Chapter 22
A/N: This will be the last part of Yerin's storyline...um for now.
The media above is a reference of the same dress Yerin will mention later when you read this chapter.
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"This pink one is too sparkly..." Minrin says, putting back the clothe and shuffles her hands to the variety of dresses that are organized nicely on the rack.
An hour has passed since she and her servant, Yerin, kept on looking for a perfect dress for her. Vintage, casual, old fashion inspired, checkered, there's tons of varieties to check out.
But since she's a picky person, Minrin wouldn't choose any dress that would catch her eyes' attention. The older would think first whether she'll be comfortable, elegant, and pretty in the dress.
Not to mention she's only buying one dress, it takes a lot of decisioning and questions to Yerin before she clung the dress in her arms. Yerin would always take away the excess dresses so that her miss won't have difficulty while she decide what she should grab from the racks.
"We have new designs of dresses on the Lavender collection ma'am." Xou, who was mention previously, she stayed with them to assist and suggest more than how Yerin should do.
"I rather have to choose on the Snowy collection, I can feel that my fiancé and I's wedding is near." Minrin utters happily as she looks at the employee with a wide grin on her face.
"You're so lucky with your fiancé madam!" Xou squealed, gasping from remembering something, "Is Mr. Hoseok your fiancé if I may ask?"
That question, Yerin gulped in fear. Terrified of what could this woman say to her miss and revealed the truth. She would be dead if Minrin finds out about Hoseok cheating on her.
"Hoseok is indeed my fiancé. Why? Was he here earlier?" It scared yerin even more when Xou clapped her hands and smiled.
"I wasn't here yesterday miss but I overheard Ms. Seonhee talked with him yesterday on the phone." Xou stated carelessly, but little did she know that Minrin is gritting her teeth behind her closed lips with her jaw that's tightening.
She never knew that Minrin gets easily jealous and it's actually dangerous for that to happen if anyone just knows why. Yet Yerin can totally see it from behind through Minrin's hand that is scarily shaking.
"I bet he's gonna give you something and asked Ms. Seonhee to reserve a gift for you." The young employee innocently stated, which made the miss to calm down by the statement.
"T-Thank you Xou for assisting us," she almost stuttered, "My friend here can help me to choose the perfect dress."
Xou was fluttered by the politeness of her customer and bowed, leaving the two of them behind and welcomed the other customers instead who were continuously coming inside.
The heiress sighed without a volume for Yerin not to hear but still see it, just to hide the frustration she is feeling for Soenhee.
"Maybe he's just really asking for a gift?" she thought. "I'll just assure that she isn't bitching around with Hoseok. Or I will...."
Suddenly, she converts her eyes on a bright white cut out dress that looks short for her. Yerin also looked at the direction her miss was looking and her eyes expanded of which dress was it.
It was the same dress that Hoseok bought for her yesterday.
"No please don't go after that dress.." She hoped that she's not gonna pluck the dress out of the rack. But guess fate would give her a chance right now.
Yerin's P.O.V.
Miss Minrin pulls out the dress that I don't want to be her option.
The dress with long cut out sleeves was revealed from the holders. I frowned when she looks at it, I kept having faith that she won't like it as she decides whether she'll try it on later or not.
This is selfish to not let her pick that dress, and I have no right since she is doing it for Hoseok. But he bought the same dress for me, what if she started to have suspicions to me? What if she finds out?
Hoseok... I love him, I love him so much.
Just let me have that dress on my own Ms. Minrin, it'll have a chance for me to let him go for the sake of my brother's safety. Just please, let me be the only who owns the dress he have given me.
Please choose something else...
"Yerin? Are you alright? You seemed to be paler for a while, never even told me a decent sentence except compliments." My heartbeat rushed when she asked me and noticed my behavior.
Sh*t, I should act better or else she can discover something. Miss Minrin isn't a naive type of person from what I have known for a long time. She's just too good at hiding it since it's public but any second of time, she can do anything she wishes.
"Aish..." She sighed, but now with a sound. "Are you sure you're fine?"
I gulped a little and nodded, plastering a smile on my face, "I'm really sorry if I couldn't be enough to help you unnie." And she shakes her head in dismay.
"Okay..." She said before walking along the aisle of clothing, I go after her and she stopped by the changing room.
There were few people formed in a line and we just waited for her turn to change. They were all in couples that it takes me back from what happened yesterday.
Hoseok and I went here because he resisted on not buying me a dress because I always lack of colored clothes because...
"Girls feels really pretty in bright and pastel colors." He told me, my cheeks heated from the memory.
That troubled face he had when he is trying to pick a dress for me because I refused to pick on my own choice. It was so cute that I can't help it but smile.
"Yah, why are looking like that? Is it pitiful to looks at someone who is trying so hard to dress you?" He even asked me that.
Cheeks that are puffy enough despite his covered muscular body. Those were getting a little red when I giggled at the cuteness he is showing.
I cannot conclude the feeling of missing him again. But, as I look at the miss I am serving and betraying, everything turns its table. That what I am doing is wrong, lying to her is unforgivable.
"Yerin?" She called, I did not noticed that I'm standing still in one place while she's on the open stall already.
"Sorry unnie." I nervously laughed and walk towards her.
"Hand me the clothes." She said.
I shifted the clothes on my arms, "I pardon your statement?"
"Give them to me Yerin." She laughed. What the hell is she saying? And why is she laughing? "You sure are confused, I think you should go pick a dress for yourself. I'll pay for it."
I can't tell what's up with her but I feel embarrassed by what she just said. Did she saw me eyeing on the dress that is the same as mine?
"Unnie I'm fine! I wasn't looking on you—"
She shushed me for few times, putting aside all the dress she picked earlier. "I know you love dresses."
My heart felt like it got jabbed from that sentence. No one ever knew I love dresses except Jimin and Hoseok, how did she knew that?
"Just like me, you kept looking at the dresses instead of any type of clothes. Just go get any clothes." She's got a point to that one though...
"But—!" She cut me off.
"No but's! I'll be the one who will buy you if you won't!" She puts up her pointing finger and wave it to left and right.
"Okay I'll choose one..." I would really buy one if I only brought my money with me, I just hope she doesn't decide to get that dress.
She grins once again and nudged me, "You're in love aren't you?"
I blushed when I heard that, yet scared she if she discovers who it is.
"W-what are you saying?" I asked her almost casually.
"You are smiling while we are waiting and you kept being quiet." There is someone...Hoseok was in my mind all the time miss Minrin—
"Is there something that I should know Yerin?"
The miss giggles and shook her head before heading in the dresser after saying, "Go look around, I'll let you know if I picked one already."
My face just stay still when she closed the door as if it's nothing.
Nodding, and I obliged for her request to look around. A pang on my chest risen up and there's something that feels like it's surrounding up to my throat. I can't f'cking speak for f'cking hell it's happening again.
"Why didn't you say anything? Wow, what a coward Yerin!" This voice again...
"Why do you keep coming back..."
"What? You're still not gonna tell her? It's so simple even a toddler can tell the truth, don't overthink of doing it silly!"
"F-fuck you... Like hell I can! Not r-right now!"
"Now you're cussing again? What a great way to insult yourself, coward." Why does she keep calling me like that...? Why?
"Would you really sacrifice your own love just for your beloved sibling who never treat you as one? Pathetic."
"He doesn't know about me... His real name...so don't talk to like you know him..."
"Do you even know him? From how or what he is suffering from?"
"Yes... He's—!"
"He's became a homophobic sh't and he have trust issues. He can't be happy with himself ever since the start."
"BUT I'M DOING MY BEST TO HELP HIM!"
"Lies! You always have seen him emotionless and cold."
"I-I..."
"He even hates you for being with the one you love, Hoseok, loving him behind Minrin's back. He can't even smile and this is all because of you! "
"No! Stop this!"
"WHY SHOULD I? IT'S THE TRUTH YERIN! THE TRUTH OF YOUR SENSELESS EXISTENCE!"
"No!"
"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT YERIN, YOU PUT EVERYONE IN THE PLACE WHERE THEY CAN'T BE HAPPY!"
"This is all lies!"
"YOU ARE THE LIE! GO DIE YERIN! JUST TELL MINRIN THAT YOU AND HOSEOK ARE TOGETHER AND BE KILLED WITH HER OWN HANDS."
"No...! She will— my b-brother will—"
"THIS LIFE AND YOUR BROTHER WILL BE EVEN MORE HAPPIER IF YOU JUST DISAPPEAR YERIN."
"W-what?"
"You've hurt a lot of people, it's a better choice to disappear and let go."
My vision started to get all blurry as the world spins to my sight. I can't feel my body or anything that my hand would land on.
"Hey watch it!" My sanity came back when someone sounding annoyed pushed me lightly.
"I'm sorry..." I apologized and she huffs, rolling her eyes.
It's the owner of this store, Seonhee.
"Hey I know you!" She exclaimed, a little loud enough to prevent people from noticing or listening. "Aren't you with Hoseok yesterday?"
I did not response a single sentence to her. Seems like I got caught yesterday.
"I see... So you are that woman." I bit my lip, Yerin you have to hold back.
This bitch is so ready to try burning me, she doesn't seem like she likes me from the start with the way she looks at me when I got inside the store.
Avoiding her won't be the best option to do and since Miss Minrin then I should give her a beating if she started something that I won't fucking like.
"Listen, I don't genuinely like you. And cheating on someone with a fiancé? It's precisely stomach-turning." That's it, I heard too much that she could even expose in public.
Yeah I know what the fuck you is saying.
I'm not exactly sure why I'm getting so pissed immediately at her, but having someone to know about my secret—our secret is something I really don't admired for people to know.
"I'm aware of what you are saying, but please don't brag on my life that has no single relation to you." I spoke, not too much offensive to hear although it is.
"Clever! But that won't have any effect on me, I am Hoseok's friend!" Yours was never a clever statement.
"You are not." I said with a highlighting tone. "And if you are, you really know what he is going through."
And if you fucking do, it only means he lied to me of saying that he only trust me.
Her expression improved in being more annoyed, "So acting brave to people is your thing but it's clearly seen you're an eggshell." I gasped.
I was never called as a fucking eggshell in my life. As much as I can hold back, if I am not part of the Jeon's household and a maid, I would have shaved bald this girl with my hands.
"Brave?" I laughed, "I just hate the fact that people would give a fuck with people who doesn't even need them."
I know what she meant by an eggshell, that I'm a fucking weak shit, a fragile motherfucker that can—
I breathe for a second.
Calm yourself Yerin, you're at your brutal state again. My cussing habit can't be stop if it invades my self-control for what I am saying on my brain and it might come out in no time.
I have a careless dusty mouth at some times.
But Ms. Seonhee, who is in front of me is being immature enough for me to be at my fullest. I know she's a fellow student that Hoseok-ssi knew before but this doesn't meant she should go barging into someone's business to fix a major problem. Well could it be...
"Perhaps you like him?" Gotcha, her face tells it right away when she got that surprised looking look in exchange.
"W-what??"
Without any commission to fight more, I walked away. But she walks toward me and grabbed my wrist just to let her speak again with me. I bluntly want to ignore her existence yet she keeps talking and clinging to me like she really know my personality.
"You really got some nerves to talk back to me like that?" Her trembling voice is still recovering from what I said.
"Don't you know I am?" I didn't answer except from a nod.
Who wouldn't not know someone famous like her? I only heard she is popular in public community when it comes to fashion and Inst*gram but never knew if it's really knew.
I heard too that she's also the person who was assaulted by some reporter when she opened her fifth branch in LA because she's rude af. Which is true based on what she's doing right now, but that's not important and it doesn't matter.
"I can demand you for harassing me." Even if it's not true. Besides, you're the one who's harassing me like a twelve year kid bully.
Yeah I know this routine. Rich people like her would find ways to push someone to the bars just to keep them quiet, or to prove the weaker that they are stronger and we can't fight.
"Do it then." I spoke, "Don't you think Hoseok will hate you for doing that?" I added, feeling a bit sorry for using his name and in fact I am indeed scared of going to jail.
Her reaction was even more priceless. Just to see that she's really easy to persuade even if she keeps throwing me her nonsense words.
"Not just because you rich people have money than I have, in the eyes of justice, you are abusing me with your wealth." I smirked.
Guilt is clearly marked on the face of this woman. Maybe she really isn't a bad person? She's just being too materialistic and insecure of the people around her.
"Pathetic." She said and I sighed when she still talked back, yeah it's really pathetic.
Can someone like her just become a good samaritan and just let go of me while I control my f*cking life?
My life is in danger and also my brother's on the hands of the person who could kill him or use him against me to push me away from him and Hoseok-ssi.
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My head is spinning and my vision is all blurry, a dark figure of a person is standing across my body that is lying on the floor.
"H-help me... Please..." I tried to reach out of the person for help but she just stands there.
"What a crucial way to die, Yerin." She said and chuckled.
"Y-you're a-a devil..."
She walks to the other side of the room and a man pulls my hair. I yelled in pain and I suddenly heard a crying infant from somewhere in the dark room.
"I know, I'm just like my father..." She told me and I am shaking in fear.
"W-who..."
"It's L....M... You moron, how can you forget?" I hardly heard it but I still understand who it was.
"Don't hurt my brother!"
"Hm? Would you rather want him dead than hurt?" Her question terrified me.
"Why are you doing this?! What have I done to you to hate me?" All I just want is to live in peace with my brother but here I am, my other foot buried in the ground and my brother too.
"I am warning you Yerin, you can be smart but you're so easy to fool."
You have always been good to me like a real sister even just for few days, why are you doing this to me...
"Don't k-kill him p-please!" I begged. "J-j-just kill me in-stead...!"
"Oh, is that okay? But what about your brother? I might kill him within a second after I killed you." I gasped, I can't let her do that..
"Just w-who are you?! I'll d-do anything! P-please, not m-my brother!" I staggered, crying as my innocent brother still does the same.
I-I can't tell her that I can see her face, I know that she drugged me so that I can't recognize her, but the drug's effect delayed on me but I hardly talk properly.
"Let your brother become the heir. You will either leave the Jeon's with him or become a maid and I'll let you live." She instructed and I nodded simultaneously.
"Why do you want my brother?!"
"Because your brother is my key."
A k-key?!
"If you tell anybody about what happened, I will kill your beloved brother."
Minrin I hate you so much...
My surroundings turned into black and my brother's cries fade out. I'm so sorry Yoreum, I can't protect you...
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I was drugged by some medicine I was given before I passed out and I pretended that I don't know that it was her. That's the reason why I ended up being a maid instead of being an heiress like her too.
When I woke up that time, I was in the hospital bed. Mr. And Mrs. Jeon were both in the room. Mrs. Jeon was holding my brother who's sleeping peacefully but he's face is so red.
Because of fear, I did as what Minrin asks and became their maid. Years passed and I always monitor my brother's condition which is not good.
His name was also changed.****
My hand clenched into a fist. I am such a bad sister, he's never happy because of me. If I told them the truth then I would have been able to be close to him and he'd be always smiling.
"Go on keep talking," because I am losing my patience now, I have to pick a dress or Ms. Minrin would come out anytime soon. "Another scandal could break out with the famous Lee Seonhee."
Hesitation didn't stop her, "Stop that sharp tongue or I'll kick you out."
So I shrugged and walked away, leaving her for the second time and this time she didn't followed me right after it.
I picked an off shoulder puffy dress as a random choice. I didn't want the miss to wait for me or else she would have witnessed this argument I had with the owner her favorite store.
Walking back, she just came out of the dressing room and I smiled when she's wearing the carnation pink dress that I recommended earlier.
"What do you think?" She giggles.
"It suits you miss Min— unnie." I laughed a big when I almost said what I usually call her. "The sleeves are just too revealing, you should wear a coat or a blazer if you're celebrating at night."
Although this hurts my feelings, I don't know if I can even let Hoseok go and be with Minrin. Especially that their anniversary is this weekend, Friday...
What will they do if they celebrate it at night time?
"We will celebrate it in the evening and maybe stay at a hotel." She smiled, "You know... To have private time together at night and have fun!"
Hearing that increases the crack on my heart more. Will he even let her do what she wants? I guess he will... He's pretending that she loves her, so he will do anything just to avoid her from knowing about us.
They will get married soon... Have beautiful kids that I will surely take care of... Grow old looking at him being happy with her... He will become happy if I let go of him, he have Miss Minrin who loves him so much even if she has a devil side. She won't be able to kill my brother, and I'll be happy...
"Yerin, why are you crying?" I gasped when Minrin questioned me and I came back to reality.
I am indeed crying.
Immediately, I pulled my handkerchief and wipe away my tears. "I'm sorry miss Minrin, I just miss my brother..."
"Yoreum?" I nodded, yes you bastard... "You're still not gonna tell him?"
"I can't miss Minrin... He hates me..." I said.
She titled her head with a curious look, "Hates you? But why would he? Did you do something that made him hate you?"
Shit, I'm getting cornered.
"I don't know..." I lied. She clicks her tongue and put her hands on her waists.
"I'm sure something's going on, I want you to get close to your brother." Lies, you want him to be your brother.
How can she remain on acting innocent?
"I'll manage unnie, you don't have to..." Worsen my relationship with him. Especially that Yoreum isn't the only one in danger here...
Even my friend's life is in danger.
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A/N: Oooh...who's Yoruem? Yeah I know this is all messed up ever since before.
By the way Yerin was only 8 yrs. old in the flashback part.
Before I can forget... Thank you so much for letting Chimderella with 600+ votes and 10K reads! You lovelies are the best!
Next up will be the continuation of....
Namyangju Trip of Jimin and his Friends:
Going home
That's alls for today! Bye lovelies! I love ya'll!
Xx, Yeni.
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