ETERNALLY ; baekji

THE BEGINNING

A little Eunji woke up from her sleep. She heard noises from outside her room. She hugged herself, scared of what was happening. Her mom and dad were fighting again. Shouting harsh words at each other. She cried to herself, thinking of her family before. Before all those fights. They were happy, very happy, but one day, they fought. Eunji got scared because that was the first time she saw them fight. But when they saw her, they said it was nothing and promised it won't happen again. But they broke their promise. They didn't fight for a while, but as days passed, the fights get often and more serious. Like the one today.

"Umma.... appa... please stop...fighting..." She cried to herself inside her room. Until she heard a slamming of a door that made her cry more. Soon her mother came entering her bedroom and get her from the bed. She was just merely a five year old. Not fully understanding what was happening. She still cried while on her moms arm.

"I'm taking Eunji with me!" Her mom shouted to her dad that also entered her room.

"No you won't" he said and grab Eunji away from her mom "go away with that man but I'm not letting you take away my daughter!"

"She's also my daughter!"

"You don't deserve to be! You're a whore!"

In the end, her mom left, but not without promising.

"I'll be back and I'll get you my dear, mom promise"

"Ommaaaaa!!!"

Eunji's tears dried up, she already cried all day. But her small frame was sulkingly waiting at the doorstep, waiting for her mom to come back.

"Eunji... it's getting cold outside, get in now" her dad said

"But mom isn't home yet"

"Eunji.."

"Why did mom leave? she don't love me anymore? I'm a good daughter, why did she leave? Why did you fight? Don't you love her anymore? " she started crying again

"Hush dear, you're a good daughter. She loves you and I love her. I love her so much. You won't understand things right now. But mom promised that she will be back. For now, let's just sleep. Okay? Mom won't like it if she saw you looking like a zombie right?"

Eunji nodded and get to her room and sleep.

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"I'm home" Eunji said to no one in particular when she entered the house. She always say it,even if she knew that no one is the house. She ran upstairs, heading to her room but noticed that the door to her father's room was open. Out of curiosity, she peeked at the door and saw that her father was there, which was not usual because he was always in his office, working.

She saw him sitting at the edge of his bed, hugging a framed photo of her mom and was crying to himself.

She then remembered, that today was supposed to be her parents' wedding anniversary. She thought to herself, the ten years that had passed. Since her mom left, her father tried to busy himself with work. Even forgetting that he has a daughter. She grew apart from his dad. She slowly learned to do things for herself at a young age. She lost her mother, but slowly, it was like she was losing her father too. But she knew that he was depressed, that he was still hurting. She wanted to be angry with her mom. Because she left them, but she also wanted her to return, and maybe her father won't be like that anymore,and everything will return to normal.

She didn't realize that she was already crying. And the moment she looked again at her father, he was already holding a gun and pointing it to his head.