Fated - II Little Stripes - YongShin

Just Three Little Letters

♫ Say Yes ♪

While Yonghwa took care of Shinhye at the hospital he found himself thinking about their future nonstop. He quickly realized that they only had a certain amount of time before people would notice what was going on. They could not hide the baby for much longer and he was not planning on it either. However, they were still living in a rather conservative country and people here did set even higher standards for celebrities. He had to take that into account.

He could have taken things slower and made it even more comfortable for Shinhye if they would have lived overseas in a more liberal country. But being whom and where they were, he had to – to a certain extend - appease the old-fashioned society and deal with common traditions rather sooner than later.

Truthfully, it was really giving him a headache at first. He knew for a fact that Shinhye was the love of his life. No one ever made him feel the way she did. No woman was ever closer to his heart than her. She simply had no competition at all. If anything, the latest events just confirmed what he already knew all over again.

He would have loved to marry her back when they were first dating and he surely wanted nothing more than to finally marry her right now. But he was worried about how Shinhye would react to it. He didn't want her or anyone else to believe he only married her because she was pregnant - because that was just not the truth at all. So for two days he had raked his brain in order to find a solution to this mess. He knew that he had to step up his game if he wanted her to trust him completely on this matter.

The first thing Shinhye didn't know when she left the hospital was that Yonghwa had already met with her family during her stay on the VIP floor. He had pondered about how to approach the issue for a long time. But as he watched her frail figure lay in the hospital bed he eventually decided that it was too risky for her to receive any more stress. He couldn't be sure of how her family would react to the sudden news and after almost losing her and their child a short while ago he simply couldn't take any risks. If anything, he should be the only one to blame as he did not protect her well enough from the start. Hence he made up his mind and secretly visited Shinhye's family while Krystal stayed with her to keep her company.

Yonghwa knew that he had to face things head on. He had known Shinhye's family for over a decade. They were so close, yet he was a nervous wreck when he got to their place and it took him all of his acting experience to not look like a completely freaked out loser.

In short, Shinhye's family was very shocked after Yonghwa had filled them in on the facts. It was hard to understand and accept for them at first, especially since he and Shinhye were usually known to be very level minded and cautious people. Obviously a situation like this never even occurred to them in their wildest dreams.

Shinhye's parents were not overly conservative. However, they were still quite unhappy with how reckless the both behaved and they worried for their respective futures. Being a celebrity in South Korea, after all, could be a scary thing in cases like this.

Yonghwa ended up explaining that he and Shinhye had promised to get married a long time ago. Although it was kind of a stretch it wasn't exactly a lie either and he said it with the best intentions. He didn't want her family to think they were not serious with one another, because that was not it. They had been immature and careless, prioritizing all the wrong things. But they had always been serious about each other, he had realized this much after his talk with Shinhye at the hospital.