SING ME A SONG - CHAPTER 17&18
Dami, Rory and Posy kept staring at Lonnie like they were watching a suspense filled movie. Their hairs were dripping out water, because Lani poured water on them.
“Stop staring at him that way, y’all will make him uncomfortable” Lani said.
“Did you make a robot look alike of Lonnie? We already know you are obsessed over Lonnie” Dami said, Posy and Rory nodded their heads in agreement.
“Why we you think I will make a robot look alike of Lonnie? Even if I want to that, I don’t have the funds to do so”
“There’s no way Lonnie will be here in the countryside. Have you forgotten who Lonnie is?” Rory asked.
“If you have forgotten, I will remind you. Lonnie Lee is a K-pop star with a net-worth of 200 million. There’s no way he’d be here. So tell us the truth Lani, is he a robot? Cuz I won’t hesitate to believe he is a robot” Posy said, pointing at Lonnie.
“He is not a robot. He is real” Lani taps Lonnie and he looked at her. He hasn’t said a word.
“Help me out here” She blinks her eyes cutely and Lonnie fell for it.
Lonnie cleared his throat and said. “I’m not a robot. I’m Lonnie Lee” He said, unbuttoning his shirt.
When they saw no metals attached on his body, Lani’s friends screamed and fainted again.
“Why are they fainting?” He asked.
“Cuz you’re a celebrity Lonnie. You are like a god in their eyes”
“Really?” Lonnie asked, looking surprised and Lani nodded her head. She looked at her fainted friends and sighed with a puckering lips.
***
“Sign your autograph here” Posy and Dami said with a smile, giving Lonnie their books to sign on.
Lonnie took it from them and began signing autographs on their books. Dami and Posy squealed in excitement.
“Can I take pictures with you?” Rory asked.
“Sure” Lonnie replied with a smile.
“Me too!” Dami and Posy said bringing out their phones.
“Lani take a picture of Lonnie and I” Posy said making a heart shape with Lonnie.
Lani frowns and began helping her friends taking pictures with Lonnie.
“One more time” Dami said grinning, and Lani threw the phone on the couch.
“What’s wrong Lani? Take some more pictures” Rory said.
“Really? I thought I was the only one who is biased with Lonnie?” She asked.
“I thought you all are my fans?” Lonnie asked, and Lani pulled him to her side.
“They’re not your fan. I am the only one who is your fan”
“Stop being a ki||ing joy, Lani. She is just phrasing out rubbish. We are also your fans too, the problem is that she is the one who is crazy over you” Dami said.
“That true. She is very crazy when it comes to you, but that doesn’t mean we don’t like you. Your voice is unique” Rory said.
“Although Miles is my bias, but can you continue taking pictures with us. We don’t know if you’re going to disappear tomorrow” Posy said and Lonnie smile.
“I’m not disappearing because I will be staying in the countryside from now on. You’re allowed to see or take pictures with me, but on one condition”
“What condition?”
“Don’t post it online or tell anyone you saw me”
“May I ask why?” Rory asked and Dami hits his head.
“Why are you good at hitting my head?” He asked liked a baby.
“Because you don’t have sense. Do you know how chaotic is going to be when people finds out that he is staying at Lani’s place? He has some many wives and Lani will be the one to suffer from it. Beside his company said he is suffering from a disease, so he wants to take a break and relax until he recovers” Dami said.
“Whoa!” Posy said, clapping her hands.
“I didn’t know you could reason like this, Dami?” Rory said, and Dami flings her short hair to the back.
“I’m smart, is just that I haven’t made up my mind to be smart” She said.
“Says someone who doesn’t know four times twelve” Rory said mockingly and Dami hits his head.
“Witch!”
Lonnie smiled at their craziness. He now knows where Lani got her craziness from. Birds of the same feathers definitely flocks together.
“Don’t worry Lonnie. Your secret is save with us. The four of us are good at keeping a secret” Posy said.
Rory and Dami nodded their heads.
“Thanks”
“We should be the one thanking you, cuz from now on, Lani won’t cry anymore saying she wants to go to Seoul to see you. No wonder she always runs home after school” Dami said.
“Let’s continue taking more pictures!” Rory said wrapping his arm around Lonnie’s shoulder, but he quickly removed it.
“I’m sorry. I crossed my boundaries”
Lonnie smiled and hits his chest playfully.
“It’s nothing, n_gg@” Lonnie said and Rory jumped on his feet, excitedly.
“I didn’t know you’d be so friendly. Can we be friends? I know you’re older than me, but can we be friends? Sometimes it sucks having just female friends”
“Sure” Lonnie said making a fist bump with Rory.
“Be my friend too!” Posy and Dami said.
“Sure” Lonnie replied.
“He is now my best friend. Lani take a picture of my best friend and I” Rory said with his arm on Lonnie’s shoulder, and Lonnie smiled.
“Me too!” Posy and Dami added, with their hands on Lonnie’s waist.
***
Lonnie sat on the bare floor smiling as he recalled the moments he had with Lani and her friends. It was so dramatic and yet so funny.
“I didn’t know they can be fun to be with” He muttered and looked around the empty space in the house.
*Let me tell you a secret, I am an interior designer* Lani’s cute voice echoed in his ear and he smiled before putting Mr. Kang on call and he picked at first ring.
“Were you waiting for my call?” He asked.
“Every minute and seconds of the day, I worry about you, Lonnie. I’m unsettled knowing you’re alone in the countryside”
“C’mon Mr. Kang, I’m not a kid. I’m 24 years old” He said with a smile.
“Can you blame me? You were just 9 years old when you became a trainee in D•K entertainment. You made a debuts when you were 14. It’s surprising how fast you have grown”
“Your son grew up quickly without you knowing about it” Lonnie said with a smile on his face.
His biological dad divorced his mom when he was just five years old, so when he became a trainee at D•K entertainment, Mr. Kang became a father-figure to him.
“I must be a careless father not to have known” He said and Lonnie smiled.
“How are my band mate doing?”
“Their comeback song was a successful, but most of the comments about their album was filled with when is Lonnie coming back. They’re preparing to do a live concert performance on their new comeback song. They have been busy the whole day”
“I see”
“Did you call to ask about them?”
“Not really. I want to design my house, will you be able to get everything requirable for me? I will have the money transferred to your bank account”
“I thought you said it wasn’t necessary. What changed?”
“Someone made the change” Lonnie said.
“Who?”
“It’s a secret”
“If you insist. I will get everything requirable and decorate it for you”
“You don’t have to. I can do it myself”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes I am sure, have it delivered soon… thanks a lot” Lonnie said and rest his head on the wall.
“What are you doing to me, Lani” He muttered and chuckled.
******
•STEWART HIGH SCHOOL, NEXT DAY•
“Why is the time so slow? I want to go home” She said to herself as she walked back to class. She was coming back from the restroom.
“Should I just fake an illnesses?” She shook her head and said again. “Lonnie won’t be happy if you skip school because of him. I wish I can fast forward time” She pouted with her eyes glued on her wrist watch.
“Lani!” Sean said, approaching her with a smile.
“Sean” She said faintly.
“What’s wrong? Are you sick?” He asked, panicking already.
“I’m not sick Sean. I’m okay”
“Then why did you call my name in a faint voice?”
“I….” Lani stopped halfway when an idea hits her head and she smiled at Sean.
“You can adjust the rules and regulations of this school, right?”
“Yes I can. The school was built by my dad, but it’s under my name. Why do you ask?”
“Well I… can you change the dismissal time from 4pm to 2pm”
“2pm why?”
Lani fakes a cry.
“Why are you crying, Lani?”
“I don’t have time to help my grandmother in her restaurant. She sick and needs my help. I have just few months to graduate, can you adjust the time while I’m still schooling here?” She asked, sniffling.
“Is that all you want?” Sean asked, and she nod her head.
“I will get it done right away” Sean said and runs off to the principal’s office.
“Yes!” Lani said happily.
“I can have more time to be with Lonnie” She began humming one of Lonnie’s song from four years ago and at the same time dancing to it.
She is not a good dancer, but she doesn’t sucks at it. Only some trainings is what she needs.
******
Rory sighed as he attended to customers in the chicken restaurant he works in. He is an orphan who works to train himself. The reason why he is able to attend Stewart college is because it not expensive, but that doesn’t mean he pays his tuition on time.
He’d have applied for a scholarship if not that he doesn’t have the brain to pass a difficult exam.
“Take a good look at him, Palmer. He is so handsome” Opal said, smiling.
Palmer looked at Rory and scoffed. “I don’t find him handsome. Sean is more handsome than him” Palmer said.
“You’re siding with Sean because he is your step brother and you got a chance to live in luxury, because he recommended your mom for his dad”
“Are you insulting me?”
“Of course not. I’m just saying the truth. I can stay up all day, watching him like a soap opera” Opal said, as she looked at Rory who was attending to customers with a smile.
Palmer rolled her eyes and focused on her phone. She was hitting the like button on Miles’s pictures. She is a huge fan of Miles, while Camren is her bias wrecker.
Lonnie is her least favorite in the group.
******
•LONNIE’S HOUSE•
“You got all the requirements needed to design your house?” Lani asked, looking around the house.
“Well someone who said she is an interior designer made me do it”
“I wasn’t joking. I was the one who decorated my room”
“You mean the messy room?” He asked, mockingly.
Lani hits his chest and he laughs.
“Let’s get to work, and you’d see what I’m capable of”
In no time, they began decorating the house together, and painting it as well.
“Lani!” Lonnie calls out her name when she rubs a red paint on his left eye.
Lani laughs falling to the ground. “You look like Zuko from avatar” She said, still laughing.
“You find it funny?”
“Yes. It’s so funny. I wish I can take a picture of you right now” She said, laughing so hard.
“Come here” He said with a smile, trying to rub a paint on her face.
Lani screamed his name, running, and both ran around the house, laughing.
***
Few hours after, they were done decorating the room. The cut off lights were already fixed.
“What do you think about it? I made the suggestion on how we can fix it”
“You did great” He said, giving her thumbs up, and she smile and walked towards the plasma Tv.
“You’re so wealthy Lonnie. Your Tv is so big, it’s as if the people in the tv are going to come out from it” Lani said and spread her hands standing in front of the Tv.
He didn’t hang the tv on the wall, but on a console table.
“The length of my hands cannot even measure it. It’s
so big” She said, and because of her clumsiness, she stepped on the socket and it slipped her feet from the ground.
Before Lonnie could rushed towards Lani, she fell on the 152 inches plasma tv.
Like that, both she and the tv landed on the ground.
……
TBC