Chapter Eleven.

Mi Nam was determined to find out who that girl was. Without a second thought, he grabbed the helmet that was sitting on the seat of the Jeremy's motorcycle and hopped on. He was going to catch up to that car.

The fact that he was ditching his own party was minor to him. He'd apologize for it later. He had the strongest urge to follow that girl.

At the sound of a motorcycle ignition rumble, Jeremy got up from the table and broke out into a run. "No, no, no!" This was bad for a number of reasons. He knew what Mi Nam was going to do. "Hey! Mi Nam!" Jeremy tried running after his motorcycle and the crazy boy who just stole it. Again. This was not going to be good. He felt it in his gut and it began to worry him.

He stopped, panting. It was no good to run this far after eating and he could already feel a cramp coming on. This idiot abandoned his own party and sister to catch Ye Eun...well, if he knew it was really her... Either way, it was out of his hands now.

The people at the party weren't all that stirred by Mi Nam's sudden departure- minus his sister and Jeremy.

"Did Jeremy and oppa just leave together?" Mi Nyu sat at the table, confused.

"Oh no." Shin Woo sipped his soup. "It could just be me, but it seems like he took after the girl in the mask. And Jeremy went after him. He's going to get a cramp trying to run like that after eating." He sighed. "Maybe he knows her?" Even he personally didn't know who the girl in the disguise was he gave her props for coming in Groucho glasses.

Maybe it was an ex-girlfriend of his? Go Mi Nyu became concerned and instinctively wanted to call him. "I hope nothing bothered him." She took out her phone and sent him a text.

Oppa, you left so suddenly. You're alright, right?

"Who told her to even come dressed like that? She made a complete fool of herself. It's a birthday party not a masquerade party." At the end of his rant, Tae Kyung realized it. Ye Eun that idiot… But why would Mi Nam be following her unless…they know each other somehow? "Mi Nyu, are you sure you didn't know who that girl was?" He asked.

She shook her head. "I'm sure."

Her phone vibrated and she checked her text.

Don't worry your little face, Mi Nyu. I just went out to return something to her. I'll be back. :)

His text only partially reassured her.

Manager Ma shifted uncomfortably at Mi Nyu's words and Coordinator eyed him. "You…you know something don't you?"

"Me? No! Of course not. Coordinator Wang, this dish tastes fabulous. I didn't know you could cook so well-"

She got up and grabbed him by the ear, pulling him off to the side. "There is something very shady about this situation."

Manager Ma smiled. "Maybe, because we're under a tree?" He pointed upwards.

She folded her arms. "That girl…the one in the mask…you know who she is, don't you? Why did Go Mi Nam run after her?"

"Why would I? I mean, she's just…a girl...who has...a mask…" He was mumbling by the end of the sentence.

Coordinator narrowed her eyes. This girl…maybe it's the same one Mi Nam was talking about the other day?

"Alright alright. It's Cho Ye Eun." He spit out. "Remember her? Jeremy's cousin!"

She remembered her clearly for it was too hard to forget. It made sense why she was here. "Yes. But why did he run after her? Better yet, why was she in disguise?"

Manager Ma stood straight. "I'm at strict confidentiality not to tell. How would I look blabbing to people about his past? I'm a trustworthy Manager! I keep my promises."

"His past, huh?"

"See! I've already said too much!" Oh how he wished he could escape to that bowl of kimchi...

"Manager Ma. I'm going give you to the count of 3 to tell me or I will throw you over the edge of this veranda. 1, 2-" Coordinator felt like she had a right to know.

"Go Mi Nam's ex girlfriend!" He held his fingers together in the form of a cross like he was protecting himself from a vampire.

"What? They dated? How did this fly under my radar?"

"They knew each other back in high school. Oh, I've said too much. Go Mi Nam made me swear never to tell anyone."

Meanwhile...

Go Mi Nam had sped up to the little blue car had held the mysterious girl. A.N Entertainment's Janitor? I think not. Her car might have been small but it wasn't a crappy one. Matter of fact it was foreign. Her janitor job salary probably couldn't even afford the down payment…

Mi Nam just had to make sure it wasn't her. He promised himself he would turn back around once he confirmed it. If the girl in the car did happen to be Ye Eun, he didn't even know what he would even do or say to her.

First though, it would take getting beside her. Traffic was relatively busy and he was trying to make it so she didn't notice he was behind her. Of course, Ye Eun didn't notice a thing. She was too busy singing along to the radio.

After driving though the town for about twenty minutes, they reached a less crowded area, where she drove into driveway of a preschool- Sunshine Children Preschool.

"What could she be doing here?" He wondered. Even if it wasn't Ye Eun, the girl behind the mask was no older than him. He hovered by the gates as she pulled into the parking lot, and watched from the motorcycle.

There was woman in uniform, apparently a teacher there, and a little girl who stood outside on the steps in front of the school. The little girl looked rather familiar to him. It's almost like the same face I saw in that dream. It made him feel uneasy.

When the car stopped, the little girl started to jump up and down and shout, "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!"

"Mommy?" His heart started to beat rapidly, desperate now more than ever to find out who the woman in the car was. He continued to observe steadily as she got out- running to the little girl. There was no doubt about it. It was indeed Cho Ye Eun.

"Ye Eun?" He whispered shakily to himself.

"Min Jee!" She hugged the little girl.

Go Mi Nam quickly turned his head away, continuing to sit, shocked to the point he couldn't move. There's no way Ye Eun could have a kid...she's still one herself. How is this possible? But, it makes perfect sense now doesn't it? This is part of the reason she dropped contact with me. She's much happier without me... so much that she even started a family. Did I really make her that miserable? He slammed his fist on motorcycle, exhaling deeply. Don't you dare get upset, Mi Nam.

It was inevitable however. Mi Nam restarted the ignition of the motorcycle, trying not to let tears fall and emotions consume him.

Upon his arrival back home, he spoke to hardly anyone. Then again, everyone had basically left. The only ones still lingering around were Manager Ma and Coordinator, who were helping with the cleaning. It had taken an hour and a half to get home, mostly because of traffic. If anyone had asked he just said something along the lines of what he told his sister.

He quickly excused himself to his room. The thing he needed most was time to himself.

Mi Nyu got to him before he got to his bedroom however. Immediately he read her facial expression and reassured her, "Mi Nyu, don't worry about me. I'm fine. Really."

She knew better. The look on his face said different. Mi Nyu took his hand. "Oppa, please don't be afraid to tell me."

"I'm fine, I promise." He patted her on the head. "Don't you have a date with hyung tonight? You should go get ready." With that being mentioned, he needed to get ready for his date with He Yi. Even though he felt terrible, he still wanted to see her.

She smiled. "Okay. But if something is bothering you, I'll do my best to help."

He kissed her on top of the head. I'm blessed to have a sister so sweet.

After their dinner, Tae Kyung took Mi Nyu to a separate place for desert. Leaving the restaurant, Tae Kyung blindfolded her before taking a short drive down a couple of blocks to the Peach Maid Café.

"Tae Kyung, where are we going?"

"Ssh. Didn't I tell you it's a secret?"

"Oh." She stayed quiet for a minute, feeling on her blindfold. It began to itch. "Hyung-nim, this blindfold getting kind of itchy. Can I take it off?"

"I don't think so." He knew she was trying to sneak out of it. "That blindfold isn't coming off until I say so." She felt the car start to slow. "Speak of the devil, we're here."

Tae Kyung parked his car and got out to open the door for his blindfolded girlfriend.

"Your hand, my princess?" Mi Nyu couldn't hold back a blush as she put her hand in Tae Kyung's. It was true; she looked like a real princess tonight. She wore the dress Tae Kyung had bought for her and even curled her hair. She looked stunning.

"Just follow my lead." He whispered, closing the door behind her.

Go Mi Nyu was so excited she could barely stand it. He took off her blindfold.

"Peach Maid Café? This place, it's really beautiful." The interior of the café was filled with warm tones and dimmed lighting, brown and green being prevalent. It had of a tea garden feel with flowers and trees painted on the walls.

"Welcome patrons." Ye Eun bowed as they entered the cafe. "I am your waitress for the night."

"Ye Eun?" Mi Nyu smiled. "So this is the place you work? Wow!"

"Yes." Ye Eun said, leading Tae Kyung and Mi Nyu to a table that she had specially set out for them. It already had two menus laying in the spots where they were to sit and a bouquet of bright pink roses.

Go Mi Nyu touched the petals of the flowers. The whole scene was so romantic. She bit her lip as Tae Kyung pulled her chair out for her to sit down. Saying that she felt like a princess would be an understatement to her.

"Tell me when you're ready to order."

Mi Nyu grabbed the menu. There weren't a lot of choices yet she was indecisive.

Tae Kyung gave Ye Eun a look.

"Oh!" Ye Eun totally forgot her line. "May I recommend our mocha ice cream sundae? I taste test like everything here. It's really good."

Tae Kyung sighed. Way to go on sounding professional, Ye Eun.

"That sounds great."

Ye Eun scratched this down on her little notepad. "And what would you like, sir? Water?" She inquired, even though she knew what he was going to say. It's always a black coffee.

"No. A coffee, please and hold the cream."

"You're not going to get ice cream?" Mi Nyu asked.

"I'm lactose intolerant."

"Oh." The fact that Mi Nyu didn't know this meant she still had a lot to learn.

"Then, why don't you just take a cheesecake?"Ye Eun offered. "Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot 'lactose intolerant'."

Tae Kyung glanced at her evilly.

"I'll bring you your coffee then." Ye Eun went over to the counter quickly taking out the ice cream and the bowl for Mi Nyu's ice cream. The freezer that kept the ice cream was just below the counter so she bent down to take it out. As she did she heard the door behind her open. "Huh?" She didn't see anyone however.

Then, two little hands tugged on the side of her uniform.

She swiftly looked down. "Min Jee, what are you doing? I told you to stay in the room." Ye Eun had brought her daughter with her because she couldn't find anybody to baby sit her. She thought she had brought plenty of things to keep her daughter busy.

"I want to help, mommy."

Ye Eun looked quickly back over the counter. Of course, Tae Kyung and Mi Nyu were too engrossed in conversation to notice Min Jee.

"You can help mommy if you stay quiet okay?" She put her finger to her lip.

Min Jee copied her.

The serving counter was set up in such a way that corresponded with Min Jee's height, she couldn't be seen. Ye Eun got out a little step ladder and helped her daughter up to the serving counter where she had just taken the ice cream out of the freezer.

She handed a tube of decorative icing to her daughter. "Munchkin, can you draw a face on Mr. Ice Cream man?" Min Jee shook her head, drawing a cute little face on the ice cream.

"Good." Ye Eun whispered. "Now Mr. Ice Cream Man gets a hat!" She said as she put a gigantic marshmallow on top.

Ye Eun helped her daughter down the ladder. "Now, Min Jee listen to me. Mom will be back with you in a minute. I have to finish the order by myself." Min Jee pouted. Ye Eun patted her on the head before seeing Min Jee off.

"Hyung-nim, I didn't know you were lactose intolerant." Now that she thought into it, it made a lot of sense. "I'm sorry."

"I have a lot of allergies. Sometimes I even have a hard time keeping up." This allergy had started more recently. His body just couldn't take in milk very well anymore. "It's not that bad. I just avoid milk and cheese. I can eat most things, just in small doses."

"I should've known. I didn't ask. Just like the first time I made you porridge and I never asked if you had an allergy." Mi Nyu began to feel really bad. "I'm sorry."

"It's true that you should've asked me of all my allergies," He began; making her upset was the last thing he wanted considering how worried she had gotten over her brother today. "But it's fine. You know it now so you can avoid it."

"I can't enjoy my ice cream now. Maybe I should just order something else that we could both eat? What about…" What desert lacks dairy? She tried to think, but she couldn't find one quick enough.

"Just eat your ice cream." It was sweet how much she worried over him. "It's not I like it that much anyway."

"From now on, I'll make sure that the foods I make for you are lactose free!" She had somehow avoided giving him them so far.

"Go Mi Nyu." He caught her attention. "I don't where you came from but I don't know how I lived without you. You know you can't treat this love like any kind of love, right? This is my love and I'm giving it to you. Not just anyone gets this privilege. So I'm only giving you one warning. Be prepared for it."

To the normal person, this might have sounded more like a threat than a love confession but to Mi Nyu it was pure bliss. She smiled, giving him a thumbs up. "I'll be prepared!" Tae Kyung was glad to see her do that again.

Ye Eun came back over with the ice cream in one hand and the coffee in the other. "Your order, sir, ma'am." She sat it down in from of them and bowed. "Please enjoy. If you need anything else don't hesitate to ask." It was Ye Eun's time to give them privacy. She left them quickly to make sure her daughter hadn't broken anything.

Tae Kyung smiled, while he took a sip of his coffee. This should be amusing.

Mi Nyu examined her ice cream. In the small bowl there were three scoops of ice cream, and the top scoop had a little face drawn on it and a little marshmallow hat. "This is so adorable! Ye Eun is great at these things." She began to eat her ice cream.

"Is it good?"

"It's delicious."

Go Mi Nyu took the marshmallow off the top of her ice cream. "Here." She grinned, carefully dropping it into his coffee. "Something sweet for your coffee. Now, even if you can't eat ice cream with me you can have a smidgen of it. Oh wait. Marshmallows aren't made of milk right?" She got scared.

"No."

She returned to eating her ice cream. "That's a relief." She'd feel guilty if she ruined his coffee.

"How it is a relief you just put animal bones in my coffee?" Regardless of his statement he still took a sip.

"Animal bones?" She was surprised yet amused at the thought. "Marshmallows come from dead animals? But they're too soft for bones… and sweet too. Oh, is that why they're white?"

"The process to make them turns them white, silly. Jell-O has animal bones in it too and it's see-through."

"Oh. That's right isn't it? I guess Jeremy was right about them being nutritious after all?" She mused. "I'll have to tell him that later." Mi Nyu then came across something shiny in her ice cream. "Hyung-nim, I think there's something off about this ice cream…"

"Does it not taste good anymore?"

"No, it's just…I struck something hard at the bottom." He watched in fascination as she continued to scoop around the object. Finally, putting her spoon down, she picked at the object. "Aha! But wait…What is this?" She looked curiously at the object, before fishing it out with her finger.

It was gorgeous heart shaped diamond ring. "Oh no!" She gasped. "Someone lost their ring! It must be Ye Eun's! Ye-!" She began call for her. She was so clueless sometimes.

Tae Kyung stopped her. "Go Mi Nyu. That ring is yours."

"Huh?" Then it hit her. She looked at the ring she was holding in her hand. This…this would be…an engagement ring? Mother Superior, I can't believe it. Is this really happening? I'm just dreaming…right?

"I've been thinking about it for a long time now and I've finally decided. We're getting married."

She stared into the ring in her hand, still in utter disbelief. "Se- ser- Seriously?" Mi Nyu stuttered out.

Tae Kyung was silent as he picked up the ring out of her hand and slid it on her finger. "I thought you said you were prepared? You didn't lie to me, did you?"

Go Mi Nyu's heart was pounding furiously in her chest. She teared up, her eyes darting back and forth from the ring on her finger to Tae Kyung.

"You can say 'yes' anytime now."

"Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!" She practically screamed, causing Ye Eun to peak out the door of the back room. "Yes, of course!"

The conversation between Go Mi Nam and his girlfriend had been light while they were eating their meal. Or while He Yi was eating. Mi Nam could barely lift his fork because his nerves were so wrecked. His mood was still bad and the day's previous events still hung in the back his mind.

"Taste this, sweetie." He Yi snapped him out of his thinking. She held a piece of steak in front of him. Mi Nam took a bite, but didn't really taste.

"Isn't it good?" She smiled. "Wasn't I right about the steak here?"

"Yeah." He replied, half-heartedly.

"There's something wrong isn't there? You've been acting weird since your party."

"No, no. It's nothing." He denied. "But, can I ask you something?"

"You can ask me anything." Her words warmed him.

"How-" Come on Mi Nam, you practiced this. You can do this. "How would you feel about getting married? I mean, not right now…but sometime in the future. Just wondering."

"Mi Nam." She cackled snootily. "You aren't serious are you?"

"Why are you laughing?" Mi Nam quickly became agitated. "It wasn't a joke, He Yi. It was a serious question."

"Mi Nam, you are far from husband material. Just the idea makes me giggle." His mouth dropped at his girlfriend's words. "You need to grow up before even thinking about asking me that."

"What makes you think I'm not good enough?" He barked in defense.

"I never said you weren't good enough. The 'you' right now just doesn't meet my standards in a husband. To be honest, you're barely my standard for boyfriend material. But I took you under my wing anyway."

Her words made the box in his jacket pocket feel like a heavy weight. "You've got some nerve to talk that much crap in such a short period of time." He clapped sarcastically. "Actually I think you just broke a world record. Congratulations."

"I've got nerve?" She just laughed again. "Oh you think I have nerve? You haven't seen nerve." She paused, looking Mi Nam straight in the eyes. "Go Mi Nam."

"What?" What could she say now?

"We're breaking up."

"What?" That's when Mi Nam knew- this was not going to be any ordinary fight.

"We haven't hit the bottom of the barrel, sweetie." She sighed; words that were supposed to be sweet were now sickly and sour. "You're immature. At first I thought you were cute. But now I find you rather insufferable."

"You have got to be kidding me." Now he saw Tae Kyung was talking about. Why didn't he listen to the guy when he was blabbing about seeing He Yi's 'true colors'? All Mi Nam could see was her body. "You're not serious He Yi. You love me."She told him too many times for it to be fake…right?

"Loved you? I never loved you." It felt as if a billion daggers shot straight through his heart. "You've got to be the densest guy I've ever met. At best you were nothing but arm candy that was good in bed."

"So what?" He sneered. "We're over now?"

"You think that I've got nerve, Mi Nam? You have no idea. Get out of my sight." She flicked her hand as if she was shooing away a fly. "Go."

Mi Nam got up from the table slowly; he wasn't going to make a scene here. "You'll be the one missing me. Just like the last time." Mi Nam viciously spit at her. They had a fight like this about three months ago; but He Yi kept calling saying she didn't want to breakup. Still, she never had said words quite like this...

He Yi threw venom right back. "On the contrary, you'll be the one missing me."

Go Mi Nam tried his best to resist slapping Yoo He Yi to holy hell and back. "If that's the way you want it, fine." He left quickly trying not to lose any face.

"That bitch." He cursed under her breath, walking away. "Does she know who I am? Girls would line up around the block just for a chance to see me." I can't believe she really broke up with me. Is she mentally insane? Who in the hell breaks up with someone on their birthday?

"Immature and dense arm candy." He reiterated to himself. That's not the worst a woman has called me. But he couldn't even lie to himself about how much it hurt him when He Yi said that she never loved him.

Those words had stung the most. Out of all the girlfriends he'd ever had, not one of them ever said the words "I never loved you." It was always "I don't love you anymore." And Ye Eun, didn't even have to tell him- she just left. That was definite proof.

What was it about him that just made people stop loving him? He was nice, handsome, and popular. Mi Nam was at a complete loss.

As he stumbled out onto the street, his temper lowered. I'm not mad. He tried to calm himself down. If I'm mad, I lose.

Now was not the time he was going to get upset over Ye Eun again. Or He Yi. Or anyone. He didn't even want to think anymore. The sooner it was off his mind the better. Mi Nam fumbled around in his pocket; taking out his phone- maybe I should call Jeremy...He smiled. He entertains me to no end. Wait, did I just smile while thinking about him? Why?

"Oh god. I've really lost it." He shut off his phone completely. It was only nine.

Mi Nam looked around and hopped in the direction of the closest club. "It's my birthday after all- it wouldn't hurt to have some fun."

I don't know when I'll update again:)) Sorry, this chapter was kind of crappy.