Chapter 8: I like you

He is totally drunk. But that is not an excuse to be a total Jerk. Sulli took the glass of water by the table and splashed the water on Minho. Minho suddenly sat up from the shock.

“What did you do that for? You’re really gonna get it!” said Minho who got really angry

“You are drunk to the point of being crazy!” said Sulli

“Crazy? Wow, that might be right, I might be getting crazy…Can you blame me?” Minho Said “It’s not easy thinking of how to save a company like SkyRock. And it’s not easy thinking of how you can protect your Father’s reputation. Oh well, you’d never understand. You have a sheltered life with your uncle and FlyAir has always been a big company.” Said Minho

Sulli felt Minho’s problems and she knows he is going through a lot. The pressure might’ve been already too great to handle.

“I don’t think my Uncle will just sit there watching SkyRock to fall. Your Dad is his friend, he will make a way to help you for sure.” Said Sulli

“Oh…help us? By what? By asking me to marry you?” said Minho

Sulli still thinks Minho is talking nonsense.

“He will never do that.” Said Sulli

Minho got serious and stood up though he almost fell to the ground again.

“You really don’t know your Uncle huh?  Why don’t you talk to him? Ask him why he’s not signing the contract yet? Ask him what he wants in return for the contract? You’ll be surprised to know that you might end up married before this year ends.” Said Minho

Minho is serious. And that made Sulli’s head spin. Did her Uncle really ask Minho to marry her?!

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That night Sulli waited for her Uncle. These days they don’t normally get to eat dinner together because Sulli goes home a bit late. But now Sulli got home early and that’s because she has to settle things with Uncle Sam.

They ate dinner quietly. Though Sam asked how Sulli’s work was and what has she been doing, Sulli just answered with one line statements and quietly ate. Uncle Sam knows something is wrong.

When Sulli Did not go straight to her room after dinner and went to his office, Uncle Sam felt a storm coming.

“I’m an old man, so you have to be gentle with me whatever it is that you are going to say” said Uncle Sam when he entered his office.

“You are not that old, Uncle” said Sulli. He doesn’t like it that Uncle Sam already knows she’s agitated about something.

“So what is this about? Do I need to get a tranquilizer to calm my nerves?” asked Uncle Sam

“I think it’s me who needs a tranquilizer.” Said Sulli “Uncle, Did you ask Minho Oppa to marry me?” asked Sulli

Uncle Sam didn’t think news will reach his niece this early. He wanted to tell Sulli about it only after Minho gives him an answer. He is unprepared on what he will tell Sulli now that she learned it early.

“And what if I did?” asked Uncle Sam “Do you hate the idea?”

Of course Sulli doesn’t hate the idea. It actually makes her excited and giddy inside. She will be crazy with joy by now if only Minho showed the same excitement. But Minho is drunk and felt desperate for SkyRock, and she didn’t like that. 

“No…I don’t…But why did you come up with this? I mean why Minho Oppa? And why this early? I just graduated.” Said Sulli

“You and I both know why it has to be Minho. Although you never told me, I have known how you feel for him since you first met him 5 years ago.” Said Uncle Sam “Sometimes I feel it’s really hard that I know too much of your heart Sulli. In parties, I will always see you staring at him and trying to get closer to him. In the end, you’ll only get to say a ‘Hi’ or ‘Hello’ and then you will need to wait for the next party to get your chance again. It was hard for me seeing that.”

Sulli felt like something is stuck on . She felt like tears are soon going to fall and her heart is squeezing knowing that uncle Sam had known everything for a long time.

“And so when I saw an opportunity, I could not let it pass without trying.” Said Uncle Sam

Sulli sat on a chair. Her energy is draining.

“What if he doesn’t like the idea?” asked Sulli

“SkyRock is falling. Andrew is going to be blamed if that happens. Do you think Minho would say No when he has on his shoulders everything his Dad worked hard for?” asked Sam

“But Uncle, you are forcing him. I want him to like me naturally. And I don’t want SkyRock to fall. Minho Oppa has been working hard and barely sleeps.” Said Sulli

“I’ve talked to the biggest shareholders and members of the Board. I did my best to package the proposal as something that will give FlyAir long term benefit even if the short term benefit is not that big.” Said Sam “But they wanted an assurance that the relationship between FlyAir and SkyRock is really long term…My friendship with Andrew Choi is no longer enough as proof because of Andrew’s bad experience with his friend that caused the problem SkyRock is facing now…A marriage is inevitably the only solution. You will have to get married with him even if you never had feelings for him.” Said Uncle Sam

“Does he know? About how I feel for him?” asked Sulli

“Did you tell him?” asked Sam

“No…I can’t tell him…” said Sulli

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