'Golden Mary'

Part 8

Victoria stopped chewing on her goodies altogether before nodding, "Oh...yea...I didn't tell you about him the other day?"

"The other day?" Seohyun continued before clapping her hands together. "Ah! That officer...ah....I knew his name was familiar."

Seohyun laughed to herself before Victoria slightly turned away saying, "I don't know him well and I don't know why he'd approach you, he's a bit suspicious too, so avoid him if you can."

Seohyun slowly nodded, "I told him we're here to gather information about business leaders. Not bad, huh?"

Victoria raised her eyebrows not really amused.

"Anyway, I've been trailing Gi Su's house these past few days," Seohyun informed, "lights go out at 10PM sharp. I've been watching from outside and I don't see anyone moving around at night. I assume we can look around the home at 11, there's a back door the kids of the house like to steal out from. We could try that. There's an old lock on the door, we could pick our way in easily."

"Looks like you've been doing some serious research," Victoria commented. "What about alarm systems? Should we work our way through there? Scratch that, it'll be difficult to find out about how it's set up if all we can do is just look from the outside. Ah...is the wall also easy to climb? What if we get busted?"

"Escape through the windows," Seohyun suggested, "we've done that before."

"Tsh...really," Victoria said, "I guess that'll do. His place big?"

"Not majestic enough to be the mayor's," Seohyun smiled, "but it's a big house."

"Looks like we're going to have to go for an all night outing," Victoria said. "It feels like it's been a while."

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"I'll be out late," Luhan called from the entrance of the kitchen.

"Yea, yea," Seohyun waved him away with a hand while reading the magazine in front of her.

"Take your time, we're heading out too," Victoria smiled at him.

As always, Victoria was the kinder one. Luhan made a face at Seohyun before walking out the door. The stairs creaked underneath him as he started down them. It was usual for the floors to be empty, he barely saw anyone else around. The building was like an old architectural building that just happened to exist in the middle of nowhere looking kind of abandoned.

When he stepped outside he hailed a cab and was off. Roughly 20 minutes later he stepped in front of the large gates, the chauffeur there to open the gates for him.

"It's been a while, young sir," the old chauffeur bowed, "our sir is waiting for you inside."

Luhan nodded before following him along the long concrete drive toward the first stairs. He glanced at the wild bushes around him, they hadn't changed a bit. He bet that underneath the bright sunlight they were still as green as always, healthily full and fat. He could recall running around the home hiding behind every nick and nook he could before his mother would call him back in for treats.

Bright outdoor lights shone from the ceiling of the porch when he neared the house and not within 5 seconds the flourished white marble staircase his father had long envied welcomed him. His tennis shoes softly clicked against them when the chauffeur opened the wide white doors engraved with long curly patterns. When he stepped inside, a brightly lit hallway with a long red carpet lying along the insanely white marbled floor called out for him.

"This way," the chauffeur extended his arm leading him down the carpet and underneath a grand Tiffany chandelier before he opened the first door, a mini version of the front door.