DEΛR YOU

EP1 - 'Him'

"Emmm...." Jiwoo smiles widely. She feels very comfortable. Her body feels light as if she's flying right now. Butterflies fill her stomach, her heart hurt for beating too fast. It feels really good but it feels better with the favourite voice of him.

"Jiwoo ya... Wake up or we'll be late for school. Jiwoo ya?"

That voice....never fail to make Jiwoo smile. She opens her eyes and she sees him there.

"Jiwoo ya? I see you open your eyes. That mean you have to wake up right now" he says with a sweet voice and a smile on him. She's about to say something but then...

(Alarm ringing)!!!

"Ah...shit. Of course it's a dream" she mumbles while turn off the alarm phone. She sits up on her bed with messy hair and walks straight to the bathroom like a weak grandma.

"School...tsk. Boring as always but.. better than staying home..." she brushes her teeth. She washes her face after that and stares at her own reflection in the mirror. She face to the right side and sighs as soon as she sees her big bruises on her shoulder. She lifts her shirt and there's several bruises on the stomach and ribs. She sighs again as she reaches the ointment to apply on her bruises. She hisses in silent as she applies it.

She starts to question herself. When will she be able to have her own freedom? When will she get to be loved by someone? Will she be able to smile and be happy again.

(FLASHBACK)

The story began when Jiwoo felt headache and her anxiety started to grow. And that's when she knew her depression also crawled up. She will made some excuses and skipped all of class periods. She will locked herself in one of the bathroom and started to whined and cried. She will text Wooyoung all of her problems and Wooyoung will always come right away to her wherever she's at include girls' bathroom. He will give her the warmest hug and hoping that it will cheer her up. Jiwoo doesn't need anyone to do anything special to cheer her up but being there for her already enough.

Jiwoo is actually an adopted child. When she was 9, a pair of loving couple adopted her. As days passed, Jiwoo feels so happy and can't wait for another day to wake up just to see them. They took care of her, they played well with her. Jiwoo never stop smiling at that time until she turned 13. Her parents started to fight a lot. Her father cheated on her mother. Jiwoo always sat at the stairs and sobs as she heard them fought sometimes she slept there without her knowing. As weeks passed, they fought literally everyday since then.

The worst thing happened when Jiwoo and her mother had dinner together but then her father home. He was with someone. Jiwoo and her mother walks to the living room and shocked to see her father brought two teen girls who looked like a strippers home. Her mother started to yell and Jiwoo covered her nose as she can smelled from afar the alcohol from her father. They began to fight again and her mother slapped her husband. Her father yelled and broke her mother's heart.

"I'm going to fuck these gorgeous in my fucking room. Fuck off! I don't need you no more" he left with those girls to his bedroom. Jiwoo's mother fell on the ground, cried loudly. Jiwoo went to her mother and comfort her.

Days passed by to weeks passed by to years. Her mother divorced with her father and left Jiwoo without knowing. Jiwoo's nightmare started from here. Her father always came home drunken and always beat her up without reasons. Jiwoo always afraid to come home and always crashed at Wooyoung's place. As Wooyoung started to date San, they've been living together. Jiwoo felt bad to crash at their property as she felt like she bothered them but San insisted and said it was fine. That's when San knew Jiwoo's stories. San who is more stronger and brutal than Wooyoung, sometimes dropped Jiwoo off at her house or sometimes helped and protected her from her step-father. She was thankful to San for that. Sometimes she felt bad towards San because he sometimes got hurt/injured just to protected her.