On the outside, Alex looks like an ordinary teenager who lives in London and goes to an ordinary high school, but in reality, her life is a nightmare. Since she turned 15, she has been trying to learn about Korean culture by watching some drama series and by listening to Korean music. Though she has to do all of this in secret, why you may ask?
Well, you see, it's actually pretty simple in some sort of way or at least some of it is. Alex went through something called Child Laundering. She knows that she is not British and has always felt special from everyone else, especially for one obvious reason, her Asian features which shine strongly through as she gets older.
She has tried to talk with her so called parents about her possibly being Korean, but every time she tries to bring it up they just deny it.
"Alex, stop talking about it! How many times do we have to tell you that you're not Korean?!" Your dad yelled at you as he slammed his hand down on the table, this had been going on for an hour with the two of you just arguing back and forth. Your mum looked at you with worrying eyes even though you knew she didn't care about you, just like everyone else.
"Sweetie, you're just confused, and I get that, but why don't you try to get some sleep and make tomorrow you'll be over this, okay?" She said patting your back lightly but in a way where you could tell she didn't mean it.
You looked at your dad straight in the eyes "I found some papers in Korean, what are they about?"
Just as you said that you could see the anger in your dad's eyes as his face got redder and redder and that's when you felt it.
The firm cold hand right across your face as you got slapped. "Go to your room, now! You have no right to be looking through our stuff, even if it has something to do with you it's still none of your business!! Now go, I don't want to see you for the rest of the day!" Your dad yelled as you stood up and started walking into your room slamming the door.
Just as you sat down on your bed your phone lit up, it was your one and only best friend who wanted to face time.
You answered the call slightly trying to hide your face but without success as your best friend noticed immediately.
"Hey what happened? Did they abuse you again?" She asked as you with worry and concern in her tone.
You looked at her when you started tearing up again "Yeah, but don't worry about that. I found some papers in Korean which included my name and another person's name that was written with both Korean and English letters, but they said it was none of my business and then he slapped me" you said drying your eyes. As your best friend looked at you with slightly wide eyes.
"Maybe that's your brother's name? Also, you need to get out of that house before anything seriously bad happens to you" Your best friend asked as you looked at her in silence for short time.
"Minji I don't know if it's him and even if it is him, I have no way to find him. I literally have zero information on him and trust me I want to leave this house so bad as well, so don't worry about that." You said reassuring your best friend as she smiled a light smile at you.
"Why don't you just go take a DNA test, that way you will be able to figure out at least a bit about him. Also, what name did it say on the paper? That might be able to help you a bit as well" Hmm a DNA test? That's actually a pretty good idea, you don't know why you haven't thought about that before.
"It just said Changsub, but that could literally be anyone," You said sounding completely hopeless compared to Minji who suddenly got really excited.
"Changsub? As in Lee Changsub??" She said almost squealing like some fangirl, which you aren't surprised by at this point.
"I don't know I didn't really see the last name as it was just a quick glance and if it was, I highly doubt it's him, so let's not even go down that path," you said sounding really tired by everything at this point. Why can't you just have a normal life like everyone else instead of suffering through this every day?
"Okay, but now that we're down this topic already, I thought about what you told me the other day. Have you heard BTOB's most recent song called 'Missing You'?" She asked looking extremely curious at you now.
"Yes, a few times I think, but don't say something, like it's about me and brother who I'm pretty sure, isn't him but some other random dude who happens to have the same name as him," you said sounding even more hopeless than before.
"Heyy don't be so negative about it, you never know, okay? And as you said yourself, you have no information on him, so there's enough of a chance of it being him that there is of it not being him" Maybe she's right about that, you just don't want to give yourself too high hopes you know, so you always go for the lowest of the lowest.
"I guess you're right. Well, I'll talk to you later. I have to go now. I have a few things that I need to do" you said as you and Minji said goodbye to each other, and you ended the call.
You looked around your small room and grabbed the biggest big you had as you started packing your stuff, carefully laying the documents you saw, inside of the side of the bag.
Withoutlooking back, you opened the window and jumped out. And that's when you startedrunning like your life depended on it. You couldn't take any bus as you had just enough money for the test and a one-way ticket to Seoul.
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The lost sister // Lee Changsub
FanfictionAlex Smith also known as Lee Chinsun is born in Korea but raised in England since she was taken away from her biological family immediately after she was born. She then later finds out at the age of 18 that she has an older brother who's 10 years ol...