Chapter 18: The Search And Contact

The whole house was sad and shocked but not Bong-Cha. She could not stop smiling. The girl she was a fan of, was her sister. She was angry for a second at her elders as they hid a huge secret from her. All her life she wanted a sister and she had one, she just had no idea about her. Her brain was hurting because her emotions kept changing from happiness to anger and vice versa every other second.

She was happy to have a sister but was angry at her grandfather. He loved kids. She was her favourite. So she was unable to understand how her harabuhji who was a compassionate man be so unconcerned for a child. How could he order to hide the existence of a baby? How could he order her father to forget about his baby girl? How could he uproot a father from a child's life?

"Ashma grew up to be world-famous but what if she had to live her life in poverty? What if she was bullied? She didn't even have a father to protect her. Why does she tell the whole world that she has no father and he died when she was a child? She is proud of her single mother but her mother must know about her lover. Is her mother lying to her too? Poor girl." Bong-Cha kept ruminating.

"I should tell her everything, how she has a father, how she has a sister and a brother, how she has a whole family here waiting for her." Her smile came back and she kept moving her finger and typing on her phone's screen. After hours she jumped out of the bed and ran to her study table. She searched for her laptop but it was dark so she couldn't find it.

She switched on the light. The laptop was not on the table. She searched in her college bag and found it.

"Bongie! Switch off the light," groaned Chin-Sun. She was sleeping peacefully next to Bong-Cha. She was not as emotionally invested in all the drama that happened today. She was just happy that the designer she was a fan of was somehow related to her. She was not that angry with elders too. She thought that whatever the reason elders hid the secret from them must have been a good one. Maybe they wanted to protect their youngsters. Maybe they obeyed the words of harabuhji. All she knew was that everything happened for a reason and was excited to meet Ashma.

Her main reason was she wanted to persuade Ashma to design a wedding dress for her and now, when she was going to be her half-sister-in-law, she might make an exception for her.

"I am too excited to sleep." Bong-Cha was busy typing something on her laptop. She didn't even look at Chin-Sun. She kept her head buried in her computer.

"But I need my beauty sleep," grumbled Chin-Sun and sat up. She placed a pillow in her lap and asked, "what are you doing anyway?"

Bong-Cha turned her chair towards Chin-Sun, looked at her and replied with a huge smile, "I am searching for her phone number and address. I need to start working on bringing her here."

"You will find some way to contact her on her website," said Chin-Sun as it was the obvious answer.

"It's the office number of her fashion house 'Samvlta' in New Delhi. There is no personal number."

"Who gives their personal phone number on an official website?" asked Chin-Sun.

"I know, Sherlock. That's why I am searching for her on social media, Facebook, Twitter, Insta, etc. Her company has profiles on all social media but she has no social media presence. It seems as if she lives under a rock." Bong-Cha kept scrolling on her laptop.

"What about using our business development team?" suggested Chin-Sun.

"No thanks, your business development team has been trying to talk to her for a year now."

"Hey! Don't insult my company," reprimanded Chin-Sun.

"I am not insulting your company, I am insulting Yong-Sun oppa's company," mocked Bong-Cha.

"Ha-ha, as if it's different." Chin-Sun raised an eyebrow at Bong-Cha but she was too busy typing and scrolling in her laptop that she didn't even look at Chin-Sun. "Fine, let me get my laptop as well. I will help you too." The dedication of Bong-Cha melted Chin-Sun's heart.

Chin-Sun got off the bed and took out her laptop from her bag. They both sat on the bed under the blanket and started searching for Ashma. Keeping in mind, the divide and conquer rule, they distributed different social media among themselves. For hours Bong-Cha and Chin-Sun kept searching on social media for Ashma.

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The sunlight streamed inside their room. The birds chirped, the alarms on their phone kept ringing but they kept sleeping peacefully.

Eun-Kyung entered their room after hearing the sound of the phone alarm. Both girls were sleeping while sitting, their heads were hung backwards and were placed on the bed rest. She switched off the alarm, took off their laptop from their bed, placed them on the study table and tucked both the girls properly under the blanket.

She knew that the whole house slept restlessly that night thinking about Ashma. They all wanted to see her. Some wanted to just meet her, some wanted to know her, some wanted to work with her. None had any idea that famous Designer Ashma would be related to them.

She went outside and helped In-Ho in the kitchen in preparing breakfast. No one came to the breakfast table. Everyone avoided each other. All went for their works without having breakfast. Hae-Won didn't go on her live stream. The whole house was quiet and gloomy.

The only person who was happy and excited was Bong-Cha. She spent hours after she woke up again searching for ways to contact Ashma. But all she could find was her official email-id, her office phone number, her official social media handles. Not a speck of personal information was to be found on the internet.

All the articles, news that popped up, she knew them by heart. She knew everything a hardcore fan should know about their idol except her personal information. Even in interviews, she hated indulging in personal information. She was a private person and her very competent PR team made sure of that. There were no scandals of her, no rumours. She was known as a highly creative, very knowledgeable, kind-hearted person.

Bong-Cha searched and searched but couldn't find any clue how to contact Ashma. An idea popped up in her mind. This year when Ashma won the coveted 'World Film Festival award for costume design', a documentary on her life was made. Bong-Cha had that documentary. She looked up that CD in her collection and started watching it for any kind of clue.

She bunked her college that day and watched that documentary repeatedly. Ashma talked about her early life and how her mother made her independent from when she was young. She would do household chores and get money from her mother and would buy threads and clothes and create dresses for her dolls. That inspired her to become a fashion designer.

Her mother never put the notion of having a male counterpart in her life so she never was attached to marriage or even the concept of marriage, that's why she never could imagine a wedding dress. Even the movie that won her the award had a wedding scene but the dress was not designed by her. It was designed by some other designer.

When she grew up she took admission in India's best fashion school and trained in Milan, the fashion capital of the world. She came back to India and opened her fashion house 'Samvlta' in New Delhi and slowly and steadily became one of the best designers in the world.

Even after watching the documentary numerous times, all she could find out about her personal life was that she loves her mother, her grandfather, and someone named Madhu Maasi; lives in New Delhi in a big mansion and drives Hyundai Tuscon.

At last, she was defeated. She couldn't get her address or her phone number from anywhere. Then she formulated a plan. She would send an e-mail on her official email-id every day. She would call her on her office phone every day. She would DM her on her social media every day.

She had no time to talk to her father and listen to the story about why he left his elder daughter in a country far away. All she could think was how soon she must contact Ashma and bring her to Korea. She would drop her numerous emails every single day. She called her office every day but was out of luck.

Slowly the atmosphere of the house changed from gloomy to anticipation. Every day everyone would inquire about the progress of Bong-Cha but not Young-Jae, he was not at all interested. She never lost hope, she never deterred from her path she kept calling Ashma.

One fine day, she was sitting with Chin-Sun when she called Ashma. Her assistant handed her the phone. In excitement, Bong-Cha blurted out everything about how she was her sister. She knew she gave Ashma a shock but she had to be firm and somehow tricked Ashma to come to Korea.

After more than a week, her dream came true. Her half-sister was standing in front of her. She hugged her sister for the first time. She looked at her beautiful sister up close for the first time. The tall, beautiful girl with waist-length dark brown hair, dark brown eyes was standing before her.

She looked around at Yong-Sun, he could not take his eyes off Ashma. She smiled at his astonished face. His huge crush was visible from miles.

Yong-Sun noticed Bong-Cha staring and smiling at him. His cheeks turned red with embarrassment. He lowered his eyes but not for long. His eyes immediately started staring at Ashma again. Her simplicity, her beauty was captivating. Her long brown straight hair was complimenting her big brown eyes beautifully. His heart leapt out of his chest when he saw a tear dropping down from her eyes after she bowed down to Eun-Kyung. She was not only beautiful, she knew how to respect an elder.

The next moment, his perfect mould shattered. She spoke rudely to harabuhji. She even used the f-word. Everyone stood there silent and shook. How can someone have two different personalities? She was kind, polite, respectful in front of Eun-Kyung. She was stark opposite in front of Young-Jae.

Her eyes were shooting flames.. Young-Jae was not far behind, his eyes turned red too.

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