Eunbi got ready to go to her college, and went to downstairs, as she saw Mrs. Lee was watching some morning program on TV, she informed her that she's leaving to her college and after that she's going to her home to meet her parents.
"Just now Young-soo informed me about it, and the car driver is waiting for you at the entrance of the house," Mrs. Lee replied.
Eunbi thanked her and left the house. She gets in the car, first she went to her college, signed in the college register, and collected her transfer certificate and mark sheets. Then she went to her home.
Once she reached her home she quickly got from the car as if she's returned back home to meet her parents after a decade. As she entered in the home one of the house maids welcomed her with a smile. Eunbi gave her a smile in return and asked her, "where is my Omma?"
"Ma'am is in the reading room, young miss," the maid replied.
Eunbi thanked the maid and went to the reading room. She slowly twisted the door knob, and opened the door gently and slowly to make her mother surprise with her presence. She entered and looked at her mother; Mrs. Yoon was reading book on the comfy and cozy reading chair. Eunbi tiptoed toward her on the maple wooden floor, stood behind her, and covered her mother's eyes with her hands. Mrs. Yoon yelped in surprise, placed the book on her lap, touched the hands with her hands which was covering her eyes and said, "Eunbi-ah," in a happy tone.
She laughed as her mother identified her with the touch of her hands; she uncovered her hands of her mother's eyes, stood in front of her, leaned down, and hugged her mother who was sitting on the reading chair, "I missed you so much, omma."
Mrs. Yoon broke the hug, cupped her face, and kissed her forehead, "I missed you too, my precious?"
Both mother and daughter sat together on the separate reading chairs at the reading room, first her mother asked her with hesitation, "Is your husband behaving properly with you? Do you understand what I'm trying to ask you?
Eunbi nodded her head up and down. Eunbi knelt down in front of her mother, "omma I can understand what you are trying to ask me. He is taking good care of me, and treating me well. So stop worrying about me, even he asked me to continue my studies."
Mrs. Yoon breathed in sigh of relief, "that's so relief to hear those words from you, but in future please tell me if he behaves improperly with you at any situation. Don't hide anything from us thinking that it will make us worry, as a parent it's our duty to solve our children's problems to lead them a happy life," she advised her daughter.
Eunbi gave her a smile. "omma, you knew very well about me, right? Then why am I going to hide it from you guys, if Young-soo tries to ill-treat me I'll inform that to you guys right away."
"Of-course I knew very well about you that you don't hide anything from us, I believe in you. I'm scared that whether he'll harm you by chance and threatened you to not tell that to anybody. Eunbi, please forgive me for not helping you out from this marriage, please forgive your omma."
Eunbi stood up and hugged her mother and she could sense that how worried her mother was. Therefore she broke the hug and consoled her mother with some lies, "omma why are you apologizing when you hadn't done anything wrong to me. I'm happy to get Young-soo as my husband, did you forget that what appa said? I'm very lucky to marry him, so please omma don't feel apologetic to me and stop worrying too. You guys had chosen him as a groom for eonnie, because of his well mannerism, kind behaviors towards the elder, and gentle-manliness, only after knowing all these quality of him you guys has decided that he'll be apt to be a perfect son-in-law of our family, am I right?"
Mrs. Yoon nodded her head, "yes you are right, but I'm scared and suspicious whether he has married you to seek revenge."
"He is not that type of a guy, omma. He really cares for me. Because of eonnie's wrong decision I'm very lucky to get him as my husband. Omma, to tell you the truth it's very awkward for us to share the same room, and bed. I know it's because we are in the beginning stage of our relationship. But I hope that we'll gradually break the awkwardness in between us by getting to know well about each other. Omma you know what, I always dreamed about getting involved in an arranged marriage. Because they say love comes after the marriage is the painful pleasure. Thank you so much for making one of my dreams comes true and also for giving me some new feelings."
In the evening, while Eunbi was busy with organizing her clothes and accessories in wheeled trolley suitcases, one of the house maids came into her room with her permission and informed her, "Mr. Young-soo has came and talking with your parents at the downstairs in the living room. Mr. Yoon asked young miss to come and join with them in their conversation."
Eunbi nodded her head, asked the maid to organize the remaining clothes in the suitcase which are on the bed, and left the room. Once she reaches the living room at the downstairs the two gentlemen stopped their conversation and looked at her.
"Have you finished packing your things?" her father asked her.
"Almost, appa."
"That's good," her father nodded his head and gave them a gift box saying, "It's my present for your wedding." The couple was surprised with his present; they stood down from the sofa thanked him by bowing their heads in unison in a respectful manner, and collected the present from Mr. Yoon.
Young-soo asked Eunbi to open the present. She did open the gift box in front of her father to see what the present was, and the box contains a brand new couple wrist watch. By looking at the watches he commented, "Wow~ it looks so beautiful, abeoji." Then Young-soo took out the female wrist watch from the box, gently grabbed Eunbi's left wrist and wore that on her wrist. He undid the watch which he was already wearing it of his wrist, outstretched his hand gently in front of her. Eunbi took out the wrist watch from its box, place the empty box over the sofa, and wore the male watch on his left wrist. Once again Young-soo thanked Mr. Yoon for the present, saying, "I like it so much, abeoji."
Mr. Yoon nodded his head with a smile.
One of the maids came and informs Mrs. Yoon that the dinner was ready. After a while, all of them settle down in the dining area for dinner, Young-soo sat adjacent to Eunbi, and her parents sat parallel to them.
Few of the maids served the food for them in the dining table. When one of the maids came near to Young-soo to serve him food, his heart beat raised as the traumatic incident flashed in his mind all of a sudden, which he's been kept secret from his friends and family members since from his adolescence. He held Eunbi's hand tightly under the table, and she was startle with his sudden touch. She quickly yanked back her hand from his held. He gulped down some water from the water glass; his vision was blurred and unfocused, as he tried to place back the water glass on the table. His hands quivered, to his bad luck the water glass slipped out of his hand, fell down on the table, and the remaining water in the glass spilled out on the wooden table. All three of them stopped having their foods, and looked at Young-soo, Mrs. Yoon asked one of the maids to wipe off the spilled water on the table.
When the maid came to wipe off the water from the table, Mr. Yoon noticed that Young-soo was looking so uneasy and sweating out of normal, "are you all right, son? Do you need any medical emergency?"
He swallowed the lump in his throat and managed to answers his father-in-law's question, "No, abeoji I don't need any medical emergency, thank you for your concern, and I'm sorry for the discomfort, I'll be alright if I take some rest for a while."
"Are you sure, son?" Mr. Yoon asked him again to make it sure.
"Yes I'm sure, abeoji."
Mr. Yoon nodded his head and asked Eunbi to take him to her room.
He stood down from the chair; put one of his arms over Eunbi's shoulder for support because he couldn't see anything clearly. To his surprise she encircled her arm protectively around his waist, and walked him carefully to her room without any complaints.
Eunbi was clueless that what made him to get sick all of a sudden. Once they reached the room she locked the room door with her free hand, she walked him near to her bed, and asked him to lie down on her bed.
He looked around the room, and weakly lied down on the bed. He felt so anxiety to sleep alone; therefore he grabbed one of her hands, and pulled her onto the bed. She loosed her balance and fell down next to him on the bed by facing him, and he hugged her tightly. She startled whether he's going to take advantage from her, she put her hands over his chest and tried to get free from his hug, but he demanded her to stay still just for a while. Eunbi melted down to his demand as she saw the tears rolled down from the corner of his closed eyes, and his body was trembling so badly. She doesn't wanted to be mean to the sick person so she let him hug her. After a few minutes he fall asleep and his body stopped trembling. She un-wrapped his hand of her waist, slowly got down from the bed by making sure to not wake him up. She stood next to the bed looked at him and wondered, 'what caused him to get sick all of a sudden as though he's saw some kind of a ghost.'
Then she packed the rest of her belonging in the suitcases. She took the pillow and blanket on the bed, lied down on the couch in the room, covered her body with the blanket, and falls asleep.