I'm sorry to say that due to my lack of inspiration and less motivation, I have decided to discontinue Monkeys before Mafia until further notice. However, I thank those viewers who sent me messages of the matter. For the moment I don't know if it will be continue or not. Thanks for understanding.
For now enjoy this chapter with a bit of mystery.
"Ga Eul, come out already!" one of her best friends cried out desperately while Jan Di was looking through a magazine about medicines. Jae Kyung would move her body back and forth on the couch making noise the commoner couldn't stand. She couldn't concentrate at all on the important topic about a new discovery of a cure, and it got to the point where she couldn't bare any more of the monkey's anxiety that she just yelled at the country bumpkin to hurry up and come out. This made Jae Kyung smile in victory that her friend was joining her but for the wrong idea.
"What's that?" she pointed at the magazine and leaned her head close to it, reading very attentively to the introduction. Shotly after, she sighed and leaned backwards.
"I don't understand every single word from there. Can you translate that for me?" Jae Kyung placed her feet on the table, looking very comfortable and waiting for her friend to do what she said.
"Jae Kyung!" she shouted very angrily and moved to the corner of the couch. "I'm trying to learn something new here, so please, stay quiet" it felt like an order to a monkey, something that she could not tolerate. Immediately, she got up and walked towards Jan Di and took her magazine away from her hands.
"If you aren't going to share this information with me, then you won't have it" she stuck her tongue out. Jan Di stood up and, having that look in her eyes that appeared as if she was about to murder someone, she was moving her hands before a woman announced that Ga Eul was ready. Jae Kyung smiled excitedly while Jan Di took her magazine with her and stepped away from her friend.
Suddenly, a big red curtain began to move to the side swiftly, revealing the girl who was in there all this time. Ga Eul was standing on top of a small platform with an unbelievable white wedding gown and a long veil. Astounded and in awe and surprise, her friends were just too shocked by how beautiful the commoner looked, to make a reaction or response of any kind. Jan Di, without realizing, dropped the magazine to the floor and walked towards her excitedly. The monkey did the same and started to jump very happily, clapping her hands for such wonderful election of the wedding gown.
"You look..." Jan Di was trying to find the correct word to express how Ga Eul looked while her eyes were shining of happiness. "Magnificent" she held her tears back. There was no way to describe the wave of emotions she was feeling at that moment when she recalled her numerous memorie of her childhood spent with Ga Eul. Never did she imagine that they would be all grown up and about to marry the ones they truly love. Everything went better than they expected.
"Wait until So Yi Jeong sees you" Jae Kyung nudged her slightly in the arm with a smile, moving her eyebrows up and down. Ga Eul blushed and this made the monkey laugh from how cute her friend looked when she looked embarrassed.
"I might take this one" the country bumpkin wasn't so sure about it. There were tons of other wedding gowns that she wanted to try just in case she liked others more. A little sigh came out of her mouth as she inspected herself on the mirror while her friends stood quiet, still admiring the gown.
A smile formed on her lips when she started to remember how Yi Jeong asked her to get married soon. At that moment she felt like time stopped and everything around them disappeared, the only thing she could see was Yi Jeong kneeling down in front of her asking the most important question a woman could hear. Each second seemed to go slower from how shocked she was yet faster at the same time because she knew he was waiting an answer. Tears rolled down her cheeks at the inevitable feeling of happiness. Yi Jeong was only looking at her with a loveable smirk, hoping that she would say yes already. Then, she nodded pretty fast and answered, almost like a murmur, yes. In the end, he stood up immediately and went close to her face and hugged her while their noses were touching. A passionate kiss couldn't be forgotten as both were greatly excited for the biggest decision in their life.
"Excuse me" a voice interrupted Ga Eul's thought. It wasn't any of her friends neither one of the employees from there, but the voice sound so familiar to her ears she had to turn to look who it was in the store.
"How may I assist you?" said one of the woman from the store.
"I would like to find the perfect dress for my wedding" Ga Eul's eyes were full of shock after seeing who the woman was standing right in front of the entrance.
"Eun Jae" she called surprise and the female potter turned her attention to the one standing in the center with a wedding gown.
"Ga Eul-" pressing her purse tightly, she felt a sudden urge to leave. The stares of her friends were uninviting and this made her feel uncomfortable. "What-what are you-?" she stopped herself from asking something that was obvious.
She was alone, no company at all. At that instant the country bumpkin couldn't feel sadder to see her there all by herself. There was no doubt the female potter was there for the same reason as her. Not only was it surprising to the potter but also to Ga Eul as well.
"I didn't know So Yi Jeong..." another pause... while looking at the beautiful wedding gown Ga Eul was wearing. It hurt her, a lot. Not for the same reasons of the past but how they never spoke a word to her. Eun Jae thought they were still friends even when time had separated them, that she was still part of their circle and even more now for the fact that she was So Yi Jeong's brother's girlfriend, or should she say, fiancée.
"I didn't know Il Hyun proposed to you either" Ga Eul said, knowing that Eun Jae was feeling hurt. They were even.
"I'm sorry. I should go somewhere else.." she made her mind to go some other store so as to not bother the girls or have awkward moments here with them. Bowing to leave, someone reached for her hand and she stopped right at the front of the entrance.
"It will be better if you stay. We can help each other on what to choose" she slowly turned around and glanced at her warm smirk. It was indeed a friendly one. Her heart reduced from pounding hard and felt relieved for the invitation. Jae Kyung and Jan Di didn't seem very content at first, but after seeing how her friend could easily forgive and forget what ever happened in the past, they changed their attitude towards Eun Jae to a more amicable one.
"So when did Il Hyun asked you to be his wife?" the monkey slightly nudged her on the arm with an eager interest to know how it went. Eun Jae sat down with Jan Di on one side and Jae Kyung on the other. Ga Eul observed her from the platform while the employees were doing some minor checks to the dress.
"We-" she blushed from the beautiful memory "He invited me to have a coffee late at midnight. I asked myself why he wanted to meet so late but didn't think much of it." at that moment someone told Ga Eul she could take off the wedding gown now and the curtains began to close. Eun Jae stopped but the country bumpkin told her to continue while she was changing.
"So I go to his coffee shop and no one was there, it was all dark. I go in and see all these candles that guided me to one corner of the shop. There was a table covered with few rose petals and two cups of coffee" the four of them giggled and impatiently asked her to continue.
"I didn't know what to do, if to sit or turn on the lights. But then, I felt someone's hands touch my shoulder and I knew it was him" she smiled to herself when remembering how his touch felt.
"If it were me, I would have kicked and punched him out of fear" Jae Kyung commented and Jan Di glanced at her very annoyingly for interrupting such an important story.
"Jae Kyung, let her finish!" complained the country bumpkin behind the curtains. Crossing her arms and pursing her lips like a kid about to have a tantrum, the monkey stood quiet.
"As I was saying, he placed his hands on top of my shoulders and slowly whispered at my ear that he's glad that I came and that we should sit. We did and he started to drink his coffee peacefully, like nothing had happened. I did the same but couldn't stop thinking about why he brought me there and in those circumstances. Then, when he finally sipped the last of his coffee, he looked at me and smiled, grabbed both of my hands and explained to me why he brought me there. After that, I knew what was coming as he pulled out from his pocket this little royal blue box" Jan Di began to squeak a little for how fascinating it seemed. Jae Kyung's face seemed a little disappointed by the time Eun Jae was finishing the story.
"He knelt in front of me and asked me if I wanted to be his wife" claps were heard from the two commoners but the monkey remained silent for a second, then she exploded.
"That's all?" asked with a bit of frustration while standing up from the couch. The female potter nodded slowly not knowing why Jae Kyung reacted a bit angrily.
"I don't consider that a big proposal" she crossed her arms again and closed her eyes in disapproval.
"Eun Jae" Jan Di called her name with a nervous laughter, trying to fix what Jae Kyung said. "Remember, this monkey-" the commoner gave her a dirty glare and her friend got offended by how she called was no doubt Jan Di was becoming like the F4. "This monkey isn't used to small things, so that's why she thinks this way" Eun Jae understood and didn't have any intention to get mad at Jae Kyung for this.
Now, while they were having conversations, Ga Eul remained silent in the back of the curtains, something was somehow wrong by the look in her eyes. The memory of So Yi Jeong's proposal swiftly got mixed and compared to Il Hyun's; both had proposed where they worked at. Was this a coincidence? They were brothers after all, so there was good chance they thought the same. It sure made her feel a little weird, there was a lot of ways to ask for marriage and yet they did it in the same way. A smile slowly crept up from her lips as she realized how similar they could be even when Yi Jeong doesn't want to admit it.
After finishing, it was Eun Jae's turn to choose and the girls waited patiently for her to dress with the first one she liked. However, Ga Eul went to look at other wedding gowns while Eun Jae was getting ready. There was not so many people in the store and she wondered why for a second before remembering they were all one of a kind from a famous designer. She hated this, to come and waste a lot of money on something she was going to wear for one day, but So Yi Jeong kept insisting about how it was important to buy one really unique like her. At the end, there was no choice but to accept and just go with it. When her parents knew about it, they were extremely shocked by the surprise that his father end up fainting and her mom jumped really excited, ignoring that her husband was on the floor about to have a heart attack. That was until Ga Eul brought her the news that the Casanova wanted her to buy a new wedding gown and that she wasn't going to be able to use her mother's money as she promised her. There was a lot of disappointment on her face but that didn't stop her from being happy to see her only daughter getting married.
Suddenly, something cut her thoughts short as she saw how the employees weren't with Eun Jae anymore but standing in pedestal. "Is she coming out now?" Ga El asked curious to both woman.
"She says she doesn't need help. We insisted but she denied absolutely any help" it was odd to hear this since no woman could put such dress without a help. Then, the country bumpkin decided it was best to go near the curtain and ask her if everything was fine, but suddenly...
It all happened in slow motion for her. Everything around her became so silent as the only sound that enter through her ears was the one of thousands of crystals breaking against the floor. Only little pieces flew close to her as she fell to the floor for how shocked she was. Even the voices of her friends were blocked from her hearing as they were approaching to her to see if she was fine.
Both woman stood still in the same place with her mouth opened very surprised. The big crystal chandelier unexplainably fell, almost killing the country bumpkin inches from the spot.
"What happened?" all of the sudden Eun Jae screamed from inside but it didn't take long she opened the curtain and ran to Ga Eul's side to see if she was alright. The ambulance was called immediately and in amatter of minutes they came to check the country bumpkin. It didn't take long for the potter to come.
"Ga Eul!" shouted Yi Jeong while running towards her. "Are you okay?" without paying any attention to the paramedics, he checked her face while pressing her cheeks. She was sitting on the couch while they were putting band-aids to disinfected areas of her arms and legs.
After that, he stood up again and walked towards the one in charge of the place. "You better call your lawyers because I'm going to file charges against this place" he pointed at the man who didn't know how torespond back.
"Hold on there" someone said and they all turn to look at a man with a cream trench coat and a black hat inspecting the chandelier. His face was hidden in his mysterious clothes, but everyone understood he was just a detective inspecting the place. "This doesn't seem like it broke by itself" he pulled the end of the chain and pointed at it.
"It only has a screw of iron in one of the holes, but the other has disappeared. It is clear that the chandelier cannot hold itself with just one screw. As we know, iron rusts with time, but this chandelier is brand new - it is impossible to break. So the screw that is missing could not have possibly hold it" the man held a serious gaze while everyone remained silent trying to understand everything he just said.
"Then what you mean is-" Yi Jeong was quickly interjected by the detective.
"Someone must have taken out the other screw" everyone was in shock hearing this. The Casanova was having a hard time to gulp this down.
"But who could have possibly do this, why and how?" Yi Jeong was getting desperate to know the answers, to know if there was a culprit around there.
"It is only clear for me that the intention was to hurt someone, badly" with that being said, the man went to look around the place for any clue that could be of use.
"Why someone would want to hurt Ga Eul?" Jan Di asked very worried but no one could give her a proper response back.
Days ago...
Opening the envelope, she hoped for something that could change her way to make Ga Eul appear as a gold-digger. The only thing that she wanted for his son was to find someone who could make him happy but from a high society. The girl seemed nice to her eyes but that didn't stop her from doubting her identity.
Taking a stack of papers with information about the country bumpkin, she took a seat and begin to read everything. There was nothing interesting about her life or what she has done. Ga Eul was just living a life of a kindergarten teacher with no other aspiration. She sighed before reading the next paper. It was about her high school years and the reason why she was accepted to Shinhwa school. It was unbelievable to her how such a commoner could enter the most famous private school in Korea for just saving a kid who was about to commit suicide. The heroic act impressed her, but her acceptance to a school where she didn't belong made her feel disgusted.
At one point she didn't even want to read any more. Mother So was almost convinced she is nothing else than a gold-digger looking for a comfortable life beside her son.
One last paper remained on top of the table and she decided to read it
even when nothing was going to change her mind. It was family information. Her eyes were skimming quickly to finish reading, but something stopped her. Even though she carelessly passed some words without reading, there was something she couldn't miss at all. Eyes grew wide surprise and her hands began to shake uncontrollably.
"No, no...it can't be possible" after that she threw the papers to the side and screamed in frustration. Tears begin to roll down her eyes as she try to calm herself down.
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