Breathless, tired and slightly pale – that’s how I am, when I’m on my work. 24 hours a day, seems never enough for part time worker like me. I need to consume lots of money to get my self a brand new apartment. If only, I got hit a jackpot, this problem will be nothing but piece of cake, but due to I’m living in a reality not some imaginative world, the truth hits me hard, and I need to work extra hard to get what I longing for.
A nice apartment.
One fine day, while I was cleaning the dishes at the back of dirty old – stinky kitchen , the boss call out my name, to do some delivery duty. The man with long, messy black beard, middle 40’s with white hair almost cover his half bald head is unfortunately, my boss, Mr. Chen. He is quite nice for a boss who always arrive late to work, and pays late for his worker. I really don’t mind, the way his work, because, he’s a man with words. Once he said, he’ll pay you in the future, he’s mean it. So I really don’t mind with it at all, as long I get paid. As I was looking the list, he given to me, I let out long sigh. The list was long and the place between each other, is very far, impossible for me to do it in 45 minutes, but since it my job, I have to suck it up, and deal with it. Take the orders on top of marble table, put it inside my trunk, tied it up, get into the driver’s seat and start the engine. After 40 minutes of delivering to every houses, there’s only one house left in my list. When I look at it again, the house is nearby my house, I feel glad and I take the car immediately to the place to end my job for today. Once I arrive, I see white pebbles and flowers blooming on the trees that planted along the streets. It was beautiful and the flowers keep on falling gracefully as the wind blows from time to time. No 43, I read the silver plate that hang at the white carved enormous gate. When I push the red button, the gate open automatically and I went in by walking. When I walk into the porch, I see a man with dark shades on his face under his big wide umbrella, lying on his white chair while reading a thick book facing his pool. I bring his food to him, and slowly, I say the price. But the man wont budge, so I say it again, for couple of times. The man still wont budge. Though the scenery was lovely and the winds was chilling my hot bare skin, I lost my patient and I shook his book out of him, surprisingly the man was in his deep sleep, and when I touch his hand to wake him up, suddenly a man from a far, says, “Please, don’t wake up the master.” An old tall white man in his penguin suit , with a towel, on his right hand wiping off a glass walking towards me in slow motion.
“Are you, from the restaurant?” he say in low voice yet so clear for me to hear it from afar.
“yes”
“please wait, a minute, I’ll get the money for you.” he walks away into the house.
While waiting, I was looking around the place, admiring his landscape and his beautiful pool. I walk near to the pool to feel the warmth water of the pool, in a flash, my hand is taken by a sudden warm – big hand telling me, “don’t go near the pool!”. When I turn around, it was that man with his shades on, holding me, like some knight, with poise, he’s letting my hand go and say, “I’m sorry, but the pool is been under cleaning and they put lots of chemicals in it, so it would be dangerous to humans to touch it, as the chemicals is hazardous to human skin especially yours, since your skin is lovely.”
I was taken back when he say that, the way he touches my hand so warm, yet intriguing me and electrifies all of my senses. He’s fair skin, the way he dresses with white elusive shirt – look like a runway model and his height is telling me that it is true. With his pair of khaki pants and white flip flop making his white fair skin even prettier than other people I have seen before. Then, the old man break offs my fantasy about the man who I absolutely do not know from the first place. After receiving the payment, I go away from the beautiful place with flush cheeks and hoping I could see that man again.
The next morning, as I look over the job section in morning news paper, I found an interesting job that really fits me. “looking for a part time maid, mid 20’s with capability of carrying things and excellent in cleaning and cooking” when I highlighted the address, it was that man’s address. Finished my non-fat latte, I immediately rush to the house yesterday, for job interview. When I turn left after this turn ahead of me, I saw long queue at his house with women around my age holding piece of paper in their hands. Just thought I could have this job hands down, things get tougher by the minutes. After standing under bright sun, sweats keep flowing on my skins, and the day keep getting hotter by the hour. When its my turn to met the person behind this job interview, the man behind white solid table is the man that hold my hand yesterday. He wears black tees with white short pant and ray-ban shades on his face , matches with his flawless feature perfectly. Beside him, is his old man butler again, standing while looking so calm yet alarming.
“so, you’ve been a maid before?” the man ask me with a calm tone.
“yes, I was a maid for quite few times. As you can see, every client of mine are very satisfied with my work, sir” I said confidently to his pretty fair face.
After that, he’s giving these question on the spot, and after I done answering all that, he hands out my resume, to his butler and say,
“thanks, for your time. Miss Han. We’ll call you”
“next!” his butler shout to the person queuing behind me.
After 2 days, with no phone calls, my head become restless and I couldn’t focusing on my current job. Reach my shabby home after long hours of working at Mr. Chen’s restaurant, lie my tired body on my half wrecked sofa, I let out long sigh while looking at my phone. Just when I’m about to shut my eyes for a quick nap, the phone rings. I pick it up, then, “Miss Han? this is from Choi’s residence. I’m here to inform you, that you are hired for the job, you may start your work, by tomorrow. Please keep in mind, that be there sharp on 6.00 am.” then he hang up the phone. I was thrilled when I got the phone call, and thinking that I can get the apartment of my dream soon, if I do this job well.
On the next beautiful morning, with the sun is about to rise, I arrive to the house on the dot, 6 am and the white gate opens welcoming me. Behind the gate there is the old man standing with holding a woman maid’s uniform with my name on it. He said with stern look, “change into this, please. From now on, when you work in this house, the only clothe you wear is this only, do not talk to the neighbors as the master refuse any details about the house is coming out to the public.” Seeing me nodding all his talk, “I take that, as a sign you understand completely the regulations while working in this mansion.”
Then I take the uniform from his wrinkle hand, and change it in, the maid’s room. After tidying it up, a knock on my door, “hurry up, please, the master will be up in 15 minutes” after hearing that, I quickly rush to the big kitchen starts to cooking. 9.00 am, its my duty to wake up the master of this house. As I climb up the beautiful high - end stairs with white floor, high ceiling with dazzling rod metals hanging from the high ceilings surrounding the stairs make it spiral, leads me to the long-wide hallway, with white spotlights along the way on the walls till I reach the end, which is the master’s bedroom. I knock it, and enter the room, the moment I step into the room, all I see is wide view of the city with big balcony out side, and big white couch facing this big fat 50 inch flat screen television. From where I stand, the room is like a hall for me, the interior make is double the size of its actual size and it make its more luxury is the collection of expensive toys. I walk little more to the front, I see a beautiful man still in deep sleep, quiet and peaceful. When I reach out both of my hands to wake him up, he wont budge, neither for the second and third time. He is one stubborn guy! Thank god, he is not my brother, or I’ll splash him cold water if he still in his bed after those many trials! Just when I’m about to give up, a hand reach out to my left, squeeze it hard. I turn, and saw his face is full of sweat and terrified. He murmured in expressions of pain, “Don’t leave me alone, please don’t.” I tried to slip away from his tight grip, yet he’s too strong for me to escape. So, I said to his face gently, while turn my hand and hold him instead. “its okay, I won’t leave your side. Everything is going to be fine.” Then his face starts to softened and a small smile begins to appear again, suddenly his eyes blink - look straight to my face. I was startled and his grip loosened when he saw my look, “sorry, if I make you uncomfortable, you may go now, thanks for the wake up call, I’m up.” He rises from his bed and smile after he sets me free.
During breakfast, he was poise and quiet while enjoying his meal. The way he cuts his pancake in such proper manner makes completely sense why, nowadays, all the hot spotlights are focusing on him and the rest of BIG BANG members. But oddly, whenever, he cuts it, he always look at my face for a few sec then give a small smile then do the same for multiple time. I couldn’t help myself but to feel blush and hot at the same time. After he goes to work, I clean up his place then went home after I done my work. The same goes, for the next day and the next day. Till one hot and sunny day, something happen to me and him.
As I was sweeping of the dry leaves on the lawn, I saw a girl peeping from the top of tree, catching photos of TOP’s bedroom and him while he was resting in his bedroom. I try to catch her in act and bring her to the butler, but, I didn’t realize ,that I was too close to the pool, that I accidentally throwing my self into it. The water was warmth and the fall put too much pain to my ankle, cause me unable to swim back to the surface. As I fall deeper into the pool, I‘m running out of my breath and suddenly, both my leg got cramped. I thought this would be the end of my life. I close my eyes as I can’t hold my breath anymore, my mouth opens, swallows the pool’s water bit by bit – drowning. A dark figure over shadowed my last sight, reaching my body, slowly take me back to the surface again to the lights where I feel the sun is hot and burning my wet skins.
I blink my eyes slowly, the first thing I see is white ceiling, when I turn my head slowly though it pains a little bit, I saw an IV running through my vein and I saw a person sleeping, resting beside me. When I try to rise from the bed, that person, suddenly awake and its was TOP. He helps me getting up and give me glass of water to drink. While I have a sip of plain water, his eyes were full of worries, his lips were dry and his expressions were sad and full of sorrow. When I’m done, he looks away, stand facing the windows, “I’m sorry, that you end up in the hospital. I should have been more careful to the intruders. I should have make the security tighter.” He bowed , “I’m really sorry.” Can’t stand seeing him, be so humble and guilt, I quickly say, “it was all my fault. I wasn’t being careful enough.” He stand before me, can’t look me straight, he keep apologizing. My heart can’t stand when he keeps doing that, knowing that it is all my fault, so , I apologize to him too, for many times. Then his butler, comes in, “Sir, the press has gone away and so does the police. The person who’s behind this tragedy will no longer approach anymore.” Then the butler faces me, “miss, I presume, that you are all right and in perfect shape?” with his sturdy look and fatigue he waited for my instant answer, “yes. I am. I can back to work after this.” TOP’s smile when I say that, his face lights up and my heart felt warmth and fuzzy for the first time, when I saw his beautiful smiles.
Few days since the incident, I become like a family to TOP and his butler. And from time to time, I cant help my self but to fall in love with TOP. The way he cares for other person and the way he take cares of himself, captivates me and make me want to have him by my self. But I didn’t dare my self to confront my true feelings towards him, as I know he never feel affectionate towards me – his maid. While I was cleaning the attic, I found something big and shocking to every single of my bones. I know that the butler and TOP him self gave me a simple instruction that is, “KEEP YOURSELF AWAY FROM THE ATTIC” but I couldn’t help myself but to clean it and have a little visit to the room. Once I’m in there, the place were like a room filled with photos of me- while I was working , asleep and I see a binocular place on top of the top windows, I climb up to see, what he was spying at, when I did, it was my house, and from this angle I can see everything from my small lawn to my pathetic living room! A door just shut behind me, and it was TOP who just come in, when he saw my presence in this room, his eyes were big wide open, his jaw’s drop and his glass shattering into pieces onto the floor. He was speechless. “I could explain…” he speaks in nervous tone and hesitating. I couldn’t believe in my eyes that he was spying me the whole time and it evoke uncomfortable feeling inside me, makes me want to hurl and feel sick. So I ran out from the door walking through him, the butler, and went out from the house.
The next day, his butler, calls me for few times and leaving me messages. From what I see from yesterday, I cover all my windows and every single hole I can find, I cover with dirty old cloak so he cant peeping my house again. I never thought he would do such a thing! I never knew that …that he would.. urgh I can’t say it, because , he is standing in front my house now! He wears his beautiful perfect iron clothes, with a black car parking beside him, he was waiting outside – waiting for me to let him in. How could I possibly let him in my house! I mean, he’s practically, stalking my life! Then I hear loud clear scream from below, before my apartment, I see him standing there holding a microphone and say, “I’m sorry. I really am sorry. I don’t know, what I was thinking. I don’t what came on to me, that I would do such a thing to you.” He breaks off after few words waiting for me to responds, but I didn’t. “I know, you cant handle the truth, but I love you. From the first day I lay my eyes on you.” He continues, “if you really want the whole neighborhood knows the whole story, its fine by me. But I wont handle the media that would definitely will be disturbing your life after this.” What he said was the truth and I couldn’t help it but to let him inside after few minutes considering the thoughts carefully.
After I give him a drink, he sat down on my old couch and say, “thank you.”
“I just being polite. If you know what polite is actual means.” I snarled at him. He holds the cup, squeeze it and put it back to my table. He goes saying, “do you remember when the first time you work as a waitress at fast food restaurant?” I look at him with full of questions, “why you ask? How did you knew that?” he chuckles , give me a small smile that kills me to see that again in a flash, “it was the first time I saw you, and you were outstanding beautifully and you caught my attention.” He smiles and looks at me with his soft brown eyes. “since I lay my eyes on you, I just knew that you will be the one, and I simply cant get enough of you.” His voice so calm while explaining to me and his gesture were soft and gentleman.
“so? That doesn’t mean you can snooping around my house like a crazy person!”
“I wasn’t intentionally do that on purpose!” he begins to desperately, wanting me, not judging him as a bad person. I know from his looks, he is not that kind of person, but still the fact, that he’s spying my house and possibly lurking into my house, only God knows how many time, he did that, is freakishly terrifying me.
He touches my hand softly, “look, I really fall in love with you. But since I never been around with woman, so I never really know how to approach one, though the guys in BIG BANG did teach me how to impress woman, but, when it comes to you, I was speechless and numb.”
My face flush and turn to pink when he says that, I slip my hand away from his grip, but he refuses to let my hand go. He stands, draw me closer to him, plant a soft kiss on my lips, a kiss that simply breathtaking. A kiss that I never felt before, a kiss that I wish it was done long time ago. After the first tempt, he goes for a second, this time, I can feel it through my bones, his soft lips press to mine. His hands , both hold my small face, holding it as his kiss gets deeper. He breaks the kiss away, catching up his breath, when I catch his look, he was too, blushing after the kisses. He whispers to my face, “I really really like you. I really hope, you feel the same way I do” both of his hands start letting my face go. My heart pounds like crazy, I couldn’t say anything. When he looks at my shock look, he knows that his words too strong for me to handle now, then both of his hands slowly, letting go of my face – wear a smile and say, “I know this may shock you little bit, but trust me, what I feel right now, is pure, and I’m not kidding.”
“Do you like me too?”
My head feels little bit dizzy and still caught in time, when he kisses me, when he ask sudden question like that, I couldn’t respond. When he looks that I didn’t give him any responds at all, he starts to go away with sad face. My heart shatters into pieces when I saw him start to waking away from me, as he pulls the door’s tomb, I quickly reach to him, “I..i …. Do like you” the door shut when I end my word, he turns, “say that again?”
“I like you too” my cheeks flush and I was too shy to look at him, so I lower my head a little bit, avoiding from contacting his dazzling eyes.
Then he runs to me, hugs me tight and spins me around, while shouting, “YAHOO!”
Then his butler barge into my house, “Are you al.. oh sorry, sir, didn’t see you and miss Han, I will leave you two alone” he left with red flush on his face. I was embarrass but then when TOP keep hugging me - tightly, it doesn’t matter as long as, both of us happy. After a while, both TOP and I, climb down stairs, and his butler welcoming us, with a warm smile, then say, “I presume, everything is settle now? And young master’s plan works perfectly?” I look at TOP when he says that, he goes, “sort of plan, its more like a tactic to catch your attention. That is why, I hold out an audition just to have you by my side.” He smiles.
“but, why audition you could just hire me when I deliver your food the other day.”
“I didn’t know that it is you, that will be doing a delivery on that day! Beside, that day, I was shy to ask you. So I do this instead.” A small smile appear and his cute dimple on his left cheek. He hugs me afterwards while saying, “who cares bout that now. Lets more focus on presents okay, and the future too.” he lower his head and give me soft light kiss. Then I return his kiss, “yeah, that’s true” we smiles , giggles and after that, both of our lives is fill with happy laughs and sweet memories. – THE END
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