Mi Madre-Vkook

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[Taehyung's Prov ]
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I up in early in the morning and sighed that today was Saturday, the day that I can't excape my mother's hits and abuse. I wash my face, put my clothes on, and put my worn out Puma sneakers that Jin gave me from last Christmas.

I got to the kitchen and pulled out some of the ingredients that I was going to use for today's food that I was going to sale. I went to the fridge and pulled out ten onions, fifteen tomatoes, two huge jars of Kimchi, bunches of packets of noodles, and one pound of white rice.

As I got out the kitchen knives, kitchen spoons, cutting boards, pots, pans, and some spices. I washed all of the onions and peeled the outer skin of the Onions. Then I got the cutting board near me and got the first onion and started cutting the onion into squares. While I was doing that process I started crying.

How the Onions were so strong and half of the crying was from yesterday from the pain that my abusive mother had caused me.

When I was getting to my eleventh onion I was getting a huge pile of little squared onions on to the blue rectangular container. While I was cutting I sensed a strong presence within the kitchen. Before I got time to react, I immediately was startaled and turned around and saw my abusive mother.

My mama grabbed me by my soft greyish  hair, that was turning slowly white due to stress,  and pushed me into the ground causing the knife that I held hit the floor and making a long cut to my left arm. I yelped from pain when my mother looked at me with her cold piercing eyes. I tried not to look at her but immediately I started crying and blurred out saying.

" Mama!!! Please forgive me!! I'll work harder!!" I whined as I was slammed again and this time having contact with the floor and getting hit with a glass that my mom threw at the floor to scare me even more. I took my arms and hands and immediately covered my head. As I felt the glass made contact with my hands. I suddenly felt a a thick and warm liquid drop from my hands and to the floor.

     " Ever since you were born you were nothing but a burden!!" Shouted my mother taking her purse and her coat while slamming the door behind her. The small picture frames that the living room had shook and stayed in their place. From the force that Taehyung's mother slammed the door.

    Ever since you were born you were nothing but a burden!! Trampled across my mind. While I got up carefully, trying not to touch the sharp glass that was scattered around the floor. I entered the bathroom and quickly turned on the sink and put my bloody hands into the sink. While looking away trying not to feel the pain. I noticed that the glass gave me really deep cuts into my skin.

After I washed my hands I wrapped my hands into bandages. I tried to clench my hand my hand to see how bad the pain and felt that I could barely clench my hand. I sighed and got back to cooking so I could sell the food that I made to workers or to other people.

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When I finished cutting the vegetables and finished preparing the sauces. I started to boil water and finally started cooking. When I was getting to make the Kimchi the home  phone rang.

    But before the phone rang I forgot to cut the cabbage. I got out two pieces of cabbages and started cutting. When I was focused on cutting the last cabbage. The home phone rang with it's annoying ringtone.

   I sighed and washed my hands and started picked up the phone.

" Yes this is Ms. Kim's son Taehyung speaking how may I help you."

" Good morning this is the Yoon's Home & property real estate agency this is to inform you that you have two payments due. If these payments are not due till Monday then we'll prop up your house into the market. Good bye and have a wonderful day. In order to make a payment press one, to repeat the message press-"

I quickly hanged up the phone and slid down to the floor and made myself into a ball and started crying. I put my hands on top of my head and I cried the Han river. 

I thought to myself," How... how am I going to make a huge payment till Monday?!? There is no way in hell that I'm going to make that tons of money to just pay my mother's house?!? Please, end my suffering."

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" Noodles!! Kimchi!!! " I yelled from my wooden post trying to sell food to random people who were hungry for food. I yelled once more and sat down in my wooden chair and wiped my sweat off of my forehead. Even though it was mid fall I was burning up.

I wiped out some of my boogies from my nose using a worn out napkin that was once damped. I put the napkin back and saw a elder coming in my post. I bowed to her and she bowed back and asked for everything that had I had made. I was surprised and put on my mask, a smile , and washed my hands in a small blue bucket and rinsed  off my hands and started to serve the elder with each one of the food that I had.

After she payed me $35 I gladly took the money and stuffed the currency into my dark blue apron. That was covered with food stains and a very small stain of Clorox. And wished the elder to have a wonderful day with my box smile.

The elder wished me a good sell for today and vanished through out the crowed that was looking or buying from other posts. My smile vanished as well and I returned to myself. A Selfless, a mere outcast, a broken and damaged, plain  boy.

I sighed and took a seat in the wooden stool that I had and saw the sea of people coming in and out of posts. Children crying, children whining, children laughing, parents buying, Teens taking selfies(even if teens do that?), some other teens having their ear buds in their ears, some parents holding hands, and other people trying to hold their bags in their arms and hands.

But no one seemed to notice my existence. Everyone was soaked in into their mind and perspectives that no one cared to look at me or notice me.

When I was stalking the people near my post. Some type of couple caught my eye all of a sudden. It was two Middle Aged men holding hands while in their other hands they had a kid right beside them. They seemed that both of them were coming near to my post. I took my eyes off of them and looked to the ground.

Could guys be attracted to other guys as well? So not only a couple could be a girl and a boy.... but a couple could be the same gender! I never knew that such thing could happen! But if those two guys are a couple then.... how could they have kids?

" Um Hello!" Chirped one of the guy with a dark blue scarf. " Could a get a full plate of everything please and with extra kimchi?"

I looked at the guy with curious eyes and just looked at him and thought how handsome he is. He had flawless skin, a nice and soothing voice, his eyes were warm, and he looked like a person that had a good personality.

" Uh Sure thing sir." I said getting up from my wooden stool and picking up a foam plate and started putting my food into the white foam plate. The two guys that were my clients looked like they were long time lovers and that they never fought in their relationship.

I wish, I could have a family like that.