Love Found In the Contract

CHAPTER ONE 🦋

Jinyoung's p.o.v.🍑

Emptiness.

Emptiness is what I felt as my father spoke of how this was the very reason for why I was born, to make him richer. I felt nothing as my mother smiled brightly as she basically threw my stuff out in order to make my room into her new beauty room. Nothing is what I felt when my sisters were more devastated to hear that my cars will be sent to America for me to use rather than them keeping them. 

I watched the raindrops from outside my window of the fast-moving car. It has always been fascinating for me to see how unimportant I seem to in people's lives. 

When I was younger, my father was too busy to play with me or do any of the typically father-son things. He never showed me how to play sports, shave, women---although that would have been pointless since I'm not into women. My mother and I barely spoke when I was growing up and that was the same with my siblings. They were all in their own worlds doing their own things, always on their phones, with friends, or business trips. I was always left out. But I did not mind it as much as I got older, especially since the maids and gardeners were always there for me. 

Maria, a Central American born and raised until the age of twenty-three, was the one who took me to school from the ages of four to seven. She would wake me up with a warm cup of sweet water and then made sure that all my homework was completed and correct. Then after I was fully dressed, she would serve me breakfast and walk me to school, although that was not part of her job and she was not getting paid for.  When I was done at school she would pick me up and take me to the park to play with me. She was very caring and loving, up until the point she was fired because she was spending more time with me rather than her job. My mother was the one to fire her and my siblings made it their mission to make me know that I was the reason she lost her job as if I was not feeling guilty. 

After her, the Gardener, Jay, was the one that helped me with my homework and sports. He was a very kind man that helped me be more than proficient on a large number of sports and for my passion od gardening. I used to spend hours outside doing homework as he completed his work in order for us to play some ball, chess, or any other thing that we were in the mood for. 

He and I parted ways when he decided to move to another region with his family, somewhere less competitive and safer for their children and grandchildren.  I was sad to see him go but very happy to not anything to do with his decision to move. 

After Jay, there came in Donovan, the family driver. He is a good man, a lot younger than the people that actually raised me, but still the same amount of wise and funny. He was the one that helped me discovered that liking men was not a sin or something worth feeling down for. He is the man that helped me discovered that love and attraction are normal whether that be between the opposite gender or the same.  

"Jinyoung Park, you know is not polite to look out the window and completely ignore the other person sitting right next to you," Donovan says, probably in the attempt to make the atmosphere less tragic and saddening 

"I'm sorry is just that...anyway what is it that you want to talk about?"

"Jinyoung Park, there is no need to hide your emotions especially from me. I will never judge you, I hope you know that. I can only imagine the strong emotions that you are feeling right now, but I want you to know that whatever you need just one call and I'll be in the first plane there."

I sob builds up in my throat, "T-thanks"

"Jinyoung, look there is going to be people there that will try to harm you but there will also be people that will try to help you and want to love you"