THE NEXT DAY
It was Saturday and it was Bit Na's holiday.
The friends had planned to meet as Bit Na was giving them a housewarming party for her new apartment buying and also to thank them for paying off her father's bills.Min Ha and Bo Ra arrive earlier than the others and start prepping arrangements for their get-together.
Bo Ra had been going through a hard phase at her new office, "My boss has been ordering me all the time, and is making me get coffee for everyone in the office which is not even my job, and keeps asking me to submit my reports during weekends and making me work on the weekends.""Oh your new job might be the worst but, I have been looking for a partner to go with me to the wedding of my EX's, do you know someone?" Min Ha says sighing.
"But why do you need a guy to go with you, take me or Bit Na?", asks Bo Ra.
"I want him to know that I have a better guy to be with than him, and I would bring you too but I only have a plus one."
"Why are you even invited to your EX's wedding? Bit Na asks her.
"He invited me to show how happy he is going to be, but I will show it to him."
Then Bit Na goes out to the department store to get some supplies.
"I don't know anyone, but you can ask one of the guys to pose as your partner." Bo Ra says.
"Hmm....not a bad idea.", Min Ha thinks, "Ok, I will ask them, and anyone of them is bound to agree if I start crying."
"CORRECT!!!", Bo Ra says, "Good thinking."They continue prepping, then Bit Na comes back, to tease her Min Ha says,
"Hey, Bit Na I am thinking of asking one of the guys to be my boyfriend for the day, is it okay for me to ask them?"
Bit Na thinks in a literal sense and gets upset if Ji Seong agrees to date Min Ha.
Min Ha knew there was 'something going' on between Bit Na and Ji Seong.
"Why not, haha, why are you asking me?", Bit Na said awkwardly.One by one the guys enter and also start helping,
The girls tell them about their work,
Then Ha Joon starts talking about his boss again, "Ugghhh, I have been so much bugged and irritated at work, he is always, behind my back just to see if I am slacking off as I got this job because of my Mom's reference"
Bit Na then asks him. "Who's your boss? What's his name, I might have seen him at my work place!"
Ha Joon says. " You have seen him, I went him to a meeting at THE POWER and I saw you talking with him, you must have not noticed him,haha!", he says with a snortle.
"Oh who's your boss, I can maybe say something good about you next time I meet him", Bit Na says.
Min Ha says, "It's not like you know his boss personally, how will you change his bad reputation." making a taunt at Ha Joon.
"It's The YUN TAE YANG the big tycoon right now in Korea.",
on hearing this Bit Na gets flustered remembering how he dropped her off.Then Ha Joon drops a bomb by mentioning the incident of 'her collapsing on Yun Tae Yang' at THE HUB which the others didn't know about and they all started making jokes and Bit Na laughs a lot and forgets about Tae Yang.
Then Min Ha decides to ask the guys and stands up, "I want to ask you insolent boys an important question," she points at the three guys," I want any one of you to be my bf, for just a small wedding of my ex, it is not just like pretend play."
This gives Bit Na relief
Jun Soo and Ha Joon have their annual biking trip which they follow as a tradition so Jun Soo asks her the date,
"It's on the 20th of this month."
"Nope, then not possible, we will be leaving on the 18th and will be back by the 21st."
"You can cancel it once, it's not a family tradition, it's like a friendship dare that you guys took in college."
"NO!!, not possible ask Ji Seong, to make up for it, we will each buy you an expensive stone for good luck from the mountains, okay?", says Jun Soo.
"The only person left is you Ji Seongaah." Min Ha says looking at him with a pouty sad face.
"No, I have many deadlines to meet and finish my articles."
Min ha starts crying and Ji Seong looks at Bit Na and thinks,
"She will think bad of me, if I do not help her", so he ends up agreeing and decides to ask Bit Na later if she is ok with it.Later when the others are planning on what to eat, Ji Seong sits beside Bit Na,
and asks her, "Is it ok for me to go?", he whispers to her.
She asks, "Why are you asking me?"
and Ji Seong jokingly spurts "Just maybe thought that you have feelings for me." loudly😏.
On hearing that Bit Na gets stunned and then replies in a flash,
"I have high standards and you are not even in 1% of them.
Don't think so highly about yourself ."😤 and then others start laughing at Bit Na's savage reply. Then they smile at each other and order their food and have a great day. Just as they start leaving one by one, Ji Seong stays behind to help Bit Na clean up.*KNOCK KNOCK*
Ji Seong says, " Wait, let me see, you clean up, don't slack off." and opens the door.
The landlord asks him to come and pulls him out to his house to make him look at the leak from the top of his house coming from Bit Na's room,
"You know that is an inconvenience left by the earlier tenant and needs to be fixed, but she still hasn't paid for it, when your girlfriend, the highness get it fixed?", Ji Seong pays him at that moment with an online transaction.Ji Seong then asks him curiously, "Uncle, how did you know that I am her bf ?"
The man said, "That day when you dropped her in front of the apartment, I remember her being very drunk, she had just shifted here and so approached her not knowing she was drunk. So I asked her to pay and thought that she would pay instantly as she was drunk but she told me that, "Uncle if you do not let me in without the money, " then she pointed at you while you were sitting in the cab & said that "he is my boyfriend and he will not even think about your age and will beat you up and I promise this time I will give the deposit to fix that sink hole by the month's–" *blegggghhhh* and then she puked over my shoe and smiled and walked off."Ji Seong apologized on her behalf and went back in smiling. When Bit Na asked him who it was, he said no one, just the delivery guy, had mistaken her flat for someone else's.
Bit Na after finishing her part of work asks him, " Do you want a beer 🍻?"
He rejects it as he has to drive back, so then they went to the balcony while she has her beer they ask about their weeks then Ji Seong said,
"Ehhh.. It went as usual, I am still getting asks for foreign correspondence but I am keep my schedule free for the rest of the year as I have already suffered a lot last time at Chicago for a year."Bit Na tells him, "I made a new friend, guess who?.....Uhhhh, Yun Tae Yang and he has a son and he has been very kind to me, he helped a like total stranger like me with the hospital incident.
Ji Seong shocked says, "How, whatt?!"
"Yeah, we even had dinner last night, and he is so rich that he owns the most famous restaurant in the city and even THE HUB where we usually meet to hold beer parties. Did you know?"On hearing this Ji Seong gets mad, "Stay away from him as he must be taking advantage of you, he has had three failed marriages with women way younger than him, he is a playboy, you idiot."
She gets shocked by his reaction, "You need not to treat me like a kid and I know how the world works and not to judge people before meeting them, in case you forgot about Chicago?"
Ji Seong gets infuriated and tells her that she should listen to him to avoid the worst consequences But Bit Na does not like his behavior and demands him to just leave and then he takes his jacket and leaves. After locking her doors Bit Na starts crying about her fight with her friend, who she confides most in.
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