"His apartment?!" Lucy yelled out in the car when the manager Kang was driving her somewhere. And apparently, it was Hwa's home.
"He said that he won't go to the company for an hour of studying when he can rest at home and you can go to him. Actually, all the members agreed to have some of those lessons at his house o dorms when it can't be done in the company." Lucy gritted her teeth and took out a cap and a mask. She didn't want to be caught going into that idiot's house at all. Manager Kang only chuckled.
"You don't really like him?" he asked. Lucy looked at him and pondered for a while.
"It's not that I don't like him, but I met him three times and something always got screwed up. My heels, getting photographed, accidentally hurting someone… I think he was born to make my life hell…" Lucy whined and thought more about the like and dislike.
"You see... there is a thin line. When all your unfortunate accidents that you went through happen with that person there. You are bound to simply dislike that person." Lucy shrugged. The manager actually laughed. As he was driving inside a garage. Oh, clever. No one would see her getting out… They may say she waited in the car if someone saw her.
"Get in yourself. Just walk straight and you will end up in the living room. If you call for him, he will get to you. I can't go there with you," he laughed once more and Lucy actually wondered why he couldn't go.
She got out of the car with him and went through the security and elevator. Then she was let in the door when she said her guest password, with all her books that she bought and other study aids in her backpack. The hall was well-lit, clean, and all white, but when she emerged into the living room, her mouth fell open. As expected of Hannam…
Lucy expected something… luxurious, screaming money at her. But she was surprised. Yes, it was a luxurious apartment with lots of rooms. The main living room was one big open space from which you could see the dining area and the kitchen. Really airy. But…
It didn't fit her image of an idol because it looked like people were living there. It wasn't sanitary clean. There were plates on the table, and some bowls. On the ground was an orange that probably fell from the table.
C-land's music was blasting from the speakers and their videos were playing on the big TV. It actually annoyed Lucy a bit. She wanted to turn it off or at least turn down the volume, but she couldn't find a remote control. He definitely did it on purpose.
"Seonghwa-nim!" he shouted, actually addressing him with the respect that she had long lost for him. But she was his teacher. For now. No one answered.
It would be rude to go around the house and start looking for him, so Lucy sat down on the sofa in the living room and waited. After ten minutes, she had enough. Lucy took out the wireless headphones and put them in her ears, blasting different music, because it only annoyed her more.
The C-land's songs weren't bad, but Lucy had a weird personality that if someone was pushing her into something, the more she resisted. The more she wanted to do the opposite.
Lucy wrote a message to Lili but got no answer, so Lili was definitely doing something with her new boyfriend. So, Lucy decided to kill time… by playing games.
Lili preferred PC games. Lucy, on the other hand, was traveling too much, so for her, the best option was mobile games. And now she found out that Gochu had a music game. Pressing buttons into music. She wasn't really awesome at it, but Lucy was slowly climbing the leaderboard and was already in the silver league.
Hand grabbed her by her shoulder, and Lucy jerked herself, swearing in the process. She turned around and saw Hwa smiling at her, moving his mouth. Lucy winced and took out her headphones.
"What were you saying?" she asked, realizing the music was now a lot quieter, so she took out the other headphone too. Now he wasn't smiling at all.
"Why didn't you go and get me?" he asked, frowning. His hair was wet, but only slightly suggesting he hurried with blow drying.
"And why should I? It's your house. I'm a stranger. And I don't want to see you doing something I shouldn't see." Lucy locked her phone and grabbed the bag she brought while putting her phone on the table.
"This is for you. Now, tell me where the toilet is, please?" she asked, the urges or nature getting the best of her. Hwa staggered under the weight she suddenly threw at him, but showed her the door.
After Lucy left, Hwa's eyes fell on the phone she put on the table. She wouldn't listen to the music? Well, he had more plans on how to make her fall for him. How to make her SEA.
He took the phone and took out the photocard from the case, then he put there his own limited series that was signed by him and put the case back. Knowing her password, he would use her phone more, but he just needed to wait for the right opportunity.
Lucy came back to the table cleaned, or at least the dishes were put into a sink in the kitchen and the orange back in the bowl on the table.
"I don't know how much you know, or what you remember from school. So, the first thing we will do is test you. Others had thirty minutes on this test, but because you were late, you have twenty minutes. We are both busy after that." Hwa stared at her, and then at the papers, she took out. And shook his head.
"Is this revenge?" he asked, being convinced she was just vengeful. But Lucy smiled sweetly, with a smile that no one would find anything sinister behind it. No one except Hwa. He just knew it.
"No, you can ask your members. They all had the same test, but they arrived on time, so they had more time…" Yup, this was definitely revenge.
Hwa just grunted and started going through the papers. Lucy was surprised that he took it really seriously, so even when he was supposed to be done, she let him have a full half hour. It looked like he really wanted to learn English.
Lucy looked around when he finished and took his papers.
"Will I be always teaching you here? Without your members?" she smirked at him, hinting at it, but Hwa shrugged.
"No idea. It depends on whether or not I'm busy. But I think it will be mostly in the company." Lucy squinted her eyes. This was unexpected again. But she wasn't arguing.
"Well, since it will be in the company, then I have no problems, but if it were here, I would need a whiteboard or something," she said and smiled at him. But now, it was a genuine smile. That Hwa saw for the first time. And it scared the shit out of him.