A/N: Hello everyone! Hehe, I know, I know… it's about time I got back at writing this fic. To tell you the truth I had every intention of giving up on this fic due to extreme writers block and well… lazyness. -_-; Anyway, at least I'm back with a new chapter eh? I've changed style and it's no longer written in the characters POV, but in mine. :) It's rather short so I promise I'll make up for it by posting frequently in the upcoming months since I now know how to end this ficcie… nope don't worry though, this fic wont be ending very soon… this fic has a loongggg way to go. :)

Disclaimer: it's called a 'disclaimer' for a reason, you figure it out. ;)

Hardships Chapter seven: Meet Howamabobby

By: Misao Seta :)

I was in the middle of singing a dancing when I looked back. . . my eyes widened and I froze.

The door was open and someone was laughing his heart out.

"Hahaha! This is hilarious! Now I've seen everything!"


Xiaoyu stared at the unknown… creature laughing at her doorway.

What is he? Who is he? What is he doing in my doorway? How did he open the door? Wasn't it locked? Questions continued to rise and rise inside the poor Chinese's head and none of them she could answer at this minute.

She was still staring at him, like he was some unknown creature standing in front of her. He was tall and well-built with auburn hair and a flawless face. He looked like some Greek dude.

"Hey, I might melt with that stare you're giving me you know."

Snapping out of her thoughts, she flushed in embarrassment of being caught while staring. Finally it dawned to her that her legs were out in the open, free for his eyes to feast on.

Without thought, she threw the nearest thing she could reach: a vase, a pillow, a remote control, another pillow, a lamp, a broom, a dust pan and a duster at him and scrambled to cover her self behind the couch. Her face was red, not with embarrassment though but with anger.

"Hey, hey, hey! Let's not get into throwing things at each other. Chill babe." The guy said coolie as he stepped deeper inside the room and dropped his luggage. This seemed to anger Xiaoyu a little more, so she finally spoke up.

"Who are you and what the hell are you doing here?! Ho-How'd you open my door?" She quickly glanced at the place where she always keeps her key. Finding her key still safe in place she stared at the guy in confusion.

"Well, it was your door. Now though it's our door. Pleased to meet you babe, my name's Hwoarang. Looks like we're roommates."

Xiaoyu stood speechless.

Roomates?! ROOMATES?! The word didn't seem to be registered in her head at the moment.

"Roomates?"

"Er… yes. We like share the room. Hey! You ought to know what roommates mean by now, I mean, aren't you in highschool?"

"I KNOW what a roommate is Mr. Howa-mabobby. An-and they didn't inform me about having a roommate. A-are you positively sure you're in the correct room?" She was scanning the room frantically for her robe, finally finding it in the floor near her, she made a run for it, quickly wearing it before he could stare at her some more.

"Okay firstly, it's not How-whatsits. It's Hwoarang. And yes, we are roommates. I just came in today and they assigned me this room. The key fits doesn't it? You could even go and check in the registry, honestly I don't really care as long as I've got a place to sleep in, bathe in, eat in, basically live in." He gave her a soft smile

, which somehow managed to calm Xiaoyu down a bit.

'Dang a roommate… I haven't even enjoyed having a room alone that much and he just had to come along and ruin it all. And he's a guy. Of all creatures, a guy… All the privacy I had all gone. I barely even had time to enjoy the privacy and now they're taking it away from me! This isn't right! I ought to check in the registration downstairs… well, once I get dressed properly.'

Just as she was about to march off to her room to change there was a knock on the door. She turned around to get it, but Hwoarang beat her to it.

"Yo Mrs. Fine!" Hwoarang greeted her cheerfully while Xiaoyu remained unmoved by the sudden visit of their landlord, silently hoping she's tell Hwoarang that she gave him the wrong key and that he was supposed to be roommates with someone else.

"Ah! I see you two have met. Ms. Xiaoyu I hope nothing went wrong." Xiaoyu saw immediately the smirk that was playing at Hwoarang's lips and threw him the best glare she could muster.

"Yes, everything is absolutely fine Mrs. Fine. We're getting along just fine." Hwoarang walked towards Xiaoyu throwing an arm around her shoulders. Xiaoyu looked disgusted, but Ms. Bella was too foolish to see it.

"Very well, very well. Xiaoyu, I assume you would bring him around the place since he's new here. I also hope that you two would get along, well I don't really see why you shouldn't as both of you are extremely polite and nice." Xiaoyu wanted nothing more than to strangle the poor old lady for assigning him to be her roommate and for saying he was polite. What the hell.

She gave her a cheerful smile. And smiling happily at them the landlady left the two, silently closing the door behind her.

"There's your proof, right from Mrs. Fine herself!"

"Okay, okay you win. Now would you please remove your arm around me?" Xiaoyu looked sternly at him, and he quickly followed her.

"Geez, why are you so grouchy anyway? Sure I found you singing and dancing while cleaning in you underwear, big deal!" She quickly punched him in the arm and glared at him again.

"You've been glaring at me for ages! Don't you ever get tired at that? I promise I wont tell anyone how you clean the dorm. It's our little secret." He winked at her which provoked her a lot more and earned him another punch in the arm.

"Okay, okay macho woman. I give up, I give up! I no longer want to face the wrath of your fist! I promise to keep it a secret!" He frantically waved his hands and arms in the air as if surrendering to the police, looking extremely stupid.

A smile played on Xiaoyu's lips which later on turned into soft giggling.

"There we go! Ice queen here knows how to laugh." He was smiling widely at her now and she giggled again at his remark no longer minding the term he used to call her.

Ice queen.

"I'm Xiaoyu. Ling Xiaoyu." She stretched out her hand in front of him slightly amused by Hwoarangs attitude and slight sense of humor.

"Handshake? Only old people handshake." He gently pushed her hand aside and slowly pulled her towards him for a hug. Xiaoyu stayed stiff, shocked at the sudden gesture. Since when were they in hugging terms?

As she was getting comfortable with their hug, he let go, much to her disappointment.

"Okay now ice board, where do I stay? Or should I just look for it on my own and let you continue your little concert there? Honestly I wouldn't mind it at all." He smirked at her provoking her once again. This time though Xiaoyu only folded her arms, gave him a huge pout and said,

"One more mention of the condition you saw me in earlier Mr. Arrogant-orange-freak and you'll wish you were never born in this world!"

"Are you threatening me Ice board?"

"Yes, I am."

A smirk was playing on both their faces which were neither serious at all.

"I guess this means war then."

And chaos wrecked their dormitory.

To be continued…

A/N: Soo… how'd it go? Yep, Hwoarang is in the picture now and it's going to be lots of fun now. :) I'll try to post twice a week although I highly doubt I would be able to do that with all the other fics I'm finishing… :( For the meantime, check out my other fics, you never know… you might like them. :)

Soo… am I improving? Is the story going along well? Something wrong with it? Tell me anything! Comment and suggestions are very very welcome! PLEASE review and get me INSPIRED! :D:D:D

Thanks to everyone who reviewed :) You are the once to thank for this new chapter I posted. If it wasn't for them I wouldn't have typed this down. Thank you for your never ending word of encouragement and support. :)

Lissenen 'ar maska 'lalaith tenna'lye omentuva!

~misao~