Lies and Secret

Chapter Seven

Choi Hyun soo’s Point of View

I kept on staring at Lee Seung Gi’s contact on my phone

Should I call him?

Should I not call him even though I miss him this much?

But then again I shouldn’t be the first one to call him. He was the one who was wrong. I toss my phone on the bed and focused on the textbook on my desk. I tried to study but I just couldn’t concentrate so I shut my books. I keep on spinning on the chair till I hear a knock on my bedroom door.

“Come in” I said

My mom walks in with a tray on it is a cup of juice and a plate of cookies “You’re studying so hard” she smiles at me and sets the tray on the desk besides my books

“I’m trying” I tell her “Today is just a bit harder”

“What’s the problem?” she sat on my bed ready to listen to my problem.

We have not spoken any more about Uncle Issue, should I even call Kim Woo Jin Uncle at all? I decided to just let it go and for her to take care of it. I should just trust her, if only I forget about what I heard everything will be okay so I do. I push it to the deepest parts of my sub consciousness even though I am so curious to know the other things but mom said I could hurt our family and that is the last thing I want

“Come on tell me what’s on your mind” she smiles and I looked at her confused to why she is all of a sudden so curious about my life asides from studying. The thing is that I rarely ever talk to my mom about serious thing that go on in my life, even if I wanted to she would be too busy on the phone or on her laptop but after the party she has suddenly been nicer to me and even tries to listen to me

“You’ll actually listen to me?” I asked

“Of course, I’m your mom you can tell me what’s on your mind” she said

I looked at her with a suspicious eye

“Why are you being attentive all of a sudden?”

“I’m always attentive what do you mean?” she dismisses me

“What’s my favorite food then?”I asked, she looks up thinking about it “See” I replied “If you are worried about Uncle who is not my real Uncle, you don’t have to worry. I’m not going to say anything”

“I know you won’t” she stood up from my bed and walked to my desk “You want to protect this family as much as I want to. Indeed you are your mother’s son” she strokes my head “Now I want to reward you, what do you want me to do for you? Do you want to go on a trip with your friends? Or you want me to give you my black card?” she swings her card in front of me

On rare occasions would mom ever suggest I do anything else than studying, on even rarer occasions would she want to hand me her black card and I was not about to lose this opportunity. I try to think about what I could possible ask her for when a call comes up on her phone

“I’m sorry I have to pick this” she said as she checks the call ID

I watch as she walks away to pick the call and once again I am left alone in my room, maybe I could ask her for a trip with So Ra and Seung Gi.

my eyes fall on my phone that lay on my bed, Seung Gi wasn’t calling me but here I was thinking of a trip with him, it makes me angry that I care so much for him and he doesn’t care half as much as I want him to so I decided to call him, I will curse him out and give him an earful. He deserves that much so I do it, I grabbed my phone from my bed and dialed his number

He picks up on the third ring “Lee Seung Gi you’re a shitty friend do you know that? You can’t even call me or even text me. My Kakao talk is not broken, my line still works perfectly but you just ignored everything. You’re not choosing Rosaline over me, are you?” I rant before he got the chance to say a word

“Hyun soo” Lee Seung Gi’s voice is weak and I feel a shot of fear go down my spine. I jolt up from the chair

“What? What happened? Are you okay?” I pace the room

“Can you please come get me?” his voice trembles. Has he been crying? His voice sounds so hoarse making my feel my chest tight; I grab my winter jacket, a scarf and my wallet

“Where are you?”

Lee Seung Gi tells me his address; he wasn’t even sure where he was and just gave me an idea where I could find him. The problem now is I don’t have a car with me. So Ra is still with my car and my dad took his to his company and he wasn’t back yet.

I look over my window and saw that my mom’s car was packed at the garage, it’s snowing really hard and I shouldn’t go out but the thought of Seung Gi freezing physically hurts me.

“Mom!” I called walking out of my room but there’s no respond “Mom” I called again running into her bedroom, my mom wasn’t there, I quickly checked around her room for the car key but it’s nowhere to be found so I head to the living room

“Mom can I borrow your room key” I asked walking to the living room but my mom wasn’t there also maybe she was in the kitchen room but instead I see the housekeeper cleaning the kitchen so I asked her “Ahjummah, Where is my mom?”

“I saw her going into the study” she replies

I run towards the study and there my mom was with her phone on her ear “Do your worst, you won’t receive a dime from me Kim Woo Jin” she snarled and turned around to see me standing at the entrance. She cuts the phone and placed it on her chest

“Uncle is still calling you?”

I know I shouldn’t be calling him uncle but calling him Mister or Kim Woo Jin it’s not as easy as I thought it would be switching names for him would be

“Don’t worry I will take care of it” she places her phone on the table

“You’re not going to give him what he wants are you?”

“Choi Hyun Soo I said I will take care of it” She frowns at me so I shut up “Why are you here anyways? Have you thought about what you want?”

I don’t further the discussion “Not yet, can I borrow your car key? So Ra is with my car”

“It’s snowing really hard where are you going to?”

“Car keys please” I don’t tell her anything. You see, the thing is my mother is not really fond of Seung Gi, she would always tell me to be friends with someone who could help me in the future and I know that means anyone whose family isn’t loaded shouldn’t come my way. Which equals Lee Seung Gi but I don’t care, I choose my friends she doesn’t get to choose my friends for me

“Fine” she looks around her for the keys “It should be in my purse I’ll go get it” she walks out of the study room. I stare at her phone for a short while and it starts to ring again, I picked it

“Park Jisoo you crazy b***h, how dare you hang up on me while I was still …” I hear through the phone

“Leave my mom alone or I will make you regret it” I said to him before he could finish his sentence and hang up before my mom could come back, I copied the number to my phone and deleted her phone records.

Like mom said, I am ready to protect my family no matter what