I'm Not Cold; Just Scared

~~\(T_T) Chapter 43 (T_T)/~~ <Out of the ordinary>

Yo

The different times everything in this chapter takes place is making my head spin-

I wrote this chapter while listening to eight by iu and suga on loop because the vibe of the song kinda suits the feelings I wanna convey in this chapter? Idk what I'm saying anymore.

Also, a lot of y'all don't know the problem with Mrs. Bae, so I'll clarify things here.

sadist/ˈseɪdɪst/nounnoun: sadist; plural noun: sadists

a person who derives pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from inflicting pain or humiliation on others.

Now obviously, she wouldn't try and take 'sexual pleasure' from Jinyoung coz...that's her fucking son? But she's, to put it down simply, crazy.

Okay? Okay.

On to the story:

Jindo - 7.00AM

Mrs. Bae walked downstairs after getting ready, expecting to see Jinyoung there, all dressed in uniform. To her surprise, he wasn't.

"Did he oversleep or something? Aish, Dahyun would be coming to pick him up anytime soon" she muttered to herself, annoyed. She made her way to Jinyoung's room.

"Jinyoungie? Wake up, you're late for school" she called, knocking on his door. Upon hearing no response, she frowned before trying to open the door. Surprisingly the door wasn't locked; which was weird because Jinyoung always locked the door.

"Jinyoung-" she stopped abruptly when she realized that the room was empty. 

Why isn't he here? Did he-

No, he can't have! 

Dismissing the idea of Jinyoung having eloped out of her mind, she checked the bathroom as well, only to see it empty. She started panicking as ideas flew into her mind all at once.

Did he escape to Seoul? To meet that boy? He never learns does he? If he has....then I'll have to do something to get him back, I need to get him married to Dahyun, she has a good family background, it's good for our reputation. Having a gay son? If he really has gone back to that boy, then I'll have to hurt him and that boy to get him to come back.

She went downstairs, to meet her husband. Mr. Bae looked surprised to see her in a frenzied state. "What's the matter?"

"Jinyoung has escaped. That little bitch...I'm going to get him back somehow, he can't be with that boy" She ranted, looking crazy.

"We don't even know if he's gone back to Seoul" Mr. Bae retorted, although he had known what Jinyoung's plans were. Jinyoung hadn't told him anything but he had seen the boy leave the house with his own eyes. He hadn't been asleep when Jinyoung whispered 'I'm sorry' outside his door before leaving.

He hadn't objected to Jinyoung eloping because he knew how much his son had suffered during the past year. The least he could do as his parent was to let him go and be happy, right?

Obviously his wife wouldn't do that.

"Oh yes he has, where else would he go? That crazy fucker, blindly going behind someone, believing it to be love. I'm going to go to Seoul and drag him back"

It was all happening again, what had happened an year ago. The way Mrs. Bae was so determined to get Jinyoung back disgusted her husband.

He hadn't had a happy life at all, the only thing he wanted was his son to have one. Mrs. Bae was trying to subject Jinyoung to the same life he had been forced into years before.