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INSIDE THE MANSION

Jin-joo's bedroom

Ever since the day she delivered and was discharged from the hospital, Sebastian brought her and the babies over to his late grandfather's mansion here in San Francisco.

Meanwhile, Jin-joo is busy packing up the babies clothes which she had ironed few minutes ago and now, she's folding and keeping them into each of the babies boxes while chatting with her sister in-law, Chung-Cha.

"Seriously, this place is damn heaven on earth." Chung-Cha exclaimed in Korea language while looking around.

She, her husband and the Kim's family just arrived few minutes ago.

Jin-joo chuckled, "It's Seb's late grandfather's mansion."

"Wow, you mean Mr Grayson's father once owned this heavenly place?" The entire place in the mansion was extravagant. Almost everything seen was made of gold. "Did Seb tell you that his grandfather was amongst the British aristotles or monarchy?"

Confused by her weird yet funny questions, Jin-joo laughed and shook her head, "Oh God, Chung-Cha you should start volunteering for comedy auditions, I guess."

Sitting on the bedside, "Come on,"  Chung-Cha joined her to start arranging the babies clothes into the different coloured boxes. "It doesn't sound like a lie, right? You know."

When she shrugged her shoulders and pouted her lips, Jin-joo stood up and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, "So what does it sound like?"

While pressing the clothes into the box, Chung-Cha shrugged awkwardly while explaining, "Well, first, on my in, I saw so many things made of gold-- they're beautiful and remember one who sees something nice, needs to praise it, right?"

Jin-joo slightly smack her forehead and groaned, "Ugh, grandma and her sarcasm parables."

"It's not sarcasm. Anyway forget about the golden topics and let's talk about how it was when you delivered."

"Oh please, I don't want to remember." Jin-joo slumped on the bed tiredly.

Grinning from ear to ear, Chung-Cha spied on her face, "Painful or pleasurable just like having sex?"

Jin-joo sat upright and groaned again, "Awful."

"Mm-hmm, I know, right?"

"I thought I was going to die."

"I felt the same way too." Pausing for a while, Chung-Cha added, "I heard the president came to compensate the babies. Infact what I'm I even saying? I watched it on the news."

Jin-joo nodded her head in agreement, "Uh huh, he came to see I and my babies at the hospital before we got discharged. He gave my quintuplets a very huge amount of digit cents in millions."

Chung-Cha widened her eyes in shock with her both hands covering her mouth as she gasped, "Oh, you gat to be kidding me, babe."

Kidding? It doesn't sound like kidding, girlfriend.

"I wanted to reject it at first because I'm not used to the westerners' style of compensations. And that the money was too much for just few days old babies. But when Sebastian nodded at me and explained everything I needed to know about how things are done here when a woman delivers multiples, I had to accept." Placing her fist against her mouth, Jin-joo yawned. "I feel sleepy. I've been finding it difficult to sleep since my babies arrived."

Crossing her hand over her best friend's shoulder, Chung-Cha grinned, "Hmm, you need to rest. It wasn't easy for you all these while. And you know I can't compare you to me who only had one."

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