Chapter 11: Report to Me
It was two days ago that Park Jungsu and Sora had their meeting together in regards to Director Choi’s charity event. However, no agreement was made that time since Sora was in no way impressed by Park Jungsu’s arrogant attitude and had walked out of the meeting.
***
In the morning, Park Jungsu was getting ready for work. As he was buttoning up his shirt and straightening his tie in front of the mirror, he suddenly saw the Armani jacket hanging behind him from the reflection of the mirror. That again, got him flashing his memory back to the time at the department store.
“Aish! Because of her, I didn’t even wear that jacket even once!” Park Jungsu vented to himself. Then he quickly grabbed his blazer and stormed out of his home to work.
Meanwhile, that same morning – Sora was at a meeting with representatives from SME.
“Sorry Miss Kang, as much as we like to take part in the charity event – we’re currently unable to schedule any of our idols for that time. We actually have a SM Town world tour then and all the tickets have been sold out already, so it’s quite difficult for us to back out at this time. So, we really hope you can understand,” the SME representatives explained to Sora near the end of their meeting.
“No worries, I understand that it is difficult to schedule idols for this event on such short notice. However, thank you for your time and hope your SM Town world tour goes well,” said Sora as she stood up and shook hands with the SME representatives.
As Sora and Melissa got out of the SME building, Melissa started to panic and said, “Sora, what are we going to do? The event date is drawing near and we still haven’t found anyone who can perform at the time of the event. Ottoke?”
“Would you calm down Melissa? We’ll figure something out,” replied Sora.
“How can I calm down Sora?” Melissa asked as she started to pace back and forth until she suddenly stopped and said “Wait Sora! Why don’t we contact JS—.”
“Absolutely NO WAY! I’m definitely not going to work with that arrogant guy!” refused Sora as she quickly shuts down the idea.
“Sora, this is no time to mix personal matters with business,” Melissa reminded Sora while holding Sora by her arms. “Can’t you just put aside your personal differences and just do it for the sake of the event? I mean think about it, this is for a good cause. It’s a charity event, helping those in need. What if we don’t raise enough money? Think of all those poor souls who need …”
“Aish…arasso arasso…” Sora looked at Melissa with a defeat look and let out a long sigh. She thought about what Melissa just said and agrees that she shouldn’t let her negative perception of Park Jungsu to get in the way of business – not to mention this business is for a charitable cause. Finally, Sora agreed to arrange another meeting with JSE and said, “This will be the one and only time I’ll work with him! I am only going along with this for the sake of our company and for those in need. Okay?”
Melissa quickly clapped her hands in joy as Sora agreed to contact JSE. “You’ve made the right choice Sora! You just have to be rational and endure his arrogance for a bit…”
“Melissa! Just contact JSE and arrange for another meeting with them. He better not test my patience,” Sora advised Melissa.
***
Back at Park Jungsu’s office, he was sitting at his desk going through the different concepts for one of his idol group’s upcoming music video. After going through another few concepts, his eyes got a bit tired and he placed the templates down on his desk. He closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of this nose to relief a bit of his eye strain. Then his eyes helplessly and unconsciously glanced over to his office phone. He was staring at it for a few seconds until he decided to call his secretary.
“Miranda, were there any calls this morning? Like any upcoming meetings?” Park Jungsu asked over the phone.
“No President, no one called today,” replied Miranda. Then she asked, “Are you waiting for a call from another company, sir?”
It took Park Jungsu a few seconds to reply, “No, I was just wondering. Never mind, please continue with your work.” Then he ended the call.
A moment later, Donghae suddenly barged into his office and excitedly said, “Morning hyung!”
Park Jungsu stared at Donghae and said, “Next time, you should consider knocking before you come in.”
“Mianhe hyung! I’m just too happy!” Donghae apologized as he began to smile shyly. He tried to keep calm by hiding his smile behind his hand.
Park Jungsu raised an eyebrow and asked, “Wae-o? Why are you so happy?”
Donghae didn’t answer his hyung. Instead, he took out what looked like a business card and began to play with it in his hand while he kept smiling.
Park Jungsu saw the card Donghae was holding and asked, “What’s that?”
“Oh?” Donghae held the card up and said, “This? This is Sora-ssi’s contact.”
“You just met her once and you are already calling her ‘Sora-ssi’?” complained Park Jungsu as he felt a bit annoyed. Somehow, it felt like somebody was messing around with his favourite toy.
“Three times hyung! Three times including that morning when I saw her here in your office,” Donghae reciprocated as he held out three fingers to emphasize the number of times.
To hide his feeling of annoyance, Park Jungsu began to flip through the concept templates again and pretended to be uninterested. Yet, he continued to ask, “How did you get her contact? Did you ask her for it?”
Donghae smiled and said, “Ani, she gave it to me and told me to call her anytime if I needed help.”
Park Jungsu paused right after what Donghae just said. He slowly put the templates back on his desk and asked, “Did she now?” At that moment, he reminisced back to the time of their meeting and was thinking to himself, “She didn’t even give me her business card when we had that business meeting.”
Donghae noticed his hyung went absent-minded and quickly waved his hand in front of his hyung’s face. “Hyung…hyung! Are you alright?” he asked Park Jungsu.
Finally, he reacted with a surprise from Donghae’s calling and managed to bring himself back to reality. “Yes?”
“Hyung, are you really busy lately? I mean, you’ve been occasionally drifting away in your own thoughts a lot lately. Is everything okay?” Donghae asked his hyung.
“Huh? In my own thoughts?” responded Park Jungsu. It didn’t occur to him that he’s been thinking a lot of things lately until Donghae brought it up. The thoughts weren’t even work related, but were thoughts about Sora instead. He then questioned himself, “What is wrong on with me? Why am I always thinking about that person who always gets on my nerves? First, she almost got me into an accident and then she tries to take my jacket at the department store. Not to mention that just recently at the meeting, she just walked out on me. How can she walk out on me when I am the President and CEO of JSE? She even gave Donghae her contact when he’s not even affiliated with her in terms of business when I am. I didn’t even get a business card! ”
“Hyung!” Donghae shouted out to Park Jungsu and got his hyung’s attention.
“What is it?” asked Park Jungsu.
“You’re at it again! Maybe you should take a few days off. You know, just to get away from it all,” suggested Donghae.
“Donghae-ah, you know that whenever I take days off, I’ll just end up staying at home staring at four white walls. So it’s be better if I just work, at least it’s more productive,” said Park Jungsu.
“Well, you don’t seem very productive to me lately when you’re constantly drifting away,” reminded Donghae.
“Yah! Can’t you see all these things on my desk? I have a lot of work to do,” said Park Jungsu.
Donghae looked at the different piles of documents and templates on his hyung’s desk and said, “Hyung, usually you’re quite efficient, but look now – you’ve been staring at that same concept template this whole time and you didn’t even look at the other ones. As well as these,” as he grabs a few documents on Park Jungsu’s desk to see. “…These are just simple documents that you could have signed in a few minutes and you have a whole stack of them just lying there.”
Park Jungsu quickly grabs his documents back and said, “If you didn’t come here, I would have signed them already.”
“Sure thing hyung, sure thing,” said Donghae as he leaned back on his chair. “Hyung, let’s go grab something to eat. I’m hungry.”
“You just said yourself that I have a stack of documents to clear and you think that I have time to go—” before Park Jungsu could finish his sentence, his office phone began to ring. He picked it up and it was Miranda on the other side.
“President, I have just received a call from Miss Kim of KS Productions and they said that they would like to arrange another appointment with us to discuss about the event. Would you like to have another meeting with them?” reported Miranda.
Somehow, this news brought a smile to Park Jungsu’s face. “So, she finally decided to call,” he thought to himself. “Very well then – go ahead and arrange a time for the meeting,” instructed Park Jungsu and ended the call. “Donghae, let’s head out for lunch!” he said excitedly.
“Oh? But I thought you said you’re busy,” said Donghae.
“These can wait. Aja! Let’s go!” urged Park Jungsu as he got up and puts his blazer on.
Donghae was surprised by his hyung’s sudden change in attitude, but still got up from his seat and follow Park Jungsu out while shaking his head with a smile.
***
On the day of their second scheduled meeting, they decided to have their meeting outside the office and had it at a nearby café.
Both Sora and Melissa were sitting down already as they arrived a bit early. Sora had ordered herself a hot cup of Americano as she’s flipping through a magazine while waiting.
“Sora, just remember to control yourself when President Park comes. He’s the one who can help us right now. So please bear with it for this time,” Melissa reminded Sora.
“Arasso! Geez Melissa, you’re nagging like an ahjumma! Don’t worry, I know where my priority lies,” said Sora as she took another sip of her Americano.
A few more minutes passed. Sora looked at her watch and Park Jungsu was late. “Aish…how can he be a president when he’s not even punctual? Even though he probably has an upper hand in this situation, but he shouldn’t abuse it!” said Sora.
Melissa looked at Sora and reminded, “Sora, remember?”
Sora let out a sigh and nodded. “Arasso, I remember. Don’t worry! I was only saying,” she assured Melissa.
Just then, Park Jungsu arrived and entered the cafe. He was standing by the entrance trying to look for their table.
Melissa saw him and told Sora, “He’s here!” Then she got up and called out, “President Park! We’re over here,” as she signaled him while Sora remained seated.
He saw them and walked over. “Mianhe, I was a bit caught up in traffic. Sorry to keep you both waiting. Did you both waited long?” he apologized and sat down.
“Then you should have headed out earlier,” said Sora. Melissa looked at Sora intently with her eyes widened and lips pursed together – trying to force a smile.
Park Jungsu gave Sora an irritated look and said, “Should we call off this meeting then?”
Park Jungsu made himself look like he was about to get up until Melissa turned to him and said, “We didn’t wait that long President Park, please…would you like to order something to drink, a coffee perhaps?” Melissa called the waiter over to take his order.
He remained seated and said, “I don’t drink coffee.” Then he turned to the waiter and ordered, “I’ll just have a chocolate smoothie, please.”
His reply got Melissa curious and she asked, “Oh? You don’t? Why not?”
As he was about to answer, Sora quickly blurted out, “He probably can’t take the bitter taste of it, that’s why he has to order a smoothie.” She chuckled afterwards.
Park Jungsu grunted and countered, “Well Miss Kang, you seem like you know me very well to even know my taste buds. I don’t drink coffee because long term consumption of caffeine can cause cardiovascular problems like blood vessels constriction which leads to high blood pressure. Ah…now I see why you’re easily upset. You should cut down on your consumption of coffee.” He looked at Sora and smirked.
This time, it was Sora’s turn to get annoyed and when she wanted to argue back – Melissa couldn’t take it anymore and wanted to put an end to their continuous bickering as she bellowed, “For God’s sake! Will you both stop it already?”
Everyone in the café looked their way, including the waiter who was bringing the chocolate smoothie over. Both Sora and Park Jungsu stopped instantly and stared at Melissa. At that moment, she was the center of everyone’s attention and she realized she had just raised her voice to her superiors. Melissa smiled and apologized to everyone in the café by nodding around. She then turned to both Sora and Park Jungsu and apologized, “Mianhe, I didn’t mean to raise my voice, please kindly forgive me. Why don’t we discuss about the event as it’s the reason why we are having this meeting right now.”
Park Jungsu turned around to Sora and said, “Very well then, I will schedule one of my idol groups to perform at the event, but on one condition.”
Sora looked at him and saw another grin on his face. She then aksed, “And what would that be, President Park?”
“As you may know, all my idols are all about image and performance. That’s why the stage’s concepts and its designs must be at its best. So, all your stage concepts and designs must be approved by me. Would that be alright, Miss Kang?”
“Well, that shouldn’t be a problem right?” replied Melissa as she glanced over to Sora. “President Park, we can have our design team reporting to you.”
“Actually, I was thinking that Miss Kang Sora-ssi here can do that honour. Would that be alright Miss Kang Sora-ssi?” Park Jungsu insisted as he lean back on his seat and took a sip of his chocolate smoothie.
“Is he serious? How can he ask me to report to him about the stage designs and concepts? If I agree to it, then that means I’ll be giving him an opportunity to ordering me around! And did he just call me ‘Kang Sora-ssi’? Aish, this person…” Sora thought to herself and then she glanced over at Melissa.
Melissa was glancing back at her and gave a Sora a look that read, “Sora, just this one time. Do it for the sake of business and the company. It’ll be over once the event is over.”
Sora mumbled and decided to agree to Park Jungsu’s condition, “Alright President Park, if you are willing to schedule one of your idols to perform, then I guess I can do as much as to discussing the stage concepts and designs with you.”
“Good! Then we have an agreement. I look forward to our cooperation,” said Park Jungsu as he extends his for a handshake.
“Me too,” Sora reluctantly replied as she responded to the handshake.
“Then I’ll sign the agreement once you have it prepared. Oh and by the way, there’s one more thing that I need,” he said.
“What now?” Sora thought to herself. “Hey! What are you doing? Give it back!”
Park Jungsu grabbed her phone from the table and dialed his number on it. His phone rang and then he quickly ended the call on Sora’s phone. “There we go, done! Now I have your number and you have mine. So we’ll keep in touch then.”
“Yah! How can you go through other people’s phone like that! You could have just asked me for my contact rather than doing what you just did,” said Sora with irritation.
“If I ask you for your contact, how would I know that you won’t give me a wrong number?” said Park Jungsu as he looked at his watch. “Anyways, I have to go now. Today’s my treat for the drinks,” he said as he placed the money on the table. “So I’ll wait for the agreement contract, as well as your concepts and designs. Have a nice day Miss Kim and you too Miss Kang Sora-ssi.”
Park Jungsu made his way to the door as the valet drove up to the entrance with his car. When he got in, Sora’s eye widened and her jaw dropped. She stood up and said in disbelieve, “No way, you’ve got to be kidding me! That car! That Aston Martin is the exact same one that almost got me into an accident – the one that I got a ticket for from the police!”
Sora remained dumbfound as she watches Park Jungsu drive off in his car.
***
In the morning, Park Jungsu was getting ready for work. As he was buttoning up his shirt and straightening his tie in front of the mirror, he suddenly saw the Armani jacket hanging behind him from the reflection of the mirror. That again, got him flashing his memory back to the time at the department store.
“Aish! Because of her, I didn’t even wear that jacket even once!” Park Jungsu vented to himself. Then he quickly grabbed his blazer and stormed out of his home to work.
Meanwhile, that same morning – Sora was at a meeting with representatives from SME.
“Sorry Miss Kang, as much as we like to take part in the charity event – we’re currently unable to schedule any of our idols for that time. We actually have a SM Town world tour then and all the tickets have been sold out already, so it’s quite difficult for us to back out at this time. So, we really hope you can understand,” the SME representatives explained to Sora near the end of their meeting.
“No worries, I understand that it is difficult to schedule idols for this event on such short notice. However, thank you for your time and hope your SM Town world tour goes well,” said Sora as she stood up and shook hands with the SME representatives.
As Sora and Melissa got out of the SME building, Melissa started to panic and said, “Sora, what are we going to do? The event date is drawing near and we still haven’t found anyone who can perform at the time of the event. Ottoke?”
“Would you calm down Melissa? We’ll figure something out,” replied Sora.
“How can I calm down Sora?” Melissa asked as she started to pace back and forth until she suddenly stopped and said “Wait Sora! Why don’t we contact JS—.”
“Absolutely NO WAY! I’m definitely not going to work with that arrogant guy!” refused Sora as she quickly shuts down the idea.
“Sora, this is no time to mix personal matters with business,” Melissa reminded Sora while holding Sora by her arms. “Can’t you just put aside your personal differences and just do it for the sake of the event? I mean think about it, this is for a good cause. It’s a charity event, helping those in need. What if we don’t raise enough money? Think of all those poor souls who need …”
“Aish…arasso arasso…” Sora looked at Melissa with a defeat look and let out a long sigh. She thought about what Melissa just said and agrees that she shouldn’t let her negative perception of Park Jungsu to get in the way of business – not to mention this business is for a charitable cause. Finally, Sora agreed to arrange another meeting with JSE and said, “This will be the one and only time I’ll work with him! I am only going along with this for the sake of our company and for those in need. Okay?”
Melissa quickly clapped her hands in joy as Sora agreed to contact JSE. “You’ve made the right choice Sora! You just have to be rational and endure his arrogance for a bit…”
“Melissa! Just contact JSE and arrange for another meeting with them. He better not test my patience,” Sora advised Melissa.
***
Back at Park Jungsu’s office, he was sitting at his desk going through the different concepts for one of his idol group’s upcoming music video. After going through another few concepts, his eyes got a bit tired and he placed the templates down on his desk. He closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of this nose to relief a bit of his eye strain. Then his eyes helplessly and unconsciously glanced over to his office phone. He was staring at it for a few seconds until he decided to call his secretary.
“Miranda, were there any calls this morning? Like any upcoming meetings?” Park Jungsu asked over the phone.
“No President, no one called today,” replied Miranda. Then she asked, “Are you waiting for a call from another company, sir?”
It took Park Jungsu a few seconds to reply, “No, I was just wondering. Never mind, please continue with your work.” Then he ended the call.
A moment later, Donghae suddenly barged into his office and excitedly said, “Morning hyung!”
Park Jungsu stared at Donghae and said, “Next time, you should consider knocking before you come in.”
“Mianhe hyung! I’m just too happy!” Donghae apologized as he began to smile shyly. He tried to keep calm by hiding his smile behind his hand.
Park Jungsu raised an eyebrow and asked, “Wae-o? Why are you so happy?”
Donghae didn’t answer his hyung. Instead, he took out what looked like a business card and began to play with it in his hand while he kept smiling.
Park Jungsu saw the card Donghae was holding and asked, “What’s that?”
“Oh?” Donghae held the card up and said, “This? This is Sora-ssi’s contact.”
“You just met her once and you are already calling her ‘Sora-ssi’?” complained Park Jungsu as he felt a bit annoyed. Somehow, it felt like somebody was messing around with his favourite toy.
“Three times hyung! Three times including that morning when I saw her here in your office,” Donghae reciprocated as he held out three fingers to emphasize the number of times.
To hide his feeling of annoyance, Park Jungsu began to flip through the concept templates again and pretended to be uninterested. Yet, he continued to ask, “How did you get her contact? Did you ask her for it?”
Donghae smiled and said, “Ani, she gave it to me and told me to call her anytime if I needed help.”
Park Jungsu paused right after what Donghae just said. He slowly put the templates back on his desk and asked, “Did she now?” At that moment, he reminisced back to the time of their meeting and was thinking to himself, “She didn’t even give me her business card when we had that business meeting.”
Donghae noticed his hyung went absent-minded and quickly waved his hand in front of his hyung’s face. “Hyung…hyung! Are you alright?” he asked Park Jungsu.
Finally, he reacted with a surprise from Donghae’s calling and managed to bring himself back to reality. “Yes?”
“Hyung, are you really busy lately? I mean, you’ve been occasionally drifting away in your own thoughts a lot lately. Is everything okay?” Donghae asked his hyung.
“Huh? In my own thoughts?” responded Park Jungsu. It didn’t occur to him that he’s been thinking a lot of things lately until Donghae brought it up. The thoughts weren’t even work related, but were thoughts about Sora instead. He then questioned himself, “What is wrong on with me? Why am I always thinking about that person who always gets on my nerves? First, she almost got me into an accident and then she tries to take my jacket at the department store. Not to mention that just recently at the meeting, she just walked out on me. How can she walk out on me when I am the President and CEO of JSE? She even gave Donghae her contact when he’s not even affiliated with her in terms of business when I am. I didn’t even get a business card! ”
“Hyung!” Donghae shouted out to Park Jungsu and got his hyung’s attention.
“What is it?” asked Park Jungsu.
“You’re at it again! Maybe you should take a few days off. You know, just to get away from it all,” suggested Donghae.
“Donghae-ah, you know that whenever I take days off, I’ll just end up staying at home staring at four white walls. So it’s be better if I just work, at least it’s more productive,” said Park Jungsu.
“Well, you don’t seem very productive to me lately when you’re constantly drifting away,” reminded Donghae.
“Yah! Can’t you see all these things on my desk? I have a lot of work to do,” said Park Jungsu.
Donghae looked at the different piles of documents and templates on his hyung’s desk and said, “Hyung, usually you’re quite efficient, but look now – you’ve been staring at that same concept template this whole time and you didn’t even look at the other ones. As well as these,” as he grabs a few documents on Park Jungsu’s desk to see. “…These are just simple documents that you could have signed in a few minutes and you have a whole stack of them just lying there.”
Park Jungsu quickly grabs his documents back and said, “If you didn’t come here, I would have signed them already.”
“Sure thing hyung, sure thing,” said Donghae as he leaned back on his chair. “Hyung, let’s go grab something to eat. I’m hungry.”
“You just said yourself that I have a stack of documents to clear and you think that I have time to go—” before Park Jungsu could finish his sentence, his office phone began to ring. He picked it up and it was Miranda on the other side.
“President, I have just received a call from Miss Kim of KS Productions and they said that they would like to arrange another appointment with us to discuss about the event. Would you like to have another meeting with them?” reported Miranda.
Somehow, this news brought a smile to Park Jungsu’s face. “So, she finally decided to call,” he thought to himself. “Very well then – go ahead and arrange a time for the meeting,” instructed Park Jungsu and ended the call. “Donghae, let’s head out for lunch!” he said excitedly.
“Oh? But I thought you said you’re busy,” said Donghae.
“These can wait. Aja! Let’s go!” urged Park Jungsu as he got up and puts his blazer on.
Donghae was surprised by his hyung’s sudden change in attitude, but still got up from his seat and follow Park Jungsu out while shaking his head with a smile.
***
On the day of their second scheduled meeting, they decided to have their meeting outside the office and had it at a nearby café.
Both Sora and Melissa were sitting down already as they arrived a bit early. Sora had ordered herself a hot cup of Americano as she’s flipping through a magazine while waiting.
“Sora, just remember to control yourself when President Park comes. He’s the one who can help us right now. So please bear with it for this time,” Melissa reminded Sora.
“Arasso! Geez Melissa, you’re nagging like an ahjumma! Don’t worry, I know where my priority lies,” said Sora as she took another sip of her Americano.
A few more minutes passed. Sora looked at her watch and Park Jungsu was late. “Aish…how can he be a president when he’s not even punctual? Even though he probably has an upper hand in this situation, but he shouldn’t abuse it!” said Sora.
Melissa looked at Sora and reminded, “Sora, remember?”
Sora let out a sigh and nodded. “Arasso, I remember. Don’t worry! I was only saying,” she assured Melissa.
Just then, Park Jungsu arrived and entered the cafe. He was standing by the entrance trying to look for their table.
Melissa saw him and told Sora, “He’s here!” Then she got up and called out, “President Park! We’re over here,” as she signaled him while Sora remained seated.
He saw them and walked over. “Mianhe, I was a bit caught up in traffic. Sorry to keep you both waiting. Did you both waited long?” he apologized and sat down.
“Then you should have headed out earlier,” said Sora. Melissa looked at Sora intently with her eyes widened and lips pursed together – trying to force a smile.
Park Jungsu gave Sora an irritated look and said, “Should we call off this meeting then?”
Park Jungsu made himself look like he was about to get up until Melissa turned to him and said, “We didn’t wait that long President Park, please…would you like to order something to drink, a coffee perhaps?” Melissa called the waiter over to take his order.
He remained seated and said, “I don’t drink coffee.” Then he turned to the waiter and ordered, “I’ll just have a chocolate smoothie, please.”
His reply got Melissa curious and she asked, “Oh? You don’t? Why not?”
As he was about to answer, Sora quickly blurted out, “He probably can’t take the bitter taste of it, that’s why he has to order a smoothie.” She chuckled afterwards.
Park Jungsu grunted and countered, “Well Miss Kang, you seem like you know me very well to even know my taste buds. I don’t drink coffee because long term consumption of caffeine can cause cardiovascular problems like blood vessels constriction which leads to high blood pressure. Ah…now I see why you’re easily upset. You should cut down on your consumption of coffee.” He looked at Sora and smirked.
This time, it was Sora’s turn to get annoyed and when she wanted to argue back – Melissa couldn’t take it anymore and wanted to put an end to their continuous bickering as she bellowed, “For God’s sake! Will you both stop it already?”
Everyone in the café looked their way, including the waiter who was bringing the chocolate smoothie over. Both Sora and Park Jungsu stopped instantly and stared at Melissa. At that moment, she was the center of everyone’s attention and she realized she had just raised her voice to her superiors. Melissa smiled and apologized to everyone in the café by nodding around. She then turned to both Sora and Park Jungsu and apologized, “Mianhe, I didn’t mean to raise my voice, please kindly forgive me. Why don’t we discuss about the event as it’s the reason why we are having this meeting right now.”
Park Jungsu turned around to Sora and said, “Very well then, I will schedule one of my idol groups to perform at the event, but on one condition.”
Sora looked at him and saw another grin on his face. She then aksed, “And what would that be, President Park?”
“As you may know, all my idols are all about image and performance. That’s why the stage’s concepts and its designs must be at its best. So, all your stage concepts and designs must be approved by me. Would that be alright, Miss Kang?”
“Well, that shouldn’t be a problem right?” replied Melissa as she glanced over to Sora. “President Park, we can have our design team reporting to you.”
“Actually, I was thinking that Miss Kang Sora-ssi here can do that honour. Would that be alright Miss Kang Sora-ssi?” Park Jungsu insisted as he lean back on his seat and took a sip of his chocolate smoothie.
“Is he serious? How can he ask me to report to him about the stage designs and concepts? If I agree to it, then that means I’ll be giving him an opportunity to ordering me around! And did he just call me ‘Kang Sora-ssi’? Aish, this person…” Sora thought to herself and then she glanced over at Melissa.
Melissa was glancing back at her and gave a Sora a look that read, “Sora, just this one time. Do it for the sake of business and the company. It’ll be over once the event is over.”
Sora mumbled and decided to agree to Park Jungsu’s condition, “Alright President Park, if you are willing to schedule one of your idols to perform, then I guess I can do as much as to discussing the stage concepts and designs with you.”
“Good! Then we have an agreement. I look forward to our cooperation,” said Park Jungsu as he extends his for a handshake.
“Me too,” Sora reluctantly replied as she responded to the handshake.
“Then I’ll sign the agreement once you have it prepared. Oh and by the way, there’s one more thing that I need,” he said.
“What now?” Sora thought to herself. “Hey! What are you doing? Give it back!”
Park Jungsu grabbed her phone from the table and dialed his number on it. His phone rang and then he quickly ended the call on Sora’s phone. “There we go, done! Now I have your number and you have mine. So we’ll keep in touch then.”
“Yah! How can you go through other people’s phone like that! You could have just asked me for my contact rather than doing what you just did,” said Sora with irritation.
“If I ask you for your contact, how would I know that you won’t give me a wrong number?” said Park Jungsu as he looked at his watch. “Anyways, I have to go now. Today’s my treat for the drinks,” he said as he placed the money on the table. “So I’ll wait for the agreement contract, as well as your concepts and designs. Have a nice day Miss Kim and you too Miss Kang Sora-ssi.”
Park Jungsu made his way to the door as the valet drove up to the entrance with his car. When he got in, Sora’s eye widened and her jaw dropped. She stood up and said in disbelieve, “No way, you’ve got to be kidding me! That car! That Aston Martin is the exact same one that almost got me into an accident – the one that I got a ticket for from the police!”
Sora remained dumbfound as she watches Park Jungsu drive off in his car.