Shades of a rose 🥀 (Taekook oneshot)

Shades of a rose🥀

Once upon a time, there was a very rich man who lived with his two daughters and one son. 

The two older daughters laughed at anyone who did not dress as well as they did. 

If they were not going to a ball, they were shopping for as many fine dresses and hats as they could carry home. 

The youngest son, Taehyung , liked to read most of all. 

Some people called him beauty since he was very ethereal.

"No one will want you!" his two older sisters said, and they laughed. 

"Look at your hair - you look like a servant boy!" 

Taehyung did not know why they talked to him in a mean way. 

But he chose to ignore them.

One day, the father got some very bad news. 

He had spent all of his money on a ship that he sent out to sea for trade. 

Now he learned that the ship was gone. 
Everything on it was lost! 

All at once, the rich father became as poor as poor could be. 

The family could no longer stay in their big house. 

The house, its fine tables and chairs, and all of their fine things had to be sold. 

All the father had left was a little hut deep in the woods. 

So that is where he and his two daughters and one son had to move. 

Living in the hut in the woods was hard work. 

Each day, a fire had to be started, meals cooked, the place cleaned up, the garden tended, and things fixed when they broke. 

Now that the family was poor, you might think the two older sisters would help out with the chores.  Think again. 

"He is such a mess," they said, turning up their noses at Taehyung .

"He might as well serve us." 

And so Taehyung did all the hard work. 
And then – good news! – the father's ship came to shore! 

"Daughters and son," said the happy father, "I am going to town. 

Tell me what a fine gift I can bring back for you."
"Bring me the finest dress from the finest shop," said the eldest sister, Jenny.

"I want one just like it," said the middle sister, Lia.

"And you, Taehyung ?" said he.
"All I want, Father," said he, "is a single rose."

"Can you believe him?" said the Jenny.

"What a fool!" said the Lia.  They both laughed.

"Girls!" said the father.

  "If that is what Taehyung wants, that's what I will bring back for him."

The father was on his way home when he thought, "I forgot all about the rose for Taehyung!" 

All at once, the sky turned black.  "Oh, dear!" he said. 

"A storm is coming!"

A moment later, heavy dark rains fell from the sky. 

Soaking wet and tired, the father saw a blink of light from far away. 

He went closer to the light, hoping it meant there was some place he could ask to stay the night.