YOU

CHAPTER 35

Joy can't explain when Sami hugged her it felt like home... like nothing else matters, it was like she had everything she was searching for right there if only she begins to think... if only she's here... making her sad again just thinking about it... a couple of weeks have passed Sami was adjusting with her new classmates gaining more friends.. she starting to think that maybe everything is okay with Sami, what Sami was going through is now over... she smiles thinking how much she loves this child. She loves her as her own... Sami has been more affectionate towards her making some of the teachers look at her differently... gossips started to circulate the school... that made her uncomfortable every time she's around her colleagues

"hey..." Peniel approaches her while she's on the canteen sitting alone, she felt outcast by the faculty who seem to be talking about her, she didn't know what to do but eat alone,

"Hi Mr. Shin"

"I told you to call me Peniel!" he said with a smile

"do you mind if I join?"

"no... no... I'm glad!" Joy uttered smiling feeling a little more relieve having someone with her

"are you okay?" Peniel asked her, surprising Joy she knew what he meant by that...

"uh..." she uttered with a long paused and continued "ahmm yes I'm fine." She assured him and sighs trying to hide the embarrassment that she's feeling as everyone she knew in that place was talking about her...

"you don't know do you?"

"Hmm?" She curiously asks Peniel but as soon as she was about to talk again, the principal appeared out of nowhere

"Ms park may I have a word with you in my office after lunch time?" Joy didn't know what was happening seeing everyone stop talking and glared at her

"what is happening?" She whispered asking Peniel

"it's about one of your student Miss Park." he muttered making Joy more confused about what was really happening,

"Well Miss Park I am not going to make this long so let me get straight to the point..." the principal uttered and continued

"Sami had been calling you eomma for a while now... and we do not allow the teachers to get involve personally with the students! Miss park! What the hell where you thinking???"

Joy was speechless she didn't know what was happening for all she had known Sami only called her eomma once... and she did make it clear that it was not appropriate...

"I understand, but I told her not to call me that and-" she uttered softly, she felt so guilty,

"how do you explain this!" he showed the drawings that Sami made with her name on it beside a male figure with her father's name on it and her...

"I..." she was speechless not knowing what to do... she felt guilty...

....

Sami continue to lick the ice-cream that her father gave her as she watches Sungjae slowly park outside their mansion...

"aren't you coming in?"

"no.." Sungjae answered with a half-smile feeling guilty,

"but appa..." she whines and pouts crossing her arms across her chest as she glares at her father, Sungjae shakes his head as he reaches out for a hug but Sami declines