Simple Celebration

For more than a month, I concentrated in improving my designs. I wanted my Aunt Saehan to accept even just one of my designs that were made painstakingly. I researched several times about different themes for different settings.

My mom assigned me one of the guest rooms to be my 'studio' and within a month it became a mess. After the end of a month I finally managed to make around 11 suitable designs that I could show to Aunt Saehan. Though I was still not fully confident that she would accept any of those design I have to toughen up myself and show them to her. I should not give in to this negative feeling of being coward refusing to be criticized.

My mom actually visited Aunt Saehan to personally give my designs. I also wrote a short letter asking her to please point out my faults so I could improve myself further. That was a month ago.

When I thought that my poor heart couldn't take waiting anymore, I received a call.

"Xin Xin, right? This is your Aunt Saehan. There are two designs that I am interested in and I would like you to refine it further. I will send you details tonight. I need it after two weeks, if I am satisfied with the revision, you can come here to be my apprentice." She had a monotonous tone of voice that carries authority but at the same time it was soothing and gentle. "Did you understand?" She asked me again as I seemed to blank out.

"Yes, Aunt Saehan. I do. Thank you."

"Good," then she ended the call.

I stared at my phone for a while before I screamed as if I won a lottery. I was currently preparing to go to the university to arrange a few more documents for graduation when I received the call. I jumped around and sent messages to my mom and dad.

They were definitely happy for me and that night we had a small celebratory dinner without my second and third brother.

After graduation, we had a simple dinner in a fine dining restaurant and like what I asked before, all of my family members gave me their gifts. As usual the most stingy was my third older brother.

I finally got my mom's approval to live in Fein City with the condition that I should be living with my second brother.

I didn't dare to object. It was the same in my previous life, just me and my second brother living together. The one big difference was this time, my entire family was still breathing and living happily.

The place was near to my Aunt Saehan's office and a little farther from my second brother's studio. My brother chose this place prioritizing me as always.

Aunt Saehan, sent me an email when my designed was chosen for the newly constructed luxury residential building in the city. Those designs were actually enhanced by Aunt Saehan to make it look more modern and posh. Being a fresh graduate of interior design she said I have a lot of ideas that would really become beneficial sooner.

She also mentioned I have great listening skills as I was able to portray what she wanted to see in my designs. The most important thing during our video call, she saw my enthusiasm and passion.

After settling down in our two-bedroom unit. I called my brother.

"Are you going to eat dinner tonight here?"

"Little Sis no. I'm sorry I will be back home pretty late. You can order delivery for the mean time. The cook that I contacted will be coming tomorrow." I can hear that he's in a noisy environment.

"Okay." I simply answered before looking at the list of numbers for delivery I was holding.

I ordered pizza, chicken and cola. It was only evident that I'm really hungry at the moment.

I simply and slowly enjoyed my food until it was almost 10 P.M. After cleaning up, I took a shower and prepared to go to sleep.

I checked my email if Aunt Saehan has other additional instructions. I would be starting to go to her office two days from now.

Since there was no new email from her, I decided to roam around the city tomorrow. I'll ask my brother tomorrow morning if he could accompany me.

I checked the time again and it's already 11:30.

I was wondering if I should call my brother to ask where he is but in the end I didn't.

As I started to doze off, I heard the doorbell.

My brother has his own key so normally he didn't need to ring the bell. As I assumed that it was just a mistake and closed my eyes again, someone rang it again!

I put on some outer robe and went to the door. As I looked at the digital peephole I saw my drunken second brother waving his hand like an idiot. Someone was supporting him.

"Sorry hic.. to wake you up little sis...hic"

I rolled my eyes and opened the door.