The star is mine (completed)

XXVI: Dead

Wooyoung's POV

'Is Lily home?'

I'm standing behind the doorframe, a boy only a few years older than me on the other side, asking after my sister.

'Who are you?'

'Just... A friend of your sister'

'She's in her room, I think'

'Can I come in?', his smile looks friendly, and I believe him when he says he's my sister's friend.

I take a step backwards, letting him enter the house. He immediately runs upstairs, straight to the room we shared.

That must have been the boy she ran away with.

That's the man who is standing in front of me right now, with a loaded gun in his hand.

San's POV

'Jongho, what the fuck are you doing?', San asks again.

'Revenge'

'Revenge for what?'

He completely ignores the question, turning to Wooyoung instead, pointing the gun at his face. I try to break out of the ties that are holding me down but the rope just digs deeper into the skin on my wrists.

'Please don't hurt him', I try to get his attention back, 'please'.

'Never thought I'd hear Choi San begging,' he laughs, 'I thought you told me he was just a hooker to you'

He uses the barrel of the gun to lift Wooyoung's head up by his chin. I can see him resisting, but he's scared enough to just give up and let Jongho move his head.

'He still is apparently', he runs the metal object over the hickey on his neck.

'No he's not'

'Are you saying that just because he's here? You don't want him to know the truth?'

He's really doing everything to hurt me right now, he knows I care about Wooyoung, and he knows the amount of pain he can cause with his actions. And he seems to be enjoying it.

I just can't fucking imagine why.

Is it because I called dad the day he stole the money? Wasn't killing our own father enough revenge?

I don't even need to know why, I just want Wooyoung out of here, safely, with or without me.

'I'd die for him', I say, suddenly, without even thinking about it, but it's the truth. I'd rather die than ever hurt him or make him hate me again.

He puts the gun to my head instead, but instead of being scared for my life, I feel a sense of relief. Wooyoung is safe, at least for now.

'Kill me, but leave him alone'

'It's easy enough to kill you, brother, but I wouldn't have done all of this if I wanted to make it easy'

Jongho's POV

'I could just kill him'

'Why would you do that?', Lily asks, while we're sitting on a park bench near her house.

'We'll have his money, we can run to America, get a new life, and nobody will ever even know it was me'

'You don't have to kill him for that, you can just steal his money'

'What if I want to?'

'You'll be a psychopath and a murderer'

She's right. However much I want to kill my dad for whatever he's done to me and my mother, I won't be any better than him.