CHAPTER 3

Class ended before eight.

Hana approached the teacher's table with a smile and the teacher smiles back at her “You look bothered today, Ms. Kim; stressed from work?” she chuckles and shook his head “No sir, just missing someone”

Zhou Mi raises up his index finger in the air knowingly “Ah, boyfriend?” she only smiles. Remembering why she was there, her smile fades away and gets replaced by a curious expression “Oh, um, can I ask you something sir?”; Zhou Mi momentarily stops from picking up his things from the table “Sure” he pushes his glasses up.

“A friend told me something but I can't understand it, I remember the words though”

“Alright, I'll translate it for you” he smiles. Taking a deep breath, she mumbles soundlessly the words in Chinese before saying it out loud

“我打赌当Kris回来时他们的床一定承受不了”

Silence.

Hana patiently waits, blinking her eyes as she does so. Zhou Mi looked surprise at her set of words then he sniggers “Before I do so, is this Kris, your boyfriend?” she bit back her lip and shyly nods her head. Zhou Mi laughs while she stood there in confusion.

“Ms. Kim, the translation is: I bet Kris will break the bed when he visits”

Blink. Blink. Her cheeks turn red. XIUMIN! Zhou Mi chuckles at her expression and gathers his things “What an interesting set of words from a friend, Ms. Kim; well, I'll see you tomorrow” he then exits the room before her. Hana stood there for awhile, utterly embarrassed.

“Omona ~” she groans, hanging her head low. “I should've just asked Tao”

Kris.

Sigh.

I took off my trench coat and hug it up on the rack before I enter the space. Twenty-three floors from the ground, overlooking the busy city of Beijing was my condo unit. Yes, I didn't live at my dad's home for reasons that I really don't like seeing my aunt everyday. Ever since I can remember, she never liked me and same goes for her; Tch.

I flop myself down onto the couch, resting my body for a moment before I resume moving around. It's exhausting everyday as always and this is the only thing I dislike about being promoted to a higher position. It's like starting all over again.

Beep. I fish my phone out of my pocket and read the message:

She's home. Safe and sound.

- D.O.

Good. I take a deep breath of relief.

Sometimes, I think about wasting the night away but everytime I attempt to do so I just back down the last minute. It's so strange what a single significant person can do to you; what Kim Hana has done to me is beyond my control. The effect she has on me is so fatal that I can't seem to comprehend how it even came to this point.

Funny. She didn't look anything like special when she first stepped into my office, she's no eye-catcher but eitherway... she drew me close to her. She became special. I made her special.

And she made me feel the same... she made me feel special again.

Ring. Ring. Ring. My train of thoughts stop and I look down on the phone in my hand

Incoming Call UNKNOWN

Who the is this? Aish. I hate it when unknown numbers call me, they tend to be annoying. Click. “Who is this?”

“H-Hello, is this Wu Yi Fan?” asked the female voice of the caller. My brows scrunched a bit “Yes, who are you?” “O-oh my gosh --” I heard giggles on the other line making me frown some more. Was this some sort of childish prank call? Obviously... and obviously it's by stupid little -mone raged teen girls who have nothing to do at a slumber party but how they got my number and how they know me... must mean that they know someone I know.

And whoever they know better not be working for me because once I find out who the it is, they can starve themselves to death!

“Who are you?” I ask again, slightly getting pissed off with ever passing second and the continuous sound of their giggles “You're the chairman of Wu Prime, right?” it's another voice. A heavy and annoyed sigh escapes my lips as I bring a hand to my head and massage my forehead with my thumb and forefinger “Look, I don't give a anymore as to who you are nor what do you want, you're wasting my ing time”

I end the call and get up from the couch. A shower is in order right now, a nice long shower.

Ring. Ring. Ring. Aish. It's probably the caller again on their mission to bug the living s out of me “Do you want to get killed or something?” I practically growled onto the other line.

“Chill, hot-head, it's me” Chanyeol? Aish. I lean against the wall and rub my tired eyes. “Hey man, I know you're stressed but breathe in, breath out” he chuckles on the other line. “A bunch of girls were bothering me through a call” I explain briefly before pushing myself off the wall and walk to the bedroom.

A large bed but no one to share it with. my life. I make a pass at the clean white sleeping-purposed furniture and head for the walk in closet “Really? That's a first”

My eyes scanned through one of the wall mounted cabinets, shuffling through the clothes and picked out a pair before kicking it close with my foot and exit the place to go to the bathroom “Anyway, why'd you call?”

“Oh, right! Something fishy happened this afternoon...”

“What do you mean?” I close the door and start to my shirt with my free hand as I face the mirror “Fishy as in, interior designers came in and said they were to renovate one of the empty offices on the top floor where the CEO and Hana is residing”

And I just stop, slamming my hand on the marble counter top “What?”

“And the fishiest part is that orders came from Wu Prime”

“That's absurd. I gave no such orders and to add, who the will use that office?”

“That's why it's fishy because no one knows who... duh”

The frown returns to my face. Is today not my day at all? “Order it off. Over ride if you should and find out who's behind it, let me know so I can fire them”

“Eh... aren't you being to rash on things? What if the one who ordered it is also in a high position?”

“I don't care” I scowled, getting pissed off already and Chanyeol breathes out a sigh “Alright then. We'll order override tomorrow but what if it gets refused?”

Sigh. “Just do it. I have to go cool off my head, call me if something else comes up tomorrow”

“Araso”

Beep. The call ends. I put down my phone on the counter top and begin to strip myself off the layers of clothing and entered the shower; cold water hits my back and I let out a deep breath hoping that it would somehow lessen the heaviness I felt. It's at times like these when I just want to hop on a private plane and fly to Korea just so I could spend one night beside Hana.

She knows how to ease me out and just give me some peace and quiet even if it's just for a few hours or minutes. I'm really tired... far more tired than the time that I had first stepped into Wu Enterprise and had to catch up, no. stepping into Wu Prime made my first adjustment experience at Wu Ent. Look like child's play. This is the big leagues now and if I want to be on top, I have to overcome everything.

Ring. Ring. Ring. Sigh. What now?

I turn off the shower and step out, drying off myself with a towel and wrapped it around my lower half before picking up the phone

Incoming Call UNKNOWN

ing hell. Beep. I hear an irritating giggle “Can you ing stop calling me?” “Tsk. Yi Fan, you really are still so mean... how can you curse at my friends earlier?” my eyes squint as I hear the voice and it doesn't even take me a second to know just to whom it belonged to. So... you're the one behind it all.

“What do you ing want, Yookyung?”

“Eeey ~ stop cursing!” I could picture a pout on her bratty little face. I see that she's finally risen from wherever hole it is that she crawled into. Tch. She should've stayed there. Beep. I end the call.

I let out a sigh before exiting the bathroom to change into clothes. My phone rang again but as soon as I saw the caller ID stating it was yet again from an unknown number, I ignored it. It continued to ring; again and again it went and repeatedly I ignored every single one. I even put it on mute.

I should change my number tomorrow.

Hana arrives at home.

As soon as she was through the door, she lied herself down onto the cold floor and let out a tired groan from the long day that she had at work. Moments later, she hauls herself up and presses a button on the phone as she walks past it to go to the kitchen.

Beep.

“Hello? Hana, it's Lay. I just wanted to check if you're already home, call me or text me when you get this, okay?”

She listens to the messages as she pours herself a glass of water

Beep.

“Hana-ssi, this is a long distance call from China! It's me, Sonya. Aigo, we haven't talked for a long time but I guess we'll see each other soon. There's a fashion summit coming up, you'll be there right? Oh, has Kris told you about his dad's condition? I heard it's bad. Will you be visiting? I hope so. Anyway, take care of yourself there”

Beep.

“Hana-ssi, it's Chen. I forgot to tell you that you have to be at Cube tomorrow at eight, they say that they wanted to see you”

“Cube?” she sips on her water as she leans against the entry way post of the kitchen and stares at the phone

“Be there, okay? Okay. Bye.”

Beep.

“Hana-unnie! It's Stephanie, why aren't you in China? Has Yi Fan told you about appa's condition? Unnie, he's really not doing well. Don't tell Yi Fan but he wants to talk to you about something, I don't know. Are you going? Please let Minseok-oppa know and he'll take care of it for you”

Hana blinks her eyes, her brows coming closer together. There were no more messages left. She goes back to the kitchen for a brief moment to put the glass in the sink before returning to the living room and took out her phone to update her schedule for tomorrow. A lot of thoughts were going on inside her mind, one of the more dominant ones being about Stephanie's message.

Why would their dad want to talk to me? It's not like I'm family... or something. Sigh. She props her legs up and rests them on top of the glass center table, relaxing her body. Should I go? But... why can't I let Kris know about it? Aigo. What is this?

Haling herself off the couch, she makes her way to the bedroom and the first thing she sets her eyes on is a stuffed alpaca set on the bedside table beside the framed photo of her and Kris back in London. Stange... she thinks as she walks over to it. I never noticed this before. And picks it up. And I'm a hundred percent sure it's not mine.

“Where did you come from, little guy?” she inspects the stuffed animal. Her face suddenly falls blank and a crow seemed to have flown by on top of her head as she realizes that if it's not hers then it should belong to... “Kris?”

But why would he have it in the first place? A giggle escapes her lips. She then remembers that she already has encountered the stuffed animal when she came to his place before to get some signatures for Tao [A/N: Chapter 23] Looks like he forgot to pack you up. She breathes out a sigh before smiling at the stuffed animal “Aigo, I should take care of you then, huh?”

She sits down on the edge of the bed “You seem pretty special to him afterall” she leans back and lies down on the bed, setting the stuffed toy onto her tummy, it's clothed back “I really miss him, you know” she says.

“But!” she purses her lips together and looks at the ceiling “I guess I'll have to bear with it for awhile”

Ring. Ring.

She shot up from bed, setting the alpaca down on the side before scampering into the living room. She trips over the carpet at and falls face first on the ground with a loud thud “Oof!” a long groan escaped her lips, she hauled herself up and picked up the phone, kneeling. “H-hello?” she rubs her sore forehead, feeling a bump grow.

“Hana-ah... why? You're so pretty ~” came a slurred voice and then the sound of someone falling onto the floor with a thud follows. Panicked, her eyes widen “Y-yah, wh-who is this?”

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Chinggus, I've begun writing the sequel! How is it so far? No one still gave an entry poster for the sequel, all I received were for XOXO, so you all still have a chance to submit in your entries. So many subscribers already. so many comments and upvotes too! Thank you everyone! I'm thinking of doing a Christmas Special ~ just to let you know what happened during Christmas and New Year with Kris and Hana. Kekeke, anyway thank you everyone! :)

I missed chapternapping, so how shall it be? 20 comments for Chapter 4 today? ;)