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Chapter 13 - CHAPTER eleven

Just after Zeal exits the room, there is a knock on the door and a person comes in. The person was dressed in a yellow suit with print of birds which made him the center of odd attraction.

"We followed Seri when she was following Zeal but before we could do anything her car crashed in a tree trunk." The person, the COO of YP-ENT says.

"Make her sign the contract, the less she comes in contact with Zeal the more good it is for him. Anyone he meets should have our permission first." The CEO says.

"He has amazing talent. He can also withstand pain; he has been working with a sprained leg without medications." The COO says.

"We have to launch him in the international market too. I don't want his fandom to last only one month."

"What about the high school problem?" The person asks.

"Let him attend it. He needs a high-school degree for a good songbun. Puberty hit his brain like a truck. He is a small kid. He doesn't know how to play with fire. He doesn't know things work in this world. Call his new manager and personal assistant in."

Two people enter and bow.

"You should know his location and what he is doing 24/7, all days of an year. Report immediately if there is a problem. Filter what he says to the media. Control all his accounts. Drive his car whenever he has to go somewhere." The COO says.

"Yes sirs." They say in chorus.

Ken mansion, South Korea

He sits on the bed looking at the frame hung on the wall. How innocent and carefree he looked nine years ago. Just one event transformed him to what he was now, a person whom he hated to be. He picks up his phone and dials a number.

"Hi brother! How are you?" Fuyu asks in her usual cheerful voice.

"I should be the one asking that question. Are you afraid of anything in this world?" Reo asks. Fuyu was the only person who could bring out feelings from the icy-cold personality.

"What did I do now?" Fuyu acts.

"Pull over that act. I know you are not in London but in the United States." Reo says.

"You were able to know because I let you hack my computer. Don't tell dad especially not to mom." Fuyu says.

"Why are you there and where are you staying?" Reo asks.

"Your so called friend lives her. He's quite famous. I didn't knew so many girls are running after him." She says.

"Why are you so interested in him? Do you like him?" Reo asks.

"Cut it, I am just curious." She says in a 'stop making assumptions' tone.

"Just remember that curiosity killed the cat." Reo says in a mocking voice

Zeal's APPARTMENT

I had to think rationally. This world is not a fairy tale where love overcomes battles. We need money to sustain. We are just teens, we have our whole lives ahead and it's just a matter of 5 years. We can achieve our dreams and then live happily together. Also I don't know if she loves or even likes me. What if my love is just one-sided? Also I am not sure about how I feel for her. What if it is just a temporary attraction? I can't spoil her or my life for an uncertain feeling. She already had enough trouble because of me. She is my only true friend and I can't lose her for this meaningless word 'Love'. And if it is true love we will be waiting for each other. I know these five years would be hard and I may not be able to hear your voice let alone to see you. I can't protect you now anyways. Isn't it funny, that if I had made a different decision I wouldn't have been here? If I hadn't written on that sheet, my fate would've been written in different ink. Are we just like parallel lines that are never destined to meet?

His gravity-drawn shoulders press a digital photo frame to his heart. Their beautiful memories captured in a cuboid. He slowly covers his face in his scarf and draws his head to his knees and sinks beside the bed on the cold wooden floor.

Seri's House

She tries to call him. Can he never pick his phone in one ring, she thinks.

...I don't want such an annoying person teaching me, he says pointing towards me. I said that I was sorry besides it's you who is annoying, holding grudges. Whatever, he says nonchalantly. I am not your servant, I say and hurry down the stairs because I didn't had the capacity to tolerate him for even one more second. I head back to the dorms and start searching for my diary. My diary was only person who knew me, I shared with it all my feelings; others were just seeing the mask I was showing them. Not being able to find it, a dreaded thought strikes my mind. Did I leave it with my books at the Music Agency. No, it can't be. For the first time since my father's death I was feeling like crying. I walk towards the dorm gates when I see his face. He was holding my book. I feel blood rush in my cheeks, cold fear twist my temple. He can't have read it all. Holding a calm demeanor I walk towards him and take my notebook back from him and walk back as fast as I could to my dorm room. I didn't have the courage to look into his eyes. My eyes water and I start running and hide beside a pillar. What would he think about me. He would surely hate me. I go and sit on the bench hidden behind the bushes curled up. We have a lot in similar you know. I didn't look up but I knew it was him. I am sorry for venting my anger on you...I know how it feels when you have no place to return to, no shoulders to rest on. I keep my head wrapped in my palms. He had read it all. He knew I was an orphan. He was the first living person to know everything about me. After some time when I think he would have gone, I raise my head a little. He was still sitting beside me…....

There is a knock on the door and Jae Hui comes with a tray and two bowls. She closes the door with her heel and comes and sits beside me. "What were you thinking about so deeply?" She asks handing a bowl of soup to me. "Just an old memory" Seri replies. "Making you smile, it must have been a precious one." She says looking directly into my eyes. Seri nods.