Me and my Husband

19

Who are you?

"PATHETIC YOU ALL STILL DONT GET IT"

Grace said. Hae-min, puffy eyed and distraught raised a seemingly limp arm and smacked Grace across the face. The slap raised tingles in the woman's hand. "You think i'm joking around with you bitch? Open the fucking gate before i-" Hae-in pulled her sister back.

A white van with Hyun-woo pulled in. Hae-min climbed in after Soo-Cheol. Her head resting against the cold window. "This is completely crazy just because she kicked us out of our father's home why are we backing down?".

"Does Soo-Cheol have Aphasia or something? Hey! Hong Soo-cheol say something" she smacked his shoulder.

The man's eyes closed as he sighed. "So your wife Cheon Da-hye was in on it too?" she asked."I love you auntie. But please shut up" The girl let out an exhausted sigh.

"What? i mean Suno was probably in on it too" the woman jabbed. "Hyun-woo do me a favor, serve the car off the railing and end us out of our misery please".

"I'm sure there is a logical reason for this honey" her father gave her a sympathetic look. "Maybe there isn't" the girl mumbled and looked out toward the window once more.

She still hadn't opened her phone. She had Ms.Kang take Sowon for a little while which the woman was more than happy to do. So-won would go to school like regular and her mother to work.

Hae-min recognized Young-duri as they pulled in. "Hello. It's nice to see you again, I wish it was on different terms" she bowed her head to Hyun-woo's family.

The older man felt his heart ache. Since he met Hong Hae-min she had been the human embodiment of kindness and happiness. The woman he was looking at looked like the soul had been drained from her body.

Her once bright smile and warm aura was now gone and bleak. He couldn't understand who a person he's seen be happy through a car break down be so sunken now.

Hae-min sat on the porch as she waited for food to be cooked. "Hae-min" Hyun-woo sighed. "Please...just leave me alone Hyun-woo" she sighed. "I wanted to apologize. I was angry and i had no right to take that out on you".

"Please" she screwed her eyes shut. "I'm sorry". "How long have you known?" She asked. "what?" he stammered. "How long have you known about my husband?".

"I had my speculations" he answered. "Don't you think you owe me the truth?" she frowned. The woman looked up at him "When have i ever wronged you? Talked back on your name? Disrespected you or your family?" she asked him.

"A little over three weeks" he sighed. "three weeks? Three weeks! you let me be oblivious?" she stood up. "I hate you Hyun-woo." her exhausted voice came out a bit higher than a whisper.

Guilt seeped back into his body as he watched the woman walk away.

Truthfully keeping it from her was meant to keep her from getting hurt. Of course it did the exact opposite.

Hae-min had done more for him then just about the entire hong family combined. She was the shoulder he needed when he cried.

She was also his driver when he drank too much, his second opinion. Hae-min was like the perfect little sister. Didn't ask for anything in return and didn't judge.

She didn't come to dinner but she did apologize to Hyun-woo's parents. Ms.Kang came to pick her up and she left Young-Duri that night.

Since her accounts weren't tied to the rest or her families it remained untouched. Normally she would have packed her entire family up and fled to a hotel but she couldn't bare to face them.

Her mother and aunts insensitive comments, Soo-Cheol's noisy sobs, Her father and Hae-in looking at her as if she was a bomb waiting to explode.

So she laid in the crisp white bed, her 4 year old daughter beside her. So-won was curled into her mother side fast asleep. Her phone buzzed, she forgot she even had one with the things going on.

4 missed calls Aunt Beom-Ja
43 text messages: My husband
24 Missed calls: My husband
14 Voice messages: My husband
2 missed calls : Hyun-Woo

Incoming call: My husband
Answer Decline

She raised the phone to her ear. "I'm outside of your hotel. Please" he spoke. She took the phone from her ear and hung up. Reluctantly she climbed out of bed and went down stairs.

Suno stood there, clothes rumbled, hair in every direction, pink rimmed eyes. "Baby" he spoke softly seeing her pale sad figure. Her hair was long gone from the beautiful bun he watched her do.

Now her long hair was laid on her back, the expensive dress replaced with leggings and a tank top. Her face was wiped bare of her makeup she spent an hour perfecting.

"Why" she spoke. "What?" his eyebrows knitted together. "Why? Why didn't you tell me? Why did you do this to me?" her eyes welded with tears. Her eyes burned from the constant crying.

"Hae-min listen i can't explain it all now but i need you to know for sure that i love you" he went to step close to her but she stepped back. Hurt filled his eyes.

Hae-min scoffed,"you love me?" her brows raised. "Yes. More than anything" he said. He felt his heart shattering at the way she looked so disgusted with him. A look he's only ever seen her give pickles.

"Someone who loves you wouldn't do this. I don't even know who you are anymore" she mumbled. "Hae-min it's me my love, i-it's complicated.." he trailed. "I don't want anything to do with you Choi Suno. Go to hell" she said flatly. His heart drummed in his ears and his blood froze in his veins.

"H-" "I want a divorce" she crossed her arms and walked back into her hotel.