"Hyun Ae had contacted you?" Henry asked Yoon Hee, as he buttoned his shirt's cuff neatly while making his way toward the counter.

"Well, the last thing she texted me a few days ago was that she had finished with the documents and will take a day or two off, and to not worry about her. Then that's it. She never texted me back, but referring to what she had told me, she's supposed to be in today," Yoon Hee explained, folding the clean cloth in her hand before wiping the countertop clean, getting the café ready before starting the business.

"How could we not worry about her after that night? Plus, today is the presentation day," he sighed, shaking his head when the door opened with a ringing sound, getting his attention. "Oh, Jungkook ah. Namjoon-ssi."

"Henry hyung, is Hyun noona in?" Jungkook asked with a  worried look that was clear on his face. "I've been texting her but there are no replies."

"No, she's not here. It has been two days now that she hadn't come in," Henry said with a sigh.

"What?" Jungkook muttered, before immediately turning back towards the door, but Henry grabbed his arm, stopping him from leaving.

"Hey, where are you going?"

"To her house, where else?"

"No need to. She said she was fine. The last time Yoon Hee got her text, she said that she might be in today."

"Really? I'm going anyway," Jungkook affirmingly said, and Henry's grip on his arm loosened.

"If you guys are going..." Henry paused a moment and walked towards a table on his right side and grabbed a paper bag, and then passed it to Namjoon. "Bring this to her, and tell her not to be late. It's an important day."

***

"Hyung, why don't you get in first? I'll turn this car around so it won't be hard for me later," Jungkook told Namjoon as they arrived outside Hyun Ae's place.

After he climbed off the vehicle, Namjoon pressed on the doorbell, but there were no responses, so he turned the doorknob, only to find out that it was broken.

He speechlessly stared at the loose doorknob and then shrugged.

"Nah. Not my fault... I think?" With that, he walked towards the house and pressed the doorbell.

A few minutes later, the door suddenly opened. But instead of a familiar girl, a guy appeared from behind the door.

Namjoon was startled as he stood there, froze on the spot.

That guy was as tall as Namjoon himself, wearing a blue shirt and loose beige pants, with styled hair that made him look like an idol. At least, to Namjoon's eyes.

"Um... hi. I'm looking for... Hyun Ae?" Namjoon finally spoke after clearing his throat, despite being nervous for no reason.

"Ah. Who are you?" the guy asked with a cocked eyebrow, crossing his arms over his obviously built-up chest.

"Huh? I'm Kim Namjoon, her friend."

"Really?" the guy asked, his eyes squinted at the word 'friend'.

Namjoon shook his head and then sighed. "May I know who you are?"

The guy chuckled, then stood up straight as he held out his hand to Namjoon and smirked. "Just call me Wook. I'm Hyun Ae's long-distance fiancé."

"What?" Namjoon mumbled, his eyes widened and somehow he felt his body shake for a moment there. Hoping that he was dreaming.

"You heard me clearly. I am her fiancé. Now, if you could just turn around and leave-"

Suddenly the sound of something hitting the back of the guy's head, made him shriek in pain.

"YA!" he shouted as he turned around with his hand behind his head. Both Namjoon and he looked down at the floor, only to find the left pair of Koya's slippers.

"Don't you 'ya' at me, you fool!" Hyun Ae suddenly shouted from the second floor, and she smiled once she changed her attention to Namjoon. "Hi, Namjoon oppa."

"'Oppa'?" the guy scoffed, then picked up the slipper and put it up high above his head, with a smirk.

A cheeky smirk.

"What are you going to do to my Koya?!" Hyun Ae questioned, her finger pointing to him in a raging manner.

"Oh, like you don't know me."

"Hyun Wook, give it back! Don't you dare!" Hyun Ae shouted as she began to make a run down the stairs.

Speechless, Namjoon stepped aside as the guy ran passed him and out of the house with the slipper in his hand.

He ran towards the pool when suddenly Jungkook appeared and stopped at his track.

"Oh, hi Kookie! It has been a long time!" the guy waved at the surprised maknae with the Koya slipper.

"Oh? Hyun Wook," Jungkook called out.

"But first..."

The guy turned to the pool back when suddenly Hyun Ae ran after him and began to circle the pool, trying to catch the cheeky prankster.

"Give it back to me," she said while running after the guy with her hands reached out to him.

"Well, earlier it seems like you never care about this. You seemed to throw it at me with happiness," the guy sniggered as he stopped running and Hyun Ae was trying hard to grab the slipper back high above his head.

"What are you talking about? Just give it back to me!!!" she whined, standing on her toes as she kept on trying to pull his sturdy arms down to get her slipper back.

"You know him?" Namjoon asked Jungkook as he reached the youngest in curiosity.

"Him?" Jungkook chuckled, pointing his finger at the familiar guy. "That's Hyun Wook. Her little brother."

"Little brother?"

"Yeah. Same age as mine. Always pulling pranks on his big sister. But trust me, inside that big built-up body, he's quite overprotective of his one and only sister. He's really, REALLY overprotective of her. So you better be careful, hyung."

"Why are you saying that?" Namjoon wondered, his brows furrowed, but Jungkook only gave his hyung a knowing smirk.

"Hmph, just saying," the maknae snickered, as both of them walked towards the pool, approaching the siblings who were still bickering over a slipper.

On the other side, Hyun Ae made a little hop on her brother and finally got a hold of her slipper. And unexpectedly had lost her balance.

"Oh, noona!" the guy called out, trying to grab her hand, but it was too late.

She fell into the pool. With her slipper.

"Hyunnie noona, I'm so sorry!" Hyun Wook quickly apologized.

Hyun Ae carefully got her balance on the pool floor, gasping for air after she pushed herself up above the surface. With annoyance, she slammed her fist onto the surface, and the water splashed everywhere, also hitting her brother's face.

"Pull me up, you fool! I got an important meeting today!" she huffed, extending her arms to her brother. He grabbed it, and slowly hoisted her up before he noticed something as she got out of the pool.

"N-Noona. Your shirt..."

"What?" Hyun Ae mumbled, then look down at herself. And she had just realized it too. "Oh god."

"Turn around, both of you!" her brother quickly shouted, as he heard both Jungkook and Namjoon walking towards him. He stood in front of Hyun Ae to block their view from her.

"Why did you wear this white shirt?!" he asked in a whisper tone, pulling off his blue shirt and putting it over her head, making her wear it over her wet, see-through shirt.

"I was preparing for work. I was about to wear this today!" Hyun Ae sighed after straightening the blue shirt.

"You're not wearing that to work. What if perverts have their eyes on you?"

"Oh, shut up. It's not see-through if it's not wet," Hyun Ae chortled, then pushed her brother to the side as she walked passed by him toward Namjoon and Jungkook, who still had their backs on her.

"Um... Namjoon oppa?" she called out, tapping his shoulder and he turned around. He was a bit startled when he saw her brother go shirtless, exposing his well-built body as Jungkook had mentioned earlier.

And then shifted his gaze to her, who was now in a blue shirt, immediately grasping the situation earlier.

"This is my little brother, Hyun Wook. He's a fool so please ignore everything he had told you."

"Oh, I'm a fool now? Give me back my shirt-"

"Nope," Hyun Ae refused, as she yanked away from his arm with her soaked slipper, turning back to her friends. "Um, why don't both of you get inside first? Bring them in, Hyun Wook."

"Oh Hyun noona. Henry hyung told us to bring this for you," Jungkook interrupted, handing out the paper bag that Henry had passed to them.

Hyun Ae took it, and peeked into it, immediately smiling.

"Woah, freshly-made madeleines! Bring it in! I'll go around through the back door there, since um... I'm wet, obviously," she laughed, then passed the bag to Hyun Wook. "You put them in a bowl."

"Uh. Fine," Hyun Wook sighed, annoyed as he grabbed it. All of them began to walk back towards the house except for Hyun Ae who had to walk to the back door behind the house.

"When did you come here?" Jungkook asked, as Hyun Wook grabbed a big bowl and transferred the madeleines into it before he grabbed the coffee pot and poured the coffee into three mugs, that he had placed earlier on the counter.

"Um... Three days ago. I arrived from Malaysia around 4 or 5 pm. I didn't even tell Hyunnie noona that I was coming," Hyun Wook answered as he put one of the treats into his mouth.

"I seriously regretted that. She was armed with dad's air gun! I had to move like an officer by pinning her down flat on the floor!"

"Well, you were looking for trouble. You sounded like you sneaked into this house."

"Yup. And, the very next day after my arrival, we left for Busan in the early morning. You know, checking our family house there. Usually, my mom would come to Busan two to three times every month to check the house, and since she didn't for this month, so we went for a day."

"That explained why we didn't see her at the shop. Wow. It must be nice to come back home, right?" Jungkook said, taking a sip of his coffee.

"Ah, and we met your mom. She said she misses you so much. Your whole family misses you."

"Well, I'll try to come home when there's free time," Jungkook smiled, staring at his coffee in silence.

Before he realized that Hyun Wook was transferring back the madeleines into the paper bag, and putting it away somewhere else. In other words, 'hiding' it.

"What are you doing?" Namjoon asked, as he looked back at the bowl and there were only two to three madeleines.

As Hyun Wook let out cheeky laughter, Jungkook sighed. "You'll never know when to stop pulling pranks on your sister, right?"

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