"Granny, he's a criminal! We can't let a criminal stay with us!"

Jian desperately tried to persuade her grandma after pulling her into the kitchen. She has been trying to persuade her for the last ten minutes while Baekhyun was enjoying the tea that grandma had prepared for him. But grandma wasn't ready to understand.

She was dismissing all of what Jian was saying thinking she was only giving excuses to keep her game room intact. Jian didn't want anyone else to use the room that she uses to do her precious gaming.

"And you promised you won't be renting out my gaming room.."

"Stop labeling him as a criminal. Just because you don't want him to move into your gaming room.."

"No, granny. It ain't it. He brok.."

Jian almost slipped the fact that he broke into their house a few nights ago and she let him stay. If grandma gets to know it, Jian would get her ass whopped and she would have to kiss both her phone and her gaming pc goodbye. Jian couldn't let that happen, ever. But what other way was there to make grandma understand how dangerous it would be to let this Baekhyun guy stay at their place.

"He's staying here, Jian. That's my decision. Nothing is going to work,"Her grandma said,"And we are keeping him alone for such a long time, it's rude. I have nothing more to say, move."

Her grandma was about to move past her but Jian grabbed her shoulders to stop her,"He's dangerous. Please trust me for once. I don't care about myself, I'm worried about you."

"How do you know he's dangerous, Jian? You don't even know him."

"My point exactly. What is the point of letting a complete unknown man stay at our house? Come on you promised. You don't know how people are.."

"Baekhyun is fine, Jian. I have made this decision very carefully. I have been observing him volunteer at the day center for the elders. He seems so lively and nice. And he needed a place to stay..coincidentally he saw our advertisement of renting the place on Craigslist.." Her grandma stopped abruptly and widened her eyes.

Jian widened her eyes too,"Hold on a minute. I took down that advertisement after you promised me to not rent that place. That was two months ago..how did he..granny.."

Grandma tried to run away from the conversation,"Hehe, Jian-ah, Baekhyun is waiting.."

"You lied to me. You broke your promise. And who even helped you put on that ad?"

"I did it myself.."

"It was that rascal, wasn't it?"

"Jian-ah, I told you it was me."

Jian gritted her teeth, knowing damn well her grandma was lying and who helped her with putting the advertisement back on.

Na freaking Jaemin, I'm gonna kill you.

Both you and granny are scammers.

"How could you do this to me when I worked so hard to get your required marks on all the exams? Don't you feel a least bit sad?"

Her grandma now looked genuinely guilty. She slowly patted Jian's head while Jian put on the most pitiful expression she could.

"I'm really sorry, Jian. I feel really guilty.."

"Right!"Jian's expression quickly changed,"So please  don't rent out my room and throw him out.."

Jian's grandma smacked her head,"Stop trying to emotional blackmail me, Baekhyun is staying, that's final. None of your excuses will change my mind. I will make sure to make it up to you for breaking the promise."

Grandma then pushed passed her and was about to go to the living room.

"Granny, are we that poor? Do we really need the rent? If so, tell me how much the rent is. I will get part time jobs and get you as much as that every month.."

Grandma turned around and looked at her and smiled softly,"It's not about the money, Jian."

"Then what is it about?"

"Our house, it's so bleak and humorless. You are always stuck to your phone. And I am always sick. We need someone cheerful and bright like him in our house to lighten the atmosphere of the house. And he's such a good boy.."

"Good boy,"Jian scoffed,"Yeah, right."

"You don't know how nice and kind he is. Seeing him volunteer these 5 days were enough.."

"You know what, I don't want to know."

Grandma smiled and turned round,"Oh and, I want someone to look after you the nights I spend in hospital. I'm always worried about you staying home alone those nights."

"How is me staying alone at home with a complete stranger any safer than being alone?" Jian asked.

"Call it an elderly's intuition, I think this Baekhyun is a really great guy. I have that feeling and I have seen the world enough to know that."

"Great guy, sure,"Jian repeated, feeling lost. She knows she wouldn't be able to persuade her grandma this time, it's as if she is spellbound.

"We are done talking on this topic. Baekhyun stays,"Grandma said before walking out of the kitchen and to her lovely Baekhyun.

Jian rolled her eyes and followed her, throwing glares at Baekhyun. What did he even do at the elderly day center to grab grandma's attention like that? And grabbing grandma's attention was his plan, right? So that he could live here?

Why does he want to live here anyway?

Baekhyun was acting so sweet and kind infront of her grandma, it was giving her serious cringe. This is the same guy who had pointed a real gun at her just a few nights ago, threatening to kill her. Who would believe that seeing him right now?

"It would be amazing if I could see my room again,"Baekhyun said while keeping his teacup on the table.

Jian scoffed. 'My room?"

Baekhyun beard that, looked at her with a smile and said,"Jian-ah, would you mind showing me the room again?"

Her grandma knew she was going to say something passive aggressive so she jumped right in,"Baekhyun, don't worry about her. I will show y.."

But Jian had seen this opportunity to be alone with this Baekhyun guy and give him a piece of her mind and probably try to figure out what the hell is he up to.

She fake smiled,"I will show you. Come with me, Baekhyun-sshi."

Baekhyun smiled. Looks like he was also looking for this opportunity. He got up,"Let's go."

Jian crossed her arms and led him to the stairs and from the stairs to the roof, where the rooftop room is.

After following Jian into her precious rooftop gaming room which was cramped with gaming items, consoles, albums and some furniture, Baekhyun sat comfortably on the bed. He dropped his good boy act as soon as they were alone.

Jian leaned against the closed door and asked looking straight at him,"What's your big plan, Mr. I-break-into-other-people's-houses?"

Baekhyun chuckled,"You really have no fear, do you?"

Jian didn't reply and fired back,"I thought I told you our deal was over after one night? How can you show up at my house again? And why are you involving my innocent grandma in this? What do you actually want?"

"What I want.."Baekhyun said while leaning forward seriously,"..is to stay here."

"Why? And why did you think I would let you stay here after seeing a glimpse of what kind of person you might be that night?"

"To answer your 'why', I need a place to stay. And it might sound completely ridiculous to you, this is the safest place for me now. And I also have to make sure you don't tell what happened that night to anyone. I don't see any reason to trust you after giving you only 500 dollars. Anyone else would've chosen so much more.."

"Do I look like anyone else?" Jian asked,"Or do I act like one? And now that we are alone, why don't you just be honest?"

She paused and leaned forward,"It hurt your ego that you got defeated by me that night, didn't it? You want to teach me a lesson, is that not why you are here?"

Baekhyun looked flustered. A tiny red color was growing on his cheeks. He looked away and said,"Ha! What? You defeated me? No, there's something wrong with your memory..and..I was tired and..You were completely lucky that night..."

A small smile unknowingly grew on her face, seeing how flustered he was by getting caught. But she went back to her stone cold face as soon as he turned to her,"Look, if this silly reason is right..then sucks to be you. But you are not moving in here. I am not going to let you."

"Oh girl, you are. You are going to let me move in."

Jian frowned,"Why would I?"

Baekhyun smirked. His innocent aura was completely gone by now,"You are a weird one. But I think I found your weakness."

Jian raised her brows as he continued with a smirk.

"Your granny."

"Excuse me.."

Baekhyun cut her off,"You don't want your granny to know that you let an unknown man stay in your house overnight in exchange of money, do you?"

Jian frowned,"Listen mister.."

"And I suppose you also don't want her to know that you sneak out of your house at night sometimes to go to clubs? And that you bunk school and stay at parks listening to music and that you.."

Now it was Jian's turn to be flustered. How does he know so much? Jian tried her best to keep her face straight but it wasn't very effective,"I don't know what you are talking about.."

"I have proof pictures,"Baekhyun said and was about to reach to his back pocket to get the pictures.

"Did you stalk me?"Jian asked.

"That's not what the issue right now. And yes I did. I know a lot about you. Listen, I won't tell your granny any of this if you let me stay here without trying anything. I promise I am not going to do anything bad to you or your grandma."

"How can I trust you?"

"You don't necessarily have any other choice, do you? And listen I know our first meeting was under weird circumstances but I'm really not that bad of a guy. I think we would grow to like each other.."

Jian scoffed,"Yeah right."

Baekhyun rolled his eyes,"Why you gotta be so rude? Think what's best for you."

Jian stayed quiet for a few seconds. She couldn't bust herself out to her grandma. That would just be the worst. But having a possible criminal in the house is not ideal either.

Jian sighed.

"So?"Baekhyun asked,"Can I move in?"

Jian said in a low voice,"You know what? Whatever."

Baekhyun smirked,"Good girl. Let's take this chance to get closer. Let's not dig nails deep into other's skin anymore because that hurts a.."

"No,stay the hell away from me. I mean it. I don't want to see your annoying ass face all the time..or ideally anytime,"Jian said and turned around to leave.

But Baekhyun's deep and scary voice stopped her.

"Listen, you rude brat, if you ever think of going to the police, I swear to God..I would actually kill you. You don't know what I'm capable of."

Jian turned around and shrugged,"If you ever want to kill me, don't think twice, just do it."

And with that..she left without looking back at Baekhyun.

This Baekhyun guy is moving in on Sunday. So she has about two days of preparation. She quickly ran to the department store and brought a lot of things. She brought deadlocks for both her granny and her room, she got cctv cameras and installed them all around the house. She raised the overall security of the house as much as she could, so even if that Baekhyun guy tried something, they could be safe. She felt a bit assured by doing this.

Her grandma was shocked to see Jian do all that. But she didn't stop Jian. She was happy as long as Jian let Baekhyun move in. She just thought this as Jian taking precaution because a complete stranger to her is moving in.

After purchasing and installing all the safety stuff Jian sat on the couch of their living room and got her wallet out. Out of the 565 dollars she got to buy ps5 from Baekhyun, only 10 dollars were left. Jian sighed. Looks like her dream of owning a ps5 wouldn't be coming true anytime soon.

Because of that guy Jian had to lose both her precious gaming room and her precious ps5. She was not happy with it. At all. Her eyes with burning with fury as she stared at the 10 dollars in her hand. She hasn't felt this angry in awhile.

You will regret it, Mr. 'I-break-into-other-people's-houses'. I will make sure of it.

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