Bang YongGuk, 1st of October D-7 before the Jeju law seminar

« Jeju ? You have a week law seminar in Jeju, really ? » Sujin asked, surprise in her voice. I nodded and hugged her. We were cuddling in bed this night and I finally told her about my travel idea. Each year, my law firm organized a huge law seminar about various subjects, more or less catchy but they offered us a nice trip to Jeju, with spacious rooms in a luxurious hotel, meals offered for the week.  This year, I planned to bring Sujin, Moonah and Taeyang for the weekend.

« Yeah, it's a really nice island and we can do a lot of activities. I took Taeyang with me last year and she really loved the place, but this year I would like all of us to go. I've booked a nice room for the four of us in an hotel close to the sea and the flights tickets ... Do I have to cancel everything ?"

Sujin blinked slowly. I insisted. «Please, I really want to do that. For our soon be to one year anniversary ?"

She looked at me and I pouted the best I could, to soften her heart. She ended up sighing. I knew what bothered her here ; money. I made sure to pay everything so we wouldn't' fight about it. I just wanted to offer her nice things but judging her eyes, she didn't appreciate the gesture. Being spoiled wasn't her thing.

"Which hour is the flight ?» She slowly asked. I smiled and kissed her. I started to explain her the flights tickets I've taken, reassuring her that I'll be at the airport waiting for her on friday night.

Sujin listened to me in silence, looking at my computer screen  to read the online booking I just made.  She suddenly cleared . "Thanks for this awesome trip. It just sounds so cool to me !" She kissed gently my cheek and I couldn't help but grin.

« You're not too sad your first trip isn't to Bali ? »

She rolled her  eyes with a chuckle.  «Don't be silly. Jeju is also amazing. »

We walked into the bathroom to brush our teeths and I couldn't help but perform a happy dance for Sujin. She was laughing so beautifully that I coudln't help not looking anything else but her. Careless, I  ended up, hitting my knee against the shower tub glass. I finally whined  whined and Sujin came to my side. «YongGuk are you okay ? »

I hummed in response as she rolled up my pants to touch my knee and blow on it. "You'll probably have a bruise here." 

I shrugged and just went to rince my mouth. « Yes. You drive me insane. But it's not even scary, it's just nice to love you. I'm so excited. I go every year alone but now, you'll be with me.»

She blushed and kept brushing her teeths to hide her embarassement. In a teasing moode, I started to kiss her neck alterning lusty bites and innocents pecks. She gave out a whine and I set her free so she could rinse . «Yeah I feel like hearts don't break around you. » 

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Kim Sujin

I was taken aback. I was the one to usually make him blush. But tonight felt different. He looked extremely happy about this trip, like a five year old going to holidays and the fact that he was excited to go with me was just so touching. I couldn't help but blush. To hide my uneasiness, I started to wash my face with my foam cleanser and he kept fixing me. «Even with the foam, I can see you're blushing. »

I quickly rinced out the foam with water and wiped dry my skin. He grabbed my waist and hugged me. « What about sleeping a bit late tonight ? In five days, you'll have all you time to sleep to your leisure. »

I giggled at his siliness and he lifted me like a weight on his shoulder, knowing I can't be loud in protesting because of the kids sleeping. He dropped me on the bed and closed the door with care before removing his shirt. I laughed as he came to lie next to me. I rolled on him and kissed him, sweetly yet repeately. He seemed pleased by my kisses yet suddenly rolled over, not considering we were on the dge of the bed. I fall on the floor, himself falling on me. I groaned and he suddenly stood up. « Huh you're okay ? Not hurt anywhere ? »

I shook my head still laughing and soon Moonah came in our room. « I heard a loud noise. »

I sat up. « What happened mom ? » She asked, quite worried. I shrugged. YongGuk however didn't stay silent. « She fell off the bed, she's so clumsy. »

Moonah looked at me with judging eyes. « Mom be careful. I thought something alarming happened. »

I nodded and opened my arms so I can give her a goodnight hug. « You sprinted here without lights ? » As she nodded shyly I stood up. « Let me bring you back to your room. »

She grabbed my hand. And as we exited the room she suddenly remembered of something. « Goodnight YongGuk Uncle. » Recently, we talked about our kids talking to us, Taeyang called me Auntie while Moonah called YongGuk Uncle. They both felt comfortable with this and at school, it was easy for them to talk about us. At first it felt really weird for me to hear Moonah call YongGuk "uncle". She had no uncle whatsover : I have a sister, and Kang Joon is a single child.

He smiled. « Goodnight Moony. »

« Moonah. » She corrected.

« Moonyyyy. »

She laughed and ended up pouting. I lead her to her room and helped her to get back next to Taeyang, who had the deepest sleep I ever witnessed. I kissed the forehead of Moonah and  rearranged the blanket on their bodies and closed the door.

As I arrived back to my room, Yongguk nagged me playfully. «Sujin be more careful. »

I frowned and lied next to him. «Joke aside are you okay ? » He added.

I turned away to look at him. « Yeah. You're not heavy. Barely ten kilos  more than me. »

He frozed. «You think I'm skinny ? »

I smiled to him. «I think you can look a little bit healthier that's all. »

He pouted a bit. «Well, my psychoanalyst said the same. But I had trouble believing it. But if you said that ... »

I caressed his face gently before kissing him. I hovered him and he wrapped his hands around my waist bringing me even closer to him. He took the lead, giving me a powerful and dominant kiss. As he reached for my shirt, we froze as his phone ringed. He paused and took his phone. "My mom. I'll go downstairs, just start sleeping okay ?"

I nodded and looked at him sprint downstairs. I got into my drawing room and tried to clean up the mess I left earlier. I was ingrossed in the  organization of some drawings and reading some emails from work when YongGuk reappeared. "Sorry, Mom is chatty." I looked at the hour on my phone and gasped. They've been at it for one hour ! What could they be talking about all that time ? 

He sat on the edge of my chair. I cleared my throat. "Does she know ?"

"Yeah, I've told her about us a while ago. Why do you think she is so eager to call me ?"

"But it's the first time I see yuu talking with her ...." I blurted out. He smiled. "She usually calls me around noon or late afternoon on monday and friday. She's ... well organized."

I nodded and closed my notebook. "Let's go and sleep then."

"You're not finishing to clean up ? "

I shook my head. "YongGuk, this room is never fully organized and clean."

He laughed and as we came back to our room, ready to sleep.  As I hugged him in my arms he ended up his head against my chest. We were both wore out. To think I'll spend next week without him. Gosh. I suddenly sat up in the bed. YongGuk groaned. "What now ?"

"I don't think we should be sleeping right now." I stated. He looked at me sleepy and furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. For all answers; I sat on his lap and applied my lips on his.

*

Bang Yong Guk , 8th of October, Jeju Island

« YongGuk pay attention to the conference ! » Sujin sent me as a message. I've been texting her all day, annoying the out of her, as I was in the hotel seminar room, faking to takes notes of the commercial law specialist speaking. It was quite boring. I was distracted every time I received a message.

I typed a quick message for her. « Never. I like chatting with you more. »

She answered almost immediately. « I have a meeting. So I won't be answering for a while. Listen to the damn old bald guy for the sake of god. »

I pouted a bit and sent a last message to her. Himchan next to me sighed loudly. «Gosh did you become a teen once again ? Your uncle kept eyeing you with dark eyes. »

I sent a smile to my uncle and he sent me a warning eyes with a hidden smile, making me roll my eyes. Obviously, he knew. I changed too much those months to not raise curiosity. I perfectly know the school is gossiping about us, our neighborgs and even my workplace.  I got rid of my dark circles, I must admit sleeping with Sujin had helped me relax before sleep and by consequence, have a better sleep. I smiled way more, with silly eyes looking at my phone. Himchan sighed. «I have no trust in her. »

I shook my head at him getting worried for me.

« I thought you'd spend a night with her and that's it. Not asking her to live with you when you just met. »

I nodded. «I'm still thanksful for your advice Bro. »

He rolled his eyes while I giggled. Suddenly he looked at me with a soft smile. « Yet it's nice to find you back. You look glowy those days and happier. »

I smiled to him and as the speaker stopped to talk we stood up to clap. We ate the buffet and I sat next to YongMi and Uncle. The Bang family was not complete. Usually, Mom and dad come but this year with their cruise around the world we offered them, they were busy visiting the greek island of Rhodos.

I was checking my phone thought the day and I realized Sujin was serious. No messages from her.

As the day kept going, still no message from her. Yet I was waiting for her call with giddiness. Himchan was in my room, hating to be left alone. I was in pyjamas on the veranda when I received a call from home. « Oh, Dad, are you having fun in Jeju ? »

I felt pumped up to hear my daughter and nodded. «It's beautiful. Al always, remember last time you came here for summer time ? »

« Yeah it was so nice !!!! » As we chitchatted for long minutes, suddenly I realized something : « Where is Sujin Auntie ? »

« She's doing the dishes in the kitchen but she dialed the number for me after we finsihed eating. » Taeyang explained to me.

I nodded and soon heard giggles. « Moonah stop tickling me. »

I chuckled as I heard her precious laugh over the phone.

«Moonah let Taeyang talk with her dad, would you ? » I heard from Sujin. Soon, Taeyang came back, voice still trembling with laughters. «Sorry dad, Moonah has been tickling me. »

I told her about my day and as always she listened with attention. She had details over the table fourniture, the neck tie of the first man speaking or the weird voice of the other, the description of the delicious meals we had here. She was laughing over the phone. I listened to her talk about her day at school with a sleepy voice. «Taeyang, you sound tired, go and brush your teeths then, time to sleep, okay ? »

We took a good five minutes to bid goodbyes to each others. Soon, she left for real and and I waited for long seconds. Should I just end the call ?

« Hello ? » Sujin suddenly said on the other side of the line.

«Meanie. You stopped to send me messages. »I nagged her.

I knew exactly her expression right now. She would blink a few times and readjust her glasses. « I dislike being interrupted while  drawing. Really it just disturb all your concentration and imagination. I'm not the type of girls that texts all day either. Sorry. »

« That's frank. But it's okay I understand. » I simply said.

She laughed nervously. « But it feels really weird being here in your house when you're not there. »

I knew it remembered her of the time I was hospitalized. I decided to lighten up the atmosphere with some tease. «You must feel lonely in that huge bed ? »

« Huh ? » She laughed and I was confused. « We slept all together yesterday night. Moonah sleeps spooned against my back, and Taeyang against my chest. It's not lonely at all. Sorry, buddy. Ah don't leave I'm coming back. »

I smiled hearing that. As she talked to the girls from a minute, I came back inside the room to get a glass of water. Himchan gave me a dark look. I mouthed 'sorry' to him and he kept on watching tv. 

« Still there ? » I heard.

« Yeah. »

«Sorry the girls are exhausted and I just put them to sleep. I'm drawing in my art room. Keep talking I'm listening. »

I looked at  the stars and sighed. « It's really nice. I can't wait for the week to end and go pick you up at the airport. You have to pack your art stuff because you'll want to draw a lot of landscape. »

« Oh my parents got their honeymoon there. On the photos it looks like a marvellous island. »

I sat comfortably on the chair and told her my day. She was a nice listener. As some time was spent, she yawned and I looked at the hour. « Gosh it's already midnight !! »

« I think I need to go to sleep. Goodnight Love. » Sujin said with a sleepy voice.

I froze as she called me like that. It was the first time. I felt really good. « Goodnight love. »

I came back into the room, finding Kim Himchan with a face mask watching TV. « Bang Yong Guk I never knew you were this chatty before. »

I shrugged. «Maybe I am. »

Sitting next to him, he handed me a glass of wine. « I'm really suspicious of her. She jus entered your life like this. She might be a gold digger. Check your account. You should do that. »

He landed me his laptop and I gave him an angry stare. «She's not. Stop that it's not because Hana was a bad folk that every woman is the devil on earth. »

Himchan removed his facemask. «Sometimes I miss her, I miss my bestfriend Hana. »

I would like to say that Himchan and I are close. But the truth is darker than that. We grew apart after Hana divorced me and whenever we would try to meet, the absence of Hana was like an elephant in the room. Thought the years, we stayed close co workers.

I patted his shoulder. «Why don't you go see her ? She might love to meet you. »

He shook his head. « No she betrayed us. She lied to our face. I would never do that to you. She left her new born baby. You were litterally the perfect couple. »

I laughed at this assumption. Even our close friend Himchan wouldn't get the flaws of our couple. «Hana was not perfect. She was angry, depressive and capricious. We spent a horrible honeymoon when she was the one to choose Bali. She was a devil on earth while pregnant. Now I'm just starting to realize how abusive she was Himchan. »

«Gosh you both hided everything so well. » Himchan said. We watched TV in silence. True, we hided everything so well. But I loved her so much that I had no desire to tell anyone she was behaving badly with me.

"And Sujin, how is she with you ?" He politely asked, eyes not bulging from the TV.

I smiled. « Sujin, she's all the contrary. She's so soft, kind and she loves when I eat a lot. She's just someone I really appreciate. She takes care of me and really pays attention to how much I eat, my sleep and work schedule. »

"I hope it stays this way." He said softly. I smiled and patted his shoulder. He left the room after this conversation. I guess he needed me to reassure him on that subject.

I went to sleep and had a short night of sleep. I woke up around 5 to work a bit on my files and around 7pm I went to eat breakfast with Himchan. As we were chatting with my sister, I grabbed my phone. I received a message. I looked longly at the photo I just received. Sujin smiling softly, Taeyang in her right arm and Moonah in her left one. They were still sleeping soundly, while Sujin was smiling brightly at the camera in the middle. She had a simple white tee on, her skin rested from the night looked plump and nice. She just woke up and wrote a simple legend. "I have to wake up those little monsters now. Have a good day, love."

"Why are you smiling so much ? Did you receive a ? I can't believe Sujin just did that !!!" YongMi shouted while stealing my phone. She looked at the photo and her expression changed. "Oh gosh they are so cute."

Himchan came closer to her and looked at the picture with curiosity. I never showed him any pictures of Sujin. She was my secret, kind of.

Himchan smiled. "She looks so young. But she's pretty."

"I though the same when I first met her. My wild guess  was that she was Moonah older sister."

YongMi nodded at this sentence. ""She's so babyfaced. Really. And she is so nice."

I took back my phone from my sister and replied to Sujin. Then I made this wonderful photo into my screenwallpaper.

What a good way to start the day.

Took me hundreds years to edit that. Sorry

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