PART FOUR

”How is she doing?” Mr. Kwon asked the doctor when he left Dara’s room later on that evening.

“She’s stable” the doctor said and Yang sigh in relief. “But I'm afraid that if she doesn’t get the surgery soon she’s not going to make it” the doctor told him sadly. Mr. Kwon stood up from his chair as soon as he heard the words and pushed the doctor against the wall gripping the collar of his shirt. “Then do something!” Mr. Kwon yelled clenching his teeth.

“You know I’d love to help Dara. I’m her uncle, for crying out loud, and you know I love her. But there hasn’t been any suitable donor for her” Kiyoung said. Yang let go of his shirt and fell to his knees with tears in his eyes. “I’m sorry” he said while trying to fight his tears.

“It’s alright. But please remember that I’m not only Dara’s doctor but your brother and her uncle. You know if I could I would do anything to help Dara get better” he said and knelt next to Yang patting him on his back.

“I know” Yang cried finally not able to hold back the tears. It hurt him so much. He knew that his daughter was dying, but he couldn’t help her. He wanted to become a donor for her but their blood cells didn’t match, since he wasn’t her biological father.

“You know there’s another way, right?” Kiyoung asked him. Yang looked at his brother with tears in his eyes. “You can always accept Sunmi’s offer” he told him.

Yang quickly stood up and wiped his tears away and looked at his brother seriously. “There’s no way I’m going to trust that woman with my daughter’s life” he told him.


He didn’t trust Sunmi at all. She abandoned Dara after birth saying that she won’t be able to manage on her own because her beloved turned out to be a player and left her on the day she gave birth. So she just left. She left her baby daughter and run away to Philippines. She didn’t contact with her what so ever but two years ago she came back out of nowhere. Saying that she wants Dara back. She said that she can take her to the Philippines, and there Dara can have her surgery. Yang and his wife obviously refused her.

“Yang put your pride aside and think of what’s the best for your daughter right now” Kiyoung told him when he stood up.

“I’m thinking of what’s best for her. And I’m sure that sending her to the Philippines is the last point on that list!” Yang said irritated.

“But you’re being unreasonable” his brother told him calmly.

“You know what, you better just stick to being Dara’s doctor and not my life advisor” with that said Yang made his way down the stairs. Kiyoung gave a sigh of disbelief and followed his brother down the stairs.

**

The next day at school Jiyong was lost in his own world, he ignored everyone. Even when Seungri said that Mr. Sung, the poetry teacher got lacked in the staff bathroom by some students, Jiyong completely ignored it as if he didn’t even hear a word he said.

When they passed Kiko this morning on their way to school, Jiyong was completely shut off. He didn’t say a word normally if they saw Kiko, Jiyong would say things like ‘Oh Noona, you look prettier than yesterday” or “Have a nice day Noona."

But today nothing.

Nothing at all.

And it was starting to worry them.


“Hyung what happened to Jiyong hyung?” Seungri whispered to TOP.

“I’m not sure. Tae, how long has he been like this?” TOP asked looking over at Taeyang for an answer.

“Ever since he came back from the Kwon's house yesterday. He didn’t want to talk about it and said everything was fine. But our mother is worried about him” Taeyang told them with a sigh.

“I wonder what happened” Deasung said putting his chin on his hands for support.

“Maybe Mr. Kwon found out that hyung is a spy for the North Koreans and is planning to report him to the military or something, and Jiyong hyung has to leave the city but has no money and…” Seungri was cut off by TOP who hit the back of the head.

“Yeah right, and I’m Queen Victoria” TOP said.

“Seriously rat, how old are you 5?” Taeyang asked still looking at Jiyong, who was sitting at a bench across from them.

“Well, we’ll never find out what’s wrong with hyung if we’re going to sit like that," said Seungri completely ignoring Taeyang’s questions. He stood up and fixed his clothes and started to walk towards Jiyong. Who seemed to notice something and stood up from the bench.

“Hey hyung…” Seungri walked over to him and waved. Jiyong ignored him and picked up his bag and started to walk off somewhere.

“HEY HYUNG!” Seungri shouted after being ignored like that by Jiyong. He was supposed to say more but stopped when he saw that Jiyong was talking to Dara.



“Dara, Noona?” Seungri asked himself. “Hyung was acting like this because of Noona?” he asked himself again.

He just stood there stunned watching the scene in front of him and felt his heart aching. The next thing he knew was Dara took Jiyong somewhere and left her friends behind.

**

Jiyong told Dara that both of them needed to talk. She immediately knew what he wanted to talk about and wasn’t happy about it. She didn’t want to talk to him about her heath situation, which was more messed up then anyone could think. But she also knew that she needed to explain herself for fainting like that. So she decided to take him to the school garden, knowing that no one would be there.

When they got to the garden, both of them sat on a wooden bench under a tree. The garden was peaceful and quiet maybe apart from the wind which was causing the leaves brush against each other and make a noise. The bench was covered with a shadow thanks the tree. Both of them were silent but after a while Jiyong broke that silence.

“Talk” he demanded looking at her with a serious face.

“About what?” Dara asked and shifted a bit uncomfortable with the situation.

“Don’t play that game with me!” he shouted annoyed. Dara was shocked, shocked. It rare for Jiyong to be yelling like that. He breathed out and closed his eyes, as if he was battling with himself.

“Look, Dara, I just want to what happened yesterday” he said truthfully. Dara kept her gaze on the ground too afraid that if she looks up, she’ll see Jiyong’s face filled with anger.

“It was nothing” she said playing with a few strands of her hair still not looking at him.

Silence filled the garden. Dara was playing with her hair, and Jiyong appeared to be thinking of something.

“Was it because of me?” he then asked suddenly and bit his bottom lip. Dara could hear the guilt in his voice. Was he blaming himself? Did he think that this happened because of him?

Jiyong had to know it was bothering him. He disliked her but would never forgive himself if she got sick because of him. He didn’t know why but he was worried about her. He didn’t get any sleep last night because he kept on thinking if she was doing okay.

Dara then shook her head at him, which meant that it had nothing to do with him.

“Then what’s wrong?” he asked concern could be heard in his voice.

Jiyong saw her stiffen. Why didn’t she want to tell him? What could possibly be wrong that she kept it TOP secret.

“Dara…Please…” he pleated

She just kept quiet playing with her hair with her eyes on the ground. Jiyong sigh in helplessness, he knew he won’t get anything out of her. So he decided to leave.

Staying with her and not getting any response was pointless. He was about to leave when he felt something tug on the sleeve of his shirt. He turned around to see Dara looking up at him with misty eyes and something else, but Jiyong couldn’t really place the feeling. Was she scared?

Oh man that girl always managed to make him feel bad. Just seeing her eyes made Jiyong feel uncomfortable.


“It’s better if you don’t know” she said quietly. “Trust me Jiyong. It’s better for you and me” then she just let go of his sleeve and stood up as well.

“Alright” Jiyong said, which made Dara look at him.

“But if you feel ill just take it easy” he told her and ruffled her hair. “Kya, why are you so mean?” Dara asked annoyed running away from him. He was glad to see that she was back to normal. Jiyong just laughed at her annoyed expression.

“And when I was actually starting to think that you are a nice person, you’re back with your teasing. Such a jerk” she pounded.

“Well not my fault that you can’t see how nice I am” he said still laughing.

Dara looked at him scanning him from head to toe. “You’re right, I can’t see it” she said and giggled when she saw that he was getting pissed off.

“Oh is that how you thank someone from saving you from falling down the stairs?” he asked her annoyed.

“Alright then. If you want I can help you with that poetry homework of yours, how does that sound?” she asked him. He looked at her with that how-do-you-know-about-that look.

“Your brother told me” she simply said

Of course, her favorite Oppa told her. What other things he told her about?

‘Bae, you should keep your mouth shut!’ Jiyong thought but instead he said, “You would do that?”

Dara smile and nodded “Neh, after all you’re the one who saved me from falling down the stairs” she winked at him. Jiyong just smiled.

“Alright but what about your father?” Jiyong asked thinking of Mr. Kwon’s reaction when he finds out that his daughter is helping the ‘criminal’ that broke their house statue.

“Appa? Leave him to me” Dara told him, Jiyong just nodded his head in agreement.

“Then I’ll see you later” Jiyong said and stated to leave the garden.

“Thank you Jiyong”

He turned to face her and asked, “For what?”

“Thank you for staying with me yesterday” she said with a smile.

So her grandmother told her that he stayed after she collapsed.

**

A week has passed, and Dara was helping Jiyong with his poetry homework. Mr. Sung was impressed and said that some kind of miracle must have happened, and he was right that miracle was Sandara Park. She and Jiyong became friends step by step although he was still teasing her. He still worked as a gardener at the Kwon’s but when both him, and Dara got back from school. They had their study sections for an hour or so and then Jiyong would do his duties. Mr. Kwon didn’t mind as long as he did his job probably.


“Omo Jiyong your home early today did something happened?” asked his mother worried.

“Ani omma, nothing happened. I just forgot something, and Dara decided that we could just study here” Jiyong said and stepped aside to reveal a girl standing behind him. The girl smiled and bowed.

“I hope it’s not a bother” Dara said.

“Oh no, not at all” Ms Dong said and smiled. “You must be Sandara am I right?” Jiyong's mother asked.

“Yes” Dara said and smiled.

“I’m actually glad that we have a visitor other then the boys” Ms Dong told and Dara giggled.

Jiyong dragged Dara to his room, and they started to talk about the latest poem that Jiyong had been talking about in class. When Ms Dong came in.

“Omma is something wrong? asked Jiyong worriedly looking at his mother.

“Ani, everything is just fine” his mother told him. Jiyong smiled and gave her a nod.

“Oh that’s right, Ms Dong, I was thinking. My uncle is a one of the doctors at the local hospital, and he could provide with the medication you require for your dubieties” Dara told her. Jiyong just glared and asked, “And how do you know about my mother’s health situation?”

Dara gave him a what-do-you-think look.

“Let me guess, Bae told you?” he asked. Dara just nodded with a small smile.

“Oh that would be great, but is it ok for your uncle to do that?” Ms Dong asked not wanting anyone to get in trouble because of her.

“Yes” Dara said.

Ms Dong just went over to her and hugged her. “Thank you dear. You really are an angle. Your future husband is going to be one lucky guy” she said and smiled.

“That is if she ever gets a husband” Jiyong said reading over the poem in his hand.

“Kya, and here we go again, Mr. Jerk!” Dara pounded and looked away. Jiyong couldn’t help but smile at how childish she could be sometimes.

“And why wouldn’t she get one Mr. Dong?” his mother asked and raised her brow at him. “She’s a beautiful woman” Ms Dong added. Dara blushed when she heard the word ‘Beautiful’.

“A-ani... I’m not” Dara denied with her red face.

“See? Beautiful, well-mannered and humble the features of a perfect woman” Ms Dong smiled “And if you can’t see that my dear son, I think we should get you a pair of glasses” she told him.

Jiyong opened his mouth to say something but was cut off by his brother.

“Oh Dara, Ji you’re here”

“Oh Oppa long time no see” Dara said and smiled. For an unknown reason, Jiyong could feel his blood boiling when he heard her call his brother ‘Oppa’. Jiyong didn’t know why but it was annoying him that Taeyang got called ‘Oppa', but he didn’t it made him feel like he was worse than his brother.

“Why don’t you came outside with me. Everyone will be glad to meet you Dara” Taeyang said and walked up to the desk where they were sitting.

“We can’t” Jiyong told him and returned his eyes onto his notes. Dara looked at him worried and put her hand on his cheek to check if he was sick that action made Jiyong look at her.

“Are you sick?” she asked him. Jiyong frowned as if he didn’t understand her. “Since when are you so keen to study?” she added and giggled when she saw Jiyong make a face.

“Come on Jiyong, we can finish later” she told him grabbing him by the arm to stand up.

“Whatever you say, Oh Great Teacher” he said and let Dara drag him outside.

**

“Noona!” Seungri shouted and hugged Dara when he saw her.

“Hey there, Panda” she giggled and hugged him back. Seungri lifted her off of the ground and started to spin her around. “Stop it, I’m getting dizzy!” Dara said between laughs. Seungri smiled and put her back down on the ground putting his arm around her shoulders.

“Come on Noona, there're a couple of people I want you to meet” he told her and Dara just smiled sweetly.

Jiyong suddenly felt all of his anger within him wanting to come out when he saw how Dara was blushing while walking with Seungri. Jiyong clenched his fists and looked away. He knew that if he kept on looking at this situation won’t end well for Seungri.

Then he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around to see TOP grinning at him.

“There’s no need to be jealous” he said.

“Jealous? Of what?” Jiyong asked trying to sound like he had no idea of what his friend was talking about.

“Oh, so you’re telling me it’s not bothering you to see the rat and the princess together?” TOP asked teasingly. Jiyong closed his eyes and shook his head.

“That’s good because they are about to kiss” TOP whispered into his ear. Jiyong’s eyes shot opened and he immediately looked in the direction of Dara. Who was just casually talking to Taeyang. Jiyong sighed in relief and turned to face TOP who was laughing his head off.

“Not funny, hyung!” Jiyong said annoyed.

“For me it is. You should have seen your face” TOP said between laughs.

**

“Omo, unnie you’re so pretty!” Minzy exclaimed.

“Ani, I’m not” Dara smiled at her.

“Yes unnie, you are” CL said holding onto Dara’s shoulders and looking at her from head to toe. “Right, Oppa?” CL looking at Jiyong, who just looked at her dumbly. He didn’t know what to say, he didn’t want to say ‘Yes’ because it would mean he thought she was pretty, and he didn’t but neither he wanted to refuse because she wasn’t ugly.

The situation became tense when every pair of eyes were on him. Waiting for an answer, Jiyong swallowed nervously. “Whatever” he said and shrugged.

“Such a liar” CL muttered under her breath.

“What did you say?” Jiyong raised his brow at her.

“Nothing” CL told him still looking at Dara. Dara giggled a bit when she saw CL annoyed expression. Looks like she wasn’t happy with the answer that Jiyong gave.

“I want to know” Jiyong said walking over to her. CL turned to face him and said, “No way. You’re not my mother. I don’t have to tell you everything” then she put her hand on the back of her head.

Jiyong wasn’t very pleased because the next thing that happened was both of them started to argue about unknown things that had nothing to do with the current place or time.

“Are they always like that?” Dara whispered to Minzy.

“Always are and always will” Minzy said while nodding her head.

‘Looks like I’m not the only one that you argue with’ Dara thought to herself and couldn’t help but chuckle at the memories of their fights. They argued over little things and in the end, they didn’t even remember how the actual argument started. Dara’s little thoughts were disturbed by the sound of motorbikes. The next thing Dara knew was a man in a leather jacket, and sunglasses took a hold of her chin. He smirked down at her, and Dara could feel a lump forming in .

“What a pretty girl is doing in a place like this?” he asked. Dara opened , but no words came out. The man’s smirk got even wider.

“Why don’t I take you home? This place is not safe when you’re alone” he told Dara and took off his sunglasses. Dara wanted to protest but was too shocked to even move an inch. ‘Oh boy, I’m going to get ’ she cried on the inside.

“Oh but she’s not alone” she heard someone say and then felt something pulling her away from the man. It was Jiyong. He looked at her and gave her a reassuring smile. Dara wanted to yell at him for leaving her alone but just kept it in when she felt his arm around her shoulders.

“Look who’s here guys, ‘The Mighty G-Dragon’ has arrived” the man said looking over his shoulder. Dara just noticed that he wasn’t alone. He had like twenty men with him, and these men didn’t look too friendly either.

“Minho, I’m sorry but as you can see I’m busy right now” Jiyong said and his grip on Dara’s shoulders tightened.
 

Minho looked at Dara, and his smirk faded instead annoyance appeared and then his gaze went back to Jiyong. “How came you never told me you have a new girlfriend?” Minho asked putting his sunglasses on.

Before Jiyong could respond to that statement, Dara started to shake her head drastically refusing. A smirk came back onto Minho’s lips.

“I’m sorry I didn’t mean to offend you. But that makes perfect sense, I pretty girl like you is just too good for him” Minho apologized and could see that Jiyong is starting to get irritated. “I’m sorry for my terrible mistake” he added.

“If you really want to know about mistakes you should ask your parents” Jiyong muttered under his breath but loud enough for Minho to hear him.

“I would ask how old you are, but I know you can't count that high” Minho said leaning onto his motorbike.

“I’m eighteen thank you, and your birth certificate is an apology from the factory, trust me” Jiyong smirked that one must have hit him hard because he nearly tripped over his motorbike.

“Shut up, you'll never be the man your mother is, dumb !"

“If you were twice as smart, you'd still be stupid” Jiyong said and shrugged. Quiet laughs and giggles could be heard from Minho’s gang, but Minho gave them a deathly glare, and they shut up.

“Minho why don’t we teach him a lesson?” one of his gang members suggested.

“That’s a great idea. An exercise would do us good” Minho said and winked at Dara.


Dara’s breath got trapped somewhere between and rib cage. Jiyong took Dara’s hand and pulled her as far away from Minho and his gang as possible the last thing he wanted is to get her involved with a erted idiot like Minho.

Minho’s gang started to get up from their motorbikes with smirks on their faces. One of them pulled out a knife out of his jacket pocket. Dara could feel her heart beating at the speed of light. She only prayed not to faint like last time. She had to hold on or else.

“This will be fun” TOP said cracking his knuckles. He turned his head a bit to look at Jiyong and said, “I think it’s better if you take the princess outta here” Jiyong looked at his friend not sure if it was a good idea but TOP just smirked at him. “B-but we can’t just leave you like this” Dara said. It was impossible for them to beat these guys, there were twenty of them.

“Don’t worry about us Dara, this bunch of clowns doesn’t scare us” Taeyang said and gave his brother a nod.

“Alright, have fun!” Jiyong told them and started to run pulling Dara in the direction of her house.


“Guys please be careful” he whispered out. The next thing that they heard were screams of pain. Dara looked back with terror in her eyes but Jiyong just kept on pulling her away.

**

“Will they be okay?” Dara asked with tears in her eyes when both of them were standing in front of the house gate.

“I’m sure they are just fine. I'm more worried about what Mr. Sung is going to say since we didn’t finish doing my homework” he said and smiled at her. Dara just looked away not wanting to look him in the eyes.

“I’m sorry” she whispered out. Jiyong became worried with how weak her voice was. “Hey… don’t worry about it… I’ll finish it on my own” he told her trying to look at her, but it was hard because she kept her head down.

“No. I’m sorry about what happened, if your friends get hurt, I will never forgive myself… I’m so sorry I’m always causing you trouble…”

Jiyong put his two fingers under her chin and lifted her head, so he could look at her, tears were running down her cheeks.”Listen rabbit, this could have happened anyway even if you weren’t there so stop blaming yourself” he said and wiped her tears away with his thumb.

Dara bit her bottom lip and slowly lifted her gaze to look at him. He look worried, but Dara didn’t know what he was worried about her or his friends?

“W-who… was he?” she asked quietly.

“Lee Minho and his gang of losers” Jiyong frowned at the thought of them.

Dara just nodded her head.

“Dara I want you to promise me something” Jiyong said seriously.

“W-what is it?” she asked a bit scared of what he may want.

“If you are ever alone, and you see Minho. I want you to run as fast as you can… don’t bother to even look back just run…could you promise me that?” he asked gripping her shoulder.

His face softened when he saw her nodding in agreement. “Good girl” he patted her head gently.

“Alright, then I’ll see you Monday enjoy your weekend, and don’t over think it” he told her.

“Dara just nodded and smiled but stayed in her spot. Jiyong raised his brow in confusion.

“Jiyong… your hand” she said quietly. Jiyong looked down he was still holding her hand firmly. He quickly pulled away. “Sorry” he said embarrassed.

“It’s alright” Dara mumbled and opened the gate and quickly made her way inside closing the gate behind her. Jiyong waited until she was safely inside the house and then started to walk in the direction of his own house.

‘How came I didn’t notice her hand?’ he asked himself frustrated with his own stupidity.

And then he remembered her warm hand and her terrified expression when she saw Minho and his gang. When Jiyong realized what he was thinking about he quickly shook the thoughts away refusing to believe that he was thinking about it.

“Jiyong, you need to see a doctor fast there’s seriously something wrong with you” he said to himself.
 

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