I woke up earlier than the rest of the girls. Since we slept late last night, I didn't want to wake them up. I went down to my room to take a bath and got ready to meet Uncle Kwon at his office. Aunt and Uncle Kim were already awake when I came down to the dining area. Aunt Kim prepared some toast for me as I sat down beside Uncle Kim. I suddenly remembered what Appa had asked me to do.

"Uncle Kim, will you be able to drive me to Uncle Kwon office later?"

"Of course. It's been a while since I last drive you around. I'll go and prepare the car while you eat your breakfast, okay."

After finishing my breakfast, I took my plates and brought it to the sink. Aunt Kim wanted to wash it for me but I said that it was okay. I then thanked her for the breakfast and walked out to the front to meet Uncle Kim. He opened the back door for me but I told him that I wanted to sit in the front today.

"Uncle Kim, why didn't you accept Appa's offer to the ownership of the house?' I asked the old man when the car was already out of the gate.

"Ownership of the house? How can I accept it? It's too much for me and my family to take. Your family had helped us a lot over the years. We can never be able repay back your kindness."

"But Uncle Kim, we've never wanted it to be repaid back. You've already sold your own house and have been looking after the house for the past few years. I don't even know if Appa will ever be coming back here. Why don't you just take it, Uncle Kim? I don't want Taeng to keep saying that she doesn't even have a home and always refer that house as my house. Both of us grew up in that house. It should be our home."

"Taeyeon said that?" I saw Uncle Kim sighed.

"Uncle Kim, don't be angry at her. She didn't mean it in a bad way. It's just that I've always treated Taeyeon as my own sister and your family like my own too. Taeyeon still has inferiority complex and I always think that I'm partly to be blame. Please reconsider it once again."

I saw Uncle Kim frowning as if he was in deep thoughts. By then, we had already reached our destination. I opened the door and when I was just about to close it, I heard Uncle Kim's voice.

"Jae, thank you for always taking care of Taeyeon. About what you said just now, let me go back and discuss it with Aunt first." I smiled at him widely as I put my thumbs up. "By the way, what time do you want me to pick you up later?"

"It's okay, Uncle Kim. I'm not sure what time it'll end and I've got something that I want to do later. I'll go home on my own. No worries and please help me to remind the girls to practice the song. Thanks, Uncle Kim."

I was ushered in to Uncle Kwon's office as the elder man gestured me to sit at the chair in front of him. Uncle Kwon told me about whatever discussion that he had with Appa and that he had already received all the drafts of my designs. Both of us then had an intense discussion on the flow of the operation and I asked if there was anything that I was able to assist in. Uncle Kwon said that he will try his best to complete the renovation before Christmas. Renovation will commence next Monday as he needed some time to prepare for the construction materials and resources. Since it's the summer break at the moment, Uncle Kwon asked me to visit the orphanage next week with me to see if there was any changes needed to be done. I agreed to his suggestion and asked him to message me for any updates. After 2hrs, we both ended the discussion and promised to meet up next week for the visit.

I exited Uncle Kwon's building and started to walk to the direction that was given to me by the receptionist. Earlier on, I had asked for the location of the nearest bank. After 20mins of walking, I reached the place. Lucky for me, it was not crowded. I asked the teller at the counter if it was possible to deposit the cheque that my Appa gave to me and at the same time, allow me to withdraw out the cash. The lady was shocked to see the huge amount and told me that she would need to consult her supervisor first. I nodded my head and waited at the counter. The lady came back and told me to take a seat at one of the couch first as she needed to verify the cheque first since it involves quite a big amount of money.

It took them about 30mins to get it all done. While waiting for them, I tried to find out Jessica's mum company address from the internet. Luckily, Jessica had told me before the company's name so it wasn't that difficult to find it. Once I had the address, I noted it down. The teller told me to follow her into a private room to collect the money. Due to safety reasons, she was not allowed to openly passed the money to me as it might attract unwanted attention. I thanked her for the thoughtful gesture and left the bank with the money neatly stacked in an envelope and placed inside my backpack.

I hailed a cab and told him the address. On my way there, I took out a plan white paper and started to write a note and placed it in the envelope. When I reached the place, I asked the cab driver to wait for me for a while. I took out a cap and covered my face with a small mask before walking up to the receptionist and asked her to pass the envelope to the director of the company. I acted like a delivery person as the receptionist nodded her head. Within 10mins, I was already out of the place and on my way back home.

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The girls were busy practicing when I came in. On the way up earlier, Aunt Kim informed me to tell the girls that lunch was ready. The moment I told the girls to go down for lunch, Sooyoung was the first one to rush down as we just laughed out loud at the tall shikshin.

"Jae, where did you go earlier and why didn't you bring us all?" Sooyoung asked as she scooped a spoonful of rice into .

I told them where I went earlier and they got excited when they heard that I had passed the money to Jessica's mum office.

"I wonder what her mum's reaction will be when she received the money. But did you put any note inside?" Yuri asked.

"I did. I left a note inside the envelope, along with the cash money."

"But why didn't you just gave her the cheque instead? It was dangerous to carry all that cash around." Taeyeon said as she frowned at me.

"I didn't want her mum to track down the owner of the cheque, that's why I preferred cash. Even the note was anonymous."

"What did you write on the note anyway, Jae?" Sooyoung said as I noticed that Sooyoung was already on her 2nd serving of rice.

"Please use this money to repay the debts and cancel off the arranged marriage between Jessica Jung and Ok Taecyeon. Thank you."

"Wow, do you think her mum will just take the money and gave it to them?" Yuri asked as the rest of the girls looked at me intently.

"I'm not sure but let's just hope for the best."

All of us finished our food and went up to the music room after clearing the table. We continued practicing the same song that we had planned to perform at Tiffany's party. After playing the song for 5 continuous times, the girls decided to stop for awhile and play other songs instead. We ended up playing around with different songs and even trying to change the lyrics of some of the songs just for the fun of it. We only stopped playing when Sooyoung said that she was feeling hungry. We looked at the watch and saw that it was already 7pm.

"Oh . I'm suppose to go back to the dorm tonight since I've already slept here yesterday. Oh nooo.. Sunny's going to kill me. I already told her that I'll eat dinner with her tonight."

"I think Aunt Kim had already prepared dinner for us. Why don't you packed some of the food for you and Sunny while I'll go and asked Uncle Kim to send you back to the dorm. Maybe you can packed some food for Jessica too."

"That's a good idea. Okay, I'll go down and asked Aunt Kim to pack for me." Sooyoung left the room in a rush as the 3 of us just followed her from the back.

I went down to ask Uncle Kim for his help to send Sooyoung back. Yuri also said that she wanted to go back to her own house so Uncle Kim will drop her off on the way. The house became much quieter after the two of them left as me and Taeyeon decided to chill by the pool after having our dinner.

"Taeng, don't you miss Tiffany?" I asked as both of us leaned back on the reclining chairs.

"I do. There isn't a moment when I don't think of her. But right now, I feel so guilty for pushing her away that it makes us both in an awkward position. I don't even dare to call or message her."

"Follow your heart, Taeng. Sometimes, you can't wait for things to happen. Instead, you need to create opportunities for it to happen."

"What if she's still angry with me?"

"You won't know unless you try. Why don't you try to leave her a text?"

Taeyeon took out her phone and I saw her staring at it for 10sec without doing anything. I grabbed her phone and quickly typed a message before sending it.

"Yah!!! What did you type, Jae?" Taeyeon looked at her sent message, 'I miss you'. "What???!! Oh noo.. Fany's going to kill me."

"Relax, Taeng. Anyway, that's the truth. You are missing her. Just be honest with each other."

Taeyeon was just about to say something back when her phone beeped to indicate an incoming text. A smile appeared on Taeyeon's face as she showed me her phone screen.

From Fany:

I'm still angry with you but I miss you too. I'm sorry if I did anything wrong, Taetae.

'What should I reply, Jae?" Taeyeon looked at me with a frown.

"Like I said, Taeng. Just be honest. Call her and talked things out. Then get some rest."

"Thanks, Jae. I'll do that." Taeyeon stood up as she dialed Fany's number. I saw her walking to her room at the back as I continued looking up to the sky. It suddenly reminded me of my mum. 'Omma, do you think I did the right thing with regards to Jessica? Even if she doesn't return my feelings, please let her be happy again. I love you, Omma and I miss you a lot.' I stood up from the chair and made my way up to my room.

I was just about to lie down on my bed when my phone beeped.

From Sooyoung:

Hey, Jae. Just want to inform you that Sunny told me Jessica went back home today. She left the dorm around 6pm just now. Sunny told me that Jessica's mum had asked her to return home urgently. Just thought that you should know about it.

P/S: I already ate Jessica's share of food.

From Jae:

Thanks Soo for the info. Hopefully everything will be fine. Rest well early and update me if you have any latest news. Thanks.

I put my phone to the side table and stared at the ceiling. I didn't even realised when I had fallen asleep.

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Feeling my bed shaking vigorously, I abruptly woke up, thinking that something bad was going to happen. Well something bad was really going to happen but not to me. Instead it'll happen to the hyper midget who was jumping around on my bed, smiling like an idiotic person.

"What the hell, Taeng? Don't you have any other civilised way of waking me up?" I tried throwing a pillow at her but missed.

"Morning, Jae. Did you sleep well last night? I know I did." That dorky smile never left her face.

"Well, I was sleeping peacefully until you disturb it. Come here, you midget!" I pounced on Taeyeon and caught her off-guard. I put my arms around her neck and gave her a headlock. I lifted up her tee shirt a bit to reveal her stomach and was about to tickle her when my hand stop mid-air. "Did you say you slept well? Does that mean you had settle things with Tiffany?"

Taeyeon was struggling to release herself from my grip as she kept nodding her head furiously. I let her go and asked her to tell me what happened during the chat. Taeyeon said she followed my advise and told Tiffany her honest feelings about the whole situation and also the reason to why she didn't want to go to the party.

"At first, Fany was nagging at me for comparing myself with Siwon. She said that she never thought that I would put myself down because of that. She then apologised for not being sensitive enough to my feelings which I quickly said that it was not her fault to begin with. Now I feel bad for the way I've treated her." Taeyeon looked down with a guilty face.

"You should feel guilty. How many times did I tell you never to look down on yourself? There are people out there who don't judge others by their wealth. You are a great person, Taeng. You just need to believe in that."

"Thanks, Jae. You always knew how to knock some sense into me. By the way, Fany said that if it makes me feel uncomfortable about the party, I don't have to force myself to come. She couldn't cancel the party since her dad already made the arrangements but she said that she would like to celebrate it with me the next day. I told her that it's a good suggestion and I would make arrangements for it."

"A good suggestion? I thought you are going to her party?" I looked at Taeyeon with confusion.

"Of course, I'm going to her party but it's meant to be a surprise right, you pabo." Taeyeon flicked me on my forehead before she jumped off my bed and ran to the door.

"Yah!!" I was rubbing my forehead when I heard her saying that it was her revenge for the flick that I gave her after the finals that day. Taeng also screamed asking me to get ready for breakfast.

Aunt Kim and Taeyeon were eating at the dining table when I came down to join them. Uncle Kim was at the swimming pool, cleaning the area around it. Aunt Kim then prepared a plate of kimchi fried rice for me. I teased Taeyeon by saying that she should learn how to cook kimchi fried from her mum. Taeyeon then said that she won't cook for me anymore when we return to the dorm. As we continued teasing each other, our phones beeped. Both of us looked at the message then looked up at each other.

From Sooyoung:

Everyone, if possible please gather at XYZ cafe at 6pm today. It's a request by Jessica. Thanks and see you all later.

"Did you receive the same message from Soo also?" I asked Taeng who nodded her head.

"What do you think the meet up is about, Jae? The money?" Taeyeon looked at me with a finger on her chin.

"I'm not sure myself. Let's wait and see later. For now, I want to go up and play on the grand piano. It's been sometime since I played with it." I left the table and walked up to the 2nd floor.

Taeyeon followed me up and sat at the couch near the piano. I started playing random songs and before I knew it, Taeyeon had fallen asleep on the couch. I was about to wake her up when Uncle and Aunt Kim walked up the stairs and called me softly. I joined them at the table near the stairs so as not to disturb Taeyeon sleeping.

"Jae, I heard from Uncle Kim about the discussions both of you had yesterday. Frankly speaking, I'm too ashamed to even be talking about this. Your family has done a lot to assist us in any possible way to make our family live in comfort. To have you persuading my husband to accept he ownership of this house will be too great for our family. But Taeyeon...." Aunt Kim sighed as I saw that she was trying to hold back her tears.

"Both of us didn't realise how uncomfortable Taeyeon was about the whole situation. We thought that she was happily enjoying her live. We didn't know about her inferiority complex. You should know how she is. She won't tell anybody much about her feelings and will always supressed it. I had a discussion with my wife yesterday and we decided that if it was agreeable with your dad, we would like to buy over the house."

"Buy over? But Uncle Kim, Appa wants to give it to you. Not sell it to you." I was trying hard to think if there was any miscommunication in my talk with Uncle Kim yesterday.

"I know. But like what my wife said, accepting it would be too much for us. So we thought of buying it. We still have the money from selling our own house and also some savings from working with your parents over the years. Hopefully it'll be enough." 

I sat there looking at the both of them and nodded my head. I told them that I'll inform my dad about their decision and will keep them updated about the whole situation. Both of them thanked me and went down the stairs, leaving me alone at the table. I clasped both my hands and put them under my chin as I stared at the wall in front of me. I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn't hear my phone ringing. I had left it by the piano earlier and the sound woke Taeyeon up.

"Yah!! Park Hyun Jae!! Your phone is ringing!!"

I ran towards my phone as Taeyeon threatened to throw a pillow at me. I answered the phone and at the same time meronged at Taeyeon.

Yuri: Jae, do you want to join me and Yoona to look for Tiffany's present? And I bet that midget hasn't even bought any present for her girlfriend yet.

Jae: Wait. Let me ask her first.

I turned to face Taeyeon. "Have you bought Fany's present yet?" From the look of Taeyeon's wide-eyed and jaws dropped expression, I can safely presume that she had forgotten about it.

Jae: Yul, both of us will join you. I don't have to wait for Taeng's answer to know since her expression showed it all. We'll meet you at the mall in an hour.

Yul: I'll be driving my dad's car so I'll come over and pick you both later.

I told Taeng about our discussion and told her to get ready. Taeyeon dashed down to her room downstairs while I walked to my room.

We reached the mall at around 3pm and met up with Sooyoung and Sunny there. On the way to the mall earlier, we stopped to pick Yoona up after Yuri came to fetch me and Taeyeon. Taeyeon said that she already had something in mind about what to get Tiffany so we followed her to the shop. She showed us the item and all of us agreed that she should get it. After we left the shop, all of us went our separate ways to find our own present for Fany and decided to meet up at the cafe at 6pm. Yoonyul and Soosun went their own ways while I was with Taeyeon.

"Hey, Jae. You told me last night, that we should be honest with ourselves but aren't you not doing the same thing to Jessica?"

"What do you mean, Taeng?"

"Well, you're not being honest about your feelings to her and also about the money."

I sighed as I pondered on what Taeyeon said. "It's true that I am not being honest with Jessica but I just feel that it's not the time yet to tell her. Anyway, my situation is different from yours so it doesn't really work that way. Back to our actual plan,  what should I get for Tiffany?"

"Anything pink will do."

"In that case, should I just wrapped you up in pink and give it to her?" I laughed as Taeyeon meronged at me.

"You can't. Because you can't give her something that already belongs to her, which is me." She smiled dorkily at me while I pretended to vomit at her chessiness.

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Both of us were 10mins late when we arrived at the cafe, all thanks to Taeyeon who kept shoving me with pink items when we were at the departmental store. We walked up to the table when we saw Sooyoung waving at us. The rest of the girls were already there. Taeyeon excitedly sat opposite Tiffany and smiled like an idiot while I sat opposite Jessica and gave her my most charming smile. The waiter came to take our orders and left. The girls were teasing Tiffany and Taeyeon but at the same time, they were glad that both of them had resolved their problems. Taeyeon had explained the whole situation to the rest of the girls.

"So I guess everyone is already here right?" All of us nodded our head to Jessica. "Well, you all must be wondering to why I called for this meet up urgently. To keep it short, the arranged marriage is off." Jessica smiled so cutely that I really felt like pinching her cheeks.

"Mwo?!! Really? What happened?" Tiffany was the first one to show reaction to the Jessica's statement.

Everyone was just looking at Jessica curiously, waiting for her to tell the story. Well, except maybe the 4 of us who already knew part of the story.

"My mum called me yesterday evening, asking me to return home urgently. When I reached home, my mum was waiting for me at the living room. The shocking part was that there were stacks of cash on the table. I walked in and sat beside my mum. I asked her about the cash on the table. She said that her receptionist handed over an envelope earlier in the office. The money was in it along with a note that states 'Please use this money to repay the debts and cancel off the arranged marriage between Jessica Jung and Ok Taecyeon. Thank you.' My mum told me that the money on the table is equivalent to 500million won. She asked me if I could think of anyone who would do all this."

"There wasn't any name on the note? How about the CCTV? Can't you see who gave the money to the receptionist?" Sunny asked as Jessica shook her head.

"It was an anonymous note. She couldn't see the person face from the CCTV due to the cap and mask. We consulted our lawyer to ask about the matter to find out if it was okay to actually receive that large amount of money and he said that it shouldn't be a problem since the note specifically states my name and Taecyeon's name."

"So what happened after that?" Yoona asked.

"My mum took the money to Taecyeon's dad company this morning and gave him the money. She also told him that the marriage is off." Jessica smiled happily.

"Did your mum asked for the original letter that states about your family owing them money? Or ask for any form of document to prove that the debts had been cleared?" It was Seohyun's turned to ask.

"She did. She took back the original document and also asked for a new document to show that the debt had been settled. So now, I'm a free woman.' Jessica giggled at her own remarks.

"It's good to hear that everything is cleared now. So that means you are free to date anyone now." Hyoyeon laughed as the rest of us joined in.

"But what I'm curious right now, is how come the 4 of you doesn't seem to be as shocked as the rest of us and how come all 4 of you are not asking any questions to Jessica?" Sunny asked as she pointed her fingers to me, then Taeyeon, followed by Yuri and lastly Sooyoung.

The 3 of them turned to look at me with awkward smile as I calmly answered. "There was nothing much left to ask since the rest of you had asked most of the questions and we are all shocked too. Maybe we didn't show as much reaction as you all. Right, girls?" I turned to look at the other 3 girls who nodded vigourously. I noticed that Sunny was still looking at us skeptically so I decided to change the attention away from us.

"So Tiffany, how's the preparation for your birthday party? Everything going well?"

"Well, my dad is handling all the arrangement so I think everything should be okay. Before I forget, there's a theme to my party. Every guest is expected to wear something red on them." Tiffany smiled.

"All of us are going together right?" Jessica asked.

"Except for Taetae. I've already asked her not to attend if she feels uncomfortable about it. But we are going to celebrate it the next day. Right, Taetae?" Tiffany gave her eye-smile to Taeyeon who nodded her head.

We continued our small chat until it was time to head back. Hyoyeon and Seohyun went off to watch a late night movie while Sooyoung, Sunny and Jessica took the cab to head back to the dorm. Yuri drove the rest of us home, dropping off Tiffany first then Yoona, before subsequently dropping me and Taeyeon off.