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While busy pondering on things, little does Minho know that Natalie has awakened and observing at his facial expressions, surprised when the other pokes him…

Natalie:            (giggling after poking Minho) ppsstt… Minho…
                         Good morning…

Minho:             (shock) Morning too… Natalie…
                         Did you sleep well…?

Natalie:            (nods) yeah… cause you keep me company…
                        and thank you for watching over me…

Minho:             (smiles) You are most welcome…

Natalie:            Minho…?

Minho:             (looks at her) Yeah…?

Natalie:            I caught you thinking so seriously…
                        Is something bothering you…?
                        Because you know, I have for several times 
                        now from the time we first met, that you are always
                        so immersed in yourself thinking …
                        and I find it so interesting…
                        asking myself, what could be inside Minho’s mind…?

Minho:             I just want to be honest and I want you to know it.
                        I think I can say that it has been a long fact that I love Bummie so much…

Natalie:            (gasps and tilts her head to look at Minho) Bummie..?
                         Bummie? Is that how you call Kibum…?

Minho:             (shyly smiles and nods) Yes…
                        since we were two years of age…
                        I am sorry to tell you it is like my special signature name
                        for Kibum and I am the only who can call him that…
                        sorry for saying that…

Natalie:            (shakes her head) Ooohh… I understand that Minho…
                        I do… so when you say exclusive…
                        even Taemin can’t call him Bummie…?

Minho:             (nods) Taemin calls him Key…
                        just like how you call him…
                        I call him Kibummie and Bummie…
                        and he calls me Minnie…

Natalie:            (gapes and smiles) Oh my gosh…
                        these are adorable names…
                        it is like when you combine both of your names like…
                        Minnie Bummie…

                        (laughs) so cute… it is like… tiny Kibum…

                        (nods her head) Don’t worry I wont address him using your
                        special name for Kibum…

Minho:             (smiles) Thanks…

Natalie:            (smacks Minho’s hands) Ok…
                        going back where were we…?

Minho:             (points his mind) Inside my mind…

Natalie:            (nodding her head vigorously) yeah… yeah…
                        what is it then…?

Minho:             As I was saying…
                        I love Bummie so much since we were kids…
                        Bummie having a relationship with you when he told me…
                        I was so depressed and lonely; however when I met you –

                        I said, I guess I could not stop things from happening…
                        And your situation right now,
                        I don’t know how to react though I know you have said it to me
                        that in case you are given a chance to make it
                        – you’d return Bummie to me…
                        I don’t know how he would react if you’d do that…

                        Would he be willing to turn his back on you…
                        I know Bummie very well; he is not the type
                        who abandoned someone he loves and right now…
                        it is a fact that he loves you too….

                        (takes a deep breath)
                        I just want to tell you…
                        how I long for Bummie embraces and kisses
                        which I terribly miss from the last time we saw each other…
                        I guess that was during my last visit at your house
                        on the way back to my place.
                      
                        However nothing happen that time because
                        I decided though I initiated it to respect your relationship
                        regardless if insisted; he would still let me.
                        Bummie’s putty in my fingers…
                        you know, so that, it was I who decided to stop
                        to respect your relationship…

                        But….
                        (pauses and holds his chest) it is hurt me so terribly bad…
                        and that was the last time I saw him in the flesh 
                        but after via webcam.

                        (looks at Natalie) Just so you know…
                        I miss him so very much…
                        I am not used to just hearing his voice knowing
                        he is just around but I can no longer be with him
                        – for that I said to myself…
                        wow, can things not get any better than this…?

                        And now… It is just so unfair for me to even think about
                        in a minute a person who Bummie loves will lose her life… 
                        and I don’t know how to react…
                        except that I always pray that I hope you make it
                        because I know Bummie needs you…
                        you and him are family now…
                        and I don’t mind having to regard myself as the

                        (raise his hands to do a quote and unquote gesture)
                        “extension or extended one”
                        – which I am willing to accept no matter how it hurts…

                        Do you get what I mean Natalie, do you…?
                        Isn’t it cruel for me to even think that I am so happy you saying that
                        – I am really am…I know still that there is a hard long road
                        still for me waiting to battle with just to achieve
                        full happiness with Bummie…
                        Please don’t hold me responsible in a way…

Natalie bows her head could not utter a single word lifts her face and looks at Minho in a very comforting manner then raises her hand as well to Minho’s cheek and says…

“Minho, Kibum and you with the twins are to be the family…

No one said you have to take responsibility…
Please let it be known to you that fact…”

Minho upon hearing this while taking a deep breath closes his eyes for several seconds then after involuntarily single to slowly tears falling begins…

Minho:             (choke on his reply) Noo..na…
                        wo..would I be a bad person to wish
                        happiness being with Bummie…

Natalie:            (pauses and responds by…)  uuunngghhh…
                        (biting Minho’s arm)…

Minho:             (shocked and swiftly turns to look back at Natalie)
                       aaaaggghhh… Natalie… that hurts…wwwwaaa….

Natalie:            (smacks Minho’s shoulder and says) Minho…
                        do you like repeating yourself..
                        goodness… stop pitying yourself…
                        act like that again and I am going to haunt you
                        in your dreams for crying out loud…

Minho:             (rubs the part bitten and smacked) uuuunngg…
                        you sure love hitting me… am not your spongebob…

Natalie:            Then stop whining and complaining…

                         (shifts to a serious tone) fine… Minho…
                         as I have said… long before I met you and Kibum…
                         I know my life’s fate…
                         I have already accepted my destiny…
                         so I am just blessed that I met Kibum and…
                         hhhmmm also you… so shut up…

Minho:             (pouts) I am not complaining I am just sharing my feelings…

Natalie:            (giggles) aaawww… so cute Minho… anyway…
                        
                        (stretches her arms upward) hhhoohuumm…. Minho…?

Minho:             (looks at Natalie) Yeah…

Natalie:            I think I need to give you some labor for Kibum’s love sake…

Minho:             (cringes his eyebrows) What do you mean…

Natalie:            (puts both of her hands on Minho’s left shoulder)
                        Let’s just say… the act of giving someone dear to me away… 
                        sort of offering…

                         (puts her pointer finger on her lips) let’s see…
                         (eyes glistens) I know…

Minho:             What…?

Natalie:            I am hungry… so cook for me… I am tired…..
                        so give me a massage… I want to take a bath…
                        so prepare the bathroom… hhhmmm… what else…?

                        (sighs with a sound) hhhuumm…
                        I guess that’s it for now…

Minho:             So I am your maid now?

Natalie:            (looks at Minho) do you want another bite to dust and smack attack…
                         just let me know…

Minho:             (whining) aaaiishh fine…
                       
                        (then mood changes to a happy one when
                        he reaches Natalie’s belly to rub it) 
                        Kids… sorry your angel mother is asking me
                        to do a lot of things for her so excuse me….please…

Natalie:            (laughing) ok… kids… excuse your future Umma…
                        He’s rather being sensitive…
                        so I am going to loosen up his emotions…

                        (looks at Minho) My dearest dongsaeng…
                        Cook for your Noona…

Minho:             (nodding) yeah… my demanding Noona…

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