You Never Walk Alone

Chapter 51

After his sons left for school, Suecheon went to their room, just to make sure that their room had been cleaned up.

When he entered the room, he saw exactly what he expected, a neat and spotless room, but a few things caught his eye in the room, one of them being a plushie kept on his youngest son's bed.

Suecheon went up to the loft bed, climbing one or two rungs of the ladder and picking up the plushie. Immediately, a wave of guilt, regret and sadness hit him, he held the bunny plushie in his hand.

He remembers the bunny plushie's story, he'd been the one who had paid for it, ten years back, on his son's third birthday, his sons had kept him away from the alcohol and drugs for a week and he'd forgotten all about his addictions, he'd been very excited for his youngest's third birthday and took his other sons with him to the store to buy his son a gift, together, they'd bought the plushie he was holding in the present time.

Suecheon smiles, putting the plushie back in its place and climbing down the loft bed, then, another thing catches his eye, intrigued, he walks up to Jin's desk, picking up the pink coloured thing, Jin's camcorder, he slightly cringes as a violent memory crosses his mind, he remembers trying to smash the camcorder because his son hadn't scored well in a test. Suecheon shuts his eyes, trying to block out the memory and reminding himself not to turn into that version of himself ever again, that part of him has been locked away in the jail.

The man goes through a few videos in the camcorder, tears collecting in his eyes at the end of it as he realizes just how much of his sons' childhood he has missed.

Just then, he hears the doorbell ring downstairs, he quickly turns off the camcorder and exits the room, rushing down the stairs, ready to open the door for his sons, sadly, Ae-cha beats him to it, opening the door and letting the boys walk into the house.

"Maybe be more alert next time, old man." Ae-cha teases as she sees the slight disappointment in Suecheon's eyes.

Suecheon ignores her teasing and turns to his sons and their friends, "How was your day, boys?"

"Horrible." Jimin mumbles, putting his shoes in the shoe-rack and then dejectedly dragging himself towards the staircase.

"What's wrong, Jimin-ah?" Ae-cha asks.

Jimin shakes his head in reply and walks up the staircase with his head bowed.

"Apparently, Bo-ram turned out... to be a bitch." Taehyung speaks up, sensing the adults' confusion.

"Wait, what happened to your eye, Tae? And what happened to your forehead?" Suecheon asks, gesturing to Kyung-se.

"It's...a long story, I'll tell you during lunch." Taehyung replies.

"Alright." Suecheon says, gesturing for the boys to go upstairs and get changed.

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"Jimin said he's not hungry." Jungkook declares from the staircase as he basically slides down the stairs.

"Oh? Okay then, I'll give him something to eat later." Ae-cha says, placing down plates on the table.

"What happened?" Suecheon asks, sitting down on the table along with his sons and their friends.

"Basically, Bo-ram is a bitch... she harassed juniors, smoked... weed behind the school building and even sold... off one of her own teammates...to the judges of one of her... dance shows so that... their team could win." Taehyung explains, "And then when Jimin went up to... her to confess, she claimed... that she'd never seen him in... the dance team, but it's a stupid claim, really, because... she was in the contemporary dance team that... Jimin led. And then the bitch continued getting on my... nerves by continuing to call Jiminie a girl, pathetic... and insulting him." Taehyung pauses, "And then her stupid bastard boyfriend... came in and called Jiminie a slur... and yelled around the class...about what he did to us... So I got mad and punched him... in reply, but then his girlfriend began...wailing like a six-year-old child...So he punched me, and then...we broke out into the fight, Kyung-se joined...in and that's why I have a black... eye and his forehead is swollen." He ends, immediately after that, he began digging in his food.