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Inside, I saw the Chairman busy taking a call. 'Dumb Dawn, are you his friend to come in before he allowed?' I mentally scolded myself and opened the door to leave.

"Sorry!" I said with the lowest volume I could and was about to leave when I heard him say I could sit.

"No need, sit wherever you want! " 

"Not you! ", he shouted, and I jumped from the seat I had just sat on. 

"What do you mean, you will leave him in the lobby? I told you to bring him to my office, so you should bring him to me! THE END!", he continued shouting as he gestured me to sit down.

"Another word and I am disowning you!", saying that he ended the call and smashed the phone on the desk.

He took a few deep breaths and gulped down water from a bottle.

"Before they come, I want to ask you to take care of him and bear with him. You see, this temper is hereditary. Everyone in my family is like this and adding the pain of losing his parents at a young age, he is even worth it."

"Oh, of course! I will be considerate and treat him the best I can!" I replied kind of awkwardly. After all, it was the first time I was going to raise someone.

"No, don't be considerate. As long as you don't give up, it is enough. Even though you can't give up considering the cancellation fee, I was saying.." 'Did he have to put it that way? Just where it hurt,' I thought as I tried to hold my face neutral.

"What I mean is for you to take care of Lucas and guide him without spoiling him. For example, giving him food, whether he eats it or starving himself, is up to him. He is a king, so if you are too soft on him, he won't listen to you. Give him warnings and guidance on his mistakes and probation for a repeat of those mistakes. You are to control his spending and teach him the way of the world! Do you understand?", he added.

"I don't know if I will be an excellent teacher or guide... I don't know how to! This is too much of a responsibility!" I replied, nervously.

"Just teach him what you have learned about the way of the world. If you are even a tenth of what your grandfather says you are, you are going to be fine. Now enough with the chitchat! Here! Take these! These are Lucas's documents, custody transfer documents, and contact numbers! Our family has season meetings at the beginning of each season. There won't be any summer meeting so the next meeting will be in September!, the secretary will inform you if anything else comes up, so make sure to update her on your location and phone number!" he handed me a black Samsonite bag.

"However, if anything urgent comes up, just call Samuel."

"And give me the address. We need to send Lucas things!", he pointed to the paper and pen on the board.

"Ahem, it's a bit out of town and far away! I plan to spend the summer in this villa, renovating and finding a place by the end of summer! I'm not sure if there will be the possibility of making a phone call or Internet connection, but this is the house's landline number. Is that okay?" I said as I Wrote the address and telephone number.

"Fine by me! He should suffer a bit to understand just how well fare he is!" he said as he took the note with an evil smile. I am flabbergasted. Did he enjoy the idea of him suffering that much?! Are there any normal loving grandfathers out there?

'Poor Lucas and the one on the call..', as I was thinking about those poor things, the door got shut opened with a bang.

"Here is your grandchild! Delivered to your office! Can I go now?" shouted the one who had barged in angrily. 

"I said I could come by myself! " rebuked a younger voice equally loud.

"Is this a way to talk to your father and grandfather, you little pieces of XX? And yes, you can get lost!"

If it was a contest, Chairman King was, for sure, the winner as he out-voiced both of them with how loudly he shouted. 

Looking at the two boys, I was stunned. I immediately turned around and tried my best to be invisible.

'Really, what does that piece of work to do here? The world isn't that small for him to be from this particular family, right?'

I take everything about him being pitifully back! He deserves much worse treatment and, if possible, also beatings! A lot of beatings at that! I strongly agree with disowning him!

" Of course!! I will go! Who would want to sta.."

'No! No! No! I'm invisible! He hasn't seen me! He hasn't seen me!'

"Dawn?" Darn it, he saw me!

I pretended not to hear and kept looking at the chairman. Prying that damned Theodor will lose interest and just go away. From my knowledge of him, from kindergarten to high school and high school to university, it is impossible! Unless a miracle happens...

"You know each other?" With my under-zero luck, not only did no miracle happen, but the James guy with the new identity tag. Damned Theodore's father also took an interest in the matter!

"NO!" 

"No!" we said simultaneously, wow a miracle happened.

Hearing my "No" Theodor turned his head to me, cast a hateful glare at me, and continued it as if saying a silence "I hate you".

'What? Why is he glaring at me like that? Is he the only one allowed to deny knowing the other? That's annoying shit. So what if you shoot hateful glares? I hate you too!' I thought while glaring back at him. 

"Ha! I'm leaving!", this time as he left he waved his head at me and gave me a pathetic look as if saying "You are a lost cause" which I returned by secretly showing my middle finger and a sarcastic smile that I knew annoyed him like nothing else could.

Seeing that, he smirked at me with eyes full of hate, and then left the room and slammed the door behind him. It was his habit, whenever things didn't go his way, or he didn't get the last saying, he would slam the door as hard as he could. 

 'Childish shit!, one day I will mess up his facial structures so much that he never can smirk again!', I promised myself.

When he was around, I couldn't focus on anything else! When he was around, I couldn't focus on anything else because all my energy was directed towards preventing that abnormality from ruining my life further.

'Deep breaths. I am calm, and there is no Theodore King in my life! Not even in this universe!' I ordered myself to believe.

Trying to focus on the important task in my hand, I pushed him to the corner of my mind.

Searching with my eyes, I found the important task. He stood next to the door, hands in his pocket and a headphone around his neck, looking straight in the chairperson's direction. My terrible chance. He looked just like Theodor when he was in high school. 180 tall, with dark hair and sparkly green eyes that had that superiority in them. 

"He...Hello!", darn it, my voice shook. Hearing my voice, he looked at me with a grim expression, as if saying not to talk to him, and again continued looking at the chairperson.

Seeing this, I lost all the will to get to know him. Such a start... He hated me at first glance and I didn't take a liking to him, either. A poor start...

Embarrassed, I also looked at the Mr' King, who was on a call talking to someone named Director Shin.

"You can take him and go now!" ordered the chairman, noticing our stares...

'What? Just like that? Take HIM and goo? ' I thought.

The Chairman pointed at the door again. I was still dumbstruck, but taking the briefcase, followed by Lucas, who had already left the room. 

Closing the ominous door, I looked at its weird patterns for the last time and walked down the long corridor. Lucas was nowhere in the corridor so I hasted my path. Strangely enough, he was by the elevator's door, and only when I got close enter it.

Pressing the lobby bottom. I straightened myself up.

'At least I'm taller!', I thought childishly. While my grandmothers always pitied me for my height and my siblings joked about it, I was thankful for it. It made me feel more confident. A girl that's 187 cm long. Comparing our height, I confirmed that he was a few cm less than 180. You could say he is tall for a 15-year-old boy. Maybe by 20, he would hit 195 m like Theodor.

"WOOF, WOOF, WOOF...", yes, and that's why I shouldn't even think about him! Just thought about him once and his calling. 

"haha, ", I let an awkward laugh, seeing the annoyed Lucas as I touched the red icon. 

"Muumuu", this time he sends a message.

"If you want a ride, be in the parking in 5 min"

Reading his message, I pressed on parking and unpressed the lobby. Of course, I want a ride, after all, I have to visit a car exhibition and then drive to the god knows where villa.

I still hate him, but not appreciating free rides is a sin. Besides, I have just suffered a lot because of him and it's only right to receive as much payment as possible...' I thought to myself as I entered the parking, and walked to Theodore standing next to his black purse. 

"I'm listening!" Theodore interrogated as he crossed his arms and glared at me.

I silently stared at him. ' What the heck are you listening?'

After a few seconds, as if just noticing Lucas behind me, he waved at him to go away! 

"Go back and tell that senile old man I'm not your chauffeur, he can send you with a company car or whatever!" he added with a bitter tone which made me smack him in the back.

"What the... Do you think you're a lady or something to go around smacking people? That hurt!" he exaggerated and held the place I smacked.

"Don't listen to him, Lucas, get in! His our chauffeur for the day!" I said to Lucas as opened the backseat door for him and then sat on the front seat.

After Lucas got in, shooting daggers with his eyes, Theodor also got in the driver's seat, still confused. 

"Go to this address!" I said as I showed my phone to his face before he could ask anything. 

"A car shop? What's the occasion? Did that scrap finally ascend to hell?".

"Are you being sarcastic right now?"

"Me! Sarcasm? No, I'm purely curious since you were so in love with that old car!"

"Divine is not old, okay? He just hit 10 years a month ago! And no, he didn't! That damned Divine stole it!"

"Pfft" he laughed so hard that he almost choked to death and dragged us with him to the grave.

"If you intend on dying, do it after we arrive at our destination!!" I shouted at him. I was emotionally attached to that car and occasionally used it as a replacement sandbag for Divine and Theodor. His full name was Divine Theodor El Miracle the First and, in his honor, I'm planning on getting a black car. 

"Pfft, in his honor..", this time he stopped the car and banged his head on the steering wheel as he laughed out loud.

Well, it seems to have slipped out... It happened often when I was with Theo. He was my unlucky charm.

Accidentally saying that out loud in front of Lucas, I am embarrassed. But it's all slipped water... There is no point in regretting it now... It is also a kind of positive. He will eventually find out that I am a weirdo.

However, I wanted to keep some dignity, so I just shut my mouth, looked out the window, and ignored whatever Theodor asked or said.

"So, what will you name your new baby? " In front of the car shop, he teased again.

I closed my eyes to calm down, one side of my face burnt! as if someone had slapped me as hard as they could.