Divorced // bang yongguk (#26)

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Sehyun

I picked my toy car which is on the dining table and I took it to the living room, on the black coloured sofa which I sat on it and I rolled the wheels on the soft surface of the sofa.

"Remember to remind the babysitter that Sehyun needs to have a nap at this timing." I heard my father rumbling something to my older sister. "He needs to have his plushie with him when he sleeps and he sleeps in somewhere that is dark and quiet, the only suitable location is his bedroom."

"Got it, Appa." My older sister Bang Sera replied and I witnessed my father giving some money to my older sister. "This is the money that you give to the babysitter to buy groceries, not to buy some snacks that is extremely unhealthy."

My older brother Bang Sejeong comes out of his room looking rather sleepy, he just woken up and is scratching his head. "Give that money to me, I'll take care of it better than noona. Who knows what she might use the money to spend on herself."

That made my older sister angry and she screamed at him. "Bang Sejeong! How can you!"

"Can the two of you stop fighting for one moment? You guys are setting a bad example to SeHyun who is sitting there innocently playing with his toy car." He walked to me and sat down on the sofa. "Do you want to take care of the money?"

"No!" The two protested. "Sehyun can't take care of the money, he is too young for that."

"But the two of you don't want either of the two of you to take the money because of personal reasons so the best alternative is to hand it to the next child in the family which turns out to be the maknae, Bang SeHyun ssi. Am I right?" He smiled and I smiled back at him.

I seriously don't get why my siblings are always fighting either... It is not like they will get some food if they won. "Appa, can I buy some snacks with this money?" I asked him.

"Of course, you are such a sweet boy and you rarely make me angry at you. You can buy as many as you want because you are a good boy." He turns back to my older siblings. "So who wants to take care of it and promise me that you will not use it for your own purpose than to buy snacks for SeHyun?"

The two raised up their hands immediately. "So who do you want to choose?"

I pointed to my older brother and he jumped around with excitement. "Yes! It is all mine, all mine and not yours, Bang Sera!"

My father smacks him on the head and I giggled, he rubs his head. "Remember, you are only to spend it on SeHyun's snacks and nothing else. If I ever find out that you are spending it on yourself, I would write a letter to your teacher and have you not attend badminton training for a month. I wonder how you would win any championships with that."

"Fine, I won't. I promise." He answered.

The ring of the doorbell tells me that someone important is at the door and I should be happy about it. My father went to open the door as I anticipated the person behind the door, he told me that a babysitter would be here to take care of me. Would it be that pretty lady next door?

"Come on in." I hear my father speaking to the babysitter and she came into the door, my smile instantly fading. It is not her?

Why is it not her? I had wanted to be her She takes great care of me when I couldn't get into the house yesterday, she made me stop crying and gave me a banana to munch on. I even fell asleep at her house but she did nothing to me, she didn't tie me up like what they do in the dramas and keep me away from Appa and my two older siblings.

"She is my eldest child, Bang Sera." He introduced us to the babysitter who seemed around the same age as Appa. "Bang Sejeong, my second child and Bang SeHyun my youngest. I will leave you in the care of my children as I trusted a lot in your company, you guys take great care of children and the children love you."

"You flatter me too much, we are just doing our jobs as babysitters and they are easy to get along with." She laughed at the three of us, I looked at my sister who is looking at her uncomfortably, Sejeong Hyung as well. Why are they like that?

"Then I'll leave now, your shift will end late at night as usual. You kids behave yourselves until I come back home, I'll be buying fried chicken." My father said taking his belongings and putting on his shoes before getting out of the apartment.

I continued waving at him until I got bored of repeating that particular action, my attention went back to my toy car and soon I was rolling them out car on the floor this time. I loved how small the cars are but they have attracted my attention when I first saw it in the toy store with my mother. My mother? Oh, that woman that never came back...

I began crying as my mind rewinds back on the memories that I had with my mother before she left all of a sudden, without even telling me that she loved me. She was gone when I woke up that morning and I spent the whole morning searching for her, I even told my older siblings that our mother was missing but they didn't believe. They only started crying when my father confirmed the news that our mother didn't want to stay with us anymore. Is it because I was naughty?

"Why are you crying?" The babysitter comes to me with a smile on her face. Why is she smiling when I am crying?

"You get away! You're not my mother!" I yelled at her and went to knock on the door of my brother's room, but he didn't come to open the door for me to enter. He didn't come to save me from this monster who decides to be in my house just because my father wanted her to be.

"Hush, Sehyun... It is bad to cry in the morning, it would ruin the rest of your day." She came walking step by step looking like a monster who is hunting for its prey.

"Hyung! Noona! Please save me from this monster." I went to my older sister's room next but she didn't answer the door as well. Oh right, she had to go study with her friends...

The woman picked me up in her arms and did one of her magic tricks that wouldn't stop me from crying, I didn't want her to stop me from crying. Where are my siblings when I needed them?

Omma, where are you? Why did you disappear to?