KISS NOTE
FOUR: Part Two

- Jinwoo

This morning I called Taehyun, Mino and Seunghoon to ask Seungyoon for help with hypnotherapy. I don't have Seungyoon's permission, but I can't wait for Seungyoon to say it himself. Unfortunately Seunghoon could not join because he had to attend an important meeting in his office.

Mino and Taehyun arrived first, I told them the instructions I was going to tell Seungyoon and how they avoided him from being hypnotized later. With their high level of intelligence, it was easy for them to understand my tips.

“But hyung, what are you doing this for?” ask Mino.

“Try starting to care around you, Mino. Too much focus on Aeri makes you insensitive around. Seungyoon is hiding a burden that he keeps secret, I think that burden is too big to bear alone.” I explained. Mino was silent as if he was correcting his mistake all along. I turned my eyes to Taehyun.

“Wae? I didn't ask.” The cleblos. Again, this child makes me who was going to lecture him even giggled at his innocence.

Before long, the sound of the door facing the open swimming pool sounded. I was sure Seungyoon was coming so I immediately turned on the chamomile candle I had prepared so that the smell could be immediately smelled by Seungyoon as soon as he approached this room.

“Hyung!” sweep it when you enter. I don't think he's suspicious.

“You've arrived?” my reply.

“Am I late?” He asked because he saw Mino and Taehyun already present.

“You were so long, hyung. I'm getting sleepy.” Taehyun yawned and acted as if sulking.

“Seungyoon-ah.” call me.

Seungyoon ignored my call, he continued walking towards a jaccuzi in the corner and started lowering his feet into the jaccuzi. He started not focusing. I approached her and patted her on the shoulder.

“Choi Seungyoon, do you know what this scent is?” my many.

“Chamomile.” He answered while continuing to breathe in the aroma.

Smart kid, chamomile is indeed the scent of candles that I specially prepared to hypnotize you. I'm gonna start it all now.

“You should just listen to my voice and ignore the other voices. I'll blow out the candle and when I light it again you can smell the scent again. Once you smell it again you will answer my question honestly without exception. You understand right?” my instructions.

Seungyoon did not reply, but nodded while still playing his feet inside the jaccuzi. Cut out the candles and when the chamomile scent starts to disappear, “Where is Seunghoon? Ah, he didn't come because he was in a meeting. I forgot.”

I rekindled the chamomile candle, while I looked at Mino and Taehyun who looked confused.

“Choi Seungyoon.” Call me slowly.

“Yes, hyung?” saith. A sign that he is starting to get hypnotized.

“What are you hiding from me?” I immediately threw in the core question without further ado, Seungyoon is a smart kid. Getting him to answer a pleasantry question would only restore his consciousness faster.

“There, hyung.” answer.

Me, right?! I looked at Taehyun and Mino, there was an interest in listening further to the secret Seungyoon was hiding. Without asking, the two of them had already come closer to me and Taehyun.

“About what? Do you want to tell me? ask again.

“About my family secrets.” Seungyoon replied lightly. The waves of water he made would only hypnotize him deeper and deeper.

“So, does this have anything to do with your hatred of your family?” Actually I was just trying to relate to it, but Seungyoon easily agreed to my question.

“Not because of a misunderstanding when president Choi helped my father cheat as a child?” ask again. Seungyoon shook his head.

Wasn't he? Then what about?

Wasn't he angry that it was President Choi who allowed my father to use their family's apartment to have an affair with another woman? Seungyoon saw President Choi give the keys to my father's apartment, so he thought it was President Choi who introduced a cheap woman to my father.

“I know that president Lee entered the hospital after being hit by my father because president Lee used my father, but my anger is not about that, hyung.” Seungyoon explained to us that the three of us did not let go of our views on him.

“Then because—“ Mino stopped continuing his sentence. I close my index finger to my lips to ask him to be quiet, his voice can restore Seungyoon's consciousness.

“Then why are you so mad at your family?” my continue.

“It's because..”

* * *

The Choi family residence.

“No, eonnie, she doesn't know yet.” Jang Sohee answers a caller she calls eonnie while her husband president Choi is reading business news through an iPad.

“Do I need to repeat my vows?” sohee asked who made President Choi turn a moment to her and then back to her activities.

“Good. I, Jang Sohee, swore to death that I would never tell Jiho if he wasn't my real son. I will not discriminate with my own son and consider Kim Jiho as Choi Jiho. Eonnie heard it, right? Can you calm down now?” Sohee repeated the vow she gave first in earnest but Jiho already heard it very clearly from behind the door of the family room which was not closed at the time.

* * *

- Jinwoo

“Choi Jiho is not your sibling? She's not a Choi?” I confirmed what we just heard from Seungyoon. Not only am I surprised, Mino and Taehyun are also surprised to get this fact.

“But, if he is the son of your aunt. That is, he is still Jang's descendant. Right?” I asked to confirm the connection.

“Not.” His face clearly showed disappointment.

“Aunt Jihyun is adopted boy grandfather.” He lowered his face, hiding the sadness from me. Saving all of his hyung for a few years just so that his beloved hyung is not hurt, pity it. Choi Seungyoon, you really are…

* * *

“So I'm someone else in this family?” Jiho asked after hearing President Choi's explanation of who he was.

“Choi Jiho..” Sohee is already teary-eyed when calling Jiho's name in full.

“Choi? You said yourself that my family name is not Choi but you called me Choi Jiho?!” Jiho is too emotional, his feelings are shattered to find this reality.

“Who is Kim? Where's mom?” continues asking.

* * *

- Jinwoo

“His mother is in jail.” Seungyoon. My eyes widened, I looked at Mino and Taehyun who were no less surprised.

“Aunt Jihyun was imprisoned for putting a bomb on my mother's body when she kidnapped her to cancel her mother's arranged marriage to Jiho hyung's father.” one by one Seungyoon open the veil of truth that he swallowed himself to burden him.

“Bibi was sentenced to life in prison for premeditated murder with a bomb.” Continues.

Problems as big and complicated as this is kept by himself, sometimes I ask what he is made of so as to be able to save everything himself. True, he said, this secret can not be told to others because it will only be the months of the media.

“I can't say it because Jiho hyung will definitely be disappointed and leave our house. He has no one but us. I had no other choice but to hide it for myself.” the stuffing began to sound.

“I don't understand why this has become so difficult for my parents to do. I don't know what they are considering until they refuse to say it to hyung.”.

I don't think there's anything else to know. Mino and Taehyun agreed to finish it. I light the candle and blow it back, suggesting that he regain consciousness.

“Hyung, why did you ask for the scent earlier?” Seungyoon's consciousness is back and the last thing he remembers is the scent of the candle I asked him about.

“That's because Mino and Taehyun couldn't answer.” I smiled at Seungyoon.

“You look tired, Seungyoon-ah.” greet Mino.

“Lumayan. I met my fans yesterday. Once in a while you have to look at me, you will hear my name hailed by them.” cocky Seungyoon, making me smile and two others sneer. How great he is to act.

“Ah, why did you send me here earlier, hyung? Did you guys plot a conspiracy when Seunghoon wasn't around?” look at it with a naughty smile.

“You get along too often with people from entertainment agencies.” Ceplos Taehyun's.

“Hahaha... Alright, if there's nothing I'll go home. Jiho hyung waiting for me.” Seungyoon took his foot out of the Jacuzzi and stood walking past me, Mino and Taehyun then disappeared behind the door.

* * *

“Hyung!” Call Seungyoon when you see Jiho get out of his car. He soon follows Jiho into the house. Looking for the figure of Jiho.

When Seungyoon found her, Jiho was walking towards her with a serious face. Seungyoon's smile at seeing Jiho instantly disappears as Jiho draws closer to him.

“Since when did you know?” Ask Jiho without further ado. He cornered Seungyoon to the wall. There was anger in her eyes towards Seungyoon.

Seungyoon was surprised by Jiho's attitude, he almost never saw Jiho behave like this in front of him, “a-what do you mean, hyung? I don't understand.”

“I don't care if they are lying to me, but. How can you make me look stupid thinking everything is mine. You let me down, Choi Seungyoon.” Jiho growled at Seungyoon.

Seungyoon was stunned, now he understood the direction of Jiho's conversation.

“Hyung...” call him slowly.

“I'm not hyungmu.” Jiho steps down and leaves Seungyoon. He walked to the door and came out. Seungyoon followed him soon.

Jiho gets into the car, making Seungyoon run to try to stop him. The car door was half open. Seungyoon looked sadly at Jiho who did not take his eyes off to look at Seungyoon.

“Where are you going, hyung? You can't leave home angry like this.”

Jiho smiled cynically, “home? This is not even my home.”

Jiho pulls the car door rough, closes it and presses the gas pedal of the car and the car has disappeared behind a sturdy fence wall that blocks Seungyoon's view. Instantly his chest felt tight. Seungyoon walked violently into the house, he closed the door tightly and started looking for where his parents were. Seungyoon finds his parents in his father's office.

“What happened? Why did you know?” Ask.

“Jiho heard your mother's talk with aunt Jihyun.” Chairman Choi still hugged Sohee who was still sobbing crying.

Seungyoon clenched his hands together, feeling his anger mounting, “ I've told you to tell him before hyung knows himself but you guys ignored my advice. Now that hyung already knows, do you know how much his sadness and disappointment are to you? Even more he knows I know it, I can't imagine it.”

“Pardon mom, Seungyoon-ah.” Sohee spoke softly between her jokes.

“WHAT ARE YOU SORRY FOR ME? HYUNG IS MORE HURT THAN ME. LIFE IS ABUNDANT OF TREASURES BUT FULL OF DRAMA, BEING AN ARTIST IS STILL BETTER THAN BEING PART OF THIS FAMILY!” Seungyoon's voice rising –more sounded like screaming-making both his parents stare in surprise at Seungyoon's behavior.

“I can't even be grateful to be born in this family.” he continued before he left the room to the main door and drove out onto the street in his sports car.

The two children of the Choi family were at the peak of his anger. Sohee and president Choi could only regret everything that happened. Wonder what they should have done, but wondering will not change anything because regret always comes too late.