Jungkook's Cinderella (a BTS FanFiction)

Chapter 4: Day One

-Mina's POV-

*This airport is huge!* I thought to myself.

I can't stop thinking of Jungkook. His sparkling eyes, his glowing skin, his soft lips... Oh my god Mina snap out of it! Jungkook is an international K-pop icon. You are just a nobody that's visiting from out of the country. There's no way he's even interested in you. 

I wander around for a good 20 minutes trying to find the exit. When I find it. I see my grandparents and my eyes widened. 

"Grandma! Grandpa!" I yelled in their direction. They turned around and smiled at me.

"Mina!" They said as I made my way over to them and engulfed them in a big hug. 

"I missed you guys so much!" A tear escaped my eye.

"We've missed you too!" My grandfather says to me. 

"Let's go get you home!" My grandma beamed, "Everyone will be so happy to see you!"

"Everyone? What do you mean by everyone?" I asked, worried as to who it may be.

"You'll see." My grandma smiled at me.

I push the thought to the back of my head and just look out at the scenery. *The buildings here as so huge* I thought as I look at the skyscrapers poking through the clouds. After going through traffic at the speed of a snail, we got to the restaurant my grandparents owned. I walked in through the double doors to see the place I remember so well. The smell of my grandmother's korean cooking flooded my nose. I missed this pace. It was like a second home to me. Everything seemed to be so peaceful until I hear:

 "Oh Mina! We missed you SO much!" Her nasally high pitched voice struck my hear and vibrated my eardrums in a very unnatural way. Her "happy" tone was so fake. But, not as fake as her. 

"Hello Auntie Jisoo." I bowed politely, even though I'm not fond of her.

-FLASHBACK-

Auntie Jisoo slapped my mother. The sound of the impact echoed throughout the room in an ominous way. 

"Why? Why have you hurt me?" My mother cried. 

"I should be the one asking you that!" My aunt yelled. "You were never a good sister to me! You never loved your family!" 

"When have I ever turned my back on our family? Why would I ever do something like that!" My mom yelled hopelessly. I just stood there, quietly, behind the corner of the doorway frame, silently letting tears stream down my face. I knew that she was mean, but I didn't know that she was that bad. 

"I can't deal with being pushed around for things I never did! I'm sick of all of the crap I get put through everyday you and the rest of the family! I'm done!" My mother stormed out of the room, not even noticing me in the doorway. 

I always felt crushed whenever I saw my mother like this. My mother is a good person, I don't know why anyone would do this to her, let alone her own sister. I followed my mom.

"Mina, sweetie, we are getting out of here." My mother looked in my eyes. Her eyes were bloodshot from all the crying. 

"Okay, mommy." I hugged my mother as she carried my six year old self out of my aunt's home, planning on never returning to that household ever again. 

We went straight home and began to pack up all of our belongings. 

"Honey, did you get my call?" my mother asked my father as we walked into the house. Judging by the way he was collecting our belongings, he had.

"I got us all flight tickets back home. I got them changed so we could leave earlier. I'm so sorry that I couldn't be there to protect you from them." Dad sighed.

"As long as we leave, everything will be okay." Mommy looked at Dad with a sad look on her face.

My father hugged my mom, both of them not saying a word. I didn't know what to do as a six year old. I couldn't do anything about it. 

-PRESENT DAY-

I turn to Grandpa, trying to avoid Auntie Jisoo at all costs. 

"Grandpa, where is my room?" I ask him, avoiding eye contact with Auntie Jisoo.

"It's up the stairs and the third door on your right." He smiled back at me, completely oblivious to the awkward tension in the room.

I speed walk to the staircase and leave my grandparents ant aunt in the living.

"That girl is just like her mother: running away from her family." My aunt says louder than she was speaking, to make sure I heard it. 

I manage to hold in my emotions until I get into my room. I sat down on the bed and pulled out my phone. I call my mom as the tears start to stream down my face.

"M-mom?" I begin the conversation.

"Hey! How has your first day been so far?" My mother asked me.

"It's not quite going how I expected it." I manage to withhold my voice from cracking.

"Is everything alright? You don't sound like you're having fun." My mother sounded concerned. She could always see right through me.

"It's Auntie Jisoo. I walked in and there she was, already trying to put me down." My voice began to crack. 

"I'm so sorry that she's mean to you, too. You know that she's just projecting her feelings of me onto you, right?" My mom tried to comfort me.

"I know, but it's still so hard to not think that it's me. Why would she be mean to me? I have never done anything to her!" I cried into the phone. 

"Look at it this way. Maybe you can talk to her and maybe figure things out?" My mother asked, thinking that maybe I could fix what my aunt ruined. 

"That's not how things work in our family." I told my mother.

"I know. I was just trying to look at things in a more positive way." My mom is now attempting to cheer me up. 

"It's okay, mom. I had a long day of travel. I'm going to sleep." I tell her. 

My first day here in Korea has already been rough. I don't need it to a constant state of stress and anxiety, because that's all I feel when I'm around Auntie Jisoo. She gets under my skin. She makes my blood boil. I just hope that I can avoid her while I'm here. 

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Hi everyone! I'm finally back with another update! I'm trying to be as frequent as possible. But, there's a lot going on in life right now. But, I'll try to update. See you all soon!