"7 Happiness" - #3

MALDIVES, THE ISLAND OF LOVE

It has been 3 years since Heeyoung, Youngmin and Youngjae were born. They can run and talk with their cute pronounces now. Whenever the family or the group is gathering, the three of them will play together while their parents are having a talk with their friends. Sometimes, Changhyun joins them to play since he loves kids so much. Changhyun will always play with Heeyoung since she is alone when Youngmin and Youngjae play their boys’ things.

All of them look happy except for one person. Sina has been waiting for Niel to discuss about their wedding but whenever Sina brings up the topic, Niel will always ignore it and says the other things. She feels jealous towards her friends who are already having their own family and Alifa who is preparing her wedding with Jonghyun in the mean time. But she is a pro on hiding her madness at Niel whenever they gather.

Actually, Niel is in the middle of preparing something important and big. He tells his plan just to his noonas, hyungs and dongsaengs. He keeps it as a secret to Sina since he wants it to be surprise for her.

“Ah!! I’m going to have my vacation next week”, Changhyun says in a sudden, coding them to speak as well.

“Whoa! We will spend our vacation too next week!!”, Byunghun speaks.

“Really?! Our family too!!”, Yoomi says.

“Uhh~ Jonghyun and I will be busy with our wedding preparation next week”, Alifa adds.

“Seriously guys?!”, Sina looks sad. Well of course. Next week is her birthday and she has planned to have a birthday party with them. She hangs her head low but then someone touch her cheeks.

“Aunt Sina, why do you look so sad?! Mommy said that you should be hap—“

“Heeyoung darling, that’s our secret, honey”, Yoori holds her daughter as Heeyoung almost spills something important. Byunghun then ruffles Heeyoung’s silky-dark brown hair and gives her a kiss on her cheek. He motions his point finger to his mouth to signaling Heeyoung that it can’t be said now. Thankfully, Sina doesn’t see that as her attention is stolen by Youngmin and Youngjae who are fighting over a toy. She smiles to see how adorable the kids are. She hopes that she will have one sooner.

Minsoo is holding the crying Youngjae while Yoomi is holding the naughty Youngmin as they leave the others – they have another appointment. Since Minsoo becomes the CEO, he has so many parties to attend with his family. He sometimes doesn’t want to bring Yoomi along to the party since at that time, they are expecting their second child. Yoomi is pregnant and this is her 5^th weeks. Sina looks at them in envy. Then she looks at Niel who is happily chatting with Changhyun. He laughs out loud without knowing what she feels inside which in fact, Niel does know. He just smirks as he sees how Sina looks depressed enough.

***

One night, Niel comes to Minsoo’s house. He will discuss his plan with Minsoo and Yoomi. But then, Youngmin will always disturb him and Niel loses his focus in the end – playing with Youngmin. Minsoo will always snatch his son away from Niel as he really wants to help Niel and both of them need to talk seriously. Yoomi holds Youngmin and brings him to join his twin who is sleeping peacefully. When Yoomi feels that her son is finally sleeping, she comes down and join the conversation between her husband and Niel.

“You planned all of these?!”, Minsoo shrieks in shock.

“Whoaa~ You are daebak, Niel. Really”, Yoomi is speechless.

“So, after making us make a plot that we are not be able to celebrate Sina’s birthday, you do this?!”, Minsoo is still in his awe face.

“What do you think, hyung noona?!”

“SINA WOULD LOVE IT, NIEL!!! I’M 100% SURE!!! You are…… AWESOME!!!”, Yoomi says in teary eyes. Niel smiles to hear that. Yeah, he knows what his fiancée likes so this will be a success.

“But make sure you make it quick, Niel!! Next week is the deadline!! Remember that!!”

“No worries, hyung!! I have prepared everything and now I just need your help and the others help as well”

“Appa, what will uncle Niel do??”, Minsoo feels someone pulling his shirt.

“Something big, Youngmin”, he answers casually. “WHAT?! YOU ARE AWAKE??”

“Appa~”, Minsoo sees the other one also wakes up and clings into his leg. Minsoo holds him in an instant and Youngjae is falling asleep in his embrace.

“Eomma~”, Youngmin runs to Yoomi who just made a drink for Niel.

“You are awake?! But you just sleep for about 10 minutes!!”, Yoomi holds him who falls asleep as soon as he is in his mom’s embrace.

Niel sees them in envy – same as Sina. He really wants to build his own family with Sina soon. So he thinks that he should make his way faster. Minsoo and Yoomi are welcome to help him and now he has to go to Byunghun and Yoori’s house to ask their help.

 Yoori opens the door for Niel. Niel is greeted by Yoori and suddenly he hears Heeyoung calling his name.

“Uncle Nieeeeelll~~”, Heeyoung runs to Niel from her dad’s embrace. Niel holds her while walking inside the house. Heeyoung really likes Niel since he always brings many presents to Heeyoung.

Niel then explains his plans to Byunghun and Yoori with Heeyoung sleeping on Niel’s embrace. Byunghun and Yoori look each other as they can’t believe that Niel can plan something sweet and lovely like this. They smile to Niel and agree to help him. All perfectly done. The next thing he has to do is just asking Sina to go with him.

***

“I’m so sorry, Sina. But I really have to go with Jonghyun”, Alifa says on the phone.

“But..”

“Ah!! Jonghyun is here. Sorry, I have to hang-up now, Sina. So sorry once again. Bye, have a nice day!”, then, Alifa hangs-up the phone.

Sina madly throw her phone to the bed and she ruffles her hair. It is indeed her bad month despite of having her birthday. She feels sad when her friends are ignoring her one by one even Changhyun and Chanhee who don’t have their family just yet. Minsoo and Byunghun’s family are out of reach these days – she can’t call them which she doesn’t know why. The most annoying one for her is that her lovely fiancée also ignoring her for the whole week. He doesn’t call or even texts her. She really wants to yell out loud to make her feelings better but she doesn’t know where to go to burst that out.

She cries that night, hugging her pillow. She should be happy since her birthday is approaching but she is crying right now. At that time, Niel suddenly shows up in her room. She looks at him with her mad-face.

“What are you doing here?!  Go away!! You’ve been ignoring me for the whole week!! I hate you!!”, Sina throws a tantrum to Niel who is just smiling widely at her. “Why are you smiling like that?! You look ugly with that smile!! Now just go away!!”

Niel comes closer to Sina with his big grin painted on his face. He sits next to Sina who is hiding her face with a pillow. He hugs Sina gently but Sina shrugs him off. Niel keeps hugging her until she gives up on struggling from his embrace. Niel pats her head and kisses her temple.

“Mad enough at me?! Don’t be mad, honey. Here, I want to give you something. It’s your birthday present”, Niel hands her an envelope.

“You didn’t say sorry?!”, Sina takes the envelope rudely.

“I didn’t do anything wrong to you so why I should say sorry?!”, Niel smirks.

“You… WHAT?! You… YA!!! YOU IGNORED ME!!!”, Sina throws a pillow to Niel’s face.

“Ouch! It hurts! That’s not something that I should apologize for. You will know later the reason why I ignored you these past days. Now, I’m gonna take my leave. Open the envelope for sure and see you tomorrow at the airport!! I LOVE YOU!!”, Niel rushes off from Sina’s room before he gets beaten by Sina who is ready to throw another pillow.

Sina frowns from Niel’s last word. Airport?! What for?! Is he going to leave her alone here?! But then her eyes look at the envelope she is holding right now. She opens it carefully and there, she sees a ticket which has her name written on it with Maldives as the destination of the flight. Maldives?! Isn’t this island so expensive to go to?! Why Niel gives her a ticket to Maldives as her birthday present?? She is thinking hardly. But then she smiles. Yeah, maybe Niel works hard to get this ticket for her so he ignored her.

She is happily packing her things when suddenly her mom comes in to her room. Sina greets her and her mom is helping her packing her things. It seems like her mom already knows about Sina will go to Maldives.

“This is gonna be your long journey, Sina”, her mom speaks as she tears-up.

“Oww! Mom, I’m just having my vacation there. I will be back soon. Don’t worry”, Sina hugs her mom who is crying.

“I know. So, come home safely. You are my precious daughter ever. Do you know how much I love you?”

“Mom… C’mon! I’m not going to leave you!! I’m just having my holiday!! That’s all. And yes, I know you love me so much since you treasured me so much. I love you too, mom”

Sina’s mom then leaves her room after helping her daughter packing her things up. She cries, knowing that Sina won’t be back to her room anymore after finishing her trip in Maldives. She will miss her daughter so much.

***

Next morning, Sina’s brother takes Sina to the airport along with her mom. On the way to the airport, Sina’s mom always takes Sina’s hands and gently rubs it. She keeps hugging Sina as she knows what will be happened in Maldives.

Sina meets Niel in the airport. Niel bows to Sina’s mom and brother and greets them. Niel takes Sina’s hand as he bids his goodbye to Sina’s family. The day after tomorrow is Sina’s birthday and Niel will make a big surprise for her at Maldives.

The 9 hours of flight was hectic. Sina was sleeping on Niel’s shoulder all the time while Niel was happily stroking Sina’s hair as he imagined how shocked Sina will be. Now that they have arrived at the hotel, Sina is hyped to go to the beach while Niel is sleepy enough. He wants to sleep but Sina insists him to go with her. Niel gives up and then goes with her to the nearest beach. Sina is enjoying herself at the beach but Niel is busy texting some people and it makes Sina mad at him. It’s her holiday with someone she loves so she doesn’t want anyone to ruin it.

“Oh?! Heeyoung?!”, Sina shocks to see a little girl who really looks like Heeyoung.

“WHAT?! HAHAHAHA. You must be hallucinating, noona”, Niel gives his awkward laugh.

“No! I believe it was Heeyoung who just ran there!”, Sina walks to the place where she saw Heeyoung.

“IMPOSSIBLE, noona. HAHAHAHA”, Niel holds her arms and turns her body towards him. “Now, let’s go back to the hotel. I guess you are tired enough”

“Yeah, maybe. I need a rest”, this time Sina agrees on him. Yeah, maybe she is too tired that she hallucinated Heeyoung so sudden. But why Heeyoung?! She doesn’t have any reason to hallucinate her right?!

The whole day they spend inside the hotel as at night, Niel is taking Sina to have a dinner in the beach to see the sunset together. Sina will never understand what is waiting for her in the next two days.

***

The next day, Sina can’t find Niel anywhere she even can’t reach him on the phone. She is in panic mode when suddenly she sees Yoomi with Youngjae walking down in the lobby. Is she hallucinating again?? But this time she walks closer to Yoomi who is playfully walk with Youngjae. Yes, it is really her and she is with her son!

“Yoomi?!”, she calls. Yoomi can be seen frowned as she knows that it is Sina. She slowly turns her head.

“AUNT SINA!!!”, Youngjae clings into Sina’s leg.

“Hi, Youngjae”, Sina holds him.

“Sina?! What are you doing here?!”, Yoomi hides her nervousness as she pretends that she doesn’t know that Sina is in Maldives.

“I’m on my vacation. You?!”, Sina answers.

“Me too!! Minsoo and I decided to have our holiday with the kids here!! Whoaa!! What a nice coincidence”, Yoomi awkwardly laugh.

Then, they walk together to the restaurant to have a breakfast. Sina can see Minsoo feeding Youngmin and Minsoo literally chokes when he sees Sina walks with his wife. He eyed Yoomi. None of them doesn’t know that Sina will be up this early. Minsoo awkwardly laugh while Youngmin is asking Sina to sit beside him. Sina asks the couple if they see Niel somewhere but what she gets just a question if Niel is with her here – which is fake question by Yoomi and Minsoo.

They are having breakfast together and at that time, Yoomi’s eyes catch Changhyun, Jonghyun and Chanhee who are going inside the restaurant as well. Yoomi fakes a cough loudly and three of them look at her direction. All of them run away from the restaurant in an instant as they see Sina’s back.

The whole day, Sina is joining Yoomi’s family. She is worry about Niel but Minsoo keeps saying that he will be okay. Sina gets confused when Yoomi is looking for a dress. But then she just shrugs it off since probably Minsoo is invited to other party in Maldives. Sina helps Yoomi to choose the dress carefully. Yoomi just smiles widely at Sina who is busy looking for the best dress for Yoomi. If only she knows.

At night, Sina is back to her room and still trying to look for Niel. In fact, Niel is busy preparing his surprise birthday present for Sina. It's all done now and tomorrow is the big day as he prays that it can be a successful birthday gift ever for Sina's life. Niel is having a talk with Minsoo and Yoomi in the lobby when suddenly Sina shows up with her shock face.

"So, I want Heeyoung and Young-"

"SSSHHHH!! She is coming!! Act normally!!", Yoomi whispers.

"YA AHN DANIEL!!!! WHERE ARE YOU TODAY?!?!", Sina hits Niel's arms.

"AACK! It hurts!! I was  busy somewhere else, noona!!"

"Then tell me!! I was worry to death, Ahn Daniel!!", Sina bursts into tears suddenly. Niel hugs her to comfort her. 

"Now, don't cry. You will look messy tomorrow if you cry like this. You have to be beautiful next morning, noona", Niel pats her head.

"Next morning?!", Sina looks at him.

"Yes, next morning is your big day, isn't it?!", Niel pecks her lips. "Now go to sleep"

Sina obeys Niel's words as she goes up to her room. Suddenly, she feels weird. Her heart is racing too fast. What happen?! It feels like something big will happen to her.

***

"WAKE UP!!! MOON SINA!!! WAKEY WAKEY!!!", Sina hears Alifa's voice suddenly.

"YA, MOON SINA!!! WAKE UP!!! WE NEED TO DO YOUR MAKE UP!!!", Yoori voice also echoing in her ears.

"SINA!!!", she hears Alifa's voice once again and she widely opens her eyes as she sees Yoori and Alifa in her room.

Next thing she knows, she is locked into the bathroom and Yoori asks her to take a bath. She does what Yoori tells her to do. After bathing, Alifa drags her to the drawer and she started to make Sina's face looks beautiful while Yoori is carrying a white big box. Next, suddenly Sina sees a beautiful wedding dress in front of her eyes. Yoori helps her to wear it. Sina's face shows a confused look on it. Why suddenly she wears a wedding dress??

"YA!! Smile!! You look beautiful!! Your groom is waiting for you", Yoori tells her. Obviously, she can see that Yoori and Alifa are wearing a dress as well. 

Yoori and Alifa walk her to the hidden garden in the hotel. There, she can see many people gathering as she also sees her family and Niel's family. All of them are wearing red dress and red ties for the men. She sees someone standing in the end of the red carpet. Handsome, just like a prince, wearing a white tuxedo. It's Niel. She tears up when Heeyoung and Youngmin walk before her, guiding her way to Niel.

"Don't cry, my beautiful bride. Just don't. From today onwards, you are my wife and my life. I will always be there beside you doesn't matter if you are happy or sad, healthy or sick. We will share the rest of our lives together. Happy birthday, Moon Sina. Oh!! I forgot!! Happy birthday, Mrs. Ahn. I love you, Moon Sina", Niel kisses Sina's lips as he put the ring on Sina's hand.

Sina can't stop crying from the surprise he gave her on her birthday. She feels so lucky to have Niel on her side now. He is hers now and she is his. They are becoming one from today on. 

"Congratulations, Sina. Sorry for not telling you that we are here for this", Minsoo says.

"Yeah, but now, be happy, Sina. Niel is a good man that can take care of you. Happy birthday", Yoomi adds.

"Aunt Sina, happy birthday!!", Heeyoung, Youngmin and Youngjae say in unison.

"Sina, congratulations on your wedding!! I'm so happy for you!! Happy birthday, dear", Yoori hugs Sina.

"Congratz!! And we are waiting for little Niel - Sina in the future!!", Byunghun says as he earns a smack from a blushed-Niel.

"NOONA!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! KYAAA~~ I'm so happy for you, noona", Changhyun jumps here and there.

"Noona... Congratz!!", Jonghyun says.

"Happy birthday, Sina. I'm so happy for you", Alifa hugs her.

"Take care well, Sina - Niel. Be happy!! Happy birthday, Sina", Chanhee is the last one to congratulate them.

Sina's mom is crying that finally her daughter finds a good man to take care of her. Niel's mom is welcoming Sina as she is the part of Ahn's family now. Niel then suddenly carries Sina and runs to the beach. 

"Thank you so much, Niel for your birthday present. I guess you really put a lot of efforts on doing this for me. I feel sorry if I judged you without knowing any reason. This is the best birthday ever in my life!! Thank you and I love you", Sina touches Niel's lips with her lips. 

"Anything for your happiness, my dear wife", Niel returns the kiss as they share their nights and days together as a husband and wife.

-THE END-