𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐀 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐊𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒㆐SEVENTEEN

01

"CinderShua! Get down urgently, child!" An old  lady was shouting, his stepmother since he was about twelve years old. After the call was repeated for at least three minutes, Joshua removed his headphones and calmly went down the stairs via the room where his stepmother was.

"Something happens?" He questioned her reluctantly because he already knew what was coming, some complaint about leaving a stain or perhaps reminding him that he lived attached to his own house.

"Of course something is happening, Joshua."  She protested indignantly but at the same time trying to maintain her elegant demeanor while she took a taste of her tea and then left the cup on a glass tray placed on the table next to her. from the sofa where she sat.
"You can't continue living here child." She said something calmer causing stupefaction on the younger's face.

"Excuse me, but this is my house, and even though you are married to my father, it does not give you the right to expel me." Ji Soo responded calmly, thus filling the lady's patience.

"You are twenty-two years old, it is time for you to become independent, we have already paid for your university enough."

"Correction, my father helps me pay for it, not you." Shua corrected him with some annoyance.

"To what I was going ..." She resumed the topic, positioning herself in front of the aforementioned
"There are too many expenses, and as you must know, a lady of such stature as me should not work, she deserves her luxuries, your father already helps Hyo Soo, your little sister pay for her high school and you know how they are in schools, our little girl must wear the best, you don't care what they say or your sister's reputation, child."

His stepmother, Jung Mi posed with false pity, holding the hands of Joshua who looked at her somewhat confused .

"You could also work, I study and work, dad works, if you did, you could give Hyo Soo the luxuries he wants." JiSoo spoke in a low tone.

"But how far does your selfishness go, CinderShua!? You little brat, don't you know that what happened to your father isn't enough for Hyo Soo and I! MATURE THE DAMN TIME AND LEAVE! YOU ARE A BURDEN ." She shouted at him, squeezing the hands of the young man in front of her harder and harder, making him complain a little about the pain from her grotesque grip.

"I could let go." He asked kindly, trying to separate herself from the lady who seemed determined to achieve her goal."

" Your father is already old, and the money is only enough for the basics, you spend a lot here, you spend electricity, water, almost all services with that money we could live better, think about your father and your sister." He encouraged this time with a condescending but false tone making Joshua see himself as what his stepmother said, a burden.

"Think about it." That word, which was not enough for his father's wife to have had him as a servant since he came home under the excuse of "your father works a lot, I must rest, Hyo Soo has to study, do something useful."

After that he goes to the cafe where he worked, fulfilling his six-hour shift, from four in the afternoon, this was Hong Ji Soo's life since he was eighteen years old, working to pay for his own food since his stepmother claimed that she would not cook. for a son who was not his, to study and work, luckily for him he was on vacation but that did not reduce his worries, how he would pay for his university and at the same time the rent for his apartment that he had to rent since it was a matter of time before his stepmother leave the suitcases outside. When he leaves work he remembers that it is September 24, another anniversary of the death of his mother in that transport accident, he would never forget the day when they told him that his mother would no longer be with him, he felt so alone.