Min waited patiently behind the door and it made my choice easier, if he kept on bugging me to come outside, then he would have brought the big but he let me come out on my own. I unlocked the wardrobe and put my head out of the door. I found Min sitting on the bed and staring at me. Was he amused by my justified reach of bugs? I stepped out of the wardrobe when the coast was clear and looked at him. "What did you want to show me? I asked him. He brought his hand from behind him and I was tempted to run back into the wardrobe but I was trusting him. he brought out a bouquet of daisies and handed them to me. "Sorry for being so annoying earlier, I should have just explained it without yelling at you and pouring all my information on you," he apologized. I sniffed the daisies and hugged him. "Thank you for the flowers and the apology, it means a lot and I know I can be a lo sometimes but this is my first interaction with others. i grew up with my thoughts stuck in my throat, so i
I should have trusted my instincts and not do what Min asked me to do but I wanted to prove that I was teachable. I pushed my body forward and nose dived into the pool. I felt strong hands pull me to the surface."Are you okay?" Min asked."Do I look okay?" I asked him. I pulled my hand from his and found my way out of the pool. "Maybe sharks are really dangerous and there's no need to swim with them," I said as I walked out of the pool to our apartment. I didn't stop walking until I was in the apartment, in the bathroom and brushing my tongue. I knew a swallowed a lot of swimming water. What's worse is the amount og things that could be in the water. The possible pee, the chemicals, the sweat. Everything was in my stomach. The thoughts of it made me gaga but that was all I did, gag, there was no vomit.I stopped washing my tongue after a while and went to take a quick shower, washed my hair and left the bathroom. Swim lessons were ov
It had been a week since I made dinner for Min and since then, he has been trying to impress me. He bought me the cutest flowers, carried me home after our run and helped when i told him I wanted to try new dishes."Let's play dress up," Min suggested."Why will we want to do that?" I asked him."Can you just agree, it's something in my bucket list," he replied."I have a feeling you are lying. You made fun of my bucket list and suddenly you have yours. How is that possible?""In this world, we'll get ready in different room and rate each other's outfit," Min said. he went into the wardrobe, grabbed his attire and left the room. I barely got a glimpse of his clothe but I knew there was milk and black. There were basic colours and I could work with them. I walked into my wardrobe and picked my outfit.I settled on a spaghetti strap dress. The dress stopped above my knee and was l
The next morning, I woke up and felt really sore and tired. I turned to pick up my phone but it wasn't there. I checked the time and realized it was 10 AM, it wasn't so bad. I tried to get out of bed but it was quite painful. I laid there for wo minutes and remembered the previous. After the first time, it became a lot less painful, it was fun. I smiled and remembered when Min took me to the bath and we just soaked in there before we came back into the room.He changed the sheets, took the stained sheets to the laundry and came back. He grabbed ine of his hoodie and made me wear it, it was comfortable and it smelled like him, I got to be in his clothes and also got to sleep with his hands wrapped around me.I knew I had broken a clause in the contract but we both agreed to it and I already him the full price for accepting the contract and he didn't leave, he chose to stay with me. I softly called out to Mi n but got no reply.I
The rush of cold night air made me realize how cold it was but I had to put a face to the voice and make sure my subconsciousness was wrong but she was right.When Min heard his voice, he turned to look at me and was surprised and shocked."She's the wife? Have I lost everything?" The girl asked not bothered that I knew their secret. She walked away angrily, leaving Min to face me."Mei what are you doing here?" he asked."I could ask you the same but I am not," i replied."It's not what you think," he said."The famous line, everyone uses that line when they get caught," i tell him. "I also heard your little conversation in the restaurant," I informed him."How much of the conversation did you hear?" he asked."Enough to connect the lines and know that the friend you told me about was you. You weren't even trying to be discreet, it
I slowly open my eyes, blinking softly as I tried to adjust my eyes to harsh overhead light. I looked around and discovered I was in the hospital and someone was sleeping in a chair beside me. I tried to remember how I got to the hospital because the last thing I remember was getting drinks with Soo-Jin. She was the one sleeping in the chair beside my bed, i needed to ask her how I got here. I called out to her but my voice was sore and barely audible. I tried to sit up and that was when I realized I was hooked up to various tubes and monitors. Panic creeps in as I start to wonder what happened to me. The monitor catches on to my panic and started beeping loudly. The sound woke up Soo-Joo who looked confused but in seeing me went to call for help. A nurse rushed into the room and assured me that everything was alright and I was receiving treatment, I calmed down a little but I had a lot of questions. One was how I got here and what I was doing here. I hope it wasn't the cancer sympt
Since my arrival, Min has dropped subtle thing around the hiuse that made my life easier. He'll bing new flowers everytime the old one die, turn of my monitor any time I forgot to do tht, close the blinds so the sun doesn't affect my sleep, put my fully chsrged phone by my bedside. Lemon in water covered with lids, replacing the toothpaste when it finished and notes stating specfically where he went. Turns out he works at Bar and Din, he was only called in when there was a food emergency, other than that, he worked three days in a week. I pretended to not care but slowly it was getting to me. I went o the fridge for breakfast and there was a note in the fridge, it was attached to a food container. I read the note and brought out the food. It was chicken soup and there was a lot of chicken chunk in the soup, it looked yummy. he must have noticed my unwillingness to eat solid foods. I wanted to make you breakfast, please do not refuse, it's yummy and it has chicken in it. I reheate
I listened to his apology but said nothing. I lay there in silence and listened while I watched the stars and when he finished, I turned to him, offered him a small smile, and continued to watch the stars, he said nothing but watched me, I could feel his eyes but I didn't turn to look at him. Everything was going to be okay, I just knew it, I had a little confession of my own to make but it wasn't time yet, I placed my hand on my stomach and smiled. We stayed there in silence and onl got up to leave when the clouds moved the stars away from our view, it wasn't morning yet but it was well into midnight. Min helped me up, folded the blanket, and took the pillows. Sleeping Mr. Jiang was something I never thought about or ever saw but there he was asleep. He must have felt our presence because he was awake now and smiling at us, it was left to me, I would have let him sleep some more, he was too old for the stress Min and I were putting him through. Min put the blanket and everything i
It has been a year since Mei died and I was starting to get used to her not being around. Although today that I remembered that she would have been alive with the bay and I, it hurts. Our daughter is a year old and she looks so much like Mei. Her hair is really long, it already reached mid back. She’s shy and lives the rose bushes. It seems like she’s a reincarnation of her mother. She plays around at her house. She also loves the rose vase where Mei’s things are being held. They gave me the rings and the locket and buried her like that. I have my daughter the locket but the rings were stored in the rose. I would make sure to keep it somewhere safe and away from Mei. It’s too precious to get lost. “Mei,” I called out to her. She ran down the stairs, stood in front of me and smiled. She was still wobbly and I always warned her not run down the stairs. She started walking three months ago and now she thinks running down the stairs is such an easy task. “Mei, I keep telling you to
Maybe I should have told her to save her breath, I shouldn’t have let her tell me everything, but did I let her explain all her feelings? I know how she felt about me, she didn’t need to narrate our love story to me. She didn't need to tell me everything, but I sat down and listened for hours while she said everything. I felt like the worst person on earth as I watched her lay on the bed breathless and lifeless. She used to have so much life, so much joy, she was always so beautiful. I had the best thing ever but like everything else she was taken away from me. I tapped the call button immediately she closed her eyes but there was nothing they could do. I watched the doctors run around me and I just drifted from the space and went back into the time when it was just me and her. The first day I met her when she asked me to marry her. I was surprised by her confidence and it scared me. I loved how persistent she was and kept chasing me until I was signed to a contract that brought me
The next morning, I woke up with the same pain that was now familiar but it hurt more. it felt harder to talk, to come up to words, my head was banging and I wanted it all to end, the pain, me. it was too much to handle. My radiotherapy was set for four and my drugs weren't helping to make me feel better. My head still hurt after taking two dosages of the pills. I stopped not wanting to overdose, although I already did. I was up before Mom, Dad, and Min and I couldn't sleep back although it was four am. I got out of bed and tried to come down from the bed. I lost my balance and before I fell, Min caught me. I smiled at him and fainted. When I woke up it was already afternoon and my radiotherapy session had been moved to the next day. I groaned when I found out. Can I get over the whole process already? It was starting to annoy me."Are you alright?" Min asked and I nodded. "My head hurts a little, it must have caused me to lose my balance," I explained to Min and he nodded. He touch
I woke up and realized I was in the hospital. How did I end up here? The last thing I remembered, was hugging everyone goodbye, and Min and I were ready to go to bed. in smiled at me as I turned to look at him. He looked really stressed and tired. He looked like he hadn't slept in a long time. I touched the eye bags and frowned. He took my hand and kissed it. I looked and saw that I was connected to an IV drip. I never understood why we couldn't just drink all the contents but its name says it all; drip, there's only ever a drop every second, and it's so freaking slow. "What happened?" I asked Min. "you fainted and I rushed you here," he explained. I heard shuffling in the background and noticed my parents were also in the room. Everyone looked stressed like they hadn't slept all through the night. "I called your parents when I got here," Min informed me. "You didn't have to call them, I'll be fine," I tell him and try to clear my throat, the pain made it hard to talk but not as ha
We returned to the condo the next day and decided we would move on Wednesday. Min had to be at the restaurant every day but he could take a break from Wednesday to Friday. The weekends were expected to be packed because the first day was a huge success and the men returned at six P.m. He had called me at least ten times today and each time he spent at least ten minutes talking to me. I kept asking if he didn't need to focus, and he said he had to and he was focusing on me. He was so cute and romantic and knew all the right words to say. He had come earlier to have dinner with me and had left the meal in the hands of his trusted chefs and the waiters that started working today. "Hey," I said when he walked in. “Hey baby, I missed you. Are you sure you don't want to come to the restaurant with me?" he asked me."What do you want me to do at the restaurant? I am not very cooking and I can't be a waiter, my baby wouldn't let me move around with that much ease," I told him. "Mei junior
My parents left our apartment at ten p.m and I should have gone to bed but I wasn't sleepy and neither was Min. i decided it was best to open my gifts and decided to ask Min for help."Can you help me unbox my present?" Min shook his head refusing to help me. "But it's so stressful and I need your help," I whined and he looked at me. "Come on Min," I pleaded."Fine, but I won't unwrap the gifts with you, I'll just watch you and bring anything you need," he negotiated and I agreed to it. Min pulled the bean he had bought for me. We unwrapped all the gifts and they were so cute. They had bought me little baby things, most of the essentials I would be needing. There were napkins, blankets, a baby carrier and some few things.“See we don’t have to buy that many baby things,” I said to Min and he laughed.I picked up the last gifts which were my parents gift. It was paper and it was put in a brown envelope, there was no fancy design, just straight to the point. I opened the envelop and saw
It seemed like my presence changed the atmosphere in the room because everyone turned in my direction and they looked surprised to see me there. I definitely wasn't dressed like them and I was a very pregnant woman. "Good afternoon," I greeted with a very wide grin."Who are you?" Someone asked. "The restaurant doesn't open until four," Someone else said. "Who left the front door open?"Another one asked. "You did, you were the last person outside," another said. "Oh," the door person asked. "Miss would you like to wait till the restaurant opens or are you going to return by four?" the curious one asked. "Oh! I am here for Min," I said feeling shy. "The owner?" The curious asked. "Yeah, he's my husband," I announced. I barely got to ask for him. again when I saw MIn walking in with his chef outfit. He looked so cute. Sorry handsome and all those masculine features. He looked at me shocked to see me here. "Hey," I said shyly. "Babe? What are you doing here?" he asked me. "I
After my little announcement, everyone made a toast to Min and to the opening of his restaurant. He pulled me into him and drank from his glass. I smiled at him and he kissed my forehead. "You know Min steals all your brain cells with those forehead kisses right?" June asked and everybody laughed. "I actually feel smarter and more loved every time he kisses my forehead. are you sure he isn't just pouring his brain cells and love in my head?" I asked. "That's they get them all," June said. I loved June and how she made everywhere funnier when she had had a sip of her daily dose of coffee. She was standing in between my mom and dad and smiling at them. I could tell Dad was uncomfortable but he deserved the little torture for everything he has done to Min and I. Min might have let it slide by inviting Dad to my birthday but I'll need more than him coming here for me to forgive everything he's done. "Thank you all for the toasts and celebrating the restaurant but today's about m
I remember telling Min my birthday date on his birthday, he had purposely not told me about his birthday, but I wanted him to know mine for it to be fair. I also barely got the chance to prepare or buy him a gift but I wasn't letting him do that to me, also Min makes the best surprises and they always blow my mind. He needed time for it to be more effective. I am also glad, I listened to my thoughts and told him earlier. He has been so busy, I doubt he has the time to do anything special for my birthday. If I hadn’t gotten the information from Cheng, I probably wouldn’t know Min’s birthday and that is wrong. I was going to give him the chance to feel this way so I told him about my birthday. I woke up feeling pumped about my birthday. I also spent all night praying that my hormones acted right. The last dinner on the roof was amazing but I ended up balling my eyes out for absolutely no reason. I had the best time after crying, but I wished I didn't have to cry. We watched a movie, a