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She sat there on the adjacent bench, dipping her claws into its surface while holding on to it. Her body trembles as she squeezes her eyes tight and tries to suppress the tears that are streaming down her cheeks as she is failing. She was stuck between wanting to leave and staying. She simply couldn't believe what her sister had just said to her. She desperately wanted to go there because she wanted to meet him and desperately wanted to see him alive after a long time. However, she could not let the interview slip because it was vital to her existence.
She became anxious since she was unsure of what to do. She just couldn't decide it and sat there numb. Not until she was brought back to her senses when she felt the soothing hand over her shoulder and was asked, "Y/n?" They were mostly fascinated and uncertain of whether it was her or not. When she looks up, she quickly dries her tears before getting up from her seat to look at Taehyung, who is still standing there and appearing unhappy.
"What happened? Are you crying?" She was covering her face while sniffing and looking down, not wanting him to know how awkward she was, when he asked her. "Stop crying. What is it, please? Tell me hmm." he asked her while petting her back and calling for a nurse to fetch some. She chugged down more than half of the glass.
She composed herself before giving him the last of the water in the bottle. "All right, so now you're gonna tell me exactly what happened okay?" He sets her down the chair and takes a seat next to her. Even though they were never classmates, he always made an effort to take care of her and help her with her troubles. He is unquestionably an angel in her life.
"I've gotten caught up in a significant issue; I really need to leave, but I can't. They will not accept me the following time if I do not complete the interview in the allotted thirty minutes. I'm at a loss on what to do." she complained to him like a kid to her homeroom teacher about some of her classmates stealing her crayons, her lower lip curled up as she uttered those things to him. He recalls all of things and laughs, but quickly stops when she turns to face him with her poker face, as she always does whenever she gets mad.
"Oh! It's alright You can leave, and I can assist you. I'll let them know there was a medical emergency, and they'll undoubtedly reschedule your interview." He says, causing her to smile broadly. She sprang up and excitedly hugged him while he was still sitting, causing him to become frozen in place before she pulled away and looked at him. "Taehyung, thank you so much. What I would have done without you. I'll quickly be going. Take care." He smiled as she quickly slipped her hands out of his which she was holding while chatting.
"Hey!" Taehyung called her back as she turned to go, and she stopped nodding while standing apart from him, giving him the go-ahead sign to keep speaking while sighing "But I want a favour you know!" He spoke, and she nodded. Unsure, he said, "You have to go on a dinner with me," but to his amazement, she gave him the thumbs up and left, leaving a happy man behind.
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In less than 30 minutes, she was at her destination as she got out of the cab, paying to the driver. Her messed-up face was covered in irregular breath and anxiousness. Although it was difficult to tell whether she was upset or not, the manner in which she was moving so quickly gave the impression that she was angry.
She entered without knocking because the door was already open, and the scene in front of her made her furious and want payback. They were conversing casually and naturally as if nothing had happened when she entered, and when they noticed her, they stood up, perhaps terrified or perhaps annoyed that she hadn't knocked like she always did.
"Has she already forgotten manners even though it's only been a week?" Her father was about to say something to her when the sound of slapping reverberated throughout the spacious hall. He turned to see the man's face slanted to the side and realised what had happened. "Y/N! Are you out of your mind?" he said as he yanked her away from him by her elbow. Her step mother gritted her teeth as she watched the scene in silence because, of course, she had to maintain her significant personality in front of Y/n's father. He shouted at her once more, struggling to keep her away from him before finally failing when she jerked herself off of his hold and ran to the other man, gripping him by his collar.
"How do you feel? Hm? Why are you still alive? How is this possible? Tell me how you survived. Tell me where my mother is, goddammit." The others stayed eerily still in their positions while she yelled, shaking him, completely unaware of the tears that were continuing to pour from her eyes. "Tell me, Soo hyuk. Where my mother is-" She was interrupted, being pushed back by her shoulder, she stumbled.
"Fucking Stop yelling, Y/n. Just stop it and I don't know where she is. Okay! You are all aware that she has passed away. Why the hell are you asking me about the whereabouts of someone who has been deceased for years?-""So how are you still alive?" She asked back, taking him by surprise, as he replied back"So what if I'm still alive? Should I follow your mother's path and go die?" And the environment becomes silent.
"She was with you. Am I correct? You were both hurt in that accident. You both received hospital admission. You were both pronounced dead. Why then are you still alive and not her? How can I not inquire?" She muttered because she was too exhausted to shout.
Her older stepbrother is Soo hyuk. He was the one driving their vehicle on the day her mother was involved in that accident. She was a child, but she still remembers the day they were buried six feet under the ground. Unfortunately, they were declared dead by the authorities when they were admitted, and she doesn't recall ever seeing their faces. According to the doctors, their face structures were so deformed that it was difficult to distinguish them. When she was herself the one to attain the funeral and observe everything with her eyes.
"I honestly have no idea because I was in a coma for years before regaining consciousness only two months ago. I had no idea who or where I was or where I belonged. It's still unclear in my recollection where that location was, and it was really challenging to escape the run-down rooms and reach outside." As he said, "Be thankful I'm still alive," as soon as he was pushed back when she embraced him. He was undoubtedly her step brother, but even though they had only been with each other for two years, he had always been the one nice person in the house that was naturally supportive of her.
When no one else did, he used to love and care for her, and perhaps he still does. She was aware that he wasn't cruel either, but years of frustration led her to snap at him, something she now deeply regrets having done.She regrets it because instead of slapping him and hurting him, she would have welcomed him with wide arms, hugged him, and cried in his embrace. "Do not weep, little bear. I am equally as hurt as you are. I would have rather died than Haru." As she sobs more, when he says, still clutching her closely while other roll their eyes. "Be quiet. And you're no longer leaving me alone." As she says, slapping him on his head.
But the rage she was experiencing would not go away in a moment of solace; rather, it would likely take years to cool down. "It is entirely your fault. You see, neither my mother had to leave before if it was not for you coming here. Why do you have to fucking wreck everything?" Still being held back by Soo hyuk, she replies, pointing at her stepmother when her brother tried speaking."Y/n-" but she again interrupted him when he tried to finish,
"No, Bubba, don't talk today. Why don't you ask her as well? Isn't she the one who made us all suffer, isn't she the one who left your father and married him again?" she asked, pointing to her father, who was about to burst out, "why don't you ask her why she cheated on your father and left him alone, with nothing, not even you two" she said, waving her hand to her step sister to him, "I know Y/n-"
"No, Bubba, you don't." She is the one who cheats, snatches, and destroys, and she calls me one. If she is the one- ""Y/N" Mr Lee yelled, raising his hand to hit her, causing her to protect herself with her hand, but the voice cut him off when it pierced through their ear drums. They shivered as a result of the vibration, forcing her father to take a step back
"Mr Lee!"
"Do not touch my wife. Not when you no longer have any authority over her."
"Or I have my own way of showing you around here."
