Night.   Kris wrung his fingers together, taking deep breaths as the small messenger in their room continued to go off with all of the request for that night.   Kris had already received three appointments since he got back from his errand with Jaejoong and the last one that just came in was for him.   Though he worked at Agit and tried his hardest to move up brief level, sleeping with strange women never was a turn on for him. In fact, he was raised as a gentlemen, some one who worked hard for those he loved and was faithful to only one women. Suddenly, he was giving his giving his body willingly, with a fee of course.   He just hoped that all of his hard work being Jaejoong’s pupil would pay off. Honestly, the more he hung around Jaejoong and learned from him, the more admiration he felt for the older gentleman.   Someone he initially saw as competition, someone who looked down on him, now was someone who he held the most respect for.   He sighed, dropping his head in his hands as another request came in. He clicked the messenger noticing that it was for him…again. It seemed like it was a race between Tao, Jongdae, and himself. Who would get the most clients?   Shamelessly, Jongdae was winning, as he was pulling in request from loyal clients and new clients alike. Not that Kris was complaining. He preferred the life of running errands, bank deposits, and business meetings over bending his body into feral positions that will only please some strange woman.   It was already evening and his first client request was at 6:30 p.m. the earliest request he ever had. Though he was already washed and dressed for the evening, he still had to mentally prepare himself for an onslaught of clients. He didn’t speak a word as he watched Jongdae thumb through his client list for the night. The slender man dressed in all black, ignored the peering eyes of Kris, well aware that they were studying his every movement.   Tao, who had spent the greater part of his afternoon and evening avoiding Yixing, walked up behind Jongdae, whispering something into his ear that made the shorter chuckle.   Kris held back the insisted eye roll that was threatening the control of his sockets. Instead squeezing his eyes shut at the sight. He suddenly felt as if apologizing to Jongdae with the tall, dark, and intimidating Tao around would be not impossible, but extremely uncomfortable.    Yixing walked into the room, going straight for the kitchenette, to get water.   He kept his head down, trying not to look at Tao. As soon as the older had gotten back, he asked if Tao was in. Xiumin had directed him to Tao’s room, saying the boy was sniffling when he got back. Kris just watched on as Yixing didn’t bother going to the boy’s room at all, instead projecting solemn face. He noticed as Yixing’s face cracked more when the boy emerged from the room trailing behind a smiling Jongdae.   Really, the tallest of them had not held decent enough conversation to know exactly what was going on within their lives. But he has observed enough to know that Yixing cares a great deal for Tao, and ever since Jongdae’s break down Tao had been increasingly seen with the boy.   It was all interesting how people gravitated to one another…some to their opposites and others to those they had the most in common with.   Kris suppressed a knowing smile as an unconscious scowl broke out on Yixing’s face once he finally looked up at Tao and Jongdae.     ~~~~~~~~~     Jongdae walked along the corridor, making his way from one room to the next. Though he was used to having more than one or two clients in a night, he wasn’t expecting to have nine. He never even fathomed having to bed nine women in one night.   He was simply spent as he made it to the sixth person. He was thankful that the first few clients were his loyal ones. They understood how much he had to work that night allowing him to conserve his energy for the newer clients. They told him they didn’t want their favorite bedder getting a bad rep because he was tired.   Jongdae simply laughed at how considerate some of the more mature women could be, allowing the heated kisses and touches to be enough to please them.   He was smiling to himself now as he unlocked the next room assigned to him. The women inside surprising the life out of him.   There was Lyn, lying on the bed.   She was fully dressed, but he never expected to see her on his bedding nights. She was only assigned to come in on his D.E. nights.   “Lyn?” his voice cracked slightly.   She gave him a small smile, waving him over to the bed.   “What are you doing here tonight?” he asked, sitting down next to her.   “You look absolutely ravished,” she laughed, looking at his wild hair and stained lips.   He chuckled slightly, looking away from her eyes, “Well, I am paid to look this way.”   She smiled bashfully at him, staring as his side profile. Silently she admired the hard shape of his face. The obvious dentures of his cheeks that had shadows cast against them from his strongly defined cheekbones. The straight bridge of his nose, fanning out over his slim lips. Those same lips that spoke all kinds of weird and down right dirty sayings. The corners quirking out as if he always held a secret no one else knew. His jaw line, clenching and unclenching as the silence grew between them. She snapped her eyes away from his profile when she noticed he was staring at her, his long eyelashes defined by the way he was holding his head against the light, worried eyebrows slanting just so.    “I have a request of you,” she spoke lowly.   “Do you just want to talk? You do know that you have paid more by seeing me as a bedder instead of a D.E., right?”   “I am aware.”   “Then what request could be so important?”   “My parents, they decided to set me up with another man. I think I may like this one,” she smiled.   What she had said didn’t register fully in Jongdae’s head at first. But when it did, he was left stuttering, “Oh?”   “Yeah, I decided to just talk to him instead of play my little games, as you like to call them,” she laughed.   “Then why do you need me tonight?”   She looked away from him, clenching her fingers onto the bottom him of her knee length dress nervously. She blinked once, twice, three times before casting a glance in his direction, “Something…something just doesn’t feel, right?” she sighed loudly. “I don’t know. I think that, well, I know that once we start seeing each other regularly, I won’t be coming here to see you. It’s not exactly befitting for a woman spoken for to be engaged in a place like this.”   “Yet I just had one screaming my name,” Jongdae mumbled earning a small smack from Lyn.   “Information I did not need to know! Especially with what I am about to ask of you,” sh