Lee JongSuk hates leaving things up to fate, it's never been too good to him, he lives every day one day at a time trying to survive school and a terrible home life. Im Yoona has never had to struggle, the only child of two doting parents, she's gro...
BoYoung was worried about JongSuk, ever since the incident at the amusement park, he didn't want to leave the house, she didn't blame him though, how could she be when one of the people who hurt him had been able to find him and threaten him, but it wasn't good for him to stay in the house all the time. At least he had finally come out of his room, that had taken a week to convince him to come out of his room. It didn't help that Yoona wasn't able to come around ,her grandmother was sick and she and her parents had gone to the countryside to help her . BoYoung had work , luckily the tutor would be coming next week ,but evenings it was a bit more complicated, technically speaking JongSuk obviously could stay home on his own, but realistically speaking, BoYoung was very cautious of leaving him alone, one of the neighbours had taken a shine to JongSuk when he started living with BoYoung, she told BoYoung that he reminded her of her grandson who was a year older than JongSuk, "He and his mother live several hours away, so I don't get to see them as much." The woman had explained to BoYoung, the older woman was more than happy to stay with JongSuk until BoYoung came home from work. Soon the late hours inflexible schedule wouldn't be a problem, she was quitting her job at the hospital and going to start working at a clinic her friend from college had opened up in one of the buildings in the downtown area. The hours would be more flexible than working at the hospital .
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Kim Woobin placed a large pot on the ground before reaching out and ringing the doorbell of the house next door, he and his mother and little sister had moved in with his grandmother a few weeks ago after his father had cheated on Eomma with a younger richer woman . Woobin hadn't wanted to leave his friends back home, he liked it there, it wasn't that Seoul was a horrible place, because it wasn't , he just hated that his family was broken up. Halmeoni had made crab stew , she asked Woobin to take an extra pot next door to her neighbors, Woobin wondered what kind of people lived next door, when they had moved in, he hadn't really been interested in meeting anyone or even leaving the house. Eomma had suggested they go to Lotte World only because his sister Una kept begging to go , he hadn't even wanted to go, but since he really didn't have anything else to do that day he figured it wouldn't hurt to go. He was thinking about the boy he had met that day, he didn't know what had happened,but he hoped the kid wherever he was, he was doing better.
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"I wonder who's at the door?" JongSuk looked up as Noona pressed the intercom button and spoke into it, curious he got up and walked over to the door standing behind her, she opened the door, JongSuk was surprised to see the boy from the amusement park the one that looked like a dinosaur, why was he here and he was holding a pot . Noona invited him into the house. She introduced herself and then him
"Why do you have a pot." JongSuk asked.
"Oh my Halmeoni made crab stew," Woobin replied, Noona reached for the pot, "That was sweet of her." They headed into the kitchen and Noona placed the pot on the table."This is a godsend thank your Halmeoni for me." Noona said removing the lid, the smell of stewed meats and spices filled the air with it's aromatic scent
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"Noona doesn't cook." JongSuk told Woobin. Noona rolled her eyes, " I don't have time to cook."
This was true, BoYoung hardly cooked and when she did "cook" it was basically microwave meals from the convenience store,or delivery.
"I'll tell her."Woobin said . JongSuk remembered that he still had Woobin's jacket and he ran out of the room.
Woobin watched him run off and wondered where he rushed off to in a hurry, he turned to BoYoung, his grandmother hadn't told him much about her neighbours and he had to admit he was curious he hadn't expected the boy from the amusement park to be his neighbor.
"So JongSuk is your younger brother." Woobin asked BoYoung in formal speech.
"I'm taking care of him, I'm his guardian." BoYoung replied
"What about his parents?" Woobin wondered
"It's complicated " was the only thing BoYoung would say, Woobin continued, "I met JongSuk and his friend Yoona a week ago at the amusement park, I don't know if you know what happened to him, I found him in the bathroom someone had scared him, terrified him really now I'm wondering if it had anything to do with his complicated parents"
"I'm his guardian because his eomma and her boyfriend were abusing him, he was a patient at my hospital that's how I found out about the abuse and the landlady of the apartment they were living in also confirmed it , he actually wasn't admitted because of the abuse , but because he had fallen down the stairs at the apartment complex after most likely blacking out from being beaten severely. The abuse was revealed after we examined him and the police talked to neighbors. You probably ran into the boyfriend there's a search warrant for both of them."
Woobin had no idea, if he had known the man was wanted by the police he would've punched the guy how horrible was this man that he caused that sort of reaction.
"But JongSuk is better right, he survived the fall." Woobin said.
"The fall caused a brain injury, it was two flights of stairs on concrete,it was a miracle he even survived,but he now has the mentality of a small child, he's a teenager ,with the mind of a five year old and eleven years of abuse stunted him emotionally." BoYoung replied.
"I have your jacket ." Woobin turned around to see JongSuk standing behind him holding out his leather jacket in a dry cleaners bag ,he had forgotten he loaned it to the younger boy to hide his accident on that day.
"That was your coat? I had it dry cleaned" BoYoung said
"I honestly forgot about the coat." Woobin replied taking the jacket and draping it on the sofa
BoYoung looked at Woobin,despite his sharp features the boy seemed like a nice young man, and JongSuk seemed to like him, and he was wary of most people years of abuse and being bullied made him not trust most people, even now he still had a hard time warming up to strangers.
"I have an offer for you."BoYoung looked at Woobin. "I want to offer you a job ."
Woobin looked at her, "A job ?"
BoYoung nodded and continued, "I need someone to stay with JongSuk a few hours during the week, normally his friend Yoona comes over after school and they spend time together,but she's with her parents helping her grandmother because she's ill , I can't leave him on his own,not with his condition. Your grandma was helping out too.but I feel guilty I've offered to pay her,but she refuses my money. I don't want to take advantage of her and that's what it seems like.That's why I'm offering you this job, you'll get paid ₩200000 a week." She offered
"I'll have to think about it, but I'll let you know." Woobin stood up,he bowed politely before heading out of the house ,as he headed home he thought of the offer, that was a lot of money for babysitting, because that's what he would be doing he was going to be babysitting a kid and not even a little kid,but an eighteen year old kid. Most people thought Woobin looked scary, even his fourteen year old sister said if she met him a dark alley she'd be scared (he didn't care what she thought Una was a brat anyway)but there was something about JongSuk that made him want to protect the younger boy especially after hearing about his home life.
