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Chapter 4 - In The Heart Of A Stranger

It wasn't long before I reached BSM's house. I made it alive (barely) so...that's a plus. Also, their house was gorgeous. It was like a fantasy once the gates of heaven opened. Oh I'm so dramatic, but....it's true. I stepped through the gates like it was the best place on Earth.

"Wowser! This is like a fantasy or something", I opened my eyes so big that the guys began to laugh.

"Thank you. I take it you like our house?", Hyun-ki asked for clarification.

I clear my throat and glare at Hyun-ki crazily, as if he asked the dumbest question in the world.

"Is that even a question? You guys literally have a river in the middle of the pathway? What is this? The Taj Mahal?", I freak out while the guys are blushing from my extensive compliments.

"Thank you. That means a lot", Ji-hoon receives the compliment with humbleness.

I nod my head with a bright smile. I don't know why, but for some reason....I felt Hyun-ki staring at me. He probably thinks I'm ugly or something. But, I don't really care. He's a nice person, and he saved my life so....who cares?

"Can we give you a tour?", Joo-won asks gesturing his hand politely to their mansion.

"Are you sure about that? Not only am I a stranger, but this tour will probably last 2 hours by the look of this house. I'm sorry... MANSION", they start to giggle and I join in too.

"It's really no problem. We have nothing to do right now, and I am curious about you", Hyun-ki admits with a small grin.

"Well...okay if you insist", I comply as I motion my hand as to say, lead the way.

The guys walk in front of me, and take me to the entrance of their Godzilla house. I'm not even kidding about the extreme size of this house. There's literally a house, on a house, on a house, on a house.

"You know what this place reminds me of?", I ask them.

"No. What?", Ji-hoon questions smiling back at me as he shows me their living room.

"Ever seen the movie Godzilla?", I chuckle trying not to laugh too hard.

"What so our house looks like Godzilla?", Hyun-ki responds slightly giggling.

"Uuuummmm. I was thinking more like the entire CITY of the movie...but okay", I correct him as I walk through the room which feels like it takes forever.

"So you're joking now huh?", Hyun-ki laughs with his arms crossed, while Ji-hoon and Joo-won look as if they're dying on the floor from laughter.

"Yeah well....", I am interrupted by a loud sound coming from the kitchen.

"You guys hear that?", I look at them trying to stop laughing.

"Yep. Let me go check it out", Hyun-ki reacts urgently. Ji-hoon and Joo-won were alarmed too, but decided to stay behind.

"I'm coming with you. It might be dangerous", I say while following Hyun-ki to the sound.

"Okay, but stay behind me", Hyun-ki commands with a protective aura.

I bowed my head in agreement. As he leads me to another room in Godzilla City, I follow closely behind him. We eventually reach the room at which the ear piercing noise was located.

"Jun-seo? What are you doing?", Hyun-ki wonders trying to piece it all together.

"Well I was trying to cook, but the grill fell on the floor and shattered", Jun-seo answers looking ashamed but at the same time, hiding his laughter.

"Oh! I thought somebody was breaking in from the kitchen", Hyun-ki puts his hand on his chest and sighed from relief.

I giggle from Hyun-ki's worried face, because he was so sincerely worried that there had been a burglar.

"Was that a giggle?", Jun-seo displays an odd expression on his face.

"Oh", Hyun-ki replies while stepping out of the way to show me.

"Pink....pink hair?", I could tell Jun-seo was nervous, because I know how he is around females. I've seen the videos.

"Hey. I'm MaeMae. Nice to meet you Jun-seo", I waved at him trying to turn down his nervousness level.

"Uuummm....you too", Jun-seo nods his head letting out a breath.

"Sorry. He gets this way around girls", Hyun-ki apologizes for him and conceals a smile.

"Oh trust me, I know. It's okay by the way. Hyun-ki was nervous like that too, 15 minutes ago", I inform Jun-seo but Hyun-ki looked at me with disbelief.

"I was not!", Hyun-ki disagreed with embarrassed written all over his face.

"Oh really. Yes, of course. Let's pretend like you didn't stutter when I first met you", I crossed my arms and leaned on my right foot.

"Okay, okay. So I stuttered one word. That doesn't mean I was nervous", he rectifies.

"Good point. But don't lie to me", I look at Hyun-ki while raising one eyebrow.

Hyun-ki softly scratches the back of his head, as Jun-seo laughs at my remark. Hyun-ki heavily clears his throat.

"Anyway. I'm glad there's no burglary", Hyun-ki rubs his head.

"And I'm glad you're not nervous anymore", I show a sneaky smile waiting for their reaction.

Jun-seo seriously tries to hold back his grin, and Hyun-ki just looked at me like he was about to beat me up. Except he just started laughing, and I started to laugh too. However, as we were laughing, I didn't notice that Hyun-ki picked me up and lifted me over his shoulder.

"Nooooooo!!! Hyun-ki put me down. I'm sorry. I'm sorry", I cry from so much laughter and I repetitively hit Hyun-ki on the back harshly. He leads me to their swimming pool, which was amazing let me say. It was like the prettiest lake ever.

"You promise to stop?", Hyun-ki stops at the edge of the glistening pool.

"Yes. I promise" I stop hitting Hyun-ki and wait patiently for him to put me down.

He sets me gently back on the concrete ground.

"Thank you", I wipe my forehead as if I just got done exercising.

Hyun-ki begins to cackle to a point where his stomach began hurting, which made me cackle roughly as well.

"By the way, this is a weird question but...when you carried me over your shoulder...you weren't looking at my butt were you? ", I calmly rub my arm.

"Uuuuhhhh...no", he answers, though with an uncertain facial expression.

"Mmmhhhmmm", I stand in his view in disbelief.

"No really I...", Hyun-ki tries to further verify that he hadn't placed his eyes where he wasn't supposed to.

"I was only kidding", I playfully punch Hyun-ki's arm and we both guffaw.

At one point, we discontinue this humorous day and it feels as if time stopped. We stand there in front of each other without a single blink and gazed at each other.

*Hyun-ki's Point Of View

You're an interesting one, MaeMae.

*MaeMae/My Point Of View

There's more to you than meets the eye, Hyun-ki.