Asuka was half happy and half angry. She had to let Hwoarang into Hyo's life. After four years of raising him all by herself, she has to share him with her dreaded ex-husband. She sighed in relief, though, when the judge announced that Hyo was still in her custody. After about a week after the court hearing, Asuka was surprised to see Hwoarang in her doorstep of her mansion.
"What are you doing here?" Asuka asked uninterested.
"I'm here to be a part of my son's life," he said as he walked in the mansion.
"I have to say, I am quite surprised. I thought you would be living in a crappy old apartment and that instead of being a chef, you would be a dishwasher. You surprise me," he told Asuka.
"Well, I bet you still think I cheated on you," Asuka said as she sat on the sofa. She even started to file her nails.
"I don't think it; I know it," he corrected her.
"Think, or know, all you want. But I know what the truth is. The truth is that I didn't," she said as she blew on her filed pinky.
"Don't we all think that?" he said.
Asuka just smiled at him sarcastically.
"Hyo, honey, your father is here!" she called from upstairs.
"I'm coming mommy!" he cried.
Hyo came down to be dressed in a basketball uniform.
"He just got back from a basketball game," Asuka explained.
"So, do you know who I am?" Hwoarang asked Hyo.
"Well, I think you're that stupid ass of a father that I have," he said.
"Hyo, you're only four and you're cussing! You still have to show respect to your elders!" Asuka lectured.
"Okay mommy, I just said what I heard Auntie Xiaoyu was telling Uncle Jin," he explained.
Asuka just looked into Hyo's face. She then shifted her eyes to Hwoarang. She then looked back at her son. She started to laugh hysterically.
"Well, this is your father," she said laughing.
"Oh, sorry sir," he apologized as he shook his father's hand.
Hwoarang then took his hand and shook it firmly. All three of them were sitting on the couch when the door bell rang.
"I'll get it," Asuka announced.
Hyo then looked back to check who it was. He then sighed disappointedly and he started to make whining sounds.
"What's wrong kid?" Hwoarang asked.
"There's that man here again. He told me he wants to be my new daddy last month," Hyo explained.
"What? He wants to marry your mom?" he asked.
"Yeah, but mom is too polite. She goes to dates with him sometimes, but most of the time, she tells him no," he said.
Hwoarang then listened to their conversation.
"I'm sorry, Miguel, but I can't go to dinner with you tonight. I have my son and a guest here," she explained.
"Come on my love! We will go out to the fanciest restaurant in the city!" Miguel said in his Spanish accent.
"I'm sorry, but no," she said smiling politely as she closed the door.
"Hyo, it's already ten o'clock; I think you should get to bed. I'll tuck you in, in a few minutes," she told him.
He then nodded and quickly ran up the stairs. There was silence right after Hyo left the living room. It was one of those awkward moments Asuka was having.
"I can't believe you're dating other men," Hwoarang finally said breaking the silence.
"Look who's talking," Asuka fired back.
"What??!" he asked.
"You're the one that is dating that American model, Nicole Adams!" Asuka told him.
"Well, it's not like I'm going to get married to her," he said.
"So that's how you see women? You think of them as only a good time? You think that they're only to play with?" she asked him.
"No," he simply said.
"You know what, whatever," she said.
"At least you had the easy part," he mumbled.
"Excuse me?" she said.
"You had the easy part!"
"Oh no, I most certainly did not!"
"Yes you did! You had Hyo for four years by yourself!"
"Do you think it's easy to be left by your husband when you're eight months pregnant? And do you think it was easy for an eight month pregnant woman to have a nervous breakdown and to almost lose her only son?!"
"You had a nervous breakdown?"
"Oh, like you care. If I died, I wouldn't be surprised if you danced on my grave!"
"Well, what you just said was not that bad."
"Okay! So you think it's easy to have nothing? To start all over in your life with only four hundred dollars left by your ex husband in your back account? Do you know how much I cried? You missed you're son's baptism, birthday parties, first piano recital, first day of school, and everything?! You even missed his birth. You weren't there to support me when I was in labor. I was in labor for two damned days!"
Hwoarang remained speechless. He started to feel like a jack ass.
"And you know what still amazes me? You still think I cheated on you! You think that I had sex with someone when I was pregnant! I didn't even let you have sex with me when I was pregnant!"
"U-Uhm," was the only words that could escape his lips.
"But you know what? I know that you still don't take me on my word that I didn't cheat on you, but once you find out, everything will be too late. I will never take you back. I will never be back with you. I would rather marry Miguel than get married to you again. You're just going to break my heart again."
Asuka then left to tuck in her son. Hwoarang stood confused. What if she didn't cheat on him?