Chapter 15; Meet The Out-Laws

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"Are you sure you want to do this sunbae?" I asked him with a soft voice.

"Of course!" He exclaimed excitedly.

"Let me rephrase my question. Are you sure you want to meet my parents and tell them that you have impregnated their precious daughter and want to ask their permission to let their precious daughter to live with you without marry to her?" I looked straight into his eyes while raising my eyebrows.

I saw him open his mouth and close it and then open it again as if he wanted to answer my question but he just let out a long sighed. "Well we almost there and I don't want to back off now." His voice almost inaudible to hear and he loosen his tie a little bit to relax from the tight knot.

I don't know why I agreed to him when he wanted to accompany me to tell my parents about the news. Maybe because I'm scared to face them alone and maybe because the dark side of me wanted to see him getting punished by someone that related to me, hopefully my father.

"How's your father?" I was startled by his sudden question. How he knew that I was thinking about my father?

"W-what do you mean?"

"Is he … a hot-tempered person?"

"Why, are you chickening now?" I let out a small chuckled as my teased made his face redden like a tomato.

"No! I'm not. I just want to be prepared for anything."

I continued to laugh at his adorable face. "My father never lifted his finger at me." I managed to answer after I stopped laughing. . "He would scolded me when I did something wrong but never resorted to anything physical. He's very patient and kind, unlike my mother."

"Your mother?"

I nodded eagerly while pursing my lips. "My mother is a moody woman. When she in a good mood, she will be very forgivable and understandable. But when she in a bad mood, then it is preferable to stay away from her or you will get hurt physically and emotionally if you done something to ignite her anger."

"Wow, your mother is so scary."

"Yes she is but at least I know the limit of her scariness. On the other hand, my father never showed his anger before so it's hard to predict what he can do if he's angry. Don't let your guard down sunbae; remember it is the calm and silent water that drowns a man."

When we reached my house, my parents initially welcome us with opened arms. We both knelt down in front of them in the living room and sunbae offered himself to do the talk. As soon as he finished talking, I saw my father's eyes looking painfully at me while my mother already weeping silently. I tried to hold my tears too but their disappointed face was enough to make my tears poured out uncontrollably. My father stood up abruptly and in the blink of eye his fist already landed on Yi Jeong-sunbae's face.

I knew physically sunbae had way much advantage compared to my father and he can easily avoided all the punches if he wanted to. But he chose to lay there and accepted the punishment willingly. My father seemed to lose his mind and neither me nor my mother were braved enough to bring his mind back. Somehow, part of me felt satisfied watching him getting the punches from my father. I knew it was wrong to feel like that but the voices inside my head always said that sunbae deserved that.

My father getting more violent when he grabbed the nearest broom because his hands started to ache from the constant punching of the well builds muscle man. He started to beat Yi Jeong-sunbae with the broom while cursing him for destroying me. My mother embraced me in her arms and we started to cry together.

"My poor daughter, what will happen to your future? Why it must happen to you? Why you must involve yourself with that jerk?" I heard my mother murmured in between her sobbed while caressing my back. I thought that she would be mad at me but her concerning tone touched my heart deeply and made me burst out all my sadness into her chest. I don't want to hold it anymore and pretended to be stronger.

"I'm sorry omma. I'm so sorry. I have ruined all your expectation for me. I'm a bad daughter and I ashamed to admit that I'm your daughter." I cried so hard until it hardly for me to speak in between my sobbed and hiccup.

Finally my father stopped when he heard his precious women cried agonisingly. He fell on the floor, exhausted and trying to catch his breath. Then he realised the damage that he had done to Yi Jeong-sunbae.

"We better bring you to the hospital." He said softly while helping Yi jeong-sunbae to sit up.

"I... I'm okay Mr Chu. No need to send me to the hospital." Yi Jeong-sunbae tried to look okay and grinning at my father only to show his set of white teeth that stained with the red blood. He winced at the pained that caused by the movement of his facial muscle on his already swollen face. "On second thought, maybe I need some aspirin from the hospital."

He went through thorough check-ups in the hospital and I'm not surprise when the doctors even asked him to do a whole body MRI scanning. So much for a Korean heartthrob. What the hell of the doctors thinking? That he would get a brain damaged from my father's punches? For goodness sake, not a single bone was fractured from that ordeal!

We went back to my parent's house and I warned him not to talk a single word because the last time he talked, he ended up inside the MRI machine.

"Appa, omma. I know I'm completely a disappointment to you. You raised me to be a respectable lady that will honour our family's name. Instead, I became a disgrace to our family. I know nothing I can do to redo my previous action so now I just want to think about the future."

"By living with the man that did not want to be responsible to you! Is that the future that you're talking about?"

"Appa .."

"Chu Ga Eul! I'm still strong enough to work and feed both of you and your child. I'm willing to accept both of you, so come live with us and leave that jerk now!"

I can feel that sunbae's body beside me became tense at my father outburst. I looked at him and I saw his worried face staring flatly at me. There was something in his eyes that I'm afraid to admit. Afraid because I'm not sure whether it was true or not. His eyes seemed to beg me to not leave him and his eyes telling me to stay with him. As always, I chose to think positively and trust my analysis.

"But I want my child to have a father." I told my father one of my reasons to stay with sunbae.

"And what about you?"

'I want to live with the love of my life too.' But that thought left hanging inside my mind. I can't answer my father's question loudly so I chose to keep silent. Then I heard my father let out a long defeated sighed.

"Ga Eul-ah, you know that your father and I will always love you no matter what happen to you. So come back with us okay baby." My mother took her turned to persuade me.

"I can't omma." I answered her softly. 'And I don't want to.' I added in my thought.

"I promise Mr and Mrs Chu, I will take a very good care of your daughter." I immediately turned my face sideway and glared at Yi Jeong-sunbae because he refused to listen to my warning. I've warned him not to speak a single word. But my glared became softer when I saw his determining face to convince my parents. "I know I'm not a good person. I know that I bring nothing but hurt to her. But for this once, please allow me to take care of your daughter."

My parents looked at each other after hearing sunbae's words and my father asked me the final question. "Are you sure you will be happy with him?"

I realised that all eyes were focusing on me to hear my answer. I took a deep breath and turned my face to look straight at Yi Jeong-sunbae's black orbs. "I'll definitely be happy with him." I said it confidently and added more in my thought. 'Because I love him so much that I'm willing to sacrifice anything just to be with him.'

Sacrifice anything? What a selfish thought I had at that time, but nobody knew what will happen in the future. That including me...