Usually, Kim Jun Su didn’t have to wait for any call to come. People who knew him were the one that actually do the waiting. This time, it was different. He was waiting for a call.
While waiting for his call, he started doing some research for his assignment. Something about the law in business administration. He was doing it half heartedly. It was his first time to be involved personally in human resources. He was never the one doing unnecessary stuff like waiting for a girl. Today afternoon, he had waited for her.
Which was very odd to Kim Jun Su.
Jun Su felt like smacking himself silly. She may turn down the offer. She may need money desperately but she still may turn down the offer.
The phone rang suddenly.
He was surprised.
He waited for the phone to ring a few times before actually walking to it. The continuous ring of his phone showed the urgency of the caller.
It might actually be her.
He picked up the phone.
“Umm…. I know this sound so weird. But are you the one waiting for me by my car this afternoon?” she asked.
It was her.
Li Yin pressed the hang up button. Surprisingly, it was easy. He had just asked her to do some modeling for him. She was required to only stay in a pose for a while like an hour or two when he got the sketch down. Then, she could leave because he assured her that he just needs to draw fiction onto the sketch he had.
Here comes the tricky part.
He had to draw in his apartment alone with her.
How much she need the money? She really couldn’t answer that and she couldn’t really make a decision.
In the end, she had promised to meet with him in school cafeteria for more discussion. In the end, she had no sleep at all, thinking and trying to remember his name again.
Lee Li Yin was waiting for her lunatic to come in a corner, well hidden from the noisy mouths of her college mates. Kim Jun Su deliberately came late for about five minutes. Her face was drawn into a face of relief when she saw him walking towards her.
She must have need money desperately.
Jun Su smiled at the poor girl and she quickly turned a shade redder. Jun Su liked this girl. She was such a naivet�.
It reminded him of her mother.
Li Yin quickly stood up and greeted him in a tone totally different from her tone yesterday. She was actually trying to talk politely. Jun Su took a seat and apologised for lack of punctuality.
She then said it was ok, meaning as long as he was here, it was ok. What kind of job you mean? She asked cautiously, trying not to sound so desperate.
Modeling.
Does it had to be your house? She asked. I mean wouldn’t it be more appropriate in a studio. She tried to cover up her awkwardness.
Jun Su smirked, wondering how she would react when she heard what was actually in his mind.
I am planning to draw a portrait of you, nude. You want to do it in a studio? Jun Su shrugged. He then said that it was fine with him.
Li Yin looked like her soul had just been sucked out of her shell. It seemed that she had to turn down the job.
She would never let a total stranger to see her naked. All kind of disgusting thoughts went into her brain and preoccupied her brain momentarily.
Li Yin suddenly stood up and her action pushed her chair down. Her hand pushed her cup into instability and the drink spilled. Despite all this havoc, she could only stare at Jun Su. Jun Su wondered whether she was aware that she was getting all the attention now.
Jun Su just continued observing her.
Mister, that would be a no. She refused flatly.
Jun Su was a bit surprised. He was going to offer a lump sum that would be sufficient enough for her to make her to jump into bed with him and he didn’t ask for that. He just asked her to model for him for arts. He needed her because he doesn’t simply draw anyone.
Just people that interest him.
She practically stormed off with her shirt, stained with her drink. Jun Su looked around and quickly saw his audiences’ eyes reverted back somewhere as but not to him. It appeared to him that the new girl and he, the introvert were about to be their topic soon.
Kim Jae Joong needed to curse someone, in fact a particular girl named Lee Li Yin. However, despite the urgency to curse, he didn’t. He was too busy flying from the hall into the kitchen to curse.
It was that busy.
He really prayed that Li Yin quickly appear in front of him. He was already tired. He had been working for the past four hours and his shift was supposed to end forty minutes earlier. Li Yin was supposed to cover for her.
She had better have a good excuse. Stephanie wasn’t very kind too today. She kept on using her tray to smack Jae Joong’s head and it made the whole thing worse when Jae Joong can’t help but to be amused with her when Stephanie does so.
Stephanie was one sexy lady.
They always said sexy lady gets away most of the time.
Sometimes, Stephanie seemed very weird to Jae Joong. The girls in his college had the body like Stephanie but they never had the attraction factor like Stephanie. Stephanie was tall and had a healthy tan colour on her body which totally attribute to her sexiness. She liked to wear blouse that showed off her cleavage and yet, it didn’t give the impression of come-on-fu.ck-me. In fact, all it did was to show her superiority. Sometimes, she wore skirts and sometimes pants. Jae Joong had always preferred the skirts more than pants.
Sometimes, Jae Joong wished that he can wear skirts too.
All the customers seemed to be fine when she had to walk slowly from the kitchen to serve the drinks. Jae Joong had to dash to compensate her speed instead. The skirts seemed to give her the privilege that she can walk slowly and stylishly. Jae Joong labeled them the skirt chasers.
Today, Stephanie was very angry with Jae Joong. Jae Joong had bought the wrong drink to the wrong table. Luckily for Jae Joong, the customers apparently were breaking up. None of them noticed.
Then, Jae Joong was caught flirting with one of the customers. Jae Joong could still feel the wrath on his swollen head. Needless to say, Stephanie had smacked him countless there today.
The bell chimed hurriedly.
Both Stephanie and Jae Joong threw their hands up in celebration.
Li Yin had arrived.
Li Yin quickly dashed to the counter and threw an apron onto her body. She quickly tied her hair into a bun to hinder any disturbance from the disobedient hair she had. Jae Joong waited for her and quickly whispered a few complaints.
“The whole house had been a madhouse. She is not in a good mood today,” he said.
“Sorry, I was late. A professor and some lunatic were stalling me. I will make up for it one day ok?,” Li Yin apologised.
“Yeah and I am going off now,” Jae Joong threw his apron into a drawer and dashed out of the caf�.
Li Yin went to the kitchen and saw Stephanie struggling to put a few drinks onto her tray.
“Thank goodness you are here. I can’t stand that idiot,” Stephanie said.
Li Yin laughed and continued the work Jae Joong left.
After four more hours, the caf� was shut for the day. Li Yin still had an hour before she checked out. Both Stephanie and Li Yin were putting the chairs up on the tables.
“You were here the whole day?” Li Yin asked.
“Yeah, it was the only day that I get the whole day off from school,” Stephanie answered.
Then, they started talking despite the tiredness they felt from the day work. They had talked everything under the sun and their topics jumped randomly.
First, it was about school. Then, it was about family. Later on, it was about boys and relationship.
It was very much like a girls’ talk.
For Li Yin and Stephanie that had to juggle with school and work, it was actually something that came once in a blue moon and they really appreciate the blue moon.
As Li Yin heaved the last chair onto the table, her phone rang. She picked it up immediately.
“Han Geng?” she inquired softly. It was from a friend from where she came from.
Before she left for Korea.
She started to look very lost after the phone call.
Li Yin remembered that the lunatic from school suddenly. It was past midnight. She was in her room and had just returned from her work. The maids in her house were fast asleep and she crawled up to her room, hoping that she didn’t wake her mother and father up. That is if her father was at home and not at his office, doing some paper work.
She needed privacy to think and maybe to make a call.
On her way home, she realized that her need for some fast cash had increased rapidly. She needed any job that can bring cash. Suddenly, her brain hit a nail. She remembered that lunatic that she met in the afternoon.
That lunatic who wanted her to work as his model.
Li Yin had no time to fight with sense as to why she was qualified. Her desire for money overwrote her sensibility. Luckily, she had to thank the lunatic who had left his number recorded in her phone. Now, she just needed to find his number.
She flipped her phone open and entered her phone book.
With the limited time she had, she started to have a verbal argument with her sensible side. She was bought up to not easily trust a stranger. She was bought up traditionally under her old fashioned grandmum. Her grandmum had always said that she didn’t wish that any of her grandchildren to appear wearing close to nothing on the street.
She strolled down her list. There was father there. Then, the house phone number. Her and her father’s driver number. Jae Joong and …….
Job opportunity’s number there.
Above Stephanie’s number and the list ended there
It wasn’t there before. It must had been the lunatic’s number.
Kim Jun Su went home quickly and called a number he had recently gained in the club. Yes, he went to club too. It wasn’t all about study to him despite the common impression he gave. He went to a more different club than people his age. It was more like bar than club. He listened to confidential trading information there and gets numbers he thought was useful.
This number that he recently gained was a private investigator one.
Then, he chuckled to himself.
He was getting a bit out of hand. Even if he were to call the number, how can he possibly asked someone to investigate another that he didn’t even know her name was? He always loses his cool when it was about Kim Jae Jeoong.
He just needed a name.
Damnit.
It had been a week since they started work. Surprisingly, it wasn’t really that boring for Jae Jeoong. Jae Jeoong had never worked in his entire life before. He had never really needed to lift a finger if he didn’t want to. Being a waiter was entirely new to him.
He needed to learn where everything was. He needed to memories the coffee beans actually had to be grinded into powder to be readily made into a coffee. He needed to know to lay the table properly according to the location. He had to remember a lot of coffee name that he never thought existed.
He had nothing to complain off. He taken in the harsh words of the manager and then regurgitated it out to Li Yin when they finished their shift. Li Yin seemed to be an ordinary girl. She hates wasting money. She listened to everyone patiently and basically lack of sexual attraction.
Not that Jae Jeoong mind. If Jae Jeoong wasn’t looking at Li Yin like that, what makes other guys eying her?
Li Yin loved to smile to the customers and always runs around the café.
Their other colleague Stephanie, had to smack his head every time he placed the order wrongly. Stephanie looked sexier compared with Li Yin in her apron.
It was a whole new experience.
The bell chimed as the door opened. Kim Jun Su walked in reluctantly. He was dragged by his friends to go for a blind date. Suddenly, a girl Jun Su recognized appeared.
It was her.
The one who picked up a coin.
Jun Su had thought that he should sneak out but changed his mind once he saw her. Quickly, his eyes darted to her name tag.
Lee Li Yin.
He had found a name.
Now, he could really call that private investigator. Li Yin guided Jun Su to a table for two. She then asked him to order.
Li Yin took his order and went into the kitchen. Looking around, she called Kim Jae Jeoong who was still asleep in his room. Li Yin ordered him to get his ass to the café before he was caught. Then, she went back into preparing the black coffee Kim Jun Su ordered.
She carefully placed the cup of coffee onto a tray and then decided to serve it. She walked out and only to find the table empty save for a 10000 won bill.
She put the coffee onto the table and cashed the money.
Too bad tips were all shared evenly.
That girl had been interesting.
Kim Jun Su was right. The report that the private investigator sent in to him was a good read.
Lee Li Yin story had just been like his story. If someone who was writing the story of this girl, Kim Jun Su could sue the author for copyright. Jun Su smirked.
Jun Su had already known her weakness.
Lee Li Yin rushed to her car. She was already late for her shift in the café. She was supposed to replace Jae Jeoong’s shift. She wasn’t afraid of the manager. She was more frightened of her friend, Jae Jeoong. Jae Jeoong seemed to be a calm man but in reality, he was a wussy. Li Yin knew that Jae Jeoong didn’t really need the job and she was glad that Jae Jeoong was there for her. He was a walking clown and he really amused her and Stephanie in the café.
When she was close enough to see a car, she could see a man leaning against her car.
The man stood up on his own when he saw Li Yin. He smiled at her and introduced himself as Kim Jun Su.
She was already late. This man wasn’t helping.
“I was just thinking,” the man said while using his eyes scanning Li Yin.
Li Yin started to get uncomfortable.
“Could you be my model? I will pay you hourly,” he offered.
What?!
Li Yin couldn’t believe in what she had just heard. It seemed impossible. There were so many professional models out there but he had wanted her. Obviously, there were some loose screws in his brain. It wasn’t that Li Yin was looking down at herself but she had something called a mirror at home.
“Thanks for the offer. I will consider it at home,” she refused politely.
The man then suddenly leaned back onto her car. Some stubborn pig he was. Li Yin ignored him and went into her car. She decided that she just needs to start her engine to scare the man off. However, Kim Jun Su didn’t move a bit.
She was so dead. Kim Jae Jeoong will kill her. “Hey, I need to go to work,” she said.
“I see,” he said as if it wasn’t his problem.
“Ok, what do you want?” Li Yin gave up.
“I really want you to consider sincerely. Give me your phone,” he said.
Li Yin reluctantly reached for her phone. This man surely won’t snatch her phone from her right. She had seen him a few times in the lecture hall and any student of this college won’t actually need a phone desperately to steal hers.
The man then took her phone and punched in his number into her directory. He took the liberty to look at her phone book. The amount of number seemed to minute.
This girl had totally forgotten to make friends in her life.
Kim Jun Su put his number under alias Job Opportunity and hand the phone back to its owner.
“Remember to ring me if you needed cash,” he said.
Li Yin stepped on the accelerator and sped out of the college compound. She was already late and well, was about to be baked alive by her friend.
I like this song and I think it went well with this chapter. ^^
Chapter three
Kim Jun Su who saw her, walked slowly too. It wasn’t that he was rushing back to his apartment to meet his assignment. In fact, he thought that he might need some time to think about what he had just witness.
He walked to the car park and saw a car driving pass him.
In that car, he saw Kim Jae Jeong and that girl he was observing from the balcony.
That plain Jane had hit a jackpot.
Kim Jae Jeong had been bored again. He had never remembered when he wasn’t bored. Son of a wealthy and successful businessman, he was taught to enjoy life in luxury. He had tutors at home, teaching him the basic law of business. He had learnt and studied a musical instrument to be more of a whole rounder. He had learnt to protect himself by the means of martial arts. He had learnt English and Mandarin, according to his father’s wish. His father apparently taught of expanding his business overseas. These two languages were one of the most applied languages in the world.
According to his father’s wish, he attended this college too. He really did admire his father. His father had always taught him whenever his mother left him with his father to go shopping.
It was just that he can’t wait to graduate from college and start working.
Now, his father said was his time to enjoy before the office consumes him.
He had chosen his newest interest. This woman sitting next to her was driving with her head sticking out to look at the road. This woman was about to be his newest friend. Boredom had always made him think about his friends. He did experiment that was well, educational and might be useful in the far future.
He made friends around in the college. This college had good facilities and good staff but Jae Jeoong believed that the really hidden treasure in the college was the students. The creme de creme attended this college. The student here had social status and well, money that they simply doesn’t know what to do. So, throughout his years in the college, he is going to spend it on studying and making friends. Here, he will decided who is worthy of being his friend, who was loyal, who is able to contribute in helping him to climb the ladder of success.
Jae Jeoong now was about to make judgment about this woman.
Lee Li Yin was someone who appeared to be introvert. She didn’t make the effort to make friends and the only effort she made over the past month was to study. She practically attended all her classes and lectures. She was the only one who appeared in simple and casual attire. Most of the girls in their college were all rolled in makeup and accessories. They all came either overdressed or simply skimpily dressed.
Not that he minded that. It just aroused his libido a bit.
Jae Jeoong won’t be so intrigued if this Lee Li Yin dressed like the other girl friends he had. Jae Jeoong could simply categorized Lee Li Yin as an idiot. However, Lee Li Yin was just so wrapped in her world. Jae Jeoong felt that a challenge was offered to him and his boredom seemed to dropped a bit.
Lee Li Yin suddenly sighed.
“Great! I am lost!”
The cafe was one of the hottest hangouts for the college kids. Whoever who attended their college would know. Jae Jeoong’s surprise almost betrayed him.
“Turn left now,” Jae Jeoong said.
She pouted a bit and followed Jae Jeoong’s direction. She saw the cafe and headed straight into the underground parking lot. She parked her car smoothly and walked out of her car. Jae Jeoong did the same. Li Yin was tapping her foot, urging him to get out of her car quickly.
Once he was out of her car, she quickly beeped her car and hastily walked towards the entrance to the cafe. He followed along.
A bell chimed when she slowly pushed the door opened. The bell had then created a calm ambience to the whole cafe. Slowly, a waitress came out and greeted the two of them. The waitress was another girl their age. The nametag on her uniform read Stephanie. Stephanie seemed to be knock out of breathe as she laid her eyes on Jae Jeoong.
Jae Jeoong had always been modest about his looks. He knew he looked good.
“What can I do for you girls?” Stephanie cheerfully asked.
Li Yin now was struggling to hold in the laughter that was threatening to burst out soon.
“We came to apply for the job vacancy,” Li Yin answered.
Stephanie then excused herself and called the manager out. It was man who is in his mid forties. He looked kind and experienced. He interviewed them and he wasn’t very pleased by the level of enthusiasm that Jae Jeoong showed.
Who won’t be if they answered that they are bored when he was asked why he would choose the job.
The manager was impressed by Li Yin. Li Yin showed a readiness to learn and to work. She seemed to be responsible too and well, something told the manager that Li Yin needed money desperately too. Li Yin was automatically in his good books. He had always thought that youngsters nowadays don’t know the value of money.
Jae Jeoong on the other hand was too indifferent, showing a lack of desire to serve.
“Manager, if you hired us, we will work very hard. I can assure you that,” Li Yin said with a smile.
She nudged Jae Jeoong a bit and Jae Jeoong nodded his head in agreement.
The manager wasn’t so sure about Jae Jeoong but the manager thought that he could give both of them a chance. He wasn’t the one that cruelly dismay people at his first impression.
“Great! Start tomorrow. Li Yin, you are officially hired and Jae Jeoong, you are on probation!” the manager announced.
“CAN YOU BELIEVE HIM?”
Li Yin swore she had heard that a thousand of times from Jae Jeoong. Obviously, Jae Jeong still can’t get over the fact that the manager trusted her more than him.
They were both in the car and now, Li Yin was forced to send Jae Jeoong home. Throughout the whole journey home, Jae Jeoong had been complaining about the manager.
Li Yin was very glad that she had always practiced selective hearing back home when her grandmother had been lecturing her. She could only hear something about what gives him the benefit of the doubt and something about how blind the manager are, unable to recognise a jewel when it is just in front of this nose.
She really can’t believe that her first friend here is so fussy.
