CHAPTER 2

Ji Hoo's POV

He woke up the next morning late, which he never was, with an imploding headache and a massive hangover. He felt like someone had hit his head with a hammer. He ran into the bathroom, had a quick cold shower, put on the first thing he got his hands on, grabbed an apple from the fridge and ran to his car, which had been delivered to his home last night courtesy the manager of the club. He had to remind Woo Bin to give him a raise.

He reached class just in time and the professor had just come in after him. The class settled down and the teacher introduced a new student who had just transferred from the US. It was not the usual protocol for a student to get a transfer in the final year, but one of the few things he had learnt in his world was that anything can be bought with money. The person in question was a girl of about 5'7", slim with strong built with a wheatish complexion, big brown doe eyes, full lips and a cute button nose. She had waist long dark brown hair tied in a ponytail and was dressed in a pair of simple jeans and a t-shirt. Her name was Mandy. Her eyes roamed the classroom but never met anyone's too long. She finally looked at Ji Hoo and her already big eyes went wide with surprise as if she somehow recognized him. 'Probably another F4 fan' he thought. She covered it up quickly and smiled a Mona Lisa smile as if the most amusing thing in the world had happened during that boring intro the teacher was giving. All this while Ji Hoo noticed that the teacher was talking to her in English and then he turned to the class and explained that she didn't know Korean and the students good in English were to help her out. Being the only one who knew the language well enough to converse fluently (he had been a student at Julliard), the teacher requested Ji Hoo to help her out. To make the matter even better (read worse) she had all the same classes as him. 'Great, just great' thought Ji Hoo.

She plopped down on the seat next to him and kept glancing towards him from the corner of her eye. "What?" asked Ji Hoo "Nothing" she simply replied and kept flashing that knowing smile.

'Ugh, if she is another one of those star struck clingy girls then I'm going to slit my wrists' he thought. His patience that day was just on the brink of breaking. He was not in the mood to handle another nuisance. Little did he know that his life was going to be a roller coaster ride because of her and he would love every bit of it...

Mandy's POV

She reached her first class way early than anyone else. Nobody was around so she started checking up on her family and friends back home on FB and laughed as she saw some funny pictures of her niece which had been uploaded by her sister. She loved her niece the most in the world; anyone who knew her knew that fact. She loved her family and friends overall and would die for them if the need arose; but if she had to chose between them, it would undoubtedly be her niece.

Slowly everyone started filing in one by one. Everyone gave her curious glances but no one approached her. At last a person came running in and after that the teacher came. He asked her to come and stand with him and started talking to the class in Korean. Her name came up (her actual name was a bit long and difficult to pronounce, so when she went to the US, she insisted that everyone call her Mandy rather than getting her name wrong and had requested the teachers here to call her that too). 'Probably introducing me, let's check out the class till then' she thought. She was watching each one with little attention but then she saw a familiar head rising to acknowledge her. The face she saw was one she quickly recognized from last night. The face of her Korean Devdas (Devdas can be seen as the Indian contemporary of Romeo). She had noticed him last night sneaking glances at one of the girls in the group that was with him. Both of the girls were very pretty, but it was obvious that they were taken, seeing how two guys of the same group were revolving around them like moon to the earth and the girls were equally attached. The group of people looked like they were quite famous at the club too because everyone kept looking at them and talking in whispers to their friends. Even Hae Jin had looked at the guys dreamily.

It would be an understatement if she said that she was surprised to see him here. It was indeed a small world. She saw that he didn't even give her a second glance. 'So he doesn't remember me. And if I'm hearing correctly he is also given the duty to help me out. Oh! This is going to be fun' she thought.

She went and sat next to him and smiled and looked at him through the corner of her eyes, thinking what the future would be like. And she definitely wanted to know more about her Korean Devdas's love problems; she had this gut feeling that he needed her to relieve him of the pain he was in. Just in which way she could help was still to be seen.