"From they day I had laid my eyes on him I want no one else, no other, just the wrong guy. In bad or worse, in deceiving or destruction, in pain or self-killing, I will nerve back off, never take a step closer to the right guy, as long as I can have...
"I've heard you don't want to do the interview today," muttered Jaehyun his stomach making a flip.
"Go there and talk to him," Lucas was sitting with his head low.
"They want to listen to you not me."
"You're my manager it's your fucking job!" Lucas raised his voice.
"Lucas!"
"What should I say, that my mother had given me away, she simply gave me away when I was just seven!" he raised his head, his eyes tossing thunders, so Jaehyun moved back.
"Lucas!" he begged.
"She simply went to the old man at the fisher's market and left me there," he hid his face in his hand his palms where shivering.
"Has she, has she given you a reason?" whispered Jaehyun coming closer crouching next to the armchair stretching his hand out till his fingers laid on Lucas's hand, the boy immediately moved away like burned.
"She said she has no other way and wants me to survive," his voice cracked. "Shit leave from here! I'm a man no one will see me cry!" Lucas covered his face in his arms.
"Ok, ok... I'll speak to the journalist tell him you'll give the interview after the championship ends, you will know then if you're ready for it," Jaehyun got up.
He felt like crying but he was holding it in, Lucas has never told him, he always said he has no family, he doesn't remember how he had ended up with the old man, he had beed hiding it in for all those years.
Jaehyun really wished to stay here and hung him, tell him it will be all ok, they're family and that his big brother Jae will never ever leave him no matter what, but he knew Lucas's pride was the only thing that was keeping him strong, was giving him the fleeing he's worthy, a man, so he walked to the door closing it quietly trying his best to not to burst out into tears, maybe Taeyong was right if he believed they were the same, Lucas and him...
The rain has finally stopped, so little Taeyong left the old house. The sky was cloudy, filled with fresh dew drops, the puddles were reflecting the trees growing above them. Taeyong quickened his steps exploring the neighborhood curious to see what's behind the wall to the big houses on the hill. It has always drawn him in to find out what kind of people are living there, what king of cats and dogs. He really loved dogs.
Today was his lucky day as someone has left the gate open, so he could slip through it to find himself right behind the wall. There were stone stairs leading up between raw bushes, so Taeyong was singing a song quietlyto give himself courage when he began to climb them. The world was less scary once there was something known and he knew this song as his mother was always singing it to him.
The stairs ended so suddenly he stopped to find himself so close to the big buildings, they seemed even taller than seen from the distance and he wondered how many people could live in here. There were nice paths of freshly cut grass and a playground. Wow, thought Taeyong as he had seen one like that on an ice cream advertisement - blue and green swings, a big red slide, small ladders to climb and a wooden house on the top of it. Was it a paradise, as he has always dreamt to be on a playground like that. He glanced left and right before approaching through the sand, his eyes focused on the slide, he was sneaking closer excitement raising inside him.
"Hey!" said a voice.
Taeyong stopped.
"Hey you, blue rain coat red shoes reveal yourself!" repeated the voice louder.
Taeyong considered it for a while, he could just run, disappear down the stairs, but he wasn't sure if the gate won't be closed this time, so he turned till he noticed a boy in a black blue uniform sitting in the wooden house, his legs dangling over the edge.
"Hey blue sweater black tie reveal yourself first!" said Taeyong making his voice stronger to scare the boy away.
"It's my playground and I had asked first!" the boy sent him a cheeky smile.
"I'm Taeyong," he straightened, he wasn't just some coward, he was an explorer, a famous explorer who had the courage to conquer a foreign side of the wall.
"I'm Jaehyun," said the boy watching him in the same mean way.
"Why do you say this playground is yours? It belongs to all the kids that live in those houses!" said Taeyong.
"How do you know I'm not the only one?" asked Jaehyun.
"Because the houses are so bing, you had to be a prince to have them all, and you don't look like one."
"How do you know how a prince looks like?" asked Jaehyun causing him to clench his fists.
This boy was making him frustrated, he wished to push him off the wooden house and claim it as his own.
"I just want to try out the slide, you're not a prince but I'm an explorer!" Taeyong raised his voice.
"An explorer needs to be adult!" replayed Jaehyun.
"So who am I?" asked Taeyong.
"I think you came from the other side of the wall, my parents call it traditional slum."
"What does it mean?" asked Taeyong although he felt it really wasn't nice.
"I don't know," Jaehyun shrugged.
"So who will be first at the slide can ride down!" shouted Taeyong sprinting through the sand.
"What!" shouted Jaehyun jumping up in the house, but Taeyong was quicker, his rain boots slipping in the wet sand but he managed to grab the ladder first, he yodeled happily climbing up ready to show that Jaehyun that he's not just some intruder but the realest explorer.
Jaehyun was smiling to his thought when he stopped moving the pen over the pages, a warmth filling his insides, ok the draft was raw, unedited, it needed so much more, but it was cute to imagine little Taeyong on his adventure.
Someone knocked, so he looked up hiding the notebook under the pillow jumping from the bed.
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