Family matters 1

Marie took her bathe, wore her night dress and waited for eunsool in his room. Eunsool came after taking a shower, he met her staring at him with an evil grin on her face. he felt as if he had entered a trap.

"your not yet sleeping"

"I was waiting for you"

"I'm here so let's go to bed"

"Ok"

"but my futon is at the dry cleaner"

"So?"

"we have to share the bed"

"Ok but I'll put a pillow to separate us, I don't trust you after what you did"

"I said I was sorry and you forgave me"

"I didn't forgive you, I'm still very angry"

"then how should I compensate you"

"do me a favor"

"what do you want"

"whenever I want it, you can't deny"

"Ok but it's only valid for one year"

"one year!"

"yes or else I won't do it"

"Fine, one year"

"now let's go to bed"

They lay on the bed and eunsool switches off the lights. she kept twisting and turning on her side of the bad, after sometime she woke eunsool up.

"hey, are you sleeping?"

"hmm, what is it"

"I can't sleep"

he turns over to her side.

"what do you want me to do?"

"I don't know"

"why can't you sleep"

"I keep thinking of what happened at the office"

"what happened exactly, you never told me"

she narrated everything to him.

"that kind of thing happened and you never even called me"

"what would you have done if I did?"

"I would have come immediately and prove your innocence"

"I didn't want to bother you because you have already helped me enough"

"because of this, that guy made you lose your job"

"don't say such words, you can never depend on anyone"

"well from now onwards I want you to depend on me"

"I would like to live for myself, I don't want someone telling me how to live"

"that's not what I meant, you can come to me for anything and I won't ask you to pay me back"

"eunsool *yawn* your a very good friend"

"I don't know what you've been through but I would like to help you"

*snore*

"Marie? hah she's already asleep"

"why don't you trust anyone, you see everyone around you as a bad person including me, you may not show it but I can see through you, I'm definitely going to change this bad behavior"

he hugs her and falls asleep.

The next day, she wakes up to see herself in eunsool's arms, he was sleeping peacefully then she sneaked out of his arms, she took her bathe got dressed and went looking for job opportunities but she couldn't get any. She went back home and sat at the dinning table feeling exhausted, eunsool came over and sat at the table with her.

"where have you been all day?"

"I went out looking for a job"

"did get any"

"no I couldn't not even a part-time job"

"impossible, you could have at least gotten one"

"well, they were jobs that didn't accept me and some I rejected"

"why would you reject an offer!"

"I can't work in a place filled with old men, plus have you seen the uniform, it's better not to wear clothes than to wear that and I would definitely get molested, I need a job but I'm not that desperate for one"

"it's good that you didn't accept it"

"I'm really exhausted, who knew looking for jobs would be very tiring"

"well if you need a job, you can always fill up for me at my workplace"

"you mean it, I can work for you!"

"sure and you don't even need to pay me anything, keep the money you get, it's the least I can do"

she was overwhelmed with joy and immediately hugged him and they fell on the floor, she was on top of him their face almost touching, she looked into his eyes for a moment, he was really handsome, his blue eyes were very attractive and his lips looked so soft, they kept coming closer to each other but eunsool stood up and helped her up.

"I'm sorry I was just so happy"

"I get it besides I have important things to do so I won't be able to come to the shop"

"then I'll go straight there"

Few days passed, Marie continued working at the store and eunsool had some business and classes to attend so they never got time to see each other except at night but the situation would be one person is already sleeping. eunsool had been saving money for her to get a new apartment.

One morning as Marie was leaving for work, she met an old man in a black tuxedo holding a parcel.

"Excuse me young lady, do you know master eunsool, it seems that you know him quite well seeing that you just came out of his house"

"yes, I do know him"

"Then would you help me to give him this parcel"

"Ok , I'll make sure to hand it over to him"

She collected the parcel and dropped it on the table and left, few minutes later eunsool came down to eat breakfast and saw the parcel on the table, he opened it out of curiosity and to his surprise it was his papers, visa and flight ticket and a from his parents and job from China. He read the letter his parents sent, telling him to come back home, they are certain things to discuss and the other letter was for the job he applied a year ago and finally got accepted, it came with flight ticket and an apartment to stay, he only had a few months to leave, all was left was for him to send his acceptance letter which was written awhile back. he took it from his drawer and sent it back to the company.

the letter from his parents was not optional, he had no choice to go, he'll have to wait until marie came back, he went to attend his lectures.

Marie came back from work and sat in the living room, she wondered whether he had opened the package because it was not on the table, she was looking for the package when eunsool came back.

"what are you looking for?"

"oh your back, I wasn't looking for anything?"

"then what we're you searching for close to the table"

"I was looking for ..."

she turned to the table and saw a ring, she picked it and showed him.

"my ring, it fell on the ground"

"since when did you start wearing a ring"

"since when did you start monitoring me?"

"anyways, just go freshen up we're going out"

"why, what the occasion"

"just do what I told you first, you'll know when we get there"

Marie went up to freshen up, she took her bathe,did her make-up all over and changed her clothes, she came down looking beautiful and stunning. he walked her to the car and they drove off to a restaurant not too far from their house, they ate and talked.

"eunsool"

"hmm"

"what's the reason for taking me out"

"why are you asking?"

"it's just not usual or it has never happened"

"I just want to be nice to you"

"your always nice to me"

"but you still work hard after everything so I wanted to take you out"

"that's so sweet of you"

After dinner, he took her to another place,it was much further from but it was easy to go to and fro because the roads and traffic weren't isn't as bad as the other streets. They arrived at an apartment, he took her around, it had a nice view and was very spacious and the rent was affordable.

"what do you think of this place"

"I don't know what to say"

"don't thank me, it's the least I can do for you"

"this is too much eunsool, all this prepared for me, I don't know what word to use to express my gratitude"

"don't worry, it's getting late let's go"

Later that night at eunsool's parents house, the butler came into a room holding a tray containing a cigar and lighter, the room was dark, the only ray of light was coming from the window on the left, they was a figure staring into the light, the butler interrupted the short moment of peace of that person, the person took the cigar and started smoking.

"what happened when you went there?"

"he wasn't around but..."

"but what?"

"I saw a girl come out of his house"

"a girl, hmm interesting, tell me more"

"she seems to be an acquaintance of master eunsool"

"a friend, you say"

"yes, she seemed really nice to the young master"

"but would the first and second master agree"

"it depends on your decision, madam"

"yes, I only have the one who rules this house"

The person came out into the light revealing only a torso of her appearance.

"send word to eunsool and the other masters, telling them they would be a family meeting tomorrow"

"yes, ma'am"

"Also tell eunsool to bring that girl, he's hiding"

The butler left and sent the message to the masters of the house. eunsool got the message in the middle of the night, which woke him up, after reading it he looked at marie wondering whether he should drag her into their family matters but if he didn't they would come for her, he had no choice but to carry her along, he finally went back to sleep after planning what to do.

The other three brothers also got the message but the one couldn't make it because he was away in the US.The meeting at Jil family mansion was going to be hectic but the three brothers can't wait to see each other again.