Safe Heaven

Chapter 10

When they stepped out of Sehun's luxury car, the paparazzi's flashes immediately meets Krystal's eyes, blinding her for a second there. She looks around for Sehun with fright, not having good encounters with reporters and medias before this. Her heart felt light when she feels his assuring arm around her waist. Pecking her on the temple he whispers, "It's alright, I'm here. Follow my lead, okay?" Gently, he grasp her right hand and intwines their fingers before walking into the beautifully structured building.

The media was going crazy. Well who wouldn't? The infamous heir to the Oh Company had finally been spotted with a lady; a fine one it is. Has he finally found his significant other? Well, nobody knows, yet.

Krystal's lips immediately forms a smile when she meet eyes with her friends. She rushes to their table and lunges towards Tao. Zitao sweeps her off her feet and hugs her, missing his favorite mei mei already. Sehun's nose flares in jealousy. "Hi boys!" She chirps happily and greets the rest, taking a seat onto the available spot next to Kris. She pauses when she sees a lady purse on the chair.

Grinning, she teases to Kris, "Ayye, looks like someone's got a lady friend tonight." Kris blushes upon hearing this. Wait, the cold face Kris was actually blushing tonight? "Ah, she went to the washroom I think. Lovely woman she is." Baekhyun answer and winks at Krystal, making the two exchange laughters.

"Krystal, come on, I need to introduce you to some people." Sehun pulls her away from the group, diving into the wonderful world of business.

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After an hour or so, Sehun and Krystal came back to their gang's to take a break from all that talking.

"Woah babe, I never knew you could speak English, you certainly took my father off guard back there." Sehun mutters softly into her ears, tickling her skin.

Giggling she replies, "I was born in America, Sehun, of course I would know English."

"Soojung?" A small sweet voice lingers in their ears, catching Krystal off guard. Krystal turns around to look where the source of sound was coming from. She froze in her seat when she sees that it was coming from Kris's date. The 12 men looks at these two girls in confusion. "Soojung-ah ..." The light brown haired started, causing Krystal to abruptly stand up from her seat, her eyes sending daggers to the lady sitting next to Kris.

"I'll be going to the washroom." Krystal spat and strutted off angrily.

She walks pass by the toilet and out to the back lawn where there stood many trees and a little lake in the middle of the green.

"Soojung!" The same voice desperately utters, not far from the Krystal.

She whips around to face her long lost sibling. "Well hello there, Jessica."

"Enjoyed running away from home?" Krystal smirks, her voice filled with venom.

Jessica ignores her question and retorts back by throwing a question back to Krystal. "How did you got to South Korea?"

Pouting, Krystal twirls a strand of her hand with her fingers. "How did you think, unnie?"

Jessica hesitantly walked closer to her, making Krystal take a few steps behind. "Don't come near me you betrayer." Her voice breaks.

"How-how could you have left me like that? We were all broken, Sooyeon and you decided to run away?! What the fuck? Did you thought you were the only one suffering?!"

Jessica opens her mouth to say something but got cut off by Krystal.

"Dad sold me to a whore house. He finally did it, Sooyeon. He listened to that witch step mother of ours. You know what? I'm glad that you ran away because if you stayed, you would be here in my position right now!" She screams, all the nostalgia kicking in, her knees suddenly growing weak.

Jessica stares at her in disbelief. "Would you let me speak?! I am your older sister for goodness sake!" She screams back at Krystal when she sees her wanting to cut her off again.

And she did.

"Well would you start acting like one?! When mother died, you were the only witness that was reliable to put Kwon Haesun behind bars, but you know what you did the day before trial, you backed up! And I took your place Sooyeon, I took your place." Krystal shouts.

"Soojung, I was only 9 year old."

"GOD DAMN IT SOOYEON, I WAS ONLY FUCKING 4?!"

That done it, the hot tears that were already in her eyes rolls down onto her cheeks.

"I am done playing big sister for you, Sooyeon. I had always been protecting you. When ... when will it be your turn to protect me?" Krystal whispers and falls onto her knees on the ground, Jessica rushing after her.

"Unnie ... remember that time when you went into appa's office when he already told us not to? Dad asked us who went in and I voluntary said it was me." Weakly, Krystal says as Jessica grasp onto her face with her palms.

"I've never told you this but after that, dad took me away and spanked me with his belt about a 100 times." Jessica gasps and covered her mouth in shock.

"I still have them ... the scars." Krystal chokes a sob and continues, "Remember that time when we liked the same boy from my class in middle school while you were in high school?" Jessica nods in reply, not saying a word.

"I let him go didn't I? So that he would love you instead. I told him he was ugly when he confessed to me and I made him hate me so much that he would love you instead." She stops and took in a deep breath.

"I loved him a lot unnie, but i sacrificed my feelings away because I love you more."

Jessica was lost for words. Krystal sees this as an opportunity and pushes her older sibling away before sprinting off to another direction that she did not know of. Sehun scrambles away quickly towards Krystal from the bush he was hiding in.

"Krystal!" Sehun hollers and she comes to a halt when he hears that soothing voice of his. Turning around, she looks at him with her tears falling like Niagara Falls. Sehun stops in front of her and brought her body to his for a warm hug. She sobbed onto his shoulders, letting her arms limp on the both sides of her. "Come on Soojung, I'll take you to a place far away, a place somewhere only we know."

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Krystal was done crying. She kept her eyes shut as she listens to the sound of the waves splashing onto the sandy beach silently. Sehun was sitting right beside her with his blazer draped over her shoulders, he watches her, making almost no sound at all. He looks down to their interlocked fingers. Krystal had not want to let his fingers go, even when he drove. And he didn't refused her. He lifts their hands up and placed a chaste kiss onto the back of her palms before retreating their hands back to the ground.

"My mom was murdered." She looks into the night sky and sighs. Sehun listens to her silently and tentatively, his eyes never inching from hers.

"Brutally." Her voice quivered and her lips trembled.

Sehun couldn't take it anymore so her pulled her close to him and hurried his face into her milky colored neck. His lips grazed her clavicle.

"Stop talking." He muttered.

"Stop talking if you're only hurting yourself. It pains me when I see you get hurt."

A single tear left Krystal's eye.