The 3 Months Punishment 🌨️

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Sehun's POV.

"I don't know what to do to you anymore Seolhee. I thought you were done on whatever you were doing...Don't make me force you to be with your mother. I'll call Moonbin----"

"N-no please uncle! I'm telling you the truth! Here take my keys I'm already done with racing. I quitted. I-I didn't do anything more..."

"You don't know how much headache you are giving to me. Why is it so hard for you to forgive everyone!? Huh? What's stopping you Han Seolhee?"

"Forgive?" Seolhee said in an unbelievably cold tone. As we watch them fight, I realized that we really didn't fully know Seolhee.
I have forgotten how Manager-nim warned us about his own niece.
"I'm the one who was hurt and yet I'm still the one who needs to forgive? You people kept on making things hard for me! You all lied to me when all I do was beg for the truth." Her voice started shaking.

"Is that an enough reason to ruin yourself then!? You quitted school, you left Busan and hid in Seoul. You even joined a drag racing team! I am here because you refused to choose between your families! I placed you under my care in hopes that you won't damage yourself any further!"

She's crying.

Her shoulders are moving as she wiped her tears. I don't know why but this sight of her is making me awfully sad.

"I-I'm sorry for being too shallow"
Manager-nim just stared at Seolhee as she cry, but his features are getting softer and softer. I thought he'll comfort her but he turned around and left the house.

Seolhee sat down on the sofa and placed her face on both of her hands.

I badly want to comfort her right now.
All the hyungs stayed where they're standing. No one dared to come out.
We can all hear her faint sobs.
It seems like she's trying so hard to contain her tears.

"Suho-hyung what should we do?"
Chanyeol whispered.

"I don't know either..----"

"I know all of you are eavesdropping come out now. There's no need for you to hide." We were startled when Seolhee suddenly said that. We looked at each other before hesitantly went downstairs. Other hyungs also came out of the kitchen. We all took a seat on the living room. Carefully looking at Seolhee.

Her cheeks are all dry now.
"Have you guys heard everything?"
We all remained silent. Everybody's guilty. She let out a forced laugh.
"What's wrong boys! Hahaha"

"A-are you okay Seolhee?" Baekhyun-hyung asked. Seolhee paused for a moment. She'd be looking on the ceiling every minute to prevent her tears from falling.

"Yes ofcourse hahaah! I-I mean I'm not okay, but it's okay. Aaaah jinjja"
She's clearly faking it.

"You can tell everything to us. We're all here for you. I'm sure you know that" Suho-hyung said. I mentally thanked him for saying those words to her. I'm dying to know everything about her now. This happening fuelled my curiosity about her even more.

She let out a genuine smile, and looked at us.

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Seolhee's POV.

"You can tell everything to us. We're all here for you. I'm sure you know that" That's the exact same words that Baekhyun told me.

Should I tell them my burdens?
What if they pity me? What if they'll think that I'm shallow for being like this?

"I-I don't know where to start"
I said. I know this boys won't judge me no matter what.

"It's okay. You don't need to tell us everything. All we want to know is how you feel." Suho's words are seriously making me cry. It's hard to contain my tears. Uncle is disappointed again.

"Where have you been? Have you eaten?" Xiumin-oppa asked. My tears suddenly went streaming down my face. Guilt is eating me alive right now. I didn't even bother thinking that they'll be worried about me. I'm so selfish.

I got a text from my coach last week, when me and the boys are watching movie. He invited me to come over. I'm really thinking of leaving the team so I went there when I got the chance.
As soon as I saw the field, I suddenly missed it so I had a race for the last time. I didn't know how and who told uncle that I was there. Maybe some of his friends.

"I'm sorry for making you worried"
I gave all of them an apologetic look.
"Like you heard from uncle, I-I went to race. I sneaked because he won't allow me. I'm a drag racer."
I held my helmet and stared at it as I continued talking.
"I became one when I quitted school. I quitted school because things happened and I lost the will to live right. Xiumin-oppa remember my family that you knew?" I looked at him. He nodded.
Everyone is silent. Just patiently listening to me. This actually feels good. Having 8 sets of ears ready to listen to my grudges in life.

"I was just adopted" Xiumin-oppa's small eyes widened in shock. He's lips started twitching like he wants to say something but he just can't.
"Everyone around me kept on telling me that I looked awfully different from my siblings. I always push that thought aside since mom and dad never said that to me. I always ask if perhaps I'm indeed adopted, but they always say that I wasn't. I trusted them. I tried so hard to not give a sht to those who're saying those things,but people be testing my patience. I always got into a lot of fights defending myself, that everyone thinks that I have no manners. I didn't care as long as I knew the truth, that's what I thought. Until one day a lady approached me. Crying, telling me that I was her daughter. I thought she was just mistaken but then it turned out that I really am her daughter."
I paused reminiscing how wasted I felt that time.

"I have known that she abandoned me when I was still a baby. She gave me to a random woman. That fact hurts me so much. Although I was raised on a loving family, it's still hurtful to learn that I was abandoned once. That woman was so desperate to have me back, but I don't wanna be with her, she already threw me. Why waste time picking me again?" I noticed that tears are flowing down again. I wiped my cheeks and tried so hard to clear my voice.

"Everything was okay. Not until my adoptive father began forcing me to go with my real mother. I started hearing hurtful words from them.
I started receiving cold treatments, I can't believe that they'll be doing that to me. I-I started feeling unloved." Xiumin-oppa sat beside me , he caressed my back in a soothing manner. Making me want to cry my eyes out.

"Due to my stubbornness and shallowness I quitted school. In hopes that they'll realise how much they're hurting me...but they didn't. They literally disowned me. I am now thrown twice. They're forcing me to be with my real mother so I said yes. I left Busan, tricking them that I was really with my mom. Since then I didn't hear anything from them, not even a single 'how are you?' nor a single 'hello'.
I was rebelling I think. I went to Seoul to hid. I have done so many things that I didn't know I could. I learned how to fight and to gamble through drag racing, I was living all by myself. I attempted to go back to school but everything bores me."
I was so lonely that time. The only things that kept me happy was my passion and drag racing.
"Everything just don't feel right. Grudges keep filling my heart, but Uncle saved me. And this is what I did in return" I'm sorry uncle.

"I shouldn't be crying right now.I have no right to shed a single tear. I'm the one who is wrong. B-but---- I can't help it..." They're all staring at me with a sympathetic expression.
I was startled when Baekhyun stood up and hugged me...all the boys came rushing to hug us as well.

"Uri Seolhee-yaaaa~~ you don't have to be sad. Arachi? You have all of us." Kai (do you understand?)

"You can always take your time to settle things out. Everything takes time." Kyungsoo said patting my head. Sounding like a dad. I smiled.

I'm beyond lucky to have you guys. You don't know how grateful I am right now.

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