The yellow angel:
I gathered the kids in my room to explain my strategy.
'Team council! Everyone listen carefully. First main rule: if you want to hoodwink your enemy, you have to think as HE does. Fortunately, in this case we don't have to storm our brains a lot. I have a brilliant plan how to find him. Mi Na, you go and have a detailed look around the first floor and while Jang Sun is in Shin Woo's room, I will check the wardrobes, the bathrooms and under the beds. We should be quick, as there are only 2 minutes left. Is it clear?'
'Yes!', they yelled in a voice and rushed towards the door.
I swiftly started to rummage around and turned everything that caught my eye upside down. He could be under Mi Nyeo's bed; between aunt's dresses; even behind my bookshelf. If only he dares…
'I found him! I found him!', Mi Na cried.
Yes! My plan worked! I'm the best. You'll never beat me out in hide-and-seek, Go Mi Nam!
'Come oooon! Lunch is ready. Everyone in the kitchen!', Mi Nyeo's voice floated from below.
I sprang with joyful steps down the stairs and almost bumped into Tae Kyung hyung, who was heading to the opposite direction.
The lime angel:
Mi Nyeo seems to enjoy my vegetable masterpiece a lot.
'The kids will absolutely love it! Hyungnim, how do you manage to be so good at everything?'
I smirked with a delightful smile. She's such a flatterer, always succeeding in lifting my spirit. In my whole life I've only aimed to be good at singing and writing songs. Being entirely devoted to music, I was never distracted by anything else – neither girls, nor any kind of entertainment. I haven't even realized I was actually living until she broke through my impermeable coverage that I've been building since a little child. With her invasion my whole world transformed. Now there's something else apart from my career I desire to be best at – my relationship with her. Will I ever overcome my intolerance to children and make her happy?
'I'll go to change this pullover, as it's stained. Piggy, try not to eat everything, the others are surely hungry too.'
Out of the kitchen Mi Nam's bloody eyes met mine but I ignored him as usual. What's his problem again? Is it because I know about his girlfriend? Tch. As long as she behaves well, it's none of my business. I'd better keep Mi Nyeo away from that as well.
I opened the door of my room only to hear deafening screams from the bathroom and gasped in horror.
'Help! Help!' It must be the little boy. Aish… why is he in my room? Hasn't Mi Nyeo instructed them not to… 'Aishhhh!', I was bound to witness an already familiar view – the water from the bidet was scattering all over his tiny body. 'Why are you standing there? You're soaked to the bones.' I took him in my hands and laid him on the bed. 'Sit here. I'll bring you a towel.' I took a towel from the bathroom and handed it to him but he didn't stop crying. ' What do you want? Just remove these wet clothes. Is it that difficult?', I roared in annoyance. He screamed even harder.
'Hyungnim, are you ready?', Mi Nyeo peeped in from the door. 'Omo! What happened? Jang Sun, why are you all damp?'
'Guess at once! Can you?', I derided. 'Didn't you warn these kids not to approach my room? What if he happened to destroy something?
She quickly took off his clothes and enfolded him with the towel. 'Calm down! You'll get warm in a minute.' She wrapped the little boy with her arms. 'Is it ok now?'
'Teacher, I thought it was Shin Woo hyung's room. This hyung is bad. He scolded me.', he lamented.
'Hyungnim!', she glared at me accusingly. 'He's just a child.'
'Yah, stop lying! I just told you…' The little devil interrupted me, leaking a vociferous shriek.
'Please, go to the kitchen. We are coming in awhile.', Mi Nyeo pointed at the door with her eyes.
Aish… I can't believe that. She drove me out of MY room… Kids are awful. They spit out lies offhand in order to entice the whole attention to themselves. How the hell does she manage to cope with them?
White angel's evil twin:
The bustle took place everywhere in the house. Screams could be heard from each corner. At last some liveliness broke through the tremendous walls of boredom. To my disappointment, sis called us for lunch and we all gathered together around the huge kitchen table.
'Everyone, listen carefully!', manager Ma first broke the silence. 'I have something to announce.'
'What is it?', sis inquired.
'Don't tell me they have moved forward the photo session I'm so eagerly waiting for!', moaned Jeremy.
'Is the baby alright?', Shin Woo hyung asked worriedly.
Tae Kyung just rolled his eyes with a bored expression on his face, as if he already knew what manager Ma was talking about.
'Yah! Are you pregnant too? Because you started your announcement in the same way last time.', I derided, feeling a dozen of eyes shooting at me. 'What? Since when have jokes been forgotten?'
'All of you calm down.', the manager made a short pause and then added: 'We are getting married in two months.'
'Really? Why didn't you tell me, noona? That's great!', Mi Nyeo's eyes glimmered in astonishment.
'Congratulations!', nodded Shin Woo hyung.'I wish you all the best!'
'Noona, did you really accept to marry this punk? Hahahaha! It must be because of the exponential growth of your belly, right? Or… has the little parasite already sucked up all your brain through the placenta?' Coordinator Wang frowned and everyone threw at me even more severe glimpse now. Aish… these guys definitely lack sense of humor.
'Go Mi Nam!', sis shouted, 'Apologize to manager Ma and onnie NOW!'
'Shall I apologize to Embryo too?', I rolled out laughing and almost fell down the chair.
'Who is Embryo?', the little boy asked innocently.
'It's… the baby who is not born yet…', sis mumbled with a note of confusion in her voice.
'Does every woman have a baby in her stomach? Then when will your baby be born, teacher?'
'Stupid! First she has to marry Tae Kyung oppa.', explained his sister.
Sis choked and took up a glass of water. Tae Kyung laid his fingers on the forehead, pretending to have a headache. There was awkward silence for a minute.
'I think she will marry Shin Woo hyung.', Jang Sun scowled grumpily.
'Shut up, jerk! Tae Kyung oppa is more beautiful.', Mi Na covered her brother's mouth with her hand.
The boy pushed it away and roared: 'But teacher doesn't care who is more beautiful, unlike you. Who is good to her matters more.', he objected.
'Tae Kyung oppa is not only beautiful. He's good to her as well. He is the best.', the girl countered.
'It's not true. I heard him scolding her.', Jang Sun rose up from his chair furiously and pushed it back in order to make place for the upcoming battle.
'And what? I saw him hugging her.', his sister stood up too. Mi Nyeo unsuccessfully tried to hide her blushing face.
'Don't you listen to the fairytales omma and teacher tell us? Shin Woo hyung is the white prince who will save her from the evil monster.'
'Tch. The fact that he's dressed in white doesn't mean he's the prince. She will marry Tae Kyung oppa.'
'Shin Woo hyung!'
'Tae Kyung oppa!'
'Shin Woo hyung!
….
The two kids kept pushing each other. All the pairs of startled eyes flickered between both of them.
'Stop it!', sis grabbed their hands. 'It's time to take your medicine and have afternoon nap.'
'You'd better listen to your teacher unless you want her to slap you.', I winked at Mi Nyeo, grinning mockingly.
'Oppa!', she snapped. 'Mind your words.' Everyone looked down, trying to hide the overflowing laughter.
Then her phone rang and she went out of the kitchen.
The yellow angel:
Aish… Why are the kids just two? It's not fair. Who's going to pawn on me then?... Rotton orange, stop imagining impossible things! I punched my head. She already made her choice.
Shin Woo hyung was smiling with a hardly visible mark of satisfaction in his eyes. Tch. Is he happy having an adherent on his side?
Mi Na approached Tae Kyung hyung and wrapped her arms around his neck. 'Tae Kyung oppa, will you marry teacher onnie?'
Hyung frowned and made an attempt to push her away but she wrapped tighter.
'Aish… I have to scold Mi Nyeo for not teaching you how to behave properly.', he grumbled.
'Oppaaaa, answer my question please!, the girl begged.
Hyung breathed out a racking sigh, rolling his eyes. 'Get off of me! You don't even know what marriage is.'
'Of course I know. I'm not as little as you think. Mom was married to dad but they didn't get on well and eventually ended up with divorce.'
'That's why you have to marry someone you get on well with.', her brother interfered.
'Stop philosophizing and go to sleep! Damn, why is she still outside…', hyung hissed.
The lime angel:
I took their hands but the boy plucked off my hold and ran away. I exhaled and led the insolent girl to Shin Woo's room. Aish… it's worse than I expected! I'll have to educate them for these few days. While I was removing the coverage of the bed, the little demon jumped over my back and tore me down on the bed.
'Oppa, please tell me. Do you want to marry teacher?' She kept tickling my stomach and I just surrendered helplessly, because I was afraid of hurting her.
'Yah! Stop that! I said STOP! Aish… ok, I want to marry her.', the words poured out without my permission. I startled at myself. Why am I confessing this to a child?
The white angel:
I gave the kids their medicine. Then my phone rang and I went out to talk to Mrs. Lee peacefully. I told her there aren't any problems. But I feel hyungnim is getting mad being around the children. Turning back, I saw oppa standing at the door, waiting for me to finish the call.
'Sis, I have to ask you something. Tell me honestly, how serious exactly are the things between you and Hwang Tae Kyung?', he gazed deeply into my eyes, as if he was trying to penetrate into my soul.
'Oppa, don't mind what the kids are saying. They are just kids and speak whatever comes on their mind.'
'I'm not asking about the marriage, I don't think he's that type of person at all… whatever. What I'd like to know is how advanced your relationship is.'
'What do you mean? We are getting on well…', I shrugged my shoulders unwittingly.
'Yeah, I can see that.', he spat out nervously.'B-but on which base… Hell! Do you sleep together?'
I closed my eyes, trying to assimilate his question. 'You… you are asking about…' Oppa nodded agreeably.
'Oh, it's UNBELIEVABLE!'
'REALLY?'
'I really can't believe you're asking me this.', I ran towards the kitchen.
Jang Sun was waiting for me there, playing with Shin Woo hyung on his mobile phone.
'Where's your sister?', I wondered.
'Tae Kyung took her in my room to sleep.', answered Shin Woo hyung.
'Ah, seriously? Jang Sun, let's go there too. You should have a nap before we go out for a walk.'
'We are going out? Yeeeeee!', he clung to my hand while climbing upstairs.
I quietly opened the door of Shin Woo's room so that not to wake up Mi Na and got completely awestruck at what I saw and heard. Hyungnim was sitting on the bed next to the child, singing a melodic lullaby. I felt so moved that I wasn't able to hold my tears and let them burst out.
