Our Baby Stay

6.

Chan and Felix quietly gathered everyone but Minho into Chan's room, located just 3 doors away from Raine's room. Rain pounded on the roof, thunder sounded and lightning struck in the distance. Minho was in his room, scrolling on his phone and thinking about getting a midnight snack. Raine was asleep until the thunder and lightning. She hated storms.

She got up and out of bed, jumping at every strike of lightning and boom of thunder. She tiptoed toward the stairs wondering why it was so quiet. She wanted comfort. She stopped when she heard whispers in Chan's room. She reached for the doorknob, her hand stopping as she heard a name that made her heart falter. She gulped and put her ear to the door.

"So the same Lee Kwan that is her father is also your estranged uncle. You need to speak with your parents about this. And Raine. She deserves to know that she's your biological cousin." She barely heard Chan say. His voice was already sounding so distant as she suddenly heard her drum of a heart over everything else.

"What if she thinks diff-" And that's where she lost it all. Lee Kwan. Her father. The same father that killed her mother and took her with him to be with his new family. She was sweating. She felt hot and cold at the same time. The last thing she remembered was screaming at the sudden loud crash of thunder and running to her room, banging into the walls and doors as she ran into her closet and hid. Her world went black as soon as she fell down and hugged her knees to her chest.

*Flashback*

3yr old Raine was crawling on the floor, playing with her toy cars. She loved cars. Her mother was making her lunch in the kitchen, humming her favorite song. Hush little baby. Raine looked up as she heard her father's car pull into the driveway. She crawled behind the recliner. Even at 3, she knew when to hide.

Her father always came home drunk. She looked back at the spot she had been playing in. She had accidentally left one of her cars there. It was too late to go get it. Her father flung the door open and started stumbling toward the kitchen. He most likely wanted a hot plate of food even though it was lunch time.

She watched her father step on and break her favorite car. She watched him fall. She heard him cuss. His angry eyes landed on her and he sprung toward her. She screamed and shielded herself, but her father didn't make it to her. "No Kwan! She's just a toddler. She didn't know any better! Please forgive her!" Her mother begged. "That little bitch isn't even mine! You cheated I know you did you slut!" Kwan yelled accusations at her mother. She hadn't cheated. He just wanted to believe she had.

Raine tuned out the fight like she always did, ignoring the screaming and staying hidden. But something new happened after her father had finished beating her mother. Her mother didn't move or make a sound. Raine waited until Kwan had left the room before she got up and waddled to her mother. Her mother was bloody and bruised. Her lips slowly turned blue. "M-mommy..." Raine cried. "Mommy wake up..." She begged.

Kwan came down into the room with a bag and grabbed Raine up roughly into his arm. "MOMMY! MOMMY NO! MOMMY HELP!" She screamed. They drove for 3 days. She heard about her mother on the radio, her father blaring it and smiling like a maniac. "Lauren Lee was found dead in her home yesterday. Her daughter, Raine Lee, and husband, Kwan Lee, are still missing. Kwan is currently the top suspect." The man on the radio had said.

When they finally got to their destination after 4 days of driving and then a plane ride to South Korea, Raine was blindsided by a step mom and half sister. All of those long business trips suddenly made sense, but this girl was older than her by a few years. That meant the affair had started before Raine was born. Over the next 2 years, Raine's life was hell. Raine had seen that the police were looking for her and her dad, but after a while it died down.