Hate U, Love U PART TWO

>> PART TWO <<
“Hyo Sun-ah, are you sure you can’t come out tonight?” Han Na said.
“Ne… I need to work tonight…”
“Aaa… but we’re going to karaoke tonight. It’s no fun if there is only three girls… there will be four guys… you can come… just some minutes… ara?”
“Ani…. I cant… you know why….”
That was the end of that day schooling. It was 4 pm and the four of them walked together to the school gate. It’s not that she hated them or something. She had to earn money. It’s not that her family is poor too. It’s more about her choice to be independent. Although she was the “do-as-I-please” type, she wanted to be independent as fast as possible.
She had made invisible wall between her friends, and limited her chatting time just to make sure she isn’t dependant to anybody. That’s why she looked like silent type. Actually this is she wanted people to think she was.
“Jal ga, chingu-ah…” Hyo Sun said, waving her hand and walked away.
“Bye bye!” Hye Rin and Han Na waved their hands.
“Yoon Ji-ah, you know Hyo Sun from junior high right?”
“Ye… waeyo?” Yoon Ji asked back.
“Is she already like that?”
“What do you mean?”
Hye Rin opened her handphone and type something. “She is close with us, but somehow she is far. Don’t you think we feel it?”
Yoon Ji sighed. “She changed, after her father passed away.”
“Arasseo…” said Han Na. “But, we are friends right?”
“Eure!” said Yoon Ji, smiling. “And Hyo Sun too. Chingu. Yeongwonhi.”
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“UMMA! What do you mean by entering Hyo Rim to my school?” Hyo Sun protested to her umma that night.
Hyo Sun was ready with her leather jacket and jeans when her mother came in. she was just finished her first job in the diner. Her mother always came home late at night, found her at home at 8? That’s unusual.
“To make you responsible with your sister and your life!” said her mother decisively.
“Aish! Jinjja? Responsible?! Like you ever know the meaning of word responsible!” Hyo Sun said.
She walked to the door, wearing the helmet and opened the front door.
“Hyo Sun-ah! Umma isn’t finish talking with you!”
“You didn’t have to say anything. You can only say and think about yourself! You never think about us! NEVER!!”
Hyo Sun jumped to her motor, and turned on the engine, then ran it fast in the the street, without even saying goodbye.
“Hyo Sun-ah!!!”
Hyo Sun could heard it clearly. I hate my life, thought Hyo Sun.
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“Hyo Sun, have you taken the order?”
Hyo Sun shook a can and poured some alcohol to the wine goblet. “Ne!”
“Hyo Sun, stopped doing bartender thing and threw the garbage out.”
“Ne…”
Hyo Sun put the shaker and dragged the garbage bag outside, through the back door. It’s already very late, and this place became more dangerous. Usually Hyo Sun came home after nine, but after what had happened, she didn’t want to come home. Not before her mother worked the night shift.
Hyo Sun was placing the bag when three drunk men walked in the alleyway. Hyo Sun could smell the alcohol from their mouth.
“Yah, yeppeo yeoja,” said one of them.
“What the…” Hyo Sun walked backward fast. But the door to the bar was locked, accidentally. “Shit.”
“What are you doing here? pretty girl?”
“Ne kwansimi aniya,” said Hyo Sun, still walked backward.
“We should teach you to be more polite to older people.”
Two men grabbed Hyo Sun’s hand and dragged her to a darker alleyway. Hyo Sun screamed and kicked and did what she could do, but none of them succeed on the three men. Hyo Sun was so afraid, she screamed out loud, but no one could hear her.
“Let her go!”
Someone said from the other side. A guy stood there. Hyo Sun couldn’t see who he was.
The guy kicked the first man with some martial arts moves. The other two men were beaten up easily when they moved forward waving stick clumsily. But the guy made perfect combo moves with the stick. He knows martial arts, thought Hyo Sun. Obviously, that moves couldn’t be done perfectly if the person have no experience on martial arts.
Not even in ten minutes the three men were running away, leaving Hyo Sun sat in the alleyway. She couldn’t see the guy, but somehow she knew that she would make this guy her boyfriend. She never knew someone as strong as him before. No one ever helped her in her life, and thanked to that guy, she was saved. The guy handed his hand over to Hyo Sun. Hyo Sun was about to give him her hand when the guy said.
“Hyo Sun-ah! Palli!”
Hyo Sun frowned, paused on her move, but the guy snatched her hand and they ran out of the alleyway.


--to be continued--