The Assistant -LeeKnow

Chapter 4

"Naeun, are you okay?" Chan asked her as she sat on the couch, watching all the scenery as it whizzed by at seventy miles an hour out the side window of the tour bus.

"Hmm, what?" She asked, snapping out of her daze, finding Chan's concerned face.

"Are you okay? You look... I don't know... distraught," Chan pointed out, sitting down next to her on the couch. Truth was, she was feeling a little distraught. She'd been thinking about Mark a lot. The fact that she blew off their four year relationship so easily didn't sit right with her. She hadn't talked to him in almost two weeks and she was starting to really have second thoughts about the whole break up. She missed him almost too much to bear.

"I don't know," she shrugged, looking back out the window.

"Naeun, we're friends, aren't we?" Chan asked. She turned to look over at him and nodded her head lightly.

"You can tell me," he coaxed.

She looked behind him, making sure Lee Know was in the back lounge and not out there listening to their conversation. The last thing she needed was him to find out her relationship with Mark was now non-existent.

"Right before tour, my boyfriend and I broke up," Naeun told him quietly, letting her eyes drop down to her hands.

"Oh. I'm sorry, Naeun," Chan said reaching out to lightly rub her arm.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Lee Know pop his head up from the floor by the couch Han was sleeping on. What the hell was he doing on the floor? And why the hell was he eavesdropping? She glared at him and he sent her a wicked grin in response before laying back down on the floor.

"I just... I just want to be alone and it's so hard because we're stuck on this bus," she told Chan.

"I'm sorry. But I'm here if you need anyone to talk to," he told her.

"Thanks, Chan," she said, sending him a small smile.

Chan gave her one last sympathetic smile before he got up from the couch, giving her space. She watched as he made his way back toward the lounge, leaving her and Lee Know alone up front – minus Han who was dead asleep with his head phones on. She glanced back out the window again, hoping and praying that Lee Know would just leave her alone. But she should have known it was next to impossible to escape him.Lee Know quickly got up and sat down on the couch across from hers, staring straight over at her.

"What?" She snapped at him.

"Why'd you leave him?" He asked, being way too forward – as if they were friends or something.

"It's none of your business," she scoffed, rolling her eyes.

There was no way in hell she was going to tell him that a fight about him was the triggering factor in her and Mark's break up. She would never give him the satisfaction.

"Come on, you can tell me. We're all friends here," he smirked deviously at her, using Chan's words.

"You're the last person on this bus I would call a friend," she shot at him.

"Oh, that hurts, Naeun. After all we've been through," he said, feigning physical pain as he playfully gripped at his chest.

"Friends don't black mail their friends," she said, narrowing her eyes at him.

"Friends don't rat out their friends," he retorted, narrowing his eyes just the same.

"I never claimed to be your friend," she shot back at him.

"That's okay. We don't have to be friends," he resigned from their argument, lying back on the couch with that stupid smirk on his face, before letting out a devious chuckle.