"Ya, Margarita, why won't you trust me?" He said frustratedly.
I rolled my eyes at him and faced the bar counter. I raised my index finger to summon the bartender.
"One cold Margarita, please." The bartender left to prepare my drink.
I will never trust anyone, not again. Never again. Even if it is Jungkook. Even if it is someone I hold so dear. Not a single person.
"You are so cruel, Margarita. Just, just give me a chance." Jungkook said in a slightly annoyed and frustrated tone.
I chuckled inside my head. He is always frustrated to me. Well, so am I to myself.
I turned the high stool and faced him with a brow raised. "Me? Cruel? You don't tell that to me, little maknae,"
I leaned in and reached his ears. Then, I whispered, "Because unlike you, I grew up experiencing how unfair the world is to me. Again, unlike you, who grew up in a world of fame where you keep on spoon feeding people with false hopes and dreams, I was fucking living in this very unfair reality of misery. Lastly, unlike you, who experienced a teensy bit of pain, I experienced a hell out of pain in my heart, and in my mind and everything that can contain that shitty feeling. So, I suggest that you, be careful on what you say, naΓ―ve baby boy."
I smirked and stood up while holding my Margarita. "Will you excuse me?"
I left him speechless while I am sipping on my drink.
Ah, damn unexperienced maknae. You have a lot to learn.
After enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister.
For her brothers, learning they have a sister is an unwelcome surprise. Suspicious and reluctant, her brothers see Aria as an outsider, a stranger disrupting the fragile balance of their lives.
For Aria, their home is both a new beginning and a constant reminder of the family that left her behind.
Haunted by the pain of her past, Aria struggles to adjust, her every action guarded and her trust hard to earn.
As her brothers try to understand her, they begin to glimpse the scars she hides and the strength she carries. Little by little, resentment turns to empathy, and the walls between them start to crumble. But just as the siblings begin to find common ground, the secrets and trauma of Aria's old life threaten to tear them apart. Together, they must decide whether they can overcome the shadows of the past to forge a family and whether Aria can finally find a place to belong.