I saw her today...

Ele invited me out to lunch today. I didn't really want to go, as I had brought in my own lunch and I wanted to go to the gym (really wanted to get on that bike), so I made up an excuse saying I needed to buy a textbook. But she asked if she could come along, so I figured maybe there was something she wanted to tell me.

So I ended up buying the textbook at lunch and then meeting her at Woolies. She was a bit late, and I got a bit annoyed at that, but all that dissipated when I saw her post-birth body running across the street towards me. 

How could I get angry at her?

We went to the TGV food court and she said it was her treat. She asked me what I wanted and I just said anything she was getting, so she got us two plates of Thai food. At first I felt like I didn't know what to talk to her about, so I asked her about her second day back at work, and then struggled to remember the last time I saw her (at Eva's place) and talked about that.

I told her about how Shuing over-analysed everything in Dixit, and she generally agreed. Although she did say Eva winning wasn't a fluke as she plays it a lot. We talked about my exams coming up, and she told me about her days studying. We also talked about G as I said he was going to China for a girl. She told me a story about Sterling, how he had quit his job to study and had trouble finding a job when he graduated, and during that time no girls wanted to know him. However, after he got a job at the RBA, the girls suddenly came back. She seemed to hate how girls did that, but I said that was the sad reality.

After we finished she wanted to go for a walk. So we walked around the station a bit. I wanted to turn into this plaza corridor, but she stood there pausing a bit. We had a bit of an argument as to which direction my office was, and then we proceeded through the plaza. I then had the chance to part ways there or walk her a bit closer to her office. I chose the latter.

We parted at the traffic lights talking about how she'd raise her daughter, and I started heading back up to George St. As I was walking, I made eye contact with a girl walking in the opposite direction.

It was Jin.

The cap, and her face, they were dead give aways. But her reaction - she wasn't startled, or shocked to see me. Just looked down and kept walking. That made me doubt whether it was her.

I turned around and watched her a bit. She was wearing high heels and had a different handbag to the LV one she normally has. 

Was it her?

I kept walking before I turned around again, deciding to follow her. She had made a fair bit of distance, but managed to see her walking into 447 Kent Street. I walked into the lobby to check the directory and couldn't see any places for a South Korean national to go.

When I got back to the office, I spent the next hour or so googling that address. Nothing.

In the afternoon, I went to tell Mob something about one of my cases, and she told me afterwards that they could offer me six more weeks. I was about to say something but she stopped me and said I didn't need to say anything.

I then left to go check out that building. I had guessed maybe there was some sort of English learning college there. She looked like she had been there before, entering with familiarity. But I couldn't find anything of relevance, and went back to the office to change.

The second night of P&P went ok tonight, during half time I had a chat with Karen outside the class room. Then when class finished we walked back to the bus stop and parted.

As you would've guessed, I couldn't resist and ended up texting Jin after dinner tonight, basically asking for her back. Why do I do this...