Chapter 16
Few days later in the sportswear level at the Lotte YoungPlaza in Myeong-Dong, Pong Ky is busy picking out a bikini set for herself while Eunhye looks at the one-piece designs collection.
“Look at this, Pong!” Eunhye picks out a jewel blue one-piece and shows it to Pong, who raised her eyebrow in disbelief.
“No-no! That’s definitely not coming with us, Eunhye. What are you thinking?” Pong Ky speaks of her disapproval of Eunhye’s selection while pointing to the swimming suit.
“Why not? It looks perfectly alright to me…” Eunhye flashes her smile, “besides… we are going there for work, not holiday.”
“Does it matter if its for work or holiday? Eunhye ah, you’ll look like a fifty year old ajumoni in this costume!” Pong Ky grabs the costume from Eunhye’s hand and chuck it back into the hang rail, “come with me!”
Pong Ky pulls Eunhye to another section displaying the bikinis. Several young ladies seemingly in their late teens and early twenties are browsing through the collection and at times, whispering and giggling among themselves.
“There, this one suits you!”
An hour later.
“Hi! Shin,” Pong Ky greets and waves to Shin who is sipping on his daily brew at the café.
“How’s your shopping?” Shin looks up at Pong Ky and then Eunhye, signaling for them to take the seats across from him while he stands up to collect the shopping bags from them and placed it in the empty seat next to his.
“It was great! But I can’t believe how conservative Eunhye is, Shin!” Pong Ky was a little too eager to expose Eunhye.
“Madams, may I take your order please?”
A waiter in neatly pressed uniform came up to the two new patrons and place two menus before them.
“Coffee, black please.” Pong Ky said with a smile, without bothering to flip through the menu.
“Do you serve chilled earl grey tea? Could you add a scoop of vanilla ice cream to it?”
“Eunhye ya! You’ll grow five pounds after drinking that! I don’t think they have a size bigger in the store…” Pong Ky exclaims and points to the shopping bags.
Knowing what Pong Ky is referring to, Eunhye quickly changes her order, “Make it just a chilled one without the ice cream, thanks!” and the waiter left with the revised orders.
“What are the two of you up to? What five pounds? Eunhye can make do with a little more weight, she’s too skinny now.” Shin bends forward and pick up his cup of coffee.
“Ah… We bought Eunhye a sexy little bikini! You know how stubborn she is? Eunhye insisted on buying a one-piece! Come one, who wears a one-piece nowadays? I told her she should flaunt what she has when she’s still young, furthermore she’s still single, who knows some nice rich man or resort owner will fall for her charm and propose to her right away!”
Shin was smiling at he listens to Pong Ky relate their shopping experience but his eyes went pencil thin when he heard the last line.
“Do you think you will have time for leisure?” Shin narrows his eyes once more and directed the question at Eunhye.
“Why not? We are not going to work 24 hours…” Pong Ky said but Eunhye quickly stops her from continuing, noticing the steam coming out from Shin’s nose.
“Shin!! Do you think you can teach me how to swim? I heard from CT that you were on the school team! Will you teach me? I promise to be a good student!” Pong Ky diverts the topic.
Back at home.
Shin found it hard to swallow what he heard just now, “was Pong telling the truth? You bought a biniki to seduce rich men?” pacing back and forth while Eunhye sits at the foot of the wardrobe, packing his luggage for the bali trip.
“No! Pong was only joking, why are you taking it so seriously? Am I that kind of girl in your eyes?” Eunhye holds down the piece of singlet she’s folding and shot a killer stare at Shin.
“Then why do you need to get a bikini? One-piece is just fine! You should have stuck to your decision!”
“Fine, let’s not talk about this anymore. I’ll bring it back to the store for an exchange tomorrow. This is getting us nowhere and is giving me a headache.” Eunhye continues folding the clothes and remains quiet. Shin instantly felt sorry for raising his voice at Eunhye and being unreasonable. He just couldn’t contain his jealousy with the thought that Eunhye will wear a bikini and other men would ogle at her body.
“Its not …” Shin wanted to explain but decided to keep this mouth shut and slums into his armchair, picking up the book PING that he had picked up from the mall’s book section that afternoon.
After Eunhye was done with packing, she left Shin’s room without a word, Shin looks up from the book that was in his hand, it has remained on the same page one since he opened it half an hour ago.
“Damn it! I should apologise to her…”
“Eunhye ah~” Shin calls for Eunhye from the kitchen, after deciding to make dinner for them both, as an apology to Eunhye.
Hearing no response, Shin creeps up the staircase to her room and knocks lightly.
“Eunhye ah, dinner is ready. I cooked steak tonight. Eunhye ah~” there is still no response from Eunhye, Shin turns the door knob and stepped inside her room.
“Ah, so you’re sleeping…” Shin said to himself. He walks slowly over to Eunhye, and bends forward to call her again, now realizing there were streaks of dried tear stains on her cheeks. Shin instinctively rubs her cheek and feels even more remorseful for making his angel cry.
“Eunhye ah… Eunhye…~ Angel… wake up… time for dinner…” Shin speaks softly into Eunhye’s ears.
“Oh, Shin-goon…what’s the time now?” Eunhye peels her eyes open and forces herself to sit up on her bed.
“Its almost 7..” Shin tells Eunhye.
“Gosh, I should go and prepare dinner now!” having said so, Eunhye makes an effort to get out of bed.
“Eunhye ah… I’m so sorry…”
“Sorry about what?” Eunhye seems to have forgotten the little bickering that took place earlier.
“Sorry for being a fool, sorry for raising my voice at you, sorry for making you cry…” Shin cups Eunhye’s face and continues to explain, “I’m probably conservative like an old man, its not that I didn’t want you to look pretty and sexy… if it makes you happy, I shouldn’t stop you… but I… its just that I don’t want the idea of other guys hitting on you, you’re my angel and mine alone… I know it’s a little selfish of me, no! It’s very selfish of me to be thinking like that… its….. its just… I’m… just… please… Please forgive me?” Shin pleads with his eyes when he couldn’t find the right words to explain his actions.
“You’re such a fool! I’m not even half as gorgeous, only a fool like you would fall for me,” Eunhye smiles and pinches Shin’s nose, “and…. I have already given you my heart,” Eunhye takes hold of Shin’s hand and place it on the left side of her chest, “can you feel that it’s only beating for you?”
Feeling a sudden sensation flowing through his blood, Shin instantly removes his hand and pulls Eunhye in for a hug.
“You… have… forgiven me then?” Shin pulls away and flash his boyish smile like a little boy culprit who admits to stealing cookies from the jar.
Eunhye nods her head, and before she could mention cooking dinner again, Shin pulls her out of bed and head downstairs hand in hand for the dinner he has prepared as an offer of apology.
The next morning, at Incheon airport.
“What time did the rest say they will come and meet us here?” Shin asks
“7.30am, our flight departs at 10.35am” Eunhye reports and looks at her wrist watch once more.
“Let’s check in now, they should be here any time. I’ll send them a text message.” Shin said, as he was about to type his text message, the phone vibrates with an in-coming call indication.
“Shin speaking, yes, hi Jun Kang!.”
“We are stuck in early morning traffic here, CT told us to pick up some documents & kits from the office before we leave and now, Pong Ky, Minie, Kihyun and Moke and myself are stuck in this jam. I think we need to have our tickets changed. You and Eunhye go ahead to Bali first alright? There will be airport pickup by The Bale resort. Bale spells B-A-L-E. We’ll try to fly over as soon as possible. Call me once you had checked in. Don’t forget to claim your international roaming phone at the rental booth. Alright, see you soon!”
Shin hangs up the call in disbelief and threw his hands in mid-air and looks at Eunhye.
“Why? Is anything wrong?” Eunhye tucks at Shin’s jacket sleeve.
“Unfortunately, they got stuck in a traffic jam, Jun Kang said they had to pick up some documents and permits from the office before they come, well, CT told them to… and now they can’t reach in time. He just told me that we should proceed as planned and they will come as soon as they could get themselves on the next available flight.”
“How unexpected… so it’s only you and me?” Eunhye looks cheekily into Shin’s eyes as Shin tries to mask his uneasiness.
Shin crosses his arms over his chest, and playfully said “What do you want from me?! No!!” and runs out of Eunhye’s reach.
Eunhye runs after Shin, she didn’t see a tall blonde guy crossing her path and gets knocked down by him. The foreigner immediately bends down and helps Eunhye to her feet.
Shin turns around and saw Eunhye on her knees, trying to get up with the help of a golden-haired young man.
“Please pardon me, I hope you are alright.” the foreigner with water blue eyes and lucent lips says and he dusts the dirt off the knees of her jeans.
“I’m fine, it’s ok.” Eunhye replies, and couldn’t help staring at the blueness in his eyes.
“Eunhye, what’d happened?” Shin came around and gives Eunhye a hand.
“I’m sorry for knocking down your friend.” the foreigner apologies.
“Girlfriend.” Shin corrects him, “no, its our fault, we were playing with each other, and she was trying to catch hold of me.”
“Ah, it’s cool, no worries.” the foreigner bows slightly and go on his way to the check-in counter.
“Are you hurt?” Shin looks back at Eunhye and asks caringly.
“No, no.. I’m fine.” Eunhye smiles back.
“You…. Look besotted. With him.” Shin pouts.
“Since when?! Oh well… just a little” Eunhye pouts with her confession.
And Shin walks off without answering Eunhye.
At the check-in counter.
“Shin-goon.” Eunhye pokes at Shin’s back.
“Shin-goon.” Eunhye repeats and pokes harder. Still no response from Shin.
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All that I need
I'm sorry that I hurt you
I took for granted all you gave so freely to me
I prayed it's not too late
To save you from a broken heart
To promise you I'll make a brand new start
Believe me when i say
You are all that I need
The only treasure I see
You're the air that helps me breathe
through the darkest night
When I fall down on my knees
I was blind but now I see
You are all that I need
When no one far from perfect
Like a child that needs a guiding hand
Can you stay here with me
I finally understand
You've always been the missing part
Complete the jigsaw puzzle of my heart
Please hear me when i say
You are all that I need
The only treasure I see
You're the air that helps me breathe
through the darkest night
When I fall down on my knees
I was blind but now I see
You are all that I need
Please let me hear your voice again
Let me hear you say your love will never end
That whatever it takes you'll be there
When I say
You are all that I need
The only treasure I see
You're the air that helps me breathe
through the darkest night
When I fall down on my knees
I was blind but now I see
You are all that I need
You are all that I need...
“Look at this, Pong!” Eunhye picks out a jewel blue one-piece and shows it to Pong, who raised her eyebrow in disbelief.
“No-no! That’s definitely not coming with us, Eunhye. What are you thinking?” Pong Ky speaks of her disapproval of Eunhye’s selection while pointing to the swimming suit.
“Why not? It looks perfectly alright to me…” Eunhye flashes her smile, “besides… we are going there for work, not holiday.”
“Does it matter if its for work or holiday? Eunhye ah, you’ll look like a fifty year old ajumoni in this costume!” Pong Ky grabs the costume from Eunhye’s hand and chuck it back into the hang rail, “come with me!”
Pong Ky pulls Eunhye to another section displaying the bikinis. Several young ladies seemingly in their late teens and early twenties are browsing through the collection and at times, whispering and giggling among themselves.
“There, this one suits you!”
An hour later.
“Hi! Shin,” Pong Ky greets and waves to Shin who is sipping on his daily brew at the café.
“How’s your shopping?” Shin looks up at Pong Ky and then Eunhye, signaling for them to take the seats across from him while he stands up to collect the shopping bags from them and placed it in the empty seat next to his.
“It was great! But I can’t believe how conservative Eunhye is, Shin!” Pong Ky was a little too eager to expose Eunhye.
“Madams, may I take your order please?”
A waiter in neatly pressed uniform came up to the two new patrons and place two menus before them.
“Coffee, black please.” Pong Ky said with a smile, without bothering to flip through the menu.
“Do you serve chilled earl grey tea? Could you add a scoop of vanilla ice cream to it?”
“Eunhye ya! You’ll grow five pounds after drinking that! I don’t think they have a size bigger in the store…” Pong Ky exclaims and points to the shopping bags.
Knowing what Pong Ky is referring to, Eunhye quickly changes her order, “Make it just a chilled one without the ice cream, thanks!” and the waiter left with the revised orders.
“What are the two of you up to? What five pounds? Eunhye can make do with a little more weight, she’s too skinny now.” Shin bends forward and pick up his cup of coffee.
“Ah… We bought Eunhye a sexy little bikini! You know how stubborn she is? Eunhye insisted on buying a one-piece! Come one, who wears a one-piece nowadays? I told her she should flaunt what she has when she’s still young, furthermore she’s still single, who knows some nice rich man or resort owner will fall for her charm and propose to her right away!”
Shin was smiling at he listens to Pong Ky relate their shopping experience but his eyes went pencil thin when he heard the last line.
“Do you think you will have time for leisure?” Shin narrows his eyes once more and directed the question at Eunhye.
“Why not? We are not going to work 24 hours…” Pong Ky said but Eunhye quickly stops her from continuing, noticing the steam coming out from Shin’s nose.
“Shin!! Do you think you can teach me how to swim? I heard from CT that you were on the school team! Will you teach me? I promise to be a good student!” Pong Ky diverts the topic.
Back at home.
Shin found it hard to swallow what he heard just now, “was Pong telling the truth? You bought a biniki to seduce rich men?” pacing back and forth while Eunhye sits at the foot of the wardrobe, packing his luggage for the bali trip.
“No! Pong was only joking, why are you taking it so seriously? Am I that kind of girl in your eyes?” Eunhye holds down the piece of singlet she’s folding and shot a killer stare at Shin.
“Then why do you need to get a bikini? One-piece is just fine! You should have stuck to your decision!”
“Fine, let’s not talk about this anymore. I’ll bring it back to the store for an exchange tomorrow. This is getting us nowhere and is giving me a headache.” Eunhye continues folding the clothes and remains quiet. Shin instantly felt sorry for raising his voice at Eunhye and being unreasonable. He just couldn’t contain his jealousy with the thought that Eunhye will wear a bikini and other men would ogle at her body.
“Its not …” Shin wanted to explain but decided to keep this mouth shut and slums into his armchair, picking up the book PING that he had picked up from the mall’s book section that afternoon.
After Eunhye was done with packing, she left Shin’s room without a word, Shin looks up from the book that was in his hand, it has remained on the same page one since he opened it half an hour ago.
“Damn it! I should apologise to her…”
“Eunhye ah~” Shin calls for Eunhye from the kitchen, after deciding to make dinner for them both, as an apology to Eunhye.
Hearing no response, Shin creeps up the staircase to her room and knocks lightly.
“Eunhye ah, dinner is ready. I cooked steak tonight. Eunhye ah~” there is still no response from Eunhye, Shin turns the door knob and stepped inside her room.
“Ah, so you’re sleeping…” Shin said to himself. He walks slowly over to Eunhye, and bends forward to call her again, now realizing there were streaks of dried tear stains on her cheeks. Shin instinctively rubs her cheek and feels even more remorseful for making his angel cry.
“Eunhye ah… Eunhye…~ Angel… wake up… time for dinner…” Shin speaks softly into Eunhye’s ears.
“Oh, Shin-goon…what’s the time now?” Eunhye peels her eyes open and forces herself to sit up on her bed.
“Its almost 7..” Shin tells Eunhye.
“Gosh, I should go and prepare dinner now!” having said so, Eunhye makes an effort to get out of bed.
“Eunhye ah… I’m so sorry…”
“Sorry about what?” Eunhye seems to have forgotten the little bickering that took place earlier.
“Sorry for being a fool, sorry for raising my voice at you, sorry for making you cry…” Shin cups Eunhye’s face and continues to explain, “I’m probably conservative like an old man, its not that I didn’t want you to look pretty and sexy… if it makes you happy, I shouldn’t stop you… but I… its just that I don’t want the idea of other guys hitting on you, you’re my angel and mine alone… I know it’s a little selfish of me, no! It’s very selfish of me to be thinking like that… its….. its just… I’m… just… please… Please forgive me?” Shin pleads with his eyes when he couldn’t find the right words to explain his actions.
“You’re such a fool! I’m not even half as gorgeous, only a fool like you would fall for me,” Eunhye smiles and pinches Shin’s nose, “and…. I have already given you my heart,” Eunhye takes hold of Shin’s hand and place it on the left side of her chest, “can you feel that it’s only beating for you?”
Feeling a sudden sensation flowing through his blood, Shin instantly removes his hand and pulls Eunhye in for a hug.
“You… have… forgiven me then?” Shin pulls away and flash his boyish smile like a little boy culprit who admits to stealing cookies from the jar.
Eunhye nods her head, and before she could mention cooking dinner again, Shin pulls her out of bed and head downstairs hand in hand for the dinner he has prepared as an offer of apology.
The next morning, at Incheon airport.
“What time did the rest say they will come and meet us here?” Shin asks
“7.30am, our flight departs at 10.35am” Eunhye reports and looks at her wrist watch once more.
“Let’s check in now, they should be here any time. I’ll send them a text message.” Shin said, as he was about to type his text message, the phone vibrates with an in-coming call indication.
“Shin speaking, yes, hi Jun Kang!.”
“We are stuck in early morning traffic here, CT told us to pick up some documents & kits from the office before we leave and now, Pong Ky, Minie, Kihyun and Moke and myself are stuck in this jam. I think we need to have our tickets changed. You and Eunhye go ahead to Bali first alright? There will be airport pickup by The Bale resort. Bale spells B-A-L-E. We’ll try to fly over as soon as possible. Call me once you had checked in. Don’t forget to claim your international roaming phone at the rental booth. Alright, see you soon!”
Shin hangs up the call in disbelief and threw his hands in mid-air and looks at Eunhye.
“Why? Is anything wrong?” Eunhye tucks at Shin’s jacket sleeve.
“Unfortunately, they got stuck in a traffic jam, Jun Kang said they had to pick up some documents and permits from the office before they come, well, CT told them to… and now they can’t reach in time. He just told me that we should proceed as planned and they will come as soon as they could get themselves on the next available flight.”
“How unexpected… so it’s only you and me?” Eunhye looks cheekily into Shin’s eyes as Shin tries to mask his uneasiness.
Shin crosses his arms over his chest, and playfully said “What do you want from me?! No!!” and runs out of Eunhye’s reach.
Eunhye runs after Shin, she didn’t see a tall blonde guy crossing her path and gets knocked down by him. The foreigner immediately bends down and helps Eunhye to her feet.
Shin turns around and saw Eunhye on her knees, trying to get up with the help of a golden-haired young man.
“Please pardon me, I hope you are alright.” the foreigner with water blue eyes and lucent lips says and he dusts the dirt off the knees of her jeans.
“I’m fine, it’s ok.” Eunhye replies, and couldn’t help staring at the blueness in his eyes.
“Eunhye, what’d happened?” Shin came around and gives Eunhye a hand.
“I’m sorry for knocking down your friend.” the foreigner apologies.
“Girlfriend.” Shin corrects him, “no, its our fault, we were playing with each other, and she was trying to catch hold of me.”
“Ah, it’s cool, no worries.” the foreigner bows slightly and go on his way to the check-in counter.
“Are you hurt?” Shin looks back at Eunhye and asks caringly.
“No, no.. I’m fine.” Eunhye smiles back.
“You…. Look besotted. With him.” Shin pouts.
“Since when?! Oh well… just a little” Eunhye pouts with her confession.
And Shin walks off without answering Eunhye.
At the check-in counter.
“Shin-goon.” Eunhye pokes at Shin’s back.
“Shin-goon.” Eunhye repeats and pokes harder. Still no response from Shin.
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All that I need
I'm sorry that I hurt you
I took for granted all you gave so freely to me
I prayed it's not too late
To save you from a broken heart
To promise you I'll make a brand new start
Believe me when i say
You are all that I need
The only treasure I see
You're the air that helps me breathe
through the darkest night
When I fall down on my knees
I was blind but now I see
You are all that I need
When no one far from perfect
Like a child that needs a guiding hand
Can you stay here with me
I finally understand
You've always been the missing part
Complete the jigsaw puzzle of my heart
Please hear me when i say
You are all that I need
The only treasure I see
You're the air that helps me breathe
through the darkest night
When I fall down on my knees
I was blind but now I see
You are all that I need
Please let me hear your voice again
Let me hear you say your love will never end
That whatever it takes you'll be there
When I say
You are all that I need
The only treasure I see
You're the air that helps me breathe
through the darkest night
When I fall down on my knees
I was blind but now I see
You are all that I need
You are all that I need...
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