It's a beautiful calm night in the city, people roaming around the streets and cars driving to wherever they wish to. I stand leaning against the big windows of my study, I wonder what people could doing late as this hour. It's almost midnight and yet the roads and streets are still buzzing with people and cars moving around. Maybe some of them are on their way home or maybe on their way to bars and places like that. As for people roaming around, I guess some of them couldn't sleep so they decide to walk around getting a breath of fresh air or maybe some of them have late night cravings, what a funny reason I thought of. I step away from the window and go back to sit in front of my laptop typing an important document into it, my phone then interrupts me and I look at the caller ID. Joy? Is there something wrong?

"Hello?" 

"Seulgi, I have a problem please help me." 

"What is the problem?" 

"Irene is very drunk and she doesn't want to go home." I get up from my seat and I can't believe what I'm hearing right now. On the second thought, why did she call me instead of her beloved boyfriend to pick her up? Probably busy with something I couldn't care less about.

"And where is she right now?" I ask feeling frustrated.

"She's on the dance floor with some guy." Joy says and with that said I'm burning with anger.

"Ok just keep an eye on her and make sure she doesn't do anything stupid I'll be there in a moment."

"Ok I'll keep an eye on her." 

"Where are you guys?" 

"The same place where we hungout the last time." 

"Ok wait there and don't take your eyes off of that idiotic girl got it?" 

"Ok." 

"Good I'll see you." I say then hang up immediately. This woman what am I going to do with you? I get the car keys and quickly make my way to the elevator. Once the elevator opens I make my way to the parking lot, I unlock the door and get in then drive off to the place. What are they doing there and most importantly what is she doing there? This woman shouldn't be anywhere near alcohol; the last time she drank, she ended up losing her ity to me and now she's stupid to let it happen again. After some times later, I've finally reached the place, I drive over to the parking lot and quickly switch off the engine. I walk quickly and angrily to the entrance of the club. I walk inside the club, the loud bursting music and drunk people grinding all over each other welcomes me. I look around for an idiotic girl but to no avail, she's no where to be found. I look around then I finally found Joy standing by her table, I walk over to her table. "Hey." I shout over the loud music

"Oh finally you're here." 

"Where is she?"

"Over there." She points to a girl dancing crazily with a guy. I without hesitation walk over to where they are, I tug her by the arm to get her away from him."Sorry she's with me." I say to the guy.

"Seulgi what are you doing here?" God you are very drunk.

"Taking you home." 

"No I"m not going anywhere." She tries to break free from my grip, only to make me tighten it.

"Listen I did not just drive here to let you be stubborn with me now let's go." I drag her with me but she didn't budge. "Are you gonna come with me easily or you want me to carry you over my shoulders cause I don't mind people looking at me carrying a drunktard over my shoulders now what's it gonna be?" She chuckles drunkenly and wraps her arms around my neck.

"You look so hot and y when you're mad."

"I'm not mad, I'm furious." I state firmly and she chuckles more.

"Should I un-furious you." What the hell lady that's not even a word.

"And how are you going to do th-." I was cut off by a pair of lips kissing me sloppily. She pulls back and look at me. "Still furious?" 

"Yes very." 

"I'll make sure you're not mad anymore." She says then leans in close and I put my palm on to stop her.

"Let's go and I won't be mad anymore." She finally lets go of me.

"No I'm still having fun." I ruffle my hair in frustration. Can she get any more stubborn than this?

"Are you gonna walk out with me easily or you want me to carry you over my shoulders?" 

"You wouldn't dare." I grab her arm and lean a bit closer to her.

"I would and I will if you don't come with me."

"No." Gosh, she can be very stubborn when she's drunk and even when she's sober.

"Ok then on the count to 3 if you still don't move then you're over my shoulders." She stands still with her arms crossed.

"One." I start to count.

Still not moving.

"Two."

Still nothing.

"Three" With that I carry her over my shoulders making her yelp. I walk out of the club then I hear her throw up and I close my eyes in frustrations and annoyance. Great just great. I see Joy walking towards us.

"Here's her stuff." Joy says giving her items.

"Thanks and can you drive home?" 

"Yea I didn't drink alot like drunky here." 

"Drive safety and don't worry I'll take care of her." I assure her.

"Thanks by the way if I didn't thought of calling you then she would probably be doing some bedroom activites with some guy she doesn't know." 

"Yeah I'll take care of her go home now it's late." I say then she nods. I walk to the parking lot while carrying this drunkhead over my shoulders, I unlock the door and get her in with little difficulties, I then drive off back to my place.

Once, I've reached my place, I turn off the engine and get this drunky out of the car. I carry her over my shoulders and proceed inside the building, as I walk inside staffs are staring at me. Yeah just keeping on looking. I just ignore them and walk into the elevator. As the elevator opens, I take a step outside heading to my room. I swipe the key card and enter the room, the lights automatically turns on. I make my way to the bedroom to put her down on the bed. Once, I'm in the bedroom, I put her down gently and I walk over to the closet to get some new clothes for her then I walk back to bed. I put the clothes on the foot of the bed and climb up then kneel in front of her. I hold her up so that I can undress her and put the new clothes on her but she just wrap her arms around my neck. 

"Seulgi" She groans.

"What?" 

"Where am I?" 

"My room."  

"Are you gonna make love to me? " She asks smiling. What the hell is wrong with this woman? Is she always like this when she's drunk? 

"No I'm not, I'm just going to undress you and put some new clothes on you." 

"Why not?" She whines.

"Because you're drunk and I don't want to." 

"Who said I'm drunk I'm perfectly fine." She claims. 

"No you're not now let me undress so you can get some sleep." I say trying to loosen her grip from my neck. 

"Do me a favor."

"What?" 

"Have fun with me. " She whispers into my ears.

"No Irene I'm not going to have with you and we are not going to have with each other got it? "

"No. " She says then she pulls me closer so that our lips are touching each other. She kisses me sloppily making me lose myself, she pulls me down so that her back hits the mattress and I'm on top. She then switches our position and moves to my neck kiss the life out of it and it makes moan a little.

"Irene stop. " I mumble and she doesn't stop. I switch our positions back, I grab both of her arms that was around my neck and pin it above her head. "I said stop. " I look right into her eyes and she smirks at me.

"You were enjoying it." 

"I told you that we're not going to do anything." 

"Come on Seul you know you want to." I let go of her then kneel up. 

"No I don't and if you still insist that I do I'm going lock you up in here until I'm satisfied." I threaten her. As I climb out of bed, she grabs my arm not wanting me to go. 

"OK fine I'll stop but can you sleep with me? " This woman.

"Fine."I lay down beside her and she snuggles in closer then puts her head on my chest and her arm around my waist. I softly caress her hair making her fall asleep. "How can you be so reckless? You know that your alcohol tolerance is low and yet you still drink. How can I not be furious at you when you're mindlessly doing things that would put yourself in regret." I mutter under my breath and she groans and snuggles in closer. I let out a sigh and close my eyes to be deep asleep.

It's a beautiful sunny morning, I sit up and hit the snooze button on my alarm clock. I stretch out my sore muscles from all the sleeping I've been doing and then climb out of bed. It's the weekends thank god, I don't think I'll be in a good mood if I were to go to school today as I couldn't get any sleep last night for some unknown reason. School isn't the problem why I can't get a full sleep at night, It's barely about school. I don't usually get stressed about school because there's nothing hard in school, everything subject is considered easy for me. Maybe is because of too much intake of caffeine during the day, other than that I don't really know. 

I get out from the bathroom and dress up myself in a simple white t-shirt and a pair of blue jeans then head downstairs. I walk down the stairs to the living room and the first the I saw was my father reading the morning papers.

"Good morning father." I greet him.

"Good morning son." He greets me back but didn't budge a look at me. I'm starting to get used to it now, he's been like this ever since I can remember. Ignoring me on a daily basis because of his first priority which is work, we have never sat down and talk about how our days went or anything regarding my school life or normal life in general. We have never sat down and have a normal dinner like other families do, he would sit and type something on the laptop or write something down.

I can't understand why is he so into working? I can't. Can't he just spare me a glance when I greet him or when I wanted to talk to him about something and he would just brush me away. The only people I can talk to are my grandfather and my nanny, those are the only two people I could talk to aside from Soojung and Seungwan. What kind of father doesn't have time for his own son? Just a minute or even a second, all I ask for is for him to give me a father and son time that's it. I see families having their time together, mothers looking at their husbands playing with their children, chasing their children around with laughter and smiles on their faces and I can't help but feel sad.

"Good morning bud." I turn to see my grandfather smiling at me.

"Good morning grandpa." I greet him and sit beside him on breakfast bar.

"How was your sleep?"

"It was fine grandpa, how was yours?

"It was good too, bud. Eat bud, there's somewhere I want to take you today." I look at him confusingly. "Don't worry bud, you'll like it." He smiles at me.

"Good morning Seulgi-bear." I see my nanny walking to me and she puts my plate of breakfast in front of me.

"Good morning nanny." I beam at her.

"Come on eat up." Grandpa pats my back then walks into the living room where my father is still reading.

I eat up my breakfast alone on the breakfast bar and everyone else is doing their own stuff. I should be school work today but since my grandfather is taking me out somewhere, I'll just put it aside for now. I finish my breakfast not too long, I get up for the bar stool and walk into the kitchen to place the dirty plate in the sink. I glass myself a glass of water for my medication prescribed by Dr.Moon and gulp it all down. I then walk into the living room where my father and grandfather are sitting reading the morning papers.

"Grandpa, I'm done." He looks up and puts the paper down.

"Ok, now come." He walks to me and swings an arm around my shoulders. My grandfather is such a young soul. "Hey son, I'm going to take Seulgi out for a grandpa and grandson time, wanna come as well?"

"No dad, it's ok you two enjoy your time." As expected from him, always working and never having time for his loved ones, how mean.

"Ok then, son then me and this little man right here is going out to have some fun." Grandpa then walks us out to the garage. Grandpa presses the unlock button on the car key and opens the door. I get in the car and buckle myself, grandpa presses the button to open the garage door to open. "Ready bud?" 

"Yes grandpa. By the way grandpa, I'm not a little man anymore, I'm a big man now. Look at my muscles, they're big." I flex my arms for grandpa to see and grandpa laughs. "What's so funny grandpa? Look I'm a man." I point to my arms. Grandpa ruffles my hair. "Grandpa! I'm serious, look I am a man, see I think I'm growing facial hair now." I touch my chin for grandpa to see and grandpa laughs again.

"Oh, buddy you'll always be my little man and besides you're only 14 , those hair you want will grow when you're about 16 or 17 so don't worry." I sulk in place and grandpa puts a hand on my head. "Don't worry bud, you'll be a man of course but every boy can grow up to be a man. It takes courage, selflessness, kindness, respect and responsibilites to be a man. A man should always respect a woman for every of her choosing, a man should take responsibilities for his own actions and a man should always be strong no matter how rough and tough the situation is. I'm sure that you'll grow up to be a good man, a great husband and a wonderful father if you were to ever settle down with woman you love." Grandpa gently pats my head and smiles.

"You think so grandpa?"

"I know so." Grandpa starts the engine and drives off to where we'll be having our grandpa and grandson time.

I open my eyes to the bright light of the sun shinning in the car, I sit up properly and look outside the window. Outside the window, I can see the view of the ocean and I'm wondering why grandpa has brought me here. The beach? Grandpa has brought me to the beach because? We didn't bring any swimming equipments or our swimming trunks. Why are we here? What's there to do on the beach aside from swimming and those water sports? Are we here just to walk on the seashores? We could've just walk around the park or my yard if that's what we're here for.

"Grandpa, what are we doing here?"

"You'll know later bud."

I sit back into my seat and stare out the window. I still can't figure out why he has taken me here, it's been awhile since I've been to the beach and I'm wondering as to why is he bringing me here. Plus, he told me I'll like it and that has got me thinking on what he has to show. Grandpa drives to the parking lot and kills the engine. He gets out of the car first and I follow after. "Come on buddy." Grandpa walks first and I just mindlessly follow him. He walks to the the docks where I see many boats parking and I'm not sure we're here for. 

"Mr.Kang." I see a man walking towards us.

"Mr.Won, Good morning." Mr.Won and grandpa shake hands and Mr.won turns to look at me.

"Who's this is young man?"

"This is Kang Seulgi, my grandson. Seulgi-ah, this is Mr.Won he takes care of every boat here."

"It's nice to meet you Seulgi-ah. I hope you'll have fun." Mr.Won smiles.

"Is she ready?" She? Who is she?

"Yes, she is all ready."

"Great, now let's go buddy." Grandpa walks through the row of boats and stops at a white boat, he then climbs into it. I follow after. I step inside the boat and I stare dumbfounded at the interior design of it, it's beautiful. "Do you like it? She's beautiful isn't she?" I nod at the question. I guess this is the 'she' they were talking about, I didn't know that the 'she' wasn't a person but a method of transportation. "Her name is serenity and she's ours."

"I didn't we have a boat of our own."

"She's a yacht, a very precious yacht to me. She was from a very well-known company and they were nice enough to let me have this yacht since I've helped them from going bankrupt so they gave me this beauty right here. I brought you here today is because I wanted to teach you how to sail this one." No way, he's going to teach me how to sail a boat so that's why he brought me here today. 

"You're going to teach me how to sail this boat?" He just smiles. "I think it's hard for me to do so."

"Buddy, don't worry I'll teach you and one day this can all be yours."

"Are you giving me this?"

"Of course buddy, anything for my grandson. I plan to give you everything you deserve like this yacht right here." 

"Don't you feel reluctant just a little bit?"

"Of course not silly, you're my grandson and I can't take these things with me to the other side can I? Besides, what's mine is yours."

"But grandpa I-"

"No buts buddy, now come I'll teach you." I follow him up to the deck and he begins explaining each and every detail about the boat and how I should treat it. I've never seen grandpa this happy talking or explaining about something before, this boat must be very special and important to him. He explains everything I need to know about sailing the boat and what I should look at before setting off to the ocean. Grandpa takes me around the boat where the safety equipments are, what each of the parts of the boat is called and what it's for and that I should always check it before sailing this thing. "You have to hold the wheel very tightly because it's kinda heavy and when you steer you have to put some strength into it. Try it." I put both of my hands on the wheel and hold it tightly, grandpa's right the thing is pretty strong and heavy. I steer the wheel right and the boat follows. 

"Good job buddy. That's how you do it, just hold it tightly and steer, that's it."

Grandpa lets me be the captain and he just watches me from a feet away. I keep holding the wheel tightly not letting it go, the view of the ocean is absolutely stunning, the clear water and the cool breeze are just wonderful. I stand holding the wheel admiring my surroundings and it brings a smile on my face. "Grandpa, why is this boat called 'serenity'?"

"Do you feel peaceful and calm when you're on it?"

"Yes I do."

"That's why this boat is named 'serenity' because I felt the same thing you feel whenever I'm on this boat, peaceful and calm."  I continue to look at the view and I understand now why this boat is named serenity, I feel peaceful and calm when I'm on it. I feel free and there's nothing holding me back.

I open my eyes and I become aware that I was dreaming. I've dreaming about that time of my life for several nights and I'm starting to wonder what's wrong with me. Maybe deep inside of me, I miss those times of my life, when me and my grandfather went to places he wanted to take me and did the things he thought I would like. Places where I begged my father to take me to but never got to go because he was too busy with work, my grandfather would always be the one who took me to the places I wanted to go or he'll surprise me by taking me somewhere I never went before. Never once in my 26 years of living and counting has my father ever did something with me like what other fathers and sons do, how sad.

My thoughts were interrupted by the weight shifting next to me, I look down to see a woman asleep in my arms with her eyebrows furrowed. Since when did I have someone in my bed with me? How did we get into this position? I try to recall last night's memory and now I remember that Joy called me to pick her up because she was too drunk to be able to do anything by herself, how careless of her. I remember being very furious at her seeing her dance with some guy who was clearing trying to take an advantage of her. What an idiot she was, she should know her alcohol tolerance and yet she drank over her limit and got drunk, what an irresponsible drinker.

 I carefully slip my arm away from her making her stir a bit but she still remains asleep, once my arm is free I turn sideways to examine her sleeping form and the sight makes my lip curve up. I get up of bed and make my way to the bathroom to shower up. After finishing cleaning myself, I walk over to closet and dress myself. After I'm done dressing up myself, I go over to the bedside table and retrieve my phone. I turn to look at the bed to see her still sleeping peacefully. I unlock my phone to dial my secretary's number.

"Yura-ssi Good morning." 

"Good morning Mr.Kang can I help you with something?" 

" Yes, can you please look for this woman's workplace number Bae Irene."

"Yes Mr.Kang I'll look for it and message you the phone number."

"Thank you and Yura-ssi I'm not going in the office today so anything important just send it to me and if there's any meeting please attend it on my behalf." 

"Yes Mr.Kang and would that be all sir?"

"Yes and Yura-ssi have a nice day." 

"Yes you too sir have a nice day." 

I hang up the phone and get out of the room to the kitchen to make some breakfast. My phone vibrates, I unlock the phone and see a message from Yura, I press the number she sent and wait for the person to pick up.

"Hello. " A female voice answers the phone.

"Is this where a woman named Bae Irene works at? " 

"Yes and may I ask who this is if you want speak to her I apologize she's not here yet but I can give her your message sir. " 

"Hello I'm Kang Seulgi of Kang's company and I just want to inform you that Ms. Bae here will not be working today as I need her to do something important with me will that be alright? " 

"Y-yes Mr. Kang I'm fine with that I'll just call someone to take her shift for today." 

"Alright then and may I ask for your name? " 

"Jieun sir, Lee Jieun." 

"OK then Jieun-ssi I'll go now, have a nice day. " 

"Have a nice day too Mr. Kang."

I hang up the phone and start bringing out the ingredients to cook. This is the first time ever that I'm cooking for anyone aside from myself, I've never cooked anything for anyone before, she's the first. Once I'm done cooking, I plate the food up on the portable table, I then go over to the medicine cabinet and take out the hangover pills from it. I carry the table to the bedroom. Upon entering the bedroom, I can see the girl sitting up with a messy hair looking dumbfounded at me. I walk closer to her and place the table on the bed while I go sit on the end of it. 

"How are you feeling? " 

"Hungover." 

"Of course you should be. Eat those pills first then finish your breakfast."  She does as I say and gulp down those pills in a second.

"Did you cook this?" 

"Well Martha Stewart isn't here so of course I made it. " 

"How did I get here? " 

"Joy called me and I came to get you. " 

"Why did she called you? Did you do anything to me?" She looks down at herself. "And why am I wearing your clothes? And-" I cut her off with my palm on .

"Listen to me, why she called me instead of your beloved boyfriend beats me as well but you should be thankful that I didn't do anything to you when you kept begging me to." 

"Did you undress me?" 

"Yes." 

"And where did you sleep?" She's not going to stop her interrogation is she?

"Next to you. " I point to the spot next to her. 

"Oh God we didn't." I can see her panicking and I let out a chuckle.

"I like my women fully alerted all time when we're having fun." I playfully grin at her. 

"ert." She rolls her eyes. "Where are my clothes?" 

"In the dry cleaner."  

"But I can totally wear them. " 

"Sweetheart it reeks of alcohol and vomit." 

"So?" Does she think that I was going to let her wear those clothes that reeks of alcohol and whatever she ate?

"So do you want people to pinch their noses when you walk by? " She clicks tongue.

"Whatever Kang it's not like I'd ask you to come and get me." 

"You didn't but your friend did and thanks to her you wouldn't be waking up to a stranger sleeping next to you. " 

"What do you mean by that? "  

"You were grinding all over some dude and he was trying to make out with you but luckily I got there on time and carried you away from him." 

"And that's how I ended up here. " She mumbles loud enough for me to hear.

"Yes and you made me extremely furious at you. " 

"Why?" I scoff at her, is she dumb or what? Who wouldn't get angry when someone you know did something mindless like what she did. Of course I was angry at her.  

"Because you mindlessly did things that you knew you couldn't handle well like drinking. You should have known that your tolerance for alcohol and yet you still drank over your limit and also you were up all over some dude you don't know literally giving yourself to him and how can I not be furious at you?" 

"Why do you care? " I choke on my saliva upon hearing that question. Do I care for her? All I know is that the image of her up all on some guy and his hands wandering her body just makes me sick and mad. Is that considered as 'care'? No, I don't care about her. Why would I want to hurt her if I care about her, I just don't like anyone touching or looking at her. I must be going crazy.

"Because your friend cared and I just wanted to help her that's it. Also men aren't all the same, you could be having a one night stand with him and he could have passed his STDs or STIs to you and you wouldn't even noticed until the symptoms starts to show or unwanted pregnancy and you would be regretting it for the rest of your life." 

"I'm sorry all alright I lose control when I'm drunk. " She apologizes.

"Yea you lose control and that leads to just like what happened to us." 

"Alright I get it ok I'll drink less from now on."

"Good now eat up it's getting cold now I'll just wait for you in the living room." I say then get up from the bed and walk outside to the living room.  I sit down on the sofa and turn on the TV, I browse through the channels deciding what to watch. There's seemingly nothing on TV accept for this movie probably released in 1970's or 80 something. After an eternity later, she walks out of the bedroom wearing my baby blue t shirt that makes her look like an elementary school kid and my white shorts. I get up from my seat and walk over to her. I chuckle at her.

"What are you laughing at?" She glares at me.

"You look like an elementary school kid." She jabs my stomach making me groan.

"Shut up Kang."

"I'll be back, I'll just get the finished plates from the bedroom." I say and she nods then I walk inside the bedroom to get the table to the kitchen. I place the plates in the sink and proceed to wash them. Once I'm done I walk over to the girl sitting on the sofa and retrieve my key card and car keys and her stuff from the coffee table.

"Come let's go." She nods and follows me out the door. We both enter the elevator, journey down to the basement floor. Once the elevator opens we both head our way to the parking lot, we walk to my car and I open the door for her. 

"Thanks." 

"Welcome your highness." I playfully joke and she scoffs. She gets in the car then I get in the other side as well and I start the engine and drive away to our destination.

The outside world is sunny and beautiful, people are walking around on the streets, minding their own businesses. No one inside the car is uttering any word to each other, th