Chapter 113 - Girl's Day

I was at my on my way to the salon on Saturday after receiving a call last night from Shiwoo's mom asking if I could.

She had sent me the address of one of the fancy salons that served food and had the best service and options.

I called Shiwoo this morning and told him and he suggested hanging out with Minjae and the kids today having a father and child bonding day.

I had my hair up in a bun and my curls were reviving for it was past my due date to get another silk press, but I was reconsidering after two years to just keep it back natural.

Don't get m wrong I loved the straight hair and all, but I missed my curls.

Plus I had hella heat damage so that needed to be taken care of.

I pulled up to the salon's parking lot amazed at how clean it was, but then I remembered that I was in Seocho-gu.

I rolled the windows of the car up after shutting the engine off before grabbing my purse and headed in side.

"Hello, good afternoon. Welcome to 'Beauty in Paradise' how may I help you? Do you have a reservation?" asked the lady at the front desk smiling politely as I made my way up to her.

"Hi good after yes, I am supposed to meet a Mrs. Kim here. Is she here yet?" I asked smiling politely as well.

She then proceeding to key in a few things into her laptop before addressing me once more, "oh yes I see the reservation here. She is already here and is expecting you. You can find her in the sauna room. I will have one of our employees escort you."

"Thank you" I said as she took up her phone making a phone call and soon after a tall handsome gentle man came and escorted me to the locker room where I stripped naked then dressed into a bath robe, wrapping my hair into a towel before going to meet her.

She was in the middle of getting a deep tissue hot stone massage when I arrived, "good afternoon Mrs. Kim. Sorry to have kept you waiting."

"Oh Miss Carter. You have finally arrived." she said with her head still facing down and her words kind of mumbled, "please join me. This massage is really good."

And so I did.

She was not lying when she said that the massage was good for I felt all of my worries and stress leave my shoulders as the guy massaged my tissue.

I was in total bliss as his hands moved expertly along my back and I laid there enjoying the feeling.

"So Mrs. Kim," I started after our massage as we headed towards the manipadi section, "is there a specific reason as to why you invited me here today?"

"Well yes. I wanted to aplogise to you about the other day, plus you looked like you needed a spa treatment so here we are." she said as we placed our feet into the bubbling warm water to soak.

"Oh I see. You think that I cannot afford a spa day so you think that treating me to one will have me at your feet and would make me forgive you?" I asked chuckling bitterly.

"I-well then if that's what you want to think than so be it, but nobody cannot say that I didn't make an effort." she replied not looking up from her magazine.

"Excuse me? What I want to think? I'm pretty sure that that's what's going on. Do you even feel bad about what you said Mrs. Kim?" I asked feeling flabbergasted.

"Miss Carter would you please just enjoy this spa day and accept my apology for the love of God? I am trying my best here so could you pleas meet me half way? Do you know how hard it is for a mother to have lost her son for almost three years and then e returns home with a family of his own and to find out by eavesdropping on their conversation? When were you going to tell me? Tell us? Forgive me for my words, but I am still trying to process things here." she sighed and the ladies who were scrubbing our feet eyed each other.

"Oh" I said after a while, "you're right. I am not the only one here hurt by this and I know that it is alot to take in, belive me I feel as if it;s not real sometimes, but it is. So please for the sake of the kids let's just try to get along. Their other grandparenst are back home and they have never met them in real like so could you and Mr.Kim be their grandparents from now on?"

She nodded her head yeah smiling sadly, "yeah we will. I actually was wondering if you would allow us to play with them sometime?"

"Sure. Yeah, of course." I replied and she smiled brightly.

"I was thinking that since it is already the weekend and Seo Jin already has them why don't you guys spend the weekend?" she asked sounding hopeful, but I didn't know what to say.

"Oh-umm-uh-okay?" she clapped her hands happy with my response, a little too happy for she accidentally flashed some water into the ladies face and I gasped trying to hold my laugh.

"Oh my! Oh dear I am so sorry!" she exclaimed and I grabbed a magazine from the desk beside and hid my face for I couldn't hold my laugh anymore.

The rest of the afternoon went by with us chatting as we pampered ourselves.

It was a really wonderful, destressing after, one that I really was in need of so I thanked her for that.

In my mind though.

We both got a facial after getting our nails done, then ended our trip with a new hair do.

I cried a little when the lady had to cut my hair for it was neglected while it was straightened so now it was barely passed my shoulders.

It was okay though and I asked her give me bangs and I liked it.

I was going to wear my natural hair without heat for a while for it was barely healthy and I had lost a lot of body and length.

I snapped a few pics of my new hair style to my mom and sister and they both liked it saying that they were glad that I got ride of the straight hair for I looked boring and I felt a little offended for I thought that I looked hot.

My mother and Mrs. Kim also had a little chair for I had told my sister and mom everything that went down and thy were just as angry if not angrier, but now they are besties for she promised to send them skin care products and gifts.

Materialistic women at their finest.

Mrs. Kim, who told me to start calling her eomma which felt a little bit weird at first, but after hanging with her a few hours more and chatting with her I got used to it, called her driver to pick up after our date of ice-cream that she told me not to tell anybody about and I made a quick stop at home to get some clothes and toiletries for me and the kids.

I pulled up to the house a little bit after five pm that evening and was greeted by the same door man and he led me up the house where Mr. Mrs Kim-I mean appa and eomma were waiting.

"Good evening." I said bowing as I saw them both lounging in their lounge, "is Seo Jin and the twins here yet?"

"No not yet, but he is on his way." replied Appa coming to greet me by placing a kiss on my cheek.

"Okay." I said as I sat around awkwardly tapping my knee with my finger until I heard the door opened and closed.

"Were home!" yelled Shiwoo coming around to the lounge area with the kids by his side stopping in his tracks when I turned around and our eyes met, "woah."

I blushed a little as he stared at me unblinking and lowered my gaze out of embarrassment.

What was this?

Love at first sight?

Haha.

Don't make me laugh.