Chapter 9: Lotus

“Sir, Mr. Do asked you to be in his office now.”

Startling, Kyungsoo looks up to see Mr. Lee standing in front the door smiles to him. He nods, but still didn’t move from his seat.

“He said it is important, sir.”

“What is it, dad?”

Kyungsoo didn’t bother to knock, immediately throwing a question to his father right after he entered the office room at the third floor of their mansion.

The old man smiled.

“Sit down.”

Kyungsoo huffed. He hated this side of his father, really. That old man never hesitated, put aside being scared of anything.

“The Kim wanted to meet you.”

Kyungsoo thought he can rest from being grumpy tonight but he was wrong.

He didn’t answer.

“I thought I had made it clear since you’re seven, Soo.”

Mr. Kim might looked too relaxed about everything but he knew his son too well. Deep in his heart, he also didn’t want Kyungsoo to engage with his business matter but he didn’t have any other son to depend on.

Kyungsoo is the only Do for now.

Nodding, Kyungsoo tried to draw a smile but failed, instead he wanted to cry.

“When?”

He asked not because he was curious but he needed to know so that the thing inside his brain right now can be accomplished easily.

“Tomorrow.”

That’s all it takes for Kyungsoo felt he died before he passed away.

Since childhood, Kyungsoo was the obedient kid who every parents could only dream to have. Never once he made any irrational actions. He always behave. But no one knows what happened inside his head, inside his heart. He held back about everything too much.

The Do at his name acted like a curse that making him tied with an invisible knot. He loved his parents so much, so much that he wanted to sacrifice his life for them. But this, Kyungsoo can’t do this.

At first he thought he can but that certain tanned boy with a wonderful smile made him decided to not obey this time.

So he decided to jump out his room window from the second level of the Do mansion, earning a few bruises on his skin but Kyungsoo opted to ignore the pain.

Running away.

Wind was h