Tae-Hoon saw Dong-Hoon was awake. "Big bro, can you wake up Ji bro, his friend will tell about the route from here." they had reached the populated area of the village by now.
Dong-Hoon lifted his head from Se-Young's head and hesitated but nudged Ji-Hoon, cautious enough to not disturb Se-Young's sleep. Ji-Hoon opened his eyes, groaning. "Call your friend and ask about the route ahead." Dong-Hoon said looking away to the other side.
At first, Ji-Hoon was confused but soon understood that Dong-Hoon was talking about Yoo-Na. Rolling his eyes at the word 'friends' he sat properly, grabbing his cell phone from his pocket and called her.
She immediately picked up his call and before he could say something, she already started saying, "Oh, you guys are already here, just wait for a minute, our car is on the way to you guys." she ended the call, leaving a confused Ji-Hoon.
Before he could open his mouth, a car stopped beside their van in a swoosh and because of it, the rest of them woke up. "Follow us." Yoo-Jin said from the front seat to Tae-Hoon, who was confused, looking at him.
Se-Young found her head on Dong-Hoon's shoulder and widened her eyes as she sat up properly on her seat. The atmosphere between them was awkward. "S... sorry." she said and got no reply as Dong-Hoon was processing what just happened.
Following the Park's car, they reached the stately big house. The household workers started to get out of the house to get the luggage for everyone.
As a matter of politeness, Ji-Hoon went towards them. "I am really thankful to you." he said to all four of them and bowed in gratitude as Park Yoo-Chun waved his hands. "No, no. It is an honor to spend our vacation with the Shim family, we can make our bond stronger with this, I suppose." he said to Ji-Hoon.
All of them greeted each other as Tae-Hoon got Yoo-Jin to the side. "I am confused, why in the world are you here?" Tae-Hoon asked.
"Why would you be, don't you know that our companies are together in a deal right now and my sister offered your brother to spend this vacation so that they can visit the farm site." Yoo-Jin said frowning his eyebrows.
"Really?" Tae-Hoon again asked. "Yes, your brother refused but somehow he told us that your whole family would be joining." Yoo-Jin made an obvious face.
"O" was the only thing that escaped Tae-Hoon's mouth. "Let's go, everyone is going inside now." Yoo-Jin said as Tae-Hoon nodded and followed him inside.
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"I think all of you are pretty tired, so let's have some rest then we will have the most amazing dinner of the day." Yoo-Na said as she was not anywhere near tired.
The workers showed each of them their rooms and Ha-Neul got the room beside Tae-Hoon and Hani. "Good for me." he said entering the room while smiling devilishly.
Hani and Tae-Hoon got only one bed in the room but right now they were more focused on getting refreshed rather than this. Hani first got to the bathroom, knowing that Tae-Hoon will take forever inside and she would have to wait for a long time.
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Ha-Neul saw his sister getting out of the room without Tae-Hoon and he very quietly entered the room to find something to annoy his brother-in-law and closed the door behind him. He did not saw Tae-Hoon in the room but he heard the running water from the bathroom.
Since the house was quite old-fashioned, the doors had latches instead of knobs. He smirked and put the hasp over the staple, locking the door from outside and left the room as quietly as possible. "Well done, Ha-Neul." he said patting his left shoulder.
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Se-Young as her usual habit went into the kitchen and found Yoo-Na instructing and directing the workers to cook accordingly. "Oh, what are you doing here?" Yoo-Na asked sending a smile to Se-Young.
"Actually, uncle has high BP issues, so he would not eat just anything." Se-Young hesitantly said.
"Oh, no worries. Mr. Hand... ha-ha... I mean Ji-Hoon told me about it. That is why I am here to guide them. This is a vacation so just relax, hmmmm." she said winking at Se-Young.
Se-Young smiled at her as Yoo-Na returned the favor.
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Everyone was now in the dining area. "Where is Tae-Hoon?" Yoo-Jin asked and everyone looked at each other not knowing the answer. Ha-Neul on the other hand was standing in a joyous mood smiling to himself.
"I will go look for him in the room." Hani said and left the dining area.
Hani saw no one in the room but heard the faint knocking on the bathroom door, she frowned her eyebrows going in that direction.
Her eyes widened, looking at the door locked from outside. She opened the door hurriedly and Tae-Hoon who was leaning against the door while squatting on the floor tired from all the knocking, fell down.
Hani's eyeballs came out of their sockets in a shock and Tae-Hoon indolently stood up from the floor. "Why would you lock me in?" he asked frowning at her.
She bit her lower lip in nervousness. "I did not." her voice came out in a whisper.
"Then who did?" this time his voice came out harsh.
She gulped. "I... I don't know." she started to fidget her fingers.
Tae-Hoon sighed looking at her all nervous. "Forget it." he said leaving the room.
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Tae-Hoon did not tell anyone that he was locked and just said that he slept because he got tired from driving. Ha-Neul was looking at his sister who was not in the mood. He thought that Tae-Hoon might have said something to her related to locking the door and put the fork aggressively in his plate, glaring at his brother-in-law.
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Tae-Hoon took a pillow from the bed going towards the sofa but Hani stopped him. "It is cold... and... we don't have any extra blankets." he frowned not getting what she was saying.