Echoing Hearts (Meeting You Again) | The Heirs | Choi Young Do

Chapter 3 ♡ Recalled Moments

~3 years later~

"Here we go", I said to myself as stepped out of the private plane, landing on Seoul again after 3 years. Just breathing the familiar air again brings back so many memories of the times I spent here. Enjoying my life with my friends with a carefree attitude that somehow also have me a confidence that can't be matched even if you have every last thing figured out in your life. All those times I spent playing and laughing with my friends were now flashing before my eyes. Chasing each other around, making each other smile and laugh, being happy. Now they are all but bittersweet memories.

Memories that I used to cherish but now I am not sure whether I should keep treasuring them or lock them up in a corner of my heart and try to move on. But whatever I do I certainly can't forget them, not even if I wanted to and I don't want to, I won't. Especially him. Choi Young Do, who I gave my heart to. Who broke it into a million pieces and left me crying my heart out.

I shook my head, pushing away the painful thoughts and walking towards Eddie, the head of security for our company and in charge of our security and accommodations and travels as long as we are here in Seoul.

A smile stretching upon my lips as soon as my eyes landed on him. He always makes sure to take care of me like a big brother. He reached Seoul before us to make sure everything was safe for our stay here.

"How was your trip? Was there any difficulties? Were you bored on the ride?" He asked as he wrapped his arms around me in a hug, I smiled, returning it.

"It was fine. Yeah, it was boring but I managed to catch up on the latest Marvel movies I've been wanting to watch. How did everything go here? Did you miss me?" I asked pinching his cheeks which I knew kind of annoyed him.

"Not really, I was enjoying the peacefulness without you around.." he trailed off as he tried to pull my hands away from his face. I hit him on the shoulder lightly.

"Shut up," He laughed lightly.

"Alright, alright I'm kidding, I did miss you," He admitted, ruffling my hair. "You ready to go to the hotel?"

"Hotel? Weren't we planning on staying at our old house?"

"Yes, but its being renovated as no one has been there in a while and some things needed repairing, they're still restoring it. We only found out about the building's condition after we came here, the caretaker was a lazy careless man. It's almost finished, you'll only need to stay at the hotel for a short time," he continued as we exited the airport and made our way toward the car waiting for us outside.

I groaned, not wanting to stay at a hotel but it seems I had no choice, "Alright, fine, which hotel? It better be a good one."

"The best one, Zeus Hotel."

I stopped in my tracks, "Zeus? As in Choi Dong Wook's hotel?.."

"Yes, he has offered to accomodate us, and we figured it would be beneficial to accept since we'll be securing a deal with them anyway, it would be a good chance to interact and improve our trust and relationship with them. Bucky's words, not mine. Everything has already been booked, you just need to check in. Would that be alright?" He questioned, noticing my hesitation.

No, it won't be. Out of all the hotels and resorts in Seoul, I didn't want stay at Choi Young Do's dad's hotel. I tried to think of some alternative but came up blank. I sighed, defeated. I had no other choice.

"Fine, it'll be fine," I smiled, hiding my discomfort. He had a point, even though Choi Dong Wook had agreed to sign with us initially, we came to know that he was also planning to sign with our rival group, SKT Industries if they managed to offer more than us, so we will have to give him more reasons to sign with us as originally planned and this would be a really good chance to do that.

So I agreed. The first step in our schedule was to have a meeting with him anyway, this would make it a lot more easier.

"Lead the way. My dearest Edward," I told him, bowing politely like a princess. He raised an eyebrow at my sudden change, and I was waiting for him retort but he just rolled his eyes and walked ahead silently with a shake of his head. Great, now my only source of fun is off too. I thought as I trailed behind him. I always enjoyed messing with him, mostly because it annoyed him but he would try his best to counter and make me shut up when he's in a good mood. I could tell he enjoyed our little bickering too but he tends to get boring when he's in official mode. Like today. I would have to find something else to occupy my interest.

I was anxious the entire ride from the airport to the hotel. No matter how much I tried not to, I couldn't stop thinking about what will I do if I run into Youngdo. Eddie quickly noticed how I was fiddling with my thumbs and asked me what was wrong. He was sitting right next to me so it was hard to hide my expression from him.

"It's nothing, just nervous about the deal," I lied, hoping he'll buy it. I hated lying to him but I had to. He was silent for a couple minutes.

"Is it about your crush? That Dong Wook's son? What was his name? Choi Young Do?" He turned to me, looking right into my startled eyes, a smirk slowly crept its way onto his lips. I didn't have to say anything to confirm it, he knew he was right. And he would not stop teasing me about it. Great.

"I'm right, aren't I? It's about him, isn't it?," But it wasn't a question, he was just asking that to taunt me.

"No, it's not. Like I said, I'm nervous about how the deal will go, we need to make it work."

"Of course, it's about the deal." He paused dramatically. "I completely believe you. I don't doubt for a second that you might be having second thoughts about agreeing to stay at HIS hotel, the one that you had a HUGE crush on, not at all. It's completely about the deal, all right." He smiled cheekily, nodding his head along for more dramatic effect. I face palmed. He could be too much sometimes.

"I want to kill you sometimes," I muttered.

"Oh, you know you love me."

"No, I hate you."

"Nah, you love me, too much to be honest," he said hugging me sideways. It was true and this oaf knew that. I won't admit it, not that he needed me to. I loved annoying him and he loved annoying me too. But you never know how it feels until it's done to you.

"Get off me," I huffed, looking straight ahead amnd refusing to acknowledge him and his statement. He let go, laughing as he ruffled my hair, making a mess of it.

"Hey!" I protested but he only messed my hair up more. He's lucky he has very short hair.