Mina's homeroom teacher suddenly appeared behind her tutor.
"Here, Mr. Park." He escorted Kian to the classroom.'Demo teaching? Here? I mean in our class?' Mina tried to get back to her senses.She hurried inside. "He's handsome.""He has a face of an actor.""He's really tall!""Look at him, so charismatic."Compliments of her classmates filled the room. The homeroom teacher was busy directing him what to do. Kian was carefully listening to him.'I know, teacher. You look a lot more handsome and stunning in that formal attire.' Mina admitted.Kian was dressed in all black but his tie was grayish. His hair was neatly done, showing his forehead. Even that forehead looked perfect.It wasn't the first time Mina saw her tutor in that style, but she could not take her eyes off him.Mina's heart was still quivering. Was it because of what's written on that piece of pape"No one knows me, I mean.. I don't think there are people who will take interest in me. I and my family have never been exposed to the public ever since. So, I don't worry at all." Mina said.There was no hint of fear and worry the way she spoke and looked. Kian thought."The world is full of people who don't have even the slightest conscience to harm others. Aren't you scared?"She avoided his sharp cold stare and looked away. "I think those people you mentioned only harm those who have hurt them."Kian hissed. "Did you hurt your classmates, Jay and his friends and those men at Liang St. that's why they harmed you?"Her tutor slapped her with harsh reality. Mina suddenly remembered the threatening note she had received in school. He was right, whoever wrote that to her was no different from those people Kian had talked about.The bus stopped.-----------Pil was done changing. He's in SkyV
The man instantly took his hands off Mina the moment he heard someone speak. His eyes trembled.Because of the nervousness that had been crippling her, she leaned against the fence and closed her eyes. She sighed deeply. She felt a great relief.From his devilish grin, a panic-like expression crossed the man's face. He then tried to escape by making steps, as if someone behind him was invisible. But the guy, who just spoke, blocked him from leaving. Pil fixed the man's collar with his mocking smile. "Have fun tonight."He gave him enough space to make him leave. Fear hastened his steps, not even lifting his head."He's gone. Go home."Mina hesitated to open her eyes. "Y..Yes, sir. T..Thank you."The guy waited for Mina to make a step but she's still leaning against the fence with her eyes closed."Gangsil isn't a place for a high schooler like you especially when night falls. Remember that."&nbs
The bodyguard nodded. He went back to guarding along with the other men in their black suit who were scattered all over the house.Ms. Kim waved goodbye to Kian and then closed the gate."I didn't know you're that close to my tutor."Ms. Kim's body was struck with great shock hearing that voice. A sudden pause, she gulped. An instant change to her expression and eyes, from uneasiness to her usual kind and bright face. She turned her back.Mina was standing before her, scanning Ms. Kim with her prying eyes."How long have you been standing there?" Ms. Kim asked, concealing her shock in her soft tone."Just now. But I saw you from the window of my room while you were walking with my tutor to the gate."Ms. Kim let out a deep sigh, discreetly. "What brings you here outside?""My tutor left this." In Mina's hand was a book."He just left though. He's still around, I guess
Monday."I'm sorry, teacher." Mina said as she closed her book.They just finished their class."Don't you get tired saying sorry?" Kian asked in his usual seriously cold tone. He remained sitting.Mina kept apologizing to her tutor and she felt bad about it. She frustratedly buried her face on the study table. Though Kian wasn't looking at her, he could see her.Kian closed the book he was reading. "What are you sorry for this time?"There's something in her tutor's tone that made Mina lift her head.'Is he game for a small chat now? He sounds friendly.' She thought to herself.Mina faced her tutor. "I thought you lied to me and my grandfather.""Have you found out what I told Mr. Yoo?"Mina shook her head.He said while putting his book in his bag. "Then why are you sorry?""I still don't know what reason you told my grandfathe
This hell-like dinner had been toying with Mina's emotions. She just felt lighter because of what her tutor had said but her uncle's harsh words were too painful to carry.'Did you really need to bring up my family here? Have you already lost respect for my dad? If my brother's here, he wouldn't allow you to insult our dad like how you did.' Mina had been forcing her tears not to come out.Mr. Yoo rested his wrinkled hands on the table, he felt like his remaining strength had left his body. Gloom fell on his face. But all these sudden changes were unnoticed as his family didn't seem affected by Mr. Joe's disrespectful insult towards his eldest son, Dan. His eyes started to get teary while looking at his sons and their family. The smiles on their faces tightened his heart.'Be strong, Mina.. at least in front of them. Don't let them win by seeing you cry.' Mina kept motivating herself to appear she's totally fine.The old man and Mina
It was only last night when the pain almost killed her inside. But now, she got to recall that moment without getting terribly hurt.All the pain she had felt during that hell-like dinner became her companion that would remind her of that unforgettable moment with her tutor. His comforting words, his warm hands, he himself.. Mina's new source of solace.She got her notebook and lied on the bed. Her eyes beamed, her tutor wrote only 10 questions.'Wait.. What's this??' She could see something. There's a note written at the bottom of the page.'What did I just read?? Am I dreaming??'Mina got up and looked at the mirror. Her face was blushing. She sat down and read the note again.'Your class starts at 9AM, right? Let's eat the cake you got for me. I'll wait for you at the bus stop around 7.'-----------The clock alarmed. It's past 6. She got up and went straight to the bathroom.The wh
Sudden knocks on the door. Mina hurried to open it."I'm a bit late. I'm sorry." Kian entered the room."It's okay, teacher." Mina sounded soulless.She walked straight to the study table where Kian was already at. Her tutor could sense Mina's floating thoughts. She had been like this since they left the park this morning.Kian cleared his throat.Mina looked at him. "What?"He tapped on her notebook. "Did you answer your homework?""Yes." Mina gave him her notebook.Kian was a cold guy. But how she looked right now was troubling him.He didn't say anything and began checking Mina's answers. He was supposed to give her things to do while he's checking her homework, but he was sure what Mina needed at the moment; more time to be deep in her thoughts.------------"What's bothering you?" Kian asked her.He just finished checking her homework.
No gunshot yet, but the silence was killing her.Without any warning, two hands covered her ears.BAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNG! That deafening gunshot filled the building.Heavy dust dispersed into the air as the big guy aimed his gun at the piled up sacks near the window.A few seconds passed, a man's voice spoke. "You're lucky. Kian forgave you."'Kian? My tutor?' Her eyes were still closed.Hearing her tutor's name gave her a troubled mind. Though she knew she was safe in her tutor's embrace, she could not open her eyes for one unavoidable reason. She's not ready to know who her tutor was. That he was also like them, that he could also do what that big man did to Pil, that he could also beat others to death.'That he can k..kill?'-------------The silence between them was making Mina feel suffocated. Her tutor was driving her home.When Mina had already