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"Arabbeoji took a girl to the house?" Jan Di asked

"Yes, a pretty one" Joon Pyo said, but he was fast at taking back his words after saying the expression of anger and annoyance in her fiancée's face. "Of course, never as pretty as you. However, it seems like the grandpa wants to have this woman close to Ji Hoo"

"I hope he is not thinking seriously about getting him engaged"

"I don't thik so. She is a western, and western girls do not go for arranged marriages"

"I can't wait 'ntil tomorrow to meet her" she said, picturing the misterious new girl in her head " Where is she from? Is she American?"

"I don't know, that's another mistery"

"Just for now. She must be very smart. You said she is a Doctor but also a marketing manager "Every time the new girl sounded more like Seo Hyung, the perfect type of girl "I cannot wait until tomorrow to meet her!"

Truth to be said, she also thought it was all arabbeoji's plan. If she was right and the girl was good for Ji Hoo, maybe it could work. But Ji Hoo deserved only the best, and nothing less than that.

"We're here" Ji Hoo said, not hiding how annoyed he was.

"You don't need to put yourself in deffensive mode." Maya said, also sick of this situation "I wasn't and I am not planning to discomfort you. I am not asking you to become my best friend, but we're going to work together and I have set my mind to give the best of me for the foundation. So, I just ask you to take this easy and try to get along well. It is not neccessary for you to take me to your meetings with your exclusive group of friends"  because she has noticed how fancy and presumptuous they were "I am not a baby. I cam take care of myself"

He was a little bit impressed by how much she talked, and even more for the way she dared to speak to him.

"Do you always talk that much?"

He got a tired glance and a sigh as an answer. She turned her back to him and entered the house, where Mr. Yoon was waiting for them, excited to see the results of the Day 1. That could be possible only having dinner together.

"I think we need to start a new campaign, change the concept. I have an idea.. I did something simmilar in the States, and I've also heard from other projects like that in South America and Europe. I think it will work even better here in Korea" she said, and the grandpa was listening to her carefully. "We need to bring the attention not only from the Rich to collaborate with us, but from all kind of people"

"You're right. I will be glad to discuss it later. I think I did the rightchoice choosing you, Miss Royce. Your family must be proud of you"

Maya's smile faded for a second, but she brought herself together quickly, fast enough for Mr. Yoon not noticig it at all.

"Well, I hope that. Though one can never be sure, right? That's a reason for keep constantly improving. If we just take everything for granted, what would we become?"

Ji Hoo, however, noticed that momment, how pale she was. At least she was a good liar and every word she said, she gained more points with her grandpa. If circumstances were different, he would have even liked her a little bit.

Maya went to bed exhausted. She took a shower, put into her pajamas and lied on the spacious, comfortable bed. It was nice to have finally time for rest, after the long flight, the jet-lag and that tiring day.

Her family.

What would her father think of her now? When she should be taking care of the family business, instead of working for others. But she had chose her path early in life, when she was 15, the day she ran away from home.

"You must be Geum Jan Di" Maya said the momment she saw the young woman walking with Yoon Ji Hoo.

"Yes, nice to meet you. You must be Maya Royce"

"Just call me Maya. Or noona if you prefer, though I'm not much older than you. Jan Di, can you show me around, please? I want to go to the children's area"

Maya smiled, and Joon Pyo's fiancée fell instantly for the charming smile, the calm voice and the bright eyes of that girl. She was just like Jan Di had imagined, but nicer. She had thought she would meet a fancy girl, but Maya didn't seem to be like that.

"Of course. Follow me" Then Jan Di remembered her friend was also there with them "Oh, Ji Hoo sunbae, aren't you coming?"

He just nodded.

"You don't say hello to each other?" Jan Di asked, seeing that he didn't speak a word to her and neither she did.

"My fault. In my country, we don't use to say hello to the people who sleep under the same roof" Maya explained.

It was not an excuse for him, anyway.

"I'm still thinking I'm in the United States"

"Are your from there? From the States?" Jan Di asked.

Even Ji Hoo paid attention, waiting for the response, though he assumed she would not say the truth.

"A little bit from here, a little bit from there... that's not very important, actually"

"But you speak a lot of languages, right?"

"At home we spoke in Spanish and Italian. My father's..."Maya stopped herself a second, because she wasn't surprised to mention something about her private life to a stranger " his colleagues always talked in English, and then I came to learn it. It was the same with other languages"

"Ommo, you seem too young, but you have pursued two careers already"

Maya smiled. People always wondered about that, so curious about her life, when she would prefer not to share the story. She just chose to simplify it.

"I was accepted into the Collegue when I was 17. I started focusing on marketing, and I took several classes related to it, but then when I was closer to choose a major, I decided I wanted to pursue a career in Medicine. Well, I still needed the money I had certain talent in marketing and advertising, so I decided to use it too. That's 8 years, and I would like to keep studying further but for the moment, I wanted to come to Korea"

Jan Di was amused. How could someone be that cool and awesome? She was not even much older than her F4 friends.

"The children in this room almost live here. They are all in a long treatment, and can barely leave the Hospital. We try to make this feel funny for them, as much as possible" Jan Di explained "I will introduce you". Then she called out the girls and boys, and they inmediately put attention to her.

She told them there was a new doctor to take care of them, coming from far, far away, and she expected them to welcome her properly.

"Hi guys" Maya said smiling. She cleared her troath, feeling nervous, but her voice sounded cool and clear "My name is Maya and I'm your new noona.  As my donsaengs, I promise to take good care of you. You see, I want to have lots of fun with you, but I need you to help me. Can you?" she paused and they all nodded "What if we star with a game?"

It didn't take long for them to like her either.

Jan Di and Ji Hoo left, letting her work for the rest of the morning. Maya was already so concentrated in the children that she didn't even notice when they left.

There were children who could not even get up from the bed, like Min Young, whose arm was all burned badly, or Seo Kang,who broke his leg.

But there were also cases murch worse in another room, such as Lee Ming, all lively and playful but her life has coming to its end. Those kids needed a lot more of attention and care. She visited them all and talked to them. They were happy to receive her, and when she had to go they asked her to come back.

"I'll be back soon, I cannot miss the chance with a gorgeus boy like you.."

Whe she finished, the morning had gone. She took her bag, took off her white coat and walked towards her new office. Oce she her computer, she started typing fast, as the ideas came to her. She had to write them down and arrange them, so she could have a well-prepared plan to present to Mr. Yoon as soon as possible.

The someone knocked at her door.

"I'm free, come in"

She was surprised, and wouldn't even hide it, when she saw that her visitor was the younger Mr. Yoon.

"Ji Hoo, what are you doing here?"

"I suppossed you haven't had luch yet. I've been told you were visiting all the children area this morning and then you came to lock yourself here. So..." he left a box of food on her desk.

"She looked at the box and then at Ji Hoo, this time the surprise was exceding the normal limits. Unbeliavable.

"Well, this is really nice from you. Thank you"

"You're welcome"

And as he did not have anything else to say, he crossed the door and left.

It was really nice to hava a car to drive again. She didn't have one sice... well, since she left home. And it was not like if she was proud of anything she possesed back then.

It was 7 p.m. and she had fisished working for that day - actually, she had even stayed longer, reading the medical records of the children she had visited that day.

Now, she just wanted to see a little bit of Seoul. Where to start? She drove without having a destiny in mind, until she got to a club and asked for a drink. It had been a long time, years actually, since she hadn't done that. But it seemed to fit with the mood this day.

In the one and a half day she had bee in Seoul, she had remembered more than in all the past years. She really needed this drink.

"And you looked like a totally serious and responsible woman. The first day at work and already going to a club like this" a man said, and his voice sounded somehow familiar, as if she had heard him before"

And yes, she had seen him before.

"What about you?"

"I am the Don Juan of the F4, this is just one of the various family business I need to take care. For me, it's only work to be here, But you?"

And that was the girl Ji Hoo's grandpa wanted for his grandson. He smirked.

"What's your name?" she asked, because as much as she tried, she could not remember.

"Song Woo Bin"

"Song Woo Bin" she recorded it in her memory "Woo Bi-ssi, do you know what is like to remember how pathetic your life is, even when you try to be decent, because you cannot get ride of your roots?"

He tried not to show surprise, but this girl coul come out with this sort of things... And besides, a question like that. Of course he knew how it felt.

"More than you imagine"

She nodded, and continued drinking.

"I could enter in my family clubs since I was 13. My father wanted me to get used to the things someday would be mine. But I didn't want to" She said, relaxing a little bit."So finally, when I was 15, I ran away from home"

Woo bin raised his eyebrows, and he didn't even try to hide the amusement.

"You ran away from home? Why? What's that family business you didn't want to take to be so dense?" he asked out of curiosity.

"Are you a discrete man, Woo Bin?"

She drank one glass and was drunk already.

"A very discrete man, indeed"

"Well, I'll tell you... but if you tell this to someone else, you're a dead man."

"Is it so? Do you know who I am, that you are treathening me this way?"

"If I don't kill you, sure someone of my family will do. In Europe, the Royce are a very important family. You'd be scared of how much.

And somehow that name was very clear in his mind. The Royce. of course he had heard of them. Their families were very linked with all their business whitin Europe and Asia, but he would have never imagined... Maya as part of that family.  But she had said she had run away when she was 15. How long ago had been that? 8, 10 years ago? Even more?

"I'm a coward, that's why I left. I couldn't stand that feeling of shame knowing those secrets. I wanted to be a decent person, I wanted to tell my children that I earned everything for my ow, without hurting others. But I will never be able to say that, even if I left, because it is all there. It's what I am: It's in my family"

"I never thought it was somethig you could just run away from. So I decided to embrace it right from the start" there he was, drinking and sharing his disgraces too. She had a curious look in her eyes, as if she was trying to guess something. "I am the head of the mafia here, girl. Here in Korea and all Asia. So, your family would be in trouble if they ever try to silence me. Though I don't thik they're gonna do it, because they are very interested in a trat in particular..."

He shared another cup with her, and smirked.

"This goes for the family"

"For the family"

When she finished drinkig, she didn't ask for another glass.

"I'll be eve more ruk, and it's gonna be late to go back to Mr. Yoon's hose" she said, standing up "I have to be there at a decent hour, the older people here is very picky with that, right?"

Woo Bin smiled and nodded.

""I'll take you outside"

The girls around them looked at Maya as if they were planning to murder her, when she walked aside the F4's Don Juan.

"I have a younger sister... I was a horrible big sister ad I left her alone, I let her carry with all my resposabilities just because I didn't have the strenght to take them. That's the only thing I am sorry"

"Don't blame yourself for your choice." He said sincerely "I have two sisters and my mother. It's a weight difficult to endure, even for me, and I wouldn't want it for them, as sensitive as they are." Woo Bin glanced at her "You seem a though girl in the new neighborhood, but I guess you're also a kind-hearted person. You're a doctor, aren't you?. What kind of person who safes lives is going to get into this business?

Se said her goodbye with a killer smile just when she got into her car, and she felt comforted. She had just found a perso who could understad her in the most unexpected way. Who would say that Woo Bin...!

When she got home, Maya found out that, in fact, they were still waiting for her to have diner. They both were in the living room: Mr. Yoon sitting down on the armchair and looking at the door, and Ji Hoo much more relaxed, playing a melody in the piano.

"G-good night" she said "I'm sorry for making you wait"

"Where were you, Maya? We were worried about you. I was told you get off work at 7, which is already wrong since you only have to work until 6. And now it's almost 9 p.m."

"I'm so sorry, Mr. Yoon..."

"Don't call me Mr. Yoon, you may call me arabbeoji"

Maya blushed furiously. 

"I've told you that's the friendly way to call someone of the family. It also makes things more comfortable. It's not a big deal. Jan Di is not my granddaughter, but she also calls me arabbeoji."

Saying this last part was not a good idea from Mr. Yoon. Ji Hoo stopped playing, too surprised and annoyed. Maya did not get the comparison, obviously, but he did.

She only sighed and said:

"Arasso, arabbeoji. I just wanted to go around the city. I haven't seen much of it yet. And it helped me to clear my mind because I'm really tired."

With a smile, she ended with any scolding she was about to get, and the three of them went to the dinning room.

"Tomorrow in the office..."

"Tomorrow is Saturday, Maya." Mr. Yoon reminded her.

"Mwo? But the hospital and the children..."

"There are other doctors to cover you on weekends, remember?"

"Oh, true..." she nodded "I suppose I just wanted to see the children too much"

Ji Hoo hated the fact that she was so kind-hearted. It was lovely that she liked children, but it was not good. She only scored more points with grandpa and the worst was that she didn't even notice it.

He knew his grandpa treated her so well and gave her so much benefits just because he wanted her to be something more like family... So annoying.

"So if you want to see the city, the best way is that someone shows you the beautiful sites of Seoul, of course. Ji Hoo can guide you. What do you say?"

Both of them exchanged glances. Maya would really appreciate some company, but Ji Hoo... she felt already that he didn't like her at all, and she didn't wat to bother him more. It was not a good idea.

As none of them say a word, waiting for the other to decide, the grandpa took the decision for them. The one both would prefer to avoid.

"Well, so tomorrow you two enjoy your free day. This old man is going fishing on his own"