Burn (Part 2 Of Caffeine)

Chapter 8

"So how did you meet Taeyeon? Can you tell me more about her?" I asked the small red headed girl. We were standing in an art gallery, it was another field trip.

"We sorta grew up together. When I was born, she was there. She was always there for me. She's twenty six right now. That means she is eight years older than me. Our parents were friends. Now you tell me about yourself. How do you know Taeyeon unnie?" she never once looked at me while telling me this information.

"Taeyeon is the mother of my husbands child." I replied back. She then turned and looked at me.

"Can you, I don't know, explain?" She asked while looking at me with concern? I wasn't sure what her expression was.

"While I was dating, he had a one night stand with her. Then two years later, we had a three year old in our care. I didn't know it was actually his child until recently. She's now five by the way." I said calmly to her. She stayed silent for a bit and continued looking at the paintings.

"She never told me of this child. She told me once, 'When I ever have a child, I want you to be the second mother for it. Even if it's a one night stand child, please try and take care of it.' Can I meet your child one day?" I looked at her, confused. She looked at me with teary eyes, I don't know where this sudden emotion came from, but it made me feel really bad.

"Please, she promised me this. I've always wanted to be help for someone's child. She's my unnies child, I feel as if I excluded her in my life." She wiped the tears from her face.

"You're eighteen. What do you mean you feel as if you excluded her? You're a teenager." I exclaimed. She weakly laughed and wiped away her makeup that was going down her face.

"You can see her. She's delightful." I said. She looked at me with shock and randomly hugged me. The hug shocked me.

"Thank you." she whispered. She then quickly let go and regained her senses.

"I'll tell you more about Taeyeon if you need me to." she smiled and I nodded.

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I sat in the car with Juliana. I had to drive her back to her hotel.

"Aish, so much fucking traffic." I muttered.

"I know. It's annoying, what else do you want to know about Taeyeon? I know about you, just so you know. They gave me your file, killer streak huh?" she laughed and stared out the window.

"Yeah, I'd like to know about Taeyeon." I said quietly, trying to keep this conversation short.

"Okay. I'm only telling you these things because I'm on your side. She is being forced to be black mailing you and such. Or something like that? I'm not sure. She's very innocent though, she seems all bitchy and such but she's really nice. She wouldn't hurt anyone. Actually she's in the same stage as you, she was threatened to black mail you or her family would be dead when she gets back to Korea. Family as in parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, so on so forth. She doesn't want to hurt your family, but the person who hates you wants you too. I don't know who this man is, and he doesn't know you personally. He just wants you to do his dirty work. That's why he wants you to go to Canada, so he doesn't have to go. Can you tell me your story? I'm quite interested in it." I stayed silent at everything she just said, it was hard to process. Should I tell her my story? I never told Kyuhyun, maybe I should tell him when I get home. I breathed out loudly and she turned and looked at me.

"As you probably know, I did murder my parents. I did it because they beat me and such. I was also bullied at school, so I murdered them too. I guess you can say I have issues. Murdering these people relieved my stress. I think that's all you should know." I said to her. I tried my best not to make eye contact. After about a minute of silence, I finally turned and looked at her. She was tearing up.

"What's wrong?" I asked quietly. She sniffled and opened her mouth to speak, but then quickly closed it.

"I've been bullied too, except I didn't do anything. Instead I just cried silently without anyone seeing. I couldn't have people knowing how soft I am. By the start of high school, I dressed in black and wore dark makeup so no one would talk to me. That worked but I was always alone. My parents also passed away too. They passed from a car crash. I was kind of happy, I don't know why, but their death made me happy." she had more tears and I handed her a tissue. She took it and tried smiling once again.

My phone rang. I answered it and put it on speaker.

"Cho Sungmin."

{Appa? It's Sun Hi.} I nearly teared up from her voice. I looked at Juliana and she was covering her mouth, as if she were shocked.

"Sunny? Why are you calling?"

{When will you come to the office? You told Teacher Tran that you'd be here in twenty minutes, it's been nearly three hours. It's dark outside. Minnie appa, please come soon.}

"Aigoo! You're so cute! I'll be there soon, don't worry your pretty little head." I hung up and looked at Juliana once again.

"Can I go? I want to see her." I nodded and continued waiting for the traffic to pass.

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We both arrived at the building. Sun Hi really liked Juliana which was good. She played with Sunny while I left to go talk to Kyuhyun. I grabbed his arm and pulled him into his office. He looked at me with a confused expression, as always.

"I'm ready to tell you my story." I announced.