hiraeth - park jisung

15

"lia!?"
"jisung!?"

i look at her.

my sister. here she is when all this time i thought she was overseas.

both of us stay silent and stare each other down.

"so you're here- who would've known-" i cut her off.
"you're rich as fuck, arrogant, and lazy. i've been coming to hyun's house like every week for three months and i've never seen you here. why are you here." i glare at the girl who practically ruined my childhood in hatred, anger level rising slowly.
"hold on you disappointment, i'm gonna need you to shut up with the attitude." she rolls her eyes dramatically and continues.
"mom and dad cut my card last week so i have to work this shitty broke people job to make up for it." she cringes.

"by the way, who's hyun? sounds fucking stupid. your little girlfriend i assume? aren't you too young to have a girlfriend? that's embarrassing.. ooh haha wait till our parents hear about this... these for her too?" she holds up the stuff i just put down on the table and she laughs.
"listen you bitch. you're not my sister anymore and the people you're talking about aren't my family. so stay the fuck away from here and go back to america. oh and- aren't you too old to be alive?" i watch as her face contorts into her bitchy 'i'm a princess and you can't say that to me' face.

"listen you little piece of shit. i'll call my manager right now and kick you out right now brat." she narrows her ugly eyes at me before calling her manager out with a stupid smirk.

what a dumbass.

"jisung-ah it's been a while! here to visit hyun again i assume, what seems to be the issue here?" the manager i know so well from coming here so often comes out with a friendly expression.

i can already see the forming panic in my sisters face when she realizes her mistake.

"this employee of yours is threatening to kick me out for no reason and being incredibly rude- calling me names and stuff! i'm just here to buy things for hyun!"
"oh you're such sweetheart my boy- i apologize on her behalf, she's new here... the stuff is on the house!" she bags my stuff and hands it to me in a hurry. i grab my stuff and walk out the door, hearing the satisfying sound of lia getting scolded as i leave.

"i'm so sorry it took so long hyun- i ran into a little trouble... but i got your stuff and some other things!"

...

hyun

"thanks you really are an angel you know that... what took you so long though?" i walk out of the bathroom, not really being able to look at the boys eyes.
"ah.. an employee..." he scratches his head.
"that new girl? i saw her a couple days ago.. she's a real bitch" i roll my eyes and finally look at jisung, who already had his eyes on me.
"yeah.. her name is lia... and she's kind of the older sister i talked about." he scratches his nape and sighs.

"oh my god really?! how could such spawn of satan be your sister?"
"no offense. kinda."
"non taken, i hate her so much- that piece of shit was talking bad about you.. tch." he mutters, but clearly. like a pouty kid. cute.

"anyways i brought us ramen so let's eat" his mood flips like a switch as he fumbles with a plastic bag, pulling out two instant noodles for us.
"ugh my heart, you're the best dude"
"i know i am bro"