Wild For You

1. Beastly Manners

April 1982

Kim Taehyung sat in the car, looking out the passenger window at the front of the decrypt house. He was set to pick up his date in the next few minutes and had come early. It wasn't like he needed the date. He could have the pick of the litter if he was allowed to. He was going on this date tonight to prove a point. Yes, he could date every fashion model within a hundred mile radius, but he could also date any outcast as well. Losers were just dreaming to be on a date with him. This was also part of a dare and he never backed down from a good dare.

He was about to make this girl's night if she would hurry up and come outside.

He sighed as he leaned back in the seat, checking the Rolex watch he had on his wrist. This woman was taking her sweet old time. He moved to turn the interior car lights on after, checking his reflection in the mirror. He quickly used his fingers to tease at his blonde hair. He noticed the front door open out of the corner of his eye and immediately snapped up the mirror and turned off the lights. He turned his face to look at his date as she came out of the house.

His date - Min Chan-mi - came out onto the front steps dressed in a full length black dress; her frizzy brown hair like a bush about her head. Taehyung couldn't help but to smirk at her getup. Was she going on a date or to a funeral?

He watched as she took her laboriously slow time walking down the front walkway and to the passenger side of the car. Taehyung had enough time to re-buckle his belt and turn on the radio.

"Sorry if I kept you waiting," she said as she slipped into the seat, shutting the door behind her.

"You're fine," muttered Taehyung as he shifted the car into drive.

He didn't have to look over to see that the girl was blushing. All girls seemed to blush around him no matter what he said to them.

The date with Min Chan-mi proved to be one of the most disastrous ones that Taehyung had ever gone on. Since this date was all part of a dare, he hadn't expected it to go swimmingly, but he still hadn't expected it to be a complete bomb either. They had spent the evening at the movie theater in the dark. Taehyung couldn't remember the movie that they had gone to. All he remembered was that it was a long drawn out horror. It had surprised him that she wanted to go to a horror movie, but he wasn't going to complain. The movie hadn't scared him, but it had certainly scared his date. She had clung to his arm like a vice grip several times throughout it; curling her body closer to him. He thought for sure that he had lost all feeling in his arm at one point due to how hard she was gripping it.

'Smart girl,' thought Taehyung. 'She wants to handle the goods.'

The whole ride back to her house after, Min Chan-mi had decided that she was going to talk about all the horrific things that had happened to her during her lifetime. It started with the death of her grandparents in a house fire and it all culminated up to her older brother's death.

"Did you know my older brother was murdered?" she asked him.

Of course he did. It had been the talk of the entire school when Min Sung-Ho had been murdered. They had been in the same class. Taehyung could still recall the details of the whole thing. The way he had been found in the alley behind the supermarket with - what the corner's report had said - fifty stab wounds littering his body; his eyes ripped right out of their sockets. Min Sung-Ho would be twenty-five like Taehyung was now if he were still alive. He was sure that he wouldn't approve of Tae the playboy taking his younger sister out to fool around seeing as how Taehyung remembered how over protective the man used to be, but he wasn't here. Taehyung had free reign.