If U Hate Me I'll Love U | Jeongcheol

42. A night's walkout but... there's more

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How do we describe a family problem? Something toxic between children and parents. The way they behave toward them, the way they show their love and support for them, the way they treat and take care of them.

But, no one thought that it may be caused by cognitive impairment.

Mother, why did you do that?

Last week, my dad and sister came back home in the morning on a school day. The time they arrived happened to be the same time she passed by our house. Obviously, when my father saw her he would absolutely take her in. She was crying, her eyes were red and she was wearing a light navy blue party dress showing her back and opened from one side on the legs.

The kindness and empathy in my father's heart couldn't leave her outside despite what she did, especially in clothes like those.

To clarify, my dad did never do anything to that woman who was with him, he invited her to mitigate herself by a little discussion because she broke up with her boyfriend recently. My mother took things seriously without hearing from the other party. She left us immediately, deleted my dad's contacts from her phone and didn't talk with us for more than a month, but she kept my and Chiyeon's numbers.

My sister cried a lot when her mom came back, she didn't believe that she would stay; we both lost the trust in her, or me, I lost all my trust in her. Chiyeon refused to leave her room when they arrived and didn't go out until I came back from school. She told me everything, she was sadly crying because my mom came back all of a sudden as she left all of a sudden without any warning or understanding.

Thinking about that, I feel like I understand why she left but at the same time I'm not accepting it. This situation reminded me of that day when I saw Seungcheol surrounding a girl in the bathroom. I also felt and saw his betrayal, I got angry, I got mad because he lied to me, but things turned out to be that he received a "love letter". That's unbelievable.

'What are you thinking of at such times? Focus on your exam preparations!'

My cheeks turned red as I thought of him kissing the girl the same way he did to me. "This is craze" I dropped myself on my stomach on the bed beside my books and closed my eyes. The heart beats annoyed me by accelerating as I stood up to take a shower instead. Before this, I opened the window to breath some fresh air, it's relieving. I put my arms under my chin on the edge and closed my eyes. The house was very quiet, of course Chiyeon is with Minghao and the other two are downstairs either watching news or cooking.

For a while I thought I was hallucinating by hearing a whistle but when I opened my eyes I saw a person standing outside trying to get my attention.

'What's he doing here?!' I quickly closed the window in panic and walked to the wardrobe to bring my clothes. In the middle of my way, the phone rang. I glared at it and hesitated to see the dialler.

'Wow that's what's needed' I mocked as I saw Seungcheol's name on the screen.

"Yes?" My tone changed 180° acting as if I didn't see him a while ago.

"Hello Jeonghan, how are you?"

"Uhm.. I'm good what about you?" I stood frozen in my place wishing he wouldn't make things hard for me.

"I'm alright" He took a time to speak again "I have a favor, can I?"

At this time I panicked at what he may say afterward.

"Can we talk about it face to face?"

A while ago I was nervous but after what I heard now I forgot about my awkwardness. "What's wrong?"