While waiting for their dinner to be prepared by Min Ho's hired cook in the kitchen. Both of them decided to watch television, Shin Hye sat comfortably next to Min Ho as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder bringing their heads together. He took the chance to put his head on her shoulder as he laced their fingers together. They were watching "The return of Superman". Shin Hye loves the show as she loves watching the father taking care of their daugter or son(s) for the day. 

"I love Haru! She is so cute!" She told Min Ho. Min Ho lifted his head and looked at Shin Hye who was smiling as she watched the scene when Tablo tried to introduce Haru to his friends. "Ottoke... She is such a shy little girl." Shin Hye chuckled.

"You must really love to have daughters." Min Ho replied as he pulled her hand to his side. "I will love ours so much because they come from you. " He said to her. Shin Hye blushed and nodded lightly. 

"I love how Tablo is with his wife. I can't wait for us to be like that. Such normal couple enjoying their family." She continued as she saw Tablo talked to his beautiful wife. "Actually, I love seeing the interaction between harmonious husbands and wives in this show." She admitted. Min Ho massaged her hand and smiled. "Kende, I have several questions for you." She turned to look at Min Ho. Min Ho slowly turned his head to face her and smiled as he nodded in agreement to fulfill her request.

"Deh... go on." He answered.

"Don't be angry but I think, or I feel like you are my first of a very real relationship I have ever had." She explained first. Min Ho nodded in agreement. "I'd love to hear from your side, how did.... you come to like me or love me?" She gestured her hand from him to her. Min Ho smile grew wider. Of course he remembered how it was. 

"Hmmm.... Let's see..." He recalled.

2009

"You will be the ambassador for etude house." His manager told him. 

"Make-up endorser?" Min Ho asked.

"Yes," His manager said. "Ah... You will have a partner for Etude."

"Partner?" Min Ho asked excitedly. "Idols?" His excitement grew. "Assaaaaaa! I get to see pretty girls!" He said coyly.

His manager smiled seeing Min Ho reaction. Afterall, he was a man indeed. "Well... I hate to break it to you. She's pretty and not an idol." Min Ho face fell.

"She's a child actress." His manager told him. "I am sure you have heard of her. She's very famous and endorsed a lot of brands. Basically, one of the richest child actress around."

"Richest? Why be an actress then?" He questioned and a tad annoyed that he wasn't going to meet an idol.

"Ekkkk.... Stairway to heaven?" His coordi noona squeeled.

Min Ho turned to look at his coordi with a confused look. Obviously, he didn't watch it.

"Seriously, you should watch it! I can't stop crying if that girl cry. She's good at displaying her emotions." His coordi continued as she unpack some of his things to be organized. Min ho gave her a puzzled look. "Park Shin Hye!" His coordi finally gave him an answer.

"Park Shin Hye?"He reiterated his coordi. "Sounds familiar but not so sure." He admitted. Did he hear her name from Kim Bum before? He simply shrugged it off. "There goes my wish list, Idol girlfriend gone." He said playfully. His manager just smiled at his playfullness. 

On the day of the first meeting, Min Ho was a bit nervous. He had checked her out. Her credentials were certainly solid with many awards in her name for someone who was quite young. She was pretty but not hot or y as any of the idols he had seen. She was young for his taste. He was sure, he would only feel the brotherly and sisterly feeling towards her. 

"So... I am your dongseang?" Shin Hye stopped Min Ho in the middle of his story.

"I said I thought I was sure that I would only develop a sisterly-brotherly feelings. Yah! I haven't finish yet." He told Shin Hye. Shin Hye smiled sheepishly.

He was in the middle of fitting his costume when he heard an aegyo voice cheerfully greeting everyone in the set. He tried to turn around to finally face to face see the owner of the voice but the coordis were still busy pinning and adjusting the clothes on him. 

"Come here Shin Hye-ssi, we need to do a fitting on you." He heard her running baby steps towards the group of coordis. 

"Neh..." She answered cheefully. 

He didn't get to see that day but there were several series of when he heard her talking. The moment he heard her voice, he realized his heart jumped to excitement. Her voice alone somehow managed to make him feel happy inside. It was like a happy virus seeping into his heart.

He finally got to see her. Shin Hye was indifferent. Unlike his previous partners who showed a controlled excitement when they faced him. Shin Hye simply showed her mutual respect and her excitement was more geared to her work. Min Ho found it weird. He told himself, it was better that way. He could focus more on his work then rather than worried rubbing his partner the wrong way. There were several instances where his cf partner got too interested and in the end made it hard for them to properly execute their work well. 

Shin Hye being a very friendly person herself initiated a good introduction to him. He couldn't help himself found that he was smitten by this young, hip and active girl. He was sure his feeling was more of a friendly manner as he seemed to be interested in mature woman lately at that stage. One thing he realized was that, he loved to be around her and a lot.

"I remembered you ruined eonnie's hard work that day. She worked really hard to put on my make up and you came along putting on the mascara as if you were an expert." Shin Hye laughed so hard. She recalled that her make-up artist had to re-do her eye make-up.

"Keunde... That was when I found you very beautiful. I remembered you closed your eyes to allow me to put on the mascara. I couldn't focus on putting the mascara as I realized how beautiful you were actually. Of all the time, we were together at that time, I felt happy, then when I came closer to you that day, I realized I was happy for the reason that you were there." Min Ho confessed. "So, I think that was my initial strong attraction towards you but you didn't seem to acknowledge me exist." He sulked a little bit.

"I think at that time, I thought to myself..." Shin Hye tried to recall.

"He would never be interested in me." Shin Hye thought. "He is handsome but... What is this weird feeling I have. I know I don't feel attracted but something about him made me feel comfortable." She further assessed her feelings. In the end, she decided, "Maybe, it's because I am with women's first choice for a boyfriend." She shrugged her thought and her feeling. 

They worked well with each other. The crews even complimented how well they look with one another and how fluid they were. 

"You guys worked as if you have known each other for ages." The director told them both. Shin Hye smiled at Min Ho. 

"What was that smile?" Min Ho noticed something different in the way she smiled. "Was that a shy smile I saw?" 

"Waeeee......" Shin Hye squeeled in her mind. "Why am I fluttering inside all of the sudden?" She asked herself. She tried to act and smiled normally but that translated into a weird facial expression on her face. Min Ho laughed seeing that.

"You're such a kidder!" He said. Taking the lead from there, Shin Hye pretended to be  goofing around. 

"You too?" Min Ho asked Shin Hye excitedly.

"Neh ... but I managed to put it inside a box and sealed it tightly. The time wasn't right beside I had to focus on my college life and..." Before Shin Hye finished Min Ho butted in.

"Jang Geun Suk? Yong Hwa?" He inquired and Shin Hye could sense jealousy in his voice. 

"Ya!" She yelled at him for cutting her talk. "You have your fair share as well!" She retaliated. "Besides they are just good friends. I was never caught out on a date... unlike you," She smirked at him. Min Ho was quiet for a bit. He seemed a bit sensitive when anyone mentioned his first publicized relationship. He ruffled his hair with both of his hands. Shin Hye sensing the tension quickly apologized, "Mianhe.... I went too far. " She apologized sincerely.

"Neh?.. Ani... I went too far as well... I was blinded by my feelings I guess." He slumped his shoulder noticing he started it first. "I do have to tell you something though... That first publicized relationship was actually..." He stopped contemplating whether it was the right thing to do. He is hers now and what mattered the most was she belonged to him. "Remember that drama I did, 'Personal taste?" He asked Shin Hye. She nodded. "I played a fake gay person. You see, I hadn't had any relationship prior that, I meant I did but they all were just brief. So, rumours started going out that I was actually gay. It happened so, Min Young-ssi..." Min Ho tried to asses Shin Hye's reaction to his past co-star name but Shin Hye was totally focusing on him. "We decided to just go out and enjoy each other's company as co-stars. She's a fun friend to be with, the other guys were busy and I had time, so I agreed. It was just a friendly outing. I thought of her as I would with my other girl-friends, you know like Park Bo Young, there were times we hold hands as friends. All I knew was, our picture was taken and it was out in the news. My agency thought, it was a good idea as well as it would dispell the rumours that I was interested in men."

"Kere? Wow... " Shin Hye uttered. "Are you sure, you had no feelings toward Eunnie?" Shin Hye asked out of pure interest. Min Ho was a bit surprised with Shin Hye reaction. Has she no feeling of jealousy?

"Are you sure you want to ask?" Min Ho tested her. Shin Hye nodded innocently. "Ya! You should be angry!" He yelled.

"Wae?" She asked confused. 

"It's about me and another girl. You should be ANGRY!" He threw the small pillow on to her face with a slight feeling of anger.

"Ya!" Shin Hye felt a bit annoyed. Min Ho smiled.

"Yes! Like that." He wanted to see her angry as well. Shin Hye laughed. 

"You are weird!" She said. "I wasn't angry because that was your right. I was not even in the picture of your life." She explained. "Are you going to be angry if I was to tell you about my previous relationship?" She asked.

"It depends." Min Ho shrugged.

"Aigoooooo.... Uriiiii Min Hooo....." She pinched both of his cheeks as she smiled.

"Ya!" Min Ho said feeling a tad annoyed to the idea that his girl had love interest in the past as well. "You know, the selfish side of me really want that I am your first in everything." He admitted to Shin Hye. Shin Hye realized that Min Ho was feeling rather vulnerable and she took both his hands and kissed them. This cooled down Min Ho a little bit. "I did have feelings toward her but after several times together going out, I realized that I thought she was someone else and I was seeing her as that person." Shin Hye's left eye brow raised as if saying 'There's another person of interest?' Min Ho realized that and continued to explain, "I thought I see you in her." He confessed. "I think that was the reason why I got a little bit interested, she had some qualities like you do but I still feel incomplete. So, I thought I was being unfair to her and she herself noticed that too. She understood. I feel really bad and that's why eversince that incident, I avoid interactions with female partner in work. Then... there were you ... again" He smiled as he said it and looked at her. Shin Hye blushed. "So, how about you?"

"Well... I think we have the similar case. I was never truly genuinely interested but I do know that any tall men took my attention." Shin Hye confessed. "Then I realized that, I was actually looking for you. Back then, I thought, you would never be interested in a girl like me. I am not that beautiful. In fact, I read several times people say that I am the ugliest among Korean actress. And, in school, if I ever wanted to get closer to the guys, they only see me as one of the guys." Shin Hye explained. "I guess, growing up with a brother, I never knew how to act like a girl and I love sports. So that translated into me being boyish. Most guys, just want girly girl." She said.

"But to me, you are my perfect, girly girl." Min Ho said.

Shin Hye smiled sweetly at him. "I guess, we become that way only towards our soulmate." She added.

P/S: Finally, got to type this. My fingers didn't rebel. I would also like to thank a very close friend and a minshin shipper like me, she's close and yet she's far! Love you for being one of my dearest friends! <3 This piece is for you as I wrote it with you in my mind. @->--