Chapter 16: Back At That Damn Office

YoungJoo POV

As soon as I was dropped off in Seoul, I began to wander the streets. It looked so different from the countryside. Did I really live here before?

I continued to walk around the streets, but I felt someone… Or something following me. I continued to walk around until,

*grumbles *

My stomach began to rumble from not eating for most of the day. I walked into a convenience store and grabbed a bowl of ramen. After paying the worker with the money I saved, I poured the hot water onto the ramen and walked outside with it. I waited for it to cook a bit and then began eating. I slurped down the food and as soon as I began slurping down the soup, an old man suddenly greeted me. He wasn’t that old, but he looked around fifty. He seemed familiar, but then again he doesn’t seem familiar at all.

“Anyounghasaeyo. Could you possibly… Maybe…. Is your name Kim YoungJoo?”

My eyes widened.

“H-How do you know my name?”

“Well.. It may be hard to believe, but I am your uncle, Kim YoungMin. It’s been a long time YoungJoo….”

I deeply gulped and stood up to bow to him. He seemed to chuckle and said,

“Wahh… You look so handsome…. It’s been 11 years, but it seems as if I haven’t seen you in forever…. You look just like your father…”

His eye seemed to twitch as he mentioned my father, but I ignored it. We just sat and talked for a while as we talked about business and school.

“So….. Where were you and your sister? Where do you live currently?”

“Ah! We live in Jeollanam-do.”

I said happily as I haven’t been able to talk like this for two years.

“Ahhh… I see…. How is your sister by the way?”

“Her?..... She’s doing fine…”

I said as I looked down…

YoungMin POV

Jeollanam-do…. So that’s where that bitch went… But… Seeing the backpack and YoungJoo eating in a convenience store…. YoungJoo seems to have runaway from home…. I have not a single use for YoungJoo, but if HyeRim has realized that he is here, then she should be on her way here to take him back to that damn countryside town….

“Ahhh… I see…. How is your sister by the way?”

I asked

“Her?..... She’s doing fine…”

He seemed to respond quite slowly to my question and he looked down when I mentioned his sister… A fight maybe? Oh well, who cares.. I have bait now that will lure her here….

“YoungJoo, are you sleeping in a hotel?”

I asked with a smile.

“Ani… I… I came here alone… A-and I don’t have enough money…”

He said with a down face.

“You could sleep at my house! You haven’t slept at your dear old uncle’s house in a life time!”

I exclaimed.

“R-Really?!”

He replied excitedly.

“Ne… Of course, you are welcome there! You are my dear nephew!”

Afterwards, YoungJoo and I went to my house. As YoungJoo began to unpack in his room, I helped him in the beginning only to grab a little something…. I walked towards my room and grabbed YoungJoo’s phone out of my pocket. I opened the contacts on the phone and saw Chanyeol Hyung as one of the contacts. I smirked and dialed the number….

*ring ring *

“Yoboseyo? YoungJoo! Where the hell are you!?”

“Yah! Chanyeol-ah! I haven’t heard from you in years!” 

I replied as I heard his panicked voice. I could hear from the other line, a shout and pounding, as I knew it was probably HyeRim shouting and screaming to talk to her dear brother.

“YoungMin…”

I heard Chanyeol growl.

“Woah, woah, woah there tiger. I know. I know, you were expecting a phone call form YoungJoo, right? Don’t worry! He’s right here at home…. With me.”

I said.

“Yah… Don’t you dare hurt him… Or else I’ll really kill you…”

Chanyeol said in a slightly menacing voice.

“Woah there! Don’t worry about it…. Just come and visit SM Entertainment tomorrow and we’ll talk about it, hm? Don’t worry! I’ll bring YoungJoo too. Safe. And. Sound.”

I said as I continued to hear shouting on the other line. I didn’t hear a respond and ending the call there. Well… Tomorrow is going to be a long day…

HyeRim POV

I slowly woke up to the bright sun shining on my eyes. I slowly sat up in the bed and saw Chanyeol still wrapping his arms around my waist….. I sat and thought for a moment…. I never really gave my reply to Chanyeol….. After all of these years, Chanyeol often told me that he loved me, but….. I never had the heart to tell him that I didn’t feel the same…. I just couldn’t… I don’t even know how to even describe our relationship right now…. Would it be boyfriend and girlfriend? Friends? Best friends? Or would it be friends with benefits?

I slowly got up from bed and Chanyeol’s arms unraveled around my waist. I washed up and got dressed as Chanyeol also began to walk up as I finished getting ready.

As soon as we left the hotel, we made our way to SM Entertainment….. The lingering feeling from yesterday still lingered in my heart. I felt so uneasy going to SM Entertainment once again…. But the most important thing on my mind was YoungJoo…. I was also afraid of what YoungMin had done to Kai as he was in his grasps for eleven years….. I hope you are okay… Kai… YoungJoo…..

We arrived at SM Entertainment and my heart began to drop to my feet… I was hoping to never come here ever again, but here I am….. Chanyeol and I entered the building, but weirdly enough…. There were no people inside the building. It was like a ghost town inside a building…. Every room that Chanyeol and I passed, there was not a single soul inside them…. We continued to walk towards YoungMin’s office and as we reached the door. My hand began to shake as I was about to open the door to the office where everything started…

I took a deep breath and shakily opened the door. Light shone brightly onto my eyes before I went in, and when I peeked my head inside, I saw him.. YoungJoo…. He was sitting next to the desk safe and sound. He seemed to have a slightly happy face, but why?

“HyeRim noona!”

I heard as I saw YoungJoo. YoungJoo immediately got up from the chair and ran into my arms. I was shocked and surprised at how YoungMin had not done anything to YoungJoo. Tears began to fill my eyes as I pat his head. Chanyeol joined into the hug and hugged the both of us in his giant pair of arms.

“Alright… Enough with the reunion crap… You guys have only been away from each other for a day… Now where is my hug? It’s been eleven years, right?”

YoungMin said with a menacing grin as he sat in his office desk that stayed in the exact same spot from eleven years ago.

“I don’t think you deserve one…”

I quickly replied.

“Ouch…”

YoungMin replied.

Narrator POV

“HyeRim…. Since we can’t have a little reunion time because of your rejection to it, let’s get right to business.”

He said as he clasped his hands together and placed his elbows on his desk.

 “I agree…. What do you want?.... To torture me again?”

HyeRim asked as she tightly held YoungJoo’s shoulders.

“Oh… That….. I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

He said almost non-hesitantly.

“Noona…. What are you talking about?”

YoungJoo asked confused. HyeRim gritted her teeth and shouted,“You know what I mean! YoungMin! Just spit it out! Just what the hell do you want!? You already took my family’s fortune and my dad’s business! You even killed my parents just to get those things! Just what else do you want from us!?”

YoungJoo was shocked and his eyes widened.

“N-Noona… W-What do you mean?”

HyeRim didn’t reply to him as tears began to fall on my face.

“Noona…. Noona! Tell me! What is going on!? Noona!”

YoungJoo screamed as he shook her shoulders.

“YoungJoo…. Come over here…. Your sister is having problems at the moment…. She seemed to have gone crazy after your parents died in that accident….”

YoungJoo didn’t seem to hesitate when his uncle beckoned him to come.

“YoungJ-“

HyeRim said as he took my arms off of his shoulders.

“Noona….. Yesterday… Uncle… H-He said that he would help us… He said that he would protect us and that he would take care of us at his house… Chanyeol hyung too….. Noona… Let’s just go home with uncle YoungMin….”

YoungJoo said as he arrived to the side of his uncle. YoungMin put his arm around YoungJoo and replied,

“Yeah, HyeRim…. Why don’t you come home? I could take care of you and I could get you some help….”

He said as he pointed to his head. HyeRim knew that he was telling her that YoungJoo thinks she crazy…. She bit her lips and replied,

“YoungJoo…. Come back here right now…. YoungMin…. Get away from our uncle…. No… I wouldn’t even consider him our uncle…. YoungJoo… Get away from that monster….”

HyeRim said as Chanyeol squeezed her shoulders.

“*sigh *…. No…. HyeRim noona… You need help…. Uncle YoungMin would never do this sort of thing… I mean… T-to kill our parents for money… Uncle YoungMin would never… Right?”

YoungJoo said as he looked at his uncle.

“Ne… That’s right YoungJoo.. I would never kill our family members for money..”

YoungMin said as he pat YoungJoo’s shoulder.

“Y-YoungJoo….”

HyeRim whimpered…

“YoungJoo…. Listen to your sister.”

Chanyeol finally said. YoungJoo was confused.

“YoungMin… He is a bad guy… You have no idea what he has done to your sister…. Now come here while you have the chance.”

Chanyeol said in a serious tone. YoungJoo knew that Chanyeol would never bring out his serious tone of voice unless it was something grave. YoungJoo took a small step towards us and slowly put a foot in front of the other. YoungMin suddenly got up, pulled YoungJoo back, and placed him into a headlock. YoungJoo couldn’t get out of his grasps. HyeRim tried to run towards him, but Chanyeol stopped her as he saw a black tube that was held against YoungJoo’s head. As HyeRim’s eyes cleared, she saw a black pistol aimed at the right temple of YoungJoo’s head. HyeRim covered her mouth, hoping that he wouldn’t shoot her only brother.

“Acting like a good guy plan… Bleeghh…. I thought it would work, but I guess Chanyeol has some control over YoungJoo, huh?”

Chanyeol took a step forward, but YoungMin quickly clicked the gun,

“Oh… No you don’t…. If you take at least an inch from where you are standing, then I’ll shoot and poor HyeRim will never have her brother back again…”

Chanyeol back away and stood back to where he was. YoungJoo’s eyes widened as he saw the gun planted at his right temple. He was even more shocked at the person holding the gun… His own uncle…

“U-uncle, why are you doing this?”

YoungJoo asked.“Shut up!”

YoungMin shouted. YoungJoo realized at how different he was compared to when they first met and began to panic. HyeRim wanted to do this peacefully and quietly as she made her way towards them. Her body shakily moved towards them, but she knew she had to do this slowly and calmly. YoungMin saw HyeRim and pointed the gun deeper into YoungJoo’s head and HyeRim knew that was the signal to stop and move back. YoungJoo began to panic even more and calls for HyeRim.“Noona! Noona! Help me! Noona!”

He squealed as he tried to get out of YoungJoo’s grasp.

“Yah! I’ll shoot you if you keep squirming!”

YoungMin commanded YoungJoo. YoungJoo was scared of his uncle and immediately stood still, but his body still shook as he was in the grasps of his uncle.

“Now….. You will agree to everything I say and everything I tell you to do… If you agree to this….. I will let your brother go…. If you disagree…. You will no longer have a brother… Understand?”

YoungMin said, as he emphasized ‘no longer have a brother’ by pushing his gun deeper into YoungJoo’s skull. HyeRim gritted her teeth… I don’t want to do it, but…. YoungJoo… Anything… I will do it for him… She thought. She was about to say something, but Chanyeol suddenly piped up,

“I disagree with this…”

YoungJoo’s eyes widened even bigger as HyeRim did this same. Chanyeol had a serious face as YoungMin had an entertained face.“HAHAHAHAHAHA! This is why you would be a perfect entertainer! HAHAHA! *pause * But…… I don’t like how you are doing the disagreeing when HyeRim is just as surprised as YoungJoo…. So… Let me make this easier… Kai!”

He shouted. HyeRim’s eyes widened as she heard the name…. K-Kai….. I-I haven’t seen him in so long… What have they done to him? She thought. Kai appears from the side of the room, but he looks different. His appearance was horrible. Although he wore a jacket, from his face, you cold tell he was tortured. His face was full of healed scars. There were so many scars on his face that you couldn’t even count how many with just a glance. There were slight traces of blood on his face as if they were fresh. His face was slightly purple and his skin tone was pale. His eyes showed that he lacked sleep and his body was skinnier and he was scrawny compared to his muscular toned body from eleven years ago. Kai eyes were red as they were bloodshot from lack of sleep. Kai was apathetic as he stood there. He didn’t move a single muscle as he stood there. Chanyeol’s and HyeRim’s eyes widened from shock as they saw how badly they treated Kai. HyeRim’s mouth gaped open from the sudden appearance of Kai. HyeRim makes her way towards Kai, but Kai’s eyes darted towards HyeRim. It didn’t seem to be compassionate eyes, but menacing eyes. He suddenly reached from the inside of his jacket a silver pistol and pointed it right at HyeRim.

“K-Kai…. W-what are you doing?”

HyeRim asked softly as she was shocked that Kai had actually pulled a gun on her. Chanyeol wanted to run to HyeRim to protect her, but YoungMin suddenly changed the direction of the gun to Chanyeol. Chanyeol stopped there, but his eyes still stared at HyeRim and Kai.

“K-Kai… D-Don’t you remember….. Y-You said that you were going to protect YoungJoo and I…. K-Kai…..”

HyeRim said as her voice cracked. HyeRim was on the verge of tears as she saw Kai pointing the gun at her. Kai wasn’t the man that she knew anymore. He was completely different. His eyes showed that he wasn’t kidding when he was pointing the gun at HyeRim. YoungMin smirked as he saw Kai pointing the gun at HyeRim. YoungJoo knew that it was Kai, but was shocked as this was not the hyung he once knew.

“So… Let me ask one more time…. Listen and do whatever I ask of you and I will let YoungJoo go…. Is this a deal?”

YoungMin asked. Chanyeol gritted his teeth and HyeRim couldn’t speak as she was too shocked from Kai.“IS THAT A DEAL OR NOT!?”

YoungMin shouted as he was losing his patience. YoungJoo winced at his sudden yelling and HyeRim finally snapped out of it. HyeRim suddenly had an idea and looked at Chanyeol. Chanyeol had no idea what she was planning, but HyeRim went on with her plan.

“YoungMin…..”

HyeRim said.

“Will you agree or not?”

YoungMin said as he was getting angrier and angrier.

“Heh…… Giving up this far…. I don’t know….. First you killed my parents… You stole my family’s money and business….. You forced me to be a sex doll…. You’re using my brother’s life to make me do whatever you ask….. I don’t know what else you want from me….”

HyeRim continued like that for awhile, but Chanyeol finally understood HyeRim’s plan. He saw that YoungMin was fully paying attention to HyeRim’s response along with Kai. Chanyeol saw that the gun was still pointed at him and knew this was his only chance. Chanyeol suddenly made a dash for it. YoungMin wasn’t quick enough to realize that Chanyeol had made a quick dash towards him. Kai focused on HyeRim, but as soon as he heard quick, loud footsteps he turned his head to see that Chanyeol was forcing YoungMin to release YoungJoo. Chanyeol had held onto YoungMin’s wrist that held the gun and wrestled the arm that head locked YoungJoo’s head. YoungJoo was quickly released and YoungJoo made a run for it towards HyeRim. Kai just stood there dumfounded, but Chanyeol continued to wrestle with YoungMin.

“HyeRim! YoungJoo! Make a run for it! I can’t hold him off much-“

*BANG! *