"Hi, honey."
As soon as the word left my mouth, I was being dragged into the janitor room and slammed onto the wall.
"Did you realise what you've done?!"
I bit my lips from tearing up. "I just said hi."
He rubbed his face in annoyance. "What if someone heard us?! It will make us in trouble. It will make me in trouble!"
I flinched at the risen of his voice. I held his hand as a way to apologize but he swatted mine away when I was about to do it.
"I-I'm sorry. I just wanna say hi. I miss you."
He sighed. "Baby, I know. I miss you too. But this is my reputation we're talking about. If people know that I'm dating you, my friends will judge me. Worst, they'll not be friend with me anymore."
His words slashed my heart however I just bear with it cause I love him so much. I nodded my head slowly.
"C-can you at least show me that you miss me too?"
He smiled sweetly before he placed a kiss on my forehead. I smile widely at that and blushed hard.
"I'm sorry for being mad at you. But you must remember, we need to keep our relationship a secret. For my reputation okay? Can you do that for me, baby?"
I sighed while nodding. He ruffled my hair followed by a 'good girl'. He then told me that he'll catch up with me later before heading out from the closet.
As always, I've to wait about 10 minutes after Eunwoo left before I could go out from the room.
"Hey looks, the nerd came out from her hiding place again."
I heard the girls mocked me.
"She must think she's so hideous. That's why she needs to hide. Keep hiding girl! We'll support you."
Laughter could be heard behind me as I pursed my lips and walked towards my locker. Ignoring them. Then, I saw Eunwoo with another girl.
Doing what he always did. Flirting. His hand was wrapped around the girl's waist while he whispered sweet things to the girl as she giggled lightly.
I looked away, could not bear my heart when watching the scene. I huffed a gushed of air as I made my way towards my next class. Ignoring all the nasty gaze that were given by the people in the hallway.
~~~~~
"Oh Hyejin, you're back!" I engulfed myself into Uncle Jin's awaiting arms. Burying myself in the crock of his neck while mumbling that I'm tired.
"Yes sweetie I know. Go wash yourself and rest. I'll make dinner." He patted my head.
"Want me to help you?"
"Nahhh, you look so tired. I'll manage. Now go. You stinky buttercup."
I giggled and went upstairs, placing my bag onto the bed and went straight into the shower.
After showering, I changed my clothes amd heard the front door being unlocked.
Dad.
I thought to myself. Dad must be home. I quickly went downstairs and saw my father was resting himself on the sofa.
"Hi, dad."
I sat beside him. His closed eyes flutter opened before lazily smiling at me.
"Hi cutiepie. How's uni?"
"Just fine."
He crooked his brows. "Doesn't look like it. Tell me what's wrong?"
I shook my head. "Nothing's wrong, dad. I'm fine."
Wrong. Everything's wrong. I'm being bullied. People called me nerd. My boyfriend flirts with other girls. I'm not fine.
I bit back my tongue from saying those words as my father showed his fatherly smiled at me.
"Well that's good then. I hope you're happy. Tell me if something's wrong okay? Don't want you too hurt yourself."
I nodded my head. "Don't worry I'm twenty and big enough to take care of myself. You sound old."
He tched me. "Hey I'm only thirty you young woman."
I rolled my eyes.
"Come on, Uncle Jin has cook for us. He might end up getting angry at us for making him wait in the dining room."
"Yep, I do feel a little bit angry."
Both me and my father turned our heads to face the irritated uncle Jin. He had his arms crossed on his chest while showing a poker face.
"Relax Jin, we're just catching up with each other."
Uncle Jin rolled his eyes and yelled at us to hurry up or he would eat all the food by himself. Welp, he did it once. Me and my father ended up calling the pizza guy in the middle of the night because of hun
Both of us got up and went to the kitchen. As we start to dig in, father told us about how's his business going.
My father, Kim Namjoon is one of the most successful businessman in Korea. He has a very big company along with few others that are smaller as branch of his business.
Nevertheless, he always act humble with other people. He even helped company that almost went bankrupt just to see them happy.
But these past days he was working too hard. He barely home. He even sleep at his office sometimes. Thank God I knew there's a bedroom in his office. Functioning when he was too busy to go home.
The eyebags under his eyes somehow broke my heart as I didn't know how much he had been staying up just to make money for me.
"Sweetie, did you hear me?"
I blinked a few times. "Huh?"
My father chuckled. "What's wrong with you, Hyejin? Are you okay?"
I nodded my head whilst showing him my toothy smile.
"What were you saying just now, dad?"
He put down his spoon before speaking.
"I've been very busy these past few days might also in the future. So, I'll barely come home.
That's why I decided to hire a bodyguard to take care of you."
I furrowed my brows. I then darted my eyes to uncle Jin.
"I'm sorry sweetheart but I'll be going back to my hometown since my grandmother is sick. I have to take care of her since my other family members are quite busy."
Uncle Jin patted my head as I frowned harder.
"Can't you take me with you instead?"
They both shook their heads.
"You got lectures."
I was about to protest more but my father beat me into it.
"No more words. Like it or not, I'm going to hire you a bodyguard since none of us would be hear beside you always."
"But I'm a grown up-"
"Don't you remember the last incident?"
I nodded my head slowly. Having no words to protest him more. The dinner end up with me being quiet all the time.
As I was about to enter my room, uncle Jin gripped my wrist. His motherly smile made its way to his face.
"I know you don't like it but it's for your own good, Hyejinie. I hope you understand."
"But I want to be independent."
"I know, but we don't want the last incident to happen again, do we?"
I huffed while showing a tight smile at him. He ruffled my hair and pecked my forehead before heading to his room.
I threw my body on my bed as the last incident played across my mind. I shut my eyes tight as it felt so surreal, as if I'm experiencing it again.
I bit my lips as I tried to steady my breath. Not wanting to end up having a panic attack right now.
I gripped the bed sheets as I felt my chest was in pain. After a few minutes of controlling my mind to forget about it, I succeed.
With the voice that I've been longing for, I closed my eyes and drifted to sleep.
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