The Heart of A Criminal; SanJoong

01. The Leader

In was a quiet evening at The Choi Estate. San was looking around for some paper work revolving the missing Associate that his father was after. His phone then starts to ring, so he immediately attends to it. It read, "Councilor Shin".

"Hello Sir," the consigliere says

"Hello" San replied "Is there anything special you're calling for?"

"I'm sorry," the consigliere pauses "your father is dead"

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one week has passed
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All dressed in black, San kneels down to his father's coffin, tears dripping from his eyes. His younger brother Jongho was sitting right next to him with a sorrowful look on his face, as he mourned for his father's loss.

San had to accept the fact that he had to take his father's title. He was the only adult left to take care of his younger brother. Their mother died a tragic death, which has always haunted San. This job comes with many faults, so he has to keep Jongho safe and uninvolved in his work.

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one month has passed
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San went undercover to find the runaway Associate that hadn't paid his dept. He changed his whole look. His radiant pink hair shined brighter than ever and he now went by the name Eric Jung.

San has been staying far from his brother, because he doesn't want to risk anything happening to him. His brother, Jongho goes to a middle class public high school. He goes by the name Alex Jung. San usually orders his workers to pick Jongho up from school. At times he attends his school activities since he's his legal guardian, but either than that he's off doing work while Jongho stays in a small house with security cameras installed.

San sits down at his desk. He looks through some papers then finds something. A picture of Associate his father was hunting down and his location. He probably didnt live there anymore, but it's a great way for him to get more information.

San presses a button on the work phone on his desk and a man picks up

"Anything you need, sir?" the man says

"I need Robert and William at my office right away." San says then cuts the call

A few moments later

"You needed us, sir?" Robert says

"This" San points at the address "is Kim Jinhong's previous address" he hands the paper to the two "go there and ask whoever lives there if they know anything about him. If he has any kids, a wife, ask anything you can think of."

The two nod and immediately head out.

San was exhausted of all the work. He was getting overwhelmed, so he decided to take a little break and get some coffee. He checked the security cameras to see if his brother was safe before he left.

San gets into the car and goes to the nearest dine in café, which was almost 10 miles away. But at least he's able to relax. He enters the beautifully decorated place. It was slightly dim with warm tone to it. It felt homey, which is something he hasn't felt in a long time.

San walk up to the counter to order a drink. There was a white haired young male laughing with a female worker. The male looks over and quickly gets in work mode.

"I'm sorry, I kinda got carried away" the male says "what would you like to order?"

"Took you long enough" San says as a joke "I'd like a medium roast house coffee with a little extra sugar" he orders

"Alright, that'll be three fifty five" the male says and San quickly pays "thank you, your order will be right up" the male smiles and San couldn't help but to smirk.

San sits down at a table near, his elbow on the table and one hand on his cheek. He couldn't keep his eyes off of the white haired male. He read his nametag as "Nicholas" (aka Hongjoong, if y'all didn't read the intro).

Hongjoong looked back and saw the pink haired male looking at him. San quickly adverted his attention away from the other male, pretending he wasn't looking at him.

"Order for Eric Jung" Hongjoong calls out and San gets up to get the drink. He sits down and takes a sip and tilts his head "there's something off about this" San gets up and heads over to the counter.

Hongjoong looks back to see San standing there with his drink almost full.

"Is this a dark roast or medium?" He asks

"It's medium, like you ordered" Hongjoong says

"Actually, it's dark roast" the girl Hongjoong was talking to earlier said "we're out of medium roast, so we usually put less coffee in the drink"

Hongjoong internally face palmed himself out of embarrassment "I'm sorry, I'll get you a refund on that" Hongjoong heads to the cashier area, but he gets pulled back by San.

"I'm fine with this one," San says "it's not that bad" he says inching closer to Hongjoong's face and Hongjoong pulls away. San puts one hand in the pocket of his slacks and grabs his coffee with the other, taking a sip.

Hongjoong felt a weird feeling inside of his stomach when San was present, but he ignored it and went back to work.

San heads back to "work" feeling much better than he did before.

"Nicholas" San says then chuckles "he's something" he makes the music in his car louder and continues a peaceful drive.

Y'all I'm literally not even done with three other stories I've written already. I start it then I don't know how to end it because I haven't thought that far on yet. This story I actually have a written plot, beginning to end. Hopefully it plays out right.