Make It Right //k.sj [ON HOLD]

Chapter 02

Hyo-Rin

An eviction notice. I received an actual eviction notice. I'd never imagined this happening to me. I had to be out by the end of the week. Where was I going to go? I didn't have any money for a hotel, I had no family to go to and Taehyung was out of the country. Shit, shit, shit, what the hell was I going to do? I couldn't make Dae-Jung sleep on the streets. I also didn't want him to be taken away from me, so a homeless shelter was out of the question as well.

I felt tears streaming down my cheeks, without realizing it I had started crying. My poor baby boy, he didn't deserve any of this. I had to do something.

I grabbed my phone and called Taehyung. I tried to stop crying, but the tears kept coming and I was starting to freak out.

"Hyo!" He said. I could hear the smile in his voice.

"Tae, I need your help," I said in between sobs. Great, I was full-on ugly crying now.

"Wait, are you okay? What is going on? Why are you crying? Did something happen to Dae-Jung?" He asked.

"No, no. He is fine." I wiped the tears from my face with the sleeve of my shirt. "I got evicted. When are you coming home?"

I hated admitting that I was weak, I hated admitting I needed help even from Taehyung. He had been there for me ever since my life changed so drastically. He even stayed with me the first few weeks that Dae-Jung was born, because I was too afraid of being alone with a newborn in the tiny one-bedroom apartment I used to live in.

"What? How is that possible? Why did you get evicted?" He asked.

I hadn't told him that I had gotten fired a month ago yet. I was desperately looking for a new job and had hoped to find that before something like this happened.

"I will tell you later. Please, when you are coming home?" I asked through the tears.

"I'll be home Sunday. Shit, I wish I could come back home right now. Where are you and Dae-Jung going to stay?" He sounded so sad.

Ok, so Sunday. That meant that we'd have no place to stay for one night, one night is doable. I could ask one of the moms if Dae-Jung could have a sleepover at their place, he had lots of friends at kindergarten, that would be fine. After that, we could stay with Tae for a little bit until I figured something out.

"I'll be fine. I have a plan. Dae-Jung will stay with a friend, it's fine. I'm sorry to worry you so much. See you Sunday?" I asked. I took a few deep breaths, trying to calm myself down.

"You need to tell me when something is wrong before it escalates to stuff like this, Hyo-Rin." He sighed. "I'll text you when I'm in the cab home from the airport. Call me whenever you need and don't do anything reckless."

"I love you, Tae. You're the best." I softly said into the phone.

"I love you too, you idiot. See you Sunday. Seriously, call me if you need anything." He said.

I hung up and put my phone back in my pocket. This was going to be fine. I could sleep outside for one night; I had a pretty spacious car. It's just one night, right?

The week went by way too fast. I had dropped Dae-Jung off at a friend's house where he was going to have a sleepover. All of the stuff in my apartment was still there, the landlord at least let me pick that up later next week after I explained that I had no way of getting it out of there before the end of the week. I only took the necessary stuff such as clean clothes, Dae-Jung's toys, and school supplies, toiletries and important documents. Oh, and the blanket that I was currently wrapped up in the backseat of my car. It was reckless and dangerous of me to do this, but tomorrow Taehyung would be back, and I could stay at his apartment while figuring out what to do.