Chapter Ten

            “I have to make a call,” Hozaki smiled and tightened his grab on Hankyung’s waist before leaving to make a call. Once he was out of hearing distance, Hozaki made the call. Speaking to the other person for about five minutes, Hozaki hung up, sighed and walked back. Upon walking back, JaeJoong was talking with Hankyung, who seemed to be in a daze but was paying attention. Hozaki smiled and caught up with him.

            “Hozaki-shii, don’t you think Hankyung would look great in that?” JaeJoong pointed at an outfit in the window, the shop where Euiyun had disappeared into.

            Hankyung had a certain look on his face, but Hozaki smiled and ignored it, “That would look great on him, it’s comfortable as well.”

            “Of course it is, it’s from The Cinderella Collection,” JaeJoong smiled and pulled Hankyung into the shop. Hozaki laughed at Hankyung’s betrayed face.

            “Hozaki, what’s wrong?” Hankyung looked at Hozaki as JaeJoong asked the saleslady to get his size.

            “It’s nothing, just thinking,” he smiled and wrapped his arm around Hankyung’s waist, as he waited for the clothes.

            “I can’t believe you said yes,” Hankyung poked him. “I hate people getting things for me.”

            “But it’ll look good on you,” Hozaki couldn’t help but to laugh at Hankyung, who poked him again for laughing.

            “Jerk,” Hankyung stuck out his tongue at Hozaki as he was being pulled away by JaeJoong and the saleslady. Hozaki laughed and followed them, towards the fitting area.

            “Please stand here,” the saleslady pointed at platform in the middle of the fitting area. Hankyung followed her directions as she began to measure. She smiled in glee, and turned to JaeJoong, “He has a well measured body, it’s like the outfit was made for him.” She hung the clothes in a fitting room, and directed Hankyung into the room. “Come out when you’re done, we’ll be tailoring it.”

            “Doesn’t that cost more?” Hankyung mumbled.

            “Don’t worry about the price Hankyung, it’s my engagement party, I’ll pay,” JaeJoong smiled and closed the door on Hankyung, signaling him to change. Hozaki laughed and shook his head, “Hozaki-shii, what are you intentions for Hankyung?”

            “What?”

            “What are you intentions?”

            “I guess, you could say, he understands me. He took the time to get to know me, I should do the same for him,” Hozaki shrugged, though his mind was grim his face held a small smile, knowing that what he said was half a lie. Silence came over JaeJoong and Hozaki while waiting for Hankyung.

            “Hozaki, can you come help me?” Hankyung’s voice flowed into the waiting area. Hozaki smiled and stood up, stretching before walking into the fitting area. Once inside the room, Hankyung held up the difficult shirt. “I can’t put it on.”

            Hozaki couldn’t help but to laugh, “Let’s see.” Hozaki took the shirt from Hankyung before bursting into a laughing fit again. “You have it sideways.”

            “You can’t blame me, it was hard to put on,” Hankyung took back the shirt and got confused again. Hozaki started laughing even harder, holding his sides. “Don’t laugh, help me.”

            “It—can’t be helped,” Hozaki smiled trying to hold in his laughter, before walking over to Hankyung and turned in towards the mirror. “This is the front,” Hozaki placed the shirt over Hankyung’s bare front. He unzipped the zipper that was on the side and helped Hankyung into the shirt. Hankyung blushed, feeling Hozaki so close to him. Hozaki looked up, after he zipped up the zipper, “What, embarrassed?”

            “I—you—no,” Hankyung pouted and pointed at Hozaki, being unable to form a sentence.

            “It’s not nice to point,” Hozaki held Hankyung hand, bring it down and stepping closer to Hankyung.

            “You—what are you—“

            “Hankyung, done yet?” JaeJoong’s voice flowed into the waiting room.

            “Yes,” Hankyung pulled his hand from Hozaki hold and opened the door to a smiling JaeJoong.

            “You look nice,” JaeJoong pulled Hankyung out of the room and stood him back onto the platform, and the saleslady from before was summoned. JaeJoong watched Hankyung stiffen as she took measurements and wrote them down. He couldn’t help but to glance at Hozaki, who was smiling at Hankyung. Hankyung smiled back, seeing his smile in the mirror.

            “Heechul-shii,” the saleslady stopped what she was doing and bowed.

            “Yes, I’ll take over from here, there’s a costumer outside complaining. Quite annoying, and bad for business,” Heechul took the measuring tape and the pencil and pad before he dismissed her. “Right, let’s get back to business.”

            JaeJoong couldn’t help but laugh as he looked out the door, and saw Euiyun complaining about a dress size. He turned back to Heechul and shook his head, still laughing. “I thought you were waiting for the representative.”

            “It’s finished, I showed him the designs and they’ll be back in about five days,” Heechul shrugged and finished up any measurements and went over some that were slightly off. Heechul smiled and patted Hankyung’s back allowing him to got and change out of the clothes. “Besides, who can say ‘no’ to my designs?”  Just as Heechul finished speaking Hankyung’s voice flowed into the room.

            “Hozaki, help?” Hozaki couldn’t help but to laugh at Hankyung, before standing up and going to help him.

            “What now?” Hozaki playfully scowled.

            “I can’t take if off,” Hankyung’s voice flowed through the shirt as he was stuck in it. Hozaki held onto his sides as he started laughing at the troubled Hankyung.

            “Hankyung… what are we going to do with you?” Hozaki asked as he unzipped the shirt and let it fall to the floor. He leaned in slightly, looking at Hankyung’s pink lips.

            “Hozaki?”

            “Hmmm?” Hozaki leaned in some more, until he was a mere centimeter from Hankyung’s lips.

            “What are you doing?” Hankyung asked as he tried to move, but couldn’t seem to do it. Hozaki slowly closed the distance between himself and Hankyung, slowly moving his lips. Hankyung stood still, unknowing what to do, but slowly he closed his eyes and shyly kissed back.

            “Hankyung! DRIVER! Are you DONE?” Euiyun’s voice flooded the dressing room. “I’m done, you better hurry up.” Hankyung pulled back and away from Hozaki. His face all red, he answered Euiyun.

            “Ye… Yes, Miss Lee, we’ll be right out.” Hankyung scrambled for his shirt, quickly putting it on before exiting the room. “I’m sorry, the shirt was quite difficult to put on.” Hankyung smiled sheepishly at JaeJoong and Euiyun.

            “Whatever, I’m hungry, we should go eat,” Euiyun handed her bags to Hankyung before walking towards the exit.

            “Where are going to eat?” Hankyung asked as he fixed the bags to work with the other bags, he had set down earlier.

            “I don’t know,” JaeJoong shrugged as he reached for some bags. Hozaki cut him off swiftly as he grabbed the bag.

            “I can’t let you hold these, JaeJoong-shii. It wouldn’t be right,” Hozaki explained. “Please, after you.” He gestured JaeJoong to go first and walked along with Hankyung.

            JaeJoong looked at Hankyung, who was still flustered and quiet, not talking to Hozaki. JaeJoong couldn’t help but to think, what happened in the fitting room while Hankyung was changing.

            “I want to go to Top Cloud⁽¹⁾,” Euiyun said as they reached the car. Hankyung looked at JaeJoong who nodded. Hozaki opened sighed, and opened the truck, allowing Hankyung and himself to put the bags in. After putting the bags into the back, Hozaki went to go open the door for Euiyun and JaeJoong.

            “It’ll be a thirty minute drive because of the traffic at this time,” Hozaki informed Euiyun as she slipped into the car.

            “As long as we get there,” she closed the door. Hozaki laughed slightly before slipping into the driver seat, next to Hankyung.

            “Ready?” Hozaki asked, hoping to get Hankyung to talk to him again. Hankyung simply nodded, blushing. Hozaki smiled and pulled out of the parking garage, entering Seoul’s busiest hours of the day.

            “Hozaki-shii, if you take a right here, it should take less time then taking the main road,” JaeJoong suggested as Hozaki neared a stop light. Hozaki looked in the rear-view mirror and smiled before turning right. A short ten minutes, Hozaki reached the restaurant. he pulled out towards the parking, getting ready to pay. JaeJoong smiled at the valet and they let him through.

            “What just happened?”

            “I know the owner,” JaeJoong smiled. Hozaki parked the car, and everyone got out. Euiyun led the way to the restaurant. “Hankyung, your phone.” With that said, Hankyung’s phone started vibrating and ringing.

            “Excuse me,” Hankyung bowed and left the group. “Hello?”

            “Hankyung, my plane leaves at 5, I needed you back here at 3, it’s four right now,” Siwon’s voice flowed into Hankyung’s ear. Hankyung’s eyes widen when he realized the time.

            “I’m sorry, I’ll be right there,” Siwon hung up and Hankyung ran back to the group. “JaeJoong-shii, I need to go, I need to see Siwon-shii off,” he bowed and pulled Hozaki to his feet. “Please excuse us,” Hankyung politely ran out of the restaurant and towards the car. “Please hurry Hozaki.”

            Hozaki nodded and started the engine, speeding out the parking garage and out onto the streets. It was 4:12, when Hankyung reached the building. He nearly jumped out of the car, not waiting for it to come to a full stop and ran into the building.

            “Hankyung, he’s coming, slow down,” Eunhyuk smiled as he greeted Hankyung. He had someone’s arm around his waist that Hankyung was unfamiliar with. Eunhyuk smiled, “This is Kim Junsu, my boyfriend, Junsu, Hankyung.” Eunhyuk introduced the two men.

            “Hankyung, it’s very nice to meet you, Eunhyuk talks about you. Says you’re very detailed,” Junsu smiled and shook hands with Hankyung.

            “Hankyung let’s go,” Siwon stepped towards them. He nodded at Eunhyuk and Junsu before exiting the building.

            “Excuse me, I’ll see you later Eunhyuk,” Hankyung smiled before following Siwon to the car. In the car there was silence, as Siwon went over last minute documents he needed for the trip.

            “While I’m gone, I need you to keep Euiyun in check, if she decides to stop by. There’s a meeting with the head departments for affairs and I need you to look over the files they have. Make sure to check the numbers to see if they match mine,” Siwon handed Hankyung a separate file.

            “Sir, we’ve arrived,” Hozaki called from the driver seat. Hankyung quickly opened the door and got out, allowing Siwon to follow. Siwon nodded and went to go check in, while Hankyung looked over the files Siwon needed for the meeting.

            “Siwon-shii, here are the merging files with Eeteuk-um—Eeteuk and KangIn-shii’s company. Along with the files with Kyuhyun and ZhouMi’s company. These are from Kim Junsu’s company, they’re a little out of order, but it’s pretty much in order. And these are from—“

            “Thank you,” Siwon cut Hankyung off and placed the different files in his bag. “I need you to look out for that rat, more of our company ideas are being stolen by my rivals. If you find this person by then, I want you to call me, I’ll get on the first plane back and deal with them myself,” Siwon slipped off his glasses.

            “Yes, of course,” Hankyung nodded as he added that to his mental list.

            “Also there’s…” Siwon went into a coughing fit as he tried to tell Hankyung what to do. In between the coughing fit, Siwon let two small words out, ‘stay safe’. Hankyung stood there looking at Siwon scared that if he walked away to find some water, something would happen. He snapped out of his daze when Siwon rested his head on Hankyung’s shoulder and asked, as he held his chest, “could you get me some water?”

            “Of course,” Hankyung looked around the lobby frantically looking for water, that he missed the small smile on Siwon’s face.

            “Stay safe,” he repeated again quietly as he looked Hankyung run for water. His smile grew bigger as he noticed Hankyung hadn’t noticed the words that slipped from his mouth. Hankyung smiled at the lady, paying for the water bottle, before returning to Siwon and handed him the water. “Thank you,” he looked at his watch. “I’m going now.”

            “Yes, of course Siwon-shii,” Hankyung smiled as Siwon disappeared into the international flight area. Hankyung stood there in daze, wishing he was going with Siwon. Hankyung’s mind was put on rewind to make sure he had everything in order. “Files, meeting, staying safe… staying safe? When was that added?” he gasped as he remembered before he took off to get Siwon’s water. “He cares about me…” Hankyung smiled and left the airport with a smile on his face.

            For the next two weeks, Hankyung was busy running around for the company, taking calls for Siwon. On the fifteenth day, Siwon had called and told him that the business meeting was a success and that he would be coming back next week. Hankyung was happy for the company, but couldn’t help to whine to Donghae about how Siwon could do all he does.

            “But Donghae, how does he do it all~~” Hankyung looked at Donghae as he looked at the window.

            “How does who do it all?” a voice came from behind.

            “Kim Junsu-shii,” Hankyung straightened up and smiled.

            “Junsu is fine,” Junsu laughed and patted his back. “Donghae, how’s Kibum?”

            “He’s fine, yourself?”

            “Tired,” he smirked.

            “We didn’t need to know about that,” Donghae stuck out his tongue.

            “Hankyung, I need to talk to you,” Junsu walked towards the office door.

            “Yes of course,” Hankyung opened the door and let Junsu in first, before closing it he looked at Donghae. “Order food for me?”

            “What happened to my home cooked meals?”

            “Work,” Hankyung answered before closing the door. “What can I do for you?”

            “Have you found your rat?” Junsu looked at Hankyung. “I got these plans from an international company,” he placed files on the table. “These are the same exact designs Eunhyuk and Kibum showed me.”

            “What… what is this?” Hankyung looked at the designs and pulled out all the designs he had. He looked at both shocked. “Who… how did this happen?”

            “I suggest you find them fast, this is from a Japanese company. They faxed it to me this morning, try and find them before this gets ugly,” Junsu placed his hand on Hankyung to try and calm him down.

            “I need… I need to tell Siwon-shii,” Hankyung went for the phone.

            “No, if you get Siwon involved they’ll stop, try and find them before Siwon is involved,” Junsu stopped Hankyung from reaching the phone.

            “But—“

            “What’s going on?” Eunhyuk came into the room. “You were up here? I called you on your phone.” Junsu took out his phone and smiled. He kissed Eunhyuk, before telling him to wait outside.

            “I need to talk to Hankyung privately, I won’t be long.” Eunhyuk nodded and left the room. Junsu turned back to Hankyung. “If it’s okay, I want to set up a meeting with our department heads for affairs, all of them.”

            “Yes, that’s fine, I’ll tell Donghae to inform them,” Hankyung nodded as he continued to look at the photo designs.

            “We’ll find them Hankyung, don’t worry,” Junsu stood and smiled before heading out the room. Hankyung stood as well and headed out.

            “Donghae, can you set up a meeting with all the department heads for affairs,” Hankyung ran his hand through his hair.

            “Sure, what’s wrong?” Donghae looked at Hankyung as he emailed the department heads.

            “We’re going to find this rat, and have them dealt with,” Hankyung looked at Donghae. “I just hope it’s not too late.” Hankyung smiled and mentally groaned to see Euiyun seating in the waiting area. He looked at Donghae and whispered, “Why is she here?”

            “She heard Siwon might come back today,” Donghae shrugged.

            “He’s coming back next week,” Hankyung looked at the calendar and nodded. “Next week.” He sighed and walked up to Euiyun. “Euiyun-shii, Siwon-shii won’t be returning until next week.”

            “And why is that,” she snapped at him.

            “The deal has been made, he needs to be there to finalize the plans,” Hankyung smiled as she stood and left. “Food?” Hankyung looked at Donghae and laughed as he ducked to avoid a flying book.

            “What’s going on?” Hankyung turned around to see Siwon standing in the elevator doorway.

            “Siwon-shii,” Hankyung choked out as he stood and followed the man into his office.

            “What is this?” he looked at Hankyung as he saw the two photos on his desk.

            “Junsu-shii, stopped by earlier saying that this design was sent to him from a Japanese company, they claimed it was their newest designs and he knows that design is ours, seeing how he’s dating Eunhyuk. Donghae has set up a meeting with the department heads for the affairs, and we’re going to sit with Junsu’s company and see who the rat is,” Hankyung looked at Siwon before continuing. “These are the current files of all the department heads and the drivers… drivers… Hozaki? Hazaki?”

            “I don’t want to let anyone off,” Siwon looked at Hankyung sternly. “You’re dismissed for the day, go home and rest, walk Andy, and cook dinner. Yunho and JaeJoong are coming over,” Siwon looked at Hankyung, noticing how tired the other man had looked when he walked in.

            “Yes, of course,” Hankyung smiled slightly and grabbed his messenger bag, and headed out the room. “Welcome back, sir.” With that Hankyung left the room. Siwon couldn’t help but let out a small smile.