Foolish Fate

| EIGHT |

"Mianhae, madam, he came in while I was off-guard." Mrs Cha told me, pulling Joohyuk away.

A sigh of relief came over me. I wanted to hug him, but I was frozen. Then, it hit me, Minseok saw Joohyuk!!! OMG. What am I going to do?

WAIT. Didn't he say he knew Joohyuk? But, he didn't even notice of him.

"Look, here Minse-Xiumi-Mr Kim, I told you I am in a hurry, I have already take a look at the designs and we will further discuss the other details soon. You are welcome to stay and enjoy your tea, but please let us refrain from discussing issues that are not related." I left and ran to hug Joohyuk.

"Are you okay? Did anything happen? Why did you leave Chu ahjumma? Are you hurt anywhere?" I asked him fast as if I was rapping.

"Come let's go, we can't stay here." I said realising Minseok was still here.

I dragged his hand and told Mrs Cha to make another appointment with Minseok.

I entered my car and Joohyuk sat at the back seat. This was the third time I experienced such nerve wrecking situation. The first was when I was about to tell my parents about Joohyuk, the second was when I was almost in labor. Now this, come to think of it was related to Joohyuk.

Nevertheless, I think working with Minseok is a bad idea. I feel like its a situation similar to a ticking time bomb. Where in any moment Minseok might take away my child.

I already called Chu ahjumma and ahjusshi to tell them that Joohyuk was already with me. I don't blame them since they weren't in any fault.

We arrived home, I immediately went up to my room, and lied on my bed. I am dead tired.

Knock knock

"Eomma." I still have to discipline my son after all. I gathered all the remaining energy in me and sat up straight.

"Joohyuk, come in." I saw him peek through the door. I motioned him to sit on my lap.

"Eomma, I want to tell you that I'm really sorry. I know what Joohyuk did was wrong and bad."

I smiled at my son. "Right, we were all very nervous you know, its a dangerous world out there. I was very worried I thought my heart would stop."

"Jinjja eomma? I'm very sorry, Joohyuk's very sorry. Please don't make your heart stop. No eomma would make Joohyuk very sad. Joohyuk needs spank spank." He said as he started hitting his arm with tears in his eyes.

I wiped his tears and held his hands. "Kwenchana, my angel, you don't need to that. All we have is each, we should take care of each other, hm?" I smiled.

He nodded and then hugged me.

"Eomma." He mumbled in a small voice. He slid a paper into my hands to my surprise it was the test Joohyuk had been studying for, he even asked me if I could grant him a prize if he got a perfect score, and he did! "Woah! Joohyuk! I knew you would do well, like always!" I exclaimed and give another tight hug.

"What prize do you want?" I asked him.

"Uh... Eomma, c-can I s-sleep beside you tonight?" He asked as he closed his eyes.

I felt bad, I didn't know Joohyuk felt very distant to me. "You can dear, every night if you want. Eomma's always here. Why don't we get ice cream on Saturday as your prize instead?"

"Okay eomma!"

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I don't want to go to work today, I feel like my soul was sucked out of me. I pulled my tired body out of bed without disturbing Joohyuk. I need to get energise, I put on a track suit and headed out for jog. It was still very early, around 4 or 5 AM. I jogged around the nearby park, I can see some the senior citizens doing some morning exercises.

After an hour or so, I sat on the bench and inhaled some air. I need time to think. Would it best if I didn't work with Minseok's company? But, it would be very beneficial towards the my company.

I can't decide, I shut my eyes in frustration.

"Jung Joomi?" I heard.

I shot straight up. I was surprised to see Wu Yifan. He was also in his sports attire.

"Yifan?" I asked.

"Its been a while." He laughed.

Meet Wu Yifan, He is a good friend of mine, we met back in college when we had a foreign exchange student program. Yifan, or Kris, his English name, was an exchange student. We became really close since we were both in the course HRM or Hotel and Restaurant Management. He's Chinese but he knows how to speak in Korean.

Want to know a secret? I had a small admiration on him in college but I'm over it now.

"I didn't know you were in Korea." I beamed.

"Well, I just arrived a few weeks back." He chuckled.

"Yah, why didn't you tell me! Look at you, you changed a lot." I laughed.

"Actually, I'm here for a business project." He told me.

"Ah, I see. The old nerdy Wu Yifan is now a successful business man." I joked.

"WHAT NERDY." He exclaimed.

I just laughed at him.

"Hey, if your not in a hurry, why don't we grab breakfast together?" I asked him. "You know to catch up."

"Okay, sure, let me just call my sister." He told me before reaching for his phone.

We are now on our way to my house to have breakfast.

"So, are you in Korea for good?" I asked him.

"Oh no, just a few months." He said while shaking his head.

"Awww... but it seems like your sister is also here." I told him, to be honest I was disappointed.

"Oh, she just follows me around. We bought an apartment. We can't possibly stay in a hotel for that long, the costs are unbelievable." He stated.

We both laughed. "Oh right! How's Joohyuk?" He asked me.

"Great, he's entering grade school next year you know." I told him.

Slash out that Wu Yifan is a good friend. He is actually a great friend, we are very close. He was one of my few friends that I told about Joohyuk. Come to think of it, he was my only friend in college to actually meet Joohyuk.

We entered the house. I let him sit in the living room while I went up to change my clothes.

"Ahjumma, I'm home and I brought a guest. Please prepare the table." I asked Chu ahjumma politely.

"Joohyuk-ah, Joohyuk-ah." I tried waking him up. "You know someone's waiting for you down stairs." He just raised his hands up. "Remember Appa Kris?" I asked him while going the stairs.

"Appa Kris?" He asked me. "Yup." He probably doesn't remember him anymore.

OMGGGG!!! I'M SO SORRY GUYS!!! Wifi was gone for a week, when I came back yesterday, poof new mv poof repackaged album. You should've seen me, I was spazzing at my cousin's birthday party.

Anyway I made a lot of progress over the week, now I have new one shots to post!!! YEAYYYYY! *Cue party streemers

Ciao!