on a fragile line || ygtb

Part 18

Seokhwa looked at the news and he had a flashback. A bad one as he cowered at the corner of his bed.

That night was a snowy night. A hail storm had befallen upon Seoul. A little 5 year old boy was wailing his eyes out.

"Youre rich! Why can't you take care of Seokhwa? You're just selfish to your daughter!" Seokhwa's mother yelled at his father who carried onto a newborn baby daughter.

"I already have a family! I can't raise another child! Besides he's not fully a Kang descendant!" He heard his father's voice boom. Seokhwa never seen his father. His mother didn't allow him to see that useless sack of nothingness but money but he wanted to see.

He tried to peak in but was shoved out. "Go away you cheap unwanted child." A girl hissed at him, "Your mother is nothing but a useless slut."

"But you're my-"

"stepsiblings? Sorry not happening and let me tell you this. Stay away from our younger sister. We do us and you do you." The girl's younger brother's words stung him right at the spot.

Seokhwa's mother stormed out of the house and pushed the duo from Seokhwa and stormed to the gate.

"Seulgi. Daniel. Come in for dinner." Their father called them and whilst they went in, they glared warningly at him.

Seokhwa walked out of the gate and realized his mother was not holding onto his hand. They were at the law firm meeting room, settling matters out of court and she was furiously yelling at the lawyer with a foreign man.

He looked at the man and the man smiled at him. Seokhwa got scared. Thankfully the man looked friendly.

Seokhwa's mother walked out of the room and heaved a sigh. She handed the man a file and he patted Seokhwa's head. "Don't let him appear in front of me ever again!" She chided, glared at him and stormed away.

He cried and called for her as he saw her back grew increasingly smaller. The man held onto him to prevent him from running. Seokhwa wailed his eyes out and was kneeling on the floor.

The man back hugged him and hushed him silently. "Don't worry Seokhwa. I won't leave you like the others. I'll protect you." He cooed the little boy.

"Who are you? What's your name?"

The man smiled and patted his head. "I'll be your legal guardian from now on. You can call me uncle."

"Wh-whats your name?"

"Yang Hyunsuk."

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Seokhwa snapped back into reality. If PD Yang didn't adopt him and feed him well, train him well and shower him with love, he didn't know where he would be.

He mustered his courage and walked out of the room silently to get a glass of milk. "What-what are you guys doing here?" Seokhwa saw Kang Seulgi and Kang Daniel sitting all boss like at thr dining table while little Kang Shieun was waving at him and gesturing to sit beside her. An unfamiliar man sat with them at the table and he stood up at the sight of him.

"Seo-Seokhwa? Are you... Kang Seokhwa?" The man walked up to him. Shieun nodded at her seat all child like and innocent.

"Yes. I am. I'm Kang Seokhwa and how can I help you?" He asked in a judgemental tone.

"Seokhwa... Its me. Dad."

The word 'dad' sounded so unfamiliar to him. So distant, unfamiliar and foreign. He felt the same way when he first saw PD Yang. He sighed.

"Please leave." He mustered a hefty amount of courage to say that.

"Aww..." Shieun pouted.

"Except you. You can stay. The rest of you, out."

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"I've got 2 words for you guys and 2 words only." Takino finally thought of a comeback song, "Pirate King."

"Beam me up! Beam. Me. Up!"

"Not that Pirate King, Mel. Well, kinda that but also our own song. So each of you will be composing a song."

"Cool that is if I actually know how to compose." nayumi chided.

It was then, Minyoung just came back from her violin lessons. But she looked like she just fought a zoo full of wild beasts.

"woah.." the members were lost for words.

"Don't ask." Min young stopped and sensed the curiosity, "Fine. I'll tell you. I saw Hyunsuk. Choi not Yang. I freaked out after I heard him say something and ran off."

"well.. Tell us what he said." Nayumi chided, "Takino set out curiosity disappointment at compose your own song."

"That's bad. Anyways so he handed me a paper with his name on it. He told me to read it and I read it on the spot."

"Pause. Did he put his surname?"

"Yes. He did."

"Just checking. Proceed"

"It was a fucking love note." She lowered her voice, "And there wasn't one but a few. Hyunsuk didn't just write. He freaking composed. Also the guys wrote you some too."

"Nah uh bitch I ain't reading this." Mel looked at the paper with Seunghoon's name on it. She read it anyways.

Nayumi snapped her fingers. "Trash the pirate story. Let's compose a song to reply to their love note... Poem... Whatever it is."

"Yeah!"

"Now the question is. How do we get our message across?"