Family Tree (Chap. 17)

My Boyfriend from Kindergarten

 

 

     After the whole incident with Taehyung and Kyungie, Kyungie became more cautious.  He just couldn't believe within one night he's in my bed, but I really didn't know how he got in my bed. He was in the chair before I fell asleep. That creep.

     "Everyone come sit for breakfast!" Shouted eomma.

     We all sit and begin eating bibimbap and kimchi. As we ate, though, the room still felt uncomfortable because of what happened. Taehyung kept looking up at me when I put my head down to eat, or get my glass of juice. In a way, I think he was copying me. Everytime I picked up my juice, he would. Everytime I took a bite, he would. So I decided to eat faster to see if it was true. Sure enough he sped up

"Ya, stop copying me"

"I'm not copying you. I'm just eating"

"No, your eating like me. I see what your doing, so quit it"

"Shut up ugly duckling " and he starts smiling and finishing his drink

He sure likes those four words

     Kyungwoo says something to him in Korean that made him spit his drink and eomma begins laughing

"Haha aigoo don't say that at the table Kyungwooah! We're eating!" Laughed eomma

"What did he sa-"

"Don't worry about it just eat" demanded Taehyung.

After that we ate in silence and Taehyung stopped copying me.

     Later on during the day, Kyungwoo takes me to an inside amusement park. We got on many rides and ate almost anything you can think of. I love roller coasters and rides so I was getting on everything! But I don't think Kyungie could handle all of those rides

"You okay Kyungie?"

     "Oh yeah yeah I'm fine!" He says all out of breath. His face became more pale than he already was

"You sure? You don't look too good"

     "No Yeobo I'm great! Love the sea dragon! We can go on again if you like" he suggested

     "Okay let's do it!" I grab his hand and run back into line and as I are running I hear him say "eommaaa" under his breath. I couldn't help but laugh, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't know why I'm laughing. After the ride was over, I decided to give Kyungie a break, and pretend I was sick of the rides

"Kyungie, I'm done~" I smiled

"Aww really? Are you sure? We can go on one more"

"Oh really? Then mayb-"

     "On second thought you need to rest so we should get going now" he says and pulls me away from all the rides and we sit on a bench next to a shrub. He's such a baby hehe. As we sat down I laid my head on his shoulder closed my eyes for a few minutes

"Olipia.."

"Hm?"

     
     "Stay by my side, okay?" It was weird to hear him say that randomly. Like he was gonna lose me

"Of course I will"

"Good...it's just..Taehyung isnt what you think he is"

"Huh? I think of him as annoying" I chuckled

"Hm, yeah he is...but it's more to it. Way more. Just trust me, okay?"

"What's wrong? What does he do? Is he a killer" I joked

He mumbled something in Korean and continued

"Um, we can talk later when we get home. Here isn't the place to discuss it."

     "Oh..okay.." This was becoming strange, and it was making me worry what I got myself into coming here.

About an hour later we drive home and get settled inside and walk upstairs

"Ya, when u get a chance, come to my room in a little bit, okay?" Said Kyungie

"Okay. I'll be there in a minute"

Sigh

     I  take a shower change my clothes into my pajamas. When I leave out the bathroom, I see Taehyung, laying on my bed

"What the..."

"Hey.."

"Get out"

"Wae?"

"Because you are not welcomed here"

     "Hah, I'm not welcomed, into my own room. This use to be my mom and dad's room you know."

"Really?" 

     "Yep. But that was before she died. It's whatever. But one thing about this room is, it's still my dad's room. Don't get too comfortable." He raised his head up and looked his eyes down on me, as if to intimidate me.

"Sure..."

"Ah, and one more thing..I changed my mind."

"You what?"

He smirks while intensely looking into my eyes and walked out the room.

That was weird. I swear the cold is with him wherever he goes.

     I finally leave out my room, and knock on Kyungwoo's door.

"Nuguseyo?"

"It's me"

     He opens the door wearing his pajamas as well, and I gotta tell ya, his muscles were saying hello through his short sleeved shirt.

"Hey ~ stop looking at me like that you ert" he says, crossing his arms

"I was not! Haha"

     "Haha I'm joking..so yeah um, come sit" he walks over to his bed and pats the empty spot next to him. He's being weird but, I'll sit down.

     "Um yeah, I wanted to finish the conversation from earlier. I might as well tell you the story right..gotta be honest with my yeobo.." he laughs, but then once again, his face became stoic, and he looks off into space. What's going on?

     "Oh yeah, so what's the deal?" I decided not to tell him what happened 5 minutes ago in my room, he don't need an aneurysm.

"Okay so... as you know, Taehyung is not my real brother. He's my step brother"

"Gotcha"

     "And, he actually been part, or I should say my mom and I been part of their family for many years now. Maybe since I was 10. I never told you the full story even when we were pen pals so, much stuff will be new to you.  My dad, real dad, divorced my mom when we were like 5. They always argued and yell and me and my brother only had each other at that point. We were really inseparable. He was also 5, because we're twins. But when they divorced, my dad took him away and my mom would never tell me where exactly they were for many years. When I was 15 she finally told me that they were in the States, where you're from. She promised she would get him back but she never did. I'm afraid he forgotten about us or something. I could care less for my dad because he was a mean father. But it's my brother I'm worried about. But ever since we started our lives with Taehyung and his Dad, life been convenient, but at the same time horrible." He hesitated to finish

"What made it horrible?"

     
     " Taehyung's dad is part of the Jopok. It's like a Korean mafia.  And Taehyung is trying to work his way up to being part of it. He thinks he can get his father's approval by joining and being like him. Little does he know, his father doesn't care for him either. I heard him say it to my eomma while they were arguing a few years back. He treats everyone here like dirt if they don't support him, and he always threatens my eomma's life because of the littlest things like, if she cooks his food wrong, or his ties aren't ironed properly. Dumb stuff like that. Me and eomma wanna leave him but it's hard to do that, because of the whole reason why she married him..."

Woah this is so much to take in...

"Why did she marry him?"

     "When she got divorced to my dad, we lost almost everything. It was hard to live a normal life. We lived in a disgusting apartment that had a landlord that didn't care about our health. Rats and roaches crawled everywhere, and we didn't have gas. Only water. My mom decided to rent money from a loan shark, which was our step father now, but she couldn't pay it all back in time. He always joked and told her, 'if you can't pay your debt, I'll take you instead' little did she know, he was serious. She couldn't pay her debt and ever since, she's his property until she pays it off. And she can't pay it off with his money because that's not really paying the debt. So I have a job, and I save up money anywhere I can, so we can eventually leave him and his gang family.." he stops speaking,  and gets real quiet. Then he looks away from me and I hear sniffling.

 
   I hold his hand tightly, and hug him,

     "I will help you get through this. You got me out of my problems, and I will sure as heck help you."

     He looks back and me, tears falling out his eyes more than me when he gave me the ring. He kisses me on the cheek and smiles.

"Gomawo.."

"Your welcome" I smiled

     He gets up and walks over to a table with pictures everywhere and stands there looking at the pictures.

"At least I have pictures of good memories" he sniffles and laughs a little, trying to brighten the mood

     I walk over to him and hold his hand tightly, looking at the pictures with him...but then something starts to look familiar. I look closely at the pictures, and then look at the one specifically of his once happy family, two cheerful boys and a smiling husband and a wife.

"That my favorite picture" he smiles and picks up the picture frame

 

Wait a second...



 

"Um..Kyungwoo..who's that in the pictures?"

I figured it was him and his mom and his brother and father...but no...no...

"It's my real father and twin brother "

 

This can't be what it looks like


 

"What's their name?" I asked reluctantly

"My dad's name is Donghyun Lee, and my brother, Oliver Lee"
 

My grip on his hand loosened





 

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Andreacnushin
#1
Chapter 18: Well that wasn't as bad, but not good either lol
Andreacnushin
#2
Chapter 16: Wait don't tell me Taehyunh is Oliver reincarnated! I couldn't take that lol
WAITIMLOST #3
Chapter 18: Omg