As we gave each other a tight hug and patted each other's back, I couldn't stop myself from smiling. After all the hardships that we had went through, all of us had finally graduated. Well, except for Seohyun and Yoona who still have one more year to go.

"Let's gather around to take a group photo." Yoona suggested as Seohyun stood beside her.

Once photo-taking was done, everyone went off to spend time with their families. I saw Appa Jung and Omma Jung walking towards me and Jessica as I volunteeed to take a photo of them. Appa Jung handed a bouquet of flower to Jessica who seemed super excited at the moment.

I stood aside to let the 3 of them have their own family time as I looked around the school compound. 'I'm sure going to miss this place a lot.' I thought to myself as I heard someone calling my name.

"Jae unnie!! Unnie!!!"

I turned around and was surprised to see an energetic Amber running towards me. She was holding on to a big white stuffed bear in one hand while the other hand was holding on to Krystal who seemed to be dragged along by Amber.

"Hi, Am. Hi, Krystal." I smiled at both of them as I noticed Krystal blushing.

"Yah!! Why are you blushing? All she did was just smile and said hi to you. Stop crushing on someone's else girlfriend." Amber started to nag as Krystal glared at her.

"Shut up, stoopid." Krystal answered as I saw Amber grinning dorkily.

"Okay, princess." Amber replied before turning to face me. "I'm the only person that she'll call stoopid. Special nickname for me." Amber smiled at me while I just shook my head at their childish behaviour.

"Anyway, why are you both here?" I asked before Amber shoved the stuffed bear into my face.

"This is for you. Uncle Park ask if I could do him a favour by attending your graduation on his behalf. He told me to get you flowers but I don't think it matches well with you." Amber explained as she grinned again.

"And you think a stuffed bear suits me?" I asked as I arched my left eyebrow at Amber who just nodded her head.

I was about to continue talking when I heard Taeyeon's voice calling out for Amber. Soon, everyone was gathered around Amber and Krystal as they questioned the two of them about their relationship status. Krystal kept saying that they're just friends while Amber just shrugged her shoulders. When they couldn't get an answer from the two of them, the girls turned their attention to me and teased me about my big stuffed bear. I was about to retort when my phone beeped.

From Ailee:

Hi Jae. Congratulations on your graduation. Help me to say it to the rest of the girls too, okay. So what's the plan now after graduation? Do you have any vacancy in your company for me to apply for a job? Hahaha... By the way, I miss hanging out with you guys. Can you please plan a meet-up soon? Take care then and send my regards to everyone.

"Who was it?" Jessica appeared beside me as I showed her the message from Ailee. "She wants to work with you?"

"I think she's just kidding. She laughed after saying it, right?" I said as I informed everyone about Ailee's message.

"We should plan a meet-up with her. She's graduating too, right?" Sunny asked as I nodded my head. "We can have a post-graduation party for everyone."

Yoona and Seohyun then volunteered to organise the party for us. Appa Jung and Omma Jung walked up to us and congratulated everyone. Just when I was about to say something, Taecyeon appeared in front of us.

"Annyeonghaseyo, Auntie." Taecyeon greeted Omma Jung. "You must be Jessica's dad. Annyeonghaseyo, Uncle. Taecyeon-imnida."

As Taecyeon bowed in front of Appa Jung who had a clueless expression on his face, I had a deep frown on mine. I was feeling a bit pissed off with his habit of intruding into the personal space of others and it didn't go unnoticed by Jessica.

"Gwenchana?" She asked as she wrapped her arms around my waist.

I just smiled at her as I watched Omma Jung explaining something to Appa Jung who kept nodding his head. Taecyeon continued to just stand there with both hands clasped in front of him, smiling as if he was the most innocent person on earth.

"So you're the one who had an arranged marriage with my daughter." Appa Jung finally found out who Taecyeon was. "I'm sorry for causing trouble for you and disrupting so much of your life. You must have hated it to be tied down to an arranged marriage at such a young age."

Taecyeon suddenly shook his head. "Actually, I didn't hate it at all. Jessica is a great and lovely person to be with. I never regretted being in the arranged marriage with her. The only regret is when I was told that the arranged marriage was off without my consent."

"Your consent was not needed." I suddenly blurted out with a firm voice as I felt my temper rising.

Everyone was taken aback as I continued to glare at Taecyeon. Jessica tightened her hug around my waist as I heard Appa Jung coughed once to grab everyone's attention.

"Well, Taecyeon. I believe that everything happen for a reason. Don't hold any hard feelings to each other. I believe you can still remain as friends, right?" Appa Jung patted Taecyeon's shoulders as he turned to face everyone. "All of you will be entering the working world soon. You may see each other after this or you may not meet again. So it's better to end things well and only remember the good memories. Don't you all agree?"

Everyone nodded their heads in agreement to what Appa Jung had said as I took a deep breathe. Taecyeon continued talking to Appa Jung for a while before excusing himself soon after. Appa Jung then placed his hand on my head and patted it.

"Are you okay, my child?" He smiled at me as I nodded my head. "I know you were just trying to be protective earlier. I also know that you're not someone who will lose her temper easily. You must have really dislike him a lot, right?"

Appa Jung chuckled as I pouted and nodded. Jessica, who has been watching us since earlier, started to tell her Appa about what happened during the dinner meet-up with Taecyeon previously. All Appa Jung did was to laugh at it, saying how stupid Taecyeon was if he was to believe that Jae was just a normal average person.

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"Waahhh... Daebak." Yuri said the moment all of us walked in to the private bowling venue. "How did you manage to find this place?"

"I love this. This is great." Sooyoung commented as she stood in front of the bar counter where a bartender showed her the menu.

"I found it online." Yoona replied as everyone walked around to inspect the room. "This room can fit 12 to 15 person at once. There's 13 of us so I think it's fine. By the way, this is Dongwon. He'll be here to attend to us, preparing drinks and food."

Yoona pointed to the guy who had earlier handed Sooyoung the menu. Dongwon greeted us and informed that he can prepare all the food that was on the menu as he handed a few more menus to everyone.

Besides the 10 of us, Krystal, Amber and Ailee were also invited to the party which had been planned by Yoona and Seohyun for the past 2 weeks after our graduation. It was the first time for the 3 of them to meet each other and I was surprised to see Ailee and Amber hitting it off so well.

"Yah, Choi Sooyoung!! Are you going to spend your whole time at the counter?" Taeyeon said as she pointed at Sooyoung who was still at the counter. "Sunny, please look after your shikshin before she in all the food."

"Let's eat first before we begin our activity that me and Yoona had planned out." Seohyun said as everyone took a seat and started to order.

Everyone was busy enjoying their lunch and chatted among themselves with the soft instrumental music as their background. Half an hour later, Seohyun stood up and stopped in the middle of the room with a mic in her hand.

"Everyone, sorry to interrupt your lunch for a while. Our next activity after lunch will be the bowling competition. Initially, we wanted to have a couple game but since Ailee is by herself today, me and Yoona have decided to change it." Seohyun said as Ailee quickly raised up her hand.

"You don't have to worry about me. You should just go ahead with your plans. I don't mind being the audience or even the MC for the game." Ailee said as she smiled earnestly.

"No worries. If we have time, we'll do the couple game later. But first round will be a match between the girls and the guys." Seohyun said as Amber started to look around.

"There's guys joining us?" Amber asked as we started laughing at her.

"Yah, stoopid. The guys in the relationship. Meaning Taeng unnie, Soo unnie, Hyo unnie, Yul unnie, Jae unnie and you." Krystal replied as she folded her arms.

"Me? So I'm the guy in our relationship, princess?" Amber asked Krystal with a cheeky smile as Krystal started to turn red.

We started teasing them again but it changed to jeerings when Seohyun announced that Ailee will be joining the girl's team.

"Then it'll be 6 vs 7. That's not fair." Hyoyeon commented as Sooyoung, Yuri and Taeyeon nodded their heads.

"I'm sorry everyone. Because of me, it's an odd numbered game. I really don't mind staying out of the games." Ailee said as she bite her lips and looked guilty.

Seeing that Ailee was feeling bad, everyone quickly apologised and said that they were just joking around with each other and didn't mean to hurt her feelings or make her feel bad about joining our party.

"We have no problem with the arrangement, right guys?" I said as the other 5 girls nodded their heads. "But what's the reward and punishment for this game? I'm more interested in that."

My remarks caused a lot of cheerings from the 'guys' as we all started to give different suggestions such as singing, dancing, acting and even a thanks to Taeyeon's suggestion. The girls also came up with similar ideas except that they wanted their girlfriends to do 20 push-ups instead. In the end, it was decided that the team who win would choose the punishment for the losing team later.

While playing the game, we continued eating, chatting and joking around with each other. The first game ended with the girls winning it by a difference of 9 points. They gathered around and started to discuss about their punishments for their girlfriends.

"Aishhh, Soo. I didn't know you were this bad in bowling." Taeyeon said.

"If only your last throw didn't end up in the gutters, Soo unnie." Amber sighed as if she was really disappointed.

"Yah, I already said that it was because my fingers were oily so I didn't get a good grip of the bowling ball." Sooyoung tried to defend herself.

"That's because you couldn't stop eating the fried dumplings." Hyoyeon replied.

"Guys, it's just a game. Don't have to argue. We're here to have fun, remember?" I said as they nodded their heads.

"Okay, we've made our decision." Tiffany said as the girls spread out. "You'll be given 3 choices. Either to dance, sing or do the 20 push-ups. But only two person can choose the same thing."

"I'll do the push-ups then." Yuri grinned as Amber joined her.

"Then we'll dance." Hyoyeon quickly picked that option with Sooyoung giving her a high-five.

"Guess, we'll just have to sing." Taeyeon looked at me as I shrugged my shoulders.

Yuri and Amber decided to do the push-ups together and all of us were really impressed at their speed as they completed it in less than a minute. Next up was Sooyoung and Hyoyeon who did a dorky dance together while me and Taeyeon sang a duet.

"Okay. For the next activity, me and Seohyun will be passing around a box with small pieces of paper inside. Everyone will need to take a piece each. Hold on to the paper until I give the next instruction." Yoona explained as Seohyun held up a box. "We'll be playing a game of charades and Seohyun will be the one holding on to the cue cards. So it'll be 6 vs 6, this time round."

The box was passed around until it went back to Seohyun. She then handed it to Yoona who took the last piece of paper. Yoona then told everyone to show what was written on their paper and separate themselves accordingly. Yoona, Taeyeon, Tiffany, Amber, Sooyoung and me were in one team while Ailee, Sunny, Yuri, Hyoyeon, Krystal and Jessica were in the other team.

Laughters filled the room as everyone tried their best to act out the words that was on the cue cards which Seohyun was holding on to. All kinds of answers were thrown out, some nonsensical and some totally doesn't match what the other person was doing. In the end the winning team belongs to Ailee, Sunny, Yuri, Hyoyeon, Krystal and Jessica.

"Yah... you guys are lucky that Sunny and Ailee were able to guess most of the answer. I don't even know what Yuri and Hyoyeon were acting out most of the time." I said as Taeyeon and Sooyoung agreed with me.

"Okay, no more comments. So can the winning team gather around to discuss about the punishment for the losing team?" Seohyun suggested.

"I'm going to the bathroom for a while." Sooyoung said as me and Taeyeon also excused ourselves, citing that we needed the bathroom too.

"Is there a back door near the bathroom?" Taeyeon asked as Sooyoung nodded her head and pointed to the door that was at the end of the hallway..

"I've already checked with Dongwon earlier." Sooyoung pushed open the back door as the 3 of us quickly went to my car.

"Choi Sooyoung, let me ask this for the very last time. Are you sure this is what you want?" Taeyeon asked as I took the guitar out from the boot of my car. "It's only been two weeks since we graduated. Don't you think it's too fast?"

"I'm very sure of this, Taeng. I've been waiting for this day since 4yrs ago after Sunny agreed to be my girlfriend. I'm very sure that I'm ready and I believe she is too." Sooyoung said with her confidence b through her eyes.

"In that case, let's just wait for Yul and Hyo to give us the signal. By the way, have you memorise everything?" I asked as Sooyoung nodded her head.

A few minutes later, a message from Yuri came in to inform that everything was ready and we can proceed back into the room.

Inside the room (10mins ago),

The winning team were busy discussing about what to do as Yuri and Hyoyeon kept suggesting for a performance of singing and dancing.

"But you already did that earlier." Sunny replied. "We should ask them to do something else."

"How about we tell them to perform a y dance instead? We'll dim off the light when they're performing." Yuri tried her luck again.

"Earlier on, me and Soo did the dorky dance so now it's something different." Hyoyeon added on to which they finally agreed.

Hyoyeon volunteered to stand near the switches so that she could control the lightings. After they informed their decision to Seohyun, everyone took a seat as Yuri quickly typed a message to Taeyeon. When the other team heard about their punishment, they had no choice but to agree with it.

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"Pssstt, Hyo. Help me to look after the guitar." I handed the guitar to Hyoyeon who were seated near the bar counter where the switches were.

Hyoyeon placed it under the counter, away from the eyes of everyone else. Me, Sooyoung and Taeyeon joined therest with a poker face as Amber, Yoona and Tiffany informed us about our punishment.

"y dance? I just dance earlier." Sooyoung said as if she was reluctant to dance again.

"You can choose to dance solo or duet or even as a group." Ailee explained as I quickly replied that I want to dance with Sooyoung.

I think Jessica noticed something was not right as I caught her staring at me but I just grinned and showed her a 'peace' sign. The other 4 girls decided to dance together and even though the starting part was y enough, it ended as a dorky dance all thanks to Taeyeon and Amber who were playing around. The lights that was dimmed earlier, came on again as I saw Hyoyeon grinning by the wall when the perfomance ended.

"Our next dance will consist of chairs so we'll need two chairs in the centre of the room." I started explaining as Sooyoung placed the chairs. "Hyo, you can start to dim the light now."

Instead of dimming the light, Hyoyeon totally switched it off, causing the others to panic a little. Within that few seconds of panic, Yuri took the mic from the table to pass it to Sooyoung while I ran to get the guitar from Hyoyeon. Slowly, the lights came on but it was still dim with more focus on the seats where me and Sooyoung were currently sitting on.

Everyone except for Hyoyeon, Taeyeon and Yuri was shocked when they saw me holding on to a guitar and Sooyung with the mic.

"Lee Soonkyu. 4yrs ago, you came into my life like a bundle of energy. I've never felt so strongly about someone until I met you. You made me see things that I can't see beyond food. You accepted my flaws and you enhances my abilities. Throughout these 4yrs, I've seen so many sides of you that makes me smile but the side of you that I love the most was when I saw you with Kyungsan. The warmth and motherly side of you captivated me. I know right then, that you're someone who can take care of me and someone that I want to take care of my whole life. So this song is for you."

(Imagine Sooyoung sang this with Jae playing the guitar.)

The moment I ended the strumming of my guitar, Sooyung stood up and walked towards a crying Sunny. She then went down on one bended knee as she took out a pokeball and held it in her left hand while her right hand held Sunny's hand. Me, Taeyeon, Hyoyeon and Yuri had to control our laughter the moment we saw the pokeball while the rest of the girls had a confused expression.

"I know we've just graduated 2 weeks ago and our future is still uncertain. But it doesn't matter to me because at the end of the day, you're still the one that I want to be with. I've waited 4yrs to say this. Lee Soonkyu, will you marry and grow old with me?" Sooyoung then opened the pokeball to reveal a ring inside with the words 'I choose you'.

"Yahhh... Of all the boxes, you have to choose a pokeball." Sunny sniffed as Sooyoung just grinned dorkily at her. "Of course, I'll marry you. You, pabo shikshin."

Sooyoung couldn't content her happiness as she engulfed Sunny into a hug while the rest of us cheered them on.

"Kiss her, kiss her, kiss her, kiss her....." We chanted the words as Sooyoung leaned in and kissed Sunny on the lips before putting on the ring for her.

"I chose pokeball because it's our favourite game. So can you at least let me win once?" Sooyoung tried to act cute as we all cringed at her effort.

"Andwae. No easy win for you. It's just too bad that you at it." Sunny meronged at Sooyoung who had pouted as we just laughed at her.

"So I guess our predictions were incorrect." Yuri said as everyone looked at her. "We thought TaeNy will be the first one to get married."

Everyone nodded their head before Hyoyeon spoke up.

"But they still need to get a strong bed. Sunny is like a bunny and bunny is well-known to be......"

"Yah!!!! " Sooyoung started running after Hyoyeon who had ran off while Sunny blushed as the laughter continued.

After a few more round of bowling, we had dinner and said our goodbyes to each other when it was almost 8pm. Kryber hitched a ride with SooSun while Ailee took a cab home. Sooyoung informed us that she had already informed her parents to meet them at Sunny's house so that they could break the good news to them.

Since we've already graduated, we were no longer staying in the dorm except for Yoona and Seohyun. So Yuri and Hyoyeon went off to sent their girlfriends back to the dorm while I drove back to Taeyeon's house with Jessica.

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I made sure that Jessica was sound asleep before I walked out from the room quietly. I looked at the clock and saw that it was already 2am in the morning. Taking small steps down the stairs, I walked all the way to the pool side but I was suprised to see Taeyeon there all by herself. She must have heard me opening the sliding door as I saw her turning to look at me.

"Hey." I said softly as I took a seat at the reclining chair beside hers. "I didn't expect you to be here."

"I couldn't sleep so I ate ramen out here since I was afraid of waking up my parents if I ate in the dining room." Taeyeon explained as I nodded my head. "What about you? Planning to share your thoughts with Omma?"

I just smiled at Taeyeon as I looked up to the sky. Taeyeon knew my habit of sitting by the pool when there were things that was bothering my mind. Omma used to accompany here and she would be my listening ear.

"Did you received Soo's message?" I asked as Taeyeon chuckled.

"I still can't believe that she's getting married soon. Their wedding will be a week after Sunny's birthday right?" I showed a thumbs up to Taeyeon's question. "I wonder who will be the next one after them."

"Won't that be you?" I as Taeyeon smiled a little before she frowned. "What's wrong, Taeng?"

"Even though, I've had the blessings of Fany's parents, I still feel that I need to prove myself before I can think of marriage with her." Taeyeon sighed. "She's from a well-to-do family so I need to ensure that I'm financially stable first. I don't want people to assume that I'm marrying her because of her wealth and I don't want others to look down or talk bad about my family."

"So what are your plans at the moment?" I asked as I continued staring up to the sky. "Do you want to work with me?"

I turned to face Taeyeon who had a confused look as I grinned at her. Silence filled the air as Taeyeon left my question unanswered for about 5mins.

"If possible, I want to strike it on my own. Don't misunderstand what I meant. I appreciate your help but...." Taeyeon didn't complete her sentence as she sighed again.

"I understand, Taeng. I really do. I know that you've always felt indebted to me and my family. No matter what I tell you, you will still feel that way." I smiled as both of us sat up and face each other. "But I want you to remember. You're family to me and to my Appa. So whenever you need help, I hope you'll run to me. You know I'll always be there for you, right?"

Taeyeon nodded her head as we gave each other a high-five before giggling at ourselves.

"Jaegi?"

We were shocked when we heard Jessica's voice by the door. Turning around, I saw a sleepy-looking Jessica with her half-closed eyes, yawning away. Taeyeon stood up and patted my shoulders before saying good night as she walked past Jessica and did the same to her.

I walked towards Jessica and wrapped my arms around her waist. "How come you're awake, Sicababy?"

"I woke up to use the toilet and found you missing. So after using the bathroom, I came down to look for you. I had a feeling that you might be here to look at the stars. Is there something bothering you?" Jessica asked as she leaned her head against my chest before yawning again.

"I just missed Omma suddenly. But no worries, I'm fine." I kissed the top of her head. "Sorry to have made you worried and came all the way down to find me. Let's go back to our room and get some sleep."

"Carry me up." Jessica pouted as she stretched out her hand as if asking me to carry her. Just when I was about to carry her bridal style, she stopped me. "I was just kidding, Jaegi. You need to climb up the stairs later and I don't want burden you. I'll walk up with you."

"Okay. I'll make sure our own home doesn't have stairs to our room so that I can carry you whenever you need me to." I  smiled at Jessica who just giggled to herself as we walked back up to the room with our hands entwined.