Dream || Jin

01 - Wretched

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"Do you like the small or the big star?"

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"Mother, why can't I step into the house?" a little boy asks his mother out of curiosity.

"My sweet child, are you sad about it?" she says in her comforting tone, looking at her only child.

Truthfully, she did feel sorry for her child.

"It's just, I'm curious of what is inside the house" the child replies.

She remains silent, carding her fingers through her son's hair. The child looks into her eyes, waiting for her to reply but she didn't know how to explain anything to him.

"I saw him-" the child says while still looking at her eyes.

"You met him? Did he do anything to you?" she asks, slightly worried.

"No, he didn't. He just walked away" he replies.

The mother sighs in relief at that.

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"Wake up, honey" the mother says to her son.

"I don't want to go." he replies.

"Are you scared, my little boy?" she smiles while asking.

"I'm not scared, they make me feel suffocated" he says.

"But you promised me, don't you remember?" she asks while ruffling his hair.

He did promise her. With his little hands, he pushes himself from the bed to prepare himself. It was windy and surely will rain sometime later that day. Both the mother and her son, bundle up while walking together to somewhere.

If anyone was to ask him about his day, the answer is, it's suffocated. By the time both him and his mother came back to their house, as usual he is out cold sleeping while the mother is working.

When he woke up, of course after sometime doing something in the house, he went outside to play by himself like he always did. There is no one around his age there.

Just him playing alone by himself at the back of his house while his mother does something in the big house that he can't enter.

Being a child himself, of course there is so much curiosity that hits him. Once, he sneaked into the house just to see what it looks like. The house is big, so much bigger than the house he stayed with his mother at the back.

It is full of luxurious things and of course he was caught by one of the maids there. With so much charm in him, he pleaded the maid to keep her mouth shut and she surprisingly did that.

Until today, not even his mother nor the owner of the house knew about him sneaking into the house.

While he was playing alone, the sky started to cry a little. So he stopped playing and was about to go back into his house when his eyes caught a view.

The man, the owner of the house and his mother were talking together.

He is not stupid, he knows that the conversation between the two is not nice especially when he saw his mother's expression.

She was crying while talking about something. And the man? He did not like the man.

"What are you doing to my mother!" he shouts at the man, standing in front of his mother.

"Jin my baby, please go inside the house" his mother says softly to him.

Of course Jin is stubborn. A seven year old kid does know how to be stubborn. While his mother is pushing him away, the man still talks about something which he didn't understand.