The spirit of the heavens must have been upon me, because in that moment I had the unyielding urge to beat both Chad Hyeon and my father into a week long coma.
"Are you crazy?", is what I thought but the question itself came from the other side of the table. Kazumi was standing, glaring daggers at his mother and sister.
"Isn't this low, even for you, is this some sort of prank to 'put me in my place'?", asked Kazumi staring at his sister.
"It's exactly as its been said. Don't get ahead of your self, this is by no means any of my doing, I don't have that kind of time to waste on you," said his sister, as she pushed a pea to the side of her plate, not even bothering to look at Kazumi.
'Bang!' Her plate hit the wall to their right and shattered, all the food falling to the floor and staining the white wall along with the checkered marble floor.
Kazumi had slapped the her plate from the table. Gasps of shock rose from all around the table.
Damn, and I thought I had anger issues.
'Bang!' His sister's chair fell to the ground as she stood abruptly and... slapped Kazumi's right cheek. Her jade rings on her second and third fingers leaving a cut on his cheek. "This decision was made by father, stop causing a commotion over a simple task, it won't even be a real engagement, just a way to form a collaboration with the Hyeon group."
She fixed her rings and looked in our direction, bowed slightly and said, "I deeply apologise for the commotion my brother had caused, I will send the expense for the cutlery and cleaning, I also..."
Before she could finish her sentence a plate from her left hit her in the face, she fell to the ground, covered in food, the plate fell next to her, shattering into pieces.
Kazumi who had been keeping his head low since the slap, had slapped her in the face with his plate of food. He grabbed his phone off the table and walked out the room.
Mrs. Horishiki who had been sitted the whole time her children going at each other, downing glass after glass of wine, finally stood up. "Stand up, it's time to live, you can walk it off."
"Thank you for the meal, I'll have our lawyer send over the documents, it's been a pleasure, but I hope we never see each other again", she said all this with a smile on her face, behind her, her daughter struggled to get up, angrily brushing of the morsel of food from her clothes and hair.
"Oh this is almost over, so i guess you won't mind if I take it. Thank you. Bye", Mrs. Horishiki said grabbing the wine bottle off the table, blowing us a kiss, walking out of the room.
Angrily following behind her was her daughter.
Once they were out of sight is when reality hit me, my father were discussing something, the topic of marriage finally sunk in.
Kazumi had thrown such an entertaining tantrum that I forgot I also had complaints.
Not that anyone would listen to them.
Three maids with brooms and mops entered the room and begun cleaning up the mess.
It was time for me to leave, actually I should have left the moment they said i was the one getting married. I got up but before I could take a step forward, a hand grabbed my wrist.
"Where are you going? There is still much to discuss about your engagement," asked Cha Hyeon.
"Which engagement, looking at my counterpart's reaction, all of you are beyond delusional," I said pulling my hand from his grip.
"This is a serious matter, personal emotions can't interfere with the future of the cooperation. This is all for the Hyeon group, which is also the source of the money you use for your frivolous lifestyle. Your decisions were not for consideration to begin with, " This time the unwanted opinion had come from my father.
I wanted to ask why they didn't marry off Cha Hyeon instead, but after seeing the partner I can already assume that both families decided to throw away their 'trash'.
" Well aren't you desperate, is the company struggling already that you need to sell off one of your children?" I asked sarcastically giving my father a pitiful look, both my hands in my pocket. I was sure I saw his veins bulging on the side of his head as he glared at me.
" THAT IS NO WAY TO SPEAK TO YOUR FATHER!! ", yelled my mother.
" HEY!! " I yelled banging the table with my right hand. My mother flinched and they all stared at me with shocked expressions, except my father, who simply glared at me. His hand on the table, folding into a fist me.
... If he punched me... I would knock him out with my chair.
I leaned down to my brother's eye level, "you see, I can also yell, but I don't need to."
I turned around and begun walking out of the room. I stood at the exit and glanced at them from over my shoulders "Don't get me wrong, the one who needs me, is you. If I run away tonight, I wonder what you'll tell the
Horishiki 's tomorrow."
I ran to the front door, I could hear my mother call out my name.
I left, walking straight home.
Huh... Fuck me.
All my money, from my living expenses to my school fees was handled by the Hyeon group. Let alone running away, I couldn't even survive without the financial support.
My father didn't bother trying to convince cause he knew I was bluffing about running away.
I could understand why how this collaboration could help the Hyeon group as a new establishing business empire, but I didn't understand how this fake marriage would work.
I had been so lost in thought I hadn't realised that I'd already reached my front door.
These were problems for the me of tomorrow. For now, I needed to sleep on all my issues.
In hindsight, if all else fails, I'll just sell some of my organs and move to a ranch.