It was quite frenetic, since Noona entered the room without knocking, to her hugging me hard and started patting my chest.
At first I was really calm, I could understand why would she react like that and started crying. I mean. I understand it's not normal for a kid to have those kind of scars...
I'm not a normal kid though...
The thing is, when she started apologizing, it hurt me deeply, there hasn't been a lot of people that empathized with me like that, I was usually the one to take care of Eimi, so she didn't count.
Until now, it's really only been Yuri noona and now, Hwangbo noona. It was a different feeling, I was only accustomed to Damian "manly" caring about me, as well as Sang Min Hyung "cooly" caring about me just today.
But when someone that I just met starts trying to feel my pain, it's kinda weird...
While I was deeply in my thoughts, Noona kept crying, I guess she feels a little bit guilty of violating my privacy...
I did want to hide my scars, but now that she saw it, there's no use in hiding them anymore. I then, softly told her.
— It's okay noona. Don't worry about it. — I tried to break the hug, but when she noticed me trying to, she hugged me even tighter, and said.
— Can't we stay like this for a little bit more? — she said, sounding like a soft whisper.
I sighed and stayed like that. I don't know when we changed from standing, to sitting on the edge of the bed.
After staying like that for a couple of minutes, I got bored and started talking.
— It's really nothing noona, Hyung was probably going to tell you soon. I'm not ashamed about it, it was just a consequence of my acts if I must say so.
I noticed how my shoulder stopped getting wet, I guess she stopped crying. I kept talking.
— Sooner or later you would know, but I'm from Guryong village. I don't know if you've heard about it, it's in Gangnam. People usually call it slums, but I call it home. There I spent all of my almost eight years, and learned a lot of things. Some of them good, but a lot of them bad.
At this moment, Noona stopped hugging me and started to intently look at me. I continued talking with a faint smile.
— The reason I'm here right now, is because I stole the wallet from someone very important, Do you know about Gangnam's father? — I looked for a response, but she simply nodded.
— Well, I robbed him, his lackeys gave me a beating that sent me to the hospital, one of his lackeys was apparently Hongman. You'd probably not know him, but he's the terror of Gungryong village. I worked for him some time ago, robbing as you may think — I slowly said, reflecting on my past while the words left my mouth — But anyway, as I stole the wallet of the father of Gangnam, something really precious to him was lost, making him mark me as dead. He probably thinks I'm dead, as does Hongman. — A hateful glare appeared on my face for some instances, but soon disappeared.
— As they think I'm dead, my adoptive father, that was an acquaintance of Hyung, made the decision for us to disappear from Guryong village. So, he took my adoptive sister and sent me here with Hyung. And that's kind of the story.
At this moment, Noona pointed at my back with her chin, without saying anything.
I sighed, but continued my story.
— The scars of my back are courtesy of Hongman. As I told you, I worked for him for some time, but some time ago, I stopped working for him. The scars of my back are the reason. Not only is he strict, he is also really cruel. I failed his "mission" as he told me. So I earned a punishment, making him take his favorite toy, an army knife, and scratching my back. — while I was talking, tears were starting to flow out once again from Noona's eyes.
While crying she said.
— Shouldn't you report it to the police?
I liked her innocence, but quickly answered with a faint smile on my face.
— Things aren't that easy, Hongman has a lot of connections, in the entertainment industry, but also in the police. He won't go down that easily. — I couldn't event mention Mr.Park influence, and if Hongman was really his lackey, it could be even worse than I imagined.
She was biting his lip really hard, that a trace of blood could already be seen.
I kept smiling and said.
— Don't worry noona, there are some people there that had it worse.
I remembered about Lucy noona being raped by Hongman and a dark expression once again appeared at my face.
That rape was the real reason I stopped working for him...
The mission I was in charge of was actually, guarding the room's door while he raped her. I couldn't stand Lucy noona screaming, so I took a brick that was near and hit him as hard as I could, not hard enough seeing that he was still alive though.
Since that day, Lucy noona hasn't abandoned Claudia's house, not even meeting Eimi and me, and Hongman apparently didn't know about her living with Claudia.
It was really fortunate she could escape that day though, really fortunate...
I was deeply in my thoughts when I suddenly felt Hwangbo-noona patting my head as softly as she could. She then said.
— You really can't hide anything — it seems our roles reversed, now she was the one smiling, and I was the one with tears, I don't even know when they appeared.
— Does Sang Min know about all of this? — she asked. And I replied
— He does — There was a lot of time before Yuri noona got home today. Also, I was going to live with him, I don't think these things could be hidden. It was disrespectful.
Noona started caressing my head slowly, it was almost hypnotic, it felt really good.
— A little guy like you shouldn't be burdened that much, don't worry, you now have three Noonas that will take care of you, okay?
I softly nodded.
— Now, change to your pajamas, I want you to sleep with us from now on.
— Would they be okay with it? — I shyly said.
I noticed noona was staring at the door. That's when I noticed that it was once again slightly opened, and two pairs of eyes were peeking through it.
— Just enter the door, you have to apologize to him. — Hwangbo noona said.
Then, Eani noona and Lee Eun noona entered the room, they approached me quietly, kneeled down and apologized to me.
— We're really sorry Chris-ah, we were curious about why Hwangbo was taking so much. — Eani noona told me.
— Yes Chris-ah, I'm really sorry too. Also, I'm really sorry for being angry at you for correcting me. I know you noticed it.
I was really surprised about them kneeling down, then a faint smile once again appeared on my face, I kneeled down too, took both of their hands and said.
— Don't worry about it. There's something really important to me, that is... family — I said, while cleaning my face with my sleeve — When I came here, Hyung was my only new family. And if I've learned something is, always rely on your family, so, Can I treat you as my family?
Tears appeared on all the noona eyes and all of them tightly hugged me. After that group hug, they took me to their room, and made me sleep with them in their futons.
It was a happy night, and I was starting to get addicted to them caressing my hair....
I guess it was a happy night after all.
True title: New Family.