LOST IN YOUR HEART
JADE MARKET ?
J.O folded the clothes he was wearing last night with Mika by the pool. He remembered how that night had been a witness to his second love. He could not forget how the girl's eyes looked at him, feeling the surge of love he gave her completely. It had been a long time since his wife and future baby had been slaughtered in front of his eyes. Since then, he no longer wants to know love. Every time a woman with a duty who put her heart on him, he did not respond at all.
J.O sat on his bed mattress. He rubbed his face a few times. Then he looked at the red patches on his shirt. He took a long breath.
TUT TUT !
J.O was shocked when the phone in his pocket vibrated. There's a call from a foreign number.
"Yes?" J.O opened his voice.
"Have you chosen your answer?" hoarse voice from across.
"What answer?"
"You are, still like to divert our conversation. Have you made your choice? About the container,, "the guy reminded J.O.
"Oh,,,,,"
"You remember that, don't you?"
"Yes. I recall. But I haven't got as good news as you say"
"I sent you some pictures. You took it yourself at the Jade market. Meet someone offering antiques" the mysterious person told.
"Giok Market? Isn't it,,," said J.O not yet finished.
Phone's closed. J.O feels now his life is really like a chess piece that is run according to the orders of others.
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In the market near the area he lived, he asked some traders. Location of Jade market. Not many people know about this market. He moved from one place to another, but did not find a place called Jade Market.
When he stopped at one corner of the city, he saw an alley crowded with people. He got out of his car and approached the crowd standing there.
He asked about the Jade market to one of the brandal youths.
"Do you know the Jade Market?" ask the young man.
"What?!" the brandal youth looked shocked.
"Yes. Jade Market."
"No. I'll just take a package from someone" J.O replied.
The brandal young man was wryly looking for something that looked suspicious. But after he felt safe, he asked J.O to follow him.
"Come with me" he said.
They also headed towards the building that looked shabby from the front. But after passing through the main door and the first room, the room inside looked more spacious like a brothel room in Japan. When J. O. stepped in, he followed the eyes of the servant women in each room. They kiss from far away.
"I'm looking for an antique dealer. My package was on him" J.O told the young man.
"I'll ask Yuki-San"
The young man asked her to wait in a room. So J.O sat down on a chair in the room. Waiting for the young man to return. In his solitude, he came upon several women who teased him. They volunteered to serve J.O.
"Hi handsome guy, are you lonely?" woman one approaches J.O's ears.
"Do you need warmth, baby?" woman two leaned her head on J.O's shoulders.
"No. No. gabe. I'm here to pick up a package from someone" J.O answered briefly.
"Well, you're so cold, baby. Do you want me to warm up?" said woman three rubbing J.O's chin.
They stuck here and there like poisonous snails. It was only after a kimono-clad woman came that they shunned J.O immediately.
"You're the recipient of that message?" ask a woman named Yuki-San.
"Yes. I have to take a package from someone"
"alright. Here's the package"
Yuki-San gives J.O a brown envelope. Then he called and told the sender that the envelope he had given to the recipient. J.O received the envelope. He thanked me and quickly walked away from the place.
After successfully exiting the main door, J.O saw the brandal youth on the same road as the first he saw. She thumbs up to thank him.
He approached a parked car not far from the market location Jade.
He immediately went in and out of there.
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