OPEN YOUR EYES (BLIND I) - MUSIQ SERIES PART 2

1. GETTING READY

"Do you have everything you need? Are you missing anything?" Heejin's mother asked her as she finished packing the last things before she had to go to the airport. "Did you pack your medication?"

"Yes, mum. Everything is either in my handbag or in the baggage," she groaned, tired of her mother's incessant questions. "I'm only going to be gone for two weeks, not a year."

Ever since she had told her parents about the trip, they had been helping her prepare everything and fixed everything she could need. She was glad that they had agreed to let her go, but at the same time they had not let her even breathe ever since. It was the first time she was travelling out of the country without them, so they were acting as if she was leaving forever rather than for a couple of weeks.

"Should I take you to the airport?" her father said, going inside the room.

"I told you one of the boy's managers will pick me up," she reminded him. "We are all going to go together in the van."

"We should thank Axel's parents for letting you stay at their house. I bet it isn't easy for them to let three strangers live at their house for a couple of weeks."

Although Heejin's mother was aware about Axel and Heejin being together, Heejin had decided to not tell her father yet because he would not be initially as supportive as her mother had been. Axel, on the other hand, had not told his parents yet, so they would have to pretend during the whole trip if they did not want them to find out.

"Clean up after yourself and make sure to help them with everything, okay? Even if they don't ask you, just help them." Heejin's mother reminded her as she closed the baggage and headed downstairs. "I know you are all friends and you see this trip as a fun experience for all of you, but you aren't going to be living alone there."

"Mom, when have I ever not helped around the house?" Heejin said checking the time. "They should be here any moment now. Where are Min and Hoon? Did Min already leave?"

"He left to the sleepover directly from the school, but I don't know where Yunghoon is, to be honest," her father said and moved towards the staircase. "Yunghoon! Heejin's about to leave! Come here!"

Even from downstairs they could hear Yunghoon groan as he stood up from his desk chair and headed downstairs. Just hours before he had been talking to his uncle over the phone, so they knew that it was not because of Heejin and did not mind it too much.

"When did you say you'd be back?" Yunghoon asked her.

"On the eighth of September. Just two weeks from now," she answered. "Why? Will you miss me?"

"No, it's just so I can plan the Kim's visit while you are out," Yunghoon explained. "I'll save you the trouble of living with Mother Gothel."

"I told you to call her grandma!" His mother scolded him.

"I'm not calling her my grandmother when she's not around. For all that I care, my grandmother is the one my siblings have. At least she acts like one."

Seunghee had been trying extremely hard for Yunghoon to not break apart from his father's family after his death, but the way the Kim's treated them since she remarried and had Heejin and Min made it exceedingly difficult for her. At first Yunghoon at least tried to do it for his mother, but when Mrs Kim called Seunghee a slut for remarrying and having children Yunghoon was already old enough to understand what had happened and, from then onwards, he decided to cut ties with them. He could not call that woman his grandmother with everything she had done and he was not even aware of her full relationship with Heejin.

"Just wait until I come back," Heejin told him. "If I'm not here, you would need to find and excuse and on the next one she would only talk about it. I already have enough with her telling me off for not going to university."