After several meetings and appointments have done, Jiyong is heading to Mizuhara residence. They have another ‘appointment’ to be fulfilled. It’s almost 8 p.m when he finally reaches the mansion.

Mizuhara is a part of Japanese royal family. And this family is quiet important in this country. Jiyong walks in as a maid open the main door for him. And when he enters the house, Mr. Mizuhara, along with his wife and daughter has been waiting there.

“Jiyong… welcome back to Japan” Mr. Mizuhara said and gives him a hug

“Thank you, Uncle…” Jiyong smiles, then they parted. Mrs. Mizuhara is standing gracefully beside his husband, smiles to Jiyong

“How are you, Jiyong-ah…” She hugs Jiyong too and asks with Korean endearment. Yes, she was a Korean

“I’m very good, Aunty” Jiyong answered. And next to Mrs. Mizuhara…, the beautiful daughter is standing with a very bright smile in her face. Jiyong and Kiko exchange stares and smiles to each other

“It’s been long time, right Jiyong?” she smiles

“Yeah…, very long time” Jiyong smiles back. Without they realized, Mr. and Mrs. Mizuhara are watching them

“Ehm…, is that so long from 2 pm at the airport until now?” Mr. Mizuhara asks playfully, teases his blushing daughter

“Oniisan…, please…” Kiko pouts and they laugh

“Well, dinner is ready. Let’s eat…” Mrs. Mizuahara says and they walk to the dining area

The four of them sitting and eating in the luxury dining room. this family is a very classy. Well, they are royals though.

After that, they move to living room and start to chit-chat. Mr. Mizuhara asks so many things to Jiyong, mostly about politics and diplomatic things. He really likes this young man, as Jiyong is so intelligent and has such a deep knowledge. Mrs. Mizuhara and Kiko roll their eyes as the men keep talking about politic

“Don’t we have another topic?” Kiko says and pouting. You can say that she is known as a high class socialite. But inside this house, she’s just a daddy and mommy’s girl. Her parents and Jiyong chuckle on her childish expression

“This is what happens when two politicians met, baby….” Mrs. Mizuhara reaches her daughter into her hug and laughs again

“But, Okaasan…, they’re ignoring us…” Kiko protest again

“No one is ignoring you, Kiko. You can join us” Jiyong smiles

“Oh.., no, thanks, Mr.Kwon” Kiko rolls her eyes and laughs

“So…, let’s change the topic then” Mr. Mizuhara smiles.“Then, when will you get married, ji?” Mr. Mizuhara asks, makes Jiyong chocked in surprised

“Honey… that straightforwardly?”  Mrs. Mizuhara Chuckles, while Kiko fall silence

“Why? I just change the topic” Mr. Mizuharasmiles and looks at his daughter, then back to Jiyong. “Your father said that all you do is working and working all the time. and from your achievement, I trust him” Mr. Mizuhara laughs

“I think Jiyong is too busy to date someone…” Mrs. Mizuhara adds. Kiko looks at Jiyong, while Jiyong just smiles, and doesn’t know what to say. Fortunately, his phone vibrates, signing someone is calling. Jiyong smiles to them and reaches his phone.

“Excuse me for a moment…” he excuses and walks to the lounge, picking up the phone

“Hunchae….” He smiles

“Appa…, I’m not Hun-Chae…. I’m Haru!!!” Protest the little girl. Jiyong chuckles, imagining his daughter must be pouting now

“Aigoo…, mian Haru-yah….” Jiyong says as laughing slightly

“Neh Appa…” she giggles over the phone. “Appa…, when will you go home?” Haru asks suddenly

“Appa just arrived this morning, baby girl….. Maybe next week” Jiyong says. A simple question from his daughter, but that question always stings his heart. He knows, he doesn’t give Chaerin and Haru enough time. And he feels so bad for that

“Haru misses Appa….” Her little voice is cracking, and Jiyong becomes harder to breath

“Appa misses Haru too…..” He says and smiles bitterly. Then the two fall silence. Until Jiyong hears Chaerin voice

“Haru, who are you talking with… Omo! Oppa…, did Haru called you? Aigoo… Mian…” Chaerin surprised and snatched the phone immediately from Haru when she read the name in the screen

“Omma…, I-I… I just want to talk to Appa…. I miss Appa…” Haru starts to cry, looking at Chaerin’s expression. Jiyong just listening to their conversation, waiting his turn to speak

“Haru, baby…. you should tell Omma first if you want to call Appa…, what if Appa is busy there….” Chaerin speaks softly to her baby girl

“It’s Ok, Chaerin-ah…. I’m free though” Jiyong says. His heart is really hurt. Even his daughter couldn’t call him freely? What a life…. Chaerin herself always texting him before make a call, make sure that they won’t disturb his packed schedule. And he feels really mad to himself

“Oppa…, mian….” Chaerin whispers while Haru is crying on her embrace.

“What are you sorry for, Chae? It’s me who has to say sorry…. For being not good enough for both of you…, I should’ve giving you and Haru more time…” he says

“Ani…, Oppa. Please don’t be like that…” Chaerin states.“Haru baby…. talks to Appa again…” she gives the phone to Haru.

“Appa…, I’m sorry…” Haru sniffs send another sting to Jiyong’s heart

“No need, Baby… it’s ok…” Jiyong smiles, even though his hearts is crying. “So, what’s my little princess wants to tell to Appa tonight?”  Jiyong asks, and Haru lit up immediately. Soon, they are chatting happily, sharing their stories of that day. Jiyong is laughing and smiling non-stop. He doesn’t realize that Kiko is watching him beside the pillar.

Kiko is itching to know who is the one Jiyong’s talking with. The one who can make him laugh happily like that

“Does he really have someone already?” Kiko asks herself

First day of work

Chaerin is ready. After send Haru to school earlier, she takes the bus and heading straight to her new office.

There, Lydia is ready to gives her a short training, tells her what to do, her responsibilities and duty. Chaerin is a smart person. She could learn those things quickly. And after finished her ‘training’, Lydia escorts her to her desk, near the CEO’s office

“Ok, now is your time with your boss. Good luck” Lydia says and leaves her. She is in her boss’s office. But he isn’t there yet. Chaerin roams the room with her eyes. it’s simple, but really cozy. Then she looks at the name tag on the desk.

Takahiro Morita – C.E.O

She is about to go when the CEO enters the room. He doesn’t looked like the usual CEO –with suit and tie, and tidy hair etc.- 

He wearssuch a casual outfits, with jeans and sneakers. And his curly hair is a bit messes up. He smiles cheekily when he saw Chaerin. And Chae, she bows formally to her boss

“You’re here already?” Taka walks to her

“Good morning, Mr. Morita” Chaerin greets formally

“Oh.., please. Don’t call me that way…” he scratches his head and smiles “Just Taka. Call me Taka” he says

“Mr. Taka?” Chaerin asks awkwardly. However, he is her boss. It’s awkward just to call him by his name

“Could you scratch that ‘Mr.’?” he cringes

“Ah? Uhm….” Chaerin flustered, doesn’t know how to react

“Ok.., just call me the way you like” he smiles widely and winks to Chaerin, then sit on his place. “So…, you’re my new assistant?” he asks friendlily

“Aah, yes. My name is Lee Chaerin, your new assistant, Sir” Chaerin bows

“And how should I call you?” Taka asks again, with beamy face

“Chaerin. Call me Chaerin” Chae replies. She feels so awkward by the way he looks at her

“Chaerin… Such a beautiful name…” He keeps smiling and looking at her

A week passed since Chaerin started working at her new office. Jiyong is still in Japan. And it’s been four days since he gave Chae and Haru a phone call. Haru is missing her Appa so bad, that’s why she was a bit grumpy this morning.

At the school, little Haru doesn’t as cheerful as usual. She just pouting and makes distance from her friends.

Chaerin has an overtime today, that’s why she asked Minji to pick up Haru from school. Haru’s school provides a child care service too. So, the working parent could pick teir child after their work-hours.

Chaerin usually picks Haru at 5 p.m. but she has to overwork today.

The little watch in Haru’s wrist shows it’s 5.10 p.m. but Aunty Minji doesn’t pick her up yet. She sits uncomfortably and watching her friends being picked by their parent

Haru’s mood becomes gloomy again, more than before. She swings her legs and pouts

“Haru-yah…. Don’t go anywhere, Ssam will Sarang to the rest room first” Her teacher says and little Haru just nods. She keeps waiting for another minutes, but her Aunty Minji is never come. And suddenly, she got an idea

She takes a piece of paper and a crayon from her bag and writes something. Then she put the paper on the bench and leaves

Lydia groans in annoyance when she found her driver is late. This is one of many reasons why she prefers to drive by herself. She needs to go back to the office soon, so she decides to take a cab.

She’s exiting the restaurant building where she met her client and attempts to stop a taxi when she sees a little girl walks by herself with a confuse face. Her heart beats faster when she looks at her pouting face. and somehow, her feet find their own way and walks to the little girl.

“Hey… are you lost, baby?” she asks softly, and the little girl looks confusedly to the lady with fiercing looks in front of her

“Uhm…, I want to go to see Omma….” the little girl answers, about to cry. Lydia takes her black shade off and kneeing in front of her. Her eyes are soften, looks at the little girl

“And where’s your Omma?” she smiles to the girl

“She is working…” the little girl mumbles, sniffing. Lydia gets it. She looks at the little girl. She is still wearing her uniform. Then she looks at the little girl’s bag and read the nametag

“And where is your Omma works, Haru?” Lydia asks again and Haru looks up to her

“Uhm… Omma…, uhm...”Haru looks confused. But then she reaches her bag and takes a small piece of paper. A business card. And she cives it to Lydia

Lydia is surprised as she accepts the business card from Haru. It’s her business card

“Your Omma is working here?” she asks Haru again while pointing the business card. Haru just nods

“Is that place still far from here, Aunty? My feet are tired already…” Haru asks innocently, still crying. Lydia smiles and caresses Haru’s short hair. Her face becomes so soft and…, motherly. The very rare expression on her face

“Hey.., don’t cry, baby girl….” She tries to cheers the crying Haru. “Let’s go see your Omma. Aunty will take you there, ok?” she wipes Haru’s tears with her scraft

“Really? A-aunty will take me to Omma?” Haru asks, still sniffing. And Lydia smiles genuinely to her, nods.

“Now stop crying, ok?” she pinches Haru’s cheek and the little one nod and smiles. Then Lydia stands up, holds Haru’s hand and stops a Taxi.

Chaerin is running panicky trough the corridor. She got a phone call from Minji, said that Haru is not at her school anymore. Minji got a little accident and late by 15 minutes. And when she reached Haru’s school, the teacher told her that Haru was leave and left a note, said that she will go to see her Omma

Chaerin keeps running. She didn’t even mind to tell her boss that she leaves. Her mind is focusing on her daughter. The dinstance from Haru’s school to her office is pretty far. She’s so scared. What if Haru get lost? What if she got an accident or someone might kidnap her?

She swear, she would never be able to forgive herself if something bad happen to Haru

Chaerin exits the office building and about to stop the taxi. But, when the taxi is stopped, she sees her daughter comes down. She’s still frozen, feels relieve that her baby is ok and cries happily

“Omma!!!” Haru calls and runs immediately as she saw her Omma is looking at her, smiles and cries at the same time. She runs, leaving Lydia

“Haru-yah…. You ok? Aigoo, Omma is really scared, Baby…” Chaerin is kneeing, hugging and kissing her baby girl

“I’m sorry, Omma… I won’t do it again…” Haru is crying too, hugging her Omma

On the other hand, Lydia is surprised, knowing that the Omma is Chaerin. She’s still standing and watching the scene in front of her, and somehow, it stings her heart.

Chaerin finally realizes that Lydia is standing there. And she was with her daughter

“Miss Lydia… how…” She asks confusedly, snapping Lydia from her own thought.

“Omma…, I was lost and Aunty Lydia helps me. She brought me an ice cream too…” Haru says to her Omma and showing the ice cream in her right hand. Chae turns her head to Lydia again

“So…, you have a daughter?” Lydia asks. Chaerin nods

“Yes, Miss… Haru is my daughter” Chaerin answers, rather trembling

Lydia throws her body into the king sized bed in her apartment. She closes her eyes and runs her hands through her hair

After she took Haru and met Chaerin, the three of the, went to a coffee shop across the road. And there, she found out that Chaerin is a single mother

Flashback

“I thought you’re still single” Lydia sips her mocha-latte while Chaerin is brushing Haru’s hair softly. Haru was exhausted, and finally fell asleep on her mother’s lap

“Yeah, technically…, I still single” Chaerin smiles and Lydia gets what she meant

“Single mother?” Lydia asks rhetorically, then the two women chuckle

“Well, not really…” Chaerin says. “I’ve never really ‘alone’  on rising Haru…” she continues

Lydia keeps look at them. She could feel how Chaerin loves her daughter.

“And Haru’s father?” Lydia couldn’t hide her curiosity

“Haru’s Appa is visiting sometimes…” Chaerin smiles bitterly.

“He doesn’t take his responsibility?” Lydia’s voice is rising. Chaerin looks at Lydia and realized that she might get her wrong.

“Oh…, not like that. He is always doing his best for us” Chaerin clarifies. Lydia frowns, confused

Then Chaerin tells her story to Lydia, without revealing Jiyong’s identity. And she saw the soft expression on Lydia’s face for the first time.

Chaerin always assumed Lydia as a cold and fiercing woman. But now, she has to reconsider it again

To her surprised, for the very first time she saw Lydia’s eyes are teary, hearing her story

“You’re lucky. He loves both of you so much” Lydia smiles genuinely. Chaerin is amazed by how Lydia reacts

She’s not that cold…

Chaerin thought

End of Flashback

Tears are escaped from Lydia’s closed eyes. She cries silently in her dark bed room.

“I can’t…”

“I’m not ready…”

“Just get rid of it”

Those voices are ringing on her head, bringing those memoriesshe wants to erase from her life.

She cries louder, screaming…

Her hand keeps holding a small frame. A photograph of her, holding a newborn in a pink blanket

“Momma is really sorry, baby….” She cries

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A.N

Anyeong!!!

I’m back again… ^_^

So, this is the 5^th Chapter. The storm will come soon… and like I said before, I added Lydia’s love story here

Do you have any idea about Lydia’s past?? *wiggling eyebrows*

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