This Wasn't His Min-jung
Ji-Tae looked at her incredulously. She possibly couldn't be serious right now, "Break your and Nana's hearts? What the hell is that supposed to mean?" He asked, turning to face her while trying all he could not to scream down the office roof.
When he wanted Min Jung, he let her say and get away with whatever, making her delusional.
While Min-Jung tried to calm herself down, She knew she had much more to lose than anyone else. She could end up losing Ji-Tae and her friendship with Nana. She couldn't afford to lose both. She had to play on the safe side until she figured out precisely what Ji-Tae was up to.
"Darling..." She purred as she moved closer, but he raised a hand, keeping her off.
"Baby, why are you so mean to me suddenly? I'm carrying your baby remember?" She asked with a sad face, trying to guilt-trip him.
"About that, I'm not sure it's a good time to have a baby," He said, turning his back on her.
She gave his back a mean look, and he began to annoy her. What the fuck did he mean by 'it's not a good timeʼ? She asked herself, eyeing him angrily.
She had to calm down, and she needed to calm down, she reminded herself. "What do you mean by now is not a good time?" She asked in a very calm voice.
Ji-Tae didn't look at her, he could hear the quiet anger in her voice, but with the rate at which everything was going, he couldn't care less. He just needed to transfer his aggression at the moment.
He turned abruptly and caught her eyes shooting daggers at him. Ok, maybe he had gone too far. Perhaps he needed to change his tactics. He didn't want an angry woman in his hands at this moment, and he still remembered the saying, "Hell hath no fury as a woman's scorn."
"Baby, I'm sorry I am being too harsh on you. I'm just facing a lot of pressure from work and home," He said, trying to draw her close.
Min-Jung closed her eyes as he held her. She could tell he was pretending. She knew men well enough to know when one was pretending to like her. She also knew he didn't want the kid. That wasn't a problem, and she knew just what she would do.
She leaned into the hug and pecked him on his cheeks. "So sorry, baby. Please stop stressing yourself so much," She said with a smile that didn't quite reach her eyes. Two can play the game after all... She said to herself.
Ji-Tae needed to figure out a way to solve all his problems. He just had to get her to get rid of the pregnancy, or he would do it himself.
He led her to one of the seats in his office and sat her down gently, "Baby, I love you. But now isn't the right time to have a child or get married. Besides, what do you think everyone would think when they find out you got pregnant outside wedlock?" He asked, trying to sound reasonable.
"Besides, my mother is old fashioned... she will think you're cheap, and that would make her reinforce her belief that you're not right for me. So why don't you get rid of this pregnancy while we work towards our plans?" He asked with a careful smile, not wanting to seem too eager.
"Shouldn't she be excited about having a grandchild?" Min-Jung asked innocently.
"No, no, she's not that type of person. Baby, please, let's get rid of this pregnancy," He said suddenly, sounding more desperate than he had intended to. If he could get her to abort the pregnancy, there'd be no evidence on her part that they had had any form of intimacy. That way, he could dump her and move on freely with Nana.
"I'll only do that on one condition," She said with a smile.
"Ok. Go on, name whatever you want," He said, confident she wouldn't ask anything of him that he couldn't do.
"You'll stamp and sign on a blank agreement paper," She said with a smile, wondering how she had come up with that idea.
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Tan clicked on the message icon on his phone and stared at his screen in confusion. What was wrong? This wasn't his Min-Jung. There was no way in a million years that the face he was staring at belonged to her.
He dialed her boss' number again.
Min-Jung's boss watched his phone ring. What kind of trouble was this? Why couldn't the man let him be? He asked for a picture, and he had been generous enough to send it, so why the call again? Was he a kind of stalker? What was his obsession with Min-Jung?
He wasn't going to take the man's call anymore. When he eventually gets tired, he'd stop calling. He told himself as he allowed the phone to ring.
Tan scowled angrily at the phone. He hated not getting things done the way he wanted them; why had the stupid guy sent him the wrong picture? Did the idiot think he wasn't going to be able to distinguish between someone he spent a week with and a total stranger?
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"My darling shy daughter!" Mrs. Kim called out as she descended the stairs to join Mi Cha at the table.
Mi Cha deliberately ignored her while picking at her food. She wondered what was making her so excited.
"So you didn't answer my question earlier, are you a..." Mrs. Kim's question was cut halfway by Mi Cha's annoyed expression.
"Mom! You can't ask questions like this with people around," She said, waving her hands wildly to indicate the maids were doing their duty.
"Oh! I'm sorry," Mrs. Kim said amidst laughter; anyone could tell this wasn't her birth child. No birth child of hers would be so embarrassed over something as natural as sex.
Mi Cha glared at her; she could tell her mother wasn't sorry. It wasn't just that she wasn't a virgin. It had more to do with her past. Her life before she had been adopted. And this was an exceptionally touchy subject for her.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't bring up issues about your Virginity around the... oops! I'm sorry," She said doe-eyed, looking behind Mi Cha in a way that suggested someone stood there. Mi Cha didn't need to turn around to know who it was.