With Him || Heehoon

CHAP 6

sunghoon's POV

"Oh sunghoon you won't believe what happened today." My mom said pushing my hoodie off the bed so she could sit.

I'm starting to regret why I told her to come in. Nobody enters my room, or at least nobody has in a long time. It was my heaven, sughoons lonesome. And it was messy.

I tore my eyes away from the brief lying carelessly on the floor. Have I worn that? "yeah, what happened?"

Mom laughed tucking a loose hair behind her ear. Seeing her laugh made me smile. My mom is the kind of a women who laughed at everything. She's one of the annoying human who touches you when talking, laughing their asses of, who work around with a smile even when a storm cloud was right above them. There's always a reason to laugh she'd say. Well, she was.

"Nothing much or serious, just you really won't believe who I bumped into this morning." She paused dramatically, continuing when I raised a brow. "Lee min-ji!"

I frowned repeating the name as mom laughed some more. "Lee min-ji?"

"Yep the one and only and she's are our neighbor, again. Can you believe that? I call this fate, Hoon, fate."

"Again?" I asked still confused.

"yeah remember she was our neighbor six years ago, before she reconciled with her husband and moved away going to join him in some far away country. oh min-ji." mom sighed fond smile on her face. "I didn't realize how much i missed her until today and you, she asked about you, remember you were closed her son, the beautiful boy, heeyoung I think."

And that's when all the rambling started to make sense.

"It's ts heeseung."

she clapped her hands together, "Yes, heeseung."

I got off my bed, walking to the window and looking out to the neighbor's house. yeah, the man I saw this morning, that must have been heeseung's dad, Mr.lee. heeseung's my neighbor. "They are our neighbors?"

"Yes. min-ji said heeseung enrolled to a school here. I don't know if it's your school though." mom said walking around the room and picking things off the floor.

"It is." I answered her, eyes still set on the building.

Jeez how amusing.

Uears ago, Msr.lee and heeseung were our neighbors, in the very same house as right now. Msr.lee and my mom were good friends, always baking and talking together. Heeseung and I too were best friends, really good friends. We would switch houses and sleep over at each others houses. Eat, bath do everything together.

I think heeseung and I bonded more because of the fact we were both fatherless. His father and his mom had a huge argument and got separated. After the separation, Mrs.lee found out that she was pregnant but didn't return to him and started a family on her own. Some years later and after lots of talking, Mrs.lee reconciled with him and after twelve years of being alone, they finally returned, taking my bestfriend away.

Funny how now we both had fathers but i know he was luckier than me, much luckier.

"Sunghoon?" My mom called distracting my thoughts as I looked away from the window turning to her. She offered me a small smile and raised a pan of cookies. "min-ji brought them over."

I smiled taking one and biting off it. "Thanks mum."

"I also invited them over for dinner." mum added.

"You what?" I asked eye wide. "When?"

"I don't know. I'll have to ask permis- I'll have to ask your father first." Mom said reaching up to fix her hair, her universal sign when she's nervous.

"That is not my father." I said slowly fisting my Palm "don't you ever say that again!"

"I'm sorry." She muttered.

I sighed, I hate seeing her like this. I walked to her, placing my hand on her shoulder. "You shouldn't have invited them mom."

She sighed looking like she's second away from crying. "But that's what neighbors do and she wanted taste my cooking."

I smiled wiping the tear that managed to fall off. "I do love your cooking."

That made her smile and she hugged me, I patted her head down, "it'll be fine, ji-ho will let us host a dinner."

We untangled and she wiped the tears off her cheeks. "Eat the cookies, Eat them all, You're so thin, it's just muscle everywhere." She chuckled "And please, try keeping this room tidy."

She left and I wiped my own tear away. Looking around my room, I was not surprised that is was neater. I reached out for more cookies. My mom really and she'll get it.

She'll get it, no matter what.

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"No! No way ye-jun, you're not bringing people into my home!"

Your home? YOUR HOME ?

"Pls ji-ho --- darling please she's my friend from years ago, just one dinner" mom pleaded and from her voice I knew she was crying.

My head ached. My fingers already hurt from slamming on things and I think a finger is broken.

"I didn't care, you can go wherever but nobody comes in, nobody." Ji-ho said his voice sounding dreadful.

"Please!"

"I said no!" He shouted and I heard something break down. I got up my bed in alarm, my body shaking in anger, Fear and many other emotions.

I reached up for my wooden save and pried it open, I fisted out some money and closed the save back, putting it away in a safe place. Then I ran out, I halted when I saw my stepfather by the hallway. Walking to his room.

"Hey!"

He stopped and turned to me. "Go away sunghoon, I don't feel like wasting more calories today."

"I've got 30 with me. Let my mom through her dinner." I said walking closer.

His lips turned up in a smirk, "A thirty eh, and where the hell did you get that?"

"A friend owed me a favor." I lied freely.

He snatched the money out of my hands. "Until midnight."

"Ten more and you leave the house, until midnight" I told him wiping out more money.

He chuckled drily, "you're getting wise eh? I could just beat the money out of you."

I shrugged "I could just tear it and you'll get nothing but my blood on you."

He glared but collected the money nonethless. "Fine, try to get more of this, and we'll continue to live happily, like a perfect family."

I glared when he pat my shoulder and watched him leave. Going downstairs I saw mom picking up the broken pieces of the wooden chair. I gritted my teeth as I imagined him carrying the chair up deciding whether or not hit her with it and finally slamming down.

"I got this mom you should start cooking." I said kneeling beside her and collecting a wooden piece out of her hands. she turned to me, eyes red and puffy from crying.

"What?"

I wiped her tears "go do your magic mom, he's gone, we can bring them over."

More tears escaped, each an acid to my heart. "What did you do honey?"

"Nothing that should consern you, stop crying, you don't want look ugly to our visiters."

She hugged and kissed me." Thank you sunghoon, and I'm so sorry."

"Go much it'll soon be seven." I nudged.

"Yes I should" I watched her getup and entered the kitchen excitedly.

The moment she was in, my smile dropped and a tear of anger rolled down.

As usual, I wipe her tears and I wipe mine.

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