My 7 Stepbrothers Love Me!?

Chapter 11 - My Heart Already Died

After the incident with Jungkook, Aera got bleeding lips. Two slaps in one day. It not a light slap, but damn. A hard slap.

She finishes her drawing and throws it on the bed. Now, she feels hungry. Aera grabs her mask and gets out.

She hears the noise from the living room but didn't bother to check who. So, she straight to the kitchen and opens the fridge.

"You look hungry." Yoongi voice startled her. She turns around and saw him sitting there with his drink and phone.

"Then?" She asks.

"It hurt right being slaps?" Yoongi asks. 

"Do you want to taste it?" Aera closes the fridge and opens the drink can.

"Savage." He smirks. "Anyway, why you always wearing a mask? It not that our house full of dust all the time." 

"I don't have to answer it." She responds and walks away.

Aera can feel Yoongi still follows her. But, she ignores it and about to went upstairs until Hoseok calls her name.

"Oh!! Aera!! Come join us!!" He has a big smile on his face. 

"No thanks." She rejects. Yoongi already sitting with them.

Jungkook glaring at her, Taehyung just ignores her, Jimin having a pissed look, Namjoon just stares at her with rude eyes, while Jin smiles softly at her.

Too many things to handle. 

"Actually, I have something to do. So, I can't." Aera being polite. 

"Let her be, Hyung. It ruins my mood if she was here." Jungkook snaps.

"Kook, enough. We never hang out with her." Hoseok scolds him.

"If she wants to hang out with us, she should hang out with her mother more than us first." Taehyung bluntly speaks.

"Yeah. Even she treats her mother is not right." Namjoon scoffs. 

Aera seriously wants to walk away right now. 

"Before I pin your mouth, better shut up," Jin warns them. He turns to Aera's back. "Aera, it okay if you don't want to. I will call you if we need anything."

She nods. She about to continue to walk but Yoongi's words stop her movement.

"I'm surprised that you didn't feel anything when they insult you. I thought you might cry like a baby." He said. 

Aera chuckles bitterly. She turns her body towards them. "Why should I?" She asks.

"You are emotionless. You need a professional." Namjoon added. 

The same words she heard from her mother also. Now, even they start to think that also. She doesn't need to talk about therapy. Nothing can cure her.

Not until his father's words stuck inside her mind. She will be forever stuck in it. That what she thought. 

"Professional? Huh." She scoffs. "I don't need them. And don't talk about that damn thing again." Aera snaps.

"And one more thing." Everyone looks at her. 

"I'm not emotionless. My heart already died and I couldn't feel anything." With that, she walks upstairs and slams the door shut.

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It already 1 am and she hasn't slept. It quiet outside so it probably the boys already go to sleep. She is easy to have insomnia. Usually, she will go and sleep with her father but now...

When she thinks it again, she wants to yell and let it all out. But because her heart died already, she feels nothing. Except for her mother's words only can hit her.

Aera gets up and grabs her jacket. She went out and going downstairs. It dark and no one. Obviously, they already sleeping. She went to the backyard and the cold wind hits her.

"This is so fresh." She mutters. 

She just using barefoot since she just steps on the grass. Aera can't help but admire the beautiful stars in the sky. It blinking and it makes her smile a little bit. Her hands inside the pocket jacket. 

"Twinkle twinkle...little star..." Aera singing. 

"Oh. Come on. What are you doing here?" An annoying voice disturbed her. 

She turns around and found Jimin with his pissed face. He just wearing sweat pants with a hoodie. 

"I thought you sleep already." Aera spokes.

"I can't sleep." He responds. "Can you just...go to sleep already? I need my time alone, okay?" Jimin snaps. 

"I have insomnia." Aera just bluntly said. 

"Insomnia?" Jimin asks. She nods. 

Then, it silent. Aera knows he must be awkward. She sits down and stretches her arms out and she can feel someone staring at her. 

"Why you stare at me?" She asks. 

"I have eyes and besides, I'm not staring at you...AT ALL." Jimin presses the words.

Aera shakes her head and just continue to admire the stars. The person beside her keeps moving like he uncomfortable. 

"Are you okay?" Aera looks at him.

"Yeah. Why are you asking?" Jimin asks her back.

"Because you keep...or you have something that bothering you." Aera narrows her eyes on him. 

"Fine. I wonder, why you still want to be with us even after everything we did to you?" He asks as he squatted.

"Well, I wish I can be alone every day. You think I want to be with you guys?" Aera answers. 

"Wow. Anyway, you know that we never accept you, right?" Jimin asks. He turns his head to looks at her. 

"Neither do I. Even you guys accept me one day, I wouldn't." Aera turns her head to him. "Because no one...can replace him." 

Him?

Jimin furrows his eyebrows. She didn't say anything after that but just looks away. He finally sits down and joins her.

"I'm sorry if my existence ruins you guys," Aera speaks. 

"Why you have to be sorry?" He asks.

"Feel like to." Aera answers. 

"You don't have to be sorry because it wouldn't change anything. So, just stop." Jimin rolls his eyes.

Aera gets up, "Thank you for accompany me tonight even you didn't mean it." She bowed and walks away. 

But, before she steps inside, Jimin stops her. 

"Do you mean what you say to me when you found me at the dance studio?" He asking but didn't look at her.

She slowly looking at him. "I'm so rare to praise people nor compliment them. So, you have to believe it because once I praise or compliment any of you, I meant it." 

By that, Aera walks in leaving Jimin alone in the backyard. Somehow, she feels sleepy and thank you to him, she guesses. Wish it will happen when she has insomnia.

CONTINUE~