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smiled shrewdly at Yoori. “You’re a real class act, babe.”  
    Yoori clenched her teeth. All this time, he allowed her to act idiotic when he knew? She tried her best to do damage control. 
    “I—I was not staring,” she combated, her cheeks burning at the embarrassing dilemma she found herself in. She went on clumsily. “I was moving my eyes and I stopped on you for a little bit longer than I should. That’s not staring. That was just me being lazy with my eyes and— ”  
    Okay, I should stop now , she thought to herself, feeling like a blubbering fool. Oh how she wanted to crawl into a hole and die right now… 
    Luckily for her, it didn’t even appear as if Tae Hyun was really listening anymore.  
    Laying his head against the foundation of the boat, he gave a sigh of relief after he fully situated himself across the boat. When he was done, he angled his head toward Yoori. 
    “You’re blocking the view,” he noted bluntly.
    “I’ll block your view with my fists if you don’t leave me alone,” Yoori muttered threateningly. She was resentful that he allowed her to behave like an idiot. She could feel it in her knuckles. She was ready to punch something—Tae Hyun being the primary candidate. Tae Hyun and maybe a couple of ducks. 
    “Wow,” he responded coolly, nonchalantly patting the empty space beside him, a gesture for her to stop arguing and settle beside him.  “My precious little assistant is such a thug.  Scary .”
    Yoori rolled her eyes. “I’m glad we can find some humor in the success of my initiation.” She threw him a dirty look. “And why should  I go to you?” 
    “ ‘Cause you’re not sitting in the right angle to get the best view. Now come here before I ask you what you were thinking about  while  you were staring at me.” 
    No! Under no circumstances was she going to share with him that she thought he looked sexy.
    Acknowledging that she had been backed into a corner, Yoori gave in before she accidentally blurted out anything else.  Throwing up her white flag, a very bitter Yoori carefully moved to the empty space beside Tae Hyun. With one leg outstretched, she sat beside him, her hair ruffling slightly when a gentle wind flew past them. 
    “Lay down,” he directed, flashing his brown eyes up at her.  “We can share an equal view of everything this way.” When Yoori hesitated, he added, “The sky is about to become more beautiful and you’ll only hurt your neck from craning it for too long. Might as well prevent the trouble. It’s not like you don’t have enough pain rummaging through your body.” 
    It was probably a psychological thing, but when he mentioned the pain in her body, she began to feel the aches in her neck.  
    “There she goes…” Tae Hyun stated idly, his eyes reflecting the rays of the sunset.
    Excited about the beautiful view and convinced that it was only for the good of her body (even though deep down, she knew it was something else), Yoori settled herself beside Tae Hyun and allowed her head to rest on the smooth base of the boat. 
    Both resting their hands on their stomachs, Yoori and Tae Hyun smiled in awe at the magic of the nature before them. Her perfume and his cologne mixed together while they watched in serene silence. It seemed at that moment, the whole world stopped to stare up at the heavens above as well. 
    “Do you know what’s crazy?” she found herself asking, her attention becoming lost in the skies above.  
    “What?”  
    “Do you realize that our whole lives, every decision we’ve made, all the roads we’ve chosen—good, bad, big and small—everything has led us to this very moment in time?” Yoori had a tendency to get philosophical when she was outside long enough. The scenic world had that enlightening power over her.  
    “What a crazy thought,” Tae Hyun murmured, his eyes roaming the picturesque sky.  
    Yoori nodded, proud of her c razy, simple, but somewhat mind-boggling