Divorced // bang yongguk (#26)

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YiYeong

"Noona, I don't want to be here!" I took a look at the horrible woman who is now looking at me with those eyes which I hated a lot, I don't like people who treat children like that.

I may be just his neighbour next door but I have known this boy better than anyone have in just a few hours, I know most of his sleeping habits when I had him at my apartment yesterday night. He likes to cuddle a plushie when he sleeps and he needed someone to pat his head when he sleeps.

I don't know who this woman is, being so close to Sehyun but I know that Sehyun hates to be with this woman and he needs my help right now.

I inhaled and exhaled, a deep one as I prepare myself to face the scary woman that Sehyun hates to be with a lot. "Excuse me but I need to take this child with me right now, he is feeling really uncomfortable."

"What are you implying? That I'm a bad person to this kid that I'm taking care of." She crossed her arms over one another. So she is sort of a babysitter...

"Don't think that you can escape from my eagle eyes, I saw everything that you have done to the poor kid."

Her eyes doubled in size. "What do you mean? I don't understand at all what you are talking about."

"You scolded that kid in public and you used your fingers to pinch his arm when he wanted ice cream and you didn't want him to."

"I..." She struggled to find the correct words. "I was just disciplining the kid, he is not allowed to have any sorts of junk food."

"But Appa said that I can eat whatever I want as long as I behave myself--"

"And you clearly didn't!" She screamed at the poor kid who whimpered under my hold, he is hugging even tighter at my legs. "That's why you are banned from having ice cream!"

That screaming alone gives me the right to take the child away, she is being ridiculous to a 4-year-old, she is screaming her lungs out and frightening the child. That is the worst example of a monster that is out for cute and adorable children who can't fend for themselves alone.

I picked up Sehyun in my arms."Which agency are you from?" I asked the woman who looks even more ridiculous than before, her eyes were as if about to drop out and she is trying her very best not to lash out at me. "I am going to sue you for Child Abuse."

"Hey!" Her eyes darted all over the place, looking around in the convenience store for any CCTV. "You can't do that to me."

"Oh yes, there are a ton of CCTVs around in this tiny convenience store and the police station is just a few buildings away. They will come running to get you if I give them a call, I may not know them well but I know that they are the most passionate about their jobs."

"Who the hell are you?" I smiled at the child, who looked slightly relaxed in my arms. "Who gives you the right to take away the child that I am taking care of?"

"I have more authority than anyone else to do that, I am..."

"My second mother." Sehyun completed my sentence.

"Yes, his second mother!" I proudly say whatever Bang Sehyun is saying before I realize something really wrong. How the hell am I even his second mother?

The woman laughed mockingly at me. "What? He doesn't have a mother, he only has a father." I covered Sehyun's ears, he doesn't like to hear that part. He cried like crazy the first time that I ever mentioned to him.

"So what? Who says that I can't take care of him like you are supposed to be doing, you failed at your job and I'm here to take over this job." I told her firmly. "Madam, you have one job and you totally failed at that."

I carried the kid out of the convenience store and I feel that my heart is going to explode, how the hell could I even say such a thing? I'm such a badass...

I looked at the child in my arms and he was smiling at me. "You did a really good job, Noona."

"I didn't. I am going to get jailed very soon, that woman is going to put me behind bars to stealing away the child that she was supposed to be looking after." I told Sehyun with an anxious facial expression. "What should I do, Sehyun-ah?"

"You can be my second mother." He said, bringing me to the memory of him addressing me as someone who is very important to them, the motherly figure in his family.

"Why am I your second mother? I don't even know who the heck is your father."

"I don't care, I just want you to take care of me just like my mother who left all of us behind." He looked at me with a hint of sadness in his face.

A sudden realization takes over me as I place all the pieces together, no wonder he was crying when I asked him about his mother. His mother ended things with his father and left the family, making his father the only person who can support the family financially.

Up till today, I have never considered myself to be the most caring person ever. No one ever considered me to be someone who they wanted to depend on until this kid who suddenly appeared in front of my door. He wanted me to take care of him, just like what his mother had been doing before she left him behind. He wanted someone like me who has never had anyone that I would protect and cherish for, I was the one who is always receiving and now this child is teaching me how to do the opposite.

He is teaching me how to take care of someone and loving someone, the right way. I have been always doing the wrong way.

"Where is your father? I want to find him."