The alarm clock was ringing while I was already in the bathroom. I ran back to my bed and turned it off while smiling softly to myself. I would never come late to work. I wouldn't even need an alarm clock to wake up just in time. I walked back to the mirror and put on some concealer and a bit of blush. I didn't need much more for work. I slipped into my comfy Nike's and took my soft cardigan and left the house. I had to drive eight stations till I finally arrived one of the prettiest parts of Seoul. The buildings where high and fully made of glass. You could see that many people were having pot plants on there balconies. In general the place seemed very peaceful. There weren't many cars at that time. Most of the people who were living in that part of Seoul were having a lot of money and most of them were already at work when I arrived. It was eight in the morning as I took out my key card that gave me access to the building. The portier greeted me friendly and I jumped right into the elevator to reach the 60th floor as soon as possible. I checked my watch a last time although I knew that I would be early as always.
The elevator doors opened and I stood in a bright white hallway. "Misses Jung? I'm here now!" I didn't want to scare her by just walking right into her without her knowing of my arrival beforehand. "Good morning! I'm in the living room my dear!" I placed my handbag onto the kitchen counter and walked straight into the living room where Misses Jung was sitting with the little baby boy on her arm. "You're always so early Sidney!" "Sorry, I just wanted to make sure to arrive in time..." "Don't be sorry, you're an angel! I have to go to the meeting earlier than planned and I'll probably come back later than the time I told you yesterday... If you don't have time to look after him that long that's fine too, I'll find a solution and..." I picked the boy up and stroked his soft back. The two year old was already a tall little man but he was sleeping tightly. "Don't worry. I got my text books with me. I will just use the time to study while you're gone." "My dear, if you can study better at home you can always tell me and I'll find someone else to look after him and..." I looked at her with a stubborn smile. "We had this discussion plenty of times." Misses Jung laughed silently and gave her son a peck in the dark hair. "Don't hesitate to empty the fridge. You can get some pizza or other delivery service food too, I'll pay." "Thank you Misses Jung." "I told you to call me Nayeon. You're a part of the family, not just my baby sitter. I want you to know that." She smiled at me and stroked my hair. "See you later Mi-Nayeon!" "See you later Sidney!" She put on her high heels and run out the room. I looked down on the two year old on my arm and decided that I could need some rest too.

"Aunt Sidney? I want chocolate!" "Taemin, you have to eat your broccoli first." The two year old looked on the floor with sadness in his eyes. "What if aunt Sidney does the airplane for you?" Taemin started clapping good hands. I smiled and picked up some greens and started feeding him. In the process of him getting his vitamins through me I ended up getting sauce all over my clothes, but did I expect any different? No. Not at all. "Young man, you need a bath." "But Chocolate!" I started laughing and put the plates in the dishwasher. "Okay! You win. White or milk chocolate?" "Both!" I shook my head and laughed silently before I gave him a piece of white chocolate and a piece of milk chocolate. I had never seen anyone eat chocolate as fast as little Taemin. "Now I can take a bath!" I smiled and picked him up. "I can walk on my own!" "Don't you like being carried around?" "I do! I just thought you should know that I'm an adult already!" "Of course I know that Mister Jung!" He gave me a satisfied bossy look and I played it cool. "Can I have the strawberry soap?" "Of course Mister!" I gave a couple of drops strawberry bathing soap into the bath tub and threw Taemins clothes into the washing machine while he was playing with a rubber duck in the warm water. My phone began ringing. "Sidney? Oh my God I'm so sorry. I had to drive to another company partner and..." "And you won't make it in time and that's still no problem." "Oh thank God... I send you sooner help tho! My little brother has his free day and he wanted to see his nephew again so... Well I can't talk for too long. You three have fun! Of course you'll get an extra paycheck for that... See you!" She hung up and I just shook my head. That woman. I looked down on me and saw all the sauce stains and my messed up hair. If we'd get visited I should probably work on my appearance.

As soon as Taemin was done with the bath I put him in towels and parked him in front of the TV with the teletubbies for a minute. I hurried and washed my face and put on some new clothes. I wasn't putting too much effort into it because it wasn't like I'd meet my date or something like that. I rushed out of the bathroom again to put Taemin in his stylish Batman pyjamas. "Can I watch 10 minutes more, please?" I yawned. "Yes. Okay. But don't tell your mom." I put the blanket around him and watched him enjoy another episode of the Care Bears. Which was a mistake because I fell asleep after just a couple if minutes.

When I woke up Taemin was already asleep too. I carefully picked him up which wasn't even necessary cause if he's asleep there could be a bulldozer in his room and he wouldn't care, and put him in his small bed and softly put the blanket onto him. It was around 9.30pm and the ominous brother wasn't there yet and so I decided to look into my books till he arrives. I sat down on a bar stool and threw my study material onto the counter. I somehow decided to study event management and now I was sitting here while I tried to find out how to organize a wedding party. I got bored at the part where the book tried to tell me which flowers to pick that stay fresh for as long as possible and asked myself why the hell I was reading that when my head fell slowly onto the counter and I slowly fell asleep.

"Helloooo?" I woke up all of a sudden, didn't remember that I was during on a bad stool and fell backwards while throwing half of my university supplies down. "Oh my... Are you okay?" I started realizing the situation and began laughing. I really did this in front of by boss's brother. He reached out for my hand, I grabbed it and he helped me up. "I'm sorry Mister Jung, that's normally not how I use to greet people." I looked embarrassed onto the floor before I looked up. And started staring. "Are you okay Miss?" I started looking away. And shook my head and started laughing. He started laughing too. "Hey, that can happen to anyone!" I stared laughing even harder and got myself a glass of water and chugged it, took a break and came back to him. "Yeah, you can fall down a chair. No problem. But you can't expect that there are thousands of 'Jungs' in Korea and you work for the woman who's brother is the one Hung Taekwoon." He looked confused for a second and started then smiling. "I need a frame freeze now, this is way too much off a Korean drama." "I'm sorry, I hope you are not scared right now." He laughed in a high pitch and looked at me with a skeptical gaze. "Scared? You don't even reach my neck, why should I be scared?" "Ey! Maybe I'm a scary fan that stalks you and..." "You looked at me like you had seen a ghost. You didn't seem like you expected me. You don't seem to me like a dangerous stalker." He took his pointer finger and pressed it against my forehead until I stumbled a step backwards. "Ey!" "See? Just a tiny, harmless Starlight!"

I smiled while looking at the floor. "What a weird situation... Can I pretend I don't know you?" "No, it's fine, really!" "Okay... So do you want to see your nephew now Mr Jung?" "Oh God, don't address me like that. Taekwoon oppa or Leo. Stop it with the formal language. And if you'd tell me your name that would be nice to know too." "Oh, sorry! I'm Sidney!" "Oh, you're American?" "No, European. My parents are from Germany." "Since when do you live here?" "I came here 3 years ago when I started going to university..." "Oh, that's why you were studying..." I nodded my head. Taemin broke the silence and started crying in his room. "Hold on." I rushed away from Leo and picked the crying boy up. "What's wrong sweetie?" "Spider, spider!" I looked confused at the wall Taemin was pointing at and started screaming. Leo rushed towards us and I ran behind him. "Make it go away, make it go away!" He turned around and had a worried look on his face. "What's the matter? Are you two okay?" Taemin pointed at the wall again and Leo turned around. "Mother of..." I hugged Taemin more tightly while Leo walked towards the monster and hit it with his shoe. The spider fell down and started running towards us and Taemin started crying even more. Another hit and the spider was traveling to the other side of the rainbow. I walked around till Taemin finished crying and Leo cleaned up the floor. We walked towards him. "Say thank you to uncle Leo!" "Thank you uncle Leo for saving Sidney!" Leo laughed. "Saving Sidney?" "Yes, she's afraid of spiders." I started laughing too. "Well, seems like I owe you my life." I put the little boy back to sleep and closed the door and turned around to my life saver. "I felt like a prince killing a dragon for the princess in a fairy tail, wow." "It actually looked like a prince killing a spider while wearing just one shoe with a weird girl screaming in the background. If it would have been a reality show I would have replayed that part several times." He laughed softly. "In a reality show I would have asked Wonshik to kill the spider."

"I'm sorry that you have to stick with me now since Taemin is asleep." "Oh, what a shame. It's late and I have to stay with a good looking student that likes me, what an annoying situation!"
I laughed nervously and slightly blushed. "I'll get myself something to drink. Can I offer you something too?" "A coffee would be lovely..." "Without sugar and milk, right?" "Exactly. Wow, I bet you even know how I like my eggs in the morning." "Not really." "Not yet." I laughed and shook my head while I was filling the coffee machine with water while I heard a phone ringing. "Excuse me for a second Sid
..." I nodded my head while I was trying to understand the whole crazy situation I just was in. "Oh, hi Wonshik! I'm at my sisters place... Yes I'm with the girl that looks after my nephew and what else can I say: She's a starlight!" Jung Taekwoon what are you doing to me... "Sidney?" I pressed a high "Yeees?" out and Leo came back. "There's someone on the phone who wants to talk to you." I was about to get even more nervous until I realized that that actually wasn't possible anymore. So I just took Leos phone... "Hello?" "Hello, it's Vixx Ravi. I'm here for mental support." His voice was so so so deep even on the phone. "I need mental support, yes." "Okay so if the white haired idiot next to you makes you feel uncomfortable in any way just hit him softly. He can take that." "O-okay?" "JK, he's quite sweet sometimes. I can't really help you. Just don't get a heart attack when he plays with his hair or gives you that deadly smile." "I try my best." "Don't look to much at him and care about the child, yes?" "I am." "Looking at him, right?" I looked up and saw the tall blond looking at me with a soft smile on his face. "Okay I take that as a yes. So you're officially lost. Then try not to burn the house down. Okay, my job is done here. I'm sure we'll see each other some day... Till then: Bye!" "Thanks... Eh I mean okay bye." I have Leo the phone back and he hung up. "Am I this mesmerizing that you forgot about the coffee?" "Huh?" Coffee was cascading down the counter. I opened the mouth to start cussing but let it be. Instead of that I kneeled down and took some kitchen rags to clean up the mess. "Hey, hey! Don't do that! It's hot!" The tall man kneeled down next to me and took the kitchen rags out of my hands. "Let me do it." He cleaned up the mess I made and I just sat there watching him. He was that mesmerizing.

"I feel useless around you." "It's not your fault. I just came here and invaded your privacy and all that stuff. You must be confused and there must be all sorts of thoughts going on in your mind. I hope most of them are positive tho. Did you burn yourself?" "No, everything fine." "That's good..." He cleaned up the rest of the mess and gave me his hand. "Come, let's sit down and talk a bit." He helped me up and he walked over to the couch, stripped off his shoes and sat down. He pointed at the seat right next to him and I did what I was told. "A crazy day, isn't it?" "Yes, I didn't expect to meet you here. Well, I mean at all." He laughed. "What about fansigns and concerts?" I sighed. "God, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have assumed that you actually want to go there." "No, no! I'd love to see you guys live or go to a fansign... But y'all always sold out and I'm never lucky to get the chance to buy tickets..." "That's really sad but... I mean I'm here now, maybe that's something like an apology for the time your spent on trying to see the group. I'm just one member but I hope you enjoy hanging out with me." "What do you mean you're 'just one member'? I am so happy that you're here that I couldn't ask for more!" "But I'm sure you'd like to see your bias or..." "Hey, who do you think my bias is?" "I'm not sure... Ravi or Ken?" "My bias is sitting right in front of me!" He started laughing. "Really?" "Are you fishing for compliments? Cause you get them. You have the voice of an angel, you are a musical actor, you're a really good dancer, you played in the national soccer team, you have a blue belt in Teakwondo, you wrestle, you fence, you play basketball and you love kids and pets. I could carry on but..." He hid his face in his hands. "Now I'm embarrassed..." "Let me tell you one last thing: You even looked good with long hair." He suddenly started laughing a lot. "Oh god no!" "Yes you did! But I love your current hair color..." "Ahhh, stop it. You're cute!" I blushed and we both looked down. The kdrama thing is not going to stop soon... "I am glad my sister hired you. I don't get to meet people outside the business. Talking to you is really refreshing." "Ah, it would probably be even better if I'd stop talking about your business then." He gave me a sweet smile. "No, seeing you enjoying it so much makes me happy." I just smiled my most honest smile. His white hair was messy and he was looking good in his oversized sweater. I leaned against the sofa. "I can't believe you're here. That's crazy. Feels like a dream." He started singing silently "Get back up, off that dream..." "It's all mine, it's my fantasy." Leo had a peaceful smile on his face. It was the last thing I saw that day because just seconds after my eyes fell shut. I didn't want to commit it but it was already 4am and I couldn't help it anymore and just fell asleep...