CHAPTER 45

 

 

 

 

 

 

BEEP.

 

 

Sehun fishes his phone out of his pocket, turning away from Tao –momentarily deafening himself from his friend’s rant about the delayed shipment of his order from Gucci

 

 

“Yah, Sehun, are you listening to me?” he frowns but the other pays no mind nor gives him an answer, instead he widens his eyes in surprise as he read the message that arrived on his phone. Tao grows curious and gets up from the visitor’s chair, walking around Sehun’s desk and peers over his shoulder to read the text “Kris is here?”

 

 

Sehun types a quick reply as he answers Tao “Yeah, he flew in around midnight, I think…” as soon as the message was sent, Sehun rises from his seat and begins to head for the door. He grabs the handle and turns to the older guy “Well? Are you coming along or not?”

 

 

“Hm” he checks his watch, contemplating for a moment about the invitation before thinking ah , it’s better than getting stuck here! “Yeah, I’m in”

 

 

 

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“Will you please put me down now?” she asked nicely before the elevator doors open. Kris hums in thought for a moment, a smirk playing on his lips as he stared at the elevator’s mirror wall “And please stop staring at my thighs, even if the skirt rode up you’ll only see shorts” Ofcourse she would… Kris thinks to himself and puts down his girlfriend. Ofcourse she would wear shorts underneath.

 

 

Hana sighs in relief, mumbling a thank you as she fixes her dress just in time that the familiar bell rang and the doors smoothly slid open. Kris takes her hand and leads her out; he ignores the greetings as usual while Hana acknowledges each one being given to her. The two were completely opposite much to everyone’s wonder and amusement.

 

 

As soon as they were out of the building, Kris lets go of her hand and walks up to an unfamiliar sleek black Escalade; he opens the passenger side door but instead of Hana getting inside as he expected, she just stares at him in a weird way.

 

 

“What?” he blurts out, still holding the door open for her. Her eyes turn to slits “You brought a new car?”

 

 

“I bought this one, years ago; I just never used it much. Now, get in, we’re wasting daylight”

 

 

She sighs at his hastiness and gets inside the vehicle, strapping herself securely as Kris closes the door and runs around front, getting inside the driver’s side and straps himself in aswell. Hana runs her eyes around the interior of the vehicle, everything spick, span, shiny and screaming luxury.

 

 

“Ready?” he asks, smiling as he starts up the car whilst looking at her. She smiles back and gives a brief nod of the head; all of a sudden, Kris unbuckles his seatbelt and leans forward to meet her lips in a chaste kiss catching her by surprise before he straps himself back onto his seat and drove off, his girlfriend still in a surprised daze and her cheeks flustering red. What the – Hana shakes her head for a moment before diverting her gaze out of the window “Aish…” she huffs, feeling a little frustrated at herself for getting flustered.

 

 

Kris chuckles “Sorry, I couldn’t help myself”

 

 

“It’s okay…” she mumbles and glances at him before her eyes catch a glimpse of the backseat through the rearview mirror. She turns her head to confirm and sees two backpacks, a bunch of pillows and blankets “We’re not going camping, are we?” she asks, raising a brow at him.

 

 

He smirks and shook his head “Nope, didn’t I tell you that this is just gonna be a casual day out?”

 

 

“Well it doesn’t seem like it” she eyes him “What are you up to, Kris Wu?”

 

 

He slows down the car to stop at a red light before turning to look at his girlfriend, his eyes sparkling with a mischievous glint despite the feigned innocent smile plastered on his flawless face “I’m just taking you out on a date, Kim Hana… is that wrong?”

 

 

“No” she tells him “But it sure does feel like there’s more to it”

 

 

Kris only smirks. Oh you have no idea.

 

 

Lunch

 

 

Hana stares at Kris incredulously as he fills up her second plate with so much food, she didn’t think she would be able to finish it all. He looked serious and determined as he filled up her plate, his brows close to knitting and muttering something about proteins and gotta eat a lot under his breath as they stood before the buffet table. It was an unusual choice of lunch place since Hana expected more of a quiet and fancy restaurant, that seemed like more of Kris’ style but not that this place was any cheaper though; the price for every head that wished to enjoy the buffet ran up to a range of five hundred dollars.

 

 

“Are you trying to make me fat?” she flatly asks as he places the fifth piece of chicken wing on her plate; he snorts a laugh to the side, reaching for an empty plate to fill for himself “No, I’m just getting you ready for the day’s activities”

 

 

Ridiculous. She picks up the two plates that he filled and followed him to a table as soon as he was done filling two plates of his own. What kind of activities would require this much energy-food?

 

 

“Eat up, baby ~” he coos teasingly at her, waving a chicken leg before taking a bite.

 

 

Hana laughs at the silly act, shaking her head and begins to dig in deciding to just trust his words than question them “You’re seriously trying to make me fat” she mumbles, popping a strawberry in “Am not”

 

 

Throughout lunch, they talked about random things such as the stupid moments that often happened in their respective offices, he vented out his complaints concerning the meetings he’s been to and some business gatherings and she listened, laughing at a thing or two that he was sarcastic about, they also reminisced the embarrassing memories back a year ago –Kris avoided a certain matter involving her and a choice that she’s asked to make, he wanted her to forget about it even just for today.

 

 

“I give up” she breathes out, leaning back on her chair as she puts down the chopsticks. Kris was still going at it, halfway done with his second plate while Hana gave up on one.

 

 

“What?” he chews on a piece of beef; he covers his mouth with the back of his hand, his face scrunching a little as he tries to swallow “But you have to eat it all”

 

 

“No ~ I’m so full; I think my stomach will explode”

 

 

Kris clicks his tongue and puts down his chopsticks, he chugs down on the glass of water and wipes his mouth with the table napkin before getting up “Alright, I’m done too… let’s go?” he holds out his hand to her. Hana drinks up some water and wipes off before grabbing his hand and he pulls her out.

 

 

Hana.

 

 

It was a couple of minutes into the drive or so, just as we had gotten out of the busy streets and the tall buildings disappeared getting replaced by green sceneries when Kris made a request “Can you connect my phone to the stereo?”

 

 

“Yeah sure… some music would be nice” I smile as he hands me his phone and I fiddle with it for awhile, wirelessly connecting it to the system “Hit shuffle” he says and I follow his instruction, tapping my thumb on the screen as a tune begins to play. I place the phone down on the side and he begins to drum his fingers on the steering wheel, his head bobbing along and I couldn’t help but smile.

 

 

(HIT PLAY. JUST DO IT.)

 

 

This is new. And just as I thought it couldn’t get any better, he broke his mouth open

 

 

“About not too long ago, I woke up feeling kind of blue…”

 

 

I found myself laughing, my cheeks burning up as he stole a quick glance at me, that little tug of smile on the corner of his lips. He was singing! He was singing in English! He was doing something I never thought he would ever do and he was damn good at it too! “Oh my god, Kris Wu!” I exclaimed, covering my flustered face with my hands while he kept singing

 

 

 

“Met up, got food and we spent time ‘til the night was through”

 

 

He reaches out a hand and tugs my hands off my face; I turned my head and he looked at me for a moment before quickly turning back to the road “…call you my one and only girl”

 

 

“Aigo ~” I don’t even know what to say anymore, my heart was racing so fast and I felt like a high school girl getting noticed by her crush for the very first time. I bit back my lower lip, keeping my eyes on him, watching him as he continues to sing “I remember this night we had, outside on the grass, us two” he winks, holding up a peace sign at the word two “Gazing at the stars who smiled as my eyes only turned to you” he glances at me again.

 

 

“There was no else I needed and my love’s never felt this way” I laugh as he shook his head “Too sure if you would mind; I was nervous but I had to say”

 

 

God, thank you for this guy!

 

 

“…and can I call you my lover? Call you my one and only girl” He keeps one hand on the wheel and the other grabs my own, tying our fingers together “...call you my baby, you’re the only one who runs my world”

 

 

He presses a kiss on the back of my hand and it wasn’t helping my palpitating heart at all. It feels as if at any moment, my whole face was going to explode but not of embarrassment but rather of butterflies because let’s face it, Kris Wu serenading you with an English song –even if I can’t understand half the lyrics of it- is almost equal to winning the lottery, atleast that’s how I feel.

 

 

“You’re killing me, Kris” I whine but he just keeps going and just when I thought it couldn’t get any better, he just had to rap. Holy , Hana how much more lucky can you get?!

 

 

“Aye, call me now, call me later, or call me whenever; Call me friend, call me lover, or call me whatever. I call you mine, no ownership implied whatsoever, I call it what it is. A natural blend together, them other brothers like to holla forever” he bobs his head in rhythm to the beat “When I’m in town you can get it. If not, you can imagine. Enough with the rappin’… Time for some action”

 

 

“Aigo ~” I roll my eyes as he kisses the back of my hand again “…call you my one and only girl. Can I call you my, everything? call you my baby? You’re the only one who runs my world”

 

 

“I can’t even understand half of what you sang, idiot” I tell him, not even trying to hide the grin on my face. He chuckles and takes a quick glance at me “Yeah but you felt the message, baby”

 

 

 

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The car finally came to a stop and I had no idea where we were, all I know right now is that there’s a small office and behind it was a forest. I took off my seatbelt as Kris opens the door for me and I hop out of the car “What are we doing here?”

 

 

I hadn’t noticed that he had opened the door to the back seat took out one of the backpacks, he swung it over his shoulder before closing the door and grabs my hand “Let’s get you changed” he says, feigning an innocent smile.

 

 

“What? Changed?”

 

 

“Yup, can’t have you in a dress under a suit” he chuckles, pulling me along to the small office building, pushing the door open and we get greeted by a man. Kris seems to know him well judging by the smile they both exchanged. What is this place? I look around.

 

 

“Ah, Kris, finally you’re here! It’s been a long time” a rough laugh breaks the quiet atmosphere. Kris releases my hand and drapes his arm around my shoulder “Long time indeed, Mr. Lee. By the way, this is my girlfriend… Kim Hana” I turn my head at the mention of my name and quickly bow at the man before us. He looks intimidating… “Ah, so you’re the legendary female who broke through the ice” he says with a laugh as he reaches out a hand and I take it in a shake “Nice to meet you, sir”

 

 

Kris gives my upper arm a light squeeze. Mr. Lee retreats his hand and pockets them both “Well, you have the whole place to yourself today so I hope you enjoy”

 

 

Enjoy? Enjoy what? I blink my eyes, still confused.

 

 

“Oh we will… Thanks again. We’ll go change now.” Kris says and leads me through a hallway; I hear Mr. Lee shout a ‘don’t get carried away’ and it only makes me wonder more what exactly we were doing here.

 

 

Kris opens up a door with a female sign nailed on it and hands me the backpack “Change into these first and then put on whatever is in the locker, I’ll be in the other room” he explains, thumb pointing at the door just across. Before I could say anything, he pecks my lips and runs off, disappearing through the door with the male sign nailed on it.

 

 

What are you up to, Kris Wu? I take a deep breath and lock the door. It was some sort of locker room, the walls were of plain white, black full length lockers lining up the three walls, there was a door with the sign ‘Shower Room’ on top and two benches in the middle of the room. I walk over to one of the benches and set down the backpack, opening it and found a pair of shorts, a white v-neck and some new underwear with a note stuck to it: wear the underwear later when everything’s done ;D –I fluster, shutting my eyes for a moment. Jesus, Kris… shaking off the embarrassment I felt and changed into the shorts and v-neck.

 

 

I walked to one of the lockers, particularly the one with a sticky note stuck on its door with my name on it; I open it up and only grow more confused at the hung up black gear suit. There was a silver plate stuck on the right chest area of it with the name: HANA engraved. Below the hung up suit there was a pair of combat boots, gloves and helmet resting.

 

 

“What the hell?” Now I’m getting nervous.

 

 

Nevertheless, I put on the suit; I slip on the boots and gloves before tying up my hair in a high ponytail and grabbed the helmet. I shut the locker door and zip up the backpack, just in time that a knock came on the door.

 

 

“Hana, are you done?”

 

 

I jog up to the door and unlock it; the knob turns and it flies open revealing a geared up Kris as well. Is it just me or do we both look like we’re going to battle? I swallowed hard, mentally slapping myself for staring at the god-like blonde standing before me with his helmet in hand. On the right side chest area of his suit, there was also a plate only it was gold and had the name: KRIS engraved; unlike mine though, his suit had a red dragon print on the left arm sleeve crawling from the wrist to the shoulder.

 

 

Even his helmet had a red dragon printed as a design.

 

 

“Okay, are we going to war or something?” I ask; he chuckles and takes my hand “No, we’re going on a date” he begins to pull me along, out of the room and further into the hall where there was a pair of double doors.

 

 

I take a deep breath; I’m feeling really nervous about all of this. “Don’t be scared, I got your back” he looks at me over his shoulder flashing an assuring smile.

 

 

“This doesn’t feel like a date” I mumble causing him to laugh, we stop before the double doors and he looks back at me; he hands me what looked like a wireless earpiece and puts on one himself; I do the same “Ofcourse it is, just not ordinary because ordinary…” he opens the door and we both step out, coming face to face with the forest; he closes the door as he ends his sentence with a smirk “…is boring”

 

 

He puts on his helmet before taking mine and puts it on my head aswell, making sure to strap it well. Gulp.

 

 

“Now, the rules are simple baby” he walks over to a cabinet stuck on the wall of the building; a fence was acting as border for the forest, separating it from the road a couple meters away. I stay quiet and listen as he lays out the so-called rules of whatever it is that we were gonna do “You and I are on one team, the rest are on the other; we shoot them and we try not to get shot to win the game”

 

 

Wait, shoot? “Shoot? Shoot what?” I ask, growing more nervous about this game. “People” Kris opens up the cabinet and my eyes widen to see what looked like guns and bellow them were packs of colored bean like stuff –what I presumed to be ammo and a bunch of other stuff.

 

 

“We’re gonna shoot people?!” is this some kind of life-ender game?! He sniggers, taking out two small guns and straps them on his legs, one on every leg then takes two packs of the red ammo and puts it on his leg pockets “Yeah, what else do you expect to shoot? Deers?”

 

 

“What kind of game is this?!”

 

 

He takes around five of what looked like grenades and hooks them up on his belt before taking out what looked like an assault rifle and hands one over to me. He straps the same gears on me before taking his own rifle and closes the cabinet; he pats the top of my helmet

 

 

“It’s called paintball, babe”

 

 

 

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RUSTLE. RUSTLE. CRACK.

 

 

“Shh…” he hushes his team mate as he momentarily stops in their tracks, hiding behind huge rocks and trees, trying to see if their target is in sight or not. He points his gun at a moving figure just up ahead, seeing something move between trees and without a second thought he pulls the trigger.

 

 

He curses under his breath as he misses the target and hits the tree instead, a neon green splatter marking where he had hit “Did you get him?” his team mate asks, back against the rock that they were hiding behind on. A buzzing sound goes off of the earpieces they wore followed by a voice “Jesus ing Christ Sehun, are we on one team or what?!” a pissed off Suho hisses. Chanyeol raises a brow at the maknae who had fired the shot and peeks over the rocks to see Joonmyeon glaring at them from behind the tree that Sehun had hit.

 

 

“Sorry hyung, thought you were the enemy” Sehun apologizes with a small snigger as he stands up straight and gives Suho a quick salute before going down on his knees again to hide behind the rocks. Chanyeol puts down his rifle aside and takes off his helmet, breathing out a sigh and wiping off sweat from his forehead “Aish, what’s taking them so long?”

 

 

They’ve been wandering the forest and have been in hiding for thirty minutes already and their enemies were still not in sight. Tch, they probably ditched and had instead Chanyeol huffs at the thought, running a hand through his hair before putting on his helmet back

 

 

“Tao, see anything?” Joonmyeon asks as he keeps his position behind the tree “Negative. Dragon and Damsel are still not in sight” Tao answers, hiding god knows where. A buzzing sound follows after Tao’s transmission and Lay’s voice fills the lines “You think they bailed?”

 

 

“I don’t think so… I think they’re already here” Xiumin speaks; he was on top of a tree, resting on a branch, one leg swinging to and fro in boredom “Hey, who came up with the code for Hana?” Chen’s voice pipes up on their ear pieces “I did, why?” Tao answers.

 

 

There was a snigger; it was Baekhyun “How can you call her a Damsel? She’s on the Dragon’s side hunting down our asses; I say she’s a Minx” he says as he loads up his rifle, hiding just about ten meters the south of where Chanyeol and Sehun were. “That sounds a little . Hana’s not flirtatious though… why a minx?” Kai mumbles with a faint chuckle on the other line as he quietly lies on the leafy ground, his rifle beside him and his hands propped behind his head to serve as a pillow.

 

 

“Because she’s hot” Baekhyun answers.

 

 

“Hey Baek…” came Kyungsoo’s voice “Yeah?”

 

 

“Shut up”

 

 

Sniggers follow while Baekhyun only rolls his eyes.

 

 

They’re not even sure why they agreed to this thing in the first place; Sehun had called up Suho after he got the message from the Chinese guy and not an hour later they all found themselves in a meeting room with Suho discussing things about paintball and they all turned from businessmen to soldiers in a minute getting ready to go to war. Suho’s not sure if this was even right, cancelling three hours of his schedule just so he could play paintball against the supposed chairman of the company, his girlfriend and his colleagues; he was a CEO with responsibilities for s sake! Hell, they all had responsibilities.

 

 

Then again, he guesses its okay to unwind for a bit since it has been a little too much on them lately. A game of paintball wouldn’t hurt plus Kris had set up a pretty nifty prize if they were to win.

 

 

“Oh , , ” Tao’s cursing cuts Joonmyeon out of his thoughts and his body goes full alert “Dragon is amidst, I repeat, Dragon is amidst”

 

 

Kai shoots up to his feet and crawls under a pile of leaves; everyone went on full alert the moment Tao hissed in their ears. “Where are they? Do you see them?” Chanyeol asks, scooting closer to Sehun as they held their weapon close to their chests.

 

 

“No, I don’t see them” Tao informs. Sehun frowns “Then how can you ing say he’s amidst, idiot?”

 

 

“Because ing red ammo missed me by a hair strand, !” Tao cusses at him; they could hear rough rustling sounds on his line so they guessed he was on the run. Lay hears the rustling getting closer to where he was stationed; he cranes his neck enough to get a peek from behind the huge tree he was hiding behind and sees Tao heading his way –he could tell it was the panda boy because of his blue gloves because he insisted he needed a pop of color- “er, you’re gonna blow my own cover!” he hisses on the line intended for Tao and makes a run for it, going uphill and jumps over a ditch to hide.

 

 

PAK! A shot fired off from behind misses Tao and instead hits the tree that he just ran past, he tries to look back but sees no one and this causes him to curse because he knew he was ed.

 

 

If there was ever anything Kris was good at besides handling business, money and power, it was paintball. He was a ing monster when it came to the game and Tao knew better than to play for the other side because he’s witnessed how unforgiving Kris was when they played together for one team unfortunately today, he had to be on the other because the Dragon was going on a duo mode with his girlfriend.

 

 

“, , , Joonmyeon! salyuh juseyo! (Save me!) , , !”

 

 

Xiumin gets sight of Tao as he gets to his feet, literally standing on the large branch; he also catches sight of a figure on his tail, swiftly moving about the trees thus making it impossible for him to get a clear shot. He peeks, his eye at the scope attached on his weapon; surprise washing over him.

 

 

“That’s not the Dragon… that’s the Minx on your tail, Tao”

 

 

“HANA?!” everyone shouts in disbelief. “For s sake, it’s ten against two people, ing move your asses!” Chen yells, moving out of hiding to tail behind Hana, who was running after Tao. Chen stops as he gets a clear position PAK! PAK! PAK! Chen shoots, his shots missing the running opponent and instead hits tree trunks; neon green splattering “” he cusses and resumes running.

 

 

Suho emerges from his hiding place but keeps himself behind trees “Sehun, Chanyeol, Kyungsoo move out and go after Chen and Tao; Kai, Lay, Xiumin, Baekhyun, keep your guards up the Dragon is somewhere amidst”

 

 

“Finally, some action!” Chanyeol roars, obvious excitement in his voice as he parts away from Sehun to the other direction.

 

 

“Copy that” Kai acknowledges; His hawk eyes going extra keen over his surroundings. Where the hell are you, Dragon?

 

 

RUSTLE. His head shoots towards the left side, his eyes suddenly going wide as he sees something round and red just two feet away from where he was “Grenade!” he shouts, shooting up to his feet and makes a run for it as the said weapon blows and red paint splatters all over. PAK! PAK! PAK! Kai doesn’t stop and just keeps running as he hears the sound coming just from behind him; only a ing idiot would stop and get shot.

 

 

“A grenade?! Are you ing ting me right now?!” Baekhyun yells through transmission after hearing Kai’s ear drum busting yell. Lay sighs as he swiftly moves about heading for Kai’s direction “Seriously Baek, like you haven’t played with Kris before”

 

 

“Reminds me why I always hesitated to play with him” Xiumin chuckles.

 

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Author’s Note:

           

Well, here’s the part one of their date: PAINTBALL WITH EXO!...  except Luhan cause he's in China LOL. Who will win? are you ready for the next one? Yes, ordinary is boring. This is Chairman Kris Wu you’re talking about afterall, kekekeke

  Woot, its 2AM over here.