her balance.
“Andres! Andres! Andres are you there? Answer me!”
Abby fell to the ground, all-shaking. The angel left the body and tried contacting St. Peter.
“Do something! Save it! I can’t get in another body!”
“It’s normal, don’t worry. It will survive.”
“But what’s that? Will it happen often?”
“More often by week and month. Your body suffered once of epilepsy and that’s the cause of its death. Once you, as a spirit, got back into it, you also revived its disease.”
“Can’t you do anything about it? At least… How can I prevent it?”
”You can’t prevent it, I’m afraid. It’s something permanent.”
Abby sighed, as she looked at the body trembling on the floor in an extremely violent crisis. It hit several things, knocked off everything on the table and finally gave up after a rough series of convulsions that took about 10 minutes. She kneeled before the animated puppet lying unconscious, caressing her face with her index finger.
“I miss myself so much…” Abby sighed as she finally got back into her body.
The puppet got up alive again, trying to clean up the mess that she just did. After she finished, Abby spotted the pocket watch still opened under the couch. She picked it up and sighed.
“So it’s up to me, right…? Right…”
The cellphone rang.
“Hello?”
“Uhm, Abby?”
“Yeah, who am I talking to?”
”It’s Young Saeng.”
“Oh hi there! What’s up?”
“Nothing much, I was just bored.”
“So that’s what you do when you’re bored?”
“Have I disturbed you?”
”Not at all. Are we still going tomorrow to the ice cream shop?”
”You little child, of course we will!”
“Hooray!”
Abby could hear Young Saeng chuckle easily at the other end of the line.
“Look, Young Saeng, I have to go clean up the mess in my room now. We’ll talk tomorrow.”
“Okay then. Sleep well!”
Abby hung up the call and then hugged the phone.
“I know I’m not allowed to, but… I don’t see anything wrong in it as long as St. Peter doesn’t find out. I’m an angel after all.”