Sister, Back-off From MY MAN

"As if I will let him"

"What?" Aera couldn't clearly hear the latter part of the sentence.

"Nothing" Ji Hwan looked over at the café where he earlier saw his brother entering.

"Can you please do me another favour?" Aera hesitatingly asked and Hwan already knew what it was going to be.

"Fine it will be the 98th favour I am doing on you" He didn't forget to remind her of his generosity.

"Thank you" Aera was relieved but the next second something stuck her, "Wait this is favour number 97, not 98" she reminded him.

"Remember that haunted house I entered for you earlier?"

"Hmm" Aera nodded her head.

"That was 97, this is 98" Hwan shamelessly corrected her.

Aera pouted, looking at him as she could see he was taking advantage of her situation but being with Song Ji Hun was more important for her.

"Okay" she agreed and didn't argue.

"God, do you like him so much that you will let anyone take advantage of you just so that you can stay closer to him?" Song Ji Hwan couldn't believe she just gave in without a fight.

"Yes, now let's go and quickly have lunch with him, I am hungry" Aera held his hand and tried to drag him towards the café.

"You are so shy to talk to my brother but you don't mind acting like this with me, why so?" Song Ji Hwan pointed at himself and raised his eyebrows.

She never minds being around and showing her feelings to him, so he wondered why.

"Because I don't care what you think about me. Can we go now?" Aera looked worried as they were running out of time. If they don't reach for the treasure hunt activity on time, they will be not allowed to participate.

"Wow, your words hurt" Song Ji Hwan dramatically placed his hand on his chest and let her drag him to the café.

It was a self-service café so Hwan and Aera ordered fast food and joined Ji Hun, who was surprised to see them.

"We changed our mind; we want to participate in treasure hunt" Song Ji Hwan grinned at his brother.

"You will anyway give up in between" Song Ji Hun teased his brother who ignored the taunt and after having lunch they went to the area where this activity was being organized.

After reaching there, the three people got surprised to see Kiaraa, Ian and Kim Do-Yun, who too were present there.

It was evident, they too were keen on participating in this activity.

At sharp 2 pm, the event started and all the people present there were asked to randomly get divided in group of six as the pairs for this treasure hunt would be chosen randomly.

The six kids quickly formed a group among themselves as they wished to be paired internally with their own friends.

Except for Song Ji Hun and Kiaraa, rest all took Kim Hoon's warning of staying with at least one person from the group seriously.

The six people were now standing together waiting for other people to form groups as unlike them, others were obviously taking time to cluster together.

After a while it was time for the next announcement.

"Wow, amazing that you all formed groups of six, excellent. Now, a person from our side would come to your groups with six neatly folded tickets placed in a bowl. These six tickets consist the pictures of – Two Korean Magpies, Two Hibiscus Syriacus, Two Siberian Tigers."

"One person will pick one ticket and from this group of six, whoever get the same pair of tickets, will team up for the treasure hunt" The emcee for this event announced.

Song Ji Hun looked at Song Ji Hwan, who got the hint of his brother's unsaid words. He lightly smiled at his brother as an assurance.

The six people were standing in the following order in a straight line – Kim Do-Yun, Ian, Kiaraa, Song Ji Hwan, Aera, Song Ji Hun with Kim Do-Yun being the first one in the line.

After a minute, one of the people working at this amusement park came to their group with a notepad and a bowl.

She asked Kim Do-Yun's name, noted it and placed the bowl of tickets in front of her to pick from. 

Kim Do-Yun, picked a ticket and announced – Hibiscus Syriacus. The employee noted that.

It was Ian's turn next and unfortunately, he too got the Hibiscus Syriacus and he couldn't even lie about it as he was not sure what Kiaraa might get.

"You two are a team" The employee pointed at Ian and Kim Do-Yun. Ian was disappointed but Kim Do-Yun was happy as she would get to spend more time with her elder brother.

For the last few hours, Ian had been paying all his attention to Kiaraa and therefore his sister felt a bit left out and bored.

The employee next went to Kiaraa who picked up a Korean Magpie. Next was Song Ji Hwan, when he opened his ticket, he saw it was a Korean Magpie too but he confidently lied that it is a Siberian Tiger.

The employee noted it down and moved further to Aera while Ji Hwan winked at his brother, who understood Hwan lied for him and he too got the Magpie, which was same as Kiaraa.

Aera picked her ticket in disappointment as she knew she would either be paired up with Kiaraa or Song Ji Hwan and already lost her chance to be with Ji Hun.

In a dull voice, she announced – Siberian Tiger.

Kiaraa sighed in relief knowing that she doesn't have to pair up with her sister. 

Since morning, she had been excited about this treasure hunt event and planned all other games and activities according to treasure hunt event's timings.

If she would have been paired with Aera, then this game would have been ruined for her. She was fine pairing with anyone but her sister.

The employee then went to Song Ji Hun and waved the bowl in front of him, "No need for me to open that ticket, it is obviously Korean Magpie" He declared.

"Oh right" The employee awkwardly chuckled and noted it down. The other five people neatly folded the tickets and placed them back in the bowl as this employee will now go to some other group to help them pair up.

Three such employees were going to groups, to help the contestants pair up and every pair was being noted by them.

One of the employees gave two red bands to Ian and Kim Do-Yun, two yellow bands to Ji Hun and Kiaraa and two blue bands to Hwan and Aera.

"Wear them on your wrists" she instructed.

"Song Ji Hun, let's exchange our partners" Ian suddenly suggested annoying Ji Hun.

"What? No, elder brother please play with me" Kim Do-Yun pouted and made a sad face.

"I am sorry but it is against the rules, you can't team up the way you want. We put so much efforts in doing this process because this hunt will only be fun when you will play with someone you are not that familiar with" One of the employees standing near them informed Ian.

"If you still want to exchange then obviously, I won't stop you but you would be ruining the tradition of this game" He added and gave a judgemental look to Ian.

"Ian don't behave like a child, please" Kiaraa rolled her eyes at his childishness. Somewhere she was glad she is not paired with Ian as he kept clinging on to her the whole day and she wanted some space from him.

"But K…"

"Please Ian, don't prolong it" Kiaraa was trying to control her frustration.

Ian was a bit disappointed as he hoped Kiaraa to share the same thoughts as him, while on the other hand, Song Ji Hun's happiness had no bounds as in the last few years, he didn't get much opportunities to spend alone time with Kiaraa but today he did.

Ian was always around her not letting him approach the girl and even Ji Hun didn't wish of doing more extreme things like setting up a coin museum to have her visit him as it took a lot of efforts already to build that museum.

Also, he didn't wish to be clingy or push his way around her.

He wished to get noticed by her and not make her feel like he was some creepy guy.

Song Ji Hun was therefore happy as he finally got a chance to spend some time with his crush. In the last few years, he at least realized that he likes Kiaraa a lot and has a huge crush on her.

But years ago, he decided to let time be the judge of how his life would shape up, so he stopped putting any efforts.

After all the other people were teamed up, the team organizing treasure hunt, read out the rules aloud: