DIE FOR YOU - [희승]

7 | honesty

"Hey, why aren't you at school?"
I sat on my bed when I heard his voice.

It was so familiar yet it seemed so strange.

"Dad"
I acknowledged as my father stucked his head into my room, raising his brows at me.

"I didn't expect you here"
I added then.

I watched my father exhaling deeply before entering my room and sitting down on my huge sofa in front of the glass wall.

"I could say the same"
He responded, looking at me with a serious expression.

I knew I should have gone to school. But I didn't dare to. I was just too afraid.

I knew that from now on, the boys would always have an eye on me no matter what I did. I had to go there soon anyways but yet I tried to miss as many time as possible which I could use to avoid Jungwon.

It's not that I desperately wanted to avoid him.

I didn't even have a chance but do so.

"Heeseung, I have to apologize. I have been on the way way too much and completely neglected you and our relationship. It's just that-"

"Your company needed you, I know"
I finished his stence for him because I already knew he would have said that anyways.

It wasn't the first time he tried to apologize to me in a way like that. There were at least seven times a year when he sat down across from me with always the same look in his eyes.

In the beginning I had thought that he actually meant it honestly and not just said that to satisfy his conscience.
But over the time when he started to repeat his words and excuses, I began to just swallow it down, accept it and let it all happen again.

"Yeah, you're right"
He acknowledged.

Yeah, I knew I was right. I didn't need a confirmation for that.

"And as I already said, I also neglected our relationship. Iseul and I so thought about something to tighten our father son bond again. Well, at least something similar"
He began to smirk while talking.

I tried to play it cool but internally I knew something which i did not want my ears to hear was awaiting me very soon. If he already smirked like that, there must have been something really really wrong with my dad's mindset.

"So, I searched for some good spots to go camping over the weekend and I actually found a spot near a sea. It's not far from here and Iseul said that we have all the stuff we need in the basement. And as I know from my own experiences, camping just with your father can be quite boring, not?
So I thought that maybe your friend Jungwon could accompany us?"

My veins literally froze for a second, my brain processing this terrible idea.

"Dad...uhm I have to work on a project for school on the weekends"