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➶ MRS. KIM ➶ CH 9

⦁ ⦁ ⦁ MRS. KIM MASTERLIST  ⦁ ⦁ ⦁

You’ve been looking forward to today since Junmyeon got off the phone with you a few days ago. You both have been busy at it finishing paperwork and errands so you could spend the latter half of the day not having to worry about work the next day. You finished earlier in the day and spent the remainder of the time preparing for Junmyeon since he planned on staying the night at the hotel with you. You cleared your schedule, had your nails done and Margie prepare a light dinner. 

Junmyeon’s plane landed about half an hour ago, but he said he needed to go back to his house to drop his things off and grab some stuff so you were just sitting out on the balcony drinking some juice while waiting for him. 

It's been over a month, close to two since Junmyeon re-entered your life and you weren't sure where your life was heading with this but you can't help that be happy he chose to come back to you. Junmyeon was a little busier now that he is taking over his father's business but you wish you both were able to go out on dates because it seems you both were just meeting up in his house, or the hotel. You kept quiet though, he was a busy man and you took whatever time you could with him. It was crazy though because your parents know nothing of this relationship and you've just never got around to talking with them because they are also working around the hotel. 

A knock on the door makes your heart jump. You run to the door and peek through the peephole, slight disappointment but you shrug it off... You let Margie in and she follows you to the balcony. 

"Thank you, Margie," you pulled her into a hug. "You are always there for the rescue." 

"No problem sweetie. Also," she heads to the cart and pulls something from under the cart cloth. "I know you wanted the French rose, but I snuck out this gem for you," she hands you a black and gold bottle. "Roulette Wine imported from Spain."

"Where did you get this?" you twist the bottle around to admire the gold lettering. 

"You parents stash a few of their special wines in the corner and with the way Myungsoo was telling me how you were acting, I assume you're having someone special come tonight," your face gets warm and you clear your throat. 

"Sh!" You bring your finger to your mouth. "If you see my parents, don't tell then anything okay? I'm waiting for the right time to tell them about all of this," you stick out your pinky. She brings her pinky in. "Promise. Let me know if you need anything else, I’m going to be up late tonight.” Nodding, you help walk her out to the door. Taking a deep breath you turn around and lean with your back against the door. You flash a slight smile and hold your hand up to your chest.

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“Special Delivery!” Recognizing the voice you jump from the corner of your balcony in excitement and run towards the door, on the way you check your hair and flip it behind you. You swing open the door and Junmyeon is standing there with a large bouquet of roses. Without a second thought, you attack him with a hug, almost knocking him over and making him drop the roses. Junmyeon just laughs and squeezes you a big hug before you unhook yourself from him. 

“Hey.” 

“Hey gorgeous, I missed you,” he places a light kiss on your lips. 

“Sorry,” you laugh as you pick up the bouquet, “I got a little too excited,” he shakes his head and grabs the large bag beside him. He sets the bag down and takes off his jacket as you go behind the counter to retrieve a vase for the bouquet. Junmyeon comes behind you and slips his hands around your waist, his chin rests on your right shoulder. 

“Yes?” you turn to where his face is resting. He closes his eyes and smiles, “Just a few seconds,” you both stay in that position for a few minutes while you both slightly swayed back and forth. “I feel much better,” he stands up and pops his neck. 

“I’m glad you’re feeling better,” he pokes around on the knick-knacks you have on the kitchen counter. “You know ..” 

“Know what?”

“Nothing,” he shakes his head. “Come here, I have something for you. I had a friend make something for us while I was on a business trip,” he comes around and has you sit in front of him. Reaching into the bag, he pulls up two outfits. You cover your mouth and laugh. 

“What?” he laughed. “I didn’t know you were into stuff like this …”

“Do I not seem like the type to wear things like this?” you shake your head and grin. Couple pajamas. This was surprising to you, back when you both first began dating Junmyeon declared that he detested couple outfits because he said it was too much in people’s faces but since these were pajamas and no one would really see them, it was okay

Your heart almost drops when you look back up, Junmyeon was taking off his shirt and when he locks eyes with you he grins. “Like what you see?” 

“Um,” you clear your throat. “A-Are you changing now?” Junmyeon nods. “Time to wind down,” he winks. 

 “I’ll go change in th-”

“You’re fine changing in here, I won’t pounce on you … just yet.”  

“Very funny,” you grab the zipper up behind your shirt and unzip it halfway until it gets stuck with a piece of your hair. You squeeze your eyes closed and mentally slap yourself for having to inconvenience him. Peeking behind your shoulder you see Junmyeon folding up his clothes.  “Um, Junmyeon?”

“Yeah, what's up?” you turn around and smile. “Help?” He sets his phone on the couch and walks around the coffee table, you gather the rest of your hair that isn’t stuck and twirl it up so the rest of your hair wasn’t in the way. As he was de-tangling your hair from the zipper, his fingers made contact with the back of your spine and chills ran down your back each time his finger brushed against your skin. 

“Thanks,” after you finish dressing yourself you tell Junmyeon to go ahead and head outside while you use the restroom. You skip to the bathroom and close the door leaning against the door you cup your face between your hands. You splash some water onto your face and slap on some lotion, you stretch a bit and mumble to yourself as you walk out. Since you were mumbling to yourself you didn’t notice that the lights were off and the lamps were turned on, it took you a few seconds to notice. 

“What … Jun-” there were rose petals scattered loosely towards the balcony. You follow the trail and find Junmyeon standing with his back to you. 

“What is this?” you asked. He turns around and grabs your hand, taking you to the sofa bed in the corner. He sits you down and sits next to you, he pulls his hands up and caresses your cheek. 

“I’ve thought long and hard about this during my trip. As cliche as this sounds I couldn’t stop thinking about you, I was not focused because you were on my mind so much,” he sighs. “I know we’ve only recently begun to rekindle our relationship but let's be honest, I feel like I'm aging and if I don’t do this I may regret it for the rest of my life,” he lets go of your hand and reaches for his pocket. At that moment your heart stopped and the rest of what happened seemed like such a blur for you. 

“There’s something about you that seems to melt all my troubles away, and- I, you make me forget my troubles and make me feel … what do the kids today say now and days? Butterflies in my stomach or make me feel all warm? Something like that?” you laugh. He opens the box and pulls out the ring. “Will you make me the luckiest man alive?” 

“Sorry, I just blanked out,” you laugh. Heart thumping you take a deep breath and nod your head. “Of course,”  he takes the ring out of the box and places it onto your finger. He brings you into a hug and kisses your forehead. You close your eyes the moment he does and places your hand on your chest. 

“What's wrong?”   

“What are we going to do?” you play with the ring on your finger.

“What do you mean?”

“I’m honestly still a bit shocked about what just happened, I-” your pull your hands away from his and tuck your hair behind your ears. “I haven’t told my parents about our past, I’m busy with my hotel and you are busy with yours and your father's company in general,” you look up and lock eyes with him. “Junmyeon, your dad still doesn’t like me or approve of me … he never did and I don’t know if he will now becaus-”

“Sh,” he quiets you down and begins rubbing the back of your hands. “One step at a time, if you want to, we can keep this between the two of us until we figure things out. Okay? Here,” he hands you the box, “You can put the ring here for now, until things are figured out. Come here,” he stands up and scoots you to the back of the couch and you both lay down deep into the cushions. 

You know, “I had a dream last night,” Junmyeon mumbled. 

“Oh yeah?’ looking up at him you could see him smiling like crazy. “What?” you laughed. “What is it? Why are you smiling like that.” 

“It was so vivid that it looked like it was happening in real life,” Junmyeon described how he dreamt of the wedding you both were having and when it was time for your father to walk you down the wedding aisle, you kept making a sour face like you were constipated and then tripped and fell breaking your arm and you both ended up having the wedding at the hospital. He continued on saying after that it suddenly flashed to where you both had kids running around in a beach house and mentioned Junmyeon Jr and how you had two sets of twins and a set of triplets, you sit up and stop him. 

“Woah, listen here buck-a-roo ...” you sit up and cross your arms in front of you. “First and foremost, I want a girl first, second, tell your boys to calm it down because I am not popping out 2 sets of twins and a set of triplets.”   

“I can’t help it that my boys can swim~” he makes a swimming gesture with his hands. You slap his arm. 

“Junmyeon.”

“Hm?”

“As romantic as that sounds, we forgot about the food and it's probably cold now,” you yawn and draw circles on his chest. “You’ve had a long day, aren’t you hungry?” 

“I told you, I’m hungry for something else cupcake.”

“Cupcake?” you laugh. “Is that my new name now?” 

“Cupcake, Boo-thang, Bae, Honey … what do you like?” 

“Up to you,” you shrug. You stand up and step off of the couch bed, “My legs are feeling numb and I think my arms asleep-I need to stretch a bi--ahhh~!” he pulls you down below him. 

“I told you that I’m hungry.” 

“So am I,” you slide right under him to the food sitting on the table. You slide the tray to the couch and lick your lips. “Dumplings and lobster soup. Her-” you turn around to find him right next to you. He opens his mouth to speak but you stick the spoon in his mouth. “Good isn’t it?” 

“I want something else,” he looks at your lips. You clear your throat and stuff a roll of bread in your mouth. Smiling you stuff his mouth with bread too. He takes the spoon for you and picks up the bowl of soup, “Here.”

You take a good look at Junmyeon and analyze his features. He still looks as good as he did when you first meet but you could see faint lines forming from the stress and the bags under his eyes forming, his eyes looked so tired. He looked so worn out. 

“Junmyeon, finish eating the rest of that. I’ll be back.” 

“Wait,” he grabs your wrist. “Come eat with me,” you shake your head at him. “You eat it, I’m full.” 

Leaving Junmyeon out on the balcony, you make your way to your room and fix up the bed a little bit. You close the curtains to the room and dim the lights in the room, holding up the remote you play a movie in the background. Junmyeon knocks on the door which makes you slightly jump. 

“Come here,” you drag him to the bathroom. “Wash up.”

“You still remember,” he laughs. 

“Of course, how could I forget this was your favorite toothpaste and skincare routine.”

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The buzzing of your phone on the nightstand slowly awakened you from your slumber. You look back at Junmyeon and removed his arm slowly from your waist. You turn off your alarm and slowly sit up on the edge of the bed. 

Opening the nightstand you open the ring box. You were sure that yesterday night was a dream because it didn’t seem real, you should be happy and giddy about this yet you are questioning yourself on whether or not your answer was just from the heat of the moment. You were still in shock at the thought of his sudden proposal, heck, you were just beginning to get over meeting Junmyeon a few months ago and now you're engaged to the man. You take a quick glance behind you and then return your focus back to the ring.  

Your parents never knew of your past so you would have a whole novel to write for them and Junmyeons dad was not particularly fond of you because of your status … you and Naeun were now engaged too but you didn't know if you should tell her yet or not because you wanted to find time to tell your parents and Junmyeon first before you tackled the path with your best friend. You needed to prepare for the world to know because Junmyeon is well known and is a bit of a celebrity too so news like this will inevitably make it onto the big screen.

"Hey," a groggy Junmyeon sits up and back hugs you. The warmth of his chest on your back sends chills down your spine you turn around. "What are you thinking about?" 

"Nothing much, I’m just zoning out because I just woke up. It's nothing important," you laugh.  

"Come back to bed," he lays back down and takes you with him. You lay on top of him and he squeezes you in a tight hug. "Let's sleep longer." 

"We can't." 

"Well, why not?" 

"We have that photoshoot with Naeun, remember?" 

"I'd rather stay here for another roun-ah ouchhh okay okay," you slap his arm. He laughs and his hand travels up and does your back. 

"Hey," you poked him in the stomach. "I'm going to go ahead and shower first, okay?" You get up and grab your robe when he grabs it from you.

"Real funny, Junmyeon, give it back," you raise your brow and snatch the robe from him, you tie the robe around your waist and proceed to the restroom. “See you in a little bi-" he grabs your wrist and also gets up. "What are you doing?: 

"Let's shower."

"Junmyeon my shower isn’t big enough for both of us to comfortably move.” 

"Yeah, but we're being time-efficient here come on," he drags you into the bathroom with him. You roll your eyes at him and follow him in. 

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Junmyeon and you arrive at the studio at the same time as Jongin and Baekhyun. Getting out of the car, you all meet up and into the studio. Baekhyun winks at Junmyeon and you. Confused you reach for the 2nd set of doors but Jongin beats you to it and holds it open for you. You stare back at Baekhyun and then to Jongin and then to Junmyeon in which he just shrugs his shoulders. You end up walking in first and then the rest followed in. 

"Did you use it?" You hear giggling behind you. 

“Why?” 

"You did didn't you?" Jongin asks. 

"He totally used it," Baekhyun laughed. 

"Ahem," you clear your throat and enter the shooting room ahead of them. In the room, you meet a bunch of the staff but naeun was nowhere to be found. Baekhyun wasn't paying attention and ran into you, causing you to trip and fall on the ground. Junmyeon playfully pushed Baekhyun and he jokingly fell onto the ground hurt. 

"I'm sorry my queen," he bowed as he got up. You smile, reach up and pinch his cheeks. You hear your name being yelled out behind the props. Naeun comes out screaming with two other girls behind her and attacks you to the ground. 

"I missed seeing your face so much!" 

"Why is everyone attacking her today? I'd like to see her live please," Junmyeon laughed. Naeun and you get up from the ground where she gives you a proper hug. "I thought I was going to die without seeing your face for a week,” she squeezes your cheeks. “I missed your squishy cheeks.” 

"Ahem," Jongin coughed. "Are you going to …" he tilts his head towards the two girls.

“Oh, right,” Naeun stands up with you and straightens out her outfit. "Sorry. Guys, these are my good friends Miyeon and Chorong," and she continues on and introduces all of you to her two friends. "So today you two will be partnering up," she pushes you and Junmyeon together. "Then Jongin will be with Miyeon and Baekhyun will be with Chorong. Jongin and Miyeon will be more focused on the athletic fashion, Baekhyun and Chorong will be the more casual and you two will be in fierce chic. Then we will switch to individuals, cool with everyone?” 

"Okay, that's good with me," Baekhyun smiles and begins to extend his hand to shake Chorongs when you chime in. 

"It’s too bad your girlfriend and your fiance are here to take couple photos with you," you wink at Baekhyun and Jongin, they both stop in their tracks. "Shots fired," Junmyeon laughs. 

"Okay, well. Let's go ahead and get you all into makeup so I can finish last-minute details." 

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You finish with your makeup first and wander around the set while waiting for instructions on what to do. You pass by a mirror and turned around to get a good look at the outfit. Naeun was a magician, you wouldn’t usually wear something like this but she made it look so good on you. You see a head pop up behind you.

“Hey Jongin,” you scoot to the side of the big mirror so he could also have a look. “Nice outfit.”

“Thanks, yours isn’t so bad yourself. So,” Jongin glanced around. “How are you feeling about last night?” 

“What about last night?” you smiled. “Nothing happened last night, I have absolutely no clue what you are talking about?” you blink a few times at him and then started to walk away. 

“I’m not talking about what you both did last night, I’m talking about the proposal,” you stop in your tracks and pull him to the side. 

“Wait, how do you know? Only Junmyeon and I know,” he rolls his eyes. 

“I know everything,” he sighs. “He’s been hinting about a ring so I figured that's what happened last night. I just want to know if he told you anything.”

“What was he-” you’re both cut off when Naeun yells for your name through a large megaphone. You excuse yourself and go to the set to meet them. 

“Couple shots first,” the photographer yelled out. “You and Junmyeon are up first.”  

“You both look cute!” Naeun yelled. “Get it girl!” 

“I’ve never done this before!” you yelled back. “I’m so awkward!” 

“My boy here’s got you,” she winked. “He is going to work his magic so I’m just going to go check on the others, just be lovey-dovey together and you should be fine, cool?” she disappears to the back. 

“Okay, what now?” 

“Let's start with simple poses,” the photographer comes up and poses you both but since neither of you was models or had much experience with this it became quite awkward. Junmyeon was in some photoshoots for business stuff but had no experience in fashion photoshoots. 

"Find your vibe," the photographer twirls his hand up, "I don't know much about who you both are except that Naeun says you all are good friends of hers but act like you're in love because I can sense the sexual tension between you two," he chimed as he walked back to the camera. 

"Act like we're in love? Fine with me," Junmyeon suddenly pulls you into a hug and you could hear the whole room roaring with screams. "YES HONEY!" The photographer yelled out. "I like a man who is romantic, keep doing lovey-dovey things like that but make sure you can show off the outfits!” 

"You," you pinch Junmyeons cheeks and he steals another kiss from you. "Hey, calm yourself." 

"Little boy? That's not what you-" 

"Sh!” You place a finger on his lips and he just smiles at you. You sit him onto the chair and turn around, facing him, you get on him wrapping your legs around him and wrap your arms around his neck. "Look at the camera," you winked. Junmyeon raises an eyebrow and shrugs. 

"Wow," the photographer looked up after this shot. "I love this, you both seem like naturals … I don’t know what you two were talking about when you said you were awkward.” Junmyeon and you spend the next few minutes finishing up your couple shots and individual shots of the couple outfits. It was strange, you guys never really displayed any kind of affection in front of others so it was a nice change, it didn’t feel like you both were hiding. You both go your separate ways to do a quick change of makeup and outfit while the others were doing their shots. 

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After completing all of the group shots, Naeun had everyone go onto the terrace for a lunch break while she had workers come in to break down sets set up new ones for individuals. Everyone seemed completely opposite from how they were this morning, not in a bad way of course, but everyone seemed more energetic and lively. Baekhyun was still a teeny bit shy towards Chorong even after the shoot but Jongin and Miyeon seemed to hit it off pretty well, it was too bad though that their significant others couldn't come with them … it would have been cuter.  

"Don't think too hard," Junmyeons pinches your cheek. “Here,” he hands you a lunch box and you both sit down next to each other. Junmyeon pulls your hair back behind your ear and you hear coughs beside you.

“Get a room,” a cough comes from Baekhyun as he and Jongin sit next to you two. “Don’t mind them,” Junmyeon laughs. “That little Baekhyun, he’ll see it later.” 

“Naeun,” you waved her over. She walks over to where you all are sitting with her lunch box and sits next to you. 

“Hey.”

“Hey,” everyone else said in unison. Naeun opens up her lunch box and sighs, she uncomfortably shifts in her seat. 

“Is everything okay?” she nods. “Yeah, nothing much. Just business concerns and all, it's also been a really long morning so I’m just tired. No biggy.” 

“Let me know if you need anything okay? I’m very proud of you and I’m sure if you need anything the guys would be happy to help too.”

“Thank you, and thank you all for helping me. I wanted to make this special with close friends and I’m glad you all could help my journey.” 

“Hey, we’re best friends. I’d do anything for you,” you take a sip from the water bottle and happen to glance up at one of the big tv screens on the building behind Junmyeon. All of the color drained from your face you slowly stand up and grip on your bottle. Junmyeon follows your gaze to the news reporter on the big screen and slowly begin standing to view the screen better. Naeun drops her silverware with a cling on the floor causing Jongin and Baekhyun to look up from their lunch boxes and stand up as well. 

Rumor is it that CEO Junmyeon is currently engaged and on the road to marriage. 

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It became silent after the incident on the tv screen, a million thoughts ran through your mind on how the news got around so fast-even you weren’t able to process the night before and now the world knows too. Well, your face was blurred out on the screen but still, this made you even tenser because everything seemed to be caving down. 

“Ah, that's cold.” 

“Still thinking about the news report earlier?” Naeun hands you a glass of water and dims the lights a little before she settles down next to you. 

“Thanks,” you laughed. 

“Don’t think too much on it,” she pulls the blanket on top of you both and grips on her cup. “I’ve been entangled in some myself but they just want to create rumors and scandals to shake you up. I’m sure Junmyeon isn’t engaged to anyone if he is I’ll go teach her a lesson,” she laughs. Naeun takes a sip of her water and sets it down. “Sorry,” she rubs her eyes. “It's been a really long week, I haven’t been able to sleep much so I feel like I'm constantly zoning out. If I just pinch me and I’ll wake right up.”

“I-” you perk up and look around the room. “Where’s …”

“Where’s what?” 

“I think I left my purse in your car,” she turns around and hands you her keys. “Here you go, have at it. You and I are the same person, I’m always forgetting my purse in the car too.”

“Thanks,” you move the blanket off and talk to her as you are walking out. “I have this cream that my mom found that's helped a lot with headaches and stuff, I’ll get you some when I retrieve my purse. Okay?”

“Alright!” you hear her yell out an answer as you close the door. Walking down the steps, you open the car door and grab your purse from the passenger seat when you spot someone waving you down. 

“Hey Jaehyun, are you looking for-”

“Could you please give this to her?” he hands you a box. 

“What is this? Is it for Naeun? You can come in you-”

“She didn’t tell you?” 

“Tell me what?” he sticks his hands in his pocket and looks down. 

"We've been done for some time now, just a week or so after you came back from your break. You know, as close as you two are I'm shocked she didn't let you know right away," you look down at the box and back at him. They broke up? I could have sworn Naeun said he proposed already. 

"What is this?" 

"It's all the things she left at my place the last three years, I'm not coming back here so I thought that I'd return her things to her because I don't have use of any of her things." 

"What happened? And why aren't you coming back here?" 

"I'm moving to New York," he sighs. "Naeun didn't want to do the whole long-distance thing, she had other plans and we just lost our spark, sometimes things don't go the way you want it to and you end up where we are now. Look, I have a flight to catch in a few hours and I just came to drop this off. Thanks for everything you’ve done to help me here if you need anything at all just give me a call. Okay?" 

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“Naeun, this box is labeled to you,” you set your purse on the couch and the box on the table in front of her. 

“Who delivered this?” you shrug. “I’m not sure. A delivery man was dropping it off as I was coming back inside, I just signed it for you so you wouldn't have to come out. It's a pretty heavy box." 

"I see … let's forget about the box, I’ll check on it later,” she scratched her head. “Um, let's talk about you and all that's happened while I was gone because I heard you've had a fun few days." 

"Nah," you fiddle with your fingers. "I've mainly been running here and there for business things, Jongin and Baekhyun took me to a ropes course campground they had set up and Jason invited me to see his friends exhibit since we ran into each other. Nothing much happened other than that." 

"Jason? Isn't that the-" 

"Yeahhh." 

"He seems to really like you, I think he has a crush on you." 

"My parents seem to like him too, he does a lot of good work and they really like him. How about you?" Naeun instinctively rubbed her the ring on her finger. 

"I've had a busy week while I was gone, I talked a lot to my mentor in Paris to get his feedback and did a lot of business errands as well, and Jaehyun and I facetimed every night before we went to sleep. You know, the same old same old ..." she smiled. You think back to the incident earlier and the box that was in front of you, why did she hide the fact that they broke up? How odd was it that the photoshoot happened on the same day he was set to leave New York. Did something happen?

You both told everything to each other, but you couldn't say anything to her yet about the engagement because you also were keeping a secret yourself too. You were sure she was on you about that with the news reporter earlier but your shocked state showed that you weren't aware it was out, she didn’t seem suspicious or anything. You hoped that she caught onto Junmyeon telling everyone it was a rumor because this comes out every year so he said it was nothing new. 

"What's wrong?" she snaps out of her blank stare. 

" Sorry,” she apologized again. “Just tired," she turns around behind her and grabs the remote to dim the lights just a tad more. She brings down the projector to start a movie and you start laughing at the screen. 

"You still have this as your wallpaper?" 

"What?" She laughs. "I think cute, come on, let's watch a movie and sleep here tonight," you both chose a movie and sit back while it plays, the photo that was seen earlier sparked a whole night of reminiscing your earlier days together and embarrassing stories. It wasn't until midnight that you both fell asleep. In the middle of the night, you wake up to grab another glass of water. You lean against the island and look at the magnets she had on the fridge, you chuckle at the photos she had of the both of you pinned under magnets. No matter how many times you’ve seen the photos you still couldn’t help but laugh. You turn around to wash the cup when you see a sample wedding invitation sticking out. 

J + N request the presence of ________ at their wedding on September 28th, 2019. 

She even had the wedding invitation samples made. You wipe your hands off on the towel and look at Naeun sleeping soundly. It seemed like this wedding planning stopped abruptly and maybe she just didn’t have time to tell you. You sigh and slide the wedding invitation back. Naeun was probably stressed about the breakup, that was probably why she seemed so tired. Rubbing your eyes you return back to the couch and fell asleep to the tv. 

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[a/n] i feel like this chapter may contain a lot or is all over the place, let me know if there is anything i can clarify for you :) 

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Update

Hello to my readers,

I had an unexpected pause in writing due to some health concerns and family matters. I am continuing to slowly write the next few chapters and will hopefully have it out as soon as I can. I apologize for the delay, thank you for supporting and reading my story! <3 

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➶ MRS. KIM ➶ CH 8

⦁ ⦁ ⦁ MRS. KIM MASTERLIST  ⦁ ⦁ ⦁

“I wish you were here instead of Paris, if you were you could have saved me from the date set up last night.”

“I know, I wish I was there. I would have totally made up a girl emergency to save you from it, who is this guy again?”

“Jason, he owns a foundation to help raise money for children or something.”

“Oh right, him! I met him at the thing your parents had at your hotel, he seems like a great catch though. He’s got the looks, the education, the money, and the personality.”

“I know but I’m not attracted to him, he seems like a great guy but I can’t see myself with someone like him. I also don’t know where Junmyeon and I stand or what we are,” you lock the door to your suite and stick the keys in your pocket. “I think we’re just playing safe right now … you know, I’m slowly getting out of the phase where I wanted to end him for doing what he did.”

“I wouldn’t blame you, but what are you doing now?”

“I’m getting a late lunch, I’ve been working on paperwork in my room all morning and I’m feeling kind of pudgy so I’m going to get a quick workout in and shower … then, I have a meeting this afternoon with the staff.”

“Boo, well … less than a week before I am back and then we have our little photoshoot!!!! I’m so excited, I’ve booked the best photographer!”

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After putting on your pajamas, you close your closet and head towards your bed. You pop open your laptop and check emails that you missed during the meeting earlier, it seemed as if Junmyeon was still renovating things here and there, they were all minor things but minor things could lead to bigger changes that you weren’t comfortable with. Junmyeon agreed to not do anything major but then again he has been busy that it might slip is mind. You wanted to put an end to all the changes but you don’t own the hotel, you just run it now. Shaking it off you finish answering a few emails and sorting through some documents. You glance at the time on your laptop and yawn, rubbing your eyes you set the documents on your nightstand and turned around to a video chat request from Junmyeon. You accept the request and the screen popped up with Junmyeon sitting at a desk.

“Hey beautiful,” he smiled.

“Hey,” you yawn again and lay your side on your bed. “Jongin told me you were out of the country.”

“Ah,” he smiled. “Sorry, this trip came suddenly that I didn’t even have time to pack much.”

“Don’t you know how to ever rest?” you laughed.

“I’m a hustler,” Junmyeon turns on the lamp next to him and rest his arms on the desk. “Looks like you’ve had a long night, and you’ve brought your paperwork with you?”

“How did you-” he points to the papers behind you. “Well, looks like you’re working hard too.”

“Trying not too,” you snicker at him and pull the comforter up. Yawning once again you began muttering, “Where are you at?”

“England. We had an important meeting with investors here,” you nod and look at the window behind him. “Is it night time there?” Junmyeon checks his phone, “It’s about 4am here.” You slightly hold yourself up, “Junmyeon! Shouldn’t you be sleeping?”

“I can’t, miss you too much so I couldn’t sleep.”

“Tch, that’s so cliche.”

“Still, you promised you would sleep more.”

“I know, I know. How is that Jason guy?”

“How did you-It was Jongin wasn’t it?”

“Bingo!”

“What did he tell you?”

“That you look like you wanted to cry because you didn’t know Jason was there with your parents. Right?” you smile and your hand is brought up to your face.

“Junmyeon, it was so awkward. He seems like a sweet guy and I think my parents are trying to set him up with me but it’s obvious that they’re trying to push me to like him when he is just like an older brother to me … I barely know the guy.”

“Good, because you’re my girl.”

“Oh? Am I?” you raise a brow. “I didn’t know I was your girl,” you laugh. The rest of the night you and Junmyeon just talked about random things here and there. You learned that he has come to hate cucumbers now, how he has been sleeping better because of you but you were sure that he was just trying to butter you up, and just about his days at work. It was nice hearing Junmyeon be able to just talk, it was heartwarming, you could listen to him talk all day. You talked late into the night until you both fell asleep.

—–

“One large Americano with two pumps of espresso please.”

“Seems like someone is really tired,” you turn around to see Jason walking up to you. You turn around and bow. “I was just up late last night doing work and things.”

“Don’t work too hard now.”

“Have you been well?”

“Coping,” he laughed. “Its been a bit busy the past few days. So, what are you doing around here?”

“Nothing much at the moment, I’m just going to walk around and window shop until it’s time to meet my friends. We were supposed to get lunch but all three of us had a late morning so we’re just meeting up to hang out around later on.”

“Then, there is an art exhibit that my friend just opened up around the corner. My sister was supposed to attend with me but her daughter is sick and couldn’t make it, I’d love to have you come along if you don’t mind.”

“I don’t see why not,” you shrug “I won’t be going back to the hotel so might as well make use of my time.” When Jason’s coffee was finished you both head out of the shop and walk towards the art exhibit to a crowd of people in line.

“It seems like your friend is really famous?”

“I guess you can say that she has a great way of expressing emotions into art and a lot of people seem to be able to relate to that,” he walks you past the crowded line and through the glass doors towards woman wearing a white jumpsuit, she seemed to be talking with a bunch of foreigners.

“Excuse me, I’ll have to excuse myself but you all go ahead and feel free to look around,” she comes towards you both and hugs Jason.

“Jason, it’s been a hot second since I’ve seen you. I’m glad you could make it out today. How are you and your parents doing?”

“I wouldn’t miss this for the world, and we’re doing as great as always, just been busy here and there. Congrats on your exhibit, it seems like you’ve garnered a lot of attention.”

“Please, this isn’t anything much,” she diverts her attention to you. “Jason, you didn’t tell me you were dating now and where are my manners? Jung Yiseul,” she bows.

“We’re not dating,” you wave your hands and laugh. “I’m just an acquaintance of Jasons.”

“That’s a pity, you both would make a great looking couple. I need to greet a few more guests but you both feel free to look around, I’ll catch up with you later Jason,” with this Yiseul leaves you both to roam around. Yiseul seemed to have a distinct pattern to her art, they were sophisticated yet chic at the same time but told a story as well.

“She has a very interesting way of expressing herself in her art, it’s intriguing. Is she an acquaintance of yours?”

“She is, Yiseul’s fiance is a good friend of mine, our families grew up together so she is like a younger sister than I am.”

“I know this is pretty sudden put I’m holding a fundraising event Monday and Thursday and would love it if you came.”

“I won’t be able to come on Monday but I can see if my schedule is free on Thursday.”

“That’s great, I can send you the details on the event next Thursday. It’ll be a pretty chill event, we’re having kpop idols come and perform to help raise money, they’re pretty trendy now and days so we hope this will help raise money. Look,” he turns to face you and you awkwardly make eye contact with him. “ … I would love if you could accompa-” your phone rings and you excuse yourself for a few minutes, turning around slightly.

“Hello?”

“What are you doing? I’m at an art exhibit with a friend of mine and then I’m meeting up with Jongin and Baekhyun later because they’re bored of each other,” Junmyeon chuckles from the other side. “Their girlfriends are busy and away aren’t they?”

“It seems like it, but don’t worry, I’ll be careful and babysit them later. I know how immature they can act sometimes,” you laugh.

“My trip is ending early and my flight arrives Saturday afternoon but I have paperwork to go over then I’m free Sunday afternoon if you’re too.”

“If my nose is itching in the correct direction I think you’re asking for a night together?”

“I think you’re correct,” he laughs. “I have to head to a meeting now but I’ll see you on Sunday?”

“See you Sunday,” you hang up the phone and turn back around to Jason. The rest of the day was pretty chill, you explored the rest of the art exhibit with Jason and ran into Naeun’s boyfriend who was at the exhibit with another woman. You didn’t get to talk to him except to say hello before you had to leave.

“Are you sure you don’t want me to drive you?”

“I’m fine Jason, I’ll just take a cab there, it’s not that far anyway. You have a great day,” you said as he opened the door to the cab.

“I’ll see you soon?” he asked.

“Uh, sure,” you close the door and bid goodbye. You turn to the cab driver and told them the address where you needed to be dropped off at. You glance at your phone and receive a text from Jongin letting you know that they just parked. The driver glanced back and made eye contact with you.

“Your boyfriend is handsome,” the lady commented.

“He’s just an acquaintance of mine.”

“Really? That’s a shame, you both look like you would be a lovely couple. You can help yourself to any snacks or drinks in the mini cooler, free of no charge.”

“Thank you.”

“I see you are going to the ropes course they have set up, my son and his girlfriend went earlier today and said it was very enjoyable.”

—–

You walk towards the campground but see that there are a bunch of people waiting in line. You try to text Jongin and Baekhyun but the signal is so bad that you aren’t able to text them. While waiting in line, suddenly you get yanked to the side and sucker punch the person who pulled you. Baekhyun lay on the ground clutching his arm.

“Just leave me be, I’m going to die here,” Jongin grabs Baekhyun and lifts him up.

“Idiot,” he laughed. “You’re so dramatic.”

“You guys about gave me a heart attack,” you held your hand to your chest. Jongin brings his arm up and puts a neon-colored bracelet on your wrist.

“What’s this?” you look at the pink bracelet. “Is this the ticket in?”

“Yep, now,” he comes behind you and Baekhyun and pushes you both pass the others and inside of the gate. “Let’s go, children,” Jongin chimes.

“You know I’m older than you right?”

“I know,” he laughed. Walking towards the welcome desk, you receive a hat, harness and a key for the outdoor storage locker to put your things in. You all set your things in the locker, lock it up and put on your equipment.

“… but, why did you both take me to a ropes course, seems a little random.”

“Good question,” Baekhyun commented. “Jongin and I are bored without our girls, Naeun and Junmyeon are both out of the country so we thought you would be bored out of your mind just at work so here we are.”

“It’s like you can read my mind,” you sigh. You walk to the first ropes course you see and climb up before the other two, sticking your tongue at them you reach the top. Jongin and Baekhyun soon follow you up and meet you on the other side. You then ran off to the next course with the boys trailing off behind you. When you finished the second one you ran off with them following you to the third one. You were glad they took you out, you needed some fresh air. Climbing the 3rd one, you see the two standing down at the bottom.

“Are you not coming?” you yell down at them.

“Not for this one but you go ahead!” Jongin shouted. You shrugged. “Your loss then! I’ll see you on the other side!” you pointed.

Jongin and Baekhyun put their hands in their pockets and watch you go up, sighing, he crosses his arms and they begin walking, “I don’t know how much I can keep up with this. It’s getting closer and he chose the worst time to coincidentally meet up with her.”

“I want to tell her as well but we can’t, Junmyeon has to do it or it looks like we’re just sabotaging his relationship with her. Look, I don’t like lying to her as much as the next person since you know, knowing their history, but he is a big boy and he should do this himself.”

“I know, but …” Jongin rubs his temples. “She’s going to find out and it’s going to be like their separation all over again but 10x worse and she may never forgive him. Like, he could have told her but he has chosen to keep this a secret for so long.”

“I don’t know man, whatever happens, happens.”

“I thought my brother was a smarter man than this, he is going to get ripped to shreds. This secret is going to tear them apart and ruin so many relationships, she’s going to hate us for this too and may never want to speak with us again.”

“I know... Even then, Junmyeon bought the hotel, so he’ll probably keep renovating until the hotel becomes modern just to get her attention when this all goes down .”

You climb back down the third ropes course and run back to the two who looked like they were in a serious conversation. “Hey!” you scream at them.

“Someone’s a bit too hyper,” Baekhyun laughed. “Having fun?”

“I am, but I’m hungry now,” you rubbed your stomach.

“Of course you are,” Jongin headlocks you between his arm and rubs your head. “What do you want? It’s on me.”

“Is there seafood?”

“I think I saw some seafood pancakes at a stand ov-” before Baekhyun could finish you were off in the direction he pointed too. You really like seafood so of course, you would run to it. The two shook their heads at you and follow you to the stand. Jongin gets you each one and buys you and Baekhyun soju, you offer some to Jongin but he refuses since he has to drive you and Baekhyun back.

“Alright, I offered!”

“What were you two talking about earlier? You both looked angry.”

“Just men things, you wouldn’t understand.”

“Okay, suit yourself!”

After you have finished eating, you walked around a little to cool off because you drank a little more than Baekhyun did and Jongin refused to let you go back up while you were drunk. The two followed you around as you talked to yourself.

“Oh f-” Jongin jumped when you suddenly stopped and pointed at him. “What?”

“I don’t know,” you put your finger down and scratched your head. “I forgot what I was going to say.”

“I think someone needs to go home now.”

“No I don’t, I need to go see Junmyeo-wait he is in England right now … maybe I’ll go meet Naeun too.”

“She is in France right now,” Baekhyun mentioned. “Right,” you sigh and lay down on the ground. “I’m tired.”

Jongin and Baekhyun look at each other and then helped you up from the ground. “I don’t want to walk.”  

“Here,” Jongin throws the keys at Baekhyun and you get on his back.

“Thanks for the ride,” you mumble.

“Your welcome, wouldn’t want you sleeping on the ground would we?”

“I guess you’re right. Do you think Junmyeon loves me?”

“Of course he does, that guy is crazy for you.”

“Then why does he keep renovating my hotel? He knows how much this place means to me but he-” you hiccup, “-h-he keeps trying to change it and I don’t know,” you lay your head on his shoulder and close your eyes. “Does Junmyeon love me?”

“Of course he does.”

“Then why do I feel like something is going to go wrong?”

Jongin pauses for a quick second and looks over at Baekhyun.

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[A/N] Sorry for taking such a long time updating the story! Since it took a while to write this chapter I let you all in on a hint to a big secret, things will begin picking up from now on so get excitedddd!!!! I also hope this chapter isn’t as bland as I think it is haha, I hope you enjoyed chapter 8!

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➶ MRS. KIM ➶ CH 7

⦁ ⦁ ⦁ MRS. KIM MASTERLIST  ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ 

“Junmyeon?” you manage to mutter in between.

“Hm?” you pointed to the door. His eyes follow your finger and they wander all the way to the door, Junmyeon immediately gets off of you. He helps you up and both stand next to each other, hearts pumping like they were going to pop out of your chest. You take a big gulp.

“Sorry,” Jongin crosses his arms and leans against the door. “I came to let you know that I was staying the night but I didn’t realize you were busy doing business.”

“Um, Jongin its not-um, we-” Jongin holds his hand up and Junmyeon pauses. “I understand, I see the tiger needs to tame his-ouch~” Jongin is hit by a pillow. “Okay, okay,” Jongin holds his hands up and a girl hops to this side and waves.

“Hi,” she waves at you. “Um, hi?” you wave back at her.

“We’ll be at the other wing,” Jongin pointed. “You children try to not get too wild okay?” he winked. “Have a great night!” he sang as he walked away with the girl. You and Junmyeon awkwardly sat on the bed in silence for a few seconds, you took a peek at him and his face was bright red. He looked like he was in shock at the situation that just occurred that you couldn’t help but let out a small laugh.

“What?”  you let out another laugh and turned to the side. “What?”

“Nothing,” you stood up and straightened yourself up.

“Laughing at me?”

“Maybe,” you hear him shift off the bed and stand right next to you. Junmyeon glares at you and you turn around to face him. “You’ve got to admit, that was really funny.”

“Oh yeah?”

“Yeah-ahhhhhh!” he throws you over his shoulder and walks out of the room. You hang there and swing around, admiring the intricate carpet on the floor. “Where are we going?”

“Finding our way back.”

“Wait.”

“What?”

“Let’s explore the house,” he sets you down and your feet makes contact with the floor. “Want to?”

“Why?”

“I don’t know, aren’t you curious about what the rooms hold and such?”

“Not really.”

“Well, then … let’s find our way to the big kitchen, I’m hungry,” you stomach then grumbles and he laughs at you. “Why not?”

Junmyeon takes you the opposite way and you both get lost walking through the hallways. On your adventure to find the main kitchen, you find that Junmyeon has a 2nd gym, an indoor pool, a library, and a theatre room. After about 30 minutes you both finally stumble into the main kitchen.

“I like it.”

“Enough for me to change it at you-” you glare at him and point your fingers to your eyes and then to his. “Watch it,buddy.”

“I know, I know. So, Chef …. What are we making tonight?”

“Hm ... “ he wraps his arms around your waist and rests his chin on your shoulder. You turn slightly to the side and his face is inches away from yours. “Do you have coconut?” you ask him. Junmyeon shrugs. You roll your eyes at him and asks if he has aprons. He points to the pantry and you have to drag him with you since his arms were still attached to your waist. You grab one for yourself and one for him.

“You want me to cook?”

“Yeah, why?”

“I thought I would just be able to watch and admire you.”

“No,” you turn around and give him a quick peck on the cheek. “Come on!”

You pre-heat the oven and as you are running around, Junmyeon reluctantly follows you as you look through the cabinets for ingredients, bowls, and pans since he was following you like a puppy you went back to the pantry closet and began handing him ingredients. You then went back to the island and began mixing things into a bowl while he sat there and watched you.

“Here,” you handed him the cupcake tray, cupcake liners, and the baking spray. “Think you can handle this?”

“Nothing I can’t handle,” he winked.

“Cocky,” you whispered. “Only for you,” he winked again. Junmyeon got up from his chair and came to stand right next to you, sometimes you forget that you’re way shorter than him.

“Like what you see?” you rolled your eyes at him and finish mixing the batter when he finished spraying the liners, you pour the batter into the liners one by one making sure to evenly spread them. After finishing this, you walk to the oven and stick the trays in, you set a timer on the oven and wipe your hands on your apron.

“Now we wait!” you skip back to Junmyeon and grab the whisk from his hand. “Me first!” you stick your tongue at him and then proceed to lick the whisk. His jaw dropped and he leaned his side to the counter. “Oh, I see … game on,” his eyes lock on yours and he makes his way to you. Before you could do anything he yanks the whisk away from your mouth and places his lips on yours. You freeze and drop the whisk on the counter.

“Mm,” Junmyeon licks his lips. “The batter definitely tastes better from your lips,” you purse your lips into a thin line and smile at him. He leans into you and this makes you lean back onto the island. “I kind of want to taste those lips again,” right when he is about to make contact with you, you swing your hands up and swipe flour from his forehead to his chin. Junmyeon glares at you and squints his eyes, “Oh, it's on,” he whispers, and immediately you duck under his arms and run around the kitchen. Junmyeon wipes the flour off of his face and grabs some flour from the counter and slowly makes his way towards you.

“Come here,” he points at you with his free hand. You shake your head and continue moving away from him, but with his fast reflexes and long legs, he lunges at you and puts you in a headlock. Junmyeon plasters the flour onto your face and let's go.

“Score!” a puff of flour poofs in front of you as you breathe through your nose. “Oh my gosh,” you turn around, “I think it’s in my nose.”

“I-” he runs in front of you and holds your shoulders up, “I’m so sorry, are you-” you start laughing and point at him. “Gotcha!”  

“You’re getting it, come here!” he pulls you in and starts attacking you with kisses, this, however, backfires because more flour ended up on him. You point to him laughing again.

“What?”

“Ha! You have a flour mustache now.”

“Hm, you want one too?” he starts leaning in but all you can do is squirm in his arms. “Noooo, Junmyeon I don’t want a flour mustache,” you scream but it was too late, now you both had flour mustaches. "Okay, okay! I give in," Junmyeon lets you go and you return to the ingredients on the counter.

"You should go shower, you're covered with flour and you look like an old man now."

"Come with me," he asked. You shake your head at him, "I need to make the icing and stick it in the fridge, plus, you don't want this maze getting burned down so I need to watch the cupcakes."

"Well," he leans over the counter, "I think someone looks like my elderly wife."

"I'll go after you and take a quick shower, the cupcakes will need to cool anyway."

-

The hallways were so empty, this house of his only housed him and occasionally Jongin when he wants to drop in. You tug on the clothes that Junmyeon left for you in his bathroom, it was a good thing you left so much at his place, it was like you had a mini closet here. Sighing, you stop at the end of the hallway and sniffed.

"This way," the smell of cupcakes helped you maneuver your way back to the main kitchen of his house. As you near closer to the kitchen you could hear Junmyeon talking to someone, hearing the tone in which he was speaking he didn't seem too happy. All that you hear before he hung up was something to the sort as something will go as planned, he wouldn't do that so soon, and something about a wardrobe. Wanting a few minutes for him to cool down, you wait and then knock on the wall.

"Hey," Junmyeon looks back at you with a glass of wine in his hand. You see that he already iced the cupcakes and they were sitting on the table with another glass of wine. "Sorry, I took longer than I expected," you made your way next to him on the sofa and he hands you the other glass of wine. Junmyeon takes a sip and sighs as he sets his glass down, you take a sip and set yours down too. "Work?"

"Yeah, just business things, nothing to worry about."

"Here," you reach over and grab two cupcakes, you hand him one and began devouring yours. "This is good."

"Want to become my personal cook?"

"Nah, you have one and I have a hotel."

"Shots fired, well … I tried." He shrugged. You finish your cupcake and set the liner on the table. Junmyeon pulls you to the corner and you both cuddle while he puts on a quiet movie in the background. You lay your head on his chest and wrap your around him, he does the same and wraps his arms behind your back. It went silent for a while and all you could do was swirl circles on his chest.

"Junmyeon."

"Hm?"

"Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, work is work. It's just the same usual stress but it's nothing I can't handle."

"I don't mean that. How are you doing? Are you eating enough, getting enough sleep and rest. How's your family? And just you in general," Junmyeon didn't answer and this prompted you to look up at him.

"Hey," you get up from his arms and place your hand on his cheeks. "You can tell me anything you know?"

"I know," he brings your hands down and rubs his fingers over your knuckles.

"I'm doing fine, same as usual for the past few years but it's gotten a little lighter now that you're here. I think the missing piece to my life is beginning to fill up again."

"Tch," you lay back on his chest. "That's literally the most cliche thing I've ever heard. In all seriousness though, I know you're busy and all but take some time to take care of yourself."

"I will."

"Promise?"

"Promise," he leans in and kisses your forehead.

“Junmyeon?”

“Yeah?”

“You know you can tell me anything right?”

“I know,” he brings his hand in and pinches your cheek. You grab his hand and lace your hands with his, and you both laid there in silence in each other's arms. By the time you know it, you both drifted off.

---------

You sat at your little office reading the paperwork and filling out some financial documents for the hotel and began noticing small holes here and there. It seemed like some of the financial documents were forged or something, you weren’t sure but something didn’t seem right. You rub your eyes and set the documents down, you turn around to your computer to check on important emails when an email on construction comes through.

“Again?” despite your family being in charge of the hotel, it seems that Junmyeon would keep busy changing and altering minor thing here and there. It would always keep you on your toes because you didn’t know what was being changed next. What is worse is that you found out this morning that you’ve been revoked as an accessor to the hotel's main finance account. Everything was going through Junmyeon now, every major purchase that dealt with anything close to interior designing and architect.  

“Sweetie?” you look up from your screen and your father is standing by the door.

“Come in,” he comes and sits in the chairs in front of you.

“I’m sure you’ve tried accessing the main finance account.”

“Oh, yeah. I was actually just on that before you came in, is there a reason why I was taken off as an accessor?”

“Your mother, Junmyeon and I discussed that it may be safer to keep you focused on other things and have Junmyeon and his team take over.”

“But, i’ve always been part of financial decisions and such … why remove me now?”

“Your mother and I want you to focus on the whole of the hotel, and leave financial trouble for someone else to take care of. Oh, before I forget, there’s a delivery for you outside at the main desk.”

“Okay.”

“You’re not doing anything tonight are you?”

“No, not that I know of.”

“Your mother and I are taking a visit to the doctor and to your grandparents grave, we’d love to have dinner with you tonight. We have some important guests tonight, we’ll be dressing in business casual if you need time to chose your outfit.”

“Wait, why are you going to the hospital?” your father shakes his head and stands up.

“Nothing to worry about, my backs have just been aching so we’re visiting an herbal doctor for some medicine.”

“Well, I have some thoughts about everything that's happened since Junmyeon bought our hotel, but I guess the only good part that's come of it is that you’re able to get a little more rest now, I’m still young and a driving force so I’ll continue the legacy so that way you both can rest.”

An hour later you are packing up your things and heading out of your office for lunch with Naeun, stopping by the main desk you pick up a bouquet of champagne roses. You grab the note attached to the ribbon … Thinking of you always. See you soon <3 Junmyeon.

----

“Hm,” you turn to the side to observe your outfit by the mirror, “I hope this looks okay,” shrugging it off, you grab your purse from the couch and start heading down towards the entrance. Myungsoo is there to greet you with a hello.

“I feel like I haven’t seen you in a long time.”

“I feel like I haven’t either, you’re dressed nice tonight. Going on a girls date with Naeun?”

“No, I’m having dinner with my parents and some guests tonight.”

“Well, I hope you have fun and don’t stay out too late young lady,” he points to you.

“I know, I know … I’ll behave tonight,” you give Myungsoo a quick hug before you step out into your car. You get into your seat and toss your purse to the passenger side, you turn around, buckle the seatbelt in and proceed to the restaurant.

Once you arrived, you noticed that you’re having dinner and an outdoor restaurant that you’ve never been too. The waitress points you to the right direction and you spot your parents waving at you from the corner, you wave back but stop once you realize who is sitting next to them.

“Long time no see,” Jason stands up and helps you into your chair. “I ordered already, I hope that was okay. Your parents say that you really enjoy shrimp, so I ordered their most famous dish.”

“Oh, thank you,” you set your bag beside you and Jason returns back to his seat.

“Jason here has been talking non-stop about you, seems like you left quite an impression on him the other day.”

“Oh, did I? I think I’m quite a boring person, thank you though.”

“I was talking to your parents and it seems like you’ve been keeping busy with the hotel. I think it is great that you’re taking the initiative to pick up the responsibility.”

“Well,” you take a sip of your water. “You gotta do what you gotta do you know, I’m the only child and I’ve essentially grown up with the hotel so I don’t want anything else other than to see it succeed.”

“You’re really inspired you know, I like that. A woman who is driven and has a dream.”

“Jason was just letting us know that he is hosting a charity event and would love to have you in attendance.”

“Oh, really what for?”

“The foundation I work for helps raise money for children for different countries to have clean water and food.”

“That sounds like a great foundation, my schedule is pretty all over the place and I don’t have my planner with me at the moment so I’m not sure if I am able to attend.”

“That’s alright if you don’t know, your parents gave me your number so I will be in contact.”

“Mo-”

“Your dishes,” the waiters drop by and hand you each your food. You give your mother an uncomfortable smile and shift in your seat. The time tonight couldn’t have gone any slower and all that was being conversed were your mother milking all the questions to ask Jason that made him seem like a god and Jason complimenting you on everything your mother tells him. You smile and comment every now and then but overall you were just interested in the shrimp more than Jason.

“I would love to take your daughter on a date sometime-” you choke on your food and Jason pats your back. You hold your hand up and let him know that you’re okay.

“Sorry,” you wipe your lips with the napkin and set it on the table. “Excuse me, I’m going to make a trip to the bathroom.”

You remove yourself from the scene and make your way towards the bathroom. You turn on the faucet and splash some water on your face before you make your way back out. You turn the corner and bump into someone.

“I’m so sorry, I wasn’t watching where I was going.”

“Jongin?”

“Hey, you look a tad uncomfortable back there,” he laughed. “Parents setting you up?”

“I’m assuming so,” you laugh. “Walked up here expecting to just have dinner with them but then I got the surprise of my life.”

“Junmyeon would be really jealous-”

“Wait, he’s not here, is he? I can explain!”

“Nah, he’s working overtime again …” Jongin sighs, “He’s getting closer to merging the deal so he’s getting work done ahead of time before he leaves.”

“Junmyeon’s leaving?”

“Oh,” he scratches his head. “Junmyeon didn’t tell you he was heading out of the country?”

“No … I guess that’s why he sent me roses, but I didn’t know he was heading out of the country. How long will he be out?”

“Um, I think until the photoshoot we’re all having with Naeun next week.”

“So, he’ll be gone a whole entire week.”

“Seems like it,” he nods, “Hey, Baekhyun and I are eating lunch because he’s lonely without Junmyeon here on Thursday, want to join?”

“Is his girlfriend not available either?” you laugh.

“Girlfriend?”

“Yeah, or should I say fiance? I saw that ring he bought her.”

“She’s visiting her parents in Jeju so he’s alone too.”

“Deal,” you shake hands with him. “I should probably go before they think I ran away.”

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hiyya! just wanted to drop in to say that im rly enjoying ‘mrs. kim’! the plot’s exciting and i mean cmon JUNMYEON 🐰. i feel like theres still so much that junmyeon isnt saying so mmmmhhh. theres gotta be more behind this transaction... im hooked! great job so far, awesome writing as well! anyways, i hope ur doing awesome xoxo

hello! thank you so much for this, i’m kind of rusty but i’m glad that you are enjoying the story~ and I hope you’re doing awesome too :) 

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➶ MRS. KIM ➶ CH 6

Chapter One  ⦁  Chapter Two   ⦁ Chapter Three   ⦁  Chapter Four ⦁ Chapter Five

⦁ ⦁ ⦁ MRS. KIM MASTERLIST ⦁ ⦁ ⦁

“Hello Miss Sunshine looks like we did it again,” you look up and see that Naeun is wearing yellow as well. “Great minds think alike don’t you think?”  

“You okay?” Naeun pulls a chair and sits across from you. “Thinking of Junmyeon?”

“Hey, I don’t think about him 24/7 …” you scratched your head. “I’m just thinking about him now.”

“Didn’t you just see him this morning? And slept with him last ni-” you shove a chip into Naeun’s mouth. “Sh!” you laughed. You both order your dessert bowls and chit-chat about girl things such as makeup and fashion. Naeun mentions that she has been secretly designing clothes during the summer while you were away and there is a shoot tomorrow and she wants you to join her as well, she also mentions that Junmyeon and Jongin will be there tomorrow to join in the photoshoot. Naeun thinks that this will play well into Junmyeon’s public image and plus, you would get to spend more time with him.

“I don’t know Naeun, I’m not really the model type.”

“Please,” she pouted.

“Junmyeon doesn’t really like things like this either, how did you get him to do this?” she bats her eyes at you and laughs. “I might have told him that you agreed to do this so he agreed to do this.”

“Hey!” you almost choke on your drink. “You did what?”

“Please,” she begged with her hands together. I think i’ve finally found my calling as a fashion designer and could really use the assistance of my best friend, I’m also diving into men’s fashion and thats a big step from me, pleassseee.”

“Okay fine,” you bring her hands down and held her hands. “I’m proud of you, you know that right?”

“I know, and I’m proud of you too.”

“What did I do?”

“I’m proud that you and Junmyeon are back together.”

“We’re not technically back together. I don’t even know what we are.”

“You know what would be romantic?” she turns to you and holds up a dress, ”This is cute, here you go,” she turns back around and rummages through the dresses. “I think it would be romantic if you go visit him during work and bring him a home-packed meal. “I know Jaehyun really appreciates a homecooked meal during lunchtime and plus, you get to see him more.”   

“I can’t do that,” she gasps and turns around, handing you another dress.

“Why not?”

“What if I run into his dad?” she gives you a face.

“What?”

“Why are you so scared of his father?”

“Because I’m not the right fit for him Naeun, I don’t own a chain of corporations or hotels and come from a well-known family, my family just owns a cozy hotel ...I think you would be a more perfect fit for him than I am. Look at you, I think you’re the perfect gal.”

“Shut up you are just as good, without all of the jazz I am nothing like you.”

“Hey! Random, but question! Do you think guys like wearing watches?”

“Yeah, why?” she smiles and narrows her eyes at you, you look her up and down and take a step back from her. “Why are you smiling like that?”

“Are you getting Junmyeon a little something-something?”

“No, silly. My dads birthday is coming up and I think a nice watch would go well with him and the snazzy style he always has going, and since you have great fashion taste and have seen my dad quite a few times I thought I’d ask if you want to hop over to the jewelry shop next door after we ring up these-”

“Okay,” she grabs the dresses from your hands and heads towards the register. “These are on me!”

“Wait, no! Naeun, I’ll pay for them my-” she turns around and pinches your cheek. “Just let me do this, I haven’t seen you all summer and you’ve been back for like 3 weeks and haven’t gone out and I want to spoil you, mkay? Cool,” and she struts to the register and hands the associate her card, turning back to look at you she gives you a cheeky smile. After you lecture her on how she needs to stop buying things for you, she just keeps insisting that it's okay and to let her do this since you are like a little sister for her.

You and Naeun walk arm in arm into the jewelry shop and begin browsing the watches on display. There were so many choices to choose from and some that would send your bank account to the roof. You settle on a leather watch with gold trim to it and hand over your card before Naeun could do anything.

“You don’t have to be so aggressive.”

“If I wasn’t aggressive you would have whipped out your card wouldn’t you?”

“Okay fine, you caught me but still,” she pulls you into a hug and jumps with you in the middle of the store.

“What?”

“Look,” she points to a ring in the display case. It was a simple elongated ring with a diamond band that you and Naeun swore that you would both get so you would both be matching, and of course, it could be differentiated because Naeun wore a size bigger than you. The jeweler reaches in and grabs the ring, causing you and Naeun to pout at each other.

“A girl can only dream,” you both whispered.

“I mean I would want her to know as soon as possible you know just in case you know. I wouldn’t want ”

“Baekhyun,” you wave your hand over as he walks into the jewelry store. Baekhyuns eyes widen and he covers up his mouth as he was talking to the phone.

“I got to go. Haha, hi,” he puts his phone in his pocket and the jeweler greets Baehyun. “Sir, your ring,” the ring that you and Naeun looked at was in a ring box in front of Baekhyun. “Aha, right right my ring, this is my ring.”

“Baekhyun, I didn’t know that you had a girlfriend.”

“Oh yeah, I, haha, its-she’s pretty shy so we keep the low on things because that’s how my girlfriend is well, I guess now my soon to be fiance.”

“I see, well … she’s a very lucky girl Baekhyun. Naeun and I, we said that when we get proposed to we will both have the same rings, it works out with us not mixing it up because we have different sized rings.”

“Baekhyun is lucky here, this ring is popular and the only size we have left is a size 8.”

“Hey, Naeun. That’s your size, I think this is a sign with Jaehyun,” you winked.

“Right, um, well I have a meeting to attend in an hour so I just came to pick up the ring before the meeting. I should probably get going now because Junmyeon would kill me if I don’t show up prepared. He’s been pretty busy today with his merger deals with international corporations and such.”

“Okay, tell him I said hi.”

“I will,” he bows and powerwalks away from you two. You and Naeun shrug, Baekhyun was always like this so it wasn’t anything new. “That ring is so beautiful though, whoever he is marrying is so lucky to wear it.”

“Yeah, she’ll be one lucky gal. The ring is beautiful. ”

“You know, now that we’re on this topic. I think he’s going to propose to me soon.”

“Shut up Naeun, you’re lying.”

“I’m not,” she holds your hands and does a little happy jump. “When I get married can you promise me one thing?”

“Anything.”

“Getting married will be very scary, promise to be by my side? I know weddings are all fun and stuff but its the next step of adulting and I’m scared.”

“Of course,” you hug her. “And to be completely honest, I think with the wayJaehyun is acting … I think you’ll get proposed to soon and plus, we’re like sisters, I will always be there for you.”

Though it’d been a few hours since you’ve seen Naeun, you’ve been texting her since the time you both parted because you had a sudden urge to go see Junmyeon even though you saw him this morning and wasn’t sure if you were just being needy because you couldn’t get the idea of his hug from this morning out of your head. Since you couldn’t get that out of your mind, here you are, standing across from his office dripping from the rain you just walked through. Thanks to your luck it began pouring in the middle of your walk there and you were drenched in rain by the time you reached the doors of his building.

“Okay,” you took a breath. “On the count of three,” you lift your hand up and ball it into a fist. One knock. Nothing. Two knocks. Nothing. Three knocks. Nothing. You sigh and your shoulders slump down. “So much for wanting to see him-” you place your hand on the door handle then turn around and make your way to the elevator. Pulling out your phone, you call Naeun to let her know of the fail that just happened to you. Saying your parting words to the cleaners, you walk out of the building and make your way back your family’s hotel. It was great that it still looked wet outside because if it didn’t look like it had just rained, you would have looked ridiculous walking in soaked clothes.

“At least it’s a beautiful night,” you round the corner onto a less populated street. “I don’t know what I was thinking, I don’t even know why I walked there.”

“Well, where are you now?”

“I just walked past the bakery shop by the corner and am on that one sketchy bit before it leads to the busier side again.”

“It was worth a try, you’re a hopeless romantic.”

“No, I’m not,”  you laughed.

“Hey, do you want me to come to drive you back?”

“I’m fine, I’m almo-ahhhhh!” a hand grabs onto your shoulder and you freeze. Before the guy was able to speak you elbow him in the stomach and twist his arm around, nailing him to the ground with your knee on his back.

“I know karate, don’t test me-”

“Damn,” you look up and Baekhyun was standing at the driver side with the door open. “When did you learn karate?”

“Uh …” your eyes divert down to the man on the ground.

“Thank you Miyeon, you don’t have to stay and take care of him tonight, I’ll take care of him since this is my fault.”

“Miss …”

“It's okay, you take a night off and I’ll take care of him,” she nods, hands you the first aid kit and makes her way out. You move the kit to the side and scoot closer to Junmyeon, taking the bandaids out you take a cotton pad and pour some hydrogen peroxide onto it. “This might sting,” you grab his arm and gently wipe the cut he sustained when he fell onto the ground.

“You know i’m okay right?” you shrug. “I’m fine I promise.”

“I know you say that but I still feel bad,” you take the bandage and place it on top of his wound. “Because of me, you’re bruised up like this.”  

“Well, at least we know that you will never get kidnapped.”

“Haha, not funny,” you said as you packed everything back into the first aid box. Junmyeon’s knee touches yours and you look up, noticing that he scooted closer to you. With your eyes locked on his, your heart began pounding, and it felt like it was pounding faster than the speed of light. “Why were you out in that part of the street? You know how dangerous that area is?”

“I-um, I-I just wanted to take a walk that's all. The hotel has had an influx of customers the past few days and I wanted to take a walk since it felt nice tonight.”

“Is that why the security guard I met as I was coming out of the restroom confusingly ask me why I wasn’t in my office with a beautiful lady?”

“I …” you scratch your head and turn away from Junmyeon. “I, I um, well you know your main building or whatever you call it was along the path I was walking and …” he turns you back around and locked eyes with you again. You hiccup and immediately looked down at your hands. Why am I like this again? You scratch your arm. He lifts up your chin.

“ … or did you?”

“Okay fine I wanted to see you.” you stand up and began pacing with your hands cupped to your face. Why is my face so hot right now? It's not like you’ve never done anything with him before. “I don’t know why I did that I actually went out because I wanted to-” You spin around and find his chest in front of your face, you clear your throat and turn away from him only to have him spin you back around to face him.

“So,” a grin begins building until he full on smiles. “Why are his teeth so pretty too?” you whisper.

“What?”

“Nothing,” you shake your head.

“I wanted to see you too,” he pulls you in and the warmth of his body overtakes you and give in, wrapping your arms around his waist. He squeezes and tight little hug and pulls away. “Follow me,” he laces his hands in yours and pulls you out of the family living room and you both make your way behind the stairs to a bookshelf.

“Why are we in front of your bookshelf?” he shrugs at you. “I think there is an elevator behind this.”

“You think?” he pushes the light switch and it flips up, revealing a keypad. Junmyeon presses a few buttons and the bookshelf opens up, revealing the secret elevator. You both walk in and the door shuts, shaking a little before it began to ascend, he smiles and gives your hand a little squeeze. Once you enter the 3rd-floor Junmyeon pauses and looks both ways.

“What are you looking for?”

“My room,” he turns to the left, “I think it’s this way,” he takes you to the left wing. You pause and look up at him.

“What?”

“You don’t know where your own room is?”

“I do, this house is just so big I don’t remember where everything is all the time.”

“Hold up,” you tried holding back a laugh. “Do you even know where all the rooms are in your house are?”

“I know where the family room is and where my room is and my office, that’s all that matters isn’t it?” he said as you walked through the hallways. “Yeah, those are important but why live in such a big house if you don’t know where things are? Or, get lost.”

“I don’t know.”

“But no ones occupying the room, wouldn’t that be a waste of space?”

“I guess you could say that.”

“Do you have some kind of secret society her-ah!” you yell as you trip over the carpet. He bends down as you sit yourself up and boops your nose. “Maybe,” he winked. “Here we are,” he opens up the door to his room and you follow him in. “What are we doing here?” you turn the corner. He grabs you a towel and wraps it around your head. “Dry up,” you take down the towel and dry your hair.

“Take off your clothes, you’ll get sick if you stay in those,” he strips off his shirt and begins unbuckling his pants, you clear your throat. “I’m fine,” he chuckles and comes over with his boxers on, “You act like you’ve never seen me-”

“Junmyeon!”

“This is covering more tha-”

“Junmyeon,” you covered his mouth. “Don’t say that.”

“Acting shy aren’t we?” he pulls a cabinet open and you see women's lingerie and clothing. “You have women's clothing?”

“Yeah,” he nods and turns back around. “I do.”

“That's kind of strange, don’t you think?”

“No,” he shook his head. “Not when they’re yours.”

“What?”

“When I was packing to move back here, I forgot to give you the clothes you left at my apartment. I just never got around to doing anything with them.”

“Right,” you grab a black romper and undergarments and quickly change into them. You sit on the little couch built into his closet and observe the walk-in closet you were sitting in. “I see your style’s still pretty neutral.”

“I know,” he slips on black sweats and a plain white t-shirt. You blink at him. He looks so good. You follow him out of the closet and back into his room where you wait for him as he uses the restroom. Walking around, you notice that his room is just like the rest of the room, minimal decorations and really clean, like no one lives here and this is all brand new.

“You know, it looks like you barely live in your room.”

“I don’t,” he yells from the bathroom. “I mainly sleep on the couch in the family room or on the couch in my office.”

“You need to sleep on actual beds Junmyeon, you’re going to have a bad back when you’re older.”

“I think I’ll be fine,” he walks out with his glasses on. Oh fuck me, why does he look so hot in plain clothing. “Why are you so hot? I just want to kiss you so much ri-” you slap your hands over your mouth. Why did I say that out loud?

“Then do it,” he grins, your eyes widen and you take a step back from him.

“Or?” you said as you take a step back.

“Or I’ll do it if you’re too shy too,” your eyes move from his and travel down to his lips, you bite down on yours and hear your heart pounding out of your chest. The distance between you and Junmyeon is decreasing as much as the bed and your doomed fall onto it. It's now or never. You grab his shirt and tiptoe up for a quick peck. Well, you stand there unsure of what to do, that was anticlimactic.

“Satisfied?” he winked. You shake your head at him. Without a second thought, he pulls you on him with your legs wrapped around his waist with your forehead against his. 

You wanted to know Junmyeon again, you wanted to know how it felt to have his lips on yours. 

Junmyeon slowly put you on his bed, his lips gently pressed onto yours. All you could feel was the adrenaline in your veins and your heart pounding out of your chest, his hands push away hair from your face and you pulled him in closer to you. You missed this, you missed Junmyeon but of course, things like this never last.

“Junmyeon?” you manage to mutter out in between.

“Hm?” you pointed to the door.

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➶ MRS. KIM ➶ CH 5

Chapter One  ⦁  Chapter Two   ⦁ Chapter Three   ⦁  Chapter Four   

 ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ MRS. KIM MASTERLIST ⦁ ⦁ ⦁

Once the speeches were over and you got through an hour of dinner with your parents and with Jason’s family, you excuse yourself early because you seem to be having a headache-the party was about to end anyway so you ended your night early. It was pretty uneventful, you were stuck with Jason all night, Naeun was stuck with her parents and Junmyeon was busy talking with businessmen about business.  

On your way out of the ballroom, you bid farewell to Naeun and look around to see Junmyeon but it looked like he had left already. With a sigh, you began taking off your earrings as you enter the elevator. Pressing the elevator button you closed your eyes for a few seconds as you ascended up to your suite, you weren’t a hundred percent sure but could smell a slight stinge of whiskey and this sent shivers up your spine. You didn’t completely hate alcohol, you just couldn’t drink a lot of it and end up having severe hangovers with a small amount. You step out of the elevator and make your way through the hallway, you hear someone banging on what sounds like the door and as you turn the corner your questions are answered.

“Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, you!” Baekhyun pointed to you. You stop in your tracks as the scene in front of you unfolds. Jongin is laying on the floor and Junmyeon is sitting with his back to your door, Baekhyun is the only one that isn’t knocked out and is soon making his way towards you. He swings his arm around your shoulder and brings you to the two who are black-out-drunk on the floor.

“I don’t think we can make it back, we ditched everyone and I’ve lost my key. J-J-Junmyeon was a clumsy ass boy and spilled wine on his shirt-see,” Baekhyun pointed to the spot in the middle of Junmyeon’s chest, it was stained red. Jongin, hearing the commotion Baekhyun was throwing, sat up and laughed, he pointed to his brother by your door. “Junmyeon is drunk,” he giggled.

“Oh god,” you sighed at the sight. “Baekhyun, you and Jongin help Junmyeon up and I’ll let y’all in,” Jongin thumbs up to his right thumb and drunkenly stands up, bumping his head on the wall a few times until Baekhyun grabbed his arm and they tried to help Junmyeon up but kept stumbling on the ground so you ended up helping all three of them onto your bed one at a time.

You walked out from the shower in your pajama’s and sigh at the sight in front of you, all three of them are sprawled around on your bed and though they were flat out drunk, it looked like they were finally in peace so you proceed to the couch and grab a book to read.

Groaning, you shift to the edge of the bed and threw your pillow to the floor. Groaning again you pull the comforter to wrap around you like a burrito when something thumps into you, an arm wraps around your waist and your eyes shoot open. You pull the covers up and see an arm around your waist, your eyes follow the arm all the way up to his face.

“Oh my god,” you whispered. You turn back and blink a few times, you were on the couch last night but how did you end up in your bed … Junmyeon, Kai and Baekhyun were on the bed last night and you were on the couch so .... slowly prying his arm off of you, you held your breath and slowly try to slide out, but before you can he pulls you into a tight hold.

“J-J-Junmyeon.”

“Hm?” he groans. “Wake me up in 5 minutes,” he whispered.

“J-J-Junmyeon get up,” he shakes his head and groans even more. “Junmyeon I need to get up, I have things to do.”

“I said 5 minutes,” he whispered again. You roll your eyes and begin to trail your fingers up the side of his body and slowly work your way up to his weak spot, and within seconds you hear a chuckle coming out of him.

“Haha, stop it,” he swats your hand away, eyes still closed. Your tickle him at his weak spot once more and he swats your hand away.

“Alright, if this is what it is going to resort to this,” you whispered to yourself. Sighing, you try to wiggle your other arm up and tickle him from both sides. You watch as his eyes jolt wide open, he swiftly grabs one of your wrists and narrows his eyes.

“Good morning,” you grinned.  

“Where’s Baekhyun and Jongin?” you shrug. “Why are you here?”

“Well, this is my bed.”

“I know,” he laughs. “The last thing I remember was two drunken boys piled next to me on the bed before I knocked out.”

“ … and the last thing I remember was falling asleep on the couch after reading my book, You shrug once more. “I don’t know how I ended up on my bed,” he pulls your hair back behind your ear and stares at you. You purse your lips and clear your throat, “Is there something wrong?”

“No,” he places a kiss on your forehead and pulls you into a tighter hug. “I missed this.”

“Miss what?”

“Holding you in my arms, they’ve felt empty all these years.”

“I’ve missed this too,” you look up at him. “I hope you slept well last night. I mean, i’m sure you all did. It looked like you all ravished the whole bar.”

“I had a great sleep, thank you for that and I only had a few drinks,” you rolled your eyes and unlocked his arms. “I wouldn’t be too sure about that,” you laughed. Standing up you began picking up the clothes the boys left all over your room.

“Last night I had some clothes put out for the boys and a pair was left in the bathroom for you. By the looks of it, it looks like they’ve already taken a shower already ….” you paused. “ … and that’s probably why they moved me onto the bed with you, which i’m not sure why they did, I mean I was perfectly fine sleeping on the couch and -” you turn around and bump into Junmyeon’s chest, your hands placed right on his chest. Right, you remembered, Junmyeon didn’t have a shirt on. You push him away and clear your throat.

“You can shower now and I’ll shower after you are done,” he grabs your hand and you hesitantly look up at him.

“Come shower with me,” he smiled. Gasping, you pulled your hands behind you and your cheeks become heated. Shaking your head you begin backing up, “It’s okay, i’m sure you’d want to shower by yourself … I mean my shower is not all too big for you-” your back makes contact with the wall and you gulp.

“Y’all are disgusting,” Baekhyun and Jongin cross their arms as they stare you both down. Junmyeon still didn’t move once the two saw you so you duck down and under his arms, you didn’t realize it but Baekhyun and Jongin were sitting on the couch, which was a direct view to your open bedroom where they had front row seats to the Junmyeon and you show.

“H-How long have you both been there?” you say as you scratch your head. Jongin shrugged. “You know, since the whole tickling fiasco.”

“Oh? Um, please hold!” you turn to Junmyeon and push towards the bathroom to take a shower. He tries to steal a kiss from you but you placed your hand over his lips and turn him around, closing the door in the process. You exit the room and head over to where Baekhyun and Jongin are sitting.

“Did you guys enjoy your morning?”

“What’d you guys do?” Baekhyun cheekingly smiled, he raised his eyebrows and laughed with Jongin. “Looking at it, Junmyeon’s shirt was not on so-”

“Haha,” Jongin tried sneaking a laugh in but it came out. “Sorry, it’s so funny seeing him like that.”

“I know right,” Baekhyun commented. “It’s cute isn’t it?” he laughed. “I didn’t know Junmyeon still had this side to him. It is like he did a complete 360 after buying the hotel and finding out th-” he put a hand over his mouth.

“And what?” you asked. He smiled and waved his hands, “It’s nothing,” he scratched his head. “H-H-He just seems happier you know.”

“I really want to thank you for this,” Jongin chimed in. “He’s been under a lot of stress with a merger that we’re trying to talk around.”

“What kind of merger?”

“I’m not sure if I can talk about it yet, Junmyeon would make sure I wouldn’t see sunlight for 10 years if I leaked out any information … me knowing is dangerous enough.”

“You’re making it sound like he’s risking his life for something.” Baekhyun and Jongin steal glances at each other.

“We hope that you enjoy your stay here at the Grand Opera Hotel, let us know if you have any questions at all.” You bow to the foreign guest before giving them their hotel cards. Sighing, you glance at the cards in front of you, Junmyeon had replaced the whole system to use cards to access rooms instead of keys. Though you are glad to have begun to ‘breaking the rough patch’ with Junmyeon, you felt uncomfortable still seeing all the changes made to your families hotel. Strangely, you also have not seen your parents a whole lot, same with Naeun too … everyone seemed really busy lately.

“Maybe I can talk with Junmyeon about this and somehow convince him to not change everything,” you turn to Hana. “Hana, i’m going to go in and check on the menu’s in the kitchen. You take care of everyone for now.”

You make your way to the kitchen to talk with the new chef about a new menu sample when you run into Margie and Myungsoo and couldn’t help but scream. “Are you two back?”

“Only for you,” Margie laughed. Myungsoo nodded along with her answer. “I couldn’t stay away long enough, I think i’ve basically married this hotel.”

“I’m so glad to see you both back here, when did you get back?” you pull a chair from their table and sit down with them. “We both got back this morning, you know, that man of yours is something special. He begged us to go after letting us go, he really wants to please you don’t he?”

“Myungsoo, I don’t have a man ….” you pouted. “I told you, I’m also marrying the hotel because the hotel is my life.”

“We know,” Margie and Myungsoo say at the same time. You squint your eyes at them, “You both are onto me aren’t you?” they shrug. “Well if there is something going on I’ll let you know,” you wink.

“Well, I will let you and Margie talk about the new menu. I am going to go back to my duties,” he bows and leaves you two to talk about the menu. You have been wanting to do a around the world experience, adding onto the menu a few famous dishes from each of the big countries. So far you and Margie have discussed additions such as curry from India, adobe, and spicy papaya salad so far but have to discuss the budget with your parents before any detail is to be passed. You begin to make your way out when you spot Naeun walking to one of the three VIP rooms, she excuses herself from her father and runs over to you.

“I haven’t seen you in so long,” she fake cries and hugs you, you hug her back and pat her shoulder. “Naeun, we literally saw each other yesterday,” she nods. “I know but still.”

“What are you doing here?”

“Ah,” she glances back at the hallway towards the VIP rooms. “We’re here to talk to some investors from America, I might be able to do a campaign there to raise money for some orphanages so I’m excited. By the way, what are you doing later?”

“Nothing that I am aware of.”

“Good, do you want to have a girls day today? You’ve been busy all last week planning the event yesterday night, my boyfriend is out of town and I need a break from all of these meetings and such. What do you say?” she hugs your arm and pouts. “Please?”

“Okay fine, but only because you asked nicely.”

“Oh, by the way,” she perked up. “I think I saw Junmyeon out there, it looks like he was talking to some contractors or something. I also think I smelled a smiff of flowery scented perfume as I walked in-” she winked.

“Nothing happened. Baekhyun and Jongin were drunk too so the three of them ended up crashing in my room.”

“Mm-Hm,” she crossed her arms. “He looks a bit agitated out there,” he signals with her head. “You should go and comfort your man.”

“He’s not MY man,” you emphasized. “Not yet, again, anyways.”

“This is so exciting, you need to go and win him over right now.”

“Why would I need to win him over?”

“Well, I mean,” she shrugs and pats your shoulder. “I don’t think you necessarily have to compete with other girls, I’ve seen the news with him and I know his feelings for you but you need to win him over with his career, he needs to see how much work it takes to deserve someone special like you and you,” she points. “Don’t back down and fight for him okay? I know how much you two mean to each other, even when he was a dick and did that to you 4 years ago but fight for him.”

“I know, I know,” you put your hands around her arms and turn her around. “Now you stop talking to me and go to your father before you get in trouble.”

“Hey,” you tap Junmyeon on the shoulder and catch him before he walks out the door. “Are you okay?” he nods and zips up his bag.

“Yeah, just business things. How are you?” he asked in a monotone voice. “I’m doing fine, I just finished revising the menu with Margie and met with Myungsoo. Thank you,” you said as you clasped you hands behind you. “It’s no problem,” he smiled, he glanced at his watch he places a kiss on your cheek. “Listen, I have to go to a meeting in a little bit. You have a nice day,” and with that, he was gone.

[A/N] I took an unexpected break due to school and had some writers block, i’m beginning to come out of it a little bit so please bare with me. Let me know of any comments to the story. Thank you!

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➶ MRS. KIM ➶ CH 4

Characters: You/Miss Oh (Main), Junmyeon (Main), Naeun, Baekhyun and Jongin

Genre:  Marriage/Romance

Chapter One  ⦁  Chapter Two   ⦁ Chapter Three  ⦁ Chapter Four  ⦁ 

⦁ ⦁ ⦁ MRS. KIM MASTERLIST ⦁ ⦁ ⦁

You stare blankly into the crowd as you sip on a glass of wine, you are stuck with your parents and a man who you nothing about … well, the man is someone who your parents like to call, a ‘potential’ husband. You are completely bored out of your mind because you have no interest in this man, all you can think about is the novel that Jongin told you last week. You’ve done fine without him for four years and yet it has only been a week since you’ve seen him and its like you have been longing to see his face. You are brought out of your train of thought when your mom touches your shoulder.

“Hm?” you turn to your mother. “Jason said that your dress really compliments your eyes.” You turn to Jason and bowed your head a little towards him and smiled, “You don’t look bad yourself Jason.”

“We’ll leave you two to talk while we go greet some friends, you two should really go dance in a little bit,” your mom winked as she turns to leave with your father.

“So,” Jason smiled. “Your parents tell me that you graduated from abroad first in your class, that’s really impressive. It must have been hard in …” as he was talking to you, you spot Junmyeon entering the door with Baekhyun and Jongin, they are walking towards your direction. You purse your lips and look around to see how you could ditch Jason, then just like a miracle, you spot an old friend and wave her over.

“Jason,” you interrupted him. “This is Jessica, my old friend from high school … um, she is single and likes nature walks and camping, you two should get to get acquainted with each other. I need to excuse myself,” you bowed and leave the two to start chatting. You turn back but see that they have disappeared, your eyes scan across the crowd

You make eye with Jongin and he nods, Jongin takes Baekhyun to the dessert bar and leaves Junmyeon at the bar alone ….

*FLASHBACK TO THE TALK*

“You’re angry with him,” he takes a quick glance at you, “Aren’t you?” You shrug and you both take a seat outside in Junmyeon’s garden.

“He really loved you, he really did. Once my mother began getting sick Junmyeon had to step up and he-”

“Your mom is sick?” he nodded. “She was sick, but now …”

“Oh my gosh, I had no idea, I’m so sorry to hear that,” Jongin nodded and sighed. “Our mom was really sick yet she didn't tell us until it was too late. Mom's death happened shortly after he broke it off with you and then he just dove into work and … well, you saw the articles floating around. Junmyeon couldn't deal with the fact that he didn't have you anymore and that he also lost our mom, he felt really alone and tried to get into relationships but the girls would either just want him for his money or they use him for social power. So, he began doing just that, he slept with women every now and just toyed with him. He pushed us all away, in the end I also left him too.”

“I wish he would have told me this,” you sighed. “I wanted to be there for him through everything.I didn’t even know,” he looked over at you.

“You know, that's honestly why he broke up with you … or a part of it.”

“What do you mean?”

“He really loves you, he really does. He, I don’t know … it’s Junmyeon.”

“Then why abruptly leave me like that? I was really upset Jongin, we had something but he just left me like that and even had his guards kick me out when I tried to meet him.”

“I know, and I'm sorry he treated you that way. He just got really confused and his heart was conflicted. He never wanted to break up with you.”

“Then why did he? I didn’t stick with him all four years of University for nothing, I looked passed everything because I loved him for who he was.”

“He wanted to make you happy,” he turns around and looks you straight in the eyes. “He saw how happy you were not being tied down back, I mean I also know he knew you wanted to take over your parent's hotel and had dreams about all of that but our families company holds a lot of assets and he didn't know where to turn too because he didn’t want you to be stuck with all of our stuff too. He didn't want to tie you down like that, we have hotels and shops, and we also do international business too. He was thrown in that around the time we found out our mother was sick, my dad had to pull Junmyeon out all of a sudden and he had to take responsibility as a CEO when he didn't expect too. I know he broke your heart and I am in no means trying to take his side but he really loves you, he just had so much thrown on him and he didn't want to drag you down with him. He had so much to do that he was afraid he wasn't going to be able to take care of you and didn’t know what to do.”

“I would have understood though, now I feel terrible.”

“No, don't,” he interjected. “You have a right to be mad, he broke your heart. His karma hit him hard and he said so himself. Junmyeon turning depressed and even said that living a life of loneliness is what he deserves … because when he lost you and our mom, and all those girls used him he turned kind of cold. The lively Junmyeon died and ever since he has had a lot of trouble connecting with others and that's why he seems cold sometimes. He's become confused with what he wants because he's always been told what to do,” Jongin grabs your hands. “He doesn’t realize that he can be truly happy, you're the only one who can save him. I know you're also angry with him buying your parents hotel but that was the only way he could approach you and also …. Well, I-I, um ...he also bought the hotel bec-you know, maybe you can start talking to him again and get him to soften up. I'm sure he'll give you some kind of ownership to the hotel or something.”

“He wanted a reaction from me didn’t he … and last night I could tell just how much he wanted to talk to me but he mainly just kept to himself. I want to know why he bought out the hotel, it can’t just be because he wanted a reaction from me because he could have done that without buying the hotel.”

“He didn't say it but I'm sure he really appreciated you coming over and I'm really glad you did. Baekhyun usually has to come to check on him at night if he is in the house if he isn't in the office to make sure he takes his medicine to sleep and from what it looked like, he was able to sleep well thanks to you.”

“No wonder, when I first stepped in the house, it was so dark and looked like no one lived in the house.”

“Yeah,” he laughed and scratched the back of his ear. “Junmyeon sleeps on his couch up in the office a lot and though he has this gigantic mansion, he rarely is here … doesn’t surprise me but he doesn’t know what half of the rooms in his house are. He's also started drinking too and this mixed with everything else makes it hard for him to sleep then sometimes he gets angry or silent … but you know, you are something you know, you just know how to calm him down, it might take a while for him to be the old Junmyeon I know but I think you can break through to him,” he gets up and cracks his knuckles, “Do me a favor and get back with him, and I know you still love him too. I know Junmyeon and I know you well enough that you too still have the hots for each other, just look past all the bad stuff,” he winked.

*PRESENT TIME*

You take a deep breathe and walk towards him, Junmyeon, unaware that his two buddies have left him. You set your wine glass on the table and tap on his shoulder, with one swift turn he is inches from your face. You smiled.

“Come dance with me?” You asked.

“I don't dance,” he said. “I know you don't but you can't just sit here and drink,” you grab his hand and yell out to the bartender that he's done with his drink.

“I-” he tried to sound out words as you pull him onto the dance floor. He clears his throat and stands in the middle of the dance floor and you laugh at him, four years later and he still doesn't know how to dance. “Here,” you grab his hand and put it behind your back, you place your hand on his shoulder and with you lace your hands in his with your other hand. Junmyeon clears his throat and looks to the side, “Um … sorry for the other day, I didn't mean to fall asleep on you like that. I also had to leave for a board meeting in the morning.”

“Don’t be sorry, Junmyeon look at me,” hesitantly, his eyes slowly made their way to yours, tiptoeing up, you give him a quick peck on his cheek then adjusted your position. You wrapped your hands on around his waist and rested your head on his chest, slowly he wraps his arm around you but you could feel how tense he was.

“Don’t be so tense,” you whispered. He cleared his throat, “I’m sorry I-”

“I know,” you snuggle into his chest a little more and you sway along with the music for a little, soon enough Junmyeon began relaxing and was no longer tense. You look up and search for his eyes, “Junmyeon …”

“Hm?”

“I’m sorry.”

“For what?” you lay your head back on his chest and feel knots in your stomach. “I’m not sure where to exactly start, um …” you look around before grabbing his hand, “Follow me,” you move through the crowd and take him to the garden so you two can talk. You take him to the garden and sit him down on the bench. You both awkwardly sit next to each other on the bench.

“I’m sorry for a lot of things. Obviously, a lot has happened that wasn’t cleared with the both of us, Jongin told me everything the other week …”

“Jongin,” he whispered. “I’m not sure what you were told, you know how loud of a mouth Jongin is sometimes but ...”  

“Don’t be sorry,” You said as you fiddled with your fingers. “I’m glad Jongin told me … Why didn’t you tell me up front Junmyeon? You knew I would have dropped everything for you, I wish I was able to go through all of this with you.”

“How much did Jongin tell you?”

“Just about what you’ve gone through … like, your hardships and the passing of your mother, and how you can’t sleep.”

“Oh, that …”

“Is something wrong?” you sit up. He cleared his throat and shook his head, “No, no,” he said as he awkwardly smiled up to you. Something didn’t feel right with that smile but after hearing all of the things he has gone through, you just kind of shrugged it off. You took a deep breath and grabbed his hand and gripped them in yours.

“I’m honestly still a bit angry at our departure four years ago and how we parted ..”

“You should be rightfully angry, I was young and naive and I couldn’t think straight.”

“I know. Listen, I have thought about this all week up until this moment and if you are willing then I am willing to give us another chance and try to work on things, us and you and everything in between.”

“You what?”

“Believe it or not, despite all the things you put me through Junmyeon…. I do still have feelings for you, we were together and practically inseparable until the events leading up to our separation and you know how much of a softy I am. Even though we were apart for four years, we’re now in front of each other and I can still sense a little something in my heart-”

“Junmyeon,” a voice interrupts from behind making you both jump. “What are you doing here?” A man begins approaching from the path, you and Junmyeon stand up, he straightens his jacket and you instinctively pull your hair behind your ear. A similar face soon appears and you take the biggest gulp in your life, suddenly your stomach drops. 

“Dad,” he whispers. His father stares in your direction, “Hello,” you bow.

“You,” he pointed, “I remember you, I caught you and Junmyeon in bed that one time I came to visit him,” he raises an eyebrow. “I see you have stuck to your own ways.”

“Dad.”

“Come, now,” he said in a stern voice. “I have some people I want you to meet,” he said as he began walking away. Junmyeon takes a deep breath and lets you know that he will catch up with you again.

Once you make your way inside the ballroom, you find Naeun at the dessert bar, and of course, she is fashionably late. She is dressed in the color that best compliments her pale complexion. “I see you have found your way to the dessert bar,” you said as she was in the middle of downing a cake. She snorted, “You seriously couldn’t have caught me in the better time,” she laughs and eats the remaining cake on her plate. “So,” she points to you. “You have a lot of explaining to do. How did it go with him?”

“I think it went well, I think this was a lot and we’ll need to talk more to recover from all the things that have happened, but his dad also found us too,” she gasped and you brought both of your hands to your face. Your parents didn’t know about your relationship but his father did, and his father did not approve of you. 

A/N: Apologies for getting this in so late, finals season is coming and its getting a bit hectic XD 

I hope you all enjoyed this, please let me know of any concerns or questions or if the plot is getting confusing. Thank you!

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➶ Mrs. Kim Masterlist➶

Chapter One  

Chapter Two  

Chapter Three   

Chapter Four 

Chapter Five 

Chapter Six 

Chapter Seven 

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine 

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➶ Mrs. Kim ➶ Chapter Three

Characters: You/Miss Oh (Main), Junmyeon (Main), Naeun, Baekhyun and Jongin

Genre:  Marriage/Romance

Chapter One  ⦁  Chapter Two   ⦁ Chapter Three  ⦁ Chapter Four (Coming Soon!!!) 

Authors Note // Extra long chapter since it may be a few days before I update again. Enjoy!

It was like the calm after the storm, quite literally. You sit in the garden behind the hotel in a simple outfit you bought before you left Phuket drinking a cold brew of iced coffee you made. You hold the cup in your hand and your thumb brushes the rim.

Last night you had a complete breakdown in front on Naeun on how you couldn’t comprehend what was going on. After crying the whole night, you didn’t get to talk much to Naeun and fell asleep, partially also due to the jetlag. Your parents had sold the hotel to Junmyeon without letting you know and you couldn’t have been more confused about why they didn’t tell you what was going on. You told Naeun about the situation with Junmyeon, every second of it, and how he could have found you anytime between those four years and yet he suddenly pops out of nowhere. You didn’t know what intentions he had or what he had planned. It was something that would happen in the movies, you meet your ex-boyfriend at the same time you lose your family’s hotel and he is the one who buys it from your parents.

“Hey,” Naeun’s groggily voice whispers from behind. She comes and sits next to you, rubbing her eyes. “You doing okay?” you shrugged. “I’m not quite sure. This a lot for just coming back from vacation.”

“What do you think you’re going to do? With Junmyeon specifically?”

“What should I do?” you sighed. “I am more concerned that the hotel was bought and it's more concerning that it had to be Junmyeon, and then last night before it began raining ….”

“You still love him don’t you?” you drop head and look to the ground. “I’m not sure. I mean we were together for four years, but he hurt me so much to where I had to eventually block him out, and now he shows up out of nowhere and is my new boss. Quite regretfully, there is still some care for him in my broken heart, but it's buried through all of the bad memories too … we spent so much time together that there are memories that are still left inside. I don’t know, I don’t know how I feel … I’m a bit conflicted you know. I still have feelings for him but it's masked with anger and confusion.”  

“He could have sought you out anytime, I wonder why he suddenly bought your hotel and show up in front of you like that. Maybe he really does miss you and couldn’t take it anymore,” she turns to you. “You know, I couldn’t get a good look before I left but boy does he looked dead inside.”

“That’s an interesting way to put it, but he had all these years to do so, why now?” She looked at you with a sigh, you lean on the table, “I don’t know where it all went wrong. We were so in love and I started to notice him shutting me out. I mean, he obviously forgot about me …” you take a sip of your coffee. “I mean look at all those articles of him and his multiple girlfriends through the years.”

After talking some more in the garden, you both walk back inside to find that Myungsoo was holding a box in his casual clothes. With concerned looks, you both run to him. Naeun’s louder and shouts for Myungsoo. He turns around to greet you both.

“What are you doing? You aren’t scheduled for a break,” he smiled and bowed. “Last night was my last night as an employee here,” he looks down in his box and hands you his badge pin. “It was great working here and getting to know you, I have watched the Grand Opera Hotel thrive in its best and worst days, and I have been given the chance to watch a bright young woman grow up with an equally wonderful friend.”

“You’re talking as if you’re not coming back,” you grasp the badge pin in your hand. “Since the hotel was bought out there have been many changes coming and many employees are no longer needed for modern hotels. I think my time may be here to finally retire and settle down.”

“Did the new boss do this?” your body heating up from rising anger. He nodded. “I didn’t plan on retiring yet but I guess things just turned out different from what you plan.”

“Who else did they let go?” Naeun asked. “Margie was let go as well … her last night was last night too,” you ball your hands in a fist and closed your eyes. Margie was like a second mother to you, she was the main cook in the hotel and you can remember sneaking out to the kitchen and finding Margie lecture you on not eating sugar right before sleeping. “It was her last night and I did nothing but fiddled with her food … her last meal and I didn’t even touch it.” Myungsoo had his wife and grandchildren to take care of and Margie was ………… Furious, you let Myungsoo know that everything will be okay and let Naeun know that you have to go take care of some business and walked to the parking lot to retrieve your car.

You parked your car in front of Kim Corporates Headquarters and stormed in, bumping into someone writing on a notepad. The man fell down and stood up, he walked over and tapped your shoulder. “Listen here miss, it’s not polite to bump into someone and just walk away like that. It-” you turn around to glare at him when you realize who it was. You both say each others name at the same time.

“Baekhyun, what are you doing here?”

“I work here,” he laughed. “This is funny, I was actually on my way to meet you,” he smiles awkwardly fades when he sees your face. “You okay?”

“I don’t know Baekhyun,” you give him a half-assed smile, “What floor is Junmyeon’s office?”

“20th, why-” you walk away and towards the elevator. “Wait!” he yells out as he follows you, “He’s in a meeting in his office at the moment-” you ignore him and get into the elevator, pressing the close button the doors close right before he is able to get to you. You take a deep breath to calm yourself down a little bit.

You wall out of the elevator asking the first employee you see where Junmyeons office was and head straight towards it after you find it. Reaching for the doorknob you slightly jump when someone else opens up the door, you bow to the guy and then shut the door behind you. Junmyeon's focus on the papers that are in front of him and didn’t even look up, you walk towards him and stand in front of him.

“Baekhyun, I told you that I didn-” he looks up and drops his pen. You place the badge pin on his papers and point to it, “Why are you firing my people? Why are you changing the hotel? Buying the hotel isn’t enough for you?” you say on the verge of tears, he clears his throat and stands up, “I think you mean my people and my hotel now.”  

“Jun-” he cuts you off, “As the rightful owner of the hotel, I plan on rehiring all new employees and renovating the hotel for a more modern and sleek look.” You slump back and your anger subsides, you're more of just upset at the moment. These people mean so much for you and you’ve had a terrible past two days.

“Please,” you pleaded. “Please rehire back everyone you let go, especially Myungsoo and Margie. Y-you know how much this hotel and its people mean to me, you know the history behind it and that I wanted to run the family business and I had dreams and you knew about this, you knew when I told you … if you’re not going to let us-” You look up hoping to see his facial expression change but he has a stone cold face with no expression.

“I'm sorry to but I won't be changing my mind on this.”

“Why? Why do this-this my family's hotel and put people out of jobs? You have money Junmyeon, you could have built resorts on the beach and buy more modern hotels but why? Why my family's hotel?”

“Because... “

“Because of what?” you asked. He walks up right up to you, toe to toe, your noses almost touching. You take a step back but he steps forward right after you until you hit the wall. He hovers over you and stares down, he pulls a strand of hair behind your ear. Completely ignoring your speech to him, he changes the subject.

“Come have dinner with me at my house tonight,” you look away from his gaze. “I don't want too,” you started,” Don’t change the subject.”. He clears his throat and let's go, as he walks to the door he glances back and says with a low tone,  “I guess that means Hana has to go ask well, I'll let Baekhyun kno-” You walk towards him and grab his wrist.

“You wouldn’t.”

“Baek-”

“Fine, I’ll come,” you grabbed his wrist. “Why?”

“Don’t question it ... I will have Baekhyun pick you up.”

-

You stare outside at the stars as Baekhyun quietly drives you through the streets and into a small area just right outside the city. He had been pretty quiet throughout the day, I guess my ruckus earlier threw everyone off today. He pulls into a closed of and gated driveway, he makes his way up and you see what looks like its a giant hotel of its own. “I-Is this his house?”

“I know right?” he gets out and runs to the other side to open your door. “Why would one man insist on living in such a big house? That is a great question.”

“Bye, I’ll come to check on him later.” Within seconds Baekhyun steps into the car and drives off, you knock on the door and a lady comes up to open the door. She smiles and leads you into Junmyeon’s ‘house’ As you follow her deeper into the house you couldn’t help but see how much was inside, piano’s, what seemed like thousands of rooms and hallways, intricate pieces of art and then the smell of food lingering hits your nose. You turn the corner and enter the kitchen, you could see Junmyeon at the stove top with his sleeves folded up and wearing an apron.

“Miyeon do you think she’ll like-” he turns around with a soft smile and purses his lips when he sees you. Miyeon bows to the both of you, “I will be in the main kitchen cleaning if you need me, sir.”

“There’s more than one kitchen?” you blurt out. Miyeon laughs and nods, “Junmyeon has 3 kitchens in this house.”

“Oh my god,” you whispered. “How many rooms are in this house then?” you set your things on the chair,  “12 rooms in this house,” you gasp. Junmyeon butts in and lets Miyeon know she is free to go. “Thank you Miyeon, once you are done you can leave for the night. Don’t forget to take the sweets with you for your grandchildren,” she nods and bids you both farewell for the night. He turns back and continues cooking, you awkwardly stand there but set your things on the chair at the table. While he cooks in silence you walk around the kitchen and into the small living area connected to it, everything in it looks like it hasn’t been touched … and it hasn’t been touched, everything looks new and like they just bought everything this morning. The house looked like no one even lives in it because it looked so new. You come across a photo of Junmyeon with his family, him, his parents and his younger brother … but it seemed like this photo was taken in the hospital. You make your way around the room and to Junmyeon setting the table.

“Can I help with anything?” he shook his head and brings out two glasses of wine. You look on the table and he had cooked all of your favorite foods, he brushes past you and sets the wine down. Pulling your chair, he pushes you in and goes to his side. “You remember all of my favorite things …” you look smiled.

“How could I forget?” he softly smiles as he pours wine into your glass. Remembering the first time Junmyeon ever poured you wine you suddenly chuckle. “What?” he stops. “Remember the first time you cooked for me and you spilled wine all over me? I didn’t have any extra clothes and was changing into your shirt then Baekhyun walks in on us and th-”

“Then I dropped my glass on the floor because we didn’t expect him home that night,” you both look up and clear your throats. He lets you know that if you need anything else he can cook it for you but you shook your head and it went quiet. For the rest of dinner you would notice that he would glance up every now and then at you and look back down, you made small talk but it was nothing more than casual gettings. You could sense he wanted to say something but couldn’t figure it out how to say it, he had a habit of wrinkling his nose when he was trying really to concentrate. It was quiet for the rest of half an hour when you and Junmyeon finished eating. You help him clear the table and clean the dishes. You felt like an old couple, and every time your hands touched while washing the dishes Junmyeon would clear his throat and apologize.

After washing the dishes, Junmyeon puts in a movie on the projector and comes sits right next to you. He grabs the pillow from you and lays his head on your lap.“Junmyeon what are you-” he shushes you and points to the screen, “Just for now,”  within minutes of the film starting you could hear soft breathing from him. Right at that moment Baekhyun walks in and almost shits his pants when he sees that Junmyeon is sleeping.

“Holy fuck,” he said a little too loudly. “Sh!” you gesture him to be quiet. He tiptoes to the other side and tosses a blanket on Junmyeon before sitting next to you. “How did you get him to sleep? Did he have his medicine?”

“I didn't do anything,” you asked confusingly. Baekhyun makes a face like he is contemplating or not to tell you something. “What is it Baekhyun, just spill it.” He sighed, “Ummm, nothing … be glad that he is a heavy sleeper when he actually decides to sleep because this movie is loud as fuck. Holy shit, I can’t believe he went to sleep without his medication.”

“What is that supposed to mean?”

“He hasn't been sleeping well for a long long time, that's why he always looks like he is tired. He has trouble sleeping and when I do visit, it's to make sure he takes his sleeping pills because he can't seem to fall asleep and if he doesn’t sleep he ends up in the hospital. I don't know what magic you did but I've never seen him sleep this soundly before, he looks like he is at peace.” You look down and unknowingly began to brush his hair away from his face. “He actually looks like a human being you know. Well since you're here I'll leave you to take care of him-”

“Wait no don't leave me alone with him,” you grab his wrist when he gets up. “What am I supposed to do with him?” Baekhyun reaches under your feet and pull out couch …. “Look, I know your history with him and I know you’re upset with him but please, just let him sleep for tonight, maybe he'll wake up and be less of a grumpy ass,” with this he leaves you both alone in the house. You look down and pull the blanket up so he’s covered, pretty soon you fall asleep.

You stir in your sleep as you hear someone whispering, you look down and Junmyeon seemed to be whispering in his sleep. You take a glance at the clock on the wall, 3:11am. Junmyeon suddenly sits up and begins hyperventilating, he turns to look at you and you could see that his forehead was drenched in sweat. He pulls you into a tight hug and you didn’t know what else to do other than rub his back because you were in shock, pretty soon he calmed himself down and fell asleep again, with tired eyes you soon fall asleep too.

You began to stir when the light hits you and you slowly opened up your eyes to find someone in front of you, you scream. “Wait! It's me, don’t hurt me,” he put his hands up and backs up. You rub your eyes and your vision adjusted, “Jongin!” you jumped and give him a big bear hug. “It's been so long, how have you been? Where is Junmyeon?”

“Oh you know, just the usual self,” you glared at him. “You better not have gotten into any big trouble mister,” he chuckles and tells you that he has been in and out of the country traveling but came to visit since he is settling back in the country. “... but,” he sits down next to you, “What are you doing at my brother's house? Have y’all-”

“No, I-its complicated to explain at the moment, I don’t even know why I am here,” he slightly leans and see’s the blanket beside you. “Did you sleep here with Junmyeon last night?” he grinned. You shook your hands, “No-I mean yes I did but I didn’t intend too, he fell asleep on me as we were watching a movie and I was stuck under him,” his eyebrows raise, and you gasp, “Don’t get the wrong idea, he fell asleep on my lap and I-I was stuck.”

“Hm,” he crossed his arms and leans back. “I guess Baekhyun didn’t need to come to give him his medicine since you spent the night here,” you sit on your side and lean in. “Jongin, Baekhyun did come last night, I didn’t intend to stay here last night, he cooked me dinner and then we watched a movie, Baekhyun mentioned something about medicine and now you have too, is he okay?” he scratched his head. “I don’t know if he’d kill me if I told you all of this-um,” trying to change the subject he shouts, “You’re the first girl I have seen him personally cook for in the past four years.”

“Don’t try to change the subject Jongin,” you glared at him. He chuckled, “Just forget we had this conversation and I didn’t come here,” he laughed. ‘Oh look at the time I need to go,” he stood up but you got up faster and blocked his path. “Jongin, are you hiding something from me?”

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Authors Note #2 | Hey guys! If you have any feedback on this please let me know, I would love to hear comments on how the story is going so far. Thank you for reading!

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➶ Mrs. Kim ➶ Chapter Two

Characters: You/Miss Oh (Main), Junmyeon (Main), Naeun, Baekhyun and Jongin

Genre:  Marriage/Romance/Fluff

Chapter One  ⦁  Chapter Two   ⦁ Chapter Three 

“Let go, I can walk,  you muttered as he looks back at you. You follow him out as you he directs you to a more private place. He suddenly stops and turns around causing you to bump into his chest, you take a deep breath and close your eyes before you look up at him. Those beautiful brown eyes that once shined so bright looked so tired, his faint smile at the moment looked so cold and he looked so void of expression. You couldn’t read him, he seems so different from back then.

“What do you want,” you managed to mutter out. “How have you been? I haven’t seen you in four years. I heard you just went out of the country to-” you cut him off, “What does it matter to you?” you look up at him. “I thought it’d be nice to catch up after all of this time-”

“You should have thought about that four years ago when you abandoned me in another country and cut off contact with me for four years,” you yelled at him. “Do you know how I hurt I was to wake up in bed hoping to see you next to me and having to hear someone tell me that you wanted nothing to do with me anymore and that I was just some girl you wanted to toy with? Why would you want to catch up with someone who you wanted nothing to do with?”

“Listen, it wasn’t easy back then, I don’t know what-I…. This was the easiest way out at the time, look,” a tear slipped out and rolled down your face, he brought his hand up to wipe your tears but you brushed his hand away. “Don’t touch me,” you whispered. “I have to go, I hope to never run into you again,” you pulled away from him and ran off so you could no longer hear his voice. You wiped the tears away from your face and took a deep breath before you stepped into the hotel restaurant, you smiled and put on a brave face and went to the table where your parents were sitting at.

“Mom! Dad!” you hugged both of them and they noticed that your eyes were puffy. “Are you okay?” your mom asked. You nodded. “It's the jet lag, I also have allergies,” you lied. The waiter comes over to retrieve your order and you and your parents begin to catch up talking about the places you visited. You notice that your father keeps checking his watch every few minutes, you didn’t pay much attention to that and asked why your parents suddenly upgraded everything without letting you know anything. They both looked at each other and a familiar voice pops up behind you, chills run down your spine as you see Junmyeon’s face in your peripheral vision. Junmyeon pulls the seat next to you and advises the waiter that he will have his usual.

“Your usual?” you whispered confusingly to yourself.

“Yiseul, you remember Junmyeon right?”  your mom smiles. “We-we, um, we want you to meet the new owner of the Grand Opera Hotel.” Your eyes burrow in confusion and you let out an uncomfortable laugh. “What?” you straighten up, “I’m being pranked right now right?” You turned around to see if there were any camera’s around. First its running into Junmyeon and now your parents are telling you that the hotel is under new ownership. Seeing as there were no cameras you turn back around, “What are you guys talking about? When did this happen? This has got to be some kind of joke.”

“Just last week, we handed over the rights to Junmyeon,” they both said. “Why didn’t you tell me?” your mother sighs and holds your father's hand, “We were, we were just waiting until you got back from vacation to let you know and Junmyeon tells us you two were great friends in college so we figured we could also just work towards a friendly relationship,” your dad interjects with a comment that makes your blood boil even more. Friends? Right, we were just friends. In all actuality, as much as your parents let you do what you wanted … a boyfriend was not in the books, the only thing you had known was education and the hotel and your parents wanted you to focus on your career; Junmyeon was your little secret.

“We can still run the hotel to earn money, we will just be operating under new management and there will be lots of new changes that need management control.” You sit back in disbelief, not sure of how to react to this situation, you sulk down into your seat and took a deep breath.  Your home, the place where you essentially grew up, it was all going to change … you were supposed to continue to take care of this place your grandparents built up. You were supposed to be the ‘heir’ and take over the business. This place just held so many memories and you just couldn’t seem to be taking this in seriously.

The food slowly began to arrive one after the other, you were quiet, playing with the food on your plate. Joonmyeon glanced to the side and noticed how you haven’t eaten anything on your plate. “Are you not feeling well?” you look up and turn your head to the side, his face inches from yours, you immediately look away and see that everyone finished their meal and yours barely moved. “Its just the jetlag, and since everyone is done, I’ll excuse myself. Have a great night,” you cleared your throat and grabbed your jacket. Walking out of the back of the hotel you to catch some fresh air after the events of tonight.

“This must be a dream,” you sighed angrily. Angry, that was all you could feel, just anger … no tears whatsoever, just anger. How could your parents do this? For what reason did they sell the hotel? This was your childhood, your second home, you wanted to do nothing else but take over the family business, but what is this? Pausing in the middle of your walk, you look up to the sky. “This is a dream,” you assured yourself, “If this is a dream I probably won’t be able to feel anything if I pinch myself Yeah, I’m just in a very realistic dream right now and I am still in Phuket. I’ll wake up and this will all just be a nightmare.” You pulled up your sleeve up and was about to pinch your arm when a pair of arms hugs you from behind. “Don’t pinch yourself, you’ll hurt yourself.”

“Ju-” before you were able to say anything he spoke up. “I missed you, I miss you so much,” he whispered.

As cliche as it sounded, you missed this too, there was not a day that went by that you didn’t miss his touch but he broke your heart and left you stranded like you were no one.

Your hands reached up and you placed them on top of his, you gripped his fingers and tried to pry them off but he wouldn’t move a muscle. He turned you around and embraced you in yet a tighter hug. You were angry, you were so angry at him and what he had put you through, but yet you couldn’t make yourself pull away from his embrace. You held so much anger and hatred towards him for the past four years but one simple touch melted your heart and your body just went limp.

You both stood there for what seemed like forever, you began to feel something drop on you … it started to rain. You pushed him away and brushed your hair back, “You should go home before you get sick from the rain.” You turned your back on him, took a deep breath and took a step forward when he grabbed your wrist.

“I still care about you-?” you cut him off, and looked over your shoulder, “Yeah? Well I don’t I stopped.”

“Well, I’ve never stopped thinking about you, you know how much you meant to me.” You let out a laugh. “It’s the 21st century, I don’t live in a rock Junmyeon, i’m not stupid. I’ve seen all those articles written about you and your monthly flings. I also remember you distinctly telling me you never loved me when we last met and cut off contact with me and also had your guards kick me out when I wanted to see you, everything that has happened because of you.”

“I didn’t have a choice, you were just a-”

“Just someone who you toyed with? Fun isn’t it? Playing with someone's heart like this, I cared about you Junmyeon. I loved you. I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you-I-I was willing to drop everything for you but you just pushed me away,” you cried out walking off as the rain fell harder. You could hear him calling out to you but you ignored him and got on the elevator before he could get to you, pulling out your phone you call Naeun.

“I think I still love him … what is wrong with me,” you held your chest and fell onto the floor. “Why is he doing this to me?”  

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Authors Note // Apologies for making the introduction so long and drawn out, things will soon begin picking up. Thank you for reading! 

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➶ Mrs. Kim ➶ Chapter One

Hey guys! This is my return to writing in a long long time, it is not the best writer and I am planning on making this a large story so please enjoy the journey through Mrs. Kim. Also apologies for bad grammar. Let me know if you have any comments. Thank you and enjoy!

Characters: You/Miss Oh (Main), Junmyeon (Main), Naeun, Baekhyun and Jongin 

Genre:  Marriage/Romance/Fluff

Chapter One  ⦁  Chapter Two   ⦁ Chapter Three  

You weren’t by any means a billionaire but well enough to where you lived without too many problems. Your grandparents built a hotel that looked like a dream castle estate with their own two hands, they have since retired and passed it onto your parents who now take care of the hotel. The Grand Opera Hotel, the only place you would consider your second home, you practically grew up here and have befriended pretty much all of the staff, especially the door greeter who you considered a second father. The cool part about your family’s hotel is that you have rooms to rent out to others as permanent suites and then you have smaller rooms for traveling guests. 

“Good morning!” you greeted him with a big bear hug. “How have you been Myungsoo?”

“I’ve been well, it’s nice to see you after all this time,” he chuckled. “Myungsoo, I was only gone for 3 months.”

“I know, I know,” he chuckled again. “I’m glad to have you back, Grand Opera hasn’t been the same since. Your mother and father will be here in promptly an hour, they have a table reserved in the restaurant for you when the time comes.”

“Okay, it’ll be nice to have some Korean food, I’ve been missing it for a while,” you grab your bag and walked up to the reception desk to retrieve the keys to your suite and notice that something is off. Hana noticed you and bowed, “Welcome back Miss Oh, it is nice having you back,” she turned around and grabbed your keys and handed them to you.

“It's nice seeing you again Hana, I missed seeing you,” you grabbed the keys and bit your lip, “Hana, why did mom and dad install these,” you pointed at all of the newly installed computers and Ipads. “Oh, um, your parents just thought it was time for an upgrade. I believe your keys should work for the moment, ” You cocked your head to the side, this was strange, your parents vowed to never modernize the hotel too much because of the beautiful history of the hotel. You bowed to Hana, leaving her to attend other guests as you made your way up to your suite.

Right as the elevator dinged, you could see a maintenance worker fiddling with the door handles. “Excuse me, what are you doing to my door?” the maintenance worker gets up and bows to you, confused, you set your bag down and bowed to him. “Miss Oh,” he bowed once again. “What is going on?” you asked him. “We’re beginning to upgrade the hotel. Here is your key card to your suite,” he handed you a black card that had the Grand Opera Hotel written in silver, you looked at your hand with a key and then to the card in your hand, is this what Hana meant when my keys should work for the moment? You thanked him in confusion and used your key card to get into your suite.

“Home sweet home,” you sighed as you threw your bags on the ground and twirled around. “I missed this place, three months is too long but I’m glad I’m back.” You suddenly heard noises from your bedroom and went silent, tiptoeing to the door of your room you peeked inside but there was no one there. Opening the doors, someone pops up from behind you and you fall to the ground screaming, you hear a familiar chuckling and glared at the person. 

“Naeun, why you!” you pointed as you began to chase her around your suite, you finally catch up and tackle her down on the bed. You both laugh as you turned and poked your tongues out at each other. “I missed you,” you said as you sat up. “How do you think I feel,” she nudged you, “I haven’t seen you in like three months Miss Oh,” your eyebrow raises, “Miss Oh?” you said. Naeun laughed and hugged you. 

Naeun has been your friend since you entered high school, you both have been through a lot of things together, from breakups to broken bones and style changes. Though you and your family only have the Grand Opera Hotel, Naeun never looked down on you and you consider her like your own blood sister since you both were the only child in your family. Naeun’s family owns a large share in Samsung and they also own a chain of hotels and resorts along the coast, she never did like to flaunt her status too much and never seemed like all of those snobbish rich people you hear about on TV. You were just glad you were able to have a real friend.

“Guess what,” she turned to you. “What?” you asked her, she stood up and turned around, “You like my outfit?” you nodded. “Cool,” she went into your closet and pulled something out. “Ta-dah! I thought it’d be cute if we matched,” you laughed as she held the exact outfit next to her. “I bought you one too!” she pushes you into the bathroom and you change into the outfit she bought you, then the pictures began! You both take silly photos of each other and ended up posting the same one, captioning it, “Back with my better half! #twinning.”

After half an hour of giggling and catching up Naeun pouts, “I have to go now,” she pouted. “I have a date, but we definitely need to schedule more hangouts now that you’re back,” you smirked at her and nudged her shoulder. “When is he going to pop the question,” you wiggled your hands and pointed to your ring finger. “Shut up,” she laughed, “That man can’t commit even 2 years later, we’ll probably just date for the rest of my life. Well if my parents ever approve of him,” Your phone suddenly rings, scaring you, you get off the phone with your mom saying they are almost to the hotel. “It looks like I’m going down with you too,” you stand up and bow to her, “And he awaits,” she laughs and you two begin to make your way downstairs.

You laugh and joke throughout the whole ride down in the elevator, you hear a ding and Naeun moves closer to the wall so you guys could make room for people coming in. It dings and it opens on the 12th floor, still laughing at each other, your smile drops the moment you see who it is. You slightly backed up and held Naeun’s hand that was next to you, and suddenly it was dead silent in the elevator. He stands right next to you since you were the one in the center but you couldn’t bring yourself to look up. His hand accidentally brushes yours and you turn your back on him by facing Naeun. The whole ride down the elevator is so quiet you feel like you could hear your heart thumping. Once the elevator opens, you pull Naeun to make a B-Line away from him but before you get the chance to do so he grabs your wrist and stops you. “Naeun, can I talk to her alone?” she turns to look at you but her boyfriend suddenly lights up and waves for her to come over, you sigh and tell her to go and that you should be fine. You didn’t want to drag her into whatever was coming. 

“Let go Junmyeon, I have legs to walk.”

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