The Pandoras Box we've made

Chapter 1: The day we meet again as Strangers

NOTE:

Italize letters are a flashback

Normal letters are the present

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The smell of the burnt eggs spread not only in the kitchen but it also extended towards the other parts of the house and Jung Hyun-Ae will not notice it if Jung Bambam, her husband, didn't call her attention. She was spacing out and not concentrating on what she was doing making her works a failure. Panicking, she takes off the burnt egg from the pan so that it will not create unnecessary smell inside the house. While doing so, Chrisa and Jenny came to eat their breakfast before going to their school.

"Ahhh poor egg. Mom, you wasted it." Chrisa, the youngest daughter said as she flashed a pity look on her face while looking at the black colored fried egg that was placed on a plate. Suzanne patted Chrisa's head and told her that she should go to the dining table already and eat her breakfast or else she will be late on her first day of school. Jenny, the eldest daughter started to eat her cereal and also her father who was busy reading a newspaper also resumed eating his food.

"I already packed your lunch so you better eat all of them," Hyun-Ae told the two as she put the new fried egg on the table.

"Mom, where is Hyungnim?" Chrisa suddenly asked when Hyun-Ae finally sit down on her chair.

Hyun-Ae gave her a thrifty smile before she touched her spoon and fork and started to cut her fried egg. "He is not a type of person who eats breakfast. He already went to school a while ago."

"Even he is our brother he never talks to us yet. Is he really like that mom?" Jenny asked.

"Though brother is good looking and tall it's hard to approach him because he looks so serious and cold," Chrisa added.

"Don't worry. Your brother is a nice person. It's just... he used to live with his grandma and they only eat alone together. You know that grandma doesn't talk that much right? Your brother is just adjusting to this new environment and so he is acting that way. Don't worry in the near future you will be closer to him." Hyun-Ae said making it sound like she was sure about it. "Eat your breakfast already or else it will get cold."

Jung Bambam, the head of the family put down his spoon and fork and then look at Hyun-Ae who was busy feeding Chrisa. "I understand what your son is going through but it is a rule in this house that everyone should eat together. If he is not the type of person who eats breakfast then at least let him eat with us at dinner time. He is now living with a family and so he should make an effort to be part of it. And also about his family name... are you not going to register him into our family registrar?" he asked.

She wipes Chrisa's mouth before she answered her husband "I asked him about it but he said that he wanted to continue using his old name."

"What a stubborn fellow," Bambam muttered.

Hyun-Ae remained silent but at the back of her mind, she agreed that her son was so stubborn and hard to talk to.

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~~~~~Time Skip~~~~~

As Taehyung increased the speed of his bicycle, he was cutting through the ground full of fallen cherry petals. The cold soothing breeze touches his skin, making his hair swing together with his body. It was a bright beautiful day, a good way to start his first day in his new school.

Taehyung passed through houses and streets. He knew his way to his school without even asking anyone else. Since he arrived in Seoul a few months ago all he does was to tour around the area clinging on the possibility that he can find traces of his old memories that are scattered on that busy city.