foster home - yoonmin [discontinued]

Sunday the 12th of October

Just to mention again, the whole story is in Jimin's perspective.

Today was the last day of juvenile detention. I spoke with my social worker, Sihyuk. He arranged a family to stay with for a couple weeks, until we found a permanent family. I have a biological little sister, Jinhyun. She is 12 years old and she still lives with our old foster family. When I got taken away I made a promise that I would come and save her. Our old home was horrible.

I was walking towards the cafeteria and everyone was looking at me. I guess they found out that I was leaving today. Some guys walked up to me with smug looks on their faces. I'm kind of scared right now, but I would never show it. One of the guys grabbed me by my collar and pushed me against the wall.

"Faggot getting out today?" I felt like crying and spitting in his face, but instead I didn't do or say anything and just looked at him.

He kicked me in the gut with his knee and screamed at me. "Answer me!" I slightly nodded my head and got punched in the face. He pushed me on the floor and all of the guys started beating me up. in my vague state of mind I could hear whistles being blown. The guys were stopped by the officers and I was taken away.

I had to go to the infirmary, I had a gigantic cut on my cheek and it needed stitching. When everything was done a guy walked in. I didn't know who it was and I felt confused. "Who the hell are you?" He looked at me. Not like he was mad, but more of an empathetic look, whatever that was for. "I'm Hyungi, I'm Sihyuk's co-worker." I nodded and he opened the door for me and we walked out.

"What will happen to Jinhyun?" He looked at me worryingly. "I don't know, I'm sorry." "I have to know!" He didn't say anything. "What will happen to Jinhyun?!" His eyes met another woman's and he held my chest. "Wait here okay?" I nodded, I didn't want to fight. When the woman saw my face she looked shocked.

When Hyungi was standing next to her it looked like they were arguing. I didn't hear everything that they were saying, but I could hear some things. "I said it before, I don't want aggressive people in my house." "I know, but he's not aggressive. It was just a onetime thing." I guess they're talking about the reason why I'm in here.

I almost killed my foster brother for what he wanted to do to my sister. He can touch me all he wants, but he has to stay away from my sister. The police came and arrested me, they took me here. I had to stay for a month and that month is now over.

I tried to hear what they were saying again, but I wasn't able to. They were not arguing anymore, so their voices were softer.

After a while both of them came to me. "Hi Jimin, I'm Jisoo." She held her hand out and I shook it, giving a slight bow. I may have a defence mechanism set up for myself, but I still have manners. We said goodbye to Hyungi and I walked with her to her car.

The car ride was pretty quiet, I didn't feel like talking and she didn't either I guess. After a while it got boring, so I decided to speak up.

"So, how long am I staying until you kick me out again?" She lightly chuckled at me. "You're staying for a month." I nodded. "What will happen after that?" She sighed. "I don't know, I'm sorry." I looked down at my legs.

"Who's Jinhyun?" I looked at her in shock. "How do you know about her?" "You said her name when you were talking with Hyungi." She sadly smiled at me. "You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to." I nodded my head and looked back to my legs. I really didn't want to talk about it. I just want to leave as quick as I can and get my sister.

"She's my sister." After a while of being in a fight with myself I decided to just speak up, maybe she can help. She looked at me in an empathetic way. "How old is she?" "She's twelve." She looked surprised. "That's young." I nodded my head. "Is she still with your old foster family?" I could tell she was nervous. She knew why I was in juvy, so I guess it's not weird that she's nervous acting questions about it. "Yes she's still with them, but I don't think that she is safe." "Why do you think that?" I sighed, I really don't want her to know, I feel ashamed. "Just because." She looked at me in disbelief. "They're not good people and I don't want anything to happen to her." She nodded and concentrated on the road.

She probably felt that I wasn't ready to talk about it and I'm not. Thinking about it already made me cry, so I don't know what talking about it would do to me. I fidgeted with my fingers until we arrived. There was a lot of tension in the car. I was on the verge of crying and I think she noticed.

We walked inside the house and I saw two kids sitting at the table. It was a boy and a girl. "Hey guys? Come say hello to Jimin." The girl stared at me, sighed and walked up to me, the boy followed. "Hi, I'm Lisa." When she introduced herself she sounded super annoyed. She just gave a small wave and walked away again. I wish I didn't care, but I did, I always do.  

"And I'm Taehyung, nice to meet you." He held out his hand and I shook it. "Sorry about my sister. She's really nice once you get to know her." If I get the chance to. "It's okay."

It actually wasn't okay. I care a lot about what people think. Even though I don't want to, I can't help it. "Who beat you up? You look horrible." I scoffed. "Thanks." He looked offended. "I'm sorry I didn't mean it like that. I just meant that the wound looks bad." I smiled at him, it was nice that he wasn't horrible. "I got beat up in juvy." "You were in juvy?!" I nodded my head and he looked at his mom, in fear.

"Don't worry I didn't kill anybody." Taehyung looked frightened at first, but when he realised I was just joking he started to lightly laugh. He still looked a bit scared though.

"Okay, let's eat shall we?" We both nodded and I followed them to the kitchen. "Tae? Can you get your sister?" He nodded and walked out of the kitchen.

When Taehyung came back his sister was with him. She looked at me with disgust and it felt like a punch in the gut. "Where's the bathroom?" "Right through the hall there." Jisoo pointed at the hall and I walked through it, to the bathroom.

I entered the bathroom and my eyes were immediately filled with tears. I started crying and I wasn't able to stop. The look Lisa gave me brought me back to my old foster home. The way that my foster father looked at me, with disgust. I quickly dried my eyes and cleaned up. I walked back to the kitchen, you couldn't even see that I cried anymore. I guess practise makes perfect.

I came back and saw them all laughing together, they're probably laughing at me. They all looked so happy together, I'm probably ruining their happiness. I awkwardly smiled at them and Jisoo and Taehyung smiled back, Lisa didn't smile back. Jisoo looked at Taehyung.

"Do you know when Yoongi and dad are coming?" He shook his head. "They'll be here any minute." Lisa sounded annoyed again, I guess she really didn't like me or maybe she's just a bitch, maybe both.

The front door opened and I looked at the entrance of the door. A middle aged man walked inside with a police uniform on. Seriously? I'm staying with a cop, this is going to be horrible. "And hello, you must be Jimin?" I nodded my head and he held his hand out. I shook it and gave a quick bow. "Nice to meet you Jimin, I'm Hyungsik." I felt kind of intimidated by him. First of all he's a cop and he's also super tall. I'm pretty short, so that makes it even more intimidating. "N-nice to meet you too." I scraped my throat and Hyungsik started laughing. "Please don't be intimidated by me, I won't hurt you." I embarrassedly laughed and saw a guy coming in the door.

He was about my age, maybe older. He smiled when he saw me. "Hi, I'm Yoongi." I shook his hand and smiled. Finally an actual nice person, even though I don't know him.

All of us were sitting at the table, having dinner. Lisa looked at me suspiciously, staring at me almost the entire time. It made me feel slightly uncomfortable and intimidated at the same time. I really don't get what her problem is. I get that I am ugly and all, but it felt like there was more behind it.

The whole time I didn't really talk much. Nobody asked me something anyway. I didn't speak the entire time, I just listened to their conversations. I found out that Yoongi is a pianist. He's very talented and plays in national competitions. He wants to go to the best music school in the country, in Seoul. I also discovered that he is 18 years old. Yoongi is the biological child of Hyungsik and Jisoo.

Taehyung and Lisa are twins and they're adopted, they are 16 years old. The last thing is that Lisa has a boyfriend named Jungkook. They're very talkative, unlike me. Even though I feel hated by Lisa, I think I'll survive here. I've had way worse than this, way worse.