PROMISE
Jaejoong POV
“Ish! What is Yoochun doing in this hour?” I came nearer to the door and put my right ear to the door. Suddenly…
“Ahhhhh……Chunnie please….don’t teased me. Please………”
Then I heard Yoochun’s, long moaned which I already forget how it feel for few years.
“Junsu!” My heart beat stopped for a while. I stood silently behind that door. My tears slowly ran through my cheeks. My heart felt like been stabbed by a knife.
My knees felt too weak to stand, I can’t believe this happening to me again. I hope I have more strength to get rid of these.
Slowly, my foot brought my body away from the room. I don’t feel my body anymore……
“Jae-hyung, what happened?” Changmin hold onto my weak body.
“I need to go to my room” I said to him.
“But, your room this way” Changmin pointing to my bedroom.
“No, I need to go to my room, downstairs”
“Oh! Let me bring you down to the room” Changmin offered him self to help me.
I just nodded.
When I’m depressed, I love to lock myself inside my private room, located at the back of the house just after the dining room. It was actually a storeroom which I transferred it to be my personal room. I kept all my private stuffs in it including the white piano which I bought from the school auctioned. Nobody can enter the room without my permission including Yoochun especially when I’m not around. I have my secret with the room and only Yoochun & Changmin knew about it.
“Thank you Changmin. Go back to your room, you need some rest before you go to work” I said to Changmin who still holding my hands. My weak smile made Changmin uneasy.
“But hyung?”
“It’s okay Changmin, I’ll be fine” Changmin released his big hands from me and patted my palms and released them as he started to move away.
“Changmin!” he turned his head to me.
“Anything else hyung?” Changmin seriously asked.
“I need your favour, Minnie. I want to visit umma tomorrow, maybe I’ll be late. Can you pick Joong Hee from school and prepare her dinner?” I desperately asked Changmin favour because I need to cool down when it reach into its limit.
Umma is referring to Mrs Sung who was responsible to take care of me and Changmin when we both were in the orphanage house. I treat her just like my own umma since I never had my birth mother care when I was 3 years old. She knew anything about me, my personality and the whole sad story about me. I need to talk to her, need her advice or at least she understand more than others.
“One more, I will prepare breakfast & lunch packs for all of you so don’t worry, I will do it first thing in the morning. We can take our breakfast together and don’t bother to wake up Yoochun and Junsu. Let them take their private time together. I think they are still ‘busy’ now” I tried to control myself not to show my sadness.
“Changmin, please don’t tell anybody especially Yoochun” I looked at the tall guy.
“I understand hyung, sleep well” Changmin smiled at me.
“You too Changmin, I love you” as I hugged him.
“I love you too hyung” his big body cover my tiny body and kept in his embrace for a while.
He kissed my forehead and let go my body and he walked to door and closed the door behind him.
I love Changmin as my own brother. He never complaint to anything because he knows I care for him so much and I will do anything he wants.
I think I’m too weak now; this situation makes my heart ache even more.
I have to see umma, she knows what the best is for me, and to get away will gives me more space to think all over again.
“YOOCHUN!” I have to let him go, he deserves happiness for his own.
“Jae Joong don’t be selfish, you have everything now but…..I lost my only love”
The tears won’t stop, I opened the small drawer and took the piece of postcard and read it again.
“Is he coming back now, for me or to hurt me more?” I looked around the room and see all the precious things kept in the room.
“I did this just for you” I whispered to the photo in front of me. My long finger touched the photo frame at the person beside me in the picture, on our wedding day.
I took the photo frame and walked to the long couch. Laid my body onto the couch and put the photo into my embrace tightly.
Still my tears dripping onto the photo but at the end I was dozed to a deep sleep and forget about the miserable feeling I had.
………………………………..
“Good morning mommy” Joong Hee ran from the staircase to the dining hall accompanied by Changmin.
“Good morning honey, Changmin” I smiled sweetly towards them.
“So you had good rest last night” patted my adorable daughter, she just nodded.
“Mommy, papa don’t join us for breakfast?” after looking at the empty chair beside me.
Changmin looked at me, waiting for my answer.
“Oh! Papa maybe late, he needs rest……”
I searched the perfect explanation.
“Papa not feeling well?” she asked again.
I sighed deeply and smirked at Changmin.
“Let’s eat our breakfast, don’t worry about papa. Mommy already prepared for him breakfast too so he can have them later” I put pancake on Joong Hee plate and poured a glass of milk.
“You want some Changmin?” I distracted the child attention from asking about Yoochun more.
“No thanks hyung, I need coffee” I took a pot of coffee and poured into his cup as I said,
“Today mommy will walk you to school. Uncle Min will pick you up from school. Is that fine with you dear?” I hope she will forget about Yoochun.
“That’s fine mommy. It will be fun to walk to school. Right Uncle Min?” she smiled to Changmin.
“Off course, you both can use shortcut through the park and that won’t take too long to your school” Changmin agreed as he already understood with the conversation we had last night.
I packed lunch package for Changmin, Joong Hee and for Yoochun too. He maybe goes to work later on. I shall drop by his office to leave his lunch.
Changmin leave the house a little early because he needed to see his customer.
After locking the front door behind us, I walked with Joong Hee along the pedestrian in our house area and before we reached the shortcut told by Changmin suddenly a red car honked us at the main road.
“Mrs Park! Mrs Park” I heard a voice calling but I ignored.
“Who is the hell shouted for Mrs Park…….what? Mrs Park?” The voice was actually calling me.
I turned to the car that stopped beside the road.
“Oh!” I recognized the girl calling. That was Yoochun’s personal assistant, Hyun Jin.
“Mrs Park!” She waved at me and Joong Hee.
“Hyun Jin! Sorry for ignoring you” I smiled.
“Good morning Hyun Jin, just call me Jae Joong” feeling uncomfortable with the name.
“Mrs…err Jae Joong, need a ride?” she asked me.
“It’s okay Hyun Jin, I can walk with Joong Hee to school”
“Not a problem at all. Come, you don’t want to be late right Joong Hee?” trying to tackle the little one.
“Mommy” Joong Hee pulled my hand.
“Mommy, auntie offered us to come with her. If papa feeling well we don’t need to walk” Joong Hee complained.
“But you said, it’s fine to walk….but” I felt pity for her. Joong Hee seldom walked to school because Yoochun never let her walked.
I nodded, “Auntie, mommy agreed to come along” she smiled happily.
She opened the car door, “Come”
“Mr Park is not feeling well today?” as she drove the car towards the school.
I just nodded but my daughter eagerly answered, “Yeah! Papa is not feeling well. He doesn’t even wake up this morning to join us for breakfast so mommy doesn’t want to disturb him” I had a frail smile to Hyun Jin.
“Oh! We already reached the school” I stopped the conversation by pointing at the school.
“Yeah! We already here” she slowly pulled the car beside the road to allow us the get off the car.
“Thank you for the ride, Hyun Jin. Joong Hee say thank you to auntie” as I helped the child get off from the car.
“Thank you auntie” I smiled to my polite daughter who makes me proud to have her.
“Hyun Jin, can I ask you a favour?” I remembered that I brought along Yoochun’s lunch pack.
“Yes, anything?” she anxiously asked.
“I bring along Mr Park lunch. He er……probably comes to office today” I took out from my bag a package and gave it too Hyun Jin.
“He probably comes? You said just now……”she confused.
“I just prepared for him just in case….but if he is not coming then you can have them all” tried to ignore answering more.
“Oh! Okay. You are just a good wife Jae Joong. Even though he owns the restaurant, instead of taking food from the restaurant, he still eats your food” she praised me.
I just smiled to her. Yeah! I’m a good housewife…..
“Thank you. I need to go now” I took Joong Hee’s hand and we waved to Hyun Jin who just pulled over the car away from us.
I sent Joong Hee to the classroom.
“Mrs Park, good morning” Ms Kim, Joong Hee’s class teacher greeted me.
Gosh! I already hate being Mrs Park now. When this will end…..
“Good morning” the short answer.
“Joong Hee, mommy need to go now. Take care and be good okay?” she hugged me as she kissed my cheek.
“Off course mommy, I will. Bye bye mommy. See you later” as she ran to the class.
I bowed to Ms Kim who is still standing at the class door.
I walked quickly to catch up the bus before it takes off.
I reached the bus terminal approximately 15 minutes before departure. Lucky me, if I missed this one I would have to wait another one hour for the next bus.
END POV
“Hello, Mr Park office” Hyun Jin sweet voice greeted.
“Hello Hyun Jin, good morning” the familiar voice on the other side of the phone.
“Oh! Mr Park, good morning. How are you doing sir?” Hyun Jin remembered her conversation with Joong Hee that morning.
“Off course I’m fine. Why makes you asked that and why are you so early?” Yoochun confused question.
“Oh! It’s almost 10, Sir and this morning I met your wife & your daughter, they walked to school. So I invited them to take a ride with me and sent them to the school. Joong Hee told me you are not feeling well sir” honestly spoken.
“WHAT? 10! SHIT! THEY WHAT?” surprised Yoochun.
“Sir, you seem too well now” Hyun Jin also surprised to her boss.
“Off course I do. Well…never mind. I’ll be late to the office today,” Yoochun said with frustrated voice.
“Oh! Your wife leaves me your lunch sir” Hyun Jin remembered the lunch pack given by Jae Joong earlier this morning.
“Uh? It’s okay; I’ll be there as soon as I can” Yoochun confirming his attendance to the office.
“YOOCHUN! YOOCHUN!” the voice came from the kitchen.
“Oh! Junsu” Yoochun already forgotten that he is with Junsu now.
“What is matter with him shouting” muttered from the room.
Yoochun grabbed his shirt covering the naked body and walked towards the voice.
“Ah! There you are” Junsu rushed towards Yoochun with a white paper in his hand.
“Chunnie! Jae left a message for you” handing over the paper to Yoochun.
Yoochun took it and unfold the paper as he read,
“Yoochun, sorry because I don’t wake you up for our breakfast but I already prepared food for you and Junsu. You can preheat it when you are ready to eat. Don’t miss them okay? Take care of yourself from now onwards because I won’t be bothering you. Please say sorry for me to Junsu. I don’t want him to get wrong idea about me. Take care of him and love him as much as you can. Don’t worry about Joong Hee because I sent her to school - Jae Joong”
“Ish! What he’s talking about? Take care of myself from now onwards?” Yoochun questioning himself.
“Chun, I sense something odd here” Junsu voice out.
“I think Jae……” Junsu stopped, “Jae what?” Yoochun trying to figure out what Junsu is trying to say.
“Emmm….but where he is now by the way” Junsu asked.
“Maybe he is doing his routine works, by this time he is supposed to be at market” as Yoochun looked at the wall clock, confirming what he said.
“Chun, I felt really sorry for Jae Joong. He takes really good care of you but I misunderstood his kindness. I want to talk to him when he gets back and say that I’m so sorry and disappointed with my action yesterday” Junsu regretted.
Yoochun pulled Junsu to his embrace, “its okay honey, we can figure it out when Jae come back later okay? I have to go to work now” planting his lips to Junsu’s and hugged him tightly then let go the body from his and walked to the room to prepare him self to work.
“Chun, I love you. But I never know what is really inside you. I can feel the tense you are having when its come to Jae Joong”, Junsu whispered as Yoochun body disappear from his sight.