"If you guys are here, then is he?"
"Park Jimin, cousin to tomboy here. Or more likely, her boyfriend."
In which Park Ji Seul and Park Jimin are cousins but they hate each other to the fact that they never stay in the same place. Holiday t...
"Ji Seul, Jimin, do you kids have any idea what is going on this morning?" Both parents have come down to see their kids which was very rare, especially when they are having a hectic month with an overloaded schedule of meetings and appointments. When both of them were silent, a couple of newspapers were flung across the table where the seven guys and the two girls were sitting by the long couch, probably squeezing the other. They each take up one and their eyebrows furrowed as they read what is on the news. Ji Seul spoke first out of shock, "But...How did the media find out? I mean, I've kept it secret for two and a half years."
Her father shouted, "You what?!?!" Everyone jumped except Ji Seul which meant she always gets them, "You are a person of the higher class and you can't just open a café meant for lower classes. You are to immediately close the café and come back with us to the mansion." Before Ji Seul could protest, Jimin cleared his throat, "Uncle Park, I don't see any reason as to why Ji Seul should close this café." His father raised an eyebrow with an amused glint in his eyes. Her father frowned in disapproval at him as Jimin continued, "I mean, first off, she opened the café with her own hard earned money which is very responsible of her because she is likely the best rich kid, who obviously didn't stick up to her parents wealth for survival or bother them with anything because she was trying to know what hard work is without any of the adult telling her to."
"She has given jobs to people, who are trying to make ends meet in their own family and donates half the reward from the café to a charity event which I saw was being held up in her café for the refugees and every other living being who need our help. Yet, she is doing all of this alone while we are so busy in making money and earning a name in the public that we don't even realize if we truly are giving our help to people who actually need it. I am ashamed to be called a Park if someone asked me if I was satisfied with my lifestyle which I'd say was a normal rich kid's life, a bastard who fancies ladies, money and fame. In fact, I am proud of Ji Seul and would even volunteer to help her in the café."
Her father shook his head, "But Jimin, there is the issue of her status and future. People would think of it as an excuse..." Jimin interrupts him, "No Uncle Park. If I were you, I would support Ji Seul and insist that she continue her way in letting the middle class and lower class that you say of, to know that the upper class isn't as bad as they thought. They would be happy to know that we are trying to make things better between this society that has been making things worse with materialistic and selfish thoughts. If you tell Ji Seul to shut her café down, then I'd be the first person to step up against it because..." His eyes flickered to Ji Seul, who stared at him in awe and shocked that he was defending her against their parents protests to stop running her precious café.
"...because I realize what responsibility is when I see her. She makes me realize that life has its own harsh ways of getting to everyone and she shows me what hard work is. She makes me realize that everything in this world has a price to pay and the life I've been living which was all about girls, parties and drinks, had a price to pay. I have been using my parents money for selfish acts when I could at the very least save a life or two, help out an orphanage or somewhat which is very poor compared to what Ji Seul has done because she is saving families from being killed or either commit suicide because they're unable to live in this world filled with cliques and pathetic cases of popularity."
There was a momentary silence as neither the teenagers nor the parents spoke. They were all stunned of what Jimin said especially Ji Seul because she didn't know that Jimin had thought so much of herself that she immediately thanked the girl he has supposedly fallen in love with because she had changed him. She knew that Jimin had told her those three words she had yearned to come from someone who'd be honest with her but she also knew that Jimin could have been just using her as a substitute or something. After a while, Jimin's father made the move of taking the talk.
"Jimin, first off, I am totally going to support Ji Seul in her café as you say because you were right when you said that we have to help her. But..." Everyone looked at him without words as he continued, "We will be there to help as a family rather than partners." Ji Seul smiled and spoke her first words, "Thank you Uncle Park. I...I just..." He chuckled and waved it off, "No Ji Seul. I should be the one to thank you because..." He turned to Jimin and sighed, "You've changed my son. The way you think and act has changed his perspective on life too. I was just about to say it out myself that he should be taking responsibilities and start being the kind of child every parent expected him to be."
Theend of her lips tugged and she found herself smiling at Park Jimin as he keptlooking down with a tint of red on his cheeks. That was when Ji Seul's fatherinterrupted, "I'm sorry for bursting out but I was actually checking somethingelse." Ji Seul frowned, "If I was being a bastard?" He shook his head wildly,"Of course not. I'd put my life on it before I suspect you but I was justseeing if you both have settled the feud between you both." The guys and Seulgilaughed and Jin being the oldest took the opportunity, "There's been more thanjust settling the feud, sir."
