Upon returning home, I headed upstairs and took a quick shower. I opened my wardrobe containing t-shirts, skirts, sweaters, and pants.

"Great." I muttered.

I had no formal wear at all and would you really blame me? I didn't grow up in a family that operated a high reputable business and that having gatherings were actually an normal regular thing. I bit my lip as I thought about what my plan B was and in the next second, a lightbulb lit up on my head.

I pulled out the boxes from the corner of my wardrobe containing clothes, Yu Ree's clothes, which my mother and father had thought would fit me. I crossed my fingers that Yu Ree's clothes contained a well formal dress for me to wear this evening because there was no plan C. As I took the garments out I couldn't help but to think about the cost of buying these well branded and well made clothes, just one piece of Yu Ree's clothing was probably worth more than 10 pieces of my normal clothes. 

As I continued to look through the boxes, I couldn't help but think about Yu Ree's sense of fashion, she seemed to really love dark colors seeing as the clothes colors were mainly black, maroon, navy, and some with a touch of white. And the designs were mostly floral, showing the feminine side to her.

I mentally thanked Yu Ree and my parents for this as I finally found what I could wear to the event, I got ahold of a knee length dress and inspected it by holding it up. The dress was mainly maroon with two straps and at the back of it was a medium sized ribbon tied into a cute bow. There was also a nice touch of black floral texture design on the overall dress making it stand out more.

I stood in front of the mirror admiring the dress. It was so beautiful and I couldn't help but to wonder if Yu Ree had ever worn this, because she past away relatively young and too soon. I bet she would've looked so beautiful wearing this dress and I couldn't believe she was the same age as me.

As I got dressed and stared at the mirror I thought more about what life would've been like if Yu Ree was alive and well. We would've been sisters and we would've probably walked to school together each morning. She would've showed me around on my first day of school and we probably would have been best friends.

Dae Jung, Minho and Kikwang would still have her in their lives and a lot of hearts wouldn't have been so shattered and damaged.

I would believe that Yu Ree would've changed everyone's lives if she was alive and healthy.

~~~

The drive to the destination took roughly 30minutes and I didn't know why but I was getting a bit nervous. I had never attended one of these gatherings before and by looking at the dress-code I knew there would probably be a lot of people there, business people.

"Miss, we are here" I hear the middle aged driver in a neat black suit say.

I thanked him as he opened the passenger door for me to step out and I just wanted to crawl away and hide. First I was already uncomfortable wearing this dress as I've never worn such a high priced dress, second I was going to attend a gathering which I had no clue on what I was going to do or meet, and third I was just a nervous wreck as I stood outside facing a large extravagant looking building.

There were people heading into the building and they were in formal wear as well, well at least I can blend in now. Feeling some of the weight had been lifted off my shoulders I began to make my way inside.

As I walked through the automatic glass doors I saw two more larger doors which were opened and guests were all making their way inside I assumed it was where the event was held at.

I made my way over to the door entrance and was about to head in but a figure stopped me by standing in front of me.

"Ma'am I'm sorry but I will need to see your I.D" I stared at this tall man in a black suit, who looked like was about to crush me if I didn't quickly do as he says. He was holding onto a clipboard and I assumed that was the guest name checklist.

I gulped and realized that I didn't have any I.D on myself. Crap.

"I don't have any I.D on myself at the moment," I answered.

"but I know my parents are in there so if I could just go get-" I tried to walk around him but he blocked my path.

"Ha. Nice try kid. Do you have any idea of how many times I've heard that one?" He cuts me off in a mockery manner.

"Please sir, I am telling the truth. My father is called Choi Dae Jung, he's the one in charge of this event" I try again, praying he would believe me. I was starting to think I shouldn't have come seeing as I can't even make it past the entrance.

"Young lady you are not Mr Choi's daughter. Mr Choi only has a son and if you continue to lie to me and not move out, I am going to have to do it myself" His tone of voice was stern and a chill ran up my spine causing me to take a step back.

"What's going on?" A voice spoke spoke behind me and I knew who it had belonged to.

Who stood next to me now was Minho.

"This young lady doesn't have I.D and expects me to allow her access." The man answered.

"She doesn't need it, she's my sister" I hear Minho say and I couldn't help but smile at his acknowledgement.

The man apologized to Minho and to myself before stepping aside to allow us inside.

"Thank you for that" I said as I followed him.

Minho looked back towards me and showed me a light smile.

"Honey you've made it. Oh my goodness you look so adorable." I hear my mother call out before rushing towards me and giving me a huge hug.

"Come follow me I will show you where to sit" I followed her and she took me to one of the many tables distributed around the extremely busy and large hall. I sat down and looked around, there was probably more than 100 people here and most of the guests were all standing, chattering and laughing away with one another.

As Minho and I sat down on one of the tables, I looked around to see if I could spot my father around.

"Are you hungry? Because dinner is going to be served a little late today so have some of the food that's available at the moment, they are located on the other side of the room- Oh I need to go now, more guests have just arrived" I watched as my busy mother took off to the entrance of the room where I just came from, she shook the hands of a middle aged couple and their younger son I presumed, seeing as he looked about the same age as me.

My stomach grumbled as I looked around the bright lit room some more, it was so elegant and well designed. And everything was just so nicely setup.

"So is this sort of gathering very common?" I asked Minho, who apparently was busy looking at his cellphone.

"Yeah. Happens every year." Minho answered without taking his eyes off his phone.

"I'm going to grab some food, do you want anything?" I asked, but Minho just shook his head and I was beginning to wonder what was so important that he can't even look me in the eyes when I'm talking to him.

As I made my way to the other side of the hall, I grabbed myself a empty plate and began to pile food onto it. Everything looked so good and it wasn't even the mains and I think I am about to drool if I don't make this quick.

"...I told you I am not going to drink that."

"Come on, just take a sip it won't hurt. Trust me"

"No"

"You won't even feel the difference with just one shot"

I turned my head to see who these voices had belonged to. I saw a female with three guys stood not far from where I was. The three guys were all enclosed on the female and I did not like what I was seeing. They all seemed relatively young and I predicted they were definitely still in highschool like myself. 

"I told you I am not doing it" I hear the girl say and I watched as she tried to slip past them.

"Stop chickening out and just drink it. You're really pissing me off" I hear the guy who was in front of her spit out in frustration before he pushed her back a little by the shoulders. I swore that something ticked off in myself, how dare he push her and force her to do something which she clearly did not want.

"YAH." I stormed over feeling my blood boil. My loud intrusion brought all 4 of them to look my way, and I wasn't one bit afraid at that moment.

I glared at the guy who was holding onto the champagne drink and was also the one whom pushed the girl. His hair was blond and he had sharp eyes whereas his other two mates had brown and black hair.

"Who the hell are you" I hear him ask with irritation shown through his voice.

"She said no, so take the hint" I spit out, before shoving him with a bit force causing him to move out of the way. The girl who seemed to be shakened up a bit looked at me for a second before quickly making her exit.

The guy in front of me was obviously in shock due to my actions, and I could tell his friends were the same seeing as they didn't say anything nor move.

I glared at them one more time before making my way back to my plate of food. To think they were about the same age as me, heck they may looked my age but their brains were probably of a middle schooler.

I made my way back to my seat with my food and noticed that Minho was no longer there. I was about to take a bite of one of the fruit pieces before I hear someone spoke next to me.

"Thank you." I looked up to see the girl whom I had, you could say I 'saved' earlier.

"You were so brave back there. I am Eunsoo" She sits where Minho had been sitting earlier and held out her hand.

"I'm Hara" I shook her hand and we both smiled.

Eunsoo had beautiful red wavy long locks and her smile was so pretty because her eyesmile complimented it more.

"Did you know those guys?" I asked.

Eunsoo's smile faded slowly "Yeah, they go to my school" she answered shortly.

I frowned, I felt so sorry for her. If they were like this to her, I don't want to imagine what it was like during school.

"Why don't you tell your parents, or someone you trust. Their behaviour is crazy" I stated.

"It isn't so easy. They wouldn't think its a big deal. And thankfully I am leaving school in a couple of days so it doesn't matter. But I am really grateful for your help earlier, I just wished that I was as strong mentally and physically as you" She mumbled the last part and I thought about what she said, was I really that strong? I was just so fired up earlier that I didn't even think and just acted on what my heart told me to do. I didn't even know I was this strong-willed...

maybe it was probably the fact I saw how helpless Eunsoo was...

maybe in my subconscious mind it had reminded me of my past self. When I was weak and afraid.

When I was so scared during the incident with Kikwang.

~~~

Dinner was served and we all ate happily. I finally got to see my father who gave me a tight hug and told me that he was so happy that I made the time to attend the event he organized. He gave out a speech regarding how happy he was to be here with everyone who he cheerished, his family, his friends, his colleagues.

Everyone was up and about again to do more catchup time and chattering. My mother asked me to go with her as she wanted me to meet one of her friends. Seeing as I had nothing to do, I agreed and followed her. 

She introduced me to her female friend and her h