Broken Hearts And Dreams

Chapter 3

Later that night, she was doing her 5 pages of assignment that her teacher gave them this morning to be submitted on Monday. She was furiously typing on her laptop, giving all of her concentration towards her work. Later, someone knocked on her door.

"Come in," her eyes still glued on the screen.

The door was opened, revealing one of the maids that worked for her dad,"Young lady, your father has called for you to come down and eat dinner."

Looking at the maid, she smiled, "Yeah. I'll be out in minute."

The maid nodded politely before bowing and closed the door quietly.

Aera saved her work before leaving her room. Climbing down the stairs, she heard giggles and talking. She stopped at the bottom of the stairs, watching her dad and his husband being lovey-dovey. That used to be her papa and her dad. Growing up, she always witnessed her parents being lovely with each other, so when the affection stopped 7 years ago, she wondered what happened and felt sad. Tears welled up, she turned away and stomped towards her room, making sure to slam her door as loud as possible. She sat on her bed, letting out all the tears. She knew it has been 5 years but the pain was still there.

Mingyu and Jeonghan were at the kitchen waiting for Aera to come down so they could have dinner together. While waiting, they had exchange stories about their day. Mingyu's story was cut off by the loud sound upstairs. Jeonghan looked at the stairs, looking for Aera.

"That must be her. I'll go talk to her," Mingyu got up and kissed Jeonghan on the cheeks before leaving to Aera's room.

He knocked and opened the door softly. "Aera? What happened? Are you okay?" Mingyu frowned upon seeing his daughter's back facing him. He couldn't see her face but he knew she was crying. His heart broke, wondering what made his princess this sad and broken.

"Aera-ya? Do you need anything? Why are you-"

"Why'd you do that, dad?" She questioned, finally facing him.

He softened, seeing his daughter's tear-streaked face. "Do what, honey?" He was confused, what did he do?

"Why'd you do that dad? Why'd you cheat on papa? Was papa not enough for you? Were you not happy with us?" Her questions pained his heart.

"Princess, I'm sorry-" he went closer to hug her.

"No! You're not sorry! If you were sorry you wouldn't be happy but you are! If you were sorry, you wouldn't have left me and papa! You broke papa! Do you know he still cries to himself every night? Yes, it has been going on for 5 years dad! 5 years! I know I'm being childish, but the way you left papa was just horrible. The least you could do was tell papa the truth! You kept it a secret for two years dad! And you never even told papa the truth, you left us and papa found out the truth by himself, dad! Imagine being in papa's shoes right now. The fact that you still had the audacity to ask papa to let me stay here during the weekends stunned me, dad. I never knew you this kind of person." She broke down even more.

"Princess," he called out, his voice breaking slightly.

"No. Please get out. Please." She begged, desperation could be heard in her voice.

Mingyu nodded, feeling dejected, before closing her door. He went downstairs to see Jeonghan was sitting on the sofa in the living room. Upon seeing his husband's face, Jeonghan patted the seat beside him and gave Mingyu a comforting smile.

"How did it go?" Jeonghan asked, playing with Mingyu's hair.

"I think she hates me," Mingyu let out a frustrated sigh, covering his face with his hands.

With trembling hands, Aera dialled her papa's number. Wonwoo picked up on the first ring.

"Uhmm... papa, can you pick me up? I'm not feeling too well." She said, trying to cover up her broken voice.

"What's wrong, honey? You sound sad." Rather than sad, she would say hurt. She has been holding onto something and it was causing her pain. She was holiding onto a dream. A dream where her family was gonna be happy again. Where it was just her papa, dad and her. Perfect picture.

"Please, papa," Wonwoo could hear the sadness in her voice.

"Okay, I'll come pick you up. Just wait, okay? I'll be there in a few minutes."

"Okay, thank you, papa,"

Aera packed up all of her stuff and shoved it into her bag, not caring if any of her things get damaged. She just wanted to get out off this house, it was suffocating her.