Eunji locked the door of her and Bomi’s room after Hayoung entered still rubbing her closed eyes with her right hand and holding her teddy bear with her left. The maknae then sat on top of Bomi’s bed with the help of Yookyung. Hayoung then lean on Yookyung;s side while the older wrapped her arm around the maknae.

Meanwhile behind Yookyung was Bomi lying on her stomach and checking her phone. On Eunji’s bed was Namjoo jumping up and down, excited with their plan. Naeun on the other hand pulled her down to stop her from jumping because she was the only one who’s full of energy as if it was not 4 in the morning.

“Thanks Naeun” Eunji started, since Naeun stopped Namjoo. “Okay, you know the plan, we have all the things ready” she pointed on some bags on the table, items that they have bought the day before “All we have to do is do the plan”

“Unni, I’m still sleepy” little Hayoung whined

“We are all sleepy” Naeun said

“I’m not!” Namjoo answered, well more like shouted and so her everyone hushed her and she just gave them a grin and cute sorry

“Okay, Bbom ah let’s go to the kitchen and cook,  Naeun, Yookyung take care of the decorations--”

“Me! Me ! What will I do?!”

“Namjoo will you please lower down you voice!” Yookyung said

“Namjoo uhm… just help with decoration too. And don’t be too noisy. Hayoung, you’ll be our look out, make sure that omma is asleep  okay?”

“Aye aye!” Hayoung said and salute to her unni

“Okay, it’s four in the morning, since it’s Sunday, omma will wake up at 7, and so we have 3 hours to prepare. Let’s do it” Eunji held his arm out and the others followed and quietly did their cheer.

 

 

Then all of them went out of the room with the bags. Eunji and Bomi went to the kitchen. Eunji arranged the ingredients needed for the different dishes that they will prepare and they started to chop and wash and dice and everything.

Naeun, Yookyung and Namjoo went to the living room. Naeu and Yookyung started to draw and cut papers while Namjoo just watched them

“What can I do?” Namjoo asked

“Uh, you know how make cut out hearts right?” Yookyung asked

“Of course” Yookyung then gave her some papers and a scissor so she started her work

 

Meanwhile, the maknae was left in front of Chorong’s room. Hugging her teddy bear, she looked to the left and to the right. It was dark in hallways and so she keeps looking left and right. Then she heard a creepy creaking sound making her gasp. She turned the knob to Chorong’s room and peeked inside.

Chorong was sleeping peacefully, with her back on Hayoung. Then Hayoung heard the creaking sound again. She swallowed hard and quietly closed the door to her mom’s room and looked at the end of the hallway where she thought the sound was coming from.

Biting her lower lip and tightly hugging her teddy, she ran down the stairs and headed to her sisters.

 

 

The first hour of their work was quiet peaceful.  Eunji and Bomi started well with cooking and baking. Hayoung was also there but she just stayed quietly, watching her older sisters went back and forth in the kitchen making her dizzy and eventually she fall asleep on the table.

With the decoration team, Naeun and Yookyung started to stick the decorations on the walls, huge strip of colorful paper and also the banner that has Chorong’s face drawn on it made my none other than the creative artist of the family, Naeun.

“Namjoo? Namjoo stop now” Yookyung then called out the younger because she was still cutting out more papers than needed

“Namjoo there’s too many hearts that it’ll look like valentines instead of Mother’s day” Naeun said

“Oh” Namjoo simply said and stopped cutting the papers and just sat down, but after a while of getting bored she got the glue and some white cardboard and tried to paste the hearts she made there. She opened the glue bottle lid and squeezed it but there’s no glue coming out and so she squeezed it again with more strength this time, and again and again until all the glue squirted out the bottle and filled the whole cardboard and the table with glue

“Namjoo!!” Naeun and Yookyung shouted

“Yah! Quiet!” Eunji rushed to them from the kitchen and saw the mess Namjoo din “Oh my God Joo!” she rushed to Namjoo’s side and help her clean out. Naeun also stepped down from the chair and put down the glue-gun that she was holding to get the decorations from getting ruined.

Hayoung woke up when they shouted and so she got down her chair and went to the living room to check what’s going on. Leaving Bomi alone who has now need to tend to two boiling pots alone plus and oven. Bomi started to panick

“Where the hell is Eunji?”

 

Hayoung tilted her head, Yookyung was up a chair sticking something on the wall. Eunji and Naeun was with Namjoo, scolding her while doing something she didn’t know.

Then she saw something interesting on the chair.

It was the glue-gun.

Without knowing about the thing, she slowly touched the tip of it and immediately cried

“UWAAAAAAA!!!!”

Hayoung cried and held her finger out, it’s now red.

“Hayoung-ah!” all of them rushed to the their crying maknae and tried to hush her, Eunji even blew her finger but Hayoung was still crying

“Ice!” Naeun shouted, panicking. And so Yookyung rushed to the fridge to get some ice

“The cake!” Namjoo shouted

“Namjoo we don’t have time for your hungry stomach!” Bomi said

“I’m not hungry, the cake is already burnt!” Namjoo said and she was right, a smell of the burnt cake filled the air

“OMO!” Bomi rushed to the kitchen and turn off the oven but she was too late. “Aww!” she touched the hot pan without anything on her hand, she rushed to the faucet and ran the water on it. But then she realized that the dukbokki they were cooking was also burning. She rushed to the stove and turned both off.

“Mom!” Eunji shouted hearing footsteps coming from the second floor

“Turn of the light!” Yookyung said and Naeun did as told

“Hayoung go to mom, quick!” Eunji said to the still crying maknae and let her ran upstairs.

 

Chorong groggily stood up. She just heard some screaming and someone crying. Of course, mother’s instincts that there was something wrong happening with her children so she go to check on them.

But as she opened the door, she saw a crying Hayoung by her doorway

“Oh my why are you crying”

“O…omma… I dreamt of…. a ghost..” Hayoung said as she tried to stop crying. Chorong crouched down and hugged her maknae

“Aww, you can’t sleep again?” she asked and Hayoung shook her head. “I heard someone scream”

“That’s me… can I sleep here? Beside you?” Hayoung asked

“Of course my dear, come on, omma’s here” Chorong then carried Hayoung to her bed. She laid beside her and tucked of their bodies under the warm blanket. She pulled her little daughter closer to her and hugged her while her hand caressed Hayoung’s hair. “Sleep now, omma’s here to protect you”

“Omma won’t leave me?” Hayoung asked innocently with her eyes wide at Chorong

“I won’t”

“But what if there are ghosts?”

“I will fight them. They’re no match with me” Chorong smiled and even showed her fist “Sleep now okay”

“Okay” Hayoung said and closed her eyes while Chorong hummed her a lullaby

 

“Where’s Hayoung?” Bomi asked

“She’s upstairs, I think in omma’s room”

“It’s quiet now, I think she made mom sleep again” Naeun said

“Yeah, and also herself” Yookyung added

 

“Okay but we still have a problem, look at our cake” Eunji said and stared at the baked bread in front of her

“Even dogs won’t eat that thing” Yookyung said

“Yah!” Bomi said, it’s her work. And she didn’t mean to left it burning.

“Let’s just decorate it, maybe that will do” Naeun said

Then they started to put icing on the cake and edible flowers and other candies

“Wait where’s Namjoo?” Eunji asked. Then they heard something clatter in the living room and they all ran

“Not again” Bomi mumbled

 

“Namjoo!” Eunji caleed as she saw the younger girl and the floor, filled with glitters. But again, she just answered them with a wide grin.

“Look unni, I’m shining!” Namjoo stood up and shake her body, causing for more glitters to scatter

“Namjoo stop playing around, this is not a playground!” Naeun shouted and made Namjoo stopped. Even everyone got shocked by Naeun. Then Namjoo bowed her head.

 “Guys! It’s 6:15 already!” Bomi said noticing the time

 

 

Hayoung tried so hard not to sleep. Chorong’s bed was so warm and comfortable, plus Chorong’s angel like voice will really put you to sleep. And she’s still sleepy. But she had to fight it.

They still have a surprise party to prepare. Hayoung slowly looked up and saw that Chorong was already sleeping. She slowly tried to escape from her embrace. Slowly but surely.

When she finally did, she saw the clock and it’s 6:20 already so she tiptoed out the room and ran downstairs. She ran so fast that she accidentally stepped on the rag and slipped, her hand tried to grab something for support but ended up holding the string where the banner was tied and pulled it off along with the other decoration they did

“Hayoung-ah!”

 

They all stared at Hayoung who’s lying down and staring up at the ceiling. They saw her lips shaking. Anytime now she would be bawling out again and so Eunji rushed to her and carried her as she repeatedly rubbed the back of his head.

Eunji brought her to the kitchen and get some ice, wrapped it in a towel and place is on the part that hit the floor.

Meanwhile Naeun sat hopelessly on the floor after seeing their decorations all ruined.

“What time is it now?” Bomi asked

“Six thirty”

“Unni we can still do it! Come on!” Namjoo said and pick up the banner. It had some glitters all over, even on the drawing of Chorong.

Yookyung smiled a little on her younger sister before offering a hand to Naeun. “Come on”

 

They all attached the banner back and the decorations, even though it was not as neat as earlier, some of the paper hearts got ripped also.

“Will that do?” Naeun asked and Yookyung just shrugged. It looked like trash.

 

Then Bomi came with the burnt cake and put in on the center table. Eunji also came with Hayoung and they all sat around the table. The whole kitchen and living room was a mess. They were all looking down, even Namjoo. She felt guilty for playing around.

“I…I’m sorry. I’m not careful” Hayoung then said. She ruined the decorations.

“I’m sorry too…I played around and ruined everything” Namjoo said

Both maknae felt that it was their fault for ruining the surprise.

“Hey, don’t feel bad. I’m sorry for burning the cake” Bomi said

“Yah it’s not your fault Bbom, I’m sorry for leaving you alone in the kitchen.” Eunji said

“I’m sorry for shouting at Namjoo. I should’ve been more understanding” Naeun said

“I’m sorry” Yookyung said

“You didn’t do anything wrong” Bomi told her

“Yeah, but I fail on being your sister this time. As your sister, I shoul’ve help Bomi unnie when Eunji unnie tend on Hayoung, I should’ve instructed Namjoo on how many hearts she will cut. I should’ve helped when everyone’s panicking when we’re on a mess. But all I did is just stand at the side. I should’ve reminded everyone to do this surprise with a smile. To just enjoy doing this, because this is for our omma”

“I felt like I failed being the eldest” Bomi said “come here all of you, let me just hug you. That’s all I can do” she added and everyone went to her and they shared a hug.

“At least we all learned a lesson” Eunji said

“15 minutes left, maybe it’s better to clean up all these mess before omma wakes up, that would be better” Naeun said

“Thank you unnis, but it’s just sad that we failed” Namjoo said

“You didn’t”

 

They all looked at the stair and saw Chorong standing there, smiling at them

“Omma!”

 

Chorong went near to them, they felt sorry to her, they didn’t even gave her a nice surprise but just a mess in the house.

“Don’t be sad girls. Even though you failed to prepare a clean party, you didn’t fail to surprise me and make me happy” Chorong said and around, she stared at their messy banner, at their cake that obviously was rush decorated, to the whole living room that was full of glitters, glue and papers. “Just the thought that you have planned on giving me party is enough, and now seeing you hugging each other, saying sorry with your fault, and forgiving each and everyone, I really felt lucky and blessed to have six daughters like you”

Chorong wiped the tears on her eyes “You make me feel special, even though I lack sometimes, and I nag at you all a lot, thank you for showing me that you are such daughters to be proud of. Even though none of you came from my womb, it actually felt more than that. Thank you, Bomi, Eunji, Naeun, Yookyung, Namjoo, Hayoung, omma loves you all”

“Omma!” they cried as they hugged their mother “Happy mother’s day omma!”

“Shh don’t cry my babies”

“You really aren’t mad at us? With our mess?”

“No, but help with cleaning those aye?”

“Aye aye!” her six daughters salute