Chapter 4

Caged dragon?! One of the most powerful gangs in the world. I take a step back to take it in. The flowers bloom, the spring fever is on. “I need some place.” I begin to walk in the house and to the backyard. The heavy picture frames put a weight on me, along with what I just heard. The world’s biggest playboy took me on a date and tried to say he wanted to keep me safe. That is just good acting. Although I am mad a few my cheeks swell and my eyes water. Why do I feel this way? I shouldn’t feel this pain. I know I shouldn’t but yet I do.

“Miss Jae are you Okay?” For a moment I forgot I asked them to call me Yui Jae. “I will be Yumi choi till my death. I was a coward for asking you to call by someone that I am not.” “Ok miss choi.” I carry the picture frames to the backyard. I set them in an ashy pit that I burn stuff in. There’s pictures of my younger self with my mother and father included in the stack. I could care less if my mother is in them, she wasn’t there for me at all. It won’t matter anyway, my memories have already faded into black.

“Yumi, I am sorry if your hurt by me, I never meant to.” His arms wrap around me. “Ace I am hurt but I was already broken before I even met you. You really can’t apologize for me being broken.” I pull his arms off of me. “What do you mean already broken?” “I will explain in time, if I tell you all now, you probably won’t look me in the eye.” His head tilts. “Trust me, I know what I am doing.” “Ok I trust you.” I smile softly. It feels good that he trust me. “Thank you, Ace.”

“You’re welcome yumi.” The air is warm, the sun shines. The day started off on a bad note but it doesn’t have to end bad. The fire burns, leaving a thick smoke in the sky. The fire reminds me of my burning rage for my father. Ace pulls me close, his body warms me. “I enjoy this.” He smiles. “I’m from korea. My parents were born in North Korea but they moved before the war.” “Oh wow that’s tough.” He sighs after that. “Not really, I was born in Seoul Korea. This is after the war, they were not really wanting to give birth to me there but they had no choice.”

“What do you mean had no choice?” “They called an ambulance when my mother's water broke. The ambulance took them to seoul.” I look down. “It’s ok, I heard seoul is a nice this time of year.” It is, it’s been years since I last went home. Korea is the only place that I call home. “Maybe we can go there one day.” “That would sound nice, getting to see where you are from.” “Yeah, but I only lived there till age five.” The flowers in the grass brighten the yard. Blue, pink purple, and yellow flowers spotted around the yard. The house to our backs.

“Today is such a nice day don’t you agree?” I look up at him. “Yes, very nice. Can we stay like this just a little while longer?” His head rest on my shoulder. “Yes.” I agree not knowing he would pull me on top of him and cuddle me. The moment wants to last longer. After 5 minutes we are pulled into reality by gun shots. I don’t know what going on but deep down inside tells me to get Ace out of here and not get him involved. I stand pushing Ace out of the way. I grab my pistol from my back. Loading it I prepare to get killed. I don’t care anymore, I just want to protect my company in which hasn’t even started yet.

“Let me have the gun Yumi.” He acts like I don’t know how to work it. “I Know how to work one.” I spot one of the people who shot the gun and shoot them to the leg. Gunther already dialed the police at that point. By the time they arrive I have two gunners tied to the chair in my front yard. “These guys are injured how is that?” “I don’t want a trip to the hospital myself too. I have a licence to own this gun.” I show them my gun licence. “It seems they do not. I made sure to check to make your job easier officer. And I have video evidence that they shot first if you would like to see?” “Yes Miss, that will help us figure out what happened.” I take them to the basement where all the security footage goes.

I pull up footage from everywhere at around the time they started to shoot up the house. The police took the two away, but they noticed a third person shooting that got away. “Are you ok Ace?” He nods, soon im clenching my arm, forgetting a bullet grazed my arm. “Argh.” I fall to the floor growing weak. “Someone call ambulance!” The bullet were poisoned. They made not bother actually hitting me, they wanted me to suffer. Only one person would do this. That person is father.

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