Chapter 10: The Flowers

She rang the doorbell several times and waited; a voice suddenly came from the small intercom

“Oh ~ Youngmi-noona, just a second”

Came Ryeowook’s voice and soon the door got unlocked and opened revealing the eternal magnae with the official magnae. Kyuhyun pulled her inside while Ryeowook closed the door.

“Hyung! Youngmi-noona’s here!”

Yelled Kyuhyun as he finally released her to be seated in the living room; it was quite early in the morning and some of the members were just waking up. Donghae walked passed her like a zombie but mumbled a ‘good morning noona’ afterwards he proceeded to the kitchen to have breakfast.

‘Heechul still isn’t awake’

She thought to herself; Kyuhyun sighed and turned to her

“Noona, you can go get him if you want –he’s probably sleeping since he doesn’t have a schedule until later this evening”

She looked at him, her eyes full of suspicion as she crossed her arms over her chest. The magnae met her strong gaze and crossed his arms aswell as he looked down on her since she was shorter than him.

“Mwo? Why are you looking at me like that?”

He asked with his poker face on

“Why are you being nice today and why did you address me with ‘noona’ when you usually don’t?”

His smirk transformed into a wry smile

“Heechul-hyung lost our game last night and there was a bet, he’s upset about it which is something I’m proud of”

“I don’t even get it”

He placed a hand on her shoulder

“He hasn’t come out of the room yet and I don’t think he’s planning to; you both have an appointment today don’t you? Good luck getting him”

He then walked away, leaving her. As she was about to start walking to Heechul’s room, the bathroom door opened and Eunhyuk came out –the worst part of it was that he was ! Youngmi gasped & covered her eyes; Eunhyuk noticed her and immediately covered his area.

“OMO!”

He exclaimed and quickly ran to his room; once she heard a door close, she removed her hands from her eyes and sighed in relief. The hallway was clear; she walked to Heechul’s room and knocked on the door.

“Heechul-oppa?”

She called but there was no answer. She grabbed the door knob and found that it wasn’t locked; she turned and pushed the door open, first poking her head inside the dark room.

“Oppa?”

Despite the sun shining outside, his room was pretty dark and the only thing giving off light was the lamp on his bedside table. He was still tucked underneath the thick sheets. Youngmi sighed and walked over to him, closing the door behind her.

“Heechul, get up we’re going somewhere today remember?”

He didn’t even speak a word nor turn but just let out a groan. Youngmi sat on the side edge of his bed and began to shake him but all he did was turn his back on her.

“Yah! Heechul-ah!”

This time he let out an irritated groan, he sat up, wrapped his arms around her and pulled her down with him in bed. Youngmi let out a scream but Heechul silenced her with his hand. His leg locked up on her hip.

“Shut up, I wanna sleep”

He told her; she managed to get out of his grasp and sit up. She got out of the bed with an unpleasant look on her face.

“Knock it off Heechul! We have to fix things today for the wedding!”

-

“Knock it off Heechul! We have to fix things today for the wedding!”

Leeteuk overheard as he passed by Heechul’s room on the way to the kitchen where everyone else was having breakfast. As soon as he sat down, he began to speak

“Youngmi’s here quite early today”

Ryeowook took a seat with everyone else and began to fill up his bowl

“She went here to get Heechul-hyung; they have something to take care of today”

Kyuhyun explained as Leeteuk smirked

“Do they? It sounds like Youngmi-ah’s pissed of at him, she’s yelling”

“He’s in a bad mood about last night”

Donghae mumbled; Eunhyuk had his face down but his red cheeks were still visible and this is what Yesung noticed.

“What’s up with you Hyuk?”

He shot his head away from the others’ gazes.

“N-Nothing”

Kyuhyun sniggered; he actually caught a glimpse of what had happened. Leeteuk turned to him, seeing as though he had an idea about why Eunhyuk was acting strange.

“Kyuhyun-ah, you seem like you have an idea”

Eunhyuk turned to the magnae with widened eyes but he was called ‘EvilKyu’ for a reason.

“It’s nothing serious hyung, Hyukjae-ah is just embarrassed because Youngmi saw him walking out of the bathroom ”

It was silent for a moment then everyone cracked out laughing, however Leeteuk –being the leader and hyung of all hyungs & donsaeng- turned to Kyuhyun.

“Yah! Use formalities!”

The magnae just nodded his head sideways with his arms crossed

“Don’t wanna!”

He sighed; Kyuhyun was such a hard-headed kid. Leeteuk turned to Eunhyuk.

“Don’t worry Hyuk-ah; I’m sure it wasn’t that bad”

Kyuhyun sniggered

“Yeah, it was just super bad”

Eunhyuk sighed, burying his face in his hands. All of a sudden, they all fall in silence as they hear another scream.

“Fine! Maybe I’ll do this on my own, you selfish jerk!”

A door then opened and slammed close, hard footsteps came and they caught sight of Youngmi. She stopped by the kitchen doorway and bowed but just as she was about to leave, Sungmin got up and ran to catch her. He grabbed her hand just before she could reach for the door knob

“Wait noona!”

She didn’t look so happy but forced her frown away as she turned to Sungmin

“Neh?”

He hesitated at first but put on a smile

“I don’t have a schedule today, can I go with you?”

She was quite surprised by his offer but smiled and accepted anyway.

-

Just a little after Youngmi and Sungmin left the premises, Heechul got out of his room with a blank look on his face. He walked into the kitchen where Yesung, Leeteuk and Siwon were sitting around the table with snacks; he sat down with them and grabbed a bag of chips.

“Youngmi-ah seems upset”

Leeteuk mentioned, Heechul smirked and looked away as he bit hardly on the chips –he bit on them so hard that the three could hear the chips being smashed into pieces! Heechul wasn’t so happy today aswell.

“She gets on my nerves; I don’t even know why I asked her to marry me in the first place!”

He said; Siwon sighed and placed down the paper he was reading then turned to his hyung

“Hyung, are you saying that you regret proposing to her?”

Heechul paused from eating and resumed but this time, chewing normally. The three were waiting for an answer from him but he gave them none, Leeteuk got up from his chair and went to the sink to wash his cup.

“You know, it’s only normal for a girl to fret over their wedding... I mean, for Youngmi she can only get married once”

He dried off his hands and turned to Heechul

“But you know, she’s not the only one getting married here so don’t you think it’s unfair that she does all the fretting?”

-

Youngmi parked the car on the side of the street; she turned off the engine & took out the keys, unbuckled her seatbelt, grabbed her bag from the back of the car and then got out of the car as Sungmin did.

“What are we doing here noona?”

He asked; she smiled and pushed open the door of the store.

“You still haven’t gotten your measures for your tux on our wedding day, so here we are”

They were here at the shop where they previously had their bodies measured and today were Sungmin’s turn. To the shop assistants’ pleasure, the aegyo king was more than what they could handle.

“Aigoo ~ he’s so cute Ms. Youngmi”

The owner’s daughter squealed as she sat next to Youngmi on the couch.

“He’s one of my fiancé’s groomsmen plus he’s twice as old as you, where’s your mom anyway?”

“She went out but anyway, where’s your fiancé?”

Youngmi sighed and just nodded her head sideways.

As she waited for Sungmin to finish, her phone rang and Heechul’s name was popping up on the screen. Should she or should she not? Being Heechul, she couldn’t refuse even if it was against her will.

“Yes?”

“Where are you?”

“Wae?”

Heechul let out an irritated sigh on the other line

“Just tell me where you are”

“Look, just rest okay Heechul? I don’t want you coming here and nagging me all day so if you’re not willing then just don’t come”

She placed the phone down on him.

As the day pressed on, Heechul kept sending her angry messages and some even threatening her to pull of the wedding but she ignored every single one of them and just went on with the day with Sungmin.

As they stopped at a restaurant for lunch, her phone kept ringing and Sungmin didn’t fail to notice.

“Aren’t you gonna answer that?”

He asked, pointing to her phone next to her with his chopsticks. Youngmi sighed and picked up the phone.

“Neh?”

She held the phone away from her ear

“YAH! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE IGNORING ALL MY TEXTS AND CALLS?! HOW DARE YOU NOT TO BE THREATENED?! WHERE ARE YOU?! ARE YOU CHEATING ON ME WITH SUNGMIN?! THAT KID’S GONNA BE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE WHEN HE GETS HOME! HAVE YOU SWOONED OVER HIS AEGYO?! I’LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT I KNOW MORE AEGYO THAN HIM! ARE YOU NOT SATISFIED WITH ME WOMAN?! YAH! NAM YOUNGMI! ANSWER ME!”

She let out a low growl

“Heechul –“

“DO YOU NOT REALIZE WHO YOU ARE GOING TO MARRY?! I, KIM HEECHUL, AM MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN LEE SUNGMIN! YOUNGMI?! ARE YOU IGNORING ME?! YAH!”

“Heechul shut your mouth for a second”

And silence fell on the other line

“Sungmin & I are just gonna go decide which flowers to use in the wedding”

After that she placed the phone down. She didn’t have the time to deal with Heechul’s tantrums right now; if he didn’t want to help then she would let him be.

“Narcissistic idiot”

She puffed out a sigh and finished the food on her plate.

“So, you really are willing to put up with Heechul-hyung and his attitude noona?”

She just shrugged.

After lunch, they finally went to the flower shop that was referred to by Youngmi’s umma and as they opened the door to the shop, they were greeted by the workers and the florist. It was quite a surprise to have such people at first but they soon got over it & she began to talk with the florist.

“I was thinking if you have blue roses?”

The florist thought for a moment then asked Youngmi to follow her, they went inside a room where there were diffent shades of blue roses, and they were placed in a vase of blue tinted water or something.

“They’re not natural blue roses but they’re experimented”

Youngmi’s eyes were captured by the bluest roses, she examined the flowers well and was about to turn and ask Heechul when she realized that he wasn’t here. Her face went blank, deep inside her; she thought it would’ve been nice if he was here to help her choose.

“Can you show me other flowers? Something that would go with the blue & white motif”

-

8:05 PM

After dropping off Sungmin at the apartment, Youngmi drove home and as she was nearing their house she couldn’t help but notice someone sitting on the sidewalk near their home & the stranger had his/her head hanging low as he/she held her knees close. As she drove passed the figure, she sighed realizing who it was.

Youngmi parked up the car and gathered her things; she pushed the car door open and got out slamming it behind her then with a push of a button the car locked. She walked towards the figure that didn’t seem to notice her. However, just as she was about to speak, he beat her to it.

“Can you tell Dr. Nam Youngmi that she’s very hard to find? I bought her flowers; can you give them to her?”

He was merely mumbling the words out of his mouth as he then grabbed the bouquet beside him that didn’t Youngmi failed to see and held it out to her. Despite her raging annoyance with Heechul because of his attitude this morning, she couldn’t help but chuckle and accept the flowers and seeing as though he didn’t have any plans of getting up from the sidewalk, she sat down next to him and hooked her arm on his.

Heechul smiled and turned to face her.

“I’m irresistible aren’t I? That’s why you fell inlove with me in the first place”

Youngmi met his gaze

“Babo ~”

Heechul scrunched his face and looked away while Youngmi just laughed at his expression. She looked at the flowers; they were the same ones he gave her: White lilies and roses.

“You know oppa I haven’t decided on the flowers but I think this will do”

She smiled; he looked at the flowers then her

“But I’ll just replace the roses with blue ones”

He quickly got up and ran a hand through his hair charismatically

“I’m a genius, I knew you couldn’t decide on the flowers that’s why I brought you those! I’m such a great boyfriend!”

Youngmi puffed out a sigh and began heading for their front door

“Good night oppa!”

She yelled before slamming the door close

“Yah! Let me in! It’s cold out here!”