"Shan, you really don't want to ride a taxi?" Jam asked as Shanelle rode her pink motorcycle. She is riding that eversince her car broke down because of the accident she went through. "It's already night. It's dangerous on the road." Jam added. As her assistant and manager, he has the responsibility to ensure Shanelle's safety.
"No worries. Just bring me my breakfast early in the morning tomorrow," Shanelle answered and wore her helmet.
Just at that moment, a car stopped in front of them. It was Gabrielle's car. Shanelle was a bit shocked seeing his car stopped.
"Just...talked for a while. I will get going first," Jam said and patted Shanelle's shoulder then walks away.
Shanelle didn't comment anymore. She really still didn't forgive him and seeing him is not really a good idea because the possibility of breaking down is still bothering her. She stayed still and didn't speak until Gabrielle went out of his car.
"Shan," Gab said as he went near her.
Shanelle just looked at him seriously and didn't show any emotion. "What are you doing here?" She managed to say.
"Don't get mad. This will not be long. Your car broke down, right? Taking a motorcycle is not safe. Take my car instead," he said smiling as he handed his car key.
Shanelle looked at his smiling face. Those smiles that she missed. Those gestures that she loved. She really can't hide the fact that the feeling is still there. Her love for him is still there. That whatever she does to forget about her feelings for him, she still feels it whenever she sees him.
"What's that? Break-up fee?" Shanelle looked at the car key first then at his face again.
The smile on Gab's face slowly fades at what she said. He still loves her so those small gestures he can do for her to protect her, he will do it.
"If it's a break-up fee, I'll accept it," Shanelle added and went down her motorcycle. She took off her helmet. She went near him and took the car key from his hand.
Gab was hurt from the cold treatment Shanelle was showing him. But what can he do? He did this to her so he just should accept that she no longer is in his life. But then, he still doesn't want anything bad to happen to her. He doesn't want that accident to happen again. That accident that led him to enter the police force.
"Is there aything else?" The girl asked when she noticed Gab's silence. She is not used to this kind of scenario with him so she wanted to just go away.
Gab shook his head and slowly turns his back from her. He is hurting so much. Yes, Shan was hurting, but the pain he is feeling is double her pain because he doesn't have a choice but to leave her alone.
"Wait," Shanelle called up to him that made Gab stops walking. He looks at her again.
Shanelle walks near him and thows the motorcycle key to him. He catches the car key she throws. "This place is far away from the city. Just use my motorcycle."
"Thank you," Gab smiled. "I will go first, Shan," he said and drives the motorcycle away.
Shanelle takes a deep breath to suppress her tears from coming out. What the hell Shan? Move on okay? That's only Gab. Only Gab. She thought to calm her feelings down.
She opened the car's door amd entered inside. "Even the break-up fee grows legs and delivers itself to me," she murmured as she sits down the driver's seat.
She smiles as she saw what's inside the car. So Gab's style. She suddenly saw the car pendant she gave him as a gift on their 3rd monthsary. It was hanging on the car's mirror. She holds the pendant as she reminisce the past.
"Tada, this is a gift for your new car. I bought this at Japan," Shanelle excitedly showed the pendant to him that Gab happily received.
"Wow. Thank you. Very pretty. As pretty as my girlfriend," Gab said lovingly and tried to kiss her but Shanelle covered her mouth. "Nah, you're stingy. We're already a couple. You still doesn't want to be kissed by me."
"Brat, we are still in our three months together," Shan said and jokingly pushed him away.
"I also thought of waiting for 6 months before kissing you. But I've already liked you since I was eight years old," Gab complained. Shanelle was his first love because they we're childhood friends.
"My rule is to not kiss a man who I haven't been for six months," Shan said.
"Nah, I told you not to compare me with your 6 ex boyfriends. I'm different. Other than you, I will not fall in love with anyone else in my entire life."
"Ah, I know. I know," she pinches his cheeks. "Can you not be a broken record telling me that everyday?" Shan said smiling that made Gab smile also and hugs her.
"Liar. You're the greatest liar Gabrille," Shanele said as she remembered the past. Her tears start to well up again so she lets go of the pendant and leaned her head on the car's seat. Why is it so hard to forget? She thought.
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Jam was happily walking towards Shanelle's house that morning because as what Shanelle said last night, he brought her breakfast. He pushed the doorbell when he arrived at her house. He waits for the door to open.
"Shan I'm he---" he stopped talking when he saw that Shanelle isn't the one who opened the door. But instead, it is a guy whom he doesn't know. And not just a simple guy. He is a Greek God. His mouth remained open as he fantasize him in his thoughts. Handsome. Heavenly. Fresh meat. He even licks his lips.
"Who are you?" Chihoon curiously asked the guy standing infront of him and looking at him with those lustful eyes.
Jam suddenly shakes his head to get back to reality and stops himself from raping him in his mind. He looks around the house to make sure he entered the right house and why is a guy opened the door instead of Shanelle. "Ah..." He peeked inside the house. "I-isn't this the house of Miss Shanelle Park?"
Chihoon looks at him wondering who he is. Is this one of Shanelle's ex boyfriend? He thought. "May I ask who you are first?"
Jam clears his throat. "Hello. My name is Jammier Yu. I am Shanelle's assistant and manager. Just call me Jam. Just like those being stuffed at breads. My mom is very fond of jam when she carried me in her womb, so she named me that way," Jam confidently said.
Chihoon creases his forehead. What is this weido saying? He thought again.
"If it's the escaped monkey from the zoo who is standing in the doorway, let him in," Chihoon heard Shanelle's voice from inside the house.
Jam smiled widely while Chihoon is still seriously looking at him. He opened the door wide for him to enter. "Come in," he said and walks inside the house.
Jam followed him with his gaze. His mouth agapes with wondering who is this guy and what is he doing in Shanelle's house. He is looking at him as he opens the refrigerator and gets a miktea.
Shanelle walks down the stairs while washing her hair with towel. Jam's eyes gets bigger when he saw Shanelle that just had her shower.
He went beside her when she sits down the sofa. "Sh-shanshan, you didn't had sleep last night and you just had a bath?"
Shanelle closed her eyes and massages her forehead. "Yeah. I was moving and moving around all night," she said that made Jam's eyes gets bigger again. Oh no, did they...really did it last night? He thought.
He looks at they guy who is drinking miktea. It seems that him drinking was in a slow motion as he saw his Adam's apple moving. Jam swallowed hard. "A-all night?"
Chihoon walks to their direction holding two mineral water. He puts down the mineral water on the table infront of them and sits down on the sofa adjascent to them.
"By the way, he is Prince Chihoon. Remember the guy I told everyone who is my boyfriend? But he isn't my boyfriend," Shanelle explained to him because she saw him wondering who he is. It's better for her to be honest about it as her manager also.
"But...why is he here is your house?" Jam asked in disbelief.
"He just is living temporarily because of some reasons. Don't tell anyone about this or else I'll chop you alive," Shanelle threatened him that made Jam nods his head many times.
He looks at the guy again who is also looking at him with raised eyebrow. He somehow looks familiar to him. "Aren't you the library god who became famous in social media nowadays?" He managed to say the time he remembered it.
Shanelle looked at Jam. "What do you mean?"
"Here, look at this," Jam said and shows her his phone.
Shanelle grabbed his phone and reads the news. His face was shown and many girls took his photo and posts them online. She glared at Chihoon afterwards. "Can't you be a little bit low-key?! Don't tell me you wanted to be an artist too?!" She shouted at him.
"Can't you delete it?" Chihoon said seriously looking at Jam who catches his phone that Shanelle throws him.
"Nope," Jam said. He went towards Chihoon and sits beside him. "Actually that is possible considering my hacking techniques. But, the original photos are with the uploaders still. They can still upload it if they want," he explained. Jam was an IT specialist and he is good in hacking.
"You're a hacker?" Chihoon asked with cresed forehead.
Jam smiled widely as he flips his imaginary long hair. "A bit," he said with matching gesture using his fingers. "But if you have problem regarding computers, you can come to me."
"Thank you then," Chihoon answered and stands up. He leaves the two.
Shanelle is observing her friend's reaction on the way he looks at Chihoon. She raised an eyebrow because of that. She cleared her throat to get his attention but with no effect. His eyes are still fixated to Chihoon which is now on the kitchen.
"Ehemmm!!!" Shanelle cleared her throat louder this time that made Jam's self returned to reality. "Jammier Yu, don't forget who is your master."
Jam hurriedly went to Shanelle's side. "By the way Shan, you have a chracter shoot today at 11 and at 4 pm, you have an audition at the academy for the New Rookie Artists. I guess this won't be hard for you because aside from being pretty, you are talented also," Jam said as he continously massages Shanelle's shoulders. He knew that Shanelle loves compliments because she is living through her face.
"Hmmm... I guess shooting a movie is not challenging at all," Shanelle confidently said that made Jam grimaced.
"But you don't have any acting skills," Jam said in a whispering voice.
"I heard that!!!" Shanelle glared at Jam then she stands up and walks away from him. Jam swallowed hard.
Chihoon grinned at Shanelle's actions. He gets his laptop and looks at the posts about him. He saw his picture there while reading a book at the library. He reads the comments on his photo.
"Oppa, you are so handome!"
"Where is that library? Spoiler please. Group meeting please."
"Hubby I miss you. Kisses."
"What the heck are these? Disgusting," Chihoon said as he reads the comments. He just closed his laptop and went out the house.
He went to the sea side where his friend lives. He remembered that he adopted and took care of him almost 200 years ago. He is also a creature who is living a long life like him.
"Forgive me for visiting you late after I was brought to life. There are just many things that had happened so I only has the time to visit you today," he said talking to him.
He can only hear the waves because his friend can't talk. And he can't even see him because he is under the watees. But he knew he is listening to him. He sits down the big rock and looks at the waves. "Did you know that the speed of the internet broadcast nowadays is scary? I no longer have time as my advantage to hide my identity."
He sighs as he is looking around the area. He is the only one eho knew this place so there are no people around except him. "I need to work fast to recover my memories and to find my enemy. You must be curious how far I've done. Well, I have one good news and one bad news. Bad news is that my instict is telling me that my enemy might know I am alive now and just watching my every move. I'll go meet someone in a bit to test my luck. And good news is that the eoman who brought me to life lets me stay in her house. Even though she's not very hospitable to me at first and even now, she's still nice." He smiled at the thought.
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Shanelle survived her audition that afternoon. She's confident about her talent, but she can't hide the fact that she is still worried. She knew that even though her dad was the Board of Commitee, he is still very strict in choosing talents that's why until noe she is still a second female lead and haven't debuted as a certified artist yet.
She went out of the audition halland walks to the parking lot when she saw Jam walking towards her while holding the food she told him to buy.
"Shan, how's your audition? Did you passed?" Jam happily asked her.
She just shrugged. "You really bought that?"
"Yeah. Isn't it that you told me to buy yoghurt? But...why did you tell me to buy this?"
Shanelle didn't answered him and just walks first.
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"Pokemon, I'm back. We're you good today?" Shanelle said when she arrived home.
Chihoon didn't answer her because he is busy flipping through the photo album of Shanelle and her ex bf Gabrille Lee.
"Here. Your dinner," Shanelle ssid and puts down the yoghurt she told Jam to buy.
"Your dinner," Chihoon answered pointing at the KFC plastic bag he bought on his way home.
Shanelle took the plastic bag. "Did you go out?"
They guy nodded. "I went to see someone. I saw the old scientist who wanted to experiment me at the museum and I realized he is not who I am looking for. He is not my enemy."
Shanelle sits down the sofa infront of him. "How are you sure he is not your enemy?"
"Based on his reaction."
"What do you mean?"
"If a person sees someone who has died a hundred years ago, you should be able to tell his reaction from his eyes," Chihoon answered and continued to look at the pictures.
"Don't you really know who is your enemy? Maybe your enemy is not a human also. You are like a main actor in a drama. At a crucial moment, you will have an amnesia," Shanelle said shaking her head. "But, you really can't remember anything?"
"I can remember some. But not the important ones," Chihoon said.
"Pft, and you really forgot the important ones?" She chuckled. "Anyways, I don't really care about your situation. I know that the more I know, the more I become problematic also. So, our relationship is just landlord and tenant. And same goes to---" Shanelle stops talking when she saw what Chihoon is holding. It is the photo album of her and Gab's.
She suddenly grabbed it from his hands. "Who told you to take my things?!"
"It seems that you really loves him," Chihoon seriously said.
"I love him? Tss...which eye did you see that I love him?" She looked at the other direction. "And this?" She showed him the album. "Our pictures are always printed in two copies. One for me and one for him. I should thank you for taking this out from the drawer or I would really have forgotten to throw this away," she said and stands up. She throws the album on the trash bin and walks.
"Seeing the pictures, I can tell," Chihoon said that made Shanelle stops walking. "That person also really loves you."
Shanelle looks at him. "He loves me? Okay, let's say that from being friends to being lovers, our feelings always remain unchanged. Once these feelings started to change, inactive gas becomes inflammable gas. The smallest spark can erupt and then boom. The explosion didn't leave anything to our relationship."
"If there's nothing left in your relationship, why are you still angry?"
"Angry? I AM NOT ANGRY AT ALL!" Shanelle shouted that made Chihion flinched. "With which eye did you see me angry uh??"
Chihoon's mouth agapes. "Both of my eyes saw it," he said and shrugged his shoulders.
"Hah!" She scowled at him. "Throw the garbage away!" She stomped her feet and leaves him.
Chihoon looks at the album she throws and looks at the girl walking away. He sighs. Is this how people love each other nowadays? He thought.
Night came, Chihoon noticed that Shanelle was outside and flipping through the garbage. He looks at her from the balcony. She might be looking for the album.
He sighs as he is seeing her in that state. He went to his room and took the album. He took it from the garbage a while ago. He knew that eventhough Shanelle is really angry about what happened between them, this thing is still important to her.
He touches the album then jumps from the second floor to the ground where Shanelle is. She is sitting down the ground hugging her knees because she can't seem to find the album.
Chihoon stands in front of her. He slowly handed the album to her.
Shanelle looks at him and then at the album he is holding. With shaky hands, she takes it from him and hugs it then she started to cry silently. "I thought I lost this."
Chihoon was just looking at her while she is crying. "You're right. I still love him until now," the girl said agaun while hugging the album. "Tell me, am I disgracing myself?"
Chihoon looks around then at her. "Do you want to fly?" He said.
Shanell slowly looks at him. Chihoon smiled at her then he looks at the rooftop of the house. Shanelle also looks at where the guy is looking at. She slowly stands up then looks at Chihoon.
Chihoon walks to her and he carries her the bridal way. He smiles at her again and jumps to the rooftoop of the house.
The feeling of flying is so relaxing that made Shanelle's good mood returned. Being with a monster as a tenant isn't bad after all.