Next Day,

"So, what's up?" Kris inquired, as they were driving back home.

"I want to know everything about her." His gaze heightened to Kris. "Like how did you meet---"

"Highschool." Kris uttered and didn't wait for him to complete.

Lay paused and found Kris's expressions perturbed. "Then?"

"Her.... her parents died and she had none to be with... so, dad decided to support her financially and she lived with us for 4 years. After she crossed 20, she moved out but dad was worried so she lives where you know well." Kris rolled his eyes back and exhaled out as if he had told a really long detailed tale.

However, Lay's curiosity didn't die down. "Where did she live before that?"

"With her step mother. You know she wasn't good with her." Kris shrugged. "Lay...." His eyes drove towards him. "Don't fall for her, ok?"

Lay paused. "I am just curious why did you help her? Or why did your dad get involved. It's so absurd."

Kris glared with anger this time. "She was living in hell, you have no idea about. Living with someone who hurts you daily...."

"Did she seek for help?" Lay narrowed his eyes.

Kris stared at him dumbfounded. "Don't ask me silly questions. I am not going to answer."

"So, you won't tell me that she had been raped?"

"Lay..." Kris paused. His heart beat rose as Lay uttered the word. This was something unexpected. "How did you know?" He bulged out his eyes.

"You can guess better."

"Remi can't tell you this and Uee knows nothing."

Lay smirked. "Lets just stop this discussion. I know you won't tell me."

"You are right about that." Kris huffed and jerked his collar forward for some air to go in.

---

Remi lazily got out of her room to open the door. She was expecting Lay as he had been out for long. The moment she opened the door, a blue car was standing out of the front door. She stepped out on the porch and eyed the object. A guy came out of the car abruptly.

"Lay!" She hid her mouth with her fingers in amazement.

"Surprise..." He inclined against the car's door.

"Did you buy it?"

"Well no...." He shut closed the door and stepped to her. She took the cigarette back, secured between her lips, lucky thing, being where he wanted his lower lip to be. He absent minded bit his lower lip, exhaled and gulped. "Well, I rented it for a month. You know I won some good amount from the tournament." He smiled.

Her eyes sneered at him as she took the cigarette out again and emitted smoke through her mouth. "Then you could afford a good hotel room."

"They won't have any Remi in it." He smirked.

She glared and had no reply to the statement that had caused the fast thumping of her heart. She simply walked backward.

"Remi... would you like a ride?" He offered but she turned around and went inside. "Remi... I am serious." He followed her to the inside and saw her entering her room. "Remi!" He called out again and tresspassed into the room. "Come.... on!"

"No!" She shooted a brow. "And why the hell did you intrude into my territory!" She glared. "Oh you get lost!" She pushed him back but her cell phone started ringing. "Yoboseyo...." She spoke,her hand still pressed against his chest, the same hand that held the cigarette. "Soomin-ah!". She called out the name of her friend who had called her. Lay paced forward, making her feet to take steps backwards. "Oh shit!" Still walking backwards until she was pinned to the wall behind. "Yeah.... actually how can I forget this.... yeah...." She kept on replying on the phone although her condition wasn't satisfactory. Lay weighed his body over hers and her hand fell down. "Ok... please don't be upset. I'll be there, we---" She halted when Lay slid his fingers down into the back pocket of her jeans. "Umm... nah.... I am alright. I am coming." She finally hung up, now diverting the centre of her focus. She didn't shove him away but took in her cigarette. His hand had been inside the back pocket, cupping her ass. As she smoked, the fumes dissipated out of her mouth and Lay captured her lips. Her cigarette dropped down as a reaction. But the next second he retreated for fresh air and started coughing. She grabbed her purse and pushed her feet into her sandals. She then ran to the door of the room but her arm got locked in his hand.

He coughed again. "I am alright. Let's go together."

"This is important Lay. I would be late and loose my chance to show Soomin something. Please let go off me." For Lay, she never begged like that, without all the sarcastic tone, simply requesting him genuinely.

"I am still coming." He insisted.

She tried to set free with all the force but gained nothing. He dragged her out and forced her into the car's front seat. "You think you can control me?" That was the only sentence she could think of while being in his possession.

"Remi!" He started the engine while diving the keys in. "If you ever used this same sentence again, I won't be responsible for what happens to you next."

She frowned at him.

"You can stare at me all you want but for now tell me where we are heading to?"

"Who are you?" She squinted her eyes. "The guy Kris told me about? The guy who proved him innocent? Or the one acting like a complete louse?"She huffed and squinted her eyes at his smile. "Ok this is the first ever person so happy after being insulted."

"You yourself are so chattery. How do you manage to talk this much." He raced the car.

"Urgh! I know you're an asshole!" She bit her upper lip and started fanning her face through her hands.

"Is it too hot for you, you dirty tease!" He smirked at her. "I am seriously excited." He sucked in air sharply. "You feel it too right?"

"Lay!" She narrowed her eyes and stopped fanning. "Stop the car."

He accelerated further.

"I said stop."

"I won't stop until you tell me the directions to the place and we reach it together."

"Never call me dirty... or tease... or anything like that! I am so---"

"Turned on?" He murmured.

Her cheeks flushed red and her mind a bit dizzy. "You jerk!" She murmured when she discovered that she had lost the game long ago.

"Shut up and tell me the directions."

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"Remi... this hotel seems a bit too costly." Lay eyed the entire hall and found himself unworthy of the place.

She grinned, and how could he hate that smirk. It had the most shaking effect on his finger tips and down there. That little smug was his life, he used to waste all his hours making the perfect smirk in his mind and there he was, in front of his best imaginative design. "Why bother coming then?" She uttered.

"Actually I am more worried about you."

"Oh really?" She shooted a brow. "And why the hell are you still here?" She scolded the waiter loudly.

"Its his duty." Lay tried to clarify the poor guy's state. "For now just bring us 2 glass of your best drink. Actually, we are waiting for a friend so..."

"Sure...." The waiter replied.

"Are we here for Kris?" Lay inquired as he looked behind Remi.

"No..." She turned her face back. "Well apparently yes." She uttered when she caught Kris with a girl, whom he had just kissed on cheek.

"His girlfriend, but weren't they living together?" Lay's mind couldn't comprehend the situation, so he threw another query.

"Yeah... he is living with his girlfriend." She huffed. "But this girl... she is not her." Remi saw Kris taking his seat on a far off table.

"Then?"

"Then! We are waiting for his actual gf!"

"No Remi... that's like indulging yourself in others business." Lay shook his head in disapproval

"Soomin is my friend." She had anger filled in her eyes. "And Kris is my friend too. He needs to learn to live his life in a proper way."

"And what are your views on Uee's lifestyle?" He raised a brow.

That sentence caught her intense attention. "You shouldn't have came! Really, you're so disturbing."

"Hey! Remiii...." A girl with straight light brown hair and brown eyes lightly patted Remi's head. Lay took a brief look at her and she wasn't someone he was expecting to be Remi's friend. She was a total fashionista.

"Soomin.... shhh!!" She shushed her and pulled her to her seat. "Just sit down."

"I have a news---" Soomin got interrupted by Remi as soon as she arrived.

"I am going to prove this to you."

"First listen." She didn't even bother looking at Lay, sitting just opposite to her in the same table.

"What news?"

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