18 Youngjae's Sister

After the incident, I couldn't speak or face them. I'm furious when they don't trust me. Yet on second thoughts, they just choose what's best for me yet I become a vicious daughter. And with a heavy heart, they move back to New York to resolve the issue of the company along with our grandma, who's currently recuperating in New York. 

When I saunter in the corridor, I feel the student's eyes glancing at me as I have something on my face. I glimpse but they look away. 

 "Again? It was like my first day. I've been here for 1 month?" I whisper.

I just shrug thinking that they aren't looking at me. I go to my first class and sit beside the window. After a minute, a woman walks in my direction with a wide smile on her face. My brows furrow, thinking if she knows me even if we're classmates in all my schedules. 

"Hi, Minsoo!" I smile at her.

'What is her name again?' I ask myself.

"Sorry, I know you don't know my name. I'm Cleo Miller." She grins.

"I'm Jeon Minsoo," I mutter as my hand lifts and offers the handshake. 

She gratefully accepts my hand. Then, she sits beside me. None of us is trying to open some topics since I'm an awkward introvert student yet a war freak. I felt an uncertain dilemma when an intense gaze and a creeping smile curve on her lips. I hesitant to glance at her yet I did.

"Yes?" I ask. She smiles at me and shakes her head. I furrow my eyebrows when she keeps her stare with a creeping smile on me. 

'She's weird.' I thought to myself.

"You are really pretty Minsoo." She confesses out of the blue.

"Thanks?" 

" I don't know why my brother didn't tempt to ask you out." His brother? Do I know his brother?

"Youngjae. He's my half brother."

"Half brother? I thought his family died in an accident 10 years ago? How do you and Youngjae become half-sibling?" 

"Her mother having an affair with my father." I hum and nod. 

As she explains everything about her family, my intuition tells me that her voice seems familiar to me, I can't perceive where I heard her voice. Is she the one who phoned me yesterday? It's impossible if she doesn't have my number. Even Youngjae doesn't know my number. Was it just a coincidence? No, I think it's a coincidence. She just wants to be my friend. I shake my head and eliminate all my unsettling thoughts.

"So what do you say?" My eyes blink when she asks me yet I don't catch her words to answer it back.

"Say what?" 

"You didn't listen to me! I said if you want to grab some lunch later with my brother and we should also go shopping!" She rolls her eyes at me. I bite my inner cheek when I'm not focusing on her words.

"Sounds great!" I exclaim. I heard a slam in front of the desk. It was from Sir. Sayas, who's glaring at me as he walks towards my direction. 

"Miss Jeon, what parasites are contracted via skin penetration?" He said without leaving his eyes on me. I swallow my saliva thickly before taking a deep breath.

"It's Ancylostoma, Strongyloides, and Necator, Sir." He nods and scoffs when I get the right answer.

"Good! Next time if I caught you spacing out or daydreaming, you all have a surprise quiz and definitely not an easy quiz. Understood?" The student replies as they glare at me with their eyes yearn for my death. My eyes gaze to my desk, avoiding their eyes. 

'I wish the floor just munches me to avoid their disturbing look.' I pleaded inside my head. 

My infuriating behavior sinks my throat and lets that slide until it's useless. Occasionally, the infuriating behavior could put me in trouble as it happened the past few days. I become a war freak yet I don't want to be weak. Now, I'll maintain a distance from trouble and have peaceful school days. 

After class, Cleo instructs that she will wait for me at the parking lot with Youngjae since we agree to go shopping at the nearest mall in the town. I'm shocked when Cleo tells me that it has a mall inside the small town in the US. I'm excited to explore more in the town. 

'This place has full of surprises.' I mumble to myself.

My feet lead to my locker with my smile never leave my lips and places all my unnecessary things. When I open my locker, a letter drifts down the floor. I pick it before unwrapping the letter, I look around to see if my enemy would barge behind me and snatch the letter. Luckily, they aren't there. So I excitedly unfold the letter.

'I still have this pain in my heart kept for years and no one could understand. I tried to elaborate by actions, by words but it doesn't seem to work out.'

This letter telling his despair to someone but why does it in my locker? I look up the name of the sender yet it doesn't indicate a name. I shrug it off, thinking that someone put the letter at the wrong locker. I put the letter inside my bag and rush to the parking lot. When I reach the parking lot, there's Cleo, who's waving at me whilst Youngjae sulking on the side of the car. I giggle at their actions and rush towards them

"What took you so long?" Youngjae asks as his arms cross as his lips form a pout.

"Someone places a letter into my locker so I checked it out."

"What does it says?" Cleo asks with obvious excitement coming from her voice. 

"Something sad but I guess the sender put the letter in the wrong locker." Cleo and Youngjae shrug in sync. 

 'They are really siblings.' Youngjae stomps his feet when Cleo confides that she would be driving and striving to halt their fight. In the end, Cleo wins its fight and drives our destination. 

After 15 minutes, we reach the mall and it is not what I expect. The mall is not that enormous yet this mall has 3 floors. It has a wide parking lot with lots of trees, grass, and different colors of flowers.

"Let's go Minsoo!" Cleo pushes me inside the mall. I giggle at her excitement. I glance at Youngjae, who's sulking behind us so I grab her arms and smile.

"Just enjoy, Younie," I whisper. He blinks multiple times and looks away. I furrow my eyebrows at his action. 

First, we go to the clothes shop to try all the casual clothes and dress before we buy a bunch of clothes, hats, sandals, and some accessories. We reach to the men's section to get some clothes for Youngjae. 

"No! I don't need some clothes and I'm hungry." He whines but I hold his hand and gave him a puppy look. He clears his throat and looks away, trying to hide his blushing face but it's too late, my eyes focus on his face forming a blush. 

"O...okay. J...just one shirt." He stutters. Cleo gives me a high five when we successfully take our request. After buying clothes, we purchase some food at the food chain. Youngjae grabs our food whilst Cleo tries the hat that she purchased. 

"This weekend, I'll invite you to come with us to the beach with my family. It's my father's birthday. You should come."

"Beach? That's nice." I said with a smile. 

"We should go to the bikini section to get some." She says with excitement in her voice. I laugh awkwardly when she wants to buy a bikini. I don't have the courage to wear a bikini in front of everyone. 

"Wanna come?" I snap-in reality when she asks me.

Youngjae gets back to our table with food on his hands. I feel the vibration in my pocket so I get my phone. It's Jungmin and I answer it. I smile at them and walk out of the food chain.

"Minsoo where are you?" He asks.

"Out. What do you want?" I asked with an annoying voice. 

"Minsoo, are you mad at me?" I release a deep sigh before giving him a reply.

"No, I'm not mad at you but what you did was upsetting." 

"Can we talk about that later? Just go home. Please." I sigh.

"I literally feel your puppy eyes and your pout and you know I really can't say no to that. I'll be home in 5 minutes." I said and hung up. I walked inside the food chain. 

"Cleo, Youngjae. I'm sorry but I need to go home."

"W... why? We need to get some bikini for the weekends" She says as she's pleading with me not to go.

"I'm sorry, there's an urgent meeting so I need to go home." I prevaricate and glance at Youngjae.

"See you later." I get all my stuff before walking out of the mall and ask for a taxi.

After 5 minutes, I reach our house and walk in front of the main door and when I reach the doorknob, the door slams open. 

"Minsoo, you're okay!" Jungmin exclaims while hugging me. 

"I'm fine Jungmin. I just bought some clothes so why don't you take your arms around me and get inside." He removes his arms around me and helps me to carry the paper bags inside the house. We sit in the living room as he stares at me intensely. 

"Jungmin if you want to talk about the fight. Just talk and I'll listen." He nods and holds my hand. 

"I'm sorry Minsoo if I didn't believe that you defended yourself to Fiona but instead I believe at Fiona. I'm sorry." I sigh and lean my head onto his shoulder.

"It's fine now Minnie. Half of that was my fault, I didn't listen to you. I was blinded in the spotlight so I continue to do that without thinking about the consequences. I'm sorry too." He lifts my head and caresses my cheeks. 

"You did what the right thing Minsoo and I are so proud of you but next time, avoid them for you not to involve the riot." I nod. 

"Thank you, Minnie," I said and peck his cheeks. 

Meanwhile, someone doesn't take an eye to Minsoo and forms a smirk into someone's lips. "Just wait and you will be mine."