A/N:

The OSTs are coming!! Tehehee....

Well actually I just learned how to embed a video into the FF, I had fun trying to find a perfect song for particular part.

I notice that in Kdrama, OST plays important role in elevating the emotion of the drama. So I wanted to try it out here.

The trick is to play the video when it appears until the end of the scene (---o0o---)

Hopefully this could make the reader's experience better.

Happy Reading!

 

Last chapters recap:

Park Shin Hye was the runaway heiress of Star Media group and the nurtured Director of Femme magazine. For some reasons she avoided the responsibility to revive the falling woman magazine but disguised herself as a nerdy trainee in it. She met Jung Yong Hwa who was supposedly her secretary should she ever took the position. His bestfriend was Jung Il Woo, Kang Min Hyuk and Yoo Seung Ho. All worked in Femme in different Department. During her trainee days she met Min Hyo Rin the Fashion Editor, Park Shi Hoo her cousin and the creative director, Lee Kwang Soo the senior in printing department. She got bullied during her days in fashion department and almost got killed during an assignment for Printing Department. Il Woo challenged Yong Hwa to change Shin Hye's avatar - Park In Ha - and took her to the upcoming anniversary party. Yong Hwa finally able to get close and befriended with the shy trainee, but he found out that she was not a trainee after all rather she might be his long lost boss.

---o0o---

Jung Yong Hwa walked hurriedly on the 16th floor of Star Media Group building, he opened one of the meeting room located on that floor, the largest one. He made several calls through the land line, and was satisfied by the time he finished his call. He the projector and the computer, slid a flashdisk into the CPU and searched for a particular file and clicked it. He dimmed the lights a little bit and closed the window shield so the screen stood out even more. He glanced at his watch, happy that he was ahead of schedule, as always. He opened both doors of the conference room and waited in the hallway.

He heard the ding sound of the elevator which was only at the end of the hallway, he turned to that direction, fixed his shirt-sleeve under his suit and smiled welcomingly. Jung Il Woo strutted from the elevator followed by several girls and a plumped man in his 40s, he smiled warmly to his bestfriend.

"Looking good, Secretary Jung!" Il Woo half praised-half mocked his bestfriend, "Do I get my usual coffee?" he asked while walking inside the conference room.

Yong Hwa smiled knowingly, "Will be here in 5 minutes!" he saw Il Woo gave out his thumb without looking back. 

The delivery boy from the coffee shop in the next building came not long after, he put the coffee cups that Yong Hwa had ordered on a cabinet at one end of the room. He immediately left the room after he finished arranging the snacks.

When the elevator let out another sound, Yong Hwa was a bit alarmed, he sighed in relieve when he saw Min Hyo Rin stepped out of it. It was the Fashion Department people moving in drove. He raised his eyebrows to the leader, but she just stared at him expressionless and turned right to enter the room. Yong Hwa smirked, it was the warmest a person could get from the Editor.

Most of the people worked for Femme magazine was there, he just had to wait for one more department before he could call in the head of the meeting. He heard the elevator rang again and saw Kang Min Hyuk sillhouette, he jerked and immediately fidgeting. 

Kang Min Hyuk went inside the room and saw Il Woo waved at him, he walked towards the HR assistant manager and sat beside him. "Where's Yong Hwa Hyung?" He asked.

Il Woo frowned quizically, "Didn't you see him outside the door? He always acted like an usher on every townhall meeting!" he stretched his neck trying to look at the door.

"Now THAT is a rare sight!" Min Hyuk pointed at the plump man who sat accross the table.

"It's the townhall, of course HR manager should be here." Il Woo mocked his boss. He saw In Ha went in through the door. "So she's with your department, now?" Il Woo asked.

"Yeah!" Min Hyuk cleared his throat nervously, Il Woo picked that up but did not say anything.

"How is she? Good, yeah!" Il Woo asked, Min Hyuk shrugged and nodded. "Does Yong Hwa come to your department often?" he smirked teasingly.

Min Hyuk shook his head, "No, strange right? She's been in my department for almost a week but he had not appeared once. Not that I'm aware of. I don't think he's serious about the bet, Hyung!" Min Hyuk said.

Il Woo frowned skeptically, "Gurae?" he mumbled, he still could not figure out Yong Hwa's whereabout.

The said secretary's head popped out from the meeting room accross the hallway, he sighed in relieve when the hallway was empty again. He chuckled sarcastically, mocking his own pathetic behaviour. He instinctively went into hiding once he found out that the Finance pack was coming for the townhall. He did not think he could face her, the maknae of Finance Department.

He had been avoiding her the whole week, since he found out that the trainee was actually his boss. The one he talked bad about, in her face. He was too ashamed to even face her. Not to mention the last quarrel they had when he immaturely called her names. He thought his future in Femme was bleak and beyond rescue. With a heavy sigh, he took out his phone, called the Creative Director Park to report that the townhall meeting was ready and went inside the room.

He purposedly looked straight and sat on the first chair in the corner of the big table, however he could see with the corner of his eyes that the girl who he had been avoiding was sitting on the back. He was a bit dissapointed that she sat behind another person, so it was not easy to stole glances at the girl. When Creative Director Park walked in, he his ipad and took out his stylus. His job was to make the minutes of meeting of the townhall.

Creative Director Park Shi Hoo clicked the mouse and made the slide on the screen change, it was now showing the topic that they were going to announce or discuss with the whole employee.

"Good afternoon everybody. Thank you for taking your time to join our townhall. Good job for Secretary Jung for arranging the meeting." Yong Hwa rolled his eyes towards his bestfriends who sat accross the table, the two young men suppressed their smile so hard, they looked like a couple of squirells. "We have several things to go through, so let's start with the first topic." Shi Hoo continued, he stopped talking when he saw editor Min raised her hand.

"If I may, can I have time at the end of the meeting to announced something?" she asked.

"Sure, I don't see why not." He answered. "First up is the new year fashion show, it's an annual event so I'm sure everybody is aware of it. The last one was a success, I'm sure we will be able to repeat it. I'll be directly supervising it. Please look forward for when I contacted the selected personnel to be the committee. Should not be a lot of people since we are going to get an event organizer for it." he explained speedily.

"Why do we get an event organizer, when our revenue is not doing well? Shouldn't we be cutting cost?" Min Hyuk whispered to Il Woo.

"Don't let Yong Hwa heard you, he'll throw an inauguration party to celebrate you joining Park Shi Hoo anti-fans club." Il Woo joked, they both silently laughed.

"Next is our anniversary party. I'm really sorry, I was too focus with the launch date every month. I just remembered about it yesterday. The event is just a month away and we don't have any committee yet." he looked at the attendees. "But! It's an internal event so we don't have to make it big or anything." he added.

"Jjogi! It's 25th anniversary, Creative Director Park." Yong Hwa belatedly noticed that both of his friends were shaking their heads to prevent him from talking. "I think it's only appropriate to make it a bit fancy. For our employee." he might as well dived into the water, when he was already wet. Shin Hye looked at him, impressed by his thoughts.

"That's a good thought, Secretary Jung. Unfortunately we don't have excessive budget to party like that." Shi Hoo stared at him firmly, a sign that he did not like to be debated. Shin Hye looked at both men curiously.

"You're right, Sir." Yong Hwa said, Shi Hoo was satisfied with his answer as he thought Yong Hwa was giving up. Shin Hye looked down, a bit dissapointed. "But I think the employees deserved it. They've been working hard this past year despite of the result, so it's only deserving that we make a memorable party for them." he said with a straight face.

There were different expressions happened in that very room, Il Woo and Min Hyuk facepalmed and shook their heads, Shi Hoo gritted his teeth, Editor Min sighed heavily, but Shin Hye smiled. She was actually proud by his boldness.

"Is that so? Then I have a great idea, why don't you be the Person in Charge for the party. Let's see how extravagant the party you can arranged with the limited budget. And I would like to underline, not to ask for more budget. Is that clear?!" Shi Hoo wished he could plug the guy's mouth with a croissant.

"I... uh!" Yong Hwa cursed his big mouth. Having an extra task was not in his mind when he spoke up. He looked at Il Woo who was holding his laughter with all his might. He shrugged and gave Yong Hwa silent encouragement. "Okay, Sir."

Il Woo pinched Min Hyuk's thigh to stop himself from laughing. Min Hyuk silently cried in pain. Shin Hye silently gigled when she saw Yong Hwa's defeated face.

They discussed several other issues including an event that was held by the South Korean printing media association. The conference will be held in Jeju Island in a few weeks. Usually Chairman Park and a few others would be assign to attend, Park Shi Hoo offered that chance to Yong Hwa but he declined since he still had to arrange the anniversary party, the spot was left empty so that people could directly register. Once again the task was given to Secretary Jung.

"I just want to inform everybody about our photo shoot for next month edition." Min Hyo Rin stood up once Shi Hoo gave her the chance as promised. "As you know we are in autumn now and our theme will be "Contrast", so the concept is to wear high fashion in an unusual time and place." She put another flashdisk into the CPU and opened the picture folder. "My assistant Miss Hye Rin went for location scout and found the perfect place." She clicked one of the picture.

Yong Hwa stared at the screen, indifferent at first but the pictures on the screen looked oddly familiar. The first few pictures showed row of trees that were still green with slight of orange and yellow. There was a pathway in the middle of the trees, which was so familiar; Yong Hwa knew that it was a very famous spot.

The next few pictures were the little french village, Yong Hwa remembered the place from his stalker days. The next few pictures looked like from a high place, mountain of rocks that shadowed the city of Seoul; and a pathway on the edge of the forest. The forest was already yellowish, perfectly captured the autumn feel. He saw a familiar face on that picture, a girl that he met a few days ago. Suddenly it dawned on him who that girl was. It was the girl that lived in In Ha's building. Why was she in the picture? Was it a mere coincidence?

"That !!!" he shouted.

Everyone in the room jolted and looked at him. He instantly froze, belatedly realized that he just cursed out loud. He immediately turned to look at In Ha. She too was looking at him. She had sour expression on her face, but she shook her head slightly intended only for him to see. Yong Hwa turned to the other attendees and grinned to cover his embarassment.

"Sorry, I was checking my facebook." he did not know what else to say. Once the attendees turned their attention back to the screen, he glared to the direction of Editor Min's assistant who had a proud expression on her face.

"Beautiful, right!?" Editor Min closed her presentation, "After a discussion with the team, we decided that we are going to Bukhansan for the photoshoot. Good job, Hye Rin-shi!" She added, a slight smile appeared in her lips. The attendees applauded the assistant except for Yong Hwa, he just stared at her resentfully.

By the time Yong Hwa finished cleaning up the conference room, In Ha was already gone. He walked back to his office feeling dejected, dissapointed in himself for not speaking up for her; but he was still too embarassed to interact with her since he thought he might not be able to face her ever again. He tried to concentrate to his work, but her sour expression kept appearing on his mind.

"Aish! She must be so dissapointed, I wonder how she is right now." he talked to himself. "Aniya! She's strong... she could handle it. Stay out of it Yong Hwa, stay away from her" he tried to convince himself and back to review a document on his screen. Minutes later he threw the mouse, depressed by his own feeling. "Ya! I'm not the one whose work had been stolen, but I felt like slapping that girl!" He eventually decided to get a coffee in the pantry, however he felt the need to bring the paper bag there.

His eyes scrambled along the way to the pantry, hoping to catch a glimpse of her. It turned out that he did not have to, because the girl he had been searching was sitting on one of the highchair in the pantry, her back against him. His heart went weak, he hated the sight of that girl when she was down and gloomy. At that moment all the embarassment he had just a few minutes ago dissappear, all he wanted to do was to cheer her up and brought the lively In Ha, no... lively Shin Hye back.

He poured a cup of coffee and sat in front of her, she looked at him sullenly. They stared at each other in silence as if  talking telepathically. He knew that she was sad, she knew that he was mad of the injustice. He could see tears on the brim of her eyes. As he did not want those tears to fall, he pushed her forehead slightly with his index finger several times.

"Pabo! Pabo! Pabo!" Yong Hwa said. She took in all the fake-insult like a sponge. "Those pictures are yours, aren't they?"

"How did you know?" She was curious but not enough to change her gloom expression.

Yong Hwa glared sideways, remembering that he was not supposed to know her friend. "I have my ways... Are you going to be quiet about it?" he asked, he did not want to make a fuss about it without her consent.

"Just let it be, I don't have energy to fight." The only way she could prove that the pictures were hers was by involving Ye Jin, which was the last thing she wanted to do. She heaved a deep sigh, her eyes started watering again. "Waahh!! This business is ruthless!" she hung her head, he heard her sniff.

Yong Hwa looked at her sympathetically, he felt a lump in his heart. He cleared his throat and repeatedly stared at the ceiling to hold back his own tears. He wondered why he was being too emotional about it. He took the paper bag from the floor and hastily put it in front of her. She looked up, studied the paper bag and looked at him puzzled.

"For you!" he said trying to look detached, yet he hoped that she would like the gift. 

Shin Hye took out the pink sweater and a slight smile slowly formed in her lips. She looked at him in gratitude, he felt his heart pounded harder than usual.

"Ya! If you don't want it, just throw it away. Don't give it back to me like last time... there's no way I'm wearing that... fuzzy... pinkish... thing!" he said, acting like it was the most disgusting thing ever.

Shin Hye chuckled, she put the sweater on. "Aniyo! I love it, Gomawo Yong-A!" she felt a little lighter.

Yong Hwa grinned ear-to-ear by her response, but suddenly frowned. "Aaah! Biyan!" he looked like he was in mourning.

"What's wrong?" she asked in concern.

"It's nowhere near your old sweater... it's not ugly enough." he teased. Shin Hye slack-jawed but laugh nonetheless, she pinched his left arm hard. 

"Aargh!! Arasso! Arasso! Gosh! Did you go to Pinch University or someting? What a talent!?" He exclaimed while rubbing the pinch-spot. Shin Hye giggled cutely because of the protest. "Gurae, Director Park! Laugh like that, like you always do. Pinch me whenever, if that means you can strengthen yourself. Allow me to be by yourside like this, I'll protect your secret as long as you want."

And as he watched her telling her theory about how the assistant got the picture, he smiled nervously knowing that he was on the edge of trouble.

Yong Hwa closed the door of his office, sat on his desk. He thought for a moment and opened the top drawer of his desk. It was a rare chance that he lock his drawer, but this time he thought it was critical to do so. He took out an envelope, the one that contain her secret. He contemplated for awhile and decided to take it home with him and burned them.

---o0o---

Now that he knew that she was not just another trainee in the company, Yong Hwa saw Shin Hye in a new perspective. In the back of his mind, he always knew that there was more to her than just a shy and timid late comer but he would never have guessed that she would be the number one person in his office, the missing girl that gave most people there a headache.

He regretted voicing out his opinion about her prematurely, which he now understood why she reacted way too emotionally at that time. He did consider to distance himself from her but in the end he decided to find out why she disguise herself, why she reluctant to assume the position and if possible convinced her to take the position anyway. He was determined to protect her and keep her secret for as long as she needed.

"Because I'm her secretary!" he said to himself, "Yeah! That's my only reason." he convinced himself that every hour.

Which was why, she was on his mind when he was planning for the anniversary party. He wanted to show her how good the company was. Though sadly not in terms of sales, but Femme was a dignified company that valued its employees, ran it's business in the highest integrity with utmost creativity and sincerity. Hopefully after seeing all that, she would willingly return and took the responsibility.

But 'how' was the question. How should he show it to her? What kind of party would make her see all that? Forget that! There was other thing he should be worried more. Would she ever go to that party? Why would an heiress in hiding come to a party that will be attended by the very person she was hiding from, her grandfather. Making her to come to the party would be a bigger challenge than anything.

Yong Hwa rubbed his face in frustration, he cursed his big mouth again for putting himself into this mess; but then again maybe he could turn this into an opportunity. Forget about the bet, he was determined to make her come to the party for a much bigger reason. He contemplated for awhile and had an idea. He lit up and instantly got up from his seat and made for Finance.

Shin Hye was sitting in front of a small round table that usually used by people in Finance to have a discussion. Kang Min Hyuk was with her as he was her supervisor during her days in Finance, he was teaching her the basic of magazine business in terms of finance.

"So there you go, Noona. Basically the end goal is the stock price. Because it shows how the public viewed us and determined our value as company." he pointed a chart shown on her laptop to end his lecture for the day. "The stock price is determined by a lot of things, sales, company decision, even scandal." he looked at her intently "An uncertain condition like what we have now could also cause the fall of the stock price." he carefully added.

Shin Hye squinted her eyes. "Uncertainty?" she asked, she caught a strange vibe from her team leader.

"Not having a definite leader for more than 7 years..?" he answered. Shin Hye was taken aback, she immediately lowered her eyes hoping that he would not notice anything. He smiled knowingly, "Let's just hope we have one soon..." he said softly. "Arasso Noona, it's almost four. I think we can end the session today."

Shin Hye let out a sigh and smiled, "Thank you Team Leader Kang, you're great teacher. You're a very multi talented man!" she sincerely praised him. 

"What are you talking about Noona, I'm a geek!" he chuckled shyly, "Geunde! You're okay with me calling you Noona, right?" He did not want to overstep his limit.

Shin Hye chuckled, "You've been calling me Noona since forever, you decided to ask me that, now??" she teased. "Gwenchanayo, Team Leader Kang." she gave a deep bow.

Min Hyuk held his nape shyly, "Just call me Min Hyuk, Noona."

Shin Hye widened her eyes, "Bichoso?! We're in the office." they laughed at his foolishness.

"Min Hyuk-a!" They heard Yong Hwa's voice from behind.

Min Hyuk gaped at the sight of him, he smiled mischievously. "I was wondering when you'd come. I guess I just lost a bet with Il Woo hyung." 

"Busunsuriya?" he walked towards them,

"Ani... Park In Ha-si has been in our department for more than a week but I have never seen you lurked around..." Yong Hwa widened his eyes in terror and immediately put his hand on Min Hyuk's mouth. He could not believe that his dongsaeng would blurted out like that.

"Wae? Wae? What about me?" Shin Hye giggled at the two friends behaviour.

"Yong Hwa Hyung is....! He li... you...!" Min Hyuk did not show any sign of giving up, so Yong Hwa put him on a headlock.

"You were saying??" he threatened the maknae.

"Nothing... I didn't say anything, my tongue just got a !" he joked from below Yong Hwa's armpit.

"Ya! Ya! Ya! What are you doing to a team leader?" Shin Hye joked. Min Hyuk pushed Yong Hwa away when he got distracted. Yong Hwa silently threatened him.

"Are you guys done?" Yong Hwa asked, the other two nodded their heads, "I need to borrow her for a moment, can I?" he asked to Min Hyuk. Shin Hye looked at him in confusion.

Min Hyuk stretched both of his arms, "All yours..." he said with a tune, Yong Hwa put his hands on her shoulder from the back and pushed her. "In fact you can have her for the rest of your l..."

"Jugulle!!??" He cut his friend off, the guy bursted out laughing.

Yong Hwa took Shin Hye to the pantry, he sat her on one of the high chair. She was still looking at him, not knowing his intention. He took out two cans of orange juice and gave one to her. 

"Help me out! I need to plan for the anniversary party. I'm stuck..." he threw a bait

Shin Hye giggled softly, the kind that could make him loose focus, "Why did you agree to it, anyway? Don't you have enough work to do?"

"No I don't. I'm a robot!" He joked sarcastically, "How can I say no to that old..." Yong Hwa stopped mid sentence, "Careful Yong Hwa, he's her cousin! Watch your mouth." he thought.

But Shin Hye was expecting him to say it, so it was an anti- when he decided to hold it in. "Stuck up? Dictator? Which one is it this time?" She teased.

He wagged his hands, "Let's not talk about that. Come on! I'm desperately need for a concept here!" he demanded

"Why are you asking me?" she said defensively.

"I don't know, you're artsy, you're creative, you're new! Yes... what kind of party that a trainee like you would want to attend?" he tried another approach, he wanted to threw a party to her liking so she would willingly come to it.

"Something fancy... the one that we could only seen in TV. The one that celebrities attend to. Not a lot of us could experience that in a life time." she was putting her peasant cap.

"And a party where she could come without revealing herself to the world." he thought, "Costume party? It is in October..." he guessed.

Shin Hye scrunched her nose, "I thought you were an anti-mainstream kind of guy? Besides are you sure you want Batman, Playboy Bunny, or Frankenstein in a silver anniversary party?" she smirked imagining that kind of party.

"What about the kind of party that the riches like to have, where they dressed up, wears mask and be cultural for two hours?" the last part was an unnecessary additional sarcasm.

"You mean like masquarade party? That's a great idea...." she exclaimed.

"Gurae? Would you come to that kind of party?" he was hopeful.

"Meh! Why not?" She shrugged.

"Okaay... What about a "Black and White Masquerade Party"? he held out his palm on every word as if reading it on a billboard. Shin Hye widened her eyes and nodded excitedly. Yong Hwa put his hand together and rubbed it. "Wah! You are such a Muse! I thought hard about it for two whole hours, but you triggered it in merely 10 minutes!" He said astonished.

Shin Hye squinted her eyes suspiciously, "Are you in your pick up artist mode?" she smiled teasingly.

"Why? Is it working to you?" he was not one to loose in a quip battle. Shin Hye smirked in disgust, she stuck her tongue out. Yong Hwa chuckled, "Okay, next! Venue... I wanted to be somewhere fancy but not..." he struggle to find words

"Mainstream?" she tried to complete his sentence.

He snapped fingers, "Exactly! Somewhere unique, romantic and classy." he said.

Shin Hye squinted her eyes, it apparent that her brain was in full operation. She opened her laptop and typed on her keyboard. Her eyes moved from one point to another on her screen. Yong Hwa stared at her, he loved seeing her when she was focused and determined like that. 

"What about a museum?" she said without leaving her sight of the screen.

Yong Hwa frowned, "What kind of museum?"

"Seoul Museum of Art!" Shin Hye clicked something on the screen and turned her laptop so that it faced Yong Hwa. She looked at him expectantly.

Yong Hwa looked at the picture, he lit up spontaneously. A wide smile slowly formed on his face, he looked at her in awe. Shin Hye liked how apparent his gratitude was, she felt like she just saved a country; making her smiled proudly.

Yong Hwa suddenly held both of her cheeks excitedly. "Genius! You're a total genius!" Shin Hye froze by his sudden act of skinship. "Gomawo, In Ha-ya! I'll take it from here." He left her in the pantry still with a vacant look. She clutched her heart, wondering why it beat faster than usual.

---o0o---

Park Hyung Sik opened his eyes, he immediately saw the white ceiling of his New Jersey apartment. He reached for his phone and saw that it was still 5 in the morning. Strangely, he was wide awake and no matter how many times he tried to settle back to slumberland, he couldn't. Eventually he got up from the bed, went to the kitchen that was just five steps from his bed. He poured a glass of water and took it to his desk, opened his laptop and browsed through his emails. That only took five minutes, since he just checked them five hours ago.

He groaned for not being able to sleep and reached for the mouse again, he browsed his favorite websites hoping that he would get sleepy in time. When that did not work either, he opened one of his favorite blog. He was always amazed how she could be that adventurous, much more than he was as a guy. But people did use to say that she resembled their dad so much whereas he was his mother's copy; an odd way to pass down your genes to your children. 

He and Shin Hye were always closed, she was always the big sister who took care of him, cleaned up his mess and covered his mischief from their parents. So when his grandfather sent her to Paris, he felt so lonely. He hated his grand father for separating them. They would talk every night until eventually they made a pact that none of them would take the director's position without the other's consent.

While she took the more adventurous path, he chose to hide his straight A's report card and pretended to fool around in New York. Little did his grand father know, Hyung Sik graduated and had a degree in business and sociology. He wanted to learned about people since he would eventually lead a company that deals with human interest.

He saw Shin Hye's latest post as Aller, she was in Bukhansan the national park in Seoul that was perfect for hiking. He saw the published date and found it odd that it was weeks ago, she usually updated her blog pretty often. He wondered if she was too busy working that she neglected her blog. He glanced briefly at his watch and smiled mischievously, clicked Skype and immediately called his noona.

"Hyung Sik-a!!! Her crisp voice echoed to the entire room. "Aren't you supposed to be sleeping?" 

"O! I just got up but couldn't go back to sleep. I think miss you." he was being sincere

Shin Hye giggled in disbelief, "Hyung Sik-a!? Are you sick? Do you need money? I'm broke you know, I spent the last bit of my paycheck for teeny tiny TV."

Hyung Sik pouted at her mockery, then he realized that getting mushy was never his style. "So! You're apartment is livable now?"

"Yay!! Do you want to see?" she said cheerfully, Hyung Shik saw that she invited him to view her webcam.

He clicked on the invitation and immediately saw her face. He lit up instantly. "Waah! You've gotten much older just in the span of two months!" that was a lie. He thought she looked fresh and alive. "Did you not have fun at work?"

"Gurae? I thought I felt fine..." She looked at her own captured box on the screen. "No! Surprisingly, I enjoy working... there are some people who like to stab others and stole other people's hardwork. But there are also dedicated people that really do care about the company." She had Lee Kwang Soo, Kang Min Hyuk and of course her friend Yong Hwa in mind.

"Ya! Don't forget her name... fire her once you become the director." he said emotionally, he was furious when his sister told him about the incident.

"IF I become the director." She corrected, Hyung Sik had faith that she eventually would. "Ya! Do you want to see my pad..." she grabbed her laptop and encircled it so she could show her apartment to her baby brother.

"Waaa! It look great! Did you do all that yourself? Do you have money to hire a handyman?" he seriously liked the apartment, he wished he could visit her new home.

"Who do you think I am? Xena? I had a friend helped me." She said, she wondered why her stomach felt ticklish all of the sudden.

Hyung Sik frowned when he saw his sister captured pictures, "Why are you blushing?"

"Mwo!!?" She cried, she immediately looked at the slightly blurred image of her. "How the hell did he picked that up?" she thought.

"Was the friend, a guy? A boyfriend? Are you dating??" Hyung Sik exclaimed, he giggled... "Yaaa! Finally my sister grows up!" he laughed victoriously.

"Busunsuriya! We are not dating, he's actually my secretary." she felt her cheek was getting warmer.

"Oh! You mean the secretary that Haraboeji hired for a non-existing Director?" He rolled his eyes.

"Yeah! But he's actually good and he has a lot of interest in the company, so I guess Haraboeji still has a good eye on people." she grinned, "Why am I blushing? Shin Hye stop blushing!!" She mentally scolded herself.

"You like this guy, do you?" Hyung Sik smiled teasingly.

"What?!" She shrieked, she sounded like a banshee. "No way! You know I never liked a guy first... That's just not my style."

"Yeah! Yeah! You and that silly trauma of yours..." He rolled his eyes

"It's not a trauma, it's my defense mechanism!" she said defensively.

"Defense is something you do when you're being attacked. What you're doing is just being a coward." He said. "How did you meet him anyway?"

Shin Hye glanced sideways, "I don't know, he just kept appearing in front of me and somehow we just got close." Shin Hye never told him about the dog fight incident.

"Why are you lying?" he said suspiciously.

"I am... not...!" Shin Hye stuttered, "What is he? a ghost?" she thought.

"You glared sideways just now, it means you were thinking something creative to answer me." He preached, "And you always do that when you lie..." Not really a scientific theory after all.  

"I'm not lying, he helped me a few times and we just got closer." Now that she thought of it, Yong Hwa did appear a little too often. But she ignored the idea that all that was not a coincidence.

"He likes you, doesn't he?" he smiled mischievously and made a mental note to look up the guy.

"What are you talking about! He does NOT! He only think of me as friend. Don't go around making ridiculous assumption like that. That only break hearts" But the ticklish feeling in her stomach were stronger than ever.

"Why are you blushing?!!" He shouted.

"I'm turning the camera off!" she quipped

"Don't you dare!! Noona!!" But her captured box already went black. "You just made it too obvious, you know!! she did not reply. "Hello!? Are you sulking?" he frowned. "Noona!!!!!!" he screamed as loud as his landlord allowed.

"Hyung Sik-a, biyan! I have to go, someone is at the door?" she sounded nervous.

"Wait, did you just left me? You rude little big sister!!" he mocked. "Arasso, I think I'll jog instead." he hung up and went to the bed instead. He fell asleep instantly and ended up over sleeping throughout his morning class.

Shin Hye's heart beat fastly, without her consent. She went to check the door just now and found out that Yong Hwa was the one who knocked. She hurriedly finished up her phone call with her brother and put a cardigan over her black dress. She briefly checked her appearance - which was a surprise for her that she even bothered - before she opened the door for him. He was stunned to see her without glasses, and immediately glanced sideways so he would not be caught staring.

"What are you doing here?" She asked, she wished her heart would just calm down.

"Nothing, I just want to tell you how it went with the museum." he worked through out the afternoon to figure out how they can use the art museum as their venue for the party. And he instinctively walked to her building to share his progress. It was silly, but he felt that he needed to talk to her and updated her on that, "After all, it was her idea to use the museum." He said that repeatedly along the way to her apartment.

"Gurae?" She found it odd that he had to come all the way when he could just tell her in the morning, but she did not hate the idea of hanging out with him. "Wait on the ben