Don't Play Me! - Jungkook FanFic

06 - Wretched life story

Chapter 06 – Wretched life story.

Mina

I resigned my self for the coming conversation and just walked past him, sitting back on the bed. It was clear that he wasn't going to let this go, no matter how much I wanted him to. My blabbermouth and anger earlier probably didn't help things either. He was looking at me like he couldn't be sure whether to be shocked or devastated.

"It's been seven years Jungkook, things have changed, a lot." I avoided looking at him. The way I spoke earlier probably gave him the wrong idea but I just couldn't help but feel defensive the way I did. He has so much now and I had so little. Suddenly I had so little confidence and he had so much that it was making me feel suffocated.

Isn't it funny how material things made us change the way we felt? In an ideal world, it shouldn't but this was nowhere close to an ideal world. Is this how I made him feel in the past? I hoped to god not.

"But why are you working for a who –um I mean an escort service?" He stumbled over his words. V, before he left had made it very very clear that this wasn't exactly their first arrangement with Crimson Wings and I had a feeling that most of their arrangement weren't exactly the kind I was singed up for today. I cringed at the thought of it. This was so much harder than I could have ever expected. I had to face reality I guess, this wasn't the same boy I loved, who blushed when I teased him. It broke my heart all over again. I needed to get out of here before I broke down and the only way was to give him the information he was after.

"I'm not technically working for them. I got this job through a friend." I left it at that, he didn't have to know that I had been and still was considering about getting myself into the agency. It would be my last resort so I wasn't at that point yet. I would work myself to the bone before I ever had to get there. "But like I said, things have changed Jungkook. I'm not the rich girl you knew me as." I gave him a rueful sigh. He remained silent so I continued on. "Dad had a stroke and while he was recovering he was cheated off of his shares by his lawyer and his partner." I sighed going over the sordid details. "He thought he was signing the shares temporarily over to his partner until he recovered and trusted his lawyer a little too much. His carelessness meant that the lawyer got him to sign the permanent transfer of shares document instead of the temporary transfer of shares documents. The rest as they say is history." I glazed over the rest of it. It wasn't as that simple. When my dad realised his error he went for a custody battle that used up all his savings and got him killed with a second stroke. Me and my mum had begged him to just give up but he hadn't listened. Anyone could have seen he was fighting a loosing battle but he was too driven with anger to realize that. It had been his whole life's worth of work.

"What happened to Mr Jung?" He asked, shock clear in his expression.

"He passed away from a second stroke." I admitted, my throat feeling tight. His death too hadn't been that simple. Dad had struggled for a few months as a disabled person, being fed from feeding tubes before finally he wasted away.

"God, I'm so sorry Mina." He stood up and moved closer to me but I shuffled away. I needed distance if I were to survive this.

He stopped and stood still, looking down at me. "Right." He muttered, running his hands through his hair before sitting back down on the sofa. "That's when you stopped answering my calls?"

I nodded. Yeah, that's when I stopped answering his calls and stopped calling him back because my phone got disconnected. Then we moved to Seoul for the last two years of my high school because we didn't have our house anymore and it was easier to find a job for mum and part time jobs for me in the city but neither of us had any experience or qualifications. My mum had been a rich pampered wife all her life and I hadn't been any better. The only jobs available to us were the once to clean, cook and wait tables.