40 You have to know the reality of your relationship with the person you speak so highly of. (1/2)

”Where the hell where you?!”

Mi-Young turned around to find Bae Yuri coming up behind them. It looked as if she just came out of a store from across the way.

Yuri marched right up to her small assistant who looked like she was gawking at something and stopped short when she noticed her own brother standing not too far off. He sported an amused expression as he looked back at her.

'What is he doing here?' She raised an eyebrow at her brother, questioning him silently with her eyes. He just gave her a slight shrug and pointed secretly at her assistant.

”Why is he here?” Yuri lost her patience and turned her chin up at her brother.

”Sister Yuri?” Mi-Young looked back and forth between the two of them.

”I didn't tell you to bring anybody,” she snapped. ”So, why is he here?”

”Ms. Bae,” Kyung-Wan interjected on the small assistant's behalf. ”Your assistant thought you could use my help carrying some of your stuff, so she brought me along.”

Yuri's mouth twitched.

”You're being paid to drive,” she said pointedly. ”So, drive. There's no need for you to meddle in other people's jobs. And you,” she glared at Mi-Young. ”If you can't do your job right, don't enlist the help of somebody as inept as you.”

Mi-Young's hands were shaking with silent anger at her employer's words.

'Inept?' Her hands balled into fists at her side.

And as soon as Bae Yuri turned to walk away, she felt a light clap on her shoulder.

'Brother Wan?'

He was looking sympathetically at her. ”Let it go...” He whispered and smiled as he passed by her to follow Bae Yuri.

She stood there rooted for a few more seconds before she allowed her anger to slowly dissipate from her body. And though her footsteps were heavy, she soon began to follow the pair as Yuri continued her shopping spree.

'I really should leave...' She thought as she walked. 'But I need the money... And really... Where could someone like me get a better job as an assistant?'

She continued to lament her situation on her own, not noticing that the 'driver' was then quietly conversing with her boss.

”Yuri-ah,” Kyung-Wan said in a low voice. ”You really ought to give the kid a break.”

Yuri rolled her eyes at him.

”Speak for yourself,” Yuri retorted. ”Don't even think of cat-fishing that girl, Park Kyung-Wan.”

”Well, I don't know what you're talking about,” Kyung-Wan glanced at the small assistant's profile. ”But isn't she just the sweetest-”

”Quit while you 're ahead,” Yuri warned. ”You are not to touch her. She doesn't and won't have any value to you. Plus, you'll be found out easily.”

”You're no fun,” he grumbled. ”I mean, you brought me into this, so I don't understand why I can't have fun.”