Breaking Rules

RULE # 56: HAVE A BACK-UP PLAN

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Dara was contemplating the thought of throwing a tomato at Durami if she smirked at her again. Swear. The moment she had stepped inside the house with Ji Yong in tow, her youngest sister had painted on such an irritatingly smug smile, she wanted a hole to eat her up.

And she was sure too that Ji Yong had seen it.

"What could he be thinking?" she thought to herself as she watched him dicing carrots on the other side of the table, completely opposite her. He had been like a boyfriend throughout the whole morning. He looked after her, talked and joked around with her, held her hand as they both pushed the shopping cart, and took all the bags in his hand as they headed for his car. She'd never particularly liked shopping in the grocery because it somehow made her sleepy but how do you feel sleepy when your blood seems to be speeding through your system at top speed? The man had that effect on her.

Sensing that she had been looking at him, he suddenly looked up at her and smiled. Taken aback, she tried to pretend that she had just passed her eyes at him and wasn't staring at all. Ji's smile widened at her reaction and he went back to dicing.

From the corner of her eyes, Dara again saw Durami smirk and she picked up one tomato.

Durami, knowing what her sister was up to only widened her eyes at her as if to say "Come on! Let's see you throw that at me and I'll tell Ji Yong everything."

Pouting her lips at the challenge, Dara lifted the knife she was using and mimicked slithing Durami's throat later.

"Noona, what are you doing?" Sanghyeun commented as he walked in with Dami, Ji Yong's older sister.

"Ow!" Dara exclaimed, immediately putting down the knife "I – I was just making faces at Durami."

"Hi Girls!" Dami greeted "Thought I could give a hand here as Sanghyeun and I already finished decorating the garden."

"You did?" Dara jumped up from her seat and tried to look through the back door.

"You won't appreciate it yet" Dami told her "When the night comes, we'll put on the lights we installed and you'll see it's going to be a magical place."

"That's great!" Durami commented, following suit after Dara and looking through the back door "And yep. It will look magical at night coz you wrapped around lights on all the trees."

Dami nodded enthusiastically "We also wrapped lights around some of the branches and left them hanging. It'll look wonderful tonight."

"Grandma's going to be really happy" Sanghyeun told his sisters "Dami-noona also had a mini-fountain put up in the middle of the table and there'd be lines of lights around the whole garden."

"Thank you for this Dami" Dara faced her "Umma and I wouldn't have thought of doing this."

Dami smiled and put an arm around her shoulder "We're practically family so you don't need to thank me. And tonight's going to be really special so we have to make everything look beautiful."

Dara smiled back at that but felt that Dami was talking about something else entirely other than her Grandma's birthday celebration. She looked away and found her eyes met Ji Yong's.

He winked at her with a smile much like Durami's and then came back to dicing.

Dara gulped.