Capítulo 7: Five
*Warning that there is a tiny triggering moment and profanity in this chapter.*
Oh Areum
I'm laying down in bed staring at my phone after Hoseok had left. My bank account statement was on display and I'm staring at the $250,000 that he had transferred into my account before leaving.
He really gave me a quarter of a million dollars.
I logged off my account and pressed the home button on my phone before putting it away. I shut my eyes to try and sleep, but my mind was actively running to those moments earlier.
I didn't like how much I missed his warm hug. I didn't like how my heart kept pounding away in my chest. And I really disliked the fact that I looked like his sister because that was all I was going to amount to.
I shouldn't care. I don't even know Hoseok that well. Hoseok is just simply my boss and employer now. This is just an acting job that will benefit me in the future.
"Oh Areum, just think about the money. Hoseok is your way out of the debt. Just get the money, play your part, and never see him ever again..."
Then why did it hurt?
I sat up in bed and I noticed my own reflection in my tiny circled vanity mirror. Even in the night, I could see my own face and I suddenly felt a rush of emotions all throughout my body.
"Yah Oh Areum! Hoseok will only ever see you as his little sister! He'll never find you attractive! How could someone find their own sibling attractive!? You're in this situation only for the money! You're lying to a person for money! You are a selfish greedy person who only wanted his money! Get your fucken head on straight, you idiot!!!"
My heart was racing like crazy and I was out of breath from the screaming. Screaming at myself to wake up and face reality.
'I need you Areum.'
His voice lingered in my head. Those sad eyes of his who was pleading desperately for my help made my jumping muscle clenched as I was finding it hard to find my breath.
And before I knew it, tiny droplets of tears had found its way down my cheeks.
We were two totally different people from different worlds. He would never like a poor uneducated girl like me. If I didn't look like Yoona, he would have never taken a second glance at me.
"Oh Areum, know your place, and don't fall for him."
I closed my eyes and with that last thought, I finally fell asleep.
I woke up the next morning to my phone ringing away. I was still tired and grumpy so I ignored my ringing phone.
The ringing died, but soon I heard pounding on my door.
"Yah! Oh Areum! I know you're home! I can hear your phone ringing from inside."
My eyes shot wide open. It was those two whom I despised the most, Yoo Sung Ho and Yoo Sung Min. The two brothers who ate at every cent I ever made. Those two who seems to know when I have some sort of money on me. It's like they can smell money leaking from me or something.
I ignored their pounding and kicking at my door. I covered my head with my blanket and refused to get up to open the door.
I could hear Sung Ho mumbling while kicking my door.
"This bitch really has the guts to ignore us. Open this door before I fucken break it down."
I close my eyes remembering every time they hurt me in the past. My body ached just from those painful memories and I winced to myself. It felt just like yesterday when one of them had slapped me hard across the face.
"Just give us our money and you won't have to hear from us anymore you stupid bitch."
I finally got up and opened the door.
"Yahhhh, what took you so long to open the door?"
"I'll get you your money soon so fuck off and leave me alone!"
I tried to close the door on them but Sung Min had caught the door and pushed it open letting himself inside, followed by the other brother.
"Well, would you look at this slut. She's talking back to us," Sung Ho chuckles as if amused by me.
"Look at you Areum. You look good sweetheart. You know that I've always liked you. If only you become my woman, I'd void all your debt," Sung Min moves in close and tried to touch me but I slap his hand away.
He chuckles deeply before gripping me harshly by my hair.
"You stupid slut, why are you acting as if you don't want me? Look at the way you are dressed, it's practically an invitation, calling my name."
I struggled in his hold but I knew exactly what he was talking about. I had taken off my hoodie last night when Hoseok left and slept in my short and white tank with no bra. I instantly regretted not putting on my hoodie before opening my front door. Sung Min pulls on my hair and grabs me with his other hand.
"Stop struggling Areum. Just let me get a taste of you, I'll dismiss the money today."
He lowers his face and starts to harshly kiss and bite my neck as I try to push him off me.
"Get the fuck off me you creep! Don't touch me!!!"
Sung Min growls deeply before pulling away, only to slap me hard causing me to fall on top of my mattress.
"It'll be quick and we'll both be done before you know it. We're helping you here Areum. You can wait until next month to pay us with this tiny favor."
He crawls on top of me and I tried to kick him but Sung Ho held my legs down while Sung Min had my arms pinned onto the bed. I couldn't move. No matter how much I cried and screamed, they wouldn't stop.
"No!! Get off me!! Please don't!!!"
I had run out of energy. My body couldn't struggle them off anymore. I cried and cried as Sung Min held both my wrist down with one hand on top of my head and his free hand had moved down to unbuckle his own pants.
"Get the fuck off of her..."
My heart drops the moment I heard his voice. When the brothers made no attempt to get off me, his voice roared louder than bombs as he screams and it echoes through the entire house.
"I SAID GET THE FUCK OFF OF HER!!!"
Soon I felt Sung Ho's grip on my leg being ripped off and I saw Sung Min being roughly pulled off from me as I sat up and watched everything before me.
"Who the fuck ar-" Sung Min was cut off with a heavy blow to his face. Hoseok had sucker-punched him so hard that even I could hear bone cracking. He had broken Sung Min's nose.
He turns around and punches Sung Ho hard in the jaw before landing another punch in his stomach. He drags both guys out of my house.
"Get the fuck out of here, before I call the police!"
Both Yoo brothers looked at Hoseok and scoffed.
"This is a personal matter between the three of us. It doesn't concern you. She owes us money and we were just getting our payment this month."
"Oh really? Cause what I saw looked more like you both ganging up on a girl who is refusing to let you touch her! That is considered rape and even if she owes you both money, just one word from me and you'll both end up rotting in jail."
"Y-you trying to scare us you punk?" Sung Ho stammers nervously, obviously cause they both knew that if the police are involved now, they would lose.
"Just saying it like how I witnessed it. Now get the fuck out of here! Don't let me see either one of you around Areum ever again."
Hoseok turns back around and enters my home, but not before shutting the door close and locking it. He stood at the door not moving an inch and all that filled the room now was his heavy breaths and my sniffles.
When he finally turns around to face me, I couldn't look at him. My gaze landed on my overly exposed thigh. I was hurt and angry that he had to see me at my worse. Embarrassed that he had to witness what I dealt with most of my life. I couldn't look into those eyes that were going to be filled with nothing but pity for me.
Soon I felt his presence in front of me. I could see his hand shaking and he gently grips my chin while raising my head up to look at him. His eyes were filled with tears and he softly touches my red and swollen cheek.
"I could have prevented them from hurting you. I'm sorry I got here late Areum."
My eyes glistened as I watch Hoseok on one knee and caressing my swollen cheek.
My heart ached when he called me Areum. I had signed the contract already and he said so himself that he would call me Yoona from now on.
His voice calling my name gave me hope that maybe one day he'll see me as Areum, and not his sister. But I heard my own words being repeated in my mind.
'Oh Areum, know your place, and don't fall for him.'
I gripped his hand that was caressing my cheek and I moved his hand away from me. I locked eyes with Hoseok's glistening orbs.
"I'm not Areum, I'm Jung Yoona..."
To Be Continued...
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