Why Must My Heart Ache?

The Beginning *Last Chapter*

*Last Episode of the KyuTi couple on WGM*

WGM Interviewer: So how did you feel when you were told that you only had one episode left on WGM?Tina: Relieved. Truthfully, Kyuhyun-oppa and I couldn't wait for the drama and WGM to wrap up.
W.I.: Why is that? Did you start meeting someone else as some fans suspect? They say that you two had become awkward during the last few WGM episodes.
KH: No! Flora and I actually started dating away from the cameras a while ago.

*Shows couple in apt. on the couch*
Tina: Are you sad that it's over?
KH: Not at all. Now I can do this... (*devious grin* Gets up and starts dancing.) Hey, cameras, audience, world! I love Flora Baker! Not Tina, my pretend wife! Flora, my girlfriend!
Tina: *Laughs* You're crazy.
KH: Of course. You didn't know?

W.I.: So the members of Super Junior knew about your relationship when it was secret?
Tina: Know about it? Some of them take credit for it. Heechul, I know that you're watching, and Siwon told me everything. I'll pay you back, just wait. *chuckles*
W.I.: Oh *shudders playfully* Scary. You should consider playing a villain in your next drama.
Tina: I may have to do that.W.I.: Many viewers wanted to know why you never purchased couple rings?
KH: We have our lock at Namsan, and Flora's heirloom opals. It wasn't necessary and she didn't feel comfortable with rings that weren't meant for eternal commitment.

KH: I've got a gift for you. *Sits back down next to her*
TIna: Oh? Did you make good on your threat to replace my opals so that you can leave me?
KH: See for yourself. *He hands her a cute little box*

W.I.: What do your relatives think about your experience on WGM?
Tina: My mom thinks it was a good way to experience how so many factors go into picking who you will spend your life with. Family, friends, reliability. She thinks I've learned a lot and I have to agree.

Tina: *Opens box while continuing to joke, then stops abruptly to stare at Kyu* Oppa, I... I don't understand, I...
KH: What is it? *Worried tone* We're together so often now, I've told you that I love you, the other day you said that you could picture a future with me, and even ELF likes you...
Tina: *She cuts him off* Do you ever think of us without considering an audience?
KH: I always think of them because I know that they worry you. They don't have to like you, but if they are really my fans then they have to accept that I like  you, and vice versa. If you accept this ring, then I don't think that I will have to worry about them for you anymore.
Tina: *Smiles and puts on the simple sapphire and diamond ring, which sparkles with sunlight filtering in through a window* It's lovely. Thank you. I do, however, have one condition.
KH: What?
Tina: No media, no fans, yours or mine, at the wedding.
KH: Of course.

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    Kyuhyun and Flora were married in a year. They stayed in Seoul for three months after the wedding so that they could finish up the year's schedules before going on a trip. They returned from their honeymoon in time to celebrate Leeteuk's engagement to Kang Sora, and meet some of the members' new girlfriends. They had news themselves. They had been married for four months, and around the time that they were to have their one year anniversary, Flora would being giving birth to a baby.
    Though few of the members stayed in the dorms anymore, Super Junior still thrived, with members occasionally going off to do solo work, preparing for the day when they grew too old to continue on as a boy band. ELF still loved their oppas, attached and unattached, and the future looked bright for all of them. But most importantly, Flora's heart no longer ached, because she shared it with someone who shared his with her in turn. And to thank him for this mutualism, she followed a tradition from her culture, and he gratefully broke a cultural tradition in return. The world went from knowing them as the KyuTi couple to knowing them as Kyuhyun and Flora Cho, husband and wife.