Problematic Child • Chaeyoung X Reader •

17 : Warning

My cheek was heating up again due to his comment. My heart was beating faster and louder. You're making me like this again, (Y/n). How could you!!

*Ring* *Ring*

Both of us turned our head to look at the source of the sound: it was my landline.

Who is using the landline in 2019?

I walked to the phone, but it was too late. The call canceled. I looked through it and found that there were several voice messages from an unknown person. So I checked the first one, it was from my dad with his weird, unfamiliar sweet voice.

"Why don't you answer my call Chaeyoung? You should know that I love you very much. You're my precious daughter, remember that,"

Dad never speaks like that. What's wrong with him?

Then I checked the next voice mail, and it's from my mom.

"Chaeyoung, I love you so much, my dear daughter. Do you know that? I miss you and want to see you again. Call me back when you're free,"

And again, similar tone like my dad. Weird, a bit creepy, fake-ish and over the top sweet. So, I decided to check more...

(Y/n's POV)

I was eating my breakfast and listening to Chaeyoung as she slowly checked her voice mail one after the other.

It's not really important or anything. Just ordinary massages from her parents telling her that they love her.

Good for you, Chaeyoung. Good for you.

At least you're not like me.

Or maybe she is?

I carefully thought about it, piecing the evidence piece by piece in my head. Her breakdown and mumbling last night, all those time she slipped the information about her family, and lastly her tone and facial expression when she did so.

I don't want to assume it, but I can feel like she shared the same experience as me.

The same experience of the divorced child.

The same experience of the child who his/her parents abandoned them.

Nahhhh, maybe not that hash. It's just divorced.

You never know when it's gonna happen, it's just...

happen.

Never any indication nor warning, any sign nor hint. Some kids maybe not even know that their parents are going to divorce. Their dad or mom just only said "Daddy and Mommy are not going to be together anymore," or something along that line.

But trust me, not knowing about that it's good, the best thing that could have happened in fact.

Because knowing it all and even watching it falling apart is really hurt. Watching as your parents who used to love each other, arguing and screaming isn't a pleasant sight for a little kid.

Too bad I just witnessed it all.

It seemed to be just a little crack at first, small arguing like what any couple would do. Before it slowly escalated into something worse. They were trying to hide it as much as they could, but it's no use. I still know everything about it.

My thought was interrupted by a scream come out of the landline followed with a loud noise of someone falling on the floor.

I rushed out to the hallway and saw Chaeyoung sitting on the floor, holding her knee up to her chin with the voice of her mom repeated again loudly through the entire room like she was scolding anyone who was listening to it.

"Chaeyoung, trust me!! You love me, right? You prefer to stay with me more than your father, right? Don't fucking trust him. He's a piece of shit that doesn't even care about us. Yo---,"

I forced closing the voice message before it even finished. It's already enough. She's indeed shared the same experience as me. There's no doubt about that.

Maybe this is why I felt comfortable around her.

We are one of the same.

I held her close to me as her tear was slowly soaked my shirt. The sound of her sobbing was starting to become louder as time goes by. She then said through her weeping. "(Y/n), I don't know anymore. I can't run away from it. I tried, but it never works,"

I didn't say anything but holding her tightly in my arm. She can cry as much as she wants, I will always there for her.

Slowly but surely, her meltdown was starting to take a toll on her as she was drifting away to her dreamland. Now she was sleeping peacefully on my lap.

Don't worry, my smol cub.

I'm not going to let you suffer the same experience that I did.

I'm not going to leave you.

I will always be right by your side.

We will get through this together.

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[A/N]

Thank you for 4k.

It's actually feel like a few week ago since I got 3k.

I feel like this book is getting more and more niche as the time goes by.

I hope that you guys still like it though.

Even though, I'm on school break right now, I'm still lazy as hell.

Trying to write multiple storys as the same time is hard, but don't worry I will finish this book for sure.

Thx for reading!! :)