Min Ho opened his eyes and when he saw Shin Hye, he let out a deep long sigh. Without replying her, he squatted down on the floor and started to pick up the broken glasses.
“Ouch…” He winced when his finger was cut and blood started to ooze out. “Damn it.” He cursed under his breath.
Shin Hye creased her brows when she saw his finger dripping with blood. She quickly walked to the cabinet at the side and took the first aid box out. She took a sterile alcohol pad and kneeled beside Min Ho. She helped him to stop the bleeding and clean the cut on his finger.
Min Ho bit his lip when he felt the stinging pain as his eyes gazed at her face. She doesn’t say anything but she looked serious. He also noticed the black circles under her eyes. She must be very tired with her work in the hospital. He has not seen her in the apartment for few days already. She was so busy since she started her training in the hospital now.
After she put the plaster on his finger, she put the first aid box back to the cabinet and walked out of the room. She later come back with a broom in her hand and started to clean the broken glasses for him. When she was done, she wanted to walk out but Min Ho held her arm and stopped her. He took the broom and the bag of glasses away from her and put it at the side.
Shin Hye looked at him. “Wae?”
“Can you stay for a while?” Min Ho asked with his begging voice and puppy gaze. He really needs her now.
She held his gaze for a moment before she let out a defeated sigh. Without replying him, she just walked to his bed and sits down on the floor, leaning against the bed frame. Min Ho followed and sits down beside her. Neither of them says anything and just sits there quietly.
“You haven’t answer my question yet?” Shin Hye asked, breaking the silence first.
Min Ho turned to her and looked confused. “What question?”
“Why are you two always fighting?” She asked again. “Since you started to work in your father’s company, every time when I come back, I only see two of you fighting.”
He sighed deeply as he shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t know. I know she is angry because I’m always busy but I just took over my father’s management company and I really want to spend more time to do some result and show him that I’m capable. I don’t want other people to think that I’m sitting in this position just because I’m Lee Yeong Gyu’s son.”
“You should talk to her all this and not fight with her.” Shin Hye said.
Min Ho let out another sigh. “I tried. But she just couldn’t understand. And I know what she wants. She wants to stop studying and want to be a model in my company. I told her that I will help her to debut but I just need her to complete her degree. There is only one year left and I don’t understand why she want to give up now.”
Shin Hye took her hand to her mouth and yawned silently. She tried to keep her heavy-lidded eyes opened and focus on what he was saying. “She just feel lonely to study in the campus alone. She used to have all of us together with her. Give her some time and talk to her again when she calm down. She will understand.”
“She won’t understand. No matter how hard I tried to knock some sense into her pretty head, she just refused to listen.” Min Ho paused and inhaled a deep breath. “I don’t know what else I can do anymore. It’s already not easy to spend time with her but every time when we were together, we will end up fighting.”
“Good relationships don’t just happen. They take time, patience, understanding and two people who truly want to work things out together. It’s not going to be easy. Relationship is not only about good times being together. Both of you have to learn from the bad times together too.” Shin Hye said, as her eyes were almost close.
Min Ho chuckled. “How did you do that?”
“Do what?” Shin Hye asked softly.
“Make me feel so much better. You always have the ability to make me calm down and feel comfortable no matter how much problem I was facing. I missed the moment when all of us were still studying and have more time for each other.” He paused and bit his bottom lip. “I missed you. Missed talking with you like this. How I wish…” He stopped at mid-sentence when he felt something heavy landed on his shoulder. He turned to the side and saw Shin Hye’s head resting on his shoulder while her eyes were closed. The steady rhythm of her breathing shows that she was already deeply in sleep.
He smiled as he pulled himself lower so that she could sleep in a more comfortable position. He stared at her sleeping face as his hand naturally lifted up and brushed the loose strands of her hair away from her face.
“You must be very tired.” He whispered as his hand gently stroked the side of her face. “How I wish you can always stay here like this with me.” He continued with the sentence that was cut off just now.
“Being with you have always been so comfortable and relax. Why didn’t I meet you earlier? If the person I love is you, everything will be so much easier, right?” But just when the words slipped out of his mouth, his eyes slightly widened and were shocked by what he just said.
He quickly pulled his hand away from her face and averted his gaze. He pressed his hand against his chest and inhaled deeply, trying to calm his racing heart down. How could he think like that? Yoona is his girlfriend and Shin Hye is his best friend. He shouldn’t mix them up and make a comparison between them. He closed his eyes and hit his forehead lightly with his fist.
“I must be crazy to think like that.” He whispered as he opened his eyes again and turned to Shin Hye who was still deeply in sleep on his shoulder. “You are my best friend… my best friend.” He mumbled.
-------------------------------------------------------------
When you play the cold war with women, they normally play colder and win at the end. After a long and hard fight between Min Ho and Yoona, finally Min Ho was the one who gave up and gave in. Since Yoona have her way to persuade her parents to agree with her, he has no choice but to let her stop pursuing her studies and join his company. Although he still disagree with her not to complete her degree first but to prevent them continue to fight again, he force himself to accept and support what she wants to do.
However, he couldn’t deny that Yoona was really good and very suitable to be in this industry. In only one year, her beautiful and attractive outlook has brought her to a successful path and she has become one of the most popular rising stars in South Korea. It might be a good thing for Yoona and also his management company but for Min Ho, it was totally the opposite. Since Yoona joined his company, she have totally transformed to a different person and he started to wonder is this her real attitudes or the fame changed her. Her arrogance, her selfishness and her self-centred has make the people around her feel suffocated especially those who works closely with her.
As her boyfriend, he tried to understand and tried to find excuses of why she will become like this but everything has a limit. He can accept everything about her but not when she was too close with her male co-workers. It was not the first time people around were telling him about Yoona and their male model Choi Siwon being very close together. He don’t mind when she need to work with other men but if she crossed the line and his limit, he don’t think he can keep quiet anymore.
Life was not easy for Shin Hye either. After she completed her first year of the foundation training and gained the provisional registration, she was now in her second year and she was placed in different specialty for the length of three months placements each. This is to help the trainee make a decision about which specialty training programme to pursue in the future.
And for the first three months, Shin Hye was placed in the department of obstetric and gynaecology. Everything was fine as usual but that day, a woman with twin pregnancies was sent to the ER because of a premature labour. She was assigned to assist in the surgery with the senior doctors. The surgery was smooth but due to the health problem and the premature labour of the pregnant woman, the premature twin babies were born with immature lungs that lack a protein called surfactant that keeps small air sacs in the lungs from collapsing. Everyone was trying their best to save the babies but at the end, they still couldn’t make it and died before their mother could even hold them.
By the time Shin Hye came back from the hospital, it was already 10pm. She didn’t eat anything the whole day and what she wants to do now is to bury herself in the bed and force herself to sleep without thinking about the surgery today. But sometimes, things don’t always go as planned.
She thought after Yoona joined Min Ho’s company, their relationship will improved but she guess she was wrong. When she stepped into Amitié, Yoona and Min Ho was fighting in the living room… again.
“You know I don’t like it but you are doing it over and over again.” Min Ho raised his voice and was glaring murderously at Yoona.
“What is wrong with that? We are just colleagues and we are just working.” Yoona snapped back.
“Working? Are you sure both of you are just working? Two of you were in the company van for more than an hour. Tell me what were you guys ‘working’ inside there.” Min Ho asked angrily.
“You are unreasonable. I’m tired of talking to you.” Yoona said as she glanced over at Shin Hye and chuckled sarcastically. “You are angry because Siwon oppa and me were always together? Should I say the same thing to you too? You were always together with your ‘best friend’ too.”
Shin Hye looked at Yoona in confusion but before she could open her mouth to ask, Min Ho was faster than her.
“Don’t you dare to drag Shin Hye into this. I’m talking about you and Choi Siwon.” Min Ho said through gritted