Deception

Chapter 16 & 17

Chapter Sixteen

“SHIN!” My parents yell getting off of the couch. They come to hug me but I block them.

“Don’t touch me. I will do what I must until I can leave, and then I will never come back.”

“What is this about?”

“You don’t care about anything but yourselves and your jobs. Mafias are more of a family than we are.”

“What are you talking about Shin? Oh shush, you must be tired.”

“I AM NOT TIRED AND I TOLD YOU NOT TO TOUCH ME!” They both look shocked and I step back a little. “You don’t know about how I have been doing in anything but school. My grades are all you know. You don’t know me. If you paid attention you would see I have been friends with a boy my age in the mafia for five years. If you paid attention you would see that I was in love. You would have found out I was in love with him.” I start to tear up.

My parents have nothing to say. “I am sorry things have turned out this way, I am sorry your son is in love with another man! There are just so many things to be sorry about! But you know what? I don’t care anymore. Do what you want, disown me or whatever, I don’t care anymore.” I walk up the stairs and turn around to my shocked parents. “By the way, I got drunk two days ago and kissed a boy.”

I say that and my mother starts being dramatic like she will have a heart attack. I get to my room and lock everyone out. When people try to get me to open or eat I don’t for the next few days. One night I hear a noise and the wind blows on me, I get up. I didn’t open the window did I?

I close it tightly and turn back around. I lie in my bed and sigh going back to sleep. “Why so sad Shin?” A voice I am all too familiar with says. I sit up immediately and look beside me. On the other side of my bed Jin is standing with a smile.

I try to stay composed but it all adds up and I start crying my heart out. He comes to me quickly and holds me. “Why did… Why did you have… to come back?”

He doesn’t say anything but holds me for the next few hours until I have calmed. When I do there is a knock on my door.

“Shin…” It is my dad. I don’t say anything and I look at Jin.

“Shin, I want to apologize. You were right. We never paid enough attention, if we had you wouldn’t have left and we need a worker to tell us. It should never be like that. And about that boy…”

Shit dad shut up. “I get it dad. You don’t need to say anything else.”

“No, I do. It is common to love a person of the same gender these days. At first I thought maybe you were confused. But I thought about it, and your butler talked to me last night. He saw you with that boy in the gardens all the time, and he knows he would sneak into your room every night.” I blush and Jin stands at the window ready to leave. “I’m sure you are in their now, right boy?” Neither one of us say anything. “I saw you sneak in, open up please.”

After a minute of silence Jin walks to the door and opens it. He walks back in followed by my father who shuts it. Jin stands in the middle of the room unsure of what to do. “Father, this is Jin, my friend.”

Father smiles slightly while looking him up and down. “It’s nice to meet you Jin.” Jin nods and stands there awkwardly. “How do you feel about my son?” Jin seems to twitch and he looks at my father and back to me. “You know my son lo…”

“He doesn’t know dad, be quiet.” I blush and look out the window. I don’t know how I will ever get over this.

“I do know Shin.” I don’t want to look at him. “That night everyone got drunk and I came home still out of it. Someone told me I had guests but I wasn’t paying attention. I went to my room and when I found you asleep in my bed I thought I was dreaming, that is why I did what I did.” I want him to stop but I don’t. “I fell asleep and didn’t remember much after that. I woke up the next day and everyone was a mess. Shika and Tiso were there with Lani waiting for me. They were all mad at me and I didn’t understand why until everyone got quiet and said something. Lani told me word by word of what you said to them and I was heartbroken, angry that it was real, how I acted. And angry with myself because you actually had to say that.”