Broken Hearts And Dreams

Chapter 4

When they arrived at their home, Aera's tears has dried, but she was still sniffling. Wonwoo was concerned, what made his baby this sad? They entered the living room and Aera immediately buried her face into one of the pillows at the sofa.

Frowning, Wonwoo approached her and carefully patted her back,"Baby, what happened? Are you okay?"

Looking up to her papa, she cried more as she hugged him and put her head on his chest,"I don't what's wrong with me papa." She admitted. "I want to forgive dad and be happy with him, but when I see him with his husband being happy, not caring about the world, my anger just came out, all the wants to be happy with him was swallowed by my anger."

"Oh, honey," Wonwoo caressed her cheeks as a comfort. "Papa knows what you're feeling, honey. You want to be happy, but anger took the best out of you. You can't just forgive dad immediately, you have to do it slowly, step by step. You might not be able to forgive dad now, but you can be less angry with him by reminding yourself that dad is a human. And human makes mistakes."

"But what he did to you was too much papa,"

"Look, sweetie. If it is because of what your dad has done to me, it's fine, I've already forgiven him a long ago. If papa can forgive him, so can you."

"I... don't know, papa. But I'll try."

"That's my girl," Wonwoo smiled and pecked her forhead.

The next day, the father and daughter had nothing to do so Wonwoo suggested that they both just watch movies and eat. Wonwoo was on the sofa, with Aera's head on his shoulder. On Aera's lap was a tube of ice cream and a packet of chips. This felt nice, Aera thought. Just relaxing with her papa and not caring about anything. She felt content seeing her papa being happy and forgetting all of his worries.

Suddenly, a loud banging was heard throughout the house.

"I'll get it," Aera got up and brushed off bits of chips from her shirt.

She opened the door and immediately smiled upon seeing the people outside.

"Uncle Min!" Aera was engulfed in a hug.

"Seokmin? What's the occasion?" Wonwoo asked his brother.

"Nothing. We were bored at home so Jisoo suggested that we go here. Besides, Hansol said he had a group assignment with Aera that needs to be submitted on Monday." Seokmin entered the house, Jisoo and Hansol following after.

Hansol and Aera greeted each other with a hug, "Papa, Uncle Min, Uncle Soo. Hansol and I will be my room working on our assignment," Aera informed before dragging her cousin to her room.

"Hey Aera," Hansol said after Aera closed the door.

"Yeah?" She asked, her hands busy typing onto her laptop.

"I've called Seungkwan and he's gonna be here anytime soon,"

"Sure, he'll know we're here." Aera nodded.

The only people that she had after her dad left her besides her papa was Uncle Seokmin, Uncle Jisoo and her cousin Hansol and his boyfriend Seungkwan. They would always listen to her rants and cries without any judgement, and she was vey thankful of that. Hansol, Seungkwan and her were friends since kindergarten (Hansol and her being cousins and Seungkwan being Hansol's boyfriend). Hansol and Seungkwan were the companions she could never exchange for the world. With them giving her encouragements and advices, she was thankful to them.