Pretender

Nine

Chapter Nine

"So, how will you be able to help Seunghoon?" Taemin asked Minzy, the latter grimaced as she watched her friend stuff half of the slice of pizza inside his mouth.

"I am still working on that one. And, I don't see Seunghoon around? He has been missing class for almost a week!"

Taemin shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe his parents locked him up or something."

Minzy gripped her can of diet coke as she thought of the possibilities of Seunghoon's state as of the moment. What Taemin said could be true-well, maybe is it the truth. And just by thinking of her friend, sitting in his room back in their house, she can't helped but to feel bad.

She has to do something.

"Seunghoon seems to act so happy, and he seems to be cool with his parents. So I wonder why he is on my list."

"You told me the list was given to you by my grandfather, and the list is actually those students who need some y' know counselling and etcetera. And the parents of those students are the ones who asked form my grandfather's help right? Because their child is acting weird..." Taemin trailed of.

"Uhuh.." Minzy said under her breath. "If I just know how Seunghoon acts whenever he is alone with his parents... I can actually come up with some decent plan right now."

"Maybe you could just ask some of his friends y' know. Or maybe we could go to his house just to check him up."

Minzy shook her head.

"I bet we are on the blacklist of his parents, after all we somehow influenced Seunghoon to join the dance contest-or at least that's what Mr. and Mrs. Lee thinks."

Taemin sighed. "Yeah, you are right."

Minzy nodded, turning her attention back on their snack. Overload Cheese pizza, one way to relax her mind and of course ease her grumbling stomach. She looked at the direction of where Taemin is munching his 4th slice, bits of crumbs scattered under his chin.

Or maybe we could go to his house just to check him up.

Minzy stopped eating. House.

THAT'S IT!

"I know what to do!" Minzy exclaimed and Taemin choked on his food because of shock.

"Wh-at?" Taemin asked, hitting his chest as he tried to breathe properly.

Minzy passed the bottle of water to her friend who drank it immediately. She waited for the other to calm down and recover.

"I said, we should go to his house...but not to talk to Seunghoon or his parents. I'm sure maybe they have some helper right? Or even a driver? Well, maybe they know Seunghoon's attitude in the house." Minzy said with a knowing smile on her lips.

"That is a good idea!"

"Yep...maybe we should push through that when we don't have any class. And we should go to their house during office hours, Seunghoon's parents works right? We can't afford to bump into them." Minzy said, and Taemin could see she is on Sherlock mode once again.

The two looked at each other; both are full of courage to help their friend.

Name: Lee Seunghoon

Program:

Parents:

Mother: Business Woman