The 5 Vampires | Choi Yeonjun [최연준] (editing)

CHAPTER 01

“Eomma! Appa! We're here!”, I called out as soon as we arrived home

“No please! Have mercy on me, James! James, I didn't cheat on you, I swear! Please, believe me honey!”, we heard our mother from upstairs

“There's no time to explain Corah! I've seen you with another man right before Jeffrey was born! There's nothing happened between us after Nayah turned 3!”, my father blurted out

I glanced at my brother, he is so down. He felt so ashamed in this situation. I stretched out my hand to give him a hug which he accepted.

“Don't worry Jeff, we will soon get out of this situation”, I comforted him

We're still on our uniform so we decided to head on my bedroom. I let him change there. Actually, I let him brought his clothes there because I want him to feel safe.

After we changed our clothes, we didn't hear anything. Justa moment of silence. I glanced at my brother only to see his sad face. I don't want him to be sad like this. He is drowning.

Drowning because he always blamed himself for the cause of mom and dad's fight. I went to sat beside him at the edge of the bed.

“Noona, do you still love me?”

“Jeff, what kind of question is that? Of course I love my little brother”

“But they fight because of me”

“Jeff, do you trust noona?”

He looked down first before answering.

“Yes”, he sadly replied

“Then you should trust mom and dad too, huh?”

He just nod. We decided to go downstairs to eat dinner. But as we come down the stairs we heard a vase thrown to the ground. Causing my brother to flinch.

We ran back to my room again and locked the door. We decided to just take a rest. I'll just wake up early tomorrow so I can cook breakfast for the two of us.

My father's shift is always 1 hour gap compared to my mother. My father always leave the house at 4:00 am while mom 5:00 am. And me, I always wake up at 6:00 am.

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|>>alarm ringing<<|

I grab my phone to turn off my alarm. Then, I rub my eyes so I can clearly see what time it is. As soon as I saw what time it is, I hurried to the bathroom to get ready.

After I took a shower, I wake Jeffrey up to get ready. As soon as he got up, I ran downstairs to the kitchen.

Oh crap! They didn't even clean up their own mess! So I need to deal with this. I sweep off the floor with all of the broken pieces of the vase. Then, I started cooking our breakfast.

I felt Jeffrey's presence so I greeted him a “good morning” while preparing our food. Since we don't have any maids, I always wash the dishes before going to school.

We always take a bus to go to school. We're not rich either poor. We're just living a simple life. A simple family is great but always having a crisis is not great at all.

I have few friends back then but now, I don't think I will even consider them as a friend. We're now near at school. Only few blocks away and we're here.

I am only 3 years older to my brother but we still study at the same school. We're buddies anyways. Everyday at lunch we always meet up. Other's think that he might be my boyfriend. Of course not, we're just not look-alike.