SEVEN

P E A R L

I had to have heard wrong, right?

“Pearl?”

I was in hot soup, scalding hot soup. Someone saw me get out of my professor’s car and… wait, why did the voice sound familiar? Very familiar?

I quickly turned in the direction of the voice and saw Lee. He was staring at me with an unrecognizable look in his eyes. I could tell he was very suspicious of what he had seen and now I was left with trying to make him understand things his eyes saw.

He approached me and popped a lollipop into his mouth then put his hands in the pockets of his jacket. He looked over my head before looking back at me.

“I just saw you leaving Professor Marison’s car.”

I blinked and gulped. “Who said it was his car? What are you talking about, Lee?”

“I saw him driving that car yesterday when I was getting gas. He was also getting gas too. You know, I, Kang Lee, can memorize things well. That was the exact plate number. So…” He narrowed his eyes. “What are you doing coming out of his car, wearing that?”