The Pub, the jazz music playing, lots of noises, the tattoo were some of the things that hit her mind after  few minutes of waking up on the unknown bed, small yet cosy, the room she looked around didn’t look much spacious as if only one or two were residing in it. There wasthis hazy memory she was trying to recollect from last night when she probably passed out after having too many shots she could handle. Usually she has a really high tolerance for liquor but since yesterday was like a total busy ty day. She must have got extremely exhausted. Yes, it must be that but this was still not a good execuse for  using someone else’s bed after being wasted. She giggled and immediately stopped as she felt like if somebody watched her behavior, they could easily term her as not so normal.  Yawning, she checked upon herself if her clothes have been changed by the stranger, indeed she was wearing someone else’s nightwear which more or less looked like it belonged to some old lady. Again she couldn’t help but giggle at her own stupidity of expecting something filmy out of the whole situation like in romcom movies.  Aroma of coffee invaded her nose and a slight hum could be heard from the other room which could be kitchen. She could hear the clatter of spoons or utensils now and then making her wonder if he could compete with her in being clumsy. Too many thoughts running in her mind yet neither she’s scared nor is she angry that guy brought her there without her permission as if she was in a state to grant him one at the first place.
The guy with two mugs of coffee approached closer to where she was still huddled inside the blanket, sitting lost in her own thoughts. The hand with the tattoo passing her a mug made her more wary abt her own condition finally. She couldn’t muster up the courage to lift her head up and meet his eyes. Probably she must have acted real stupid last night to end up like this. He coughed a little and she hurriedly took a mug. The guy laughed a little at her shyness.
“I don’t bite, you see. “
“sorry and thank you.” finally lifting her chin up she looked at the guy.
“No problem.” He winked and smiled at her. That friendly vibe must have been there from the very start. She eased up a little. 
“Did I create a ruckus last night”
“oh you were a mess. A beautiful mess” he added with a beautiful smirk.
“Sorry, if I was a burden to you. I don’t usually pass out you see. I don’t know what happened to me this time though. “
“I Know” She gasped at this response of his, how would he know!!
“I see you on the same table with friends of yours twice a week there. I even know how many shots you normally take and how you start reacting after some.” That devilish smirk was back again.
“How ? Were you stalking? Should I be worried?” She added with curiosity. Again she was still not scared with the new information or maybe she still has a hangover that makes her behave likewise.
“well, boys say you’re quite an impossible catch but the prettiest one. you could say I hung around just to check upon whether they were just making up the story. But “
“But??”
“but you turned out to be much more than what they actually said, m pleasantly surprised and lemme tell you I feel lucky to see you drunk. You were quite entertaining there “laughing ily, he further added “I think I wanna see you more often when I’m here coz my homies bore me sometimes.  You are quite refreshing”
She couldn’t decide whether he was complimenting or making fun of her. “i realize I did put on a little show last night, but that doesn’t mean I’ll be entertaining you again. How can I pay you back?” she still had an audacity to act arrogant after all her stupid acts but that didn’t seem to annoy him, not even a little. Instead he looked amused. 
“feisty but still too cute. Well I had no plans to make you pay me back. But since you kindly made me realize I did you a favour, let’s have a deal then. Not a filmy one but promise to accompany me in my weekdays stay here”
Realizing that was not a smart move at all, she was literally facepalming abt her own ideas of paying him back. Like wow. “Okay, will do it. Just for a week. Right?”
“Yup. Although I would want it to be longer, but I’ll have to go back to my hometown next week. So a week will be absolutely a great idea.”
“where did you come from? I thought you were from around here”
“I am Korean. If that’s confusing you but I was born and brought up in Sydney. I came here for a video shoot. I’m a videographer. “
“You got the captures you wanted?” 
“I did. And I swear they are the best ones. Prettiest ones” he smiled again.
“By the way, I’m Rome”
“Suzy”
“I know”
Again, Suzy was left stunned the way he would casually tell her somehow he knew her.
“I have seen your pics before. Trust me I wondered how you would look in real and I admit you are exquisite.” Suzy couldn’t make out anything from his talk like how when and where did he know her or why he was taking an interest on her. It was all so sudden. But the way he looked at her with admiration every time they talked made her heart flutter. That was the first morning they not so properly introduced yet he seemed to know much more about her than she could imagine.
He turned around sipping his coffee,opened the window and they were engulfed in a silence for few  minutes. After few minutes, she got up, collected my clothes that was on the armchair nearby. 
“Thanks for helping me out. I gotta change. Can i?”
“sure”. He immediately walked out of the room to the kitchen and closed the door.
“Thanks to you as well.” 
“Why” She asked him  zipping back her dress she wore yesterday in hope to impress in interview she applied for modeling but her attempt went in vain as the manager turned out to be a ert. She luckily made an escape but reality hit her hard as she needed some job to pay back her debts her dad left for her before he died.  She worked here and there but was not enough. 
“I thought you’d think of me as a ert for changing your dress. Sorry and by the way that is my mom’s. I visit here with my mom like twice a year. “ he said from the back of the door.
Suzy smiled at his sincerity and the comfortable atmosphere for some unknown reason didn’t make her doubt his intentions at all. “I’m done, come in.”
He just stared at her stepping inside. “ I saw you in this dress yesterday too but you look prettier today. “
Suzy laughed at his comment and he joined.
“So, starting from today I can help you in sightseeing “
“Actually I had something in my mind”
“What exactly?”
“I wanted to work with you though. As I told you I’m here for a video shoot, can you be our model?” He looked at her expecting yet little scared if he was being too fast and direct.
Suzy gulped and tried to process what just happened. The offer was everything she wanted. She shamelessly asked “will I get a good payment? “
Rome couldn’t help but laugh “Yes, definitely. Is that a yes then?”
Suzy nodded   “honestly, I needed a job badly. Thank you so much “
“well, it’s just gonna be for a week but you will get good offers once we get done with ours first. I promise you that.” Suzy loved the confidence in him that was a plus factor to his already badass perfect looks and his way of talking.
“well, let me confess. Jonghyun hyung told me about you. I had to see the girl anyhow who stole my hyung’s heart.”
Suzy was stunned for umpteenth number of time the very morning. Jonghyun was her senior in high school who proposed her but she never felt the same way for him. He would stealthily click her pics leaving her annoyed but he suddenly had to move abroad with his family members. After that, it ended.
“Hyung would always show me your pics and he looked so much in awe of your beauty. Now I realize why.”
“but his friend told me he died of cancer and him crushing on me was long time back in our teen years.”
His face suddenly showed the gloom she couldn’t comprehend, she regretted for being too direct again. 
“Yes, he did and it was a painful battle, but he always talked abt you Suzy. I can never forget that precious smile on his face everytime he talked about you, he adored you and his face would beam when he reminisced abt his school days with you.”
Guilt crept in as Suzy was not that aware about the depth of Jonghyun’s feelings for her and brushed off  his advances just like other teenaged boys who dared to come close to her. “Sorry for the loss and sorry I was not that good to your hyung.”
“hey, it’s okay. Moreover my hyung always prayed for your happiness even on his final days.”
This broke her heart further and she couldn’t stay in the room anymore. “I gotta go Rome. Was nice meeting you. Will see you in afternoon. “ Her eyes were red but still she tried her best to put on a brave smile. Rome was amused; he regretted telling her abt his hyung so soon. But he couldn’t lie to her, he had no answer for why that popped out now and then in his mind. “See You Suzy. I loved this morning and I hope we have lots of memories to make in a week.” Words spilled out so easily as if he practiced it the whole time. Rome didn’t know why it was so easy to express how he felt with her when he himself had always been shy around girls. As Suzy went out, He couldn’t help himself but stare at her back and hoped the afternoon would come sooner than it does.
“Rome, when I won’t be here, plz go to Korea and take care of Suzy if you can. She had a horrible childhood. I’ve seen her growing up being chased by loan sharks. Yet, she was always brave. My pretty Bae would always smile and bottle up her feelings. She never said yes to me but that won’t make me stop loving her. Plz promise me you’d help her. Promise me. “
“Sorry hyung, but I think it will be more than that. That girl seems like she’s already taken a piece of me.”
He muttered to himself looking back at past few weeks he’s invested in observing her and he knew he was already tempted to spend time with this beauty. He had this mixed feeling of guilt and excitement everytime he watched her. He without letting her know saved her from that ert manager and again couldn’t leave her alone when she got wasted last night. He finally had to step forward in fulfilling his promise to hyung. But, he knew he was already pulled towards her and it was not just because of the promise, it went beyond that.