Broken Hearts And Dreams

Chapter 6

Aera was nervous, she didn't know what was gonna happen when she arrived at the venue. She was sitting in the dressing room, one of the maids doing her hair and makeup. She looked at her reflection in the mirror, she tried to smile to calm herself.

Suddenly, Wonwoo sat beside her and handed her something.

"What's this, papa?" She frowned as she took a closer look at the ring.

"It's our wedding ring," he smiled sadly, looking at the 17 carat diamond ring.

"Then, why are you giving this to me?"

"I want you to wear this." He took it and slid the ring into her finger. He smiled at how it fit her perfectly.

"It's beautiful," she admired the ring.

When her hair and makeup were done, the both of them stood up and walked to the main entrance.

"Goodbye, papa. See you later. Love you," she kissed his cheeks and went into the car where the driver was waiting for her.

"Love you too!" He waved at her.

As they got closer to the venue, the more she felt like vomitting. She was anxious, she was determined to forgive her dad tonight. The car halted in front of the restaurant and and the driver rushed to her side and opened the door for her.

"Thank you," she muttered and sent him a smile.

Entering the restaurant, she was shown her way to a private room by the staff. She saw her dad, Jeonghan and Jeonghan's parents seated on the table, conversing and waiting for her arrival. Wait, why are uncle Jeonghan's parents here?

"Aera! I'm so glad you came," Mingyu stood up and hugged her.

She smiled awkwardly and bowed politely to the elders. She then took a seat in front of her dad. After a few questions from Jeonghan's parents, the food arrived.

In the middle of the meal, Mr.Yoon looked at Aera's dad and his husband, "So why did you two invite us?"

Both Mingyu and Jeonghan looked at each other excitedly, "I'm pregnant!" Jeonghan announced happily. What?

"Congratulation, honey! How far along are you?" Both Jeonghan's parents were happy.

"What?" Aera asked coldly, forming tension in the room. She was furious, how could her dad do this to her papa?

"Aera, honey, please calm down-" Jeonghan tried to calm her.

"Shut up! I don't need you to tell me what to do!" She yelled. "I'm sorry, I-I need to go." She grabbed her bag and stormed out of the place.

As she got outside, a hand held onto her wrist, stopping her from walking further.

"Kim Aera! Don't you know how rude was that?" Mingyu's patience was wearing thin and she was not helping at all.

"Let me go, just go back to them." She tried to free her hands from him.

Mingyu tighten his grip on her wrist, slightly hurting her, "Can you stop with all this bullshit?! Can you stop being so childish and angry all the time?! Can't you just forgive me?! It's been 5 years, for fuck's sake! Just stop doing this, Aera. I'm tired of this!"

"Papa was pregnant, dad," she pulled back her hand as tears welled up in her eyes. She looked at him, feeling every scar and wound being open again.

"...what?" He questioned confusedly, his voice breaking.

"He was pregnant when you left him! Papa was suppose to tell you that on the day you left him! He was devastated, he was crying all day, locking himself in his room only coming out to eat! I didn't know what to do, I felt like it was my fault too, watching papa suffer because of you. I was so mad at you because you were the reason papa had a miscarriage," Aera continued, hurting Mingyu's heart even more.

"Aera, I didn't know-" Mingyu reached for his daughter.

"Don't touch me! Now you know why I act like a bitch right? I was ready to forgive you dad, but this had to happen," she turned her heels and left her dad who was still trying to process Aera's words.

Mingyu stood there, speechless. Wonwoo was pregnant when he left him? Why didn't Wonwoo tell him that he had a miscarriage? After a while, he made his way back into the restaurant, his heart heavy.

Aera walked aimlessly in the streets, she didn't want to go home yet. She was not ready to tell her papa what happened because she knew it was going to hurt him. Stopping at a park, she took a seat on the bench, thinking about the traumatic day. The incident was still clear to her.

It has been a month since her dad left them, Aera was very worried when her papa wasn't coming out of his room. She watched the tv to distract herself. Suddenly, a loud shriek was heard from her papa's room. She ran upstairs and opened the door, when she saw that Wonwoo wasn't in the room, she rushed to the bathroom door, she tried to open it but was locked.

"Papa! Are you alright? What happened?!" She asked frantically, knocking on the door repeatedly.

"Aera..." he called out, he sounded like he was trying to hide the pain and it made her even more panicked.

"Yes, papa," she was crying at this point. "Do you need anything?" She was only 13, she didn't know what to do.

"Honey, papa will be fine. Don't cry, but can you please call Uncle Min for me? Ask him to come here, okay?" Wonwoo said as he clutched onto his tummy, blood pooling him.

"Okay, papa. I will call him, just wait, okay?" She ran to the bed and took Wonwoo's phone to call her uncle.

"Hyung?" Seokmin answered the call on the first ring.

"Uncle Min? It's me, Aera."

"What's wrong, honey? Why are you crying?"

"Papa asked me to call you and tell you to come here, please hurry, uncle, papa sounds like he is in pain,"

"Okay, honey. Uncle will try to arrive there as soon as possible, okay? Keep talking to your papa, okay?"

"Okay, uncle." She ended the call.

"Papa? Are you okay?" Her tears was still falling.

"Papa is fine, baby. Papa will be fine." He didn't know if he was telling his daughter or just telling himself that, because he was already losing so much blood.

A few minutes later, Aera could hear steps rushing towards the room. The door opened and Jisoo immediately rushed to Aera, comforting her, while Seokmin went straight to the bathroom door.

"Hyung? Can you open the door?"

"I-I don't think I can stand up, Seokmin," Wonwoo replied weakly.

"Shit," Seokmin muttered under his breath. "Okay, hyung? I'm gonna break the door open, okay?" He asked, but he didn't get any reply. Wonwoo was already passed out.

Seokmin broke the door, revealing Wonwoo on the floor, blood around him. Aera sobbed harder seeing this, so Jisoo tighten his arms around her, whispering sweet nothings to soothe her.

"Fuck," Seokmin ran towards his brother and immediately carried him to his car. "Jisoo, stay here with Aera, I'm gonna bring Wonwoo to the hospital."

Jisoo nodded and brought her to her room, trying to distract her from the incident.