Broken ties..

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"Chan!"- MS. Bang called out for Chan as she walked along the shore while her dress flowed in the light wind. She wasn't much concerned as she knew that Chan was an obedient kid and wouldn't cross his limit. he was much more mature for a 5-year-old.

Soon she saw two distant figures laying by the beach-MS. Bang's steps quickened as a bit of panic rose in her. She took quick steps towards to two bodies only to find it was Minho and Chan hugging each other while they slept.

her heart melted; she couldn't help but coo at their cuteness. she stared at them for some good 5 minutes until she noticed Minho's dried up tears, her heart dropped to her knees.

From the beginning of Minho's life Ms. Bang knew him, even Chan didn't know this fact but for Ms. Bang Minho was like her other son, after all Ms. bang and Ms. lee used to be inseparable..........................Before jealousy burned everything down.

As beautiful forest caught in fire is burned down to ashes, the soulful relationship was destroyed in a similar way leaving behind regrets and anger.

Ms. bang sighed while looking at the boys. her lips curled into a sad smile, how much she wished everything to go back to normal.

She pulled out her phone and clicked a picture, a picture she'll treasure forever.

"Maybe one day, their bond [Minho's and Chan's] strengthen the broken ties." Ms. Bang thought as a little hope swirled inside her.

She bent down and lightly shook Chan's shoulder to wake him up. Chan rubbed his eyes and stirred a look of annoyance crossed his face. He was half asleep and didn't want to wake up just yet.

"Wake up Chan"- Ms. Bang

"Just 5 more minutes mom"- Chan spoke as he hugged Minho tighter.

"You can sleep the way back home the car seat is better than the sand."

Chan realized that he had been sleeping on the shore for the past few hours, yet he didn't want to move.

Ms. Bang sighed, and slowly picked Chan and Minho up, the two snuggled against her chest and she headed to her car and tucked Chan in the backseat of her car. leaving him under the observance of Mr. Bang and went inside the beach house.

Ms. Lee hadn't changed the interior much except the kitchen the pictures were still the same nothing was added nothing was removed, maybe deep-down Ms. Lee also wished for everything to go back to normal.

Ms. Bang climbed up the staircase and went inside Minho's room to tuck him in his bed. she gently stroked his hair as she put him to sleep and started to look around the room.

It was the same, the guitar and mic beside the closet, used by Ms. Lee and Ms. Bang to make family camping nights much more fun. the drawings they drew together, and the photos clicked by their film camera, everything was just the same.

Ms. Band walked to the left corner of the room a special place. A little wooden tile much smaller then to rest was a special one.

Ms. Bang sat down and lifted the tile, reveling a small compartment filled with memories of when everything used to be happy. She picked out a picture closed the compartment and left the venue......not unnoticed by Ms. lee . her plan was working well. She wanted revenge and she knew she would get it.

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After that incident Chan and Minho got closer than ever, Despite being in stark contrast with each-other they were inseparable.

As the years passed, the times Minho cried in Chan lap became uncountable he wouldn't talk much about his situation but the phrases he muttered out while crying made on thing clear to Chan that Minho had a strained relationship with his family.

Minho and Chan were now 11 and 12 respectively.

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TW: Mentions of child abuse..............

"Minhoooo time to put on another act and where were you? "- Ms. Lee

Minho stayed silent and slowly headed towards the staircase, he knew that if he would say that he was at the beach rather than fake crying at chan's his mother for sure will kill him.

"Lee Minho, I asked you something."

Minho ignored his mother and quickened his steps only to bump into his father.

"Where were you?"- Mr. Lee asked Minho as he slowly started to unbuckle his belt.

"You chose to be the whore you are. you thought we couldn't track were you were?" -Mr. Lee said as he wrapped his belt tightly around his hand, grabbed Minho by his neck and pushed him against the wall.

"You were supposed to do what we told you but you didn't ." Mr. Lee said as he swinged the belt and hit Minho on his thighs. As soon the leather made contact with Minho's skin, he cried out in pain. He begged his father to stop. Despite Minho's pained cries Mr. lee didn't stop the uncountable hits on Minho's body. Minho tried to get away from the situation by scratching Mr. lee's hand, but he ended up having his head bashed against the wall.

Pain erupted in the back of his head and he heard the crack of his own skull. a little blood stream tickled down. Minho started to get dizzy with every second that passed but the wiping never stopped.

"now do what you were supposed to do today!"

The dizziness got the best of Minho, and he passed out falling on the floor.

[end of TW]

Mr. Lee stopped and took a seat next to Ms. lee bringing a wine glass to his lips.

"Bloody hell! If he doesn't do what we tell him the plan ain't gonna work!"- Ms. lee spoke with obvious annoyance.

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[Chan's POV]

"That night, around one a.m. we heard the doorbell ringing repeatedly. me and my parents went to open the door to find Minho there.

He was panting, had bruises around his legs and arms tears were streaming down his cheeks while he was drenched in.......blood.

as soon as he saw me, he threw himself on me and fresh tears rolled down his cheeks. I patted his back to calm him down.

After a couple minutes he muttered out a Shakey sentence- "I'm...I'm s-s-such a bur- burden Chan, w-w-why was I-I- even b-born?"

his feeling were real this time......

"Rocking him to sleep only one question annoyed me the most, "what would happen if this happened again, and I was not here?" A tear rested on his cheek, while he lay his head on my chest. A stripe of white bandage ran around his head, while his eyelids were getting heavier with every passing second. I wished I could stay in south Korea for a bit more I was not ready to move to Australia-" Chan.

"Aww....naur" Lia.

"..."

"Anyway, I was moving to Australia in a month as my dad had to expand his business there, we weren't sure how long we'll stay there but my mom said maybe a few years but we-" Chan.

"How long exactly"-Lia.

"We never returned to South Korea, we decided to settle there it was a better place for business. so-"

"Then how did you and umm... dad meet?"-Lia.

"PATIENCE WOMAN WE'RE GETTING TO IT"

"Soon he was in deep sleep, and I tucked him in the bed. I took a day off school along with Minho so I could stay beside him all the time. My mom tried asking him what had happened, but Minho wouldn't utter a word. she eventually gave up as she didn't want to pressurize him.

this wasn't the first time this had happened...




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