Party of Eight

I'm Mad

Italics used when English is being spoken.

March 2021

Chan's pov:

For the past week, I had been going to work an hour early, and finishing about half an hour late in order to get this done on time.

Today was the deadline for a huge project I had been working on.

It had taken MONTHS and I was rushing to get everything in order before sending off the final product to my boss.

Today I went in at the normal time, but the day started off stressful.

Jisung almost missed school today, and he was kind of being a brat this morning. I'm not sure why.

It was not even 10:00 am, when suddenly my phone rang.

Shoot. It was the kids school.

Did someone get hurt again?

I answered the phone, concerned.

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After the brief conversation with the principal, I hung up the phone, disappointed.

Jisung got Detention? Detention? And for doing something so obviously wrong. He knows better. Throwing a book at someone's eye? And he did it on purpose?

My anger started to boil over again. I don't have time for this today. I don't even have a minute to spare to think about this.

I don't feel like I can handle him. Not today. I can't hide how disappointed I am in him. I don't feel like I can be reasonable with him either.

I just feel so angry.

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I worked through my lunch break. I had to. There was just so much to do.

I planned to work late today, but I can't now.

I'll have to finish any work that's left over at home, after the kids are asleep.

I don't want Jisung thinking that because I'm busy, I won't care about what he's doing.

I can't let him behave that way.

I really can't drop the ball with that kid.

If there's even one time I let him get away with something, he always ends up doing it again.

Maybe I have dropped the ball. I've been really distracted with work. I haven't really been paying as much attention to what the kids are doing.

I thought that he would be past this stage of acting up at school, but now he got detention?!

And he physically hurt somebody! This is not okay. 

I hope he knows that detention will be the least of his worries. I better see fear and remorse in his eyes the second I get home.

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When I walked in the door, I heard the t.v. I assumed it was Hyunjin watching it.

I took off my shoes and walked into the house.

There was Jisung, nervously curled up beside Hyunjin.

Good. He feels guilty.

"Peter. Be in my room by 9:00 pm." I said, not wasting any time before letting him know he was definitely in trouble.

To my surprise he decided to act feisty as a defense.

"Fine then, Christopher." He sassed.

"Excuse me?" I asked. I was about to grab him and bring him to the other room right away. I was so done with his attitude, especially after hearing what he did today.