11 Chapter 11 Kim Min Ho

I woke up to a stinging headache on the eve of my brother's wedding. This was as a result of the lack of sleep I experienced while having to help the spoiled bride on her numerous wedding preparations the night before.

I really didn't understand why she had to hire a wedding planner if she was going to fuss about everything herself and then have me run around like her little errand boy for every little thing anyway. But then again, my lack of sleep could also have been as a result of my realization that, I only had one more night before I get to finally lose Kristal to my brother forever.

One last day and I was going to have to make a vow to forever hold my peace and not say anything or give a hint of my raw and intense feelings for her.

They were moments when the want to run away from everything was overwhelming. I so much wanted to just disappear and avoid experiencing the extreme emotions of despair and longing that I knew I was going to feel when she finally says I do.

I knew I was definitely going to lose my soul in the process, but then I had no choice but to smile through the pain of it all and show false happiness for the union of the two people I love the most in the whole wide world.

I dragged myself off the bed and went into the bathroom to take a shower. The cold water helped ease the throbbing headache a little bit and I closed my eyes to take the soothing sensation in as I let the water massage me into a little bit of sanity.

After I had showered enough, I got out of the bathroom only to find my soon to be sister in law sitting on my bed with a rather worried look on her face. I felt immediate disgust at myself for my strong desire to kiss on her lips at that very moment.

"Kristal, what are you doing in here?" I stood rooted to the floor afraid to move further from the bathroom door in my half naked state with only a towel covering my rare parts.

Kristal sighed loudly and looked at me for a moment without a word. Her facial features contorted with emotions so deep, I couldn't help but wonder what was going on inside her head.

"Wanna talk about it?" I asked her. Still unable to move from where I was standing, I stood rooted to the floor with an encouraging smile on my face so that she could tell me what was bothering her.

"Your mother is here" she simply stated. Her tears flowed freely on her cheeks, causing my heart to drop so suddenly with intense force all the way to the floor. I moved quickly. Closing in the distance that separated us and without a thought that I had no clothes on, I went and held her so close to my heart.

"Oh my God Kristal, what did she do to you this time?" I asked as I held her closer.

My mother hated Kristal because she was Chinese. She had always opposed to the marriage from the very beginning and had tried several times to convince jeon to change his mind about it.

Actually, she was not always that unreasonable. She only became this hateful woman right after she and dad separated when we were barely teenagers and dad won custody over us. so the fact that she had come for the wedding, only meant that she was trying her last chance at ruining her son's wedding rather than blessing it.

"Have you told Jeon that mom's here?" I asked her softly.

"Yes but he just told me not to worry about it. That everything will work out in the end. I don't think your brother realizes how much your mother scares me." She snaggled closer into my embrace and put her head on my bare shoulder "that's why I came to tell you, you always knew me better than my lover. Maybe it's because you are my best friend"

We stayed like that in silence as I gently rocked her back and forth in an attempt to calm her down. I carefully patted her hair so gently as if I might shatter her even more if I wasn't gentle enough.

"Oh Kristal please don't cry like this, you are breaking my heart. your tears always manage to shutter my heart into pieces you know that" I whispered desperately into her ear.

"Min ho I....." She began in a whisper.

"Listen to me Kristal" I cut in her sentence before she could even finish it "please I can't go on like this" I pleaded with her as I broke the embrace to look her straight into her eyes. "I love you, I love you so much" and immediately those words left my lips, I froze.

The room suddenly became so intense that I could barely breathe. But in her eyes, there was no surprise at what she just heard. Infact, it looked like she only confirmed something she already knew and like a fool I was, that look prompted me to go on and kiss her like my life depended on it.

"The hell you are doing Minho?" Jeon's voice broke my lips from Kristal's as fast as a man caught in bed with another's wife.

And that's basically what I was actually doing.