Chapter 1
It’s past ten in the evening on a Friday, the sounds of car and shoes rushing home can be heard. Yet a person who has a messed up body clock is jogging around the park. There is no single person in the area, it’s just him and…. a camera.
He is wearing an all Nike attire: a gray hoodie and black running trousers paired with Nike shoes.
“I know you guys are really weirded out with this habit of mine...” He rested for a while. “… because you always find me jogging in the morning, afternoon, or late at night where other people are already sleeping at that time. It’s because I don’t follow any schedule. Yehey.” He clapped with both hands causing the camera to be unfocused. “That’s not completely true…. I’m just the type that get to sleep whenever I want and wake up right away. Perks of being self-employed.” He smirked in the camera. “Huh! You learned another thing about me.” He pointed in the camera in a teasing way.
Looking around and seeing no one suspicious, the vlogger left the camera in a bench so that it could record him. His arms are also getting tired. “I’ve been here for about an hour, I think I’ll just jog for another two around this silent park. Then we can fetch my friend I haven’t seen for so long in the airport.”
He put his AirPods and before he resumes his jogging, unaware of his surroundings.
A body thrown in front of him stopped him in his tracks. “W-what?”
The body wearing a black hoodie tried to attack him now with a knife but a mysterious man placed himself in front of him and defended him.
He is lost.
After a while, the man with a black hoodie ran away. He can’t blame him, this man who is apparently trying to protect him knows how to fight.
“W-what just happened?”
“You are careless, that’s what happened.” A deep voice replied tiredly before picking up a plastic bag from the ground and walked away.
“W-wait!” He shouted. “My name is Baekhyun! Just search it and contact me! Let me repay your goodwill!”
Baekhyun didn’t get a reply.
Immediately, he rushed towards his camera and watched what happened. Gosh, he almost died there. That attacker is seriously gonna stab him but that man wearing a white shirt and pants underneath a black overcoat, a black cap and black facemask kept his face hidden from the person he saved.
Even on the video, his face wasn’t seen.
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Everyone is slumped in their seats. Their final - written - exam is done but as students, they already worry about the result… except maybe for one.
“Yah, Kim Sana! At least pretend you are worried.” Momo, her best friend, noticed her calm posture.
“Minatozaki.” She corrected.
“That’s what your birth certificate says. Your family name now is Kim so you are Kim.”
Jihyo chuckles. “You guys argue over that everytime. And Sana’s brother is a doctor, they are a family of genius so we would never see Sana worry about scores, let alone about passing the board exam.” Jihyo joined in. They are now walking to the cafeteria.
“Can I also have your brother as my tutor?” Momo put her hands together while pouting.
“He’s busy.” She deadpan reply.
Momo sighed in disappointment.
“Where are we eating?” Mina, who is quiet the entire time, asked. They are used to her being that quiet.
“Uh, cafeteria?” Jihyo pointed at the hallway where they are currently following to the cafeteria.
“Oh, right.” She nods. “Chaeyoung’s throwing a party on Saturday. Do you want to come?”
“Pass.” Sana answered right away.
The other whined, they expected it from their friend. She doesn’t really like to go out that much, her excuse is always along this line, ‘I’d rather stay at home than go out that only leads more to tiredness than fun’.
“Oh, come on, Sana! I’m going???” Mina said as if that will change the younger’s decision.
“And?”
“I don’t always go out, too! Accompany me.”
“Chaeyoung’s your girlfriend, it doesn’t count.” She just heard a low ‘hmp’. “I’ll just drag you out of your apartment.” Mina whispered.
.
“Who’s gonna knock?”
“You knock, Mina, you planned this.”
“Why me?”
“As I said.”
Sana sighed, she already has an idea who are the bees buzzing in front of her door. Closing the book – Med School Confidential – she’s reading, she got up from the couch to open the door even before they could knock.
“I told you I’m not going.” She was just about to close the door again but Mina was fast enough to put herself between.
“Na-uh you are going.” Jihyo said before pushing her towards her room. This is not the first time they’ve been here; this is actually their hang out place next to Momo’s and the latter also has a key of this place but maybe they were that desperate to get her to come with them to use that option.
“Did I agree?”
“Majority wins.”
“Didn’t know this group runs in democracy.”
Sana just gave up, these three won’t let her live in peace. Mina and Jihyo busied themselves preparing the make-up and picking her outfit. Momo’s in the kitchen, as usual.
“I’ll just take a quick bath.”
“AhhhHHHH! SANA!” They heard the oldest shout from… the kitchen.
“I had jokbal as lunch.” Sana, from the shower, explained. Momo probably saw.
“That explains.” They just nodded and continued what they were doing.
Seconds later, Momo came inside mumbling whatever.
“Don’t shout again.” She recognized Momo’s voice.
“Maybe if you left aside jokbal for me.”
“Maybe if you told me you were coming beforehand.”
Jihyo chuckled. “Momo, have you even win an argument with Sana? Just stop.”
As the usual time of her bath, Sana went out after more than 30 minutes. The three looked at her questioningly which she returned the same.
Jihyo pointed in the other room beside Sana’s. “There’s a guy, Sana. Are you into one night stands?”
Sana gave them disgusted look. “Aside from the fact that your immediate thought about what you found out disappointed me, I’m also disgusted.”
“Sana always explains everything, I hate it. So who?” Momo asked impatiently.
“Have you ever thought first that maybe that’s my cousin… or perhaps my brother?”
Her best friend put her hands over her mouth, shocked. “Really? You should have told me earlier! I was going around shouting!”
Jihyo laughs. “You are doomed, Momo. If you become his intern….” She didn’t finish, she let her think of it.
“Oh god.”
“Not the doctor though.” Sana said.
“I really hate you, Sana!” Momo shouted in a whisper.
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The three went to dance in the dance floor and left Sana alone in their table. This is the reason she refuses to go with them. She should have brought a book with her.
“Bored?” A familiar voice asked.
“Oh, you. Of course, you’d be here, you’re a friend of Chaeyoung’s friend.”
The person laughed. “Why do you sound like you don’t want to see me?”
“Because I don’t.”
“That’s harsh, baby.” They pulled a chair closer to Sana and sat there.
“Stop it, we’re in public.”
“Do you want us to go in private?” The voice seductively whispered in Sana’s neck, giving little kisses there.
“Stop it, Tuan.” She pulled his hands away from her waist and pulled her chair away after.
“You really don’t want to do it again with me?”
“You know I don’t. Find someone who’s willing.” She motioned her hands for him to leave.
“If you say so, Princess. I’m a gentleman.”
“YAH!” She screamed at him which he only found funny.
That only made her finalize her decision to go home. She’s out of here. This place is full of models and celebrities and what follows them are the media. The last thing she wants is to be exposed in an article.
On the way out, she saw her three abandoner friends making her way to their table and their confused faces halfway for her absence. They are probably asking ‘Where is Sana?’ and letting it go to get a drink and go in the bar.
“Typical.” She just told herself as she waits outside for a cab. She just wasted a total of 3 and 15 minutes for this party she didn’t even see a glimpse of fun.
“That was hot.”
Sana turned to look in her right where the voice came from. It was sensuous and attractive. It’s been a while, maybe this one could give her one good night.
But… maybe not.
“I can’t believe a model like you just go around and get aroused by watching others make out.”
The woman is pretty famous, but believe it or not, Sana doesn’t know her name, just her being a model given that her face is plastered in at least five advertisements and billboard around the city.
There is also that fact she’s not interested in socializing, just her books complete her day.
She hears the sound of heels clattering in the ground. Taking a deep breath to calm herself down, she looks directly in the eyes of the tall woman but was frozen in the spot with her ethereal beauty.
A hand touches her cheeks down to her neck, the “Are you interested in a one-night stand?”
No, don’t nod your head. Come on, Sana. You are not gonna fall in this trap, you are not- it’s too late.
“Hmm. Fascinating.” The hand left her cheeks, that alluring smell leaving her side. “Too bad I’m not interested.”
Sana frowned her eyes. The fuck?
When she looked back to see the woman once again, her smirk before entering the bar is what left her mouth agape.