Koi No Yokan ___ Inevitable Love

2. First Interactions

Third Person's POV:

"Hello! Welcome!" The lady greeted her,  as she entered the book store. "Hello! I'm Hwang Ji ah, I'm an artist!' And there goes that face everyone makes, who's not interested in Artists or Art. The woman was no longer standing before her instead she was back to her desk, reading a book. "I sent you an email but you didn't read it so I thought I should stop by" Ji ah continued despite her obvious lack of interest.

"Here are some postcards and greeting cards I painted myself, Would you mind displaying them here? These are just samples" Still no verbal answer just a, affirming nod, that woman didn't even spare Ji ah a glance nor her cards. "If you get any orders or if you need more of these, you can dm me on my social media" Ji ah pointed at the tiny inked portion at the bottom of the cards and no surprise, she didn't look away from her Ohhh so interesting book.

Sighing heavily, She moved on to the next spot. After landing in Seoul, Korea the first thing she did after meeting her grandmother was research. Hwang Ji ah has a small art&crafts business online.  She started almost a year ago in the USA, where she sold handmade cards, paintings, portraits, and other art-related stuff. Ji-ah loved art, especially painting for as long as she could remember but her mom didn't like it for more than just a hobby. Ji-ah on the other hand wanted a career out of her talent.

 Now she is in Korea and has a lot of work to do to bring her business back to life here. So she ended up searching for potential stores where she could drop samples. After spending the whole day on the streets of Seoul she left a lot of cards at dozens of stores but none of them had a decent owner or worker,  It infuriated her!! Why open an art shop or dreamy book store when you're not even interested in the field let alone passionate about it.

The bezzare experience made her skin crawl so she instinctively went on an Art shopping spree, buying too much and now it was getting difficult to carry it on her own. Ji-ah was carrying all the supplies in a tote bag hanging down her shoulder and holding the canvases with her both hands they were not heavy they were just too big, huffing and struggling through her walk she finally made it to the main road, as she was crossing the road, her bag got ripped spilling everything in the middle of a busy road "Shit!" 

She tried to pick things up but the paint bottles were rolling down the road, the signal was shifted back to green now and the traffic was halted because of her, well some of the traffic, most of the cars were zooming past her and the rest of them were honking and shouting "Instead of honking if you come and lend a hand that'll be good !!" She shouted but... in her head. 

Ji-ah is not someone to act out create a scene or stand up for herself. Calling her an introvert won't be wrong.  In fact, she's a socially awkward person, who doesn't know anything about small talk or carrying interesting conversations. Not because she is not confident,  Aish! Who am I kidding.

 She's awkward because she doesn't think highly of herself.  Whenever Ji ah comes face to face with a person all she can think about is how the other person is counting the flaws in her personality and making fun of them in their head.  However, the biggest reason is just that she doesn't want to do anything with people. People are not worthy to waste energy on. Hwang Ji ah had learned it the hard way but she won't ever forget the lesson.

Ji-ah was getting flustered now as she tried to pick up the paint bottles and other stuff when all of a sudden, out of nowhere a very attractive masculine hand appeared and the hand was picking up her stuff. She looked up to see who the hand was joined to and Holy Shit!!  The guy was a piece of art – a very fine, very exquisite piece of art.

 She wanted to grab her paintbrush and canvas to paint him right then and there. Yeah, he was that good. From his dark, untamed, slightly overlong hair that framed an absolutely stunning face – a face that got more and more chiseled as she continued to stare... Stare!!?? She was staring!!! Gosh! Ji ah felt embarrassed "Are you done gawking?" Great! His voice had to be that good also. She was mortified with embarrassment.