Chapter 24 (1/1)

Himchan stared at them for a few minutes, he saw the almost kiss between Katherine and the tanned skin guy. Specificaly, he looked at Katherine who was smiling heartily as she fixed her dress and went back to her sit, everyone was laughing and joking about how funny that was.For the first time, he felt useless. He is not the one who is making her laugh, he is not the one who is making her show such beautiful expressions.

Himchan gulped down as he felt a node forming on his throat and the tears forming on his eyes. He dashed out of there, forgetting his phone thrown in the floor, that was the last thing that mattered.

He stormed inside his car, hitting the steering heel in a vain way of controling his anger. "Are you okay?" Sooyoung asked as she opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat beside Himchan. By his expression she knew he wasn't okay, so she only held his hand to calm him down. "It's Katherine, isn't?" Sooyoung spoke first, Himchan just nodded. "I...Feel useless! She's laughing with another man, Soo! Another man!" Sooyoung felt a pang on her chest to see Himchan so fragile, so she just hugged him and let him shed his tears while tightly griping on the fabric of her shirt.  ✮✮✢✮✮ "How are you feeling?" Sooyoung asked as she handed him a beer and sat beside the guy. "Like crap." Himchan smiled weakly and opened his beer, pouring it down the glass cup."Omo! Soo-yah! You're here!" Himchan's stepmother entered the living room, carrying tons of shopping bags, she immediately went to hug the younger girl."Ommeoni!" Sooyoung hugged her, right in time, the door opened once againm this time, Mr. Kim entered, carrying a sleeping Seolchan on his arms. Soon as she saw the kid, the lady went crazy."Are you out of your mind?! Bringing this dirty kid here! How dare you? Take this thing out! Now!" She yelled, Sooyoung gulped and tried to hold her. Lucklly, Seolchan didn't woke up."Stop it." Mr. Kim said in a blank face, almost scary."Stop? Stop?! This kid is as dirty as his mother!" She kept bad-mouthing, until Himchan had enough, no one dared to tell her this is Himchan's son, because nobody knew what she was capable of doing to Seolchan."Snap out of it! I never said a word to you, but it's time to do so! Don't you dare, I'll repeat myself, don't you dare, lay a finger on him, neither on his mother, or you'll get trouble." Himchan said so angrily you could see veins poping out his neck.The door opened once again, Jiaheng, Hyesoo's husband opened the door while hand-in-hand with his wife, behind them came Jonghyun, and then Hoon and Katherine who were laughing. The laughs stopped as soon as she saw Miss Kim near her son, Oh, she went crazy."What is this woman doing to my son?!" She walked suddenly to the front, pushing Hoon, who tried to calm her. "If you lay a finger on him, I swear, I swear I'll cut your fingers out, one by one!" Hoon held her back before she could slap his mother's face."So come! I'll kill both of you! You and your dirty thing!" Mr. Kim handed the sleeping Seolchan to Hyesoo, so he could protect Katherine if needed."Try me!" Katherine yelled back. Hoon struggled to keep her there. Suddenly Seolchan woke up, he started crying. Hyesoo tried to calm him down, but he wouldn't stop crying out loud, nobody can blame him, waking up by your mother's angry screams is scary. "Shut up!" The lady threw the glass cup Himchan was using a few moments ago on the kid, luckilly, Katherine got to slip in the front, before the thing could hit her son, but not so luckily for her, the cup splattered in a million pieces, cutting her skin and making the bitter beer burn her bruises. "That's more than enough! Fuck you! I don't care what the fuck you have to say! You're not my mother, you're a monster! How could you throw glass on a kid?! How could you throw glass on a person! I'm so ashamed of you!" Hoon yelled even louder and angry than everyone combined, the silence filled the room, while Katherine checked to see if any glass piece cut her son. Then, Hoon accompanied Kate to the bathroom, so he could treat her wounds. Hyesoo followed them, carrying the worried Seolchan along with her, her husband followed, so did Jonghyun.

"Stay still." Hoon said a he applied medicine on Kate's wounds, she whimped, but he didn't stop. "Do you have a band-aid?" Hyesoo entered the bathroom, searching for the item on the first aid kit. "In the cabinet." Hoon said, Hyesoo walked to the sink, picking the band-aids."Why? Are you hurt?" Katherine said worried."Stay still." Hoon pushed her back to sit on the covered toilet."Seolchan has a little bruise, but don't worry, it's nothing." Hyesoo said looking at Kate with pity, she knows how it feels to see your son hurt."W-What?! Is he okay?!" Katherine widened her eyes and got up."Stay still! Can you think about yourself for just a second?! You're covered in bruises and still, you're worried about everyone but you! Are you out of your mind?!" Hoon raised his voice. Hyesoo slapped his head and pulled his ear."Yah! This kid! Yelling at your noona!" "Aaah! Ah! Alright! Alright! Sorry, noona!" He said while trying to get free from his sister. Katherine chuckled at scene, internally, both siblings smiled to see Katherine happy.