The Rich and Famous *Chapter Four*

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The Rich and Famous

Chapter Four: Crushes, Love and Past Flame

“This sucks.” Victoria groaned, as she watches her cousins and their friends from the balcony. They are partying by the pool, drinking and dancing. She hates attention from other boys besides her brother and cousins, she’s a self-proclaim man-hater that’s why she preferred to be alone than mingle with her cousin’s guy friends. She sat on the comfy chair and sips on her four seasons shake.

“Why don’t you go and party with us?” she was startled by the voice, she looks up and saw Nichkhun.

“I don’t really party...” she answered coolly.

He smiled, he leaned on the sliding door and speaks, “That’s weird, you came from the most prominent family in Korea, you probably grew up attending social events and elite parties plus the fact that you went to London...”

She smirked, “That’s the stereotype, don’t include me as one of them.”

“Okay then. I think I should go down and party with my guests.” he feels like she doesn’t want a small talk so he ended it. “Oh, by the way...if you want to sleep or rest maybe, there’s a guest room to the left. Feel free to use it...” she just nodded and he walks away.


“What? Busted?” Chansung teases Khun as he saw him coming out of the house, he just flashed a weak smile. “That girl is hard to please, huh?” Chansung continued, controlling his laughter.

“You like Victoria noona?” Key snorted. “I’m telling you now... give up! She’s the ultimate man-hater, even with your good looks you will never have a chance.”

“Why is she like that?” Khun asked.

“I dunno...” Key shrugged his shoulders. “Ever since before she’s already like that....”

“That’s a waste...she’s quite attractive...” Chansung commented, Khun looked at him, “Sorry.” he pouted. “She’s yours...only if she allows that.” he sticks out his tongue.

“Guys! Don’t chat to yourselves! Join us here!” Wooyung shouted from afar.

The girls, Yuri, Yoona and Seohyun are seated together. “Don’t be so quiet, talk to him...” Yuri whispered to Yoona, she’s been frozen ever since they arrived.

“I don’t know what to say...” she reasoned.

“If you stay like that, nothing will happen...”

“Are you still having this girl talk?” Jonghyun joined them. “Coz I’m starting to miss my girlfriend...” he looked at Yuri and pouted.

“Go ahead...” Yoona waved her hand to make Yuri go. Yuri got up and took Jonghyun’s hand.

“Remember what I said!” Yuri looked back at her.

Yoona stood up and went towards the house. “Where are you going?” Seohyun asked, standing up too.

“Inside, with Victoria unnie.” she replied, walking inside.

“Wait for me!” Seohyun said following her.

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It’s twelve midnight and Donghae is seated on his car, block away from the hotel. He’s waiting for her message if she’s ready for him to come up. He’s tapping his nails on the steering wheel, anxiously waiting for his cell phone to ring. Ten minutes later, it finally rang, he picked it up right away and read it.

I’m waiting. Come up now.

J.J.

He started his car and speed off to the hotel, he put on his hat and gave his car key to valet. He rushes over to the lift and pressed the button, he’s stomping his feet continuously, getting restless every second. It open after two minutes and pressed 12th floor. Room 1204 is their love nest, everything happened in that room. He finally reached the room and knocked.

“It’s me.” he said from outside. The door opened and a hand holding a blindfold came out from the small opening. He picked it up and put it around his eyes, “Done.” he announces. He felt her hands touching his arms, leading him inside. He can smell the relaxing aroma inside the room, a smell that makes him more eager to taste her.

“Why don’t you let me see your face? This is the sixth night that we’ve been together...” he said, all of a sudden, he felt her pushed him in the bed.

“This is more exciting, isn’t it?” she said, her voice is sexy in a sweet way.

“You’re going to keep me in the dark... forever?” he asked, her hand is slowly caressing his cheeks.

“Forever?” she whispered in his ear. “I figured that a little mystery would give you a little thrill...”

“I’m curious though...” he said. “I wanna see what you look like...” he gently reached for her face, running his warm hands over it.

“That time will come...” she replied, “For now, let’s keep it a secret...” she moved her face closer and kissed his lips. He finds her waists and pulled it towards him, their kisses are becoming more passionate and deep. He ran his hands all over her hair, as she starts unbuttoning his shirt. She went on top of him, filling him with more kisses.

And they did it, a mysterious intimate night again. He was a never a wild child like the others, he’s always the good son. Doing well in studying, taking over the family business right after graduation, he parties but makes sure that he never gets wasted, never plays around with girls. But meeting this girl makes him turn back on his principles. He’s slowly turning to be the man that he swears he can never become. He wanted to stop, but he can’t. He’s attached to her already, she’s the only person who can get his mind away from all the glitz and glamour with his reputation because he thinks that this way, he can become normal.

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“I’m really going to be killed for this.” Lina said, as she took the helmet from Hyunjoong. “There’s sun already! Everyone at home is awake now!” she panicked.

“Then don’t go home...” he smiled.

“I’m going to be killed even more.” she smiled weakly.

“Then I’m going to let them kill me too.” he said, kissing her gently on the lips.

“Stop it.” she mumbled, “We need to rush home.” she pouted.

“Why can’t you just stop being an ideal daughter for once? You’re always following their orders...” he frowned.

“I don’t want to rebel to them...” she answered.

“It’s not called rebellion, it’s following what you want...”

“I already disappoint them by following my dream of being a painter. I don’t want them to feel bad anymore...” she said, seeing that he got sad, she touched his cheeks and smiled. “I love you and you know that I’ll fight for you, right?”

“I trust you.” he said. “I just feel sad about this set-up. I really want to steal you from them and we’ll live faraway in a small island and we’ll have this little family, our kids and...” he sighed. “I love you so much.” he pulled her closer to warm embrace.

“We’ll do that, in the future...” she whispered.

“I’m looking forward to it...” he replied, kissing her forehead.

“Seriously, we need to go.” she said as she puts on her helmet.

They travel to her house riding his big bike, they arrived a few minutes later and Lina spotted her brother from outside the gate.

“Siwon’s there.” she whispered from behind.

“Siwon’s fine, right?” Hyunjoong asked, seeing that Siwon is not into the whole family fight thing. He slowed down to wait for her decision to move forward or not.

“Yeah. But still...he’s kinda neutral but he remains faithful to my dad...” she answered.

“I’ll back you up, don’t worry.” he said, speeding off to their gate.

“Noona... you’re going to get killed...” Siwon said when he saw them.

“If you keep quiet, I’m not...” she said, removing her helmet and jumping off the big bike.

“LINA!” she heard Junjin screamed from inside.

“You’re a bit late already...” Siwon said.

“Go inside... NOW!” Junjin order her.

She looked at Hyunjoong and he nods. “But...” she hesitated.

“Just go, I’ll take care of myself...” he lets go of her hand.

She walks forward and stopped to talk to her brother. “Don’t do anything to him, oppa.” she begged him.

“I don’t know what I can do to him. You didn’t go home last night and now I saw him bringing you home at seven thirty in the morning! “he screamed. “Go inside, before I can hurt you!”

She walks inside with tears falling in her eyes, she saw Hyori by the door and she rushed towards her for comfort. Hyori leaded her inside and closed the door.

“You should never show your face here again, you heard me?” Junjin raised his voice on Hyunjoong, Siwon sensed that his brother can burst anytime so he rushes on his side. “If you continue to see her we might send her to America where you can’t find her anymore!”

“I don’t want a mess here.” Hyunjoong stayed calm. “I love your sister and she loves me back why can’t you see it!”

“We can never allow you to be part of our family!” Junjin screamed moving forward to him.

“I’m not asking you to allow me!” Hyunjoong answered.

Junjin is about to punch him but Siwon stopped him. “Don’t stop me! I want to throw him a punch just for once!”

“Hyung! Don’t create a scene here!” Siwon answered. “Just go, Hyunjoong!” he told him, “Leave now!” Hyunjoong throw a fierce glance over at Junjin before speeding off on his big bike.

“I almost made my punch, why do you have to stop me!” Junjin screamed at Siwon.

“You punch him and then, what? That wouldn’t stop them from seeing each other.” Siwon said.

“I wanna punch you!” Junjin said, putting his arms around Siwon’s shoulders and messing up his hair.

“Not my hair!” Siwon said, escaping his grip.

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“You want to do it here?” Yunho asked. His childhood friend Ara called him last night asking for an early breakfast meeting. He never entertains early meetings, but she’s very persistent so he said yes to make her stop.

“Yeah...” she said, taking a bit on her omelette. She’s asking him to house her fashion show.

“It’s in three days, Ara. I’m not sure if the Events Department can accommodate you.” Yunho replied.

“That’s why I ran to the Managing Director, right?” she smiled. “Yunho, please. You’re my last hope. The venue backed out on us on the last minute, everything’s set out already. We just can’t cancel the show like this...” Yunho scratched his head, “You have a lot of hotels, I’m sure there’s a vacancy...”

“The problem is that it’s a Friday, you know that there are a lot of booked events on Fridays...”

“I’m begging you, this is the only way I can show my Mom that I’m actually doing everything right to be called her protégée. She’s being a bitch on me ever since, you know that. I want to prove to her that I can become like her...” she rants, her mother is the top fashion designer in the country and Ara is trying her best to please her.

“I see what I can do...” Yunho replied.

“Thank you!” she exclaimed and stood up to hug him.

“No hugging, we might be pictured, you know...” he pushed her.

She crossed her eyebrows, “Fine! I’m just really happy.” she smiled.

Yunho reached for his phone, “I’ll call my assistant to see all the events placed on all chains this Friday, if there’s no vacancy...”

“Please don’t say that! If there’s no vacancy you will do something to have one right?” she smiled cheekily.

“You’re so pushy...” he smiled and stood up to talk on the phone.

He returned after a few minutes and joined her, “Well there’s a vacancy...” he stated.

“YES!!” she rejoiced.

“But it’s in our branch in Jeju...” he said.

“WHAT? Jeju? That can’t be possible. That’s a plane ride away...”

“That’s the only vacancy, Ara. We just can’t cancel reservations, that can give us bad reputation...”

“We don’t have enough budget to buy plane tickets for all the models and the staff. I just can’t ask my mom for money, she’ll go berserk on me...”

“That’s your problem...” Yunho said nonchalantly.

“Help me!!” she begged. “You have an airline company for God’s sake!” she said.

Yunho was annoyed by the mention of the airline company. “It’s not mine. Ask Jaejoong then...” he said coolly.

“Why don’t you ask him? Give him a call...” she suggested. “We’re not that close, you know...”

“I don’t wanna talk to him, you call him...” he’s getting irritated.

“Why are you so irritated? Did you guys fight or something?” she asked.

“I’ll send you his number on your mobile, call him.” he said standing up.

“What? Yunho!” she followed him.

“I still have a meeting, Ara. I just inserting this meeting coz I can’t say no to you, I’m very busy today...” he told her and pressed on the lift button.

“You wanna talk about it?” she asked, knowing that he’s got some problems.

“No, I don’t wanna talk about it and don’t forced me to.” he answered, the lift opened and he entered. “See you soon.” he waved and she waved back.

“Bye.” she answered, turning her back and heading towards the hotel exit.

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“Oh my God! It’s been like what? Six years?” Jaejoong exclaimed as he hugged his friends.

“It’s been a long time, Jae...” Mika said, hugging him.

“It certainly is, look at you! You look good!” He said, looking at her from head to toe.

“She always looks good, anyways...” Junsu said, coming forward to give her a hug.

“Thank you, Junsu...” she replied, hugging him back.

“Where are the others?” Boa asked, seeing that there’s only the two of them.

“Busy...” Jaejoong replied, wrapping his arms around her shoulders. “You’re still short, Boa.” he teased her.

“Shut up!” she yelled as she escaped his arms.

“Guys, this is Li Yin, our friend from Paris.” Mika introduced her, “These are Jaejoong and Junsu.”

“Nice to meet you.” she bowed to them.

“You know Korean?” Jaejoong asked, shocked by her fluency.

“I lived here for five years before...” she smiled shyly.

“Cool.” Junsu smiled.

They continued to catch up on each other, laughing and sharing stories. They didn’t realize that they are seated there for four hours already.

“Good thing she decided to come with you...” Jaejoong asked Boa, as they pull away from everybody. Bring her inside the kitchen.

“That’s last minute. I almost begged her on my knees.” she answered.

“Okay, so you’re staying for good-”

“Not for good, only for a year... my mom can’t stop nagging about me staying here so I gave up on her request. We had a deal that I’ll stay for a year then go back again after that...”

“You can’t blame her. She misses you and all your friends too...” Jaejoong smiled. “Back to my question, you’re staying here and how about Mika?”

“No. She’ll be here for three weeks...”

“What’s your plan?”

“They need to talk don’t you think?”

“I think so too. But I don’t know how Yoochun will react to this....”

“She’ll kill me if she finds out that we’re planning something to them.”

“This is for their own good. Mika left without saying leaving Yoochun devastated and heartbroken. They need some sort closure, you know...”

“What closure?” Mika’s voice started them.

“Nothing.” they said innocently.

“Both of you are never a good liars. You’re into something...” Mika narrowed her eyes.

Jaejoong and Boa looked at each other, as if telling the other to spit it out.

“You need to talk to Yoochun don’t you think?” Boa finally said.

“I knew it.” Mika said, crossing her arms around her chest. “You have this ulterior motive to reunite us?”

“It’s not that. We just thought that it’s healthy if you guys talk it out. So that you can both move on...” Jaejoong said. “We know that there’s a thin chance of you getting back together...after all, it’s been six years. We thought that a closure will end all of this...”

“Thank you for worrying about us but don’t you think this should be out choice? Plus, I don’t think that he wanted to see me or even talk to me...”

“What if he does?” Boa said, “You’re jumping into conclusions, Mika. What if you’re just assuming wrong things?”

“Did he ever mention to you that he wants to talk to me?” Mika asked Jaejoong, he shakes his head. “See? Even his closest cousin and best friend don’t know if he wants to talk to me...”

“But..”

“Stop it, Boa. Don’t force it.” She said with an annoying tone in her voice. “I want to enjoy this vacation and I don’t want any problems.” she said, walking back to the living room.

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“Where’s Jaejoong? His phone is closed.” Yoochun asked Jaejoong’s secretary over the phone.

“He didn’t come to report for work today, Sir. He said his friends from Paris came back and he’s spending the whole day with them.” The word Paris bugged him, could it be...

“Them? You mean there’s more than one who came?” He asked, it can be only Boa but she said ‘them’.

“That’s what he said, Sir.”

“Okay, thanks.” he said ending the call. He dropped his back on the chair and stared into space. She’s here, he thought. The girl who left him without even a warning, the girl who made his heart broken into pieces, the girl he cried a bucket of tears for is back.

to be continued...