GRUMPY (EVER SINCE THAT DAY)

 

 

Once upon a time, there was a peaceful town called “Village Valley”. Everyone in the town knows each other and the all the villagers are hospitable and really friendly towards each other... Well, maybe not everyone because a woman name Kim Taeyeon is an exception. 

 

Kim Taeyeon, a woman in her middle age. Despite her baby like face, she's quite famous in the village for her monstrous like attitude. Children rumors spread that Kim Taeyeon is a witch because her black painted old house is isolated from her neighbors. Well, of course she's not really a witch but children's parents in the town just told it to their kids so that they will not go in the Kim Taeyeon's yard or else...

 

“YAH, YOU LITTLE DWARF! WHO FU#&%# TOLD YOU THAT YOU CAN STEP INSIDE MY FU#&$% YARD?!” An angry little blonde lady pointed to a blonde little boy who's currently busy picking flowers in the yard

 

Yes, that lady is no other than Kim Taeyeon the towns' famous grumpy ajumma.

 

“Ajumma, your flowers are beautiful...I just want to pick up some so I can give it to my girlfriend.” the little boy said

 

“WHAT NONSENSE GIRLFRIEND YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT?! YOU'RE JUST ING THREE AND YOU ALREADY GOT A DAMN GIRLFRIEND?!”

 

“Awesome right Ajumma? I have a girlfriend while you don't have.” the young kid giggled and teased the angry woman in front of him

 

Taeyeon is an old maid who does not have any love life because most of the men in their town are scared of her and intimidated by her glares especially when Taeyeon goes out of her house to go on the market. Her aura gives her neighbors' creeps and shivers on their body. This little boy is so innocent and has not yet experience Kim Taeyeon's wrath...maybe now he will.

 

“Why you little brat!” Taeyeon pulled up the child at the back of his collar and lift him off the ground

 

“Aaa, Ajumma let me go!” the child was struggling on the older lady's hold

 

“I'm not ajumma, I'm noona!” Taeyeon scoffed at the child

 

“You're an ajumma, my mommy told me you're an old wicked witch!” the child said

 

“WHAT DID YOU SAY?!” 

 

“Y-You're a witch?” the child was beginning to be scared at angry tempered Taeyeon

 

“Oh right...yes I'm a witch! What should I do to this young boy then?” Taeyeon said while thinking

 

“A-Ajumma...”

 

“Noona!” Taeyeon corrected

 

“Noona...I-I'm sorry...please l-let me goo,” the child said who was on a verge of crying

 

“Hmmm...Noona's haven't taken her lunch...should I cook this little boy in my magic casserole?” Taeyeon made fun of the scared boy whom she's currently lifting on the air through her hands that were holding on his collar.

 

“Huwaaaah!” the boy cried

 

“YAH, YOU LITTLE BRAT...I'M GOING TO LET YOU GO BUT I'M GOING TO COUNT TO THREE. IF YOU ARE STILL ON MY LAWN WITHIN THREE SECONDS, I'M GOING TO PUT YOU ON MY CASSEROLE AND HAVE YOU FOR DINNER!” Taeyeon threatened the poor child and loosen her hold to the boy's shirt.

 

“1...2...”

 

“Aaaaaaaahhhhh ummmaaaaa aaaaapppppaaaaa!!!” the young boy fled in terror leaving behind his newly picked flowers in the yard.

 

Taeyeon shook her head as she looked down at her favorite flowers.

 

“Gosh, my poor roses...” 

 

 

It's Friday today, Taeyeon went to a painting store to buy a new canvass. She's not really a social outcast, she just hates people in general. Every time she goes out of the house, her neighbor will always look at her like she's the most interesting person in the world. She's inside of the painting shop and the girl on the cashier was just staring at her in awe. Taeyeon gets annoyed to the girl.

 

“What are you staring at?” Taeyeon said sternly

 

“Y-You're Kim Taeyeon right?”  the short red head girl in the cashier said

 

“So what if I am?” Taeyeon said keeping her stoic face

 

“I-I...I thought you're not real...” The short red head girl said nervously

 

“What do you think of me? A ing ghost?!” Taeyeon got pissed

 

“N-No...but they s-said you're a witch...” 

 

“Oh is that so? Say Sunny-shi...” Taeyeon looked at the girl's name tag and continued speaking “If you do not punch my canvass quickly you'll get cursed later on.” Taeyeon glared a the girl

 

“O-Oh...You can get those f-for free” the short red head girl said nervously

 

Taeyeon get the canvass immediately and went out of the shop

 

“Urgh stupid people! Do I really look like a ing witch?!” Taeyeon muttered on herself

 

 

 

Taeyeon walked to her house and an old man yelled at her

 

“YOU MONSTER, WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY CHILD?!?” the man said angrily

 

“I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR ING CHILD, LEAVE ME ALONE!” Taeyeon ignored the man

 

“YOU MADE MY LITTLE BOY CRY!” The man was angry and continued to bug Taeyeon

 

“THIS IS MY LAST WARNING MISTER, LEAVE ME ALONE,” Taeyeon said flatly

The man took Taeyeon's canvas and threw it on the ground casing it to break apart.

 

“WHAT THE ?! THAT'S IT YOU BASTARD.” Taeyeon gripped the man's shoulders and throw him like what he did to her canvas

 

“Ouch!” the man groan in pain

 

“YOU, DELIVER ME A NEW CANVAS TOMORROW OR ELSE, I'LL SET YOUR HOUSE ON FIRE!” Taeyeon threatened the man

 

“Y-Yes...” the man ran away in terror

 

 

On the next day, Taeyeon impatiently waited for her new canvass to arrive but it never did. She lost her patience and stood up and get a bottle full of gas and a lighter on her hands. It’s Sunday today, so most of the people went to the church including the Byun’s household. She went to Byun’s household and light the lighter and throw the bottle on the man's house and there she left a note.

 

“MR. BYUN,YOU'RE LUCKY I DIDN'T BURN YOUR ENTIRE ESTATE. I GAVE YOU A CHANCE BUT YOU DID NOT FULFIL YOUR PROMISE, YOU LIAR. I AM A MAN OF MY WORDS JUST SO YOU KNOW. TRY TO STEP ON MY YARD AGAIN AND BULLY ME, I'LL REALLY BURN YOUR ENTIRE HOUSE DOWN AND I'LL INCLUDE YOUR PRECIOUS CAR TOO! -KTY”

 

She called the firemen on the phone to report the fire and left the place.

 

 

Days have passed, Kim Taeyeon is not just a with to the town people but she is also a rumored psychotic murderous criminal because of what she did to the Byun's house. She scoffed when she saw the border line the town people made on her house and a signage “Warning, danger zone. Do not cross” 

 

“Ah, Mr.Byun so exaggerating. I didn't even burn his entire house down.” she shook her head and went back into her house.

 

 

 

 

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Meanwhile, a young american girl was fleeing from a group of men working on a sharkloan.

 

‘, I'm running out of gas! Urgh.” she stepped on her gas harder to fill her car's speed but the shark loan men's car was faster than hers and cornered her car

 

“Aaa, great!” she said sarcastically

 

 Three men went out of the car and knocked on her car door.

 

“Miss beautiful, open up.” a bald man said

 

She nervously opened the door up and raised her hand

 

“I got no money to pay and I'm not healthy enough to offer you my kidney.” the girl said as she closed her eyes. The men just laughed out loud

 

“Aah you girl is funny eh?” the men in a polka dot suit said

 

“What, aren't you going to kill me?” the girl said

 

“We are sharkloans Missie...not a murderous killer. We just need your money and boom! You can live your life peacefully.”

 

“But I told you, I have no money!”

 

“Hmmm... You can give us something you own. Like your house and whatnots”

 

“I only rent my place so I do not have a house... I'll pay you...I'll pay you soon!” the girl tried to convince the men

 

“I've heard that before... The last time you said that was three years ago.”

 

“I promise this time, I swear!”

 

The bald men whispered on the man wearing a red leather jacket.

 

“Your car looks nice Miss Hwang.” the man wearing a leather jacket said

 

“Yes, I customized it myself...it's pink and it's very cool but what about my car?”

 

“Give me your key...”

 

“No, why should I?”

 

“Urgh! You're really pain in the .” the man get the key from the girl 

 

“Hey!”

 

“It's ours now!” the bald man get a rope and tied the rope to the pink car and their car

 

“Oh, this is a cool payment Miss Hwang! We'll just have to recolor it black.” the man in polka-dot suit said

 

“Don't you dare!”

 

“Nah-uh. It's ours now or we'll sell you in a black market to be a wife of some hopeless romantic and old dudes over there...”

 

The girl can't do anything but to agree to give away her car. She helplessly watched her car being tugged by the other car in front. The three men entered their car.

 

“Bye Miss Hwang!” the three men said

 

“Wait! Aren't you taking me with you?”

 

“Uhm, no”

 

“But I do not now this place! How can I survive here?!”

 

“You'll make it some how Miss Hwang, don't worry. We'll send you a picture of your car once it gets repainted! Hahaha!” the three men laughed out loud and drove away leaving the girl behind.

 

“Urgh, what a luck.” the girl muffled a curse

 

 

 

The girl started to walk around on what it seems eternity until she saw a signage “Village Valley”

 

“Oh, Thank God, a civilization! I thought I'm going to be stuck here in the desert like isolated place.” she ran towards the sign board and enter the town.

 

 

She saw a little boy playing a toy car tied in a thread as he runs happily. She followed the boy until the boy stopped on a certain border and she read the signage “Warning. Danger zone. Do not cross.” The girl looked for the young boy but the boy already ran far away. She got curious about the warning sign and the black house that she can see from a distant. She crossed the border and walked towards the house.

 

“Whoa, daebak! A black house, it could've been cooler if it's pink though.” The girl said to herself as she stood in front of the house's gate. She opened the gate and looked at the flowers in the yard.

 

“Omo, these roses are beautiful!” she picked one and walked towards the house's main door. She knocked on the door.

 

“Hello? Is anybody home?” she opened the door, she saw a very neat and pleasant environment. The house looks vintage and the walls are full of paintings. She walked in and saw a grand piano and she decided to sit and play.

 

“Wow! Cool, this piano must be antique.”

 

I heard some screeches around so I decided to check it out until I saw a little white lady.

 

“Boo!”

 

“Aaaaah!” I broke a huge vase on the top of the piano.

 

She hit me with some object and I lose my consciousness. 

 

 

 

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“Yah, thief! Wake up or I'll splash you some water!” Taeyeon warned the girl whom she tied on a chair

 

“Urgh, my head...”

 

“Don't over react. I only hit you with my Totoro!”

 

The girl with a dark hair opened her eyes and she realized she was tied

 

“Let me go!” the girl tried to unloose her rope.

 

“Why should I? You're a fu#&% thief!” 

 

“I'm not a thief, I swear!”

 

“HOW CAN YOU FU#%*$ EXPLAIN YOUR UNINVITED PRESENCE HERE IN MY HOUSE?! I THOUGHT NO ONE WILL COME HERE BECAUSE OF THE SIGNAGE BUT HERE, A THIEF ENTERED MY PROPERTY AND EVEN PICKED UP MY LOVING ROSE ON MY YARD!!!” Taeyeon get angry

 

“I'm not a thief...I'm a...I'm a traveler! Yes, a traveler! I kind of get lost.” the girl said

 

“AND OF ALL THE PLACES ON EARTH, YOU CHOSE TO ARRIVE HERE?! OH PLEASE...YOU'RE STUPID ALIBIS IS JUST AS STUPID AS YOU AND THE PEOPLE OF THIS TOWN.” Taeyeon scoffed

 

“I'm an American! I do not know where I am I swear! Some guys have been following me and took my car and I got lost.” The girl said

 

“Should I lend you to the police? Hmmm...but the officers in this town will probably just gawked and ogle at you... What should I do with you?” Taeyeon was thinking

 

“You could uh...let me go?”

 

“No, you thief...”

 

“But I didn't steal anything...see?”

 

“Just because I caught you before you can do!”

 

“Urgh, This little kid.”

 

“WHAT DID YOU SAY?!” Taeyeon hates it when people call her old and kid. She's a middle age woman, not a kindergarten or a senior citizen.

 

“I said you're a little grumpy kid!” 

 

“You're so not going to get out of this house alive!” Taeyeon stood up and left the girl tied on her kitchen

 

“Yah! Come back here and untie me!”

 

 

 

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It's already morning and still, the girl was still tied to the chair, Taeyeon opened her kitchen door to eat her breakfast. 

 

“Yah, untie me!” the girl said

 

“No,” Taeyeon said as she chews her pancake

 

“Then at least let me eat” 

 

“No.”

 

“But I haven't eaten anything since yesterday.” the girl pouted

 

“Not my problem.”

 

“Hey, have you got no mercy? If I’ll die because of hunger I’m going to hmmmmpppp....”

 

“You're so loud you know?” Taeyeon shove a bread on the girl's mouth

 

“My hands are tied...” The girl complained

 

“Urgh, shut up.”

 

“I can't eat, my hands are tied”

 

Taeyeon gets a handcuff on her drawer and untie the girl on the chair. Taeyeon put the other end of the handcuff on her hands and the other end on the girl's hand

 

“What are you doing?!”

 

“So that you can't steal anything from my house and you will have no plans for escape,” Taeyeon said as she dragged the girl on the table to eat. The other girl started to eat with her left hand as because Taeyeon's left hand and her right hand were handcuffed. 

 

“Yah!”

 

“Urgh, what is it this time?!”

 

“I want to pee...”

 

“Then go pee and shut the fu#% up!”

 

“but our hands...”

 

“Urgh, fine. Follow me.”

 

Taeyeon dragged the girl on her washroom 

 

“Go on...”

 

“But you're here...”

 

“So?”

 

‘I need my privacy...” 

 

“Urgh, this girl!” Taeyeon started to find the key in her pocket

 

“I forgot to bring the key,” Taeyeon said

 

“But I want to pee so badly right now!” the girl complained

 

“Then just pee! I'll just turn my back on you. Gosh, you have so many complaints!”

 

The other girl started to do her business and Taeyeon, on the other hand, gets impatient.

 

“Are you done yet?”

 

“No, don't turn!”

 

“Urgh, faster okay?”

 

Taeyeon went to her room to change her clothes ignoring the other girl's presence 

 

“Yah, don't change, I'm just beside you, have you got no shame?” the other girl protested

 

“You talk too much. You're a girl, what's wrong with you?!” Taeyeon sighed and ignored the girl

 

The girl blushed extremely as they get out of the room.

 

 

 

 

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Taeyeon decided to paint on her yard. She brought her canvass with her and dragged the other girl because of their handcuffs connection.

 

“Who's that man?”

 

“...” Taeyeon ignored the girl and continued to paint

 

The girl looked around and asked again

 

“Why your house is black?”

 

“Why are you so talkative and annoying?” 

 

“You draw beautifully but it's already two hours you've been painting. I'm bored.”

 

“I don't care.”

 

“Yah, I said I'm bored!” the girl went closer to Taeyeon to get her attention

 

“Yah, get away from me, you fu#% stink!”

 

“That's because I haven't taken my shower because of you!”

 

“Urgh, fine.”

 

Taeyeon led the girl to the bathroom.

 

“Go, shower”

 

“But you're here!”

 

“Urgh, just don't try to do anything funny or you'll be darned.” Taeyeon unlocks the handcuff and went out of the bathroom. After a few minutes, the girl went out of the bathroom with a towel covering her body.

 

“Can you lend me clothes?”

 

“No”

 

“Urgh, I'll still stink if I use my previous clothes!” 

 

“Urgh, shut up. Here!” Taeyeon shoved clothes to the girl

 

The night time came Taeyeon was reading her newspaper while the girl beside her was sulking.

 

“Why don't you just let me go?” the girl said as she stared at the handcuff

 

“Because you broke my vase. Don't you know how expensive is that?” Taeyeon said

 

“That's because you hit me!”

 

“I HIT YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE An FU#%#& THEFT NOW SHUT UP.”

 

“”Sorry, I broke your precious vase, now will you let me go?”

 

“No, you have to pay for it.”

 

“PAY FOR IT? BUT I DO NOT HAVE MONEY!” The girl complained

 

“Then you're going to work for it until you pay for it.”

 

“What?!”

 

“Urgh, you're so loud and annoying...here.” Taeyeon get a paper on the table and shove it to the girl

 

“What is this”

 

“Have you got no eyes? Read it.”

 

“Contract of Slavery...Damn, what is this? A forced labor?! I won't do it!”

 

“If you signed that, you’ll loose this handcuff because you’ll be legally mine. It will only have an effect for two years so stop complaining idiot. All you have to do is follow my commands then you're free”

 

“What If do not like to?”

 

“Then, I'll send you to the police and those guys will ogle at you and probably if you're a , you'll get out the opposite on the prison.” Taeyeon threatened

 

Taeyeon lives in this town for a long time, she knows how the system works in their police officers. It doesn't mean that all police are as bad as that but some are just fools for the beautiful woman especially this woman is a foreigner so she'll have fewer rights here in this town if that happens.

 

“I...I-I...Is that r-really t-true?”

 

“I don't care if you believe me or not”

 

“F-Fine...I'll work for you!” the girl said

 

“Yeah, now sign that paper.”

 

The girl writes her name on the paper and signed it. Taeyeon looked at the paper and read it.

 

“Tiffany Hwang...Now, I own you.” Taeyeon said

 

 

 

 

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Ever since that day, Tiffany worked for Taeyeon. Taeyeon never really talks to her that much but everytime Taeyeon talk to her it's just full of commands. Tiffa