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chapter 1

Run. run. run.
i shouldn't stop. i must not stop. else i'll be caught.

i heard my footsteps echo through the pavement. along side, i also heard my chasers footsteps.
"master! please go back!" i heard them shout it in mid-air.
what's the point of going back? -- to just a rootless place? i've always been so obedient to my controlling father, but i was never given enough freedom to enjoy the things surrounding me. and now, that i've got the chance to break through our big house' walls, finally...
"i'm almost free.."

i run through the narrowest streets and slip through the crowded shops, went to the full roads and squashed myself just to get through them. finally, i come to arrive here at these scenic place. trees. cameras. people. spotlights. grass field. crew members... and a ---

"eh - a director?" i thought, quite confused.
"why is something like this, here?" i whispered, chasing for breath.

"please don't leave me! so-eun!" i heard the male actor spoke out to his (probably) leading lady.
"after all that happened you still beg to me? is that all you can do?"
"b-but..."
"stop it jae-jun!"
"please listen to me... t-there must have been a mistake of what you knew...."

"what a bad man! cheating on his lady!" i thought.

then i heard footsteps from behind. i turned my head and saw my chasers still after me.

"there's our lady! take her!" i heard one men from the group speak of it like being terribly needing to catch me.

i saw them pace. they are getting nearer a little by little, but what do i do now? i have no place to run to even if i turn my head and search for an ally to run to. heck, what a failure. i'm almost at my goal, but now i'm at the verge of being caught and brought back into my luxurious prison cell in our grand prison at home.

i look at the people around me and have thought of an idea.

"pls save me, my crazy idea"

i run through the set of clothes on a rack and pick a long fur coat and i wear it.

"hey! thief!" i heard one crew yell at me, for getting the precious fur coat that must be one of their costumes on set.

i didn't stop to his call, i must get there.
i run in the middle of the place, where the actors where performing a scene, maybe, for a show or something.

"yoh! who's that?" the director said, after seeing me.

"yoh! stop! stop! stop! my lady!" i heard one of my chaser shout again. this time, everybody's attention was caught.

i move a little and then grab the actor's hands, called jae-jun in the set, and then unthinkingly kissed him. i felt him get startled when i approached.
everyone's eyes turned at us. like it is really part of the drama being awaited for so long.

"cCCUT!" the director shouted.

the actor then pushes me away. think his mad at me, now. oh my... what do i do?

"yah! what's with you? huh?" the actor blurted out at me. so mean!
i went speechless. how could i explain that spectacle of me stealing a kiss from him?

"hey! speak up!" he blurted again.
"i-i'm not fully not aware why i did that. i'm sorry!" i told him calmly.

suddenly i saw the director approach us.

"hey! tae-yun! what happened just now? and who's this girl who just popped up in front of us?!" the director angrily shouted to him.
"who knows who she is?!"
"yoh! how come you don't know her? explain all this to me you bastard!" the director angrily blurted out.
"i told you, i don't know her..." the actor, which is probably tae-yun, exclaimed again.

then, the next problem, my chasers came to us. what do i do with this bunch of spectators?
"master! please come back with us!"

there was silence as i saw everybody stare at me.
"w-who in the world are you?" i exclaimed towards my chasers while sarcastically pointing at the one which spoke to me.

"master! please! do not make it harder for us to bring you back home..."
"w-who, what master? i-im just a civilian... passing by....."
"what--?!" i heard tae -yun exclaim in anger.
"hey! hey! miss, whoever you are, can you explain all this commotion? you must be the ones responsible for all this! our shoots must not be on delay... so please make everything clear and then disappear!" the director sarcastically told me while gesturing.
"eh-?" then i continued. "well...."
"well?"
"well what?!"

"well..."
then i put an arm at tae-yun's neck. hardly holding him.
"yah! what are you doing?!" i heard him exclaim.

"you see...i- i am tae-yun's lover!" i said without any hustle.
tae-yun throw my arm away from his neck.

"hey!" i exclaimed to him while stubbornly placing my arm to his neck.
"what?!" he uttered with a ready-to-kill look.

he's pretty scary to look at, so i look away.

"l-lo-ver?!" the director questioned.
"LOVER?!" my chasers said in unison.

"yeah... as in L-O-V-E-R! LOVER!" I said to them proudly.
"yoh! what are you talking about being my lover?!stop this crap miss!" tae-yun exclaimed.

"hey-hey-hey! tae-yun! don't be too harsh if she is your LOVER! look, she's almost about to cry! if you continue that attitude i'll even be the one to tell her to just break up with you!" then the director continued while blinking at me, " hay, what a crap! this poor lady must be truly suffering with that proud attitude of yours."

i then nodded several times still putting a pitiful look.

"whatever, you say..." tae-yun exclaimed to the director.

at the verge of still acting. tae-yun grab one of my arm and then he drag me around. my chasers weren't able to act to the point. for some reason they just let us away. they stood still there at the same spot with the director, like not knowing what to do. somehow i quite saw their eyes partly teary eyed. and probably if that's the case, they must have bought my acting.
i'm glad i am saved by that.