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Stretch Your Wings
Keeping her head down, she tugged up the scarf wrapped around her neck to hide more of her face, even though a dark curtain of her hair hid it well enough already from sideways.The train had arrived, and with shaking nerves, she quickly climbed in it. A medium sized bag hung from her shoulder. She had only taken the things which were necessary, to keep her father from suspecting her for sometime. She took a seat in the almost empty train, and felt glad that she choosed midnight to run away.
The train began moving slowly, in the direction of Seoul, and she kept glancing at the sliding doors of the train, imagining her father bursting through them and dragging her back home through her hair. She clasped her trembling hands together, reassuring herself that everything would turn out okay. Tomorrow, she would arrive in Seoul, find a place for living, find a place to make a living, and live her life happily and peacefully. She would be able to breath in fresh air whenever she wanted to, she would get to eat everyday, no one would set a certain limit to her sleeping hours or eating portions, she would listen to music all the time, she would dance, sing, laugh and cry whenever she felt like it. To sum it up: she would be free.
Free; a word that made her eyes wet with tears. An excitement bubbled up in her chest and made her heart flutter. She gazed out of the window at the blurry images and smiled grimly. I am going away, Eomma, but I will come and visit you after some time. Wish me best!
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Na Ri's excited nerves had forbidden her to sleep at all during her journey. She had never travelled alone before and now she had travelled all the way from Gyeonsung to here, all alone. Her excitement was of another level when she walked through the bustling morning streets of Seoul. Her fears vanished temporarily, and she grinned, spinning around, walking like a bird flying in air after having escaped a long period of imprisonment from a cage; fluttering its wings and cherishing the freedom. People were too busy in their world to pay any heed to her.
She bought a newspaper then headed for the nearest restaurent to eat something good and have a cup of coffee.
She ordered steak, and her mouth literally watered at its sight and enticing aroma.The only time she had meat was when she was 12, nearly 6 years ago, when her Eomma had sneaked pork ribs in. Her father was a strict vegetarian and believed that meat was bad for health.
Na Ri tried not look like someone eating steak for the first time, but she couldnt help herself and devoured the steak in 10 minutes. She craved for more, however she knew better to use money wisely. She promised herself to make lots and lots of money, and have steak every other day.
Sipping coffee at the same restaurant, she marked the places for small apartments for rent on the newspaper. She had taken enough money from her father's drawer for her to live some weeks peacefully, but she needed to find work soon, so that she could also graduate high school without worry.
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It didnt take her long to find an apartment for rent. It was small, yet it was more than enough for her; a heaven compared to the place she lived in with her father. Because this was a place where she could do whatever she wanted.
She paid the landlord rent and deposit.
Full stomach and calm nerves, Na Ri was now finally feeling the exhaustion settling in her bones, so she decided to slack today and look for jobs tomorrow. She threw away her scarf and coat, and as her head hit the soft pillow, Na Ri, for a brief moment, wondered if she were dreaming again like she had done many times, before slipping away towards actual dreams.
Making money was harder than Na Ri had expected. 4400 per hour wasn't what she had in mind. She stared at the restaurant with a "Hiring part timers" board. She had a childish urge to sit down there and cry in protest.
It took her three days to finally land two jobs that paid well. Well enough for part time jobs, Na Ri had accepted, and started working.
From morning to after noon, she delivered food from Naesang Fries and Chicken, spending her time on a scooty, in Seoul. She was not familiar with either Seoul or the scooty, but a colleague had helped her throughout her first week and she had picked it quick enough. She was nervous and a bit shy at work on her first day, but the moment she was on the road, driving the scooty with cold yet kind wind caressing her flushed cheeks and flying her hair around, her excitment from the first day had shown up again to greet her.
At night she scrubbed dishes at a Noddles Soup restaurant, which she found more tiring and boring than driving the scooty around.
Things were going well enough; almost everyone was amiable at work-- except for the manager at her night job and the flirty and annoying guy at her delivery job who was always asking for her number and had refused to believe her when she told him she didn't posses a cell phone.
Eun Bi, a short haired girl with a comical nature at work had now became a friend. Eun Bi often helped Na Ri out with things she failed to comprehend, and also helped her avoid the annoying flirtatious guy. She claimed Na Ri was too innocent to be left alone in this city.
It was also Eun Bi who introduced Na Ri to the world of dramas and movies. Having never been allowed a television, Na Ri was new to the world of dramas and movies, although Eun Bi had assumed it was because she lived in an orphanage. That was what Na Ri had told everyone, that she lived at an orphange in Gangwon after her mother passed away 6 years ago.
Leaving her home and living a normal life made Na Ri feel more than ever at how much she had missed on living. She was starting to adjust and relax in her new life.
On the days off when she was not eating or sleeping or having kdrama marathons with Eun Bi at Na Ri's place, she would put on a coat and leave her apartment, merely strolling in the streets, feeling the cold wind, which she had always loved to do, even in winter. These were very simple things, but they managed to refresh her every time.
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It was the third week of the work, and fifth delivery of the day, then she was free to go to a mobile shop afterwards to buy herself a cellphone.
The area she was supposed to deliver in was hard to find, and she was late when she reached there, having stopped a few times to ask the directions. Warm sunlight shined on her pale skin when she drove through a deserted street and made a stop in front of a wide brown door. They must have heard her scooty's noise because the door opened before she could knock.
The man grumnled about her being late, and Na Ri apologized profusely.
The man merely pressed his lips together while paying and closed the door shut afterward. Na Ri sighed with a frown; it was not like someone was going to die of hunger if she were to be a few minutes late.
She rode her scooty again and decided to drive straight instead of turning around.
Na Ri had barely made it to the corner of the street when a van overtook her, driving too close, and knocked her over suddenly.
"Ya!" Na Ri yelled from the ground, stuck under her scooty.
The van didnt stop and continued to drive around the corner indifferently, but as she pulled herself out of her scooty and stood up, pulling up her coat's sleeve and checking at her bleeding elbow with a scrunched up face and watery eyes, she heard the van's roaring engine stop abruptly nearby. Na Ri scowled and wiped at her eyes roughly to get rid of tears. That scowl deepened when she saw her scooty's side view mirror lying broken on the ground. She strode towards the corner of the street, ready to scold the van guy through anger and tears. The muffled voices came into hearing before the van -- and the people coming out of it -- came into view as she rounded the corner.
Na Ri stopped dead.
Three men, their backs turned to her, were dragging two whimpering and weakly struggling girls towards -- what she assumed was -- a club. Royal Gate sign shone in blue sparkles over the dark doors. A tall and burly man, with thick and muscular arms crossed over his chest was standing outside it. His eyes ahead on the street, in the direction opposite from Na Ri.
"Please, let go." A low mumbling plea came from a girl. Na Ri couldn't see her face because her hair covered it, though she sounded younger than Na Ri.
"Shut up! Why didn't you drug them completely?" A man snapped at another.
"He likes it more when they are awake!" He snapped back.
Na Ri gaped at the scene before her horror.
Both girls were quite young, and apparently, semi conscious.
One man suddenly slapped the mumbling girl. That smacking sound startled Na Ri, and she stepped back and hid behind the corner. Leaning back against the wall, she placed one hand on her mouth and another on her palpitating heart. After a few disturbing moments, she heard the sound of the doors opening and closing. Then it was quiet. No mumbled pleas, no smacking sounds, no whimpering. Just Na Ri and her heavy heart.
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With a shaking hand, Na Ri turned the key again in her scooty. It gave a rumbling sound and quieted down miserably.
No phone, no scooty, and no way to reach police. She didnt have the time and money to hail a cab or ask around for police station. Her mind raced and her eyes darted in the bleak street, anxiously. Surely someone in the club would notice these girls and come to their aid.
However who could be that person that not only three men were bringing girls for him, but the club was also providing him with security? If security could be provided outside the club, then it could be provided inside the club too.
Her heart sank with the realisation.
Groaning, she bent over her scooty. What could be happening inside with those girls, she shivered to imagine.
They had been too young.
She sat up straight on her scooty. She needed to do something for them. She got off her scooty, put it in stand and carefully walked over to the corner, peeking over at club doors where the bulky guard stood, now joined by another guard, just as big and broad as him. She turned away from the corner and moved away in the opposite direction. Every restaurant and hotel had more than one exit.
Na Ri managed to find the club through another alley. The alleyway behind the club was just as empty as the previous one she was in. Na Ri wondered whether the club had something to do with it. She walked around and failed to find another entrance door to the club. Something kept pinching at her disconcerted heart, and she refused to give up like this.
Later on at some point in future, Na Ri would wonder what had overcame her that day that she had turned so brave and had failed to think about consequences of her actions. She had not even been thinking. The only thing on her mind at the moment were the two half conscious young girls, trapped inside those walls.
When she rounded another corner around the club, a short wall came into view, which seemed to lead into the club. Hope lit up in her chest as she took a few steps back and stood on her tip toes to squint over it. She could faintly discern a few cans, a ladder, a few dirty barrels and a rusty colored, closed door to somewhere. However, the wall was taller than her; about 6 feet while she herself stood at 5'4. She rushed back to her broken scooty and rolled it to the wall of the club. She parked it just beside the wall.
Na Ri inhaled a deep breath and exhaled slowly to calm her galloping heart while she climbed her scooty and placed her hands firmly on top of the wall. She was excited in a frightening sense as she pushed herself up and threw one leg over the wall, then pushed herself over completely. Soon she was lying on the dusty hard concrete floor on the other side of wall, inside the boundries of the club, clutching one dully aching foot. She could feel that she had most likely scraped her knees too.
Grimacing, she pulled herself to her feet, reminding herself that she didn't have time for this.
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Hello! This is a Choi Young Do/OC fanfic. The first few chapters will not be about Young Do, but I will upload them together so that we can get over the story telling part soon. I am excited for Young Do/OC scenes too, and believe me, I will give you many cute, sweet, sad or happy scenes of Choi Young Do; the ones we were deprived of in the drama. I personally believe Choi Young Do should have been the male protagonist.
~Fawns