04. A set up!

"Are you Mickey?" She asked him and he nodded.

"Why did you help me?" she asked him back but his smile was the only thing that replied her.

"Do you want to work as a maid for ROYAL-5?" He asked and then she widened her eyes, stunned by the question.

She wasn't so sure if she wanted to work as a maid for royal-5. Of course the group was a popular band made up of 2 non-Asians and 3 asians, one from China. Any other person would have agreed immediately to work for the boys but she was skeptical and scared.

"Why do you want me to work for you?" she asked him and he smirked. He was awaiting her question because judging from the confusion on her face, she was contemplating and wondering why he decided to bring up the maid issue. Plus, she didn't know how long she will stay as a maid.

"Don't worry. I hurt you and have to pay for the expenses. Plus, I realised that this wasn't your destination from wherever you left and I am willing to pay for everything, if you will just agree to be a maid for ROYAL-5." He didn't bulge or blink when he was telling her about it. His eyes were focused on the road ahead of him throughout.

But…

She didn't believe it. She felt somehow that he was hiding the truth from her. "I know you want to help me, but you would have paid up for everything if you wanted to. So why did you pain yourself and your friends by asking me to work for your group as a maid?" She didn't also blink when asking him the question and he was shocked, a little.

"You really have a wild imagination and although you already are making some terrible reason calculations up there" he pointed at her head. "I will tell you the reason."

He put the car on automatic drive and then looked at her, coming closer to her with his head.

His face was perfect and smooth. Although he wasn't really Asian, he had their skin colour and same pattern of eyes. But his other features were very much different.

His hair was shaved into a beautiful high low haircut and they were darkish red in colour. But the little part on top was bright red. He had two holes on the left ear and three on the right but wasn't putting on any earring. His eyes were dark but somehow, at a particular time, appeared greyish in colour. His lips were beautiful, pink and luscious. However, when he came close to her, she shifted back, not knowing why.

A smirk crept on his face and he changed the driving to manual and continued driving. "ROYAL-5 needs a maid. You can act as a temporal maid for some time, maybe a few day if you are urgently needed where you were to go. But we can always arrange for your travel this minute if you do not want it."

"I agree. It wasn't really important. So I can work for months and have a better experience once I travel." She told him and he nodded with a smile.

"By the way, what is your name?" He asked her. He didn't know her name and she knew his. He felt being unfair, not knowing her name.

"Ingrid." She replied and he smiled again…

***

Meanwhile, Soo-Hyun was tired of sitting in his room so he walked out of the house. He was angry, very angry. The interview at JoysNews was fake.

Those weren't the questions they were to ask him and yet they asked him and it caused him his phone.

He wanted a smoke, a drink but doing any of those was just going to get him into more trouble. He hadn't seen old Park angry the way he was angry today. He began punching the wheel of his car angrily, throwing punches at it, regardless of his swollen and red knuckles.

He wanted to prove them all wrong. He wanted to find the truth but even with his reply, he wasn't going to get there anytime soon because it wasn't a fake reply. But he couldn't help the thoughts that it was all a setup.

He drove and drove, hoping to feel better but didn't feel any better. In fact it got worst when he saw Mikey's car coming from the other direction.

He didn't care if Mikey saw his own car or not but he didn't care to notify and was not going to look at the car.

What he didn't notice was the lady who was sitting at Mikey's right and looking at him through the window. His own car, had the driver's seat on the left and his was kind of far better off but she wasn't looking at the car, model or anything. She was looking at the person in the driver's seat.

But when Ingrid noticed he wasn't looking at her, she turned away and continued looking ahead, till Soo Hyun's car was far away. She did feel hurt because when ever she was looking at people in a car, they always had a tendency of looking back at her. It was as if they could feel her stares on them.

But the one in his car didn't even look at her or even block to notify his bandmate that he was bypassing them. She wondered if Mikey also noticed Soo Hyun as well but Mikey didn't. He was too busy in his thoughts that he didn't notice Soo Hyun's car bypass them.

Thinking that Mikey had not seen him, or saw him and decided to stay quiet, she decided not to talk about to him. She wondered how the rest of the members of the group were. Whether they were friendly as Mikey or they were cold and mean. She always thought they only smiled on stage and when acting was if they were normal people on camera.

Maybe it is not a bad idea at all to accept this job and live with ROYAL-5 for a few months. She might get used to her favorite Kpop band and even bond with their members.