SING ME A SONG - CHAPTER 9&10

“Do you find her cute?” Mr. Kang asked with a smile and Lonnie quickly covered the curtain.

“Of course not”

“So what was the why on earth is she so cute about?” Mr. Kang said, mimicking Lonnie.

“Do you want me to cut ties with you? You collided with Mr. Jung, but you’re the first person I called”

“Mr. Jung owns D•K entertainment, wh@??ver he says is what I do. You have no idea how happy I am when you called me” Mr. Kang said, but Lonnie said nothing.

“Won’t you changed your mind about going back to Seoul? You changed your phone number, Sage and Camren is having a hard time reaching you”

“I have made up my mind”

“What about your mom?”

“She is the least of my worries right now. She only wants me for her business, so I am sure she is just going to push me away now that I don’t have my voice in singing”

“Sorry about your misfortune, I will just arrange your food stuffs in the cabinet” Mr. Kang said, turning on his phone touch since the entire place was dark.

Lonnie waited for Mr. Kang to enter the kitchen, before shifting the curtain to look at Lani, but she was no longer sitting in the step case.

He remembered how she pouted earlier and smiled.

******

The following morning, Lani was still sleeping in her bed hugging Lonnie’s picture, when Dami and Posy entered the room.

“Is she still sleeping by this time of the day?” Posy asked, when Dami jumped on Lani.

“Ouch!” She whines like a baby.

“Get up from bed sleepyhead, we need to go to school” Dami said and Lani frowned her face.

“Can’t I sleep some more? I couldn’t sleep last night because I was worried about Lonnie”

“Why can’t you stay a day without thinking about Lonnie?” Posy asked, and Lani pouted again.

“Where’s my grandma?”

“We saw her on our way here. You should get ready for school today. We have literature test today”

“What! We have a test to do today?” Lani asked with widen eyes.

“Don’t tell me you forgot about it?” Dami asked.

“I didn’t even know about it”

“How will you know when your head is filled with Lonnie?”

“I’m so dead. I didn’t even open my book” Lani said, scattering her hair.

She rushed into the bathroom to have her bath.

***

“Lani hurry up! We are going to be late” Dami said.

Lonnie who was sitting on the floor stood up from the ground on hearing Lani’s name.

He walked over to the window and he sees Lani coming downstairs with a book in her head.

“She is a high school student? Her uniform looks good on her” He muttered as he watch her ran to where her friends were waiting for her.

“Don’t tell me you’re going to start reading now?” Posy asked.

“Yes I have to, my grandma is going to ki|| me if I fail in this test” She said, flipping through the pages of her notebook, and Lonnie smile.

“What is the meaning of irony again? I can’t find it in my notebook”

“I think it means describing non human attributes with human attributes, for example the sun smiles at everyone” Posy said.

“Wow! You’re a genius, Posy” Lani said, and Lonnie almost laughed out loud.

“She and her friends are all dumb. Since when the personification become the meaning of irony?” Lonnie muttered with a smile as he continued looking at Lani who was jotting down nonsense.

“I am so happy to have a friend like you, Posy. What about the meaning of melodrama?”

“It means when a drama is acted in a quiet place” Posy answered, feeling proud of herself.

Lani and Dami jumped on their feet praising her, and Posy flaunted her hair. Lonnie shakes his head with a smiling face.

“We should go to school now, Lani. I’m sure Rory is waiting for us” Posy said.

“That jerk” Dami frowned.

“At least he is handsome” Posy said with a smile.

Lani walks towards Lonnie’s window, and Lonnie quickly hide beside the wall, but he could still see her from outside.

“What are you doing, Lani? Let’s go!”

“Just a second, Dami”

Lani packed her hair in a ponytail while Lonnie watch her lost in admiration for her beauty and cuteness.

He continued watching her as she packed her hair and when she smiled, Lonnie also smiled with her.

Lani brought out her phone from the coat of her uniform and she smiled looking at Lonnie’s picture which she used as her wallpaper.

“I’m writing a test that I didn’t plan for, I know I’m dumb but wish me good luck. I stay up all night worrying about you, and I wish I could see you so you’d wish your number one fan who is a dumb head good luck” She said grinning.

“Good luck, Cutie Pie” Lonnie muttered looking at her from the window.

“Lani!!!, let’s go!!!” Dami shouted at her.

“Alright, alright I am coming” Lani said, rushing to where they are and in the process of doing so, her uniform badge that has her name fell from her.

“Did someone rent the house already?”

“Yes, but I think he is an assassin” Lani said doing her mouth like a parrot and Lonnie chuckled.

“An assassin!” Dami and Posy exclaimed.

“Yes. He gave a strict rule that we shouldn’t go near his door step. I’d have celebrated a house welcoming with him, but I can’t associate with an assassin”

“How do you know he’s an assassin?”

“No one hides himself if he is not a criminal”

“Isn’t it dangerous?” Posy asked.

“Who cares? If he tries to mess with me and my grandma, I will give five punches from different angles” Lani said, demonstrating, and Lonnie laugh.

“She is funny and cute, I am not an assassin, Lani”

“Before you fall and start crying again, we should hurry up to school, else we will get punished”

Lani smiled and placed her hands around Posy and Dami’s shoulders.

“Let’s go!” She said, and the three of them began jumping on their way to school.

Lonnie smiled.

He looked around before coming out from the house and he picked up Lani’s badge from the ground.

“Lani Han” He read her name from the badge and smiled.

******

•STEWART HIGH SCHOOL, CAFETERIA•

All eyes fell on Palmer as she walked towards her classroom with her friend Opal. She is the queen of Stewart high school, because it belongs to her stepfather, Mr. Choi.

“Must she showcase her stupid talent every day?” Dami asked, irritatingly.

“Her stepfather owns the school, it’s a enough for her to show it off” Posy said.

“She is so ugly, including that friend of hers Opal. If not that her mom got married to Sean’s dad she won’t have a name in this school” Rory said.

“And we all know that Sean has a crush on Lani” Dami and Posy said at the same, laughing.

Sean is a student of Stewart college and the son of Mr. Choi who owns the school. He doesn’t behave like a child from a rich home because he is friendly with everyone. His family is the richest in Hadong, they didn’t reside in Seoul because his father chose to live in the countryside where he is above everyone.

He might be playful, but he has a huge crush on Lani.

“Can you both stop it. Sean doesn’t have a crush on me” Lani said.

“Lani!!!” Sean called her name loudly with a ball in his hand.

“Here comes her crush” Rory said, teasingly, and her friends left her.

“Where are you all going?” Lani asked. She tried to leave, but Sean held her hand and Lani faked a smile at him.

“Sean” She said.

“How do I look today? You once told me that blue hair doesn’t suit me, so I dye it black. Do I look handsome in it?” He asked cheerfully, and Lani faked a smile again.

“You look amazing, Sean”

Sean jumped on his feet, laughing.

“Thanks for the compliment. I will make sure to always keep my hair in black colors” Sean said, smiling.

“Yeah, you should”

“I bought you cookies, I heard it’s your favorite” He said giving it to her, and Lani reluctantly took it from him.

“Thanks. I will make sure I eat it”

Sean jumped in excitement again. “Make sure you do. I poured my heart into buying it for you. I’m so happy!” He screamed and ran away.

Lani sighed and turned to go to her class, but she was stopped by a teacher.

“Where’s your school badge?” He asked.

Lani touched her touch the area where she always pin her school badge but she couldn’t find it.

“I think I left it at home, sir”

“Go home and get it”

“But sir, I have an literature test today” She pouted.

“Go home and get it, and don’t come to school without it”

******

•SEOUL, D•K ENTERTAINMENT•

“Stop!” The choreography teacher said when she saw how Sage was missing her dance steps likewise the way she was rapping. This will be the seventh time she’d be making a mistake.

“What’s your problem, Sage? You have been making lots of mistakes”

“I am not just in the mood to dance or rap. I have always done the dance steps with Lonnie, it feels different not doing it with him. I’m sorry, but I need a break” Sage said and left the practice room.

Camren tried following her, but Miles stopped him.

“I will talk to her” He leaves.

Miles met Sage sitting in the chair inside the lobby and he walked up to her and sat beside her.

“You are the last person I want to talk to, so leave me alone”

“I wasn’t the one who made the decision, Sage. It was Mr. Jung”

“But you’re happy Lonnie is no longer part of us right? Thanks to what Mr. Jung said, Lonnie ran away and Mr. Jung lied to the public that Lonnie is suffering from a disease and won’t join us in our comeback song. I’m sure you’re over the moon that Lonnie left. If not for the letter he left behind, I won’t have been part of this bullshit”

“Being a K-pop star have always been your dream, are you just going to push it away because of Lonnie? We used to be so close before he came into the picture”

“Talking to you is a waste of time. I’m going to find Lonnie and bring him back to our band, so don’t rejoice yet” Sage said and walked away.

Miles sighed hurtfully and a message chimed in his phone, he brought out his phone and looked at the message.

•I’m going to tell the world what you did, if you don’t pay Me•

Miles stood up and ran out of D•K entertainment.

******

•HADONG, COUNTRY SIDE OF KOREA, NIGHT•

“Halmeoni!!!” Lani whines when Eloise hit her shoulder.

“How can you misplaced your badge and missed a literature test!”

“I don’t know how it got missing, but I will be able to rewrite the test tomorrow, if I get a new badge”

“Who is going to get you a new one?”

“You. I don’t have any money because you told me not to work” She pouted.

“That’s because I don’t want you to get stressed. I only want you to focus on your study so you can go to a good university, but you’re so dumb and clumsy at the same time!”

“I don’t want to go to any university granny, I want to become a K-pop star like Lonnie” She said and Eloise hit her back.

“It hurts!” She whines.

“Do I look like I care? Go out there and look for your badge”

“Where on earth am I going to find it…”

Lani run out of the house when Eloise threw her sandals at her.

“Just get me a new one!” She said loudly. She was outside the house.

“She really knows how to be so noisy” Lonnie said, looking at her from the window, and in just a second, Lani began to cry.

“Why is she crying again?”

“Where on earth are you badge? Lonnie is no where to be found, and my badge is missing” She said drawing her words, crying as well.

“She cries over every single thing” He looked at the badge in his hand and decided to give it to her.

Lani squatted on the ground with her head between her thighs.

“Are you looking for this?” He asked and Lani raised her head to look at him.

Thinking she was hallucinating, she pouted and continued crying, looking at Lonnie.

“I guess I love you too much. I’m even hallucinating about you. Where are you? Why did you leave?”

Lonnie smiled and squat close to her. “Do you think, you’re hallucinating?” He asked and she nod her head, cutely.

“Yes I am. There’s no way you’d show up in front of me”

Lonnie smiled again and flicked her forehead.

“Ouch” She pouted, and Lonnie laugh.

“Do you still think you’re hallucinating?”

Lani blinked her eyes thrice, and her eyes widen.

“You… you’re real?”

“Yes I am….”

Lonnie didn’t complete what he had to say when Lani screamed, loudly.

“Lonnie!!!!” She screamed jumping on him.

Lonnie fell to the ground as a result of how she jumped on him, while Lani landed on him, with her lips meeting with his.

……

TBC