Be My Bad Boy

I couldn't wait to see the look on Andy's face when I told him I'd booked the gig. It'd be like I was fully vindicated. I'd be the one who got them the gig at the Metropolis not the girl who’d thrown up in his cowboy boots while some chick gave him head... I figured I should go around and tell them straightaway and maybe, while I was there, get a contact number for them. It wasn't as if I wanted to see him or anything.

I knocked at the door of the apartment, hoping they were home. I looked around while I waited now that I had non-blurry eyes to see out of. For all this place looked so grungy, it couldn't be that cheap. It wasn't cheap grungy. It was like industrial chic grunge. And it wasn't just an apartment like I'd first thought either but the whole building. I could hear music coming from inside, so I knew they were home.
Maybe one of them had rich parents. I had no idea what Andy did for money outside the band and the others apparently lived in some other place.
The door was opened by a tiny Asian looking woman, who I assumed was Jinxx's mother.
She put her hands on her hips and examined me.
"Who are you?"

"I'm Hannah. I'm the manager."
"Ah, Hannah, come in. Jinxx told me about you. I'm just making dinner for him. He doesn't eat enough. But this band, it's not such a good idea. He's not going to make money from that. He should go back to study and become a lawyer. Or, if he's going to do music, he should do some nice pop music like those boys from Big Bang."
I had no idea who Big Bang were but Jinxx-Mama didn't need any reaction from me. She hurried inside and I could smell something that smelt like awesome in smell form. If Jinxx-Mama was cooking I was so planning to stick around for dinner.
"Are Jinxx and Andy home?"
"Andy! Jinxx! Hannah is here."

Jinxx came out of his room.
"Hannah, hey, I'll get Andy."
They both came downstairs.
"I've got brilliant news," I said. "I've booked the Metropolis. Next Tuesday night."
I grinned at Andy with a big shit-eating grin. Ha. He thought I couldn't do it.
"Fine. Is that all you had to say because I'm in the middle of something."
He turned to walk back up the stairs.

"Yes. That's all I've got to say. And you could say a bit more. Maybe thank you or something like that would be nice. You wanted to play there and I booked it. So suck it up and get ready for your career to begin."
He shrugged. I wanted to hit him. I wanted to hit him so bad. My eyeballs would surely pop out of my head from the pressure building up. The ungrateful bastard. I thought about throwing something at him but Jinxx-Mama caught my eye. Something about her made me want to create a good impression, so I just silently fumed instead.
"That's fantastic, Hannah. I can't believe you managed it and for so soon too. We need to get posters done and to tell people. We need to make this huge." Of course, Jinxx would say the right thing.

"Angie is onto the publicity."
"Who's Angie?" Andy stopped on his way up the stairs.
"You should know. You were the one sucking face with her the first time I met you. Most guys would find out a girl's name first."
"You didn't seem to mind."
"I didn't get much choice in the matter." I hit him with the full force of my bitchface.
"Hey, hey. Stop being angry. Dinner is almost ready. If you are angry, you can't enjoy the food properly. Andy,you should be nicer to Hannah when she comes here to tell you good news."
He scowled but didn't say anything. I think he was little scared of Jinxx-Mama.
"Are you staying for dinner?" she asked me.

"Yes, stay," said Jimxx. "Mum always makes way too much food."
"Not that you complain." She laughed and ruffled his hair.
He flattened his hair down but looked at his mum with affection. They had a special kind of warmth between them. Even though I'd been close to Dad, it wasn't all caring and loving like that. It made me feel messed up inside, happy but jealous at the same time. I caught a glimpse of Andy's face. From the look in his eyes, he felt the same way I did.
So much food covered the table – dishes of delicious-looking nibbly things. Before I got poor, I'd never been hungry or even that interested in food, now it seemed like I had no manners at all and scoffed down every meal I could get. “This looks awesome. You are so lucky, Jinxx, to have a mum who's such a good cook."
"What about your mother, Hannah? Doesn't she cook?"
I shook my head. "I don't have a mother. Well, not that I remember. She died when I was really young."

"Ah, you must eat more then." Jinxx-Mama took a platter of barbecued meat and piled it onto my plate. I didn't really follow her logic but I wasn't about to complain. "And kimchi. You must eat lots of kimchi. It's the best thing to make you happy."
She handed me a dish of red stuff. It didn't look like it would make me happy. I took some and tasted it. It was strong but not undelicious. I had some more.
"And rice. You have a lovely figure. It's okay if you eat lots."
I laughed. Again, I didn't follow her logic but it seemed funny to eat just because I had a lovely figure.
Jinxx-Mama fussed around, making sure we ate enough. Jinxx seemed to get annoyed with her but I loved it. I just worried she fussed too much and didn't eat anything.
"You have to sit down and eat too. After all you cooked all this delicious food."
But she shook her head. "I can eat any time. I just like seeing you young people eat. Otherwise you just eat junk like McDonalds and get fat."
We all laughed.

"I don't eat McDonalds," said Andy. "It makes me fart."
He grinned at Jinxx-Mama. His face lit up when he smiled like that and he lost that hard look he normally had in his eyes. It was the first time I’d seen him smile. His entire face changed and the coldness went out of his eyes for a moment. Then he looked at me and the smile disappeared.
"Andy Candy, we don't talk about those kinds of things at the dinner table.”
That just made him grin more, like he'd only said it to get Jinxx-Mama to chastise him. I could kind of see why. It was nice to have someone caring about what you said.
Then Jinxx-Mama went into a long story about how she'd made Amdy help her make radish kimchi one year and even though he had big muscles, he soon got tired rubbing in all the spices.

"I’m not as strong as you are. You have over 50 years experience of making kimchi."
"Hey, you cheeky kid. Do I look over 50? I look barely old enough to have a son Jinxx's age. He should call me sister, not mama." Then she laughed a huge belly laugh until we all joined in.
"You have great skin," I told her.
She beamed at me.
"I use special Korean beauty masks. All the famous Korean celebrities using them. They are sheets like this." She put a tissue over her face to show me. "Sometimes Andy and Jinxx use them too.”
I looked at them, expecting them to deny it but they just looked sheepish.
"So, Hannah. What's a nice girl like you doing managing a band?"
I choked on my kimchi and tried to think of an answer.

"I was studying but figured it'd be better to get some real life experience. There's only so much you can learn at university, you know? Doing actual work gives you more business experience."
"Ah, but having an education is important too." Jinxx-Mama glared at Jinxx after saying this and he kept his head down, eating. I figured that was a sore point between them.
"I'll probably go back and finish sometime."
By the time we'd finished, I didn’t think my belly had ever been so full. All that yummy meat and hot pot and so many different things I felt like my mouth was going to explode with the awesomeness of the flavours. I wanted to adopt Jinxx-Mama and have her cook for me every night.

"Why don't you boys make such happy faces like Hannah?"
Jinxx laughed. "You really do look happy."
"I love this food. It's the best."
I'd never had a meal where people moaned and groaned over the food and I'd never done it myself but it felt good to express my happiness at eating out loud like that instead of being polite. I'd never sat and patted my belly as it felt tight as a drum after dinner either. Even Jinxx had loosened the belt on his jeans.
"I'll put some in containers for you to take home with you, if you like."
I wanted to kiss her. I really did want to take some home.
"There's a last bit of pork belly. Do you want it?"
Jinxx pushed the plate toward me.
"No, I'll explode. Seriously. Well, okay then."
"I've never seen a woman eat like you," said Jinxx, and even Andy's mouth turned up at the corners.
Jinxx-Mama disappeared into the kitchen and returned with a whole bag full of food. More than I'd ever be able to fit in my little fridge but I didn't think it'd last long anyway.
"You remember how to get to the train station?" Andy asked.
"No. Hannah can't go home on the train. Andy, you drive her."
He shrugged. Obviously he could not think of anything worse than driving me home.
"I'll be fine. It doesn't take long."
Jinxx-mama shook her head. "It's dangerous for such a pretty girl to be alone at the train station at this time of night. There are a lot of bad people around here and you can't run away because your belly is so full. It won't take him very long."
"It'll be an inconvenience for him and I didn't even realise he had a car."
"He has a car. Where do you live?"

Notes

Long chapter XD But it makes up for not posting for the last 2 days. Sorry about that by the way! I was so caught up in chores and homework and dying my hair. Omg, I died my hair this like pastel white it is so coolio cx