“What’s wrong with you Key? You keep staring at nothing since a while ago!” Chansung said. He was surprised to see his friend acted like that.

“Uh? Nothing.”

“You lied. Did something happen last night?” Junsu asked out of his curiosity.

“No..nothing. What do you guys want?”

“We want to ask you if you want to join us for lunch. What should we get today? Korean food?” Junsu thought while stroking his chin.

“Sushi! Oh man please??? I want sushi so bad today,” Chansung replied.

“Hmm…sounds not bad, what do you think,Key?” The 2 guys turned their head and asked for their friend’s opinion, but they found out that Key back to stare at nothing again.

“KEYYY!”

“U..huh?” Key surprised at their shouting. Junsu and Chansung sighed.

“Guess we have to leave him. Let’s go chan, bye Key, I hope you’re quitting your strange act when we get back,” Junsu said and then left Key’s room followed by Chansung.

Key stared at his friends for a while. Then he got back to his own thoughts. He never been like this before, so why now he act so strange?

Damn! Why did I say that to her yesterday? What’s wrong with me?

=Flashback=

“Oppa I’m scared!” Soojin said to Key with fear when they gonna jump from the plane in about 1 minute.

“It’s okay Soojin, I’ll protect you.”

“Can I hold your hands a bit?” Soojin asked while holding Key’s hand and he found out that his sister’s body was shaken.

“Don’t be so afraid okay?”

“I’ll try….”

“Don’t worry. No matter what, I’ll always be there to protect you,” Key said while looking at Soojin’s eyes.

“Oppa…” Soojin replied in awe and Key smiled seeing that.

“You’re so cute. Sometimes I wish I….”

“Eh?” Soojin asked not believing her ears. Key immediately snapped back to reality realizing what he had just said to Soojin.

“Oppa?”

“Nothing!”

“You guys, let’s jump!” Taec gave them the command, and they jumped from the plane together.

=End of Flashback=

Damn damn damn! Why did I say that to her! Now she’s gonna really think I’m a mad brother!

“Arrrghhhhhh!!” Key screamed out his frustations.

“What is it Key? Something happen here???” Taec and Junho suddenly opened the door.

“Uh? Nothing.”

“Man, you make us worry. Let’s have lunch, come on dude!”

“Okay,” Key kept silent again and followed his 2 besties out for lunch.

***

“Young Master, your lunch is ready,” one of the daily maid said while knocking his door.

“I understand. I’m gonna go to the dining room soon, thanks ahjuma,” Minho replied.

Minho was in his very serious state now. Since a while ago he’s been trying to track down that “Ace” girl but he found nothing. He knew it’s really hard to search for dragkheimhell infos, but he ain’t giving up. A year ago he with the help of his friend who was a detective also they developed some software that can help them to track down culprits and all but although he’s been using them, no data ever found about dragkheimhell.

He took out his glasses from his eyes and shut the computer. He walked to the dining room when suddenly his phone rang. He immediately answer it.

“Onew hyung? What’s wrong?”

“You have some job, Minho.”

“Okay, who’s the client?”

“It’s Taemin’s uncle. Not really his uncle, but there’s still some bloodline between them.”

“I see. Why he choosing me? He knows about the underground society?”

“Probably from Taemin. I don’t really get that point. Btw, I had given him the map to your house. He probably gonna arrive at about 20 minutes,” Onew replied seriously.

“Ok. I’m gonna munch my lunch first and meet him then.”

“Ok. Good luck Minho,” Onew said and hang up the phone. Minho went to his dining room faster and munched to his lunch that had been prepared by the maids.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

“So, Mr. Lee Ho Min, what do you want me to search for?”

“I’m here to ask you to investigate about my wife’s affair.”

“Sorry? So you’re suspecting that your wife doing an affair?”

“Yes, and I wanna know who’s her partner. Can you do it quickly?” the man offered Minho with one envelop of money. Minho took it and counted the money. He then smiled at the man.

“No worries. Maximal time is 5 hours. I’m gonna report to you as soon as I find your wife’s affair partner.”

“Thank you. And here is my wife’s photo, maybe you need that.”

“Ok, deal.”

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Minho’s position in underground society as genius young detective is really true indeed. In just 2 hours, he found that man’s wife kissing with another man at one hotel’s lobby. He took a photo of that lady and his partner, and called Mr. Lee Ho Min. He said he’s gonna emailed the photo, and with this, his job for today finished.

He walked in the city to have some refreshments. He’s been stress for a week searching for the identity of the “Ace” girl but no results come out. He can just give up if he wants but his pride won’t let him do it. He thought that if there’s no one can stop dragkheimhell, who else can?

He suddenly thought about his old friend. They were young detectives back ago, but on one case, his friend got injured so badly. He ran his friend to the hospital, but when he came back days after, his friend’s missing. And he never found him again since that time.

Ki Bum…where are you now?

He thought so deeply that he didn’t notice he’s gonna crash into a girl.

BAM!

“Aww!” the girl shrieked. Her stuffs were all trown away to the street.

“I’m so sorry miss, you alright?” Minho was surprised and he immediately helped the girl to gather all of her stuffs back.

When he was helping her, he found a card, looks like an identity card slipped in a book. Something written in there. He looked closer and…

A-C-E ?

“Sorry too mister, thanks for helping me,” The girl said while picking the book with the card with her.

“Ah, it’s okay, it’s my fault too. Btw, my name is Minho, Choi Minho. And you?”

“I’m Ahra. Choi Ahra,” the girl smiled and offered her hand. They shook hands for a while.

“Whoa, we have the same surname. So how old are you?”

“I’m 17.”

“Still in highschool?”

“Nah, no. With some luck I attend university now,” the girl replied.

“Ah, that’s cool,” Minho said, smiling too.

17 years old who attend university already? And that card with ACE written in it…could it be….

Minho took a glance at a girl for a while.

“Why are you staring at me like that?” asked the girl, feeling nervous at Minho’s sudden attention.

“Ah, no. So, what university?”

“Oh, it’s East Sun academy.”

“Ah, I see.”

***

“Alright freshmen guys! Line up!” The choreographer clapped his hands to make the freshmen students of performing art major lined up. Of course, Soojin was one of them too. She obediently lined up with her friends from the same major.

“Ok. Students! In performing major, you have to be able to perform all of subjects, singing, dancing, acting, and communication. Because of that reason, today, I’m gonna teach you all about dancing. Before we get started, one of your senior gonna perform to let you know how dancing can be so attractive if we do it with all of our passion.”

The students seemed so excited. They whispered each other, discussing who might be performed for them now. Soojin felt excited too. She can’t wait to see because she loved dancing so much.

“Please welcome, Mr. Jang!”

Mr. Jang? Seems like I heard about that name before..

The music started. One guy stepped out to the center stage. Soojin who felt curious looked at the guy seriously. What a surprise, that guy was Wooyoung. She was so amazed that Wooyoung can dance so perfectly. He looked outstanding at stage. And when he suddenly sang the 2^nd part of the song while dancing, she couldn’t help but admired that guy

The song ended. Everyone clapped their hands at Wooyoung’s performance. After that, the choreographer backed to explain his topics for today. Everyone learnt the basic steps of the dance, like bouncing, body wave and so many more. Wooyoung also helped the coach to teach students, and he seemed watching Soojin’s progress a bit more than the others.

Soojin did so well. No surprise, because Soojin liked to dance since she was little, she learnt by her own little by little all of the dance steps just by watching dance video. When it’s time to take a break for a while, Wooyoung approached Soojin.

“Whoa, you’re good at this!” Wooyoung complimented.

“Haha thx. You’re amusing yourself. So you’re my sunbae after all, I didn’t notice,” Soojin replied while took a bottle of mineral water from her bag.

“But really! You’re too good for a beginner!”

“I’m just like watching to some videos and learn by myself.”

“That’s cool! You think you can show to me some in your spare time?”

“Sure I can,” Soojin said excitedly.

“So, you have time tomorrow?” Wooyoung asked to the point and Soojin slightly gasped.

Does that mean he ask me to some kind of date?

“Soojin-sshi?”

“A..ah. just call me Soojin. And yes I probably have a time tomorrow, but I’ll confirm to you later,” Soojin replied. She tried her best to hide her blushing face.

“Ok, so give your cellphone number.”

“A..ah, sure,” She said and took out her phone from her pocket.

“Ok. Got it already, I’ll call you tonight,” Wooyoung winked at her and she blushed really hard.

Oh God, I’m really fall in love. I just met him twice and he can make me blush real hard like this. But.. if he knows that I’m an assassin, would he still love me?

Soojin thought in confusion, not realizing that Woo saw her from afar. He also felt some kind of urge to get closer to Soojin.

***

“So, you’re official already with Yoona?” Wonyeon asked while walking with Taec. Taec asked her to accompany her to Yoona’s house, and Wonyeon said yes because she herself didn’t know what to do. Soojin was on campus, and Ahra got home already.

“Nah, not really, It seems like I’m just using her as..you know..”

“Hook-up partner?”

“Urgh…maybe yes,” Taec replied. Wonyeon shook her head in disagree.

“When will you find a true one for you?” Wonyeon asked again, sighed.

“Molla. I haven’t found one, how about you?”

“I found him, back ago. And then he left me,” Wonyeon replied while looking at the sky with sad eyes.

“If he left you, then he isn’t the true one, right? Why did he leave you?”

“He died.”

“Eh?” Taec was surprised.

“Yes. He’s been killed in front of me. How can I forget that day. The day, when all of my dreams torn apart like hell.”

“Wonyeon…”

“Since that day I still can’t love anyone again,” Wonyeon said. Taec was trying to cheer her up but he thought of one slight dorky idea.

“So…” Taec suddenly held Wonyeon’s shoulder and pushed her to a wall near there. He put his palms on the wall to block Wonyeon from leaving. Wonyeon just stayed silent, kinda surprised.

“Taec?”

“You won’t be affected with this kind of thing?” Taec grinned at Wonyeon and she just looked at him annoyed.

“Of course no pabo..I knew you too well to do this to me.”

“If I kiss you?” Taec continued his prank on Wonyeon.

“No.”

“Really?” Taec slighty moved closer to Wonyeon’s face, but Wonyeon showed no reaction. When he still did his prank, suddenly a loud voice disturbed him.

“YOU! LET HER GO!”

“Huh?” Taec and Wonyeon turned their heads to see who was shouting and Taec found an unfamiliar guy shouting at him.

“What do you want? Who are you?”

“Can’t you see? You were trying to rape that girl! Come on, let’s run!” the guy grabbed Wonyeon’s hand and ran with her. Taec was left in confused statement.

~*~*~*~*~*~

“You alright, Wonyeon?” the guy asked.

“You’re…Jonghyun, am I right?” Wonyeon asked back.

“Ah, you’re remember my name. So why don’t you run from that beast man? I was so surprised seeing you almost being raped by him. You’re alright?”

“I’m very alright,” she replied while trying to hide her chuckle.

“Why don’t you feel any fear? You’re really a strong girl,” Jonghyun replied, confused at Wonyeon who seemed perfectly fine.

“Hahaha. Because he isn’t a maniac or something. He’s my friend, and he was just doing a silly trick to me, to test me if I can be affected by his movements,” Wonyeon replied again, finally burst out laughing. Jonghyun’s mouth opened. So he just experience a misunderstanding.

“Jjinja? Aish…I’m a pabo,” he said, shame at himself.

“Haha, it’s okay. Thx for worrying about me,” Wonyeon said.

“Sorry again. But are you going somewhere? I walked you.”

“I don’t know myself where should go.”

“If that the case..would you…accompany me for a while? Just take a little walk and all,” Jonghyun said.

“Sure it’s alright. But I must phone Taec first, you know, the guy with me,” Wonyeon smiled and phoned Taec. She told him that she’s okay, and he could walk to Yoona’s house just a little more metres. After that she hung up the phone and continued talking with Jonghyun

Then they decided to take a little walk on the city, and bits by bits, they slowly know each other deeply like they’ve been friends for years.

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