Memoirs Of Love

Fixing

Yoonji suggesting going to therapy was at first alarming. But she explained her friend how important it is to seek professional help.

She handed over a card that had address and insisted she will tag along to protect her. Haneul was beyond thankful to her friend who was quick to jump to her aid.

She  quickly hid the card in her wallet and  they spent some time together to take their mind off of things and enjoy like the old times.

It was time to leave for her home. Haneul dreaded this hour and sensing her hesitation Yoonji suggested that she stayed with her for the night

Her mind pondered over what she will tell her boyfriend. She will only hear string of abuses.

She was in a catch 22 situation but she wanted to stay in the comfort of her friends home.

She called his number, to seek his permission.

After a few rings he answered . Her voice quivered at his reaction and was scared.

She stuttered and the man angrily shouted ,"come to the point you bitch ."

She couldn't speak at all. She only felt tears flowing in her eyes.

Yoonji snatched the phone as she had no reason to be scared of and told him off saying ," I'm her friend Yoonji and she's  staying the night over here," and cut the call.

Haneul was shocked as if she froze in time. She could hardly imagine giving a reply like this to him.Yoonji switched the phone off and tossed it to her.She put the phone on the coffee table and they resumed watching movie .

Whenever haneul felt scared , her friend would console her. For the first time Haneul felt warmth. They fell asleep in each other's arms.

It was daybreak a new day for Haneul . A first step gain control over her life.

Haneul and yoonji decided to go back to her apartment and get going from there.
They reached Haneul apartment.  She punched in the code and the door opened shortly.

There he was , folding his hands and with a sick smirk. Where were you ? I was worried about you? Her boyfriend said.
Haneul felt part disgusted at this pretentious behavior. If it wasn't for Yoonji's presence he would scold her.
Yoonji rolled her eyes at the man and proceeded to sit on the sofa and asked haneul to get ready.
The boy kept pestering and asking her where she was  leaving.
Haneul went into her room and slammed the door shut the door.
Only faintly hearing his questions after.

She got ready and picked some fresh clothes and wore them. She didn't bother about her make up and roughly combed her hair.

When she went out of her room and made her way into the living room.
Her boyfriend looked at her and made fun of her saying she looked pale as a ghost and asked her to put some make up on so people don't scared.

Yoonji was ready to square up with the boy if he didn't stop. She was surprised how she put up with everything. The degrading , the pretentiousness.

"Don't you agree that haneul could use more make up ? Doesn't she look scary ?,"he spat looking at yoonji .

Yoonji was ready to throw hands and was about to knock some sense into him. She refrained it was pointless to beat him up.

They both made their way out and Haneul's boyfriend gave her tight hug and whispered , "wait till you get home bitch!"

It made her spine crawl and felt threatened at his boyfriend's remark. Yooji dragged her away, taking note of the hostile situation .

On their way to a therapist's office , they grabbed breakfast and both of them are heartily. Haneul also informed of the leave she'll be taking for the next few days.

Both of them made their way into the therapist office .

They waited for their turn and Haneul entered into his office.

The doctor was tall by many times Haneul and was dressed in formals. He introduced himself as Sejin and asked her to introduce herself.

Haneul was at first nervous. But she slowly opened up.

Sejin asked her to explain her situation and how it started.

Haneul simply said, " it was really fine at the beginning , but then he would get mad and verbally abused me."

"Why didn't you do anything about it then ,"sejin asked.

"I thought he was just being jealous and insecure and he told I deserved all the outbursts,"

"Plus I thought being  was normal,"she added.

Sejin reminded her that
abuse is still an abuse she didn't have to wait till it escalates into violence .

"Do you think you deserve all the outbursts and pain you received ?,"

"I don't think so," she said in a low voice.

The session was then preceded by more of experience sharing and after therapy with Sejin she felt heavy weight of her lungs. She thanked him and went to yoonji waiting for her in the lobby.

They paid the bill and made their way out . She felt really thankful to Yoonji who is helping her out in little ways.

Haneul didn't want to go back , she didn't want to face her boyfriend.

She went to her home to pick her things up like wallet, Id cards, bank statements, bills, passport , keys to her vehicle everything so that he had nothing to black mail her with.

She put them in a file and handed them to Yoonji. It was a bold move but then yoonji insisted she stays but she was only scared for her and her friend's safety. Yoonji reluctantly took the file with her and Insisted she keeps the car to escape.

Haneul tool a deep breath and saw the silhouette of her friend leaving.

She sat on the sofa nervously. Waiting for the devil.

She waited to confront him.  Then the moment she dreaded came alive.
She heard someone punching the code on the other side of the door.