Chapter 6
Few days ago at soo-ri’s sleep over…
At yuri’s house, at night…
Sooyoung…
Ding,dong…ding,dong…ding,dong….DING,DONG!
“Where the hell is she?! im freezing here! aa-ach-achoO!”, I sneeze. I hug myself for warm heat while standing in front of yuri’s door, shivering.
“aish! I’m coming! Stop ringing the bell!” I heard her from the other side of the door.
When she opens the door, she was wrapped in a towel. She just got out from her shower, I guess. I quickly cover my eyes, ignoring the cold breeze swipe between my skins.
“For Pete’s sake,Yul! Could you at least wear some cloths first??” I cover my eyes while set apart few of my fingers. I could feel my cheeks burning, looking at her that way.
“I would but hearing the bell sounds being pushed MANY times, I think my ears would peel off…” she sarcastically said to me.
“whatever…so, where’s Kyungsan?”, I step inside the house and take off my shoes.
“He’s upstairs in my room…I will bring him down later. Go feed yourself for some food in the refrigerator, I know you are hungry…” she said to me while walking upstairs.
“FOOD?? YOU ARE DAEBAK, YUL!” I scream from excitement.
I run to the kitchen and went straight to the refrigerator. I take out all the food and put it all on the table. My mouth becomes watery with the view of delicious and colorful food on the table. Barbeque chicken, spaghetti, sandwich, sausages, any delicious food you can think of, it’s all right in front of my eyes! I look at the food while putting a finger on my lips..
“Which should I eat first?” I smile wide looking at the foods from left to right.
After a few minutes thinking, I just shrugged my shoulder, “oh,well…”, and quickly stuff my mouth with all of it.
In yuri’s room…kwon Yuri
I enter my bedroom, I see a small figure soundly asleep on my bed. I smile at the view. I went to my cabinet and search for my cloths. I put on a black top with white translucent long sleeve shirt on top and white short hot pants.
After I put my clothes on, I went to the side of my bed and bend down a bit. I slowly lift the small figure up and pad softly at his back…
“kyungsan-ahh, don’t cry…okay? Sooyoung’s here…”, I put my finger near to my lips and whisper to him while he’s still half awake. I paused for a few seconds, afraid that he might cry. Fortunately, he didn’t cry.
I guess, he can sense that sooyoung is here…
I bring him down the stairs in my arms while he’s still half awake. I heard clinking sounds of bowl at the kitchen, I shook my head. I know the clinking sounds is from sooyoung, I went to the living room and put kyungsan down on the floor near his toys. When I walk to the kitchen, my mouth gap open by the view…
“sooyoung!”
The view is really an eye sore, the kitchen that was clean earlier turn into a mess! The butter was spill on the floor, ice cream melt on the counter, rice spilled everywhere! I look at sooyoung who was turn to me with a chicken on her hand and cake on the other hand, her face has cream cake all over it and her mouth was full with foods. She was trying to say something when she suddenly choked, she was pounding her chest hardly.
I started to panic and run to her and said “what should I do?! What should I do?! I’m gonna call the ambulance!”
When I was about to run to the phone, she grab me by the arm and shook her head abruptly. In a few seconds her face turn reddish due to the choke, I was jumping up and down holding sooyoung’s shoulder.
“what am I going to do if you don’t want me to call the ambulance?! Dammit!”
Then, I remember about the procedure when choking on food, like I seen in the movies, I quickly went behind sooyoung and hug her from behind tightly.
“one…twO…THREE!”
I hug sooyoung abruptly even tighter but it doesn’t work. I repeat it one more time, again nothing came out, sooyoung was still choking. The third time I repeat it, I hug sooyoung tighter that there’s hardly space for her to breath. Finally, something came out from her mouth, it was hardly an oval shape. After the choking incident, sooyoung fall on the floor lifelessly and breathing really hard. i take a look at the food that sooyoung choke on, I pick it up with my fingers. I give a big sighed and cursed under my breath.
“sooyoung…seriously…how can you eat this potato? It’s still not been boiled yet! You could have died choking it!” I snapped and show the hard oval shape potato to sooyoung.
Sooyoung…
“I d-didn’t see it…I just s-stuff all of the food in my m-mouth..”, i lift my head a little while still lying on the floor breathlessly.
Yuri shook her head and knee down beside me while still lying on the floor, to meet my eye-level. She suddenly rub my cheek softly and said, “does it hurt?”, she look at me with soft eyes.
“m-my cheeks are fine,yul…”, i look at her confusedly.
“I meant your throat…” she said, with her palm still on my cheek.
“oh, y-yeah…my throat is fine but it does hurt a little…”, i stare at her while rubbing my throat. She paused for a while and said, “you are cute, you know that?”, she trailed off her words.
“…a pure innocent cutie that anyone can never resist, even for me…”
“uh?” I stare at her confusedly again.
She shook her head and continues, “Just clean up the mess you made, okay? I will be with kyungsan in the living room…”, yuri started to stand up and walk out from the kitchen.
“okay…” I answered her.
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Kwon Yuri…
When I walk to the living room, I see kyungsan was playing with his toys on the floor. I lift him up while kiss his cheeks. He didn’t pay much attention to me while a toy is in his hand. I said to him..
“kyungsan-ahh, let’s talk for a while…”, i take a seat on the sofa and put him on my lap while facing my direction.
“call me umma ~ say it…ummmaaaaa ~” I teach him to pronounce.
He didn’t say anything, instead he just look at me for a while and play with a toy in his hands after that. I smiled...
“I guess, I can’t replace seohyun in your heart eh? It’s okay then…” I close my eyes while kissed his forehead.
I look at him for a while, wonder how it feels to be a mother to him like seohyun did and be a wife to…sooyoung…
“ap-appa…” kyungsan suddenly muttered.
I turn around to see, sooyoung standing near the staircase behind me. She smiled to me…
“did you already finish cleaning? That was fast…” I ask her.
“you want to be his second mother after seohyun? Its going to be hard…” sooyoung walk slowly to me and take a seat beside me while open her arms to kyungsan. I paused…
“I don’t mind if it’s kyungsan...if it’s someone else, I would rather not…”, I smiled at the thought. I passed kyungsan to her.
I look at sooyoung who lift kyungsan up and down while playing and laughing with him. Even though sooyoung said she doesn’t really spend her time with kyungsan at home. Kyungsan still loves his ‘appa’, as if sooyoung did really give birth to him.
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Choi sooyoung…
“kyungsan-ah…someone said she wants to be your second umma, I guess I have to get married to her too,uh?” I laugh a little. Kyungsan suddenly mumbled and moved a lot, a sign that he wants to move around, I let him go while putting him on my lap. She crawled on to yuri’s lap and grabs yuri’s finger, put it in his mouth.
“no way…are you serious??” I stare at kyungsan with wide eyes.
This is not good…really!
“what?...what?!” yuri suddenly started to panic while looking at me and kyungsan.
“um-umma…”kyungsan suddenly muttered.
“ouh? Did I hear-..” Yuri widens her eyes while looking at kyungsan.
“No no no no no….you can’t! I was just joking! ” I said to kyungsan while quickly lift him up in my arms, away from yuri.
“….Yuri can’t take care of you! She didn’t have time for you, what about seohyun-umma then?? Are you gonna ditch her just like that??”, I talk to kyungsan as if he would reply to my questions.
“okay this is starting to get me confused, what just happen?” yuri started to stand up and confusedly looking at me and kyungsan.
In a matter of minutes, kyungsan started to cry loudly. I hugged him tightly in my arms and said to him…
“okay,okay…I’m sorry, im sorry ~ okay …” i said with a worried voice.
“Can I hold him for a while?…” yuri ask, I nodded and pass him to yuri.
Once he gets into yuri’s arms, he suddenly stop crying. I let out a BIG worried sigh and fall my back on the sofa. I scratched my forehead and mumbled…
“We are SO dead…”
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Back to the real day…at the club…
Sooyoung…
After my meeting with Jessica, I’m worried about yuri at home. Will she be able to take care of kyungsan? Huh~ I wouldn’t be sure about that…After kyungsan ‘declare’ that he wants yuri to be his mom, he cry out loud when I sent him to see seohyun. What a ditcher ~
The thing is, kyungsan is kinda unique compare to other babies. Unlike any other, if he sucks a finger of that specific person, that can only be mean one thing, he wants that specific person to take care of him, like how a mother would take care of him. Yeah, and today Yuri didn’t came to work because of him. I keep sighing when I think about them, what am I gonna do? Yuri has to work too of ‘course! She can’t just stay at home and watch over kyungsan. Our boss will fire her for sure!
I let out a BIG sigh. I couldn’t stop worrying about both of them. I pick my phone out from my pocket and started to dial, yuri’s number.
Ring…Ring…Ring…
“hello?”
“hello? Yul, are you doing anything right now? Is Kyungsan okay?”
“What do you mean he’s okay? Of ‘course, he’s okay…why do you ask?”
“e-em, nothing…just want to make sure that Kyungsan is still alive while he’s with you…Hehe”
“Yah! If you are wasting your time, just to tease me with some lame joke, it’s NOT funny!”
“okay, okay…I’m sorry,geez…”
“you should be…”
“anyway, let’s have a lunch together later at 1 o’clock, at the ’Palace restaurant’…”
“uh? Aren’t you busy today?”
“I’m supposed to be busy today but….I told the boss I will be out early…so, I cancel all my appointments for today…”
“oh, really? He’s in a good mood today? He usually doesn’t let us go home early…”
“yeah, I figure…maybe it’s because you aren’t here today…”
“what is that supposed to mean?!”yuri raise her voice.
“You know what mean,Yul…hehe” I chuckled evilly.
“wait until I get my hands on you, choi—“
“yeah, yeah…just make sure than Kyungsan is still alive until 1 o’clock, okay?”
“YAH! Choi so--“
I hung up on yuri.
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Jessica…at her apartment...”after meeting with sooyoung”
I felt guilty toward sooyoung, I shouldn’t be TOO cold to her. It was CLEARLY an obvious situation, she was only doing her job. I was lying down on my bed and put my arm on my forehead. Even though I didn’t do much today but I felt tired for some reason. When I close my eyes for a while, her face comes into my mind, the way she smiles, the way she move her arms around my waist, it was so sudden. So sudden that I surprise myself, I abruptly sit up straight on my bed and said..
Why do I think keep thinking about her?...
*beep!* (incoming text message)
I look at my phone on my bed and grab it in my hand…
Uh? A message?
From Tiffany:
Jessi! Busy? Let’s head out for lunch! ^^ it’s my treat!
I smile looking at the text that tiffany send me…
To Tiffany:
Nice timing, Tiff! I was kinda bored today, don’t know what to do…yeah, pick me up at my apartment…
*send text message*
In a few seconds…*beep!*
From Tiffany:
Don’t you know? I use telepathy in my daily life ^^…Keke! Will pick you up in 5 minutes, be ready!
To Tiffany:
Telepathy? Delusional much! Hehe! See you later in 5 minutes then…
*send text message*
When I was about to walk to my cabinet, I received another text message. I pick my phone and click on the message…
From Tiffany:
Make that 2 minutes…I’m on my way to your apartment now ^^ keke!
I look at my hand watch, my eyes started to widen…
Oh, Shoot!...
I started abruptly take out my clothes from my cabinet, throwing it all on the bed. I take out the cloths that match its color, one by one. Each second I stand in front of a mirror with a pair of cloths in each hand. From red to yellow, to pink , to green, to purple and eventually, I choose white. I put on a white lose cloth and white skinny jeans to match with my white heels.
*Beep!* (incoming text message)
From tiffany:
Come on down! I’m already at the ground floor!
“Right on time…” I finish with a swipe brush of makeup.
I grab my things and put it all in my purse. I lock my door apartment and walk quickly to the ground floor. There I can see tiffany waiting for me in her blue Ocean Mercedes-bens car with her large sunglasses on. I open the car door and get it.
“wow, you are ‘bright’ today, what’s up?” tiffany look at me from head to toe and start to push on the pedal car.
“Really? Do I put too much makeup??” I grab my own face.
“not your face silly, I meant your cloths…you are using ‘all-white’ today…” tiffany chuckled.
“oh, yeah…I feel like using ‘all-white’ today…” I smile.
“why didn’t you dye your hair white? That will look awesome! Haha!” tiffany joke while her eyes on the road.
“For-your-information, my hair is already white…you know...”I swift my hair closes to her face.
“Are you color-blind or something? Your hair is not white, it’s blonde, silly…”
“it’s consider ‘white’ too, because I’m American…”
“You aren’t the only one…”
“Did I say I’m the only American here?” I ask her sarcastically.
“Did I say you did?”
“ok, ok…you win this time tiff…where are we gonna eat?” I smiled to her.
“at the palace restaurant…” tiffany said monotonously.
“uh? The one near ‘the beauties club’?”
“yeah, why?”
“ohh,nothing…”
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Soo-ri’s lunch out…
Sooyoung…
“Waaaaaaaaaaah!” kyungsan cried in yuri’s arm, while walking towards the restaurant few blocks away.
“Why are you crying?? Uh?? Did I do something wrong?? ” Yuri said while wiping kyungsan’s tear with her hand.
“WAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!” kyungsan cried even louder than before. Yuri move her head a little far from kyungsan’s head, his voice is so loud that people passing by were looking at us.
“AISH! Yul! Shut up! Will ya?!” I said to her in frustration while walking to the restaurant, I’m tired hearing loud noises from the minute both of them step inside my car.
“I’m not the one who is crying! Kyungsan is the one making noises, for crying out loud!” I can see yuri is frustrated too.
I stop walking suddenly,turn around to yuri and said…
“Give him to me…” I grab kyungsan by his arm and yuri passed him to me.
He was still crying in my arms, I pad his back softly and tip-toe around a little bit. I kissed his forehead, his eyes and face was already red. I wipe his tears and said…
“there, there….stop crying, okay?” I rub his back softly. In a matter of minutes, the small figure in my arms suddenly stops crying and his eyes were turning soft.
“ I guess, he misses you a lot…” yuri said to me.
“yeah,I guess so…come on, let’s go…my stomach is really empty since this morning, I’m really hungry…” while walking toward the palace restaurant.
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At palace restaurant…
Jessica…
“Jessica Jung, you are hiding something from me…” tiffany suddenly lean closer and give me a suspicious look.
“ I have nothing to tell you, tiff…” I cut a huge beef on my plate into small pieces, didn’t look at tiffany.
She gave me another suspicious look, “strike 1! Liar…what do you think of sooyoung actually?”
“sooyoung? Which sooyoung are you talking about?” I raise an eyebrow and give her an innocent look.
“choi sooyoung, c-h-o-i s-o-o-y-o—“
“yeah, yeah…I know how to spell, what about her?”
“you came to the club just now? I thought you weren’t interested in her…”
“Specify ‘Just now’…Just now, I’m still here with you tiff…”
“few hours ago, no, more like this morning you came to the club…”
“uh? Who told you that?”
“Sooyoung, of’course…”
“well,I’m- uh….just got bored this morning, so I came to pay a visit to the club, just curious…”, I take a slip of my drink while looking away. I can feel my face started to get hot.
“Strike 2! Liar...I can tell that you are interested in her, Jessi…admit it!”
“I’m NOT interested in t-that, t-that… so-called—“
“Beauty? Hottie? Handsome? Cutie? Name it…Strike 3, you are out!”
“I told you, I’m not—“, I suddenly paused when my eyes are lingered to the main door of the restaurant. I saw a familiar tall figure walk through the door with another tall figure while holding a small child in her arms,.
“well,well,well….look who came on time…”
hey guys! ^^ sorry for the late hiatus...i'm really busy nowadays with assignments and school work. but i manage to fit in to write this chapter for you guys. i hope you enjoy it,love ya!
