𝑸𝑼𝑬𝑹𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑰𝑨 || 𝐉𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐇𝐨𝐨𝐧

11

NEXT DAY

Without getting sleep the whole night Sunghoon was finally gong to university again.there was a lot in his mind now, but he needs to figure it out because all he has is today. those bastards will come here tomorrow, I need to do something.

He thought of asking Ni-ki's dad for help since he's a kind person and is always willing to help him, but shook the idea of his mind since he thought it was rude of him to do so.Should I ask Jake?no, what the hell, no never.

Sighing, he enters his extra class. Jake and others are not here yet.

Surprisingly, the whole day Jay, Jake and Heeseung never came.

After classes, Sunghoon made his way to home without being able to think of any source that he can get money from.

Only if he knew, the day has even more sad surprises ahead.

He was near his neighbourhood when the ringing of his phone sounded.

"Hello sir, is their a problem?" He asked as he saw the caller id was of the old man he worked for at the convenient store.

"I'm so sorry kid, I have to close the shop now, my son returned and offered to take me with him to the US.I don't know how to apologise to you." The voice said.

Sunghoon thought for a second."so, I'm fired?"

"I'm sorry child." The oldman says.

"It's okay sir, thank you for being kind to me all these days.I wish you a happy and healthy life." He says politely as a goodbye to the man.

"I'll pay you two months worth of your pay now, please don't deny." The voice says again.

"there's no need sir."

"Aigoo, you polite thing. didn't I tell you it's not nice to deny elders? I'll send the pay. be a good person in future and I hope you succeed."

"thank you sir." He says slowly and the call disconnects.

Ofcourse, how did I expect to be sticking to a job for that long?

He entered the street his house was in and saw three huge men in front of his door, he identified them right away.The loan sarks!

They said they'll give me a day. Reluctantly, Sunghoon walks towards his house.

"what are you doing here?! you are supposed to collect money tomorrow." Sunghoon said still maintaining a safe distance from the thugs just in case he needs to run.

One of them walked to him."Here, take it back." He hands him the watch they previously took.

"what? but, I haven't paid yet." Sunghoon says holding the watch in his hands.

Another man from the back scoffs at him."how dumb are you? your mother paid for you, you made us wait too long despite being rich huh kid?"

My mother?! The thugs then took off in their car without any more words. Sunghoon should be happy he avoided a huge trouble but rather he was stunned, frozen at his spot.

He flinches when he phone suddenly rings.

"Hey, Leina." 

"Sunghoon, listen to me carefully, do you see a car parked anywhere near your house?" She says in a calm tone.

Sunghoon looks around and their it was, the same expensive car he saw before, the day Jake last came to his house.

"yeah, I do why? is it dangerous?"

He heard Leina sigh."good, now go to that car, someone in their wants to speak to you."

And Sunghoon's blood ran cold."is it my mother?" He asks, voice expecting something he can't understand.

"...........yes, please go to her. you trust me right?" Leina says after a pause.

Sunghoon turns and glances at the car with tinted windows making it impossible to see the person inside, but yes, he trusts Leina, the only mother figure in his life.

"I do." He says.

"Go ahead, Hoon." She says and cuts the call.

He makes his way to the car taking slow steps and as soon as he reached close to it, the driver came out and opened the door to the passenger side.

Sunghoon took this as a cue to walk more closer and now he could see a elegant middle aged woman sitting inside with face showing no emotions at all.

"Get in" She says and Sunghoon obeys immediately putting all his trust on Leina's words.

The driver closes the door and stands beside the car, probably for privacy.

Sunghoon thought she was just gonna throw money at him and go but he was actually surprised when he saw a tear run down the woman's cheek which she wiped off with a tissue soon. 

She turned to him with a smile and her eyes showing some sort of emotion that made him swallow a lump formed in his throat.He felt like crying looking at her but held it in with a deep breath.

"I'm sorry son" She said with a slow yet calm tone, which sounded so full of regret.

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"Jake, just calm down please." Jay patted his back attempting to calm him down.

They were at Hwawonjae right now, for a day all three of them hated. A day in a year spent together only by the three families for discussing business ideas and future plans.

Jake was scared as shit, all of a sudden everything turned upside down. Hojin's family sent a offcial notice that Sunhan group want to break the relationship and collaboration with Sim&co.

He already got a call from his father in the morning that his grandfather needs to have a serious talk with him and to make it worse, Heeseung's and most importantly Jay's family is here, Jake's grandfather hates it when his family troubles are revelaed in front of Park Euncheol, Jay's grandfather because of a collaboration that they rejected.

Heeseung poured some water in the glass and bought it to Jake."drink some, calm down it's okay, they broke it off.you did nothing."

Jake's hands trembled as he took the glass of water and chugged it down."my dad and grandfather wouldn't understand this." He said in a slow tone.

"Hojin that bastard-" Jay begun "no Jay, he probably didn't have a say in it." Jake cut his words off. he knew very well the descision wasn't made by Hojin, after all they were all puppets in the hands of their family, well except Jay. His family is quite at the good side or no? nobody can tell for sure, everyone in their family had always kept privacy intact.

Heeseung's family have their own disputes with each other but they don't let that affect him much, or more like Heeseung shruggs everything off being himself.

By this time it was evening and Jake's grandfather was gonna arrive any second now. He purposely didn't join them since morning due to his mountain like ego, but no one would question it, since Sim&Co. is in 2nd place after Soonyang, another reason he dislikes Park Euncheol for.

A knock at the door cause the three boys to flinch.

"Young masters, you are being called to the dining hall." The maids voice sounded through the closed door.

"we'll be their in a minute." Jay answered.

Jake took a deep breath."It's okay Jake, he won't say anything in front of all of us." Heeseung reaasures him. "yeah." Jake breaths out and they leave the room to go the the dining hall.

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