Tiffany POV

           HWANG MURDER HOUSE

"Hold it!"

"No, make it higher!"

"Alright, that's it!"

"Perfect!"

Dad stood in front of the entrance of the manor as he gazed over the gigantic 'HWANG MURDER HOUSE' signboard he ordered our staffs to be placed on the roof. He stared at it for a moment then afterwards, shouted with his arms opened wide, "This is going to be the best Halloween party ever!!!"

Dumbstruck. Yup, that's pretty much the most accurate word to describe my reaction to that gigantic signboard. Oh. Not only me. My mom, Sunkyu, and Yoong bore the very same reaction too.

Hwang Murder House... *Sigh*. Really, dad, really???

"Halapoji has gone crazy." Sunkyu snapped as he shook his head.

Mom corrected, "Your halapoji has always been crazy."

I whispered to Yoong, "Now, I feel like I wanna run away from this family again."

He chuckled and responded, "Be proud. You have a murder house. See? Now, I wonder where is Yuri-hyung's body is. I'm sure he's buried here somewhere."

I elbowed his abdomen and he winced in pain.

Dad went towards us and asked. "So, are all your costumes ready, huh? It's already October 29! The Halloween Party's tomorrow!"

"Our costumes already intact, dad." Yoong said proudly.

"Good, good! Your costumes should better be good, okay!"

"That's easy for you to say." Sunkyu butted, pertaining to dad. "You don't need to effort on your costume. Your bare face already looked horrible." Quickly as he could, Sunkyu then ran away fast.

"WHY YOU?!!!!!!" Dad shouted and started to chase my son. "You're gonna be the 18th victim of this murder house, you damn brat!!! Don't let me catch you!"

"Oh, look at them." Mom snapped and chuckled. "Grandfather and grandson bonding."

I looked at her in disbelief, "Bonding? He just shouted he's gonna kill my son, mom."

"What? Isn't that a sweet thing?"

"Mom. You better stop hanging out with dad often. You're starting to adapt his evil outlook in life."

"Pfft. Please. I'm more evil than your father. With my beauty alone, I already destroyed many families." she said and smirked proudly. "Now, I'm just gonna visit our spa and relax. See you later."

She was about to take a step away when I stopped her. "Yah. Mom. We still need to wrap up the preparation of Halloween decorations here."

She sighed, "You two can already do it on your own. They're almost done, anyway." She started to walk away. "Just tell your father I'll be off, okay."

I sighed, "Alright. Bye."

"So..." Yoong suddenly snapped. He s his arm over my shoulder. "Sunkyu's busy, Dad's busy, and so is Mom too."

"Uhuh. I can see that."

"You know what that means..."

"What?"

He looked at me in a very much erted manner. "That just means we should be busy too."

I nodded. "Right. Let's go finish the preparation of the decors then."

"Wh-what? No!" He pulled me to him and wrapped his arms around me. "I mean... We should be busy on something else."

"Early in the morning? Really?"

"Yup."

I looked at him boringly. He returned a childish smile. It was like he's too eager on it that he even made puppy eyes. *Sigh*.

"Alright. Alright."

"Yes!" he shouted and raised his fist up.

I giggled, "Yah. Be quiet or they might hear us and, definitely, they will bug us again."

"Okay. Okay."

He pulled me to him and had me in an embrace again. I rested my hands on his shoulders. He made his forehead touch mine. "I love you." he uttered.

I smiled and responded, "I love you too."

He captured my lips and parted them with his tongue. He inserted it inside my mouth and had it in contact with mine. I tried to battle it out. It was my turn to explore his mouth with my tongue. He had me engulfed with his addicting taste again. He pulled me closer to him and pushed his body against mine. I ran placed my hands at the back of his head to pull him closer and our kiss grew wilder and wilder. I felt the sudden heat in my body. I felt so .

After a minute or two, he broke our kiss and whispered, "Let's go?"

"Okay."

We were about to sneak inside the manor when suddenly, we were halted by someone at the already-opened gate.

Great. What a -block.

"Delivery for Miss Stephanie Hwang!" he shouted cheerfully. He was the very same delivery guy who delivers me flowers every 29th of the month. Oh right. It's the 29th of October today.

"Hello there." I greeted him.

I was about to approach him but Yoong rushed and held him on his collar. "You again?!" he shouted angrily.

"Err-- hi, sir. G-good m-morning." the delivery guy greeted.

"Yah. Yoong. Let go of him." I snapped yet he just ignored me.

He continued, "One last time, are you going to tell me the name of your client or not?!"

"S-sir. T-trust m-me, I do not know his name too!"

Yoong looked at him darkly. He quickly had the delivery guy in a headlock. The latter struggled from trying to break away.

"Yoong stop it! Let him go!" I shouted.

He complied and looked at me, "But, he's totally getting on my nerves!"

"Leave him be! Just get inside. I'll catch up with you."

"Aisshhh..." He started to head to the manor.

Before he passes me, I tugged him on his shirt, "Wait."

"What?"

I whispered, "Prepare the bathtub, please. I want it bubbly and steamy, okay?"

He seemed to have thought of something erted and grinned from ear to ear. "Right away, Madame." He went back to the manor, skipping.

I redirected back to the delivery guy, "Sorry about that."

"It's okay, Miss Stephanie. I'm already used to his grudge over me." He then forwarded a giant bouquet of red roses. "For you."

I accepted it. "Thanks. Sure, this one's too big."

"Yup. It's because it's October 29."

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"Now, what's special with October 29?" I interrogated.

"Oh. Who knows?" He faked a laugh.

I looked at him seriously. "Yah. Do you really not know the identity of that client of yours or you're just hiding it from me?"

He looked back in poker face. "I promise, cross my heart. I really don't know, Miss Stephanie."

"What's with October 29 then?"

"Err--- probably, a birthday? Or an anniversary? Or uhhhmmm-- Happy Almost Halloween Day?"

Anniversary?

"Anyway, I gotta go. Buh-bye!" He uttered quickly then ran away.

"Wait!" I shouted. I tried to catch up with him but he was already gone from our street. Damn. He sure was fast.

I headed back inside. I browsed over the flowers of the bouquet as I head to the manor. The bouquets I receive from that unknown sender are always accompanied by greeting cards bearing the very same message, 'Smile'. However, it seems this time, it doesn't have any.

I finally arrived at the living room. I placed the large bouquet on the top of the coffee table and I happened to just stare at it.

*Sigh*. Who are you? Why are you giving me flowers? What's with 29?

"Halt!" Yoong snapped from the staircase. "Don't ever take that to the bedroom, okay."

I looked at him. "Of course, I won't."

I went near him. He wrapped his arms around me again. "So, are you ready?" he asked.

"Yup. Super excited and ready."

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He collapsed on top of me, panting hard. "*huff*huff* Damn that was good..."

*huff*huff* "It sure is..."

He rolled to my side and tried to catch up on his breath. I snuggled on his chest. "I love you." I uttered.

"I love you too." He started caressing my hair. "Maybe we should do this often. in the Bathtub and afterwards on the bed."

"Definitely."

"Bathtub then bed then bathtub again."

I giggled. "Shut up."

"But--"

"Shower ."

"Oh. Okay."

I closed my eyes and pressed my body into him more. "Let's just stay like this for a while."

He chuckled, "Or for the whole day if you want."

"If only we could... Dad's gonna kill us if we don't go outside and finish the decors."

"It's his party. He should be the one busy on it and not bother us."

"It's your fault. There wouldn't be a party if you didn't agree with him accompanying you to the hospital." I looked at him. "What the hell was that murderous scheme you did with him anyway?"

"If I tell you, I'm gonna get killed."

"Oh, come on."

He sighed, "Fine. He thought of a horror prank at the hospital using our hover boards. We plotted, I think, five pranks all over Choi Medical Center and on our last one, we were almost caught by the security." He chuckled. "Maybe he felt embarrassed to tell you guys about it. You know... for his age and he still doing silly things like that."

I chuckled, "You know, dad's becoming childish day after day. It seems you've been influencing him much."

"You know... I think your father just misses his younger days... probably his brother too. He told me once that he's been doing pranks along with his step-brother since they were kids, like partners in crime."

"Hmmm. Old age must have made him feel sentimental. He's about to reach his golden age next year."

"Yeah, that's probably it. You know... I admit. I hated your father. I was always scared of him and I hated him deep inside too. But now... he seems to be uhhm... cool."

"Cool, huh?"

"Yeah. And uhhmmm... nice."

I looked at him in confusion. "Nice?"

"Yeah. I think he was just lonely for a very long while that's why he turned to be grumpy and aloof on getting along with others."

I rested my head on his chest. "I know my father's a good person. Yes, there were lots of bad things before that might have been done by him but... I don't know... I kinda feel like he was not really involved at all."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"You are aware enough of what he did to Yuri-hyung and Sunkyu before right? He did try to kill them at their condominium unit before."

"I know... but... haven't you realize he just left them there wounded? If he was too eager to kill them, he could have just shot them both on their heads."

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