What can I do to get her back?

The next morning, Chang-min, Ji-hun and Won-Shik gathered in front of the master bedroom in the apartment. They have been knocking for a while yet their was no response from inside the room. It was as still as lake water and they could not even sense any sounds coming from the room.

"Chang-min?, Are you sure he came back home yesterday?" Ji-hun asked as he gave another round of knock on the door.

"I saw him walk in very late and I am sure he wasn't drunk. He didn't reek of alcohol at all but he was not in a good mood." Chang-min replied. His hand froze in mid air as he raised it to knock on the door again when the door swung open.

Yo-han stood there in his pajamas and stared at the three men in front of him disgustingly. His eyes were red and his face as pale as the white opened door of his room. It would not take a second glance to notice that his pajama pants is different from the shirt and the colors rioted each other. He was literally dressed like a clown and his golden hair was also disheveled and he really did looked funny, just like a clown.

The three brothers were shocked with the sight in front of them and burst into laughter. Soon their laughter vanished for fear of Yo-han as he was glaring at them furiously. "What's wrong with you guys, can't you just let me sleep in peace?" Yo-han said and slammed the door to their faces.

Inside the room, Yo-han rested his back against the door and slowly sank to the floor. "Why can't I seem to get her off my mind?" He thought.

Ji-hun tried to knock again but Chang-min immediately seized his hand. "Are you seeking death?, Big brother never goes back to bed this early in the morning, something is definitely wrong with him, do you want to be the scapegoat?, Just a little bit of advice though, you can knock if you dare." Chang-min said and left the hallway.

"The lad has sense than you, what do you use your brain for?..." Won-Shik hissed at Ji-hun and followed behind Chang-min to the Kitchen.

Ji-hun stood their for a while ruminating on Chang-min's words. 'Shouldn't we be trying to help instead of fearing what evil might befall us.'. He turned to face the door and spoke.

"Yo-han, whatever it is that's bothering you, you should not bear it alone, it's okay to share your burden." Ji-hun said out loud for Yo-han to hear at the other side.

'It's okay to share your burden...Whatever it is do you mind to share you burden with me?' Yo-Han's mind trailed off to his conversation with Dan-Bi, that time in the restaurant before he told her everything about how he had wrongfully accused her father and how he ended up being a kim.

'Dan-Bi, sometimes my burdens might be heavier than what you should lift with me.'

'Yo-han, what do you mean by that?, Right from the day I discovered my feelings for you, I have decided to share your burden, big or small with you, no matter the situation. I won't think twice before I snap someone's neck for you.'

'Yo-Han, I want to rely on you, seek comfort and put my all in you, but I don't want to be your weakness rather I want to be your strength. That can only be possible if you let me share your burden.' [1]

In the end, after sharing his burden and what had been bothering him, she left him, didn't she?. It's too easy to make a promise, but to fulfill it is difficult. How on earth is he supposed to trust any man with his burden now?. It's all empty promise when they say they will bear with you.

Yo-Han's anger skyrocketed and he yelled fiercely at Ji-hun who was at the other side. "Go f*ck yourself. Scram!!!"

Ji-hun shivered and immediately got out of sight.

Yo-han sat down with his back rested on the door, he sighed helplessly and took his phone from his pocket. He glanced at the screensaver which is the portrait he made for Dan-bi. That portrait that he was waiting to show her on her birthday about a month ahead. Now he wasn't sure there was need for that.

His thumb carefully caressed her face through the screen of the phone and a bitter smile crept on his face. He swiped the screen and went to his phone gallery. He opened a locked file and started flipping through the images. They were all images of her since five years ago when they were still high school students and some of them contained him too since some of them where taken by Seuk-Chin.

He stopped at an image, the one of both of them at the auction house back then. She wore a bright smile and made a peace sign with her fingers. The image was an AR shot selfie that place crowns on both their heads. He stared at the picture for a while and moved to another. It was the one she looked prettiest in. She had a childish pose and also stuck out her tongue. In the picture he wore a frown when he turned to look at her pose and that was when she pressed the shutter button.

"She looks like a queen." He said and his mind trailed off to another memory.

There was a day after Painters club meeting that they had a discussion as they walked home side by side. A part of their conversation, ehn?, he remembered vividly.

"...I am not an heir of any family legacy or company no matter how it is, but I am just an high School student hoping to be a king and building my own empire one day. "

'Hoping to be a King one day, will you mind having me as the Queen when that time comes?'[2]

She might think it was just her thoughts but she said it out loud back then and he heard her clearly, he only pretended not too.

"But why did she change her mind?, She wanted to be the queen in my Kingdom, she should have stayed and I would have pampered her more than a queen. Why did she have to say it's over?.... umph, I am the jerk who never gave her what she wanted. 'Peace with her father, Peace with her family.' But I could only afford the latter. I should have given her every thing. Now I regret it. And she is really angry at me."

"What can I do to get her back?"

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In the living room,

The door bell rang and after opening the door, it was Na-Gil at the door.

He strode in with a duffel bag in his hands and he wore a sport outfit.

The other three brothers were also in sport outfits and they were ready to march out to the sport arena.

After greeting and gisting a little, Na-Gil noticed something unusual and he decided to ask." I knew that Yo-han went to Old Kent Bar yesterday, is he still recovering from his hangover?, He knows how low his tolerance for alcohol is why did he have to drink much?" He stood up and headed for Yo-Han's room but Won-Shik got in the way.

"Brother Na-Gil, it's not what you think, Yo-han came back home sober yesterday but this morning, he looked haggard. He is kind of angry at the moment but he doesn't want to vent it on us so he locked himself inside, I bet you will be the one to suffer if you insist to go."

Na-Gil did not stop his journey even after Won-Shik's warning, he still went to Yo-Han's door and knocked on it.

"Yo-han open the door, what happened?" He stood their for a while and their was no response. When he was about to turn around, the door opened and Yo-han pulled him in and shut the door again.

He opened the door for Na-Gil, not because he didn't trust the others, after all they are like brothers to him but he knows that Na-Gil was the most loyal to him and would do anything to help him get Dan-bi back.

He is sure that he can confine in Na-Gil more than anyone so he could only talk to Na-Gil.

"Right now, it's only you I can talk to. You are my aide and you have never done anything against me aside those few punches in the carpark the other day but it was actually for my sake so I think I can talk to you..." He paused for a while to search for the words to say.

After waiting for not too long, he finally said.

"Na-Gil, I am broken."