Twisted Beyond Repair

College

Jiwon smiled looking at all the money he had saved till the day. He had graduated from high school, thankfully, and managed to get a place in a local college, pursuing his one and only dream that he realized he ever had; Music and Arts.

It was all thanks to Yunhyeong after all, for managing to bring some sense into him in order to graduate together and pursuing their dreams respectively.

They studied together everyday and Jiwon had dinner together with Yunhyeong's family, almost everyday, that he also became close to Yunhyeong's brother, Chanwoo.

All the more reasons Jiwon knew he had all owes to this family. He got to feel how a family was like, he got to feel the love from a mother would give to her children, though he was obviously only a stranger to that family.

But all of them were full of warmth. Just like Yunhyeong.

Snapping himself out of it, he packed all of his stuff, clothes and everything into the luggages with an excited smile. After that, he quickly came out of his room in the house belonged to his uncle, bringing all the luggages.

He stopped abruptly as he noticed his uncle in the living room.

His uncle glared at him as he approached the younger, "Where the hell do you think you are going with all these bags?"

"I'm going to college," he simply answered and took a step before his uncle grabbed his arm harshly, "Do you take me for a fool?" He scoffed, "What college would you go during this time? It is night for fuck's sake!"

"It's none of your business," Jiwon let his arm off the other and walked away without giving a glance at all to the back.

His uncle scoffed again at his bravery and snarled, "Okay, let's see how far can you go. Bitch."

Jiwon swallowed his saliva down, as he persuaded himself that he was determined to escape from the house at last.

He walked and walked with the luggages without knowing the direction, but he didn't care at all. He would survive anyhow.

As he felt exhausted and drowsy, he decided to take a break near a closed shop. It was almost midnight anyway, so he just had to call it a day.

He put the luggage as the pillow and took a nap. Just a short nap, he said.

Until.

He suddenly heard a honk so he opened his eyes in shock. 

His eyebrows furrowed as his field of vision caught a... Police car in front of him.

There was an officer coming out of the car and walked cautiously toward him.

"Hello?"

Jiwon politely bowed at him as he got up. The officer asked with a soft smile, "Young man, why are you here alone? With all these bags? Are you going somewhere?"

Jiwon faked a laugh, "Ah, I... I actually..."

"You wouldn't say that you ran away from home, right?" The officer said with a wink, "But then, there are lots of stuff you carried with you, so it's quite unreasonable to think that."

"It's pretty much like what you thought, but it is not my home, so I didn't really run away from home. But rather, escaping the place."

He couldn't even believe that he actually was being honest to the officer that he had just met. 

"I see," the officer sent him a few soothing pats on his shoulder, "I'm Goo Ja Cheol by the way."

"Kim Jiwon."