Priorities and White Lies

Moon Chin Hae couldn't leave like Kang Chin Mae. He wanted to talk to his aunt and sister. Without giving assurance to them and getting an understanding of what happened to his cousin, he couldn't bring himself to leave. He turned towards his aunt Ko Yon, who was looking at him pleadingly. His shoulder dropped in defeat, anticipating the drama. For what stupid reason did his pitiful cousin even went through all the horrible torture at the hands of his family. He took heavy steps towards his aunt, who was standing with the support of his sister.

"What the hell happened, Sunny?" he couldn't do anything to hide the desperation in his voice. His cousin brother's blood was still warm in his hand. How could he act like nothing mattered when he could still remember the faint pulse of his goody-two-shoes cousin.

No one in the family wanted to witness the drama and left inside. Servants crammed, knowing the temper of the house's second young master.

"Young Jae Oppa was dating his colleague Hoon Joo who was his boss as well." She couldn't continue further. She let out a small cry thinking how unfair it was for her cousin.

"Don't tell me he was beaten up till death for dating…" Chin Jae couldn't accept how absurd this sounded.

"Hoon Joo stole credit for his project. Oppa wanted to retaliate. But that damned Hoon Joo sent the pictures of Young Jae and him together to Uncle, saying that if he doesn't make Oppa shut up, he will release to the entire world that Oppa was gay and would lie stating Oppa was harassing him. He also asked for money to give those photos back. Uncle called Oppa home today to tell him to stop whatever he was doing to acclaim his credit for the project. Oppa disagreed, and uncle lashed out at him" Chin Sun was able to say everything in one go, and she started panting as if she ran a marathon.

"Is that the video game project you said he was successful last year?" Chin Jae asked with a frown as he could understand what happened.

"Yes. Second version or something, he said…" for the first time, aunt Ko Yom opened her mouth to say something.

He just nodded the head. He wanted to ask more, only to be interrupted by the phone call from Kang Chin Mae. With a fear gripping his chest, he picked, hoping it was not bad news.

He moved a little away to pick the call. He never did well with crying females unless it was Baby-doll. So, he wanted to prepare himself in case of bad news.

After picking up the call, he was relieved. After finishing the call, he realised Kang Chin Mae was right. With determination, he walked towards his aunt and sister.

"Along with the medic, an emergency room specialist came. He mentioned a few wounds were deep, but at the same time, there were many superficial wounds. They have to run more test to know the exact state. But Young Jae was not hopeless. He fainted majorly because of lack of strength, pain and stress." When he relayed what Chin Mae told him, his aunt and sister looked relieved.

"Sunny… Kang Chin Mae want me to ask if you want to leave the house along with me… You will be protected there. Please consider…" Chin Jae begged his sister, hoping she would say yes.

"I can't. You know that. Aunt needs me here. Also, what would they do to grandpa? I am the only one who takes care of him. If I leave, no one would, and grandma might kill him, joining hands with step-mother. Let's not do this to the man who tried his best to protect us." Sunny said it with determination.

Chin Jae couldn't help but touch her cheeks which was swollen from the slap. Sighing in defeat, he reassured them about protecting Young Jae and left the Moon mansion. He couldn't help but glance at them through the rearview mirror as he knew he would never be able to protect them until they leave this cursed family and mansion.

Kang Chin Mae didn't even feel an ounce of guilt for lying to his twin and made him lie to his sister and aunt. He didn't want them to worry too much and lose peace of mind. That too if they any left. Moon Young Jae was rushed to ICU, and the treatment began.

For the first time, Chin Mae took care of a blood relative from his biological father's family. He had the experience of caring for people who were not related by blood, his step-father's family, who adored him. He took care of most of his friends when they have fallen ill.

But whenever Moon Chin Jae fell sick, he ignored it and let BB or someone else take care of him. But it was the first to take care of someone from the Moon family. He didn't feel as repulsive as he believed he would be. He was seated and looking at the ICU door when a nurse walked to him to sign the document to continue the treatment. With any hesitation, he wrote his name as Kang Chin Mae and his relationship as brothers.

He made a quick call to the hospital chairman to facilitate the treatment process without any delay or issue. He has never done anything like that to anyone unless they were his family. Moon Young Jae was not his family, but something urged him to do so. He didn't have any explanation for his impulsive act, and he always believed his gut feelings.

If only he knew that in future, Young Jae would become a family and would be spoilt by everyone around him, he would have taken better care of him than what he was doing now. Who knew Moon Young Jae would be capable of making devil's little spawn to fall in love with him that too head over heels.

The call was quite effective that getting blood and arranging for the specialist to come for operation happened at a rapid speed.

Kang Chin Mae couldn't help but wonder, what if he didn't know the chairman? How do other people with no influence handle it? Shaking his head as if he was shaking away the moralistic thoughts, he decided to call his pregnant wife and let her know he won't be home anytime soon so that she could go to either BB's house or call baby-doll to stay over with him. His mother went out of the station, and she couldn't accompany his wife. Or else he would have asked his mother to accompany his heavily pregnant wife.

Right when he coaxed his wife not to be alone, Moon Chin Jae ran into the waiting area. Without any word, he sat next to Kang Chin Mae.

After a few minutes of silence, Chin Jae broke it. "I realised it was a lie while driving back."

Kang Chin Mae shrugged his shoulder apathetically.

"Let's hope you were right" Moon Chin Hae voiced his concerns in the best way he could.

"Hope is all we have, Mr Moon Chin Hae." And with that, Kang Chin Mae went to his original apathetic state towards the entire world.