My eyes were wide open at 3:00 am. I stared at the clock on the night stand for a good minute. I tried closing my eyes to get a few more minutes of sleep before Sehun comes to pick me up. It doesn’t take long for me to open them again and the time doesn’t change, it’s still 3:01.

I turn my body over to the other side and try concentrating on sleeping. I fail miserably and open my eyes again, I just couldn’t go back to sleep. I lie on my back and stare at the ceiling, waiting for it to turn 3:30 so I can just get ready.

I sigh and look at the time again 3:02. I uncover myself, pulling my sheets away and decide to just take an early shower. When I finish up, I look at my phone 3:32.

I dry myself up and go inside my walk in closet. I settled for jeans and sweater shirt. I start packing my things together so when I come back everything is ready and I don’t forget anything. My phone vibrates. I type in my passcode to unlock the screen. I open the message

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                  Mar 18, 2013, 4:00 AM

Outside.

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At least he was on time I’ll give him that. I grab my bags and head downstairs. It was slightly dark but the windows allowed the grey morning to beam light in. When I reach out front I walk towards my car and put my things inside.

I get in his car and he looks at me.

“Where’s your stuff?”

“We’re not going to be out for that long, are we?” He doesn’t respond “Where are we going?”

His hand that was on the steering wheel pointed at my mansion. “Go get your things”

I listen and walk back.

I sat with my legs crossed in the booth at a café while we had an early breakfast.

“Is this it?” I ask “An early breakfast, what’s after this?”

He finishes taking a sip from his orange juice “Do you always need a plan for everything you do?”

“It’s easier that way” I defend myself “You get things done that way”

“What a waste”

“I actually like having a plan after a plan”

“You like it?”

I nod and I notice him put his attention on his plate picking on his food, shaking his head and taking a deep breath. It looked like he wanted to say something but held it back.

I finish taking a sip from my glass of orange juice “Say it”

He looks up staring at me for a while “—and piss you off?” He pauses “Later”

He gave no emotion but I knew he was teasing me.

Sehun turns into a parking lot outside some antique or vintage shop.

“What are we doing here?”

I follow right behind him as he ignores me, nothing new about that. When we walk inside an employee smiles at us and I smile back. I check the time on my phone. 6:07.

I’m supposed to be at the school studio right now. I feel antsy not doing the things that I have scheduled to do.

“How long are we going to be here?”

He stops in one specific aisle, he looks through the shelves and down at the ground and when he finally spots what he’s looking for he kneels down.

“We need to buy some bowling balls”

What is he up to now “What for?”

“We’re going bowling this weekend”

“You do know that the bowling alley already has some right?”

He shakes his head “Not like these” He starts reading off names like Bini, Rez, Inho, and Nina. He makes me help him pick them up and take them to the front cashier. He took like seven or eight of them.

“Don’t we just need two?”

“Stop asking questions and just seize the moment Cheon”

So it looks like I was back to my last name. I check the time and its 6:22 and I can’t help but to sigh, I didn’t know the distance from here to school but whatever it was I didn’t want to waste any more time.

“No more stops. Let’s start heading to school okay?”

I carry out two bowling balls to his car to get a head start.

“What are you doing?” I look out the window and we’re pulling up outside his house gate.

“I’m going to get ready for school”

Are you kidding me?

“Why didn’t you bring your stuff?”

“I won’t take long”

He presses the button on the intercom. An old man pops on the screen and smiles. Greeting Sehun and opens the gates. When he starts driving down the driveway I can't help but to look around to how beautiful it was. Not ever imagining his home would be this beautiful.

A piece of the mansion starts appearing as he pulls up closer, I’ve seen many beautiful homes before but not any like these, it was one of a kind.

The car comes to a stop as I notice an employee in a suit opening the door for me. I wasn’t sure if I should get off until Sehun stands in front of me, having his feet on the steps to his home.

“You can get ready here”

I check the time 7:04, if I wait to change at school I’ll be in a rush. I exhale my breath out and the butler takes my bag from me as he helps me out of the car.

When we reach the doors another butler opens the door for us. When I walk inside the foyer was spacious and huge. The design to the furniture was modern and elegant.

Two maids stood to the side as one of them too Sehun’s jacket

“Can you take her to the guest powder room please” Sehun gives orders and the free maid bows getting my bag from the male who took it from me and I’m right behind her as she leads the way.

My long knee length socks and white chuck high tops were all I had left to put. When I do I look at myself in the mirror finishing off with putting a headband on and fixing it until I’m satisfied with how it’s placed.

When I walk out I was afraid that I wouldn’t know where to go next. Fortunately the maid that led me here was waiting outside.

She bows “Mr. Sehun would like for you to wait for him in the guest living room”

I smile kindly at her and I’m back to following her steps.

My knee bounces out of habit, I check my watch. 7:31. I’ve been waiting for three minutes but it felt like a life time. Hurry up Sehun. As I sit there I try distracting myself by admiring how beautiful everything was. Of course it would look this way if his mom was in the fashion industry. She would know what was in style.

Sehun’s figure makes my eyes move to his direction, he was fixing his cuffs from his school blazer. “Ready?”

I’ve been ready. I stand up when a little boy runs up to him and hugs him

“Guess what” He smiles up at Sehun “Dad promised to take us to our cabin up in the mountains when Christmas comes. He said he’ll talk to Kyutae and see if you can—”

Sehun talks over the little boy who was filled with energy

“We can snowboard and…and—“

He continues adding different activities all at once that he stumbles across his words. I can’t help but to smile to how cute the kid was. Sehun had a smile on his face too.

“Daehun” Sehun places his hands on the little shoulders and tries calming him down but he continues to speak excitedly.

Sehun smiles “I’m going to kick your ” He playfully shouts in his face

The little boy stops his ranting “I’m going to kick your ”

I couldn’t help but to smile and notice that he has Sehun’s smile.

“Want to go say hi?” Sehun turns the little boy to face me

He smiles and waves at me and whispers something in Sehun’s ear

“No way” Sehun responds

He whispers something again. Sehun looks up at me “You think so?”

The little boy covers his smile with his hands and nods.

“Daehun” A female voice makes the kid turn around and my eyes look at a woman who was insanely stunning. She smiles at me and I bow.

“Good morning” She greets me “I didn’t know we had company” She walks up to Sehun and gives him a kiss on the cheek “Did you have breakfast already?”

He nods

“Come one Daehun say goodbye to your brother and his friend. We got to take you to school”

“When I come back home can we play soccer?” He beams up at Sehun

He rubs his head and smiles, he gives him a nod and with that the little boy looks over at me

“Can you come to?”

I was shocked unsure how to respond, I didn’t want to say no to a cute face like that but I had an agenda to follow.

“Maybe next time” I smile

Daehun looks up at his older brother and Sehun shrugs his shoulders. I felt bad.

“Come on sweetie” Their mother chuckles staring at her little boy walk up towards her and then she looks back at me “It was nice meeting you darling”

I smile and bow “It was a pleasure to meet you Mrs. Oh”

“Please, call me Sera”

I was thrown off, usually grownups never wanted to be called by their first name. She waves goodbye to us and walks off.

“We should start heading out too”

He motions his head towards the hallway and begins his steps. I grab my bag and had a different perspective of Sehun. He cared more than he made himself out to be. Nothing seemed wrong at his house for him to have this new careless attitude, so what was wrong? Why did he suddenly stop caring about his studies if he had it all?

We didn’t say a word to one another throughout the drive. He parked his car as we arrived at the school’s parking lot. When we get out of the car I could feel everyone glancing at the two of us walking together. I ignore them.

“How old is your brother?”

“Six”

“You better set him a good example” I tease “Think how he would feel if he saw his older brother receive that diploma” I make a joke out of it to encourage him to try harder to get his GPA back to where it needs to be.The way he looked at his little brother was a side of Sehun I never witnessed before, he was so kind, gentle, and playful with him. It was obvious that he cared a lot about Daehun.

I was waiting for Sehun to say something, even for one of his stupid little dry jokes but instead all I get from him is a single nod. I’m confused to why he didn’t say anything, I watch him walk ahead of me and shake the thought away. I really need to get used to his mood swings.