The One

3

I changed into my bikini and picked up the towel that was layed out on the bed. It's already the last day of my vacation here in Busan.

For the last 3 days, I went to a beach, shopped for a lot of clothes and ate a lot of scrumptious local food. I also visited the hotel's spa yesterday. Today, I decided to just spend the day in the hotel's pool before I have to leave at 5 p.m.

I stared at my reflection. My red bottoms weren't that short, just below the butt. I fished for a shirt from my suitcase, an oversized white tshirt and wore it, tying it at the bottom. There. Not too exposing.

I wore the hotel's bath robe and went to the pool, which was located at the 4th floor.

Luckily, the pool wasn't packed with people. About, maybe 3-5 people were swimming. I walked towards a seat and set my towel, sunblock and summer hat  on it. I sat down and started applying the sunblock all over my body. I wasn't planning to swim, just going to lay down here and relax.

Leaning over, I placed the hat on my face and started to doze off.

"Hey, you stole my seat." An oddly familiar male voice sounded beside me.

I took off the hat and almost choked on my own saliva. Coconut head? He seemed shocked himself. His chest was bare and wet, I'm assuming he just got out of the pool. Drops of water fell from his hair. I concealed half of my face with the hat to cover the blush that crept on my face.

"N-no I did not. This seat was empty when I got here." I retorted back at him. It was true. The seat was empty.

Or was it?

He bent forward and picked up his phone under my towel. He waved it in front of me.

"You must've placed your towel on top of my phone and thought the seat was empty huh?" He smirked and grabbed his water bottle from the table beside me and took a big gulp from it. He nearly drank the whole thing.

"You can stay here but pay more attention next time." He closed his bottle, put it beside me and headed back to the pool.

My cheeks were burning from embarassment. I need to cool off. I stood up and headed to the washrooms at the far corner. I splashed some water on my face and looked at my reflection in the mirror. I sighed and headed back to my seat.

I walked faster to my seat and hugged myself as the cold afternoon breeze hit me. At that moment, I stepped on a puddle and lost my balance. As I was about to fall, two strong arms gripped my waist from behind and spun me around.

Coconut head?! Again?

"You're such a clutz." He smirked again as his eyes trailed down. His cheeks went crimson red and he averted his gaze elsewhere.

I looked down and my eyes widen in shock. My shirt was wet because of the water that I used to splash my face awhile ago and now you can see my bare chest and the bright red bikini that I wore underneath. I pulled the robe tighter and covered my chest.

"Um, you can let go now." I mumbled and he quickly let go of me. He ran his fingers through his hair as he scurried away, too embarassed. Heat rised to my cheeks again at the thought of him seeing my chest. I shook my head and headed to my seat. Coconut head was sitting down, looking at his phone.

"Uh, would you mind? I want to go back now." I gave him an awkward smile and pointed at my towel, summer hat and sunblock that was right behind him. He looked up and scooted over to the side. I quickly took all my belongings and left.

"Wait! L-let's go together." Coconut head grabbed my wrist as I was about to run off. He grabbed his phone and wore his shirt. Thank god, I was getting light headed because of him being shirtless. I patiently waited for him.

"Let's go." He walked off in front of me. I tilted my head in confusion and followed him back to our individual rooms.

The lift ride was awkward. Very awkward in fact. None of us uttered a single word, nor spared each other a glance. I looked down to the floor while he was occupied with his phone. I don't even know why he wanted to go back together. I don't even know him!

We reached our rooms and I quickly entered my card and dashed inside. My heart was going to explode. I dropped all the things that I brought along on bed. I picked up my phone on the table and decided to check on social media. I opened Naver and checked the news section, like I always do.

I nearly choked again.

'Lnet opens up admissions for young men all over South Korea to be a potential husband of CEO, Lee Hyun.'

What. The. Hell.

Without second thoughts, I dialed my aunt. This has got to be her doing. In two rings, she picks up.

"Darling I know, listen to me before you-"

"Why did you do that?!" I literally screamed through the phone. I was fuming. My breaths were unsteady.

"You see dear, it's about time you find a potential partner and divide all of the company's work load. Surely you can't handle all of it yourself do you?" She spoke in a soft tone, almost sounding sorry.

I sighed out of frustration and massaged the area between my eyebrows. "Okay, I get you want to help me but, this? I don't see how-"

"Many people would die to be your husband Hyun. We've already recieved hundreds of applications." She cut me off mid-sentence.

I stayed quiet. I was speechless, I didn't know how or what to respond.

"I know this is very shocking for you but trust me, this will benefit us alot. Plus, you can avert the public's attention while you continue your hidden project right?" She tried to console me.

"Fine, fine. We'll talk about this later, when I get back." I hung up and burried my head in a pillow.

I checked the article again, this time looking at more specific details.

The ways to enter this thrilling event is simply by filling the form below, and attatching a photo of you in the document. Miss Lee Hyun will personally handpick 7 men who will then be moving to a special apartment where the event continues. Miss Lee Hyun may choose who to send home anytime. The man who succeeds will be Miss Lee Hyun's rightful husband. We will be releasing special cuts of the event, but not the whole thing as Miss Lee Hyun wishes this to be a private thing. Thank you for your cooperation and good luck!

I sighed for god-knows the nth time today. My head was throbbing. I scrolled down to the comments section.

'Hm, intresting.'

'Wow! Sign me up for this one! ㅋㅋㅋㅋ'

'Marrying Lee Hyun? Count me in.'

At least this was getting some good response, right? I massaged my temples again and again. I can't believe my aunt did this to me. I scrolled even more and a paticular comment caught my eye.

'Pft, who does she think she is? Does she really think there are people out there waiting to be married to her?'

My heart sunk. I locked my phone and shut my eyes. How in the world did I get myself into this mess?