A week had passed since the dinner. The spa day had been a bonding session for the girls and Mandy was now much closer to both Jan Di and Ga Eul. They were now so close that Ga Eul, who never hid anything from Jan Di, was actually going behind her back in helping Mandy to plan a surprise bachelorette party for the to-be-bride.

But they were facing a major hurdle in their plans; they didn’t have a place for the party. It was very difficult for them to find a place, where Jun Pyo wouldn’t get to know about the party. If he even got a scent of their plans; he would turn the world upside down to prevent the party from happening; his possessiveness knew no bounds.

But Mandy had also come up with the perfect place to hold the affair; the porridge shop. It was literally off the hook; an innocent enough place that even Jun Pyo won’t suspect anything.

Mandy entered the shop and was greeted by a sweet little girl of about 16 years of age. The only other customer in the shop was a well-dressed lady who looked like she was in her late 20’s. Mandy took out her ipad to use the translator app, but the device won’t turn on.

“Oho! It’s out of battery; what do I do now?”

“Excuse me; can I help you?” the lady said in a clear accent.

“Yes! Please; thank you”

“No problem” the lady smiled warmly

“I usually don’t go around alone in the city as I don’t know the language, but this is supposed to be a surprise for a friend so I couldn’t bring anyone along and otherwise I use the translator app on my ipad, but as you can see it has run out of battery. And I’m rambling on non-sense so I’ll just get to the point” Mandy said taking in a big breath “I wanted to talk to the master”

The lady smiled and translated Mandy’s words to the girl, who bowed and went inside to call her boss.

“So what brings you to Seoul?” the lady asked

“I am actually a medical student; I transferred this year to Seoul for my final year”

“You transferred here even though you didn’t know the language?” the lady asked

“Let’s just say I didn’t have many options” said Mandy

The owner came out now.

“Hello master. Do you remember Jan Di and Ga Eul who used to work here a few years ago?” Mandy asked

The man just nodded

“Well as you might have gotten to know that Jan Di is getting married this weekend; so I was planning to throw her a bachelorette party.” Mandy said

“Who are you?”

“Oh, I’m so sorry I didn’t even introduce myself. I am Mandy; I am Jan Di’s sunbae/unnie and also her bridesmaid. You can check with Ga Eul if you like” Mandy said offering her phone.

The man refused but asked how he could help

“Well I was thinking if we could use the shop for tonight to have the party”

“But why do you want to use the shop, it’s not a party place.” The man asked

“Well yeah, but that is the point of having the party here. Jun Pyo is really very possessive of Jan Di, so he would freak out if he knew that she was partying; but if he thought that she was hanging out at the porridge shop, he would be cool.”

As the lady translated to the master, Mandy looked at him expectantly with the best puppy dog eyes she could interpret.

“Arasso arasso you can have the shop to yourselves after 8 pm” the master said and returned back into the kitchen smiling excitedly.

Mandy jumped out of excitement. The lady was now going out of the shop after settling her bill. Mandy went to her.

“Thank you so much for your help today” Mandy said gratefully.

“It was nothing really; enjoy the party and don’t worry about my little brother, I’ll take care of him.” and the lady exited the shop.

At first Mandy didn’t understand what the lady was talking about; but soon it came to her. She had just been in the presence of the charisma queen herself; Gu Jun Hee. Mandy smiled in the direction Jun Hee had gone and continued on her own way.

The party was a success. It had all the usual suspects; the suggestive cake; the s; the loud music; the booze; and also a stripper (courtesy of Jun Hee). The party then turned in to a slumber party at Jan Di’s place but was more of a snoring party as the two best friends passed out on the floor due to the liquor that was in their system. Mandy couldn’t sleep the whole night so she surfed through the pictures they had taken so far and also sent some to Niya and Harleen.

The next day, Mandy had dark circles under her eyes but was sporting a wide grin when she reached the ceremony venue for the wedding rehearsal.

“What made you so happy?” Ji Hoo asked as he sat down next to her on one of the chairs

“The party last night”

“What party?” Ji Hoo asked in an impatient tone

“Guem Jan Di’s bachelorette party”

“But Woo Bin said that you were hanging out at the porridge shop”

“We really were at the porridge shop” Mandy said

“But right now you just said that you were partying”

“We did party; at the porridge shop. And it was really awesome and the whole setting actually worked in favor of the stripper”

“There was a stripper?!” Ji Hoo shouted

“Shhhh; do you want to tell the whole world? The stripper was actually a gift from Jun Hee didi”

“Jun Hee noona sent you a stripper?!”

“And also a bottle of Cristal”

“And where were the guards while you three were ‘enjoying’?” Ji Hoo asked sourly.

“They were with us, just outside the shop; but don’t worry because Jan Di and Ga Eul didn’t really ‘enjoy’ that much; they were too buzzed to make sense of anything.”

“And what about you?” Ji Hoo asked

“Though I was sober, I didn’t really have that much fun too; the dude had a cute and all but was really not my type so I sent him back after a few s” Mandy said to

“You got s?!” Ji Hoo’s anger was now sky high

Mandy saw that the conversation was taking the wrong turn. She had thought that Ji Hoo would be cool with what had happened but it turns out that he is a typical guy after all.

“I only said that to tease you; calm down; I didn’t get any s. He did a dance at the tables but the whole situation was so weird that I sent him away. So relax okay; and you can’t tell anyone.” Mandy whispered to him

“Now I know why she invited us to dinner” Ji Hoo mumbled

“Huh?”

“Noona invited us to dinner last night and kept chatting with us till midnight. We were happy to spend time with her so didn’t give much thought to it. But now I know why she did so; so that we wouldn’t go looking for you three because we were busy with her.”

“She is awesome isn’t she?” Mandy stated in wonder

“Yeah she really is cool” Ji Hoo said