Empire

5. Park Jimin

Ro-na wasn't a rich girl like Man-wol or Mi-na. To be honest, she was poor. She shared a one room apartment with her mother, who wasn't the parent. They didn't have money, her money was a toilet cleaner at a McDonald's, no one wanted to hire her because of her husband, he was sentenced to prison for murder. Ro-na had to work part-time after school at a fast food restaurant. She didn't have time to think about love with her studies and job. She was a really responsible person, and no matter how difficult it was with her mother she was allways respectful.
One day, before school she saw her mother sobbing on the couch as she walked to the kitchen. She quickly sat down to her to comfort her.
"What's wrong?" she asked worriedly.
"I messed up, Ro-na. I'm so sorry!" she cried as she leaned on her daughter.
"What are you talking about?" Ro-na asked.
Her mother just took a pregnancy test out of her pocket. It was positive.
"What's this?" Ro-na gasped as she picked up the test.
"I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking, I was drunk." her mother cried.
Some weeks ago her mother was drinking at a bar, it was a common occasion for her. A good looking man in a balck tie sat down next to her. Men loved her, she was really pretty, like her daughter. But she allways rejected them. But not this time.
"What's your name?" he asked.
"Oh Ku-ni!" she sayed as she took another shot.
After some hours of drinking she and the man went to a room and had sex. He didn't use protection and Ku-ni was way too drunk to even think about it.
"Who is the faher?" Ro-na bursted out in anger.
"I don't know." Ku-ni shook her head as she cried.
"You're unbeliveable! Look around! We can barely live trough the weeks, and you get pregnant. Are you doing this on purpose? Do you really want to ruin my life? How can you be this irresponsible? What the hell mom!" she shouted at her mother. This was the first time she had ever done something like this. But she completely lost it. She felt like her mother was ruining her.
She picked up her backpack and quickly left for school, she slammed the door after she got out from the apartment.
She was storming down on the staircase and at the bus station she looked so angry no one dared to even look at her.
After she got off of the bus she headed to school but she was so angry she didn't pay attention to the surroundings.
As she was getting close to the school's gate she bumped into someone whome had just gotten out of a black Mercedes. Then she saw Man-wol getting out too. The man turned around and it was Seon-jung.
"Oh, I'm so sorry!" Ro-na got stunned.
"Be more careful next time." Seon-jung brushed her off.
"Ro-na, hi!" Man-wol walked up to her.
"Hello!" she smiled at Man-wol.
"You know my sister?" Seon-jung looked at Man-wol.
"We've met sometimes at the corridors and the courtyard." Ro-na explained "I didn't know she was your sister."
"Well, as you can see, she is." Seon-jung rolled his eyes.
"She beautiful, right?" Man-wol looked at Ro-na then at her brother.
"She's good for one, I guess." he sighted as he walked away.
"Don't mind him, he's really self-contained, but he's a really good person." Man-wol smiled at Ro-na.
"Yeah, I've experienced how cold he can be." Ro-na gave a little smile to her friend.
"But what's wrong?" Man-wol asked her.
"Oh, it's nothing." she brushed it off "Sorry, but I have to go to class." she said and rushed away.
"But we still have like twenty minutes!" Man-wol shouted after her.
"Man-wol!" someone grabbed her by her arm, it was Mi-na.
"God, you startled me!" Man-wol said.
"Does your brother have a date to the anniversay prom?" Mi-na asked.
"I don't think so. Why?" she asked.
"Doesn't matter." Mi-na smiled at her and rushed away.
"Jeez!" Man-wol watched her running to the entrance.
She started walking too and for her luck the next person who encontoured her was His Almighty Song Eun-wo. The sun shined behind him and he looked like a true god. She pictured angel wings on him and a glory above his head. She was just starring at him and she quickly remembered the last friday afternoon she had spent with him. How she woke up on his chest.
         "Hi, Man-wol!" he smiled at her.
         "Hello!" she glanced at him.
         "I have something for you." he said as he put his hand in his pocket.
She was stunned by that. She thought he was going to give her expensive jewellery and ask her to be his girlfriend. She had already pictures it in her head.
        "Here, you dropped it at the coffe shop." he gave her her Jimin photocard.
        "Oh!" her smile faded away "Thanks." she smiled at him and walked away.
She was staring at the photocard while she was walking to her class.
"I was scared I've lost you." she told it to the Jimin photocard.
Then she bumped into her main bully.
"Watch where you're going!" she pushed her and Man-wol dropped Jimin.
"Wow, look at this!" Ki-ra picked up the photocard from the floor and laughed at Man-wol's face.
"Give it back to me!" Man-wol stood up but the others pushed her back.
"I guess we have an ARMY here, how daring." Ki-ra made fun out of her "We wouldn't want Jimin to get hurt, right?" she asked sarcastically and ripped the photocard into two.
"No!" Man-wol cried out loud.
Eun-wo was going on the stairs to his floor when he heard the noise. He instantly knew what was happening. He didn't care about the time and he ran there.
"What's going on?" he rushed there.
"Oh my God, Song Eun-wo is talking to us!" A girl jamp up from her happines.
"What are you doing to this poor girl?" he shouted at Ki-ra.
"I-I'm.." she couldn't find the words she was too startled.
Man-wol quickly picked up the remainings of Jimin and Eun-wo helped her up. He took her with himself to her spot at the courtyard.
Man-wol begun crying harder after they sat down. She burried her face into his chest and hugged him tight.
"What happened?" he asked.
"She ripped Jimin into two." Man-wol cried.
"You can buy a new one." he tried his best os comfort her.
"But I don't want a new one. I've got this one from Seon-jung for my 16th birthday. He spent all his savings on 10 Map of the soul:7 version 4 just to make sure I get a Jimin photocard. It means so much to me." she cried.
"Come here!" he hugged her again.
"When will this end?" she cried.
He didn't say anything just pet her hear. He didn't know what to say. If he listened to his heart he would have told everythinv to Seon-jung.
Speaking of Seon-jung he was peacefully mindig his business when Mi-na walked up to him.
        "What?" he asked.
        "I've heard you have no one to go to the prom with." she smiled at him.
       "You want me to go with you?" he asked.
       "Mhm." she nodded with a big smile.
       "Allright." he sighted as he nodded.
       "Yey!" she jamp up from happines and ran away.
       "Jezz!" he rolled his eyes.
When he turned around to go back to his class he bumped into Ro-na again. She spilled her shake on his shirt.
       "Oh fuck! Fuck fuck fuck! I'm so sorry I didn't mean to!" she apologized.
       "What's with you? Do you bump into everyone or you have some problem with me?" he snapped at her.
       "It wasn't intentional I swear." she looked at him in the eyes. As she stared at him she started to understand why was everyone crushing him. He was beautiful.
       "What?" he brought her back to the present "You like me." he teased her.
        "Are you insane? A jerk like you?" she gave him a tf look.
        "What did you just say?" he brough up an eyebrow.
        "What you have heard. I don't care how rich and sexy you are, you're still a jerk." she said and rushed away.
He giggled as he watched her rushing away. He felt something in his body. But he didn't know what it was.
Ro-na did too. In stomach. It was storming like the ocean.