bloodmoney (hyewon)

Survival

Hyejoo clung to the carpet as she spat out blood and one of her teeth, clutching her broken jaw. Her father worked silently so far, only taking the opportunity to degrade and destroy his daughter with his words when she wasn't already choking on her own teeth.

"H-Hongseok... I-I think she's had enough." Her mother, Mina, said to attempt to calm her husband down. Mina may have been a doormat, a complete enabler of Hyejoo's abuse, however, she still did care deeply about her baby girl, and couldn't stand watching her be hurt.

"Shut up, woman!" He screamed, picking up a vase off the table and throwing it at the wall directly beside her, making Mina jump and fall back, averting her eyes. "She was expelled from her fucking school, bitch."

"Yes, but!"

"Shut up before I kick the shit out of you too."

Hyejoo felt hopeless, but suddenly remembered what she held in her pocket. She waiting for the perfect moment to use it, which she was sure, would come soon.

"Expelled for threatening to rape another kid? You fucking sicko! Who taught you this shit?!"

Now.

Now was the time.

She struggled her way to her feet. "You did! You did this! You did it when you let that guy touch me! You're the fucking sicko." She screamed as loudly as she could muster, her jaw hurting her so badly she wanted to just collapse again, but now was certainly not time to do that.

"What the fuck did you just say?! You think you can talk back to me?!" He screamed back, expecting Hyejoo to instinctually cower back, but she didn't. "No. You listen to me now."

"I do not have to hear what a kid thinks..." He trailed off when she shoved the knife from her pocket in his stomach. "TELL ME YOU'RE FUCKING SORRY!! BEG ME FOR MERCY THAT I WON'T GIVE!" She screamed, twisting the knife around inside him. He simply fell to his knees, blood leaking from his mouth. "WHAT DID I JUST SAY!?"

She kicked him over so he'd lay on his back. "You didn't love me. You never did."

"Nothing I can do, will ever equate to what you put me through. You're fucking lucky!" She said, stomping on his nose, realizing that wouldn't garner enough impact to hurt him, so she jumped and landed with both feet on his face, crushing his nose into millions of pieces.

She then walked back a little, clutching the bloody knife in her small hands. She knelt down beside her father. "M-my baby... why are you doing this to daddy?" He asked, tears pooling in his eyes.

"You are not my dad, and I am certainly not yours." She said, garnering the final blow to his chest to suddenly let the life fade from his eyes.

She then turned to Mina who looked utterly horrified, sobbing uncontrollably. "You have no right to cry." Hyejoo said angrily. "You have no fucking right!" She yelled, slapping her mother across the face. "B-baby... we gotta call the police... have to get this sorted out."

"You'll call the cops on me?! But not him?!" Hyejoo said, snatching her mother's cellphone and hurling it at the wall, just so it could shatter. "You let him do this to me! This is all your fault! You fucking failure, worthless piece of human garbage!"

"H-Hye... I'm sorry... P-please don't hurt me, baby."

"Don't hurt you!? You think you deserve that?"

Hyejoo's eyes filled with tears, still for some reason, having love in her heart for Mina. "H-how could you do this, mommy...? How could you just stand there...? Why didn't you help?" Hyejoo said, finally breaking down and falling to her knees in a crying fit. She promptly dropped the knife to the floor.