The Assistant -LeeKnow

Chapter 3

From New York, two days and many interviews later, they took a flight to LA where the boys would finally begin their wildly anticipated sold out tour. For Naeun, watching them onstage, captivating the crowd – the thousands and thousands of stays – was almost breathtaking. What they were doing was absolutely amazing. And she was glad she could be one little insignificant part of it.

"Whadya think?" Leeknow smiled, cocking his eyebrow at Naeun once he came into the dressing room all sweaty from being onstage.

"Uh, it was good," she told him nonchalantly as everyone else filed into the room.

"You loved it," he smirked at her.

"You guys did great," Naeun said to the other guys, ignoring Leeknow altogether.

"Thanks, Naeun," Hyunjin smirked at her.

The next night didn't go as smoothly for Naeun as the first night. The tour was at a large venue in Atlanta, OK and everything seemed to be going fine. Naeun was organizing supplies for the meet and greet, which was fine. But one of the boxes of tour posters was misplaced and it was her job to find it. She searched everywhere in the green room and in every single room that they occupied in the venue, but she couldn't find it. There was nearly two hundred fans in this meet and greet and one box with the quantity of one hundred tour posters was not going to suffice. She was internally freaking out, thinking that if she didn't find this box, she was going to end up getting fired on her second real day of work.

She quickly made her way out to the tour buses, scouring the luggage holds of most of them. When she finally found it, she took a deep breath and felt the tension leave her body. Everything would be alright. No fan would go home without an authentic signed poster of Stray kids . Crisis averted.

Deciding to take just a moment or two to herself, she punched the code into the tour bus door and climbed aboard their traveling home. She was immediately met with a random blonde stranger sitting on the couch, texting on her phone. She looked to be about eighteen and Naeun wondered what the fuck she was doing.

"Um, hi. Who are you?" Naeun asked her.

"Oh. Hi. I uh... I'm waiting for my friend," she said, pointing toward the back of the bus.

"Uh, you're friend?" Naeun questioned, looking at her incredulously.

"Yeah," she said awkwardly, her cheeks blushing profusely.

"Who let you on here?" Naeun asked sharply, feeling very aggravated that this random girl was just sitting in the tour bus.

"My friend is back there with Leeknow ," she told me.

"With Leeknow?" Naeun asked, her eyes narrowing.

"Yeah," she said.

Mother fucker. He really had the balls to bring girls on the god damn tour bus? Was he kidding? They all lived on the bus. All their personal belongings were on the bus. Any one of these random girls could easily take whatever they wanted as a souvenir after banging LEE fucking MINHO.

Naeun stalked down to the locked door of the back lounge and pounded on it with her fist, feeling the anger bubble up inside her. It was her job, after all, to keep this little shit in line.

"Leeknow, open up right now," Naeun yelled through the door.

"Hold on a minute!" He yelled back.

"Now!" She yelled insistently.

"Jesus fucking Christ," she heard him grumble.

Naeun scoffed and moved back toward the front of the tour bus. A minute or so later, the back door finally opened and Leeknow made his way up front with the trampy little girl he was with trailing behind him, her face was bright red as it could get. Actually scratch that – Leeknow was the tramp, not her.

The other girl from the couch got up immediately when she saw her friend and without a word

the two of them went to exit the bus together.

"Hope you had fun!" Naeun yelled to them sarcastically just before the door slammed shut.

"What's your problem?" Leeknow scoffed, furrowing his eyebrows at her.

"What's my problem? What the hell were you thinking bringing some random girls on here? This is where you live. This is where we all live," Naeun started lecturing him

."Spare me," he scoffed, turning away from her, heading back toward the lounge.

"What the fuck are you doing? Like, was it worth it to get a hummer in the back lounge? You can't just abstain for the length of tour? Don't you have a girlfriend?" Naeun kept at it, as she followed him.

"God! Do you come with an off switch?" He scoffed at her and she scoffed back, narrowing her eyes at him.

"Look, Naeun. You're not my mother. I can do whatever I want and you can't do or say anything about it," he told her, letting his cockiness get the better of him.

"You're right. I'm not your mother. But Manager-nim right in the venue and I'm sure he would like to hear just what you've been up to, don't you think?" Naeun threatened with as much attitude as she could dish out.

He let out a small laugh, shaking his head. And Naeun knew she had him.

"And if you do that, I'll tell him all about how you came on to me on the tour bus," he countered, cocking his eyebrow as he moved in closer to her.

"But I never..." Her voice trailed off.

"Doesn't matter. It's my word against yours, isn't it? And I don't think JYP is going to take something like that lightly," he said, shrugging his shoulders.

"You're such a little bastard," Naeun seethed, narrowing her eyes into slits, glaring at him.

"And you're going to keep your mouth shut, aren't you?" He asked, which sounded more like a demand than a question.

They stared each other down for a few moments before Naeun scoffed in defeat, spinning on her heels to exit the tour bus. At that point, it was safe to say she hated Lee Know with a passion.