An Awkward Meeting

JP with Eun-Ji, Alyssa, Choi and Peter

University of San Fransisco - San Francisco, CA

Eun-Ji had read the notebook from cover to cover. It all seemed normal of a college student journal in the beginning. There were personal entries, notes from academic studies, doodle and drawings, nothing out of the ordinary in terms of content. As the entries progressed through the pages, things became more theoretical and also started skewing towards more interesting and curious subject matter. The drawings as well started to take on a purposeful intent in their design and frequency. Then by the end, that last entry seemed down right irrational to the point of gibberish at the end. Had Turner Kramer gone insane? Had something caused this incoherent train of thought, or was a genius writing in a way others wouldn’t be able to easily decipher.

Before she had a chance to consider this more, a tall man with a clean cut beard interrupted her. Eun-Ji just ignored him, maybe the creep would go away. Yet she knew it was more than that, the things he was saying meant that he knew about the Secret World. She could be in danger, she thought. Despite this fact, they were in a public place, so she continued to play the foreign exchange student role and responded in Korean to leave her alone.

No sooner had she said that than an attractive Korean man sat beside her on the bench. She was surprised she had let him get so close without realizing it; she must have been too distracted by the first gentleman. And was that an attempt at a pickup line?

Eun-Ji stood up while holding the notebook close to her body. She bowed to both men and then quickly turned and started to walk away. Her feet were moving swiftly beneath the long hanfu dress. She wanted to put as much distance between herself and those two creeps.