Sorry for the delay!!! My friends came to our house and I had to entertain them. Also, I was busy searching for tickets for Lee Min Ho's Fun Meet in Araneta this coming November. Anyone who'll come too? Let's see each other then!! :)
Personally, I like this chapter because of its dramatic aura. I've always loved writing sad scenes but I don't like reading about them (I know I'm weird).
Tell me what you think about this chapter okay? :))
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“Not with your lover boy today?” Dong Min teased the girl in front of him.
He had always been amused at how Ayako denies vehemently that she and Eiji had something romantic going on but then she would blush at the mere mention of Eiji's name. It really was quite entertaining.
But I wonder what she's doing here alone today.
“If you mean Eiji, no, he has to take care of something,” she said.
“Come in. Why are you here, anyway?” he asked, puzzled.
He was about to lead the way inside their house but Ayako stopped him.
“I need to talk to you about something but can we talk outside instead? There's a park nearby that I know.”
He looked at Ayako's face. She seemed troubled.
“Is there something wrong Ayako?”
Ayako simply shook her head. “It's important.”
“Alright. Wait here, I'll just get my phone and wallet.”
He left her at the door of their house, got what he needed and came back to her, all the while wondering what Ayako wanted to talk to him about. It was a serious matter based on the look on Ayako's face. But what exactly is it?
He glanced at Ayako. They have been walking for a while but she was silent and frowning.
When they reached the park, he couldn't resist saying, “Aya, stop frowning.”
Ayako looked at him surprised. As if he had intruded on her thoughts.
“You were frowning since we left our house. This matter you want to talk about must be something really big to make you look so worried.”
“Dong Min, do you hate that I'm a Yakuza's daughter?”
He raised an eyebrow, confused at the sudden change of topic. “I already told you and Eiji that I'm okay with you being with the Yakuza. I told you I find it cool.”
It was the truth. At first he was really surprised but then Ayako and Eiji had been good friends to him so it doesn't really matter whether they were Yakuza's or not. It was their personal life. Besides they both looked so awesome when they were fighting so it wasn't really not that hard to accept that side of them.
“Would you still say that if...” Ayako paused and when he looked at him, there was a pained expression in her face. “...if I tell you...your father is a yakuza as well?”
He stared at her, shocked and unable to totally comprehend what she was saying. “W-what did you say?”
“I said your father is a yakuza.”
“That doesn't makes sense! My father is an architect. He's not a yakuza. I would have noticed.”
Ayako touched his arm, probably to calm him down. “Don't freak out but I'm not talking about Mr. Park. I'm talking about your real father.” She looked at his eyes. “You're adopted, do you know that?”
Of course he knew that he was adopted. His parents have told him as soon as he was old enough to understand what being adopted means.
But he's real father was a... yakuza? He was a yakuza's son?
This can't be true!
He sat down because he suddenly felt weak. “How did you know all this?”
“He's gone Dong Min. Your father – Kang Dae – already died. But before he did, he told my father to find you and make sure you won't end up like him.”
'Won't end up like him.'
“Was he... a bad guy? Even by yakuza standard?”
Ayako didn't have to say anything. Her expression said it all. His father really was a bad man.
“I finally know who my father is but I won't even get to see him alive. The world is really messed up, don't you think?”
But he was saying it more to himself.
“It's okay to be hurt, Dong Min. It's okay to cry. It's not a sin for men to cry, you know?”
He hugged Ayako and silently wept.
He wept for the faceless man that was his father, the man he never had a single memory of, the man who gave him away, the man that he could never meet.
He had so many questions but his father would never be able to answer them now. All he knew of him was his name and yet, it was so painful, to know he was alive before and didn't try to contact his own son. And it was so painful that that same man was now dead.
He cried and cried. It was the first time since he was a little child that he cried that much or at all.
“Want to know something that Eiji told me once? 'Pain is the first step to healing.' I realized he's right. If you don't feel pain, you would go on like nothing's wrong. You wouldn't feel the pain but you wouldn't be able to heal either. Pretty soon, you'd be left with more serious wounds that what you started with. And then you won't know what to do.”
He kept silent but his heart took in everything Ayako said.
He knew it made sense, what she was telling him. He knew it but still, he couldn't accept it just like that. One day, he will be able to. But not now. Not anytime soon.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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Poor Dong Min :'(
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