Where Is The Truth

Two Sunflowers

Singer/Group: Kim Junsu (From JYJ)

Name of Song: Flower

Type of video: Music Video

Who am I: Odile  

Dinner was quite a solemn affair. The twins were delighted, to see a slight increase in the amount of rice in their bowl but it irked me very much. The way they ate the rice grain by grain, held gingerly between their chopsticks as though its a feeble attempt to delay the end of their meal. The way they kept giggling to each other softly. We shouldn't have been reduced to this. This is not normal at all.

Without warning, Mum slammed her bowl down on the ground and left. Big Sis immediately got up and ran after her. Tear-drops splatter down my cheeks as I crushed the rice between my teeth meticulously. The boys were left awkwardly holding their bowls, half tempted to devour their food while hesitant at the same time due to the atmosphere.

Big Sis came back with a sullen face. "Stop playing with your food and eat properly." She ordered the twins and sat down beside me.

"We need to find a way to get jobs." She said in between mouthfuls. "That's the only way we can earn money. I'll walk there everyday even if I have to. We'll pay the debt somehow." Big Sis swore. "At this rate we'll all die of starvation."

Night came very quickly and I busied myself, placing candles at various strategic spots of the house. We don't have many candles left, but it was better than complete darkness. 

If it was up to me, I'd rather we bunk together in the living room floor. I'd rather save on the candles instead of scrapping the wax to make new candles. We'd all prefer that actually, but we know Mum would never let us resort to such commoner-like behavior. 

The dread of starvation after our meager amount of rice depletes stressed me to no end. Big Sis persevered in trying to find a job yet with each failure, her attitude become more and more explosive. After a few arguments with Big Sis, Mum simply refused to leave the room.

"Second Sis , where are we going?" Will asked, breaking out of my thoughts. 

Unknowingly, I had led the twins to Isaac Children's Home. What on earth was I thinking? I gripped their hands tighter as I stared at the familiar building. I must be out of my mind. What the hell was I thinking.

"Follow me," I said firmly, dragging the two boys and turning back.

"Odile?" Che Woo Jin's voice made me stop in my track. The sound of my frenzied heart beat thundered in my ears as I stood rooted to the spot.

"That's you, isn't it? Odile, it's you right?" Woo Jin exclaimed as he ran in front of me and blocked my path. He was wearing the volunteer apron of the children's home with paint splattered on his face and hands.

Things happened and due to Will's craving and whining for ice cream, we found ourselves entering the orphanage with Woo Jin.

"Remember back then? When we used to volunteer at the Home together?" Woo Jin chuckled at the memory. " Oh, and when they celebrated both our birthdays with lollipops?"

That gained a small smile from my lips. Those were the good old days. The twins mingled with the children's with a chocolate ice cream firmly grasped in their hands.

" Odile, I've got something to say." Woo Jin broke me out of my daze. Is he gonna confess? A scene from the drama played out in my head. "What if I offer you a chance to be a singer?"

Ye-Wait. I narrow my eyes. "Excuse me?"

"I said.."

"Shut up." I grind the grass into the ground with my feet. Stupid heart. True, who would like me now? I'm not the Princess that's scoring in all exams with a bright prospect and potential offers waiting at my feet. I'm just a nobody now.

"I know you wanted to be a scientist but..."

I know Woo Jin usually spoke without a filter between his brain and his lips but this was insane... Me? A singer?

"My...my Dad is breaking away from YG Entertainment to start his own company. I've heard you sing before, I think you can make it. Like really really make it." Woo Jin carried on saying.

"When did you hear me sing." I frowned. I've never sung in school before...

"When you got drunk after the third year Christmas party. You began singing instead of speaking.."

What?!

" You told me I didn't do anything weird that afternoon!" My anger and embarrassment crashed like a wave of lava on civilisation.

"Well, it wasn't too weird....I guess, your voice more than made up for the awkwardness." He chuckled. "I still have a recording of your voice that afternoon, though."

"No freaking way!" My eyes widened in horror.

"I showed it to Dad and he was interested in training you. Hey! No,Stop it! Ow! Ow! Odile!!!!"

He couldn't continue whatever he was saying because I had grabbed the nearest broom and started chasing him and hitting him with it. Hearing me sing was one thing but recording and showing it is unforgivable.

"Odile!" Woo Jin shouted as he grabbed the broom before it hits him again. 

"Yes, I'm sorry for doing that without your consent but it was because you sang so well. The quality of your voice was really good as well, even if the content of what you sang was gibberish. I'm sorry okay?" He shouted everything out.

I glared at him.

"To be truthful, that was one of the reasons, I also wanted to help you, and my dad. Dad really needs to make a breakthrough or..."Woo Jin said, but he immediately shut his lips, biting it a little.

A lump gathered in my throat. Or?

"Look...if you become a singer, you can pay off the debts quickly." Woo Jin reasoned. "You have an enormous talent. If you can sing such gibberish and sound so right, I'm willing to take the risk."

Sensing my hesitance, he removed the threatening broom quickly.

"Think about it, Odile." His tone became more persuasive.

"No, you think about it." My voice came out more shaky than what I felt. "If I become a singer, and the news about that busted company gets blown out of proportion again, my mum will not be able to take it. And..."

And what?... What was I afraid of?

"Then we'll change your name, your looks."

"I'm not going through the knife." I snap at him a little harsher than intended.

"Who says surgery is the only way. Makeup does wonders, Odile. Everything can be arranged. Your family won't be implicated. At all. No one will know." Woo Jin said.

"Let me think and discuss with my family." I sigh. If that's the case, then becoming a singer would seem like a feasible idea....But singing? In front of the whole of Korea? Or even the world?!