Lies and Secret

Chapter Eleven

Lee Seung Gi’s Point of view

“What? Are you okay?” Min So Ra asked as she examines my face. I had told her about the twin and about my dad. Her nose flairs in anger and she questioned if Do Min Woo really did all those terrible things to me.

“He did” I replied

“I can’t believe Min Woo did that to you, well I kind of expected Min Su because she’s a stupid b***h but Min Woo” she shook her head in disbelief

“You like him, so of course you won’t believe” Hyun Soo rolls his eyes

“I don’t” So Ra squeaks “Not after what he did”

One of the things I was afraid of was destroying Min So Ra already none existing relationship with Do Min Woo it was so obvious that she likes him and thought he was a decent person, I can’t imagine the kind of shock she’s going through now that she has found out what kind of person he truly was and that he is not as cool as he pretended to be. I skipped the part when he tried to force himself on me once to prove a point that I like boys to both Hyun Soo and So Ra. I think that information could cause a body to drop.

Literally

It happened almost a year ago when the school had thrown a huge party for our then seniors who were about to graduate and I had gone to take a piss in the boys bathroom; Do Min Woo followed me and harassed me. It started with calling me names then asking me how it felt to sleep with a fellow boy like myself, something I have never done, I’m still a virgin I don’t know why he would even think that. Then he proceeds to push me to the corner and tried to kiss me, I hit him of course and ran out of the bathroom, he never spoke of this again and for someone who bullies me about s****l orientation I think he is the one in real denial

“What are we going to do about your dad?” Min So Ra asked, I sat upright from my sat and sighed.

“What can I do?”

There is literally nothing I can do, it took me years to get that certain amount and it all vanished in a blink of an eye. I am yet to make plans about what I am going to do after high school; I guess no college for me this year. I’ll push my CSAT exam a year from now or maybe two years if I am unlucky. Not the plan I had for myself, this was totally different from what I pictured myself doing after high school

“I can talk to my dad, he runs a scholarship program for students who are the top 5 best student in their classes” So Ra said and I smiled

“You don’t have too”

It is too embarrassing to have my friends’ parent help me

“Don’t you dare start talking about how it’s embarrassing for you” Hyun Soo reads my mind “We are friends. We are your friends and if I was in this same situation I know you would do everything to help”

He was right, it might be embarrassing but I would do the same for him. Both he and So Ra

“Ugh Rosaline” So Ra hissed and I looked up from the floor, Rosaline had her hands in her pocket as she walked up to us, we sat at the far right corner of the class and I am beginning to wonder how I am supposed to spend the last six months of high school as her seat partner

“Somehow you don’t have to open your mouth to make my head hurt. Your presence alone does that just fine” Choi Hyun Soo said as she walked passed him. Rosaline does not reply and instead sat down and turn facing me

“Can we talk?” she asked

“There’s nothing to talk about” i replied

“For you maybe, but I have something to say”

I took a deep breath and turned to face her “What Rosaline, what could you possibly have to say?”

“Well for one I actually want to apologize for what I did. I’m sorry”

I am surprised that she apologized up till yesterday she was so adamant that she did nothing wrong and caused a fight between my friends and I although without that fight I wouldn’t have been able to open up to them about what I have been keeping for so long, it feels good to have them know about it and less suffocating and I guess I can say it’s all thanks to Rosaline

“I am sorry that I caused a fight between you and your friends” She turns to Hyun Soo and So Ra “I’m sorry okay”

“What the hell? You suddenly changed three hundred and sixty degree from this morning. Did Do Min Su do something to you?” So Ra asked

“Actually if a person turns three hundred and sixty degree, they’ll end up in the same spot as they started which means there was no change done at all” Rosaline replied and I snickered

I don’t know what kind of person Rosaline actually is but one thing I know for sure is that she’s different from anyone I’ve ever known, her reasoning alone fascinates me

“You don’t have to say it like that” So Ra scoffs

“Say it like what?” Rosaline asked

“I swear to god this girl is testing me” So Ra turns back around, grabs the cake from her table and stood up from her seat. For a second I thought she was coming for Rosaline but instead she takes the cake in her hands as walk to the front of the class “GUYS! Today is Lee Seung Gi’s birthday” she said and everyone’s eyes turn to me. I give them a soft yet uncomfortable smile. I am not used to this, having my birthday celebrated. The only person that used to celebrate it with me is dead and I stopped caring about my birthday or birthdays in general after that, not like my dad remembers my birthday, hell he wants me to die.

If my birthday was so important to him, he wouldn’t ask me to go kill myself one day before my birthday. He acts like I forced him to bring me to this world, I didn’t. Why would I ask to be a drunk, jobless and abusive man’s son? The person that use to keep me going was mom and when she died, I thought about following her multiple times but then I met Min So Ra and Choi Hyun Soo

I met Choi Hyun Soo

I met these two people who were standing in front of me with the widest smile, clapping their hands and singing me a happy birthday, I met them and sometimes I feel like my mom sent them to me to guide me and make me feel somewhat loved

“Make a wish” Min So Ra said to me with the cake in her hands and a candle indicating I have lived for 19 years so I held my hands together and closed my eyes with no wish to make

*****

“I can’t believe they ate all the cake” Min So Ra huffed angrily. School ended thirty minutes ago and Min So Ra and I sat down at a Café close to school as we waited for Hyun Soo who was still back at school “They didn’t even leave anything for the birthday boy” So Ra continues and I laughed

“It’s okay really” I told her before taking a sip out of the strawberry juice I ordered

“Sometimes I want to punch our classmates in the faces but I won’t. Not today at least it’s your birthday so good vibes only” she said as she puts her hand into her school bag “Where is this thing?” she mutters

“What are you searching for?” I asked watching her turn the back upside down on the table

“Your birthday gift I thought…” she gasped mid sentence like she just remembered something “f**k!”

“f**k?” I asked surprised that So Ra is cursing

“I forgot it in my locker” she hits herself “Oh stupid girl”

“You can give it to me tomorrow, chill stop hitting yourself” I held her hands

“Nope, I’m going back to get it wait here”

“You’re going to leave me all alone?” before I could even finish my sentence she has bolted out of the door and disappeared in seconds; I chuckled at her and took a deep breath taking in the scene.

I was left alone although they were people in the café, some on dates and others just hanging out and the people working so I wondered if they had an opening for a part time job. I need to start thinking of what to do next but I am just too fed up to even think. If I worked these jobs again how sure am I that my dad won’t steal my money again?

No he won’t.

I’m officially old enough to own a bank account but what if he steals my bankbook and runs away with it? Or should I not even return home? But I can’t keep staying with Hyun Soo for the rest of my life. I don’t have a place to stay I don’t have money I am in between a hard wall and a rock I cannot even come up with a decision

I run my hands into my hair and let out a frustrating groan it takes me seconds to figure out I was disturbing the peace of the Café “I’m sorry” I said to everyone who was staring at me

“Who is this? My eyes must be deceiving me” a particular person said to me as he walks into the café. He is the one person I do not want to see right now

Do Min Woo                                                                                                      

“Wow! This must be fate” he said walking closer to me with two of his friends “This is definitely fate” he sat down on the seat Min So Ra had sat on

“What rotten luck I have” I whispered to myself looking down at the almost finished juice and avoiding his gaze at any cost

“Hey! Look up at me” he said to me but I still don’t look up “You better look up at me before I disgrace you here” so I did, I looked up at him. He had his friends standing up by his side like little devils, eyes poking me

“Min Woo, we are outside school, please let’s not do this” I begged

“Min Woo?” he scoffs “Are we close enough for you to cal me like that?” he asked anger laced in his voice

“Do Min Woo” I corrected myself

“I heard it is your birthday today” he takes a sharp breath through his teeth “I want to give you a birthday gift, follow me” he stood up

Oh God! I already hurt all over I don’t want to be hit again, I am not in the mood to be stepped on right now

“Hey I said follow me” he said again “Do you want to die?”

“No” I replied standing on my feet, hands glued to my sides. One of his friends grabbed me by the neck and forced me to move forward

“Student what are you doing?” one of the worker asked as she saw us

“Nothing, we are all friends. Continue your business” Do Min Woo smiled at her as he pushed passed the door, I don’t look at her direction and just followed them until we got to a small alley way close to the café, I was pushed to the wall and it hit a spot that made me groan

“Do Min Woo please” I plead “Today is my birthday can’t you just let me go uh?”

“See this crazy guy” he laughed along with his friend “Do you think a poor beggar like you deserve to celebrate a birthday?” he laughed “Wow, so unbelievable. You’ve walked with Hyun Soo and So Ra so much that you must think we are on the same level”

“This is why the rich shouldn’t walk with the poor” one of his friends said “Makes them think they somehow are on the same level”

“I know I’m not…” he swings his hands to my face stopping me mid sentence

“Shut up!”  

I feel this intense pain on my cheeks that affects my ears as his friends barked a laugh at my face; I hovered and felt tears fall down to my shoes. What a rotten luck I have

“I hate how you feel like you’re the same as me” he grabs me by the collar “We are different”

“When did I ever say I was the same?” I asked chin up looking straight into his eyes “All I have done was try to survive in school, you give me hell and make my live already worse than it already is, how can we be the same”

“Shut your mouth” he said slamming me into the wall

“Why do you feel threaten by me? You’re right I’m poor, my parents are poor, I know it. I admit it but you are rich and can get anything you want so why do you feel like you have to bully me to remember that you’re rich?”

“I hate you” he said in between his teeth “Those stupid eyes of yours, those stupid giggles, how you always seem to be happy when you have nothing, I hate it. Why should you be happy when I am sad? Who gave you the…”

“DO MIN WOO!”

Do min Woo and I turned following the voice and saw a very angry Hyun Soo and shocked So Ra.

Hyun Soo runs towards me and grabbed Min Woo by the collar, taking him away from me "Crazy bastard. how dare you touch Seung Gi" Hyun Soo yelled, hitting Do Min Woo enough to make him fall on the ground.

“Hey! Hey! Choi Hyun Soo” his friends tried to stop Hyun Soo but he climbs over Do Min Woo and continue to hit him. “You’ll kill him!” they shouted, dragging Hyun Soo away from Do Min Woo.

Do Mn Wo manages to crawl away from the scene as Choi Hyun Soo tries to free himself away from the arms of Do Min Woo’s friends "Don't run away you coward, i'll kill you. Let Go of me" Choi Hyun Soo screamed

“So Ra” Do Min Woo said as he stopped in front of Min So Ra

“How could you? How could you do this to Seung Gi?” she asked, her voice shaking and tears visibly holding up in her eyes

“Is not what you think”

She swings her hand and lands a slap on his face; his face falls to the fall as she continues “How could you do this to my friend? You more than anyone know how much Seung Gi means to me, How could you!” I walked closer to her holding her hands to comfort her

“I’m okay” I said

“I am not okay. You have been going through this how could i have been so ignorant. I trusted you Min Woo, how could you?” she yells and turns back to Min Woo “Let’s break up” she says to Do Min Woo and I’m left shocked, I  din’t even know they were dating

“Hey! We just started dating yesterday how can we break up” he said trying to touch her, she slapped his hands away from hers

“If you touch me I’ll kill you” she said with such tone that indicated she wasn’t joking “Hyun Soo” she called “Seung Gi let’s go” she said and with that three of us left Do Min Woo and his friends all alone in the dark alley way