Mind - Jin || Completed

Ch13

I stared at Jin trying not to get mad at him. I knew at some point this conversation might come up sooner or later, but I was hoping for later. "Jimin doesn't need to know that.."

"He's your best friend, shouldn't he know the real reason of you not getting into university?"

"No, he doesn't." I gripped my hands on the chair handles and gritted my teeth. "And I don't think it's any of your business, Mr.Kim."

"I think it's all of our business when all of your teachers were fine giving you their recommendation but when it comes to your dad, the headmaster, this is a serious matter."

"He lost the right to be my dad when he left me and my mom. If he wants to be like this because I won't forgive him, that's fine. I've worked hard my whole life, I'll work hard to get into university. Without his help."

"You're wrong." Jin said and I looked up at him, feeling myself shake. "You may say you don't think of him as your dad but if that were true, you wouldn't have taken all of these he has done for you."

I closed my lips into a thin line and didn't say anything. He continued. "Your silence means you know I'm right. Before I began here your old teacher, Miss Day, if you remember is a friend of mine and she gave me background about the headmaster and yours relationship. Then when I met him he bragged about you, how the top student of the senior class happens to be his daughter. He never explicitly said that we couldn't punish you but it was implied that even though you cause so much trouble with the teachers that he would hope that we don't punish her."

"Yeah, I figured that out when after several times of doing something bad that would for sure get me in trouble, the teachers just turned the other cheek. I knew my dad had something to do with so I just took it."

"Exactly. If you didn't want to see him as a dad you would have told him from the get go to treat you like everyone else. If you believe you should get in trouble, then you should. And that's what I told him."

I scoffed and poked the inside of my cheek. "So that's why I ended up getting detention for the first time. Someone actually stood up to my dad."

"Yes. I told you this on my first day that I don't care who you are, I will treat everyone the same."

I looked down and mumbled. "You can't tell anyone. I don't care that they talk about me now but I don't need them knowing that I'm the daughter of Headmaster Lee. I hate him..." my voice started shaking and I was fighting the urge to start crying. "He can't just pop up out of nowhere and expect to try and be a father figure to me."

"Have you even tried? Or do you just ignore him?" he asked seriously as he crossed his arms. 

"No, I haven't."I grabbed my bag and stood up from my chair. "And I won't. And I'm done with this conversation." I opened the door when Jin slammed the door and turned me around so my back was facing the door and he closed the window. I was trapped between his arms, his face a few inches away from me. 

"Is this what you do when things get hard? You run away from it and try to do everything yourself? I'm trying to help you."

"I didn't ask for it!" I budged on his arm so I could walk away but he was too strong. I huffed out. "Let me go."

"No." 

"If you don't let me go, I'll report you."

"No you won't"

"And how would you know that?"

"Because," he used one hand to wipe away my tear that apparently had fallen. "As much as you may or may not like me, you're not used when people actually give a damn about you. You've had your mom and Jimin your whole life. Let someone else in." his hand traveled down to my chin and lifted it so our eyes would meet.