Chapter 5. Friends

"Splendid, JaeMin! I absolutely loved all of them," dictated Seo SiJoon. He was thoroughly enchanted.

"I'm honored, Mr. Seo. These are my most recent works."

"Please, just call me SiJoon."

I smiled and nodded.

"SiJoon is a great art appreciator, Jae. He knows how to value good work when he sees it," whispered SooJin, or as I call him, "Jinie," my best friend.

He had recently returned from Rome with his fiancé, Seo SiJoon. One of the top art critics from the magazine "The Korea to the World." Having him in my studio, praising my pieces, is a dream come true.

SooJin also works for the same magazine but as a fashion critic. Together, they are the duo everyone wants to be around. They exude power.

"What inspires you?" SiJoon asks, sitting on the couch in the corner of the studio.

"My baby," I caressed my belly, which had remarkably grown in the past week a