Help Me Fix My Broken Wings

The truth.

"Omma!" He called in their rathole like apartment. "Where is that old woman again?" He dropped the wallet still full of Won on the center table where they eat, where her mom make her beads accessories to sell the next day. He looked around and went to their old tattered refrigerator to get some cold water.

They are living in the downtown area of Gangnam, in the neighborhood of Cheongdam. Literally rats lived with them. Their water is tapped, their electricity is tapped, everything is tapped so that they won't pay anything, they don't have anything as a payment anyways, their money is enough for food and his cigs, not to mention his mom's medicine. Sure, South Korea is one of the richest countries in East Asia, but in a country even as successful as his motherland there is still few people who are very poor, and they are one of them. 

His mom finally entered the room. "Seunghyun are you home?"

"Yes mom, I'm here"

His mom coughed, and coughed. "Get the wallet at that table and buy your meds mom"

"Where'd you get this?"

"To a filthy rich CEO or something, he wouldn't be needing that anyways. I was chased by 3 or 4 bodyguards of him."

"How many times should I have to say, stop getting money from strangers."

"It's the only way to make us alive mom."

"No, It's not"

"Then what?!" He raised his voice getting sick of this stupid argument over and over and over again, but ending up her buying his medications with that 'stolen' money. "Tell me what?!" He looked at his mother sternly and saw the face of her mother, beautiful mother although his face is full of lines, and you can see memories from the past that is scarred deeply on that gorgeous face. "Don't tell me you will go to my good-for-nothing dad once again huh?"

"I will not"

"We lived 21 years without him, why not continue the remaining days without him." He said with a serious but more calm voice.

"I know."

"So, go and buy your meds."

"Okay" His mom took the wallet and went outside to go to the pharmacy two blocks away from here. 

He plopped down the old mattress lying on the corner of the room, thinking deeply and seriously.

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FLASHBACK

"Your mom she has Pulmonary Edema"

"Would you speak fucking Korean?" His mom touched his hand and shook her head for the language he used.

"She has water on her lungs, maybe due to overworking and second hand smoking" The doctor looked at him as if that second cause was for him.

"Is it critical?"

"No, but if it is not treated with right medications it will be critical of course. So you need to come here once a month to get check ups and prescriptions for her medicine.The check ups will be done for free courtesy of Mr. Lee, the head doctor of this hospital. He said he knows you, so monthly check up is for free."

"Whatever. Where is his office?"

"Just two doors beside this examination room" 

"Okay, stay here mom." 

He walked outside the room and came across the office of the head of medicine, the door had gold colored metal print saying 'Lee Chung Min M.D.' and under it was 'Dean of Medicine' He was a Neurologist and Psychiatrist at the same time, he is one of the most known doctors in the Gangnam District. He knocked and hurriedly opened the door.

"We won't accept Dirty Money or any help from you"

"What are you talking about?"

"Giving my mom free of charge check ups?"

"Why can you afford it?" He said arrogantly

"I can go to smaller clinics"

"Then why did you go here instead?"

"Because it's an emergency and this is the nearest to my place"

"This battle of pride is making me sick, Seunghyun-ssi"

"There is no battle of pride"

"Then just admit it that you need my help, you can't afford check ups"

"My mom can afford it if you haven't fucked her while you have a family and destroyed her future. You bastard"

The doctor was speechless.

"Now you can't talk? You admit it, that it's your fault and that penis of yours that can't contain itself to your ugly wife?  And you needed someone to put it into? You picked the most innocent girl in the street striving for law school promising her everything then fucking her then leaving her aside making her life miserable?  Fine, we'll accept your help, but we will never feel gratitude towards you."

He then faced his back to the astonished doctor and grabbed the doorknob. "And also, wondering why I become such an asshole? Ask your sperm, it's in the genes appa"

FLASHBACK ENDS

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He thought it hasn't been long since he knew that he is an illegitimate son of a prominent person, he knew it when he was 14, that was when he started to beat heads in school, he was schooled because of his father and because he hated him he doesn't want any help from him. Luckily and miracolously, since he promised her mother to at least finish highschool and he loves her so much even though he does not show it, he still managed to finish high school. He honestly wanted to attend college but since his pride can't take any help from his father, he is now officially a workless motherfucker.

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A/N: 

Omma - Mom; Appa - Dad; When ssi is added at the end of one's name it is a form of respect like miss/mister.