The Step Brother

Yumi stopped in her track, she looked at the icepack in her hand before she shifted her gaze to Jin who is sitting in a bench while wiping away the blood on his nose.

'Uhg, Yumi, I can't believe that you will be doing this thing for that annoying guy!' Yumi murmured inside.

'Well, you have no choice, because it was your fault!'

'If you did not punch him, he won't be bleeding right now!' The other side of Yumi's mind said.

Yumi sighs before she walks towards Jin with her heavy footsteps.

Jin is patting his nose with his hanky when Yumi gave him an icepack.

"This will help," Yumi said plainly.

Jin looked at the icepack on Yumi's hand before he looked up to Yumi, " Where did you get that?" He asked with his knitted brows.

"I bought it," Yumi replied, still in her plain expression.

Jin took the icepack from Yumi, and he then put it on his bruised face.

"You should have dodge from my attack," Yumi said as she sat beside Jin.

"I didn't expect that you'll hit me," Jin replied honestly.

"Tsss..." Yumi twitched her mouth as she rolled her eyes to Jin.

"What are you doing here anyway?" Jin couldn't help but ask after a while.

He did not expect to see the Young Miss in this kind of place.

"It's none of your business!" Yumi replied.

"Alright," Jin got up from his seat. "You better go back to your school before your bodyguards notice that you're gone," he said.

"I'm not going back to St. Lukes," Yumi said lazily.

Jin turned his head to Yumi when he heard her response, "Why?"

"Because I'm going somewhere," Yumi replied as she gets up from her seat,

"Where?" Jin asked.

"As I've said just now, it's none of your business!"

" Why are you asking too much question?!" Yumi is agitated.

"At least, I have something to say to your bodyguards if I see them at home," Jin reasoned.

"Yeah right!" Yumi said sarcastically, " Because that's what you did the last time, and because of you I got scolded this morning," She confronted Jin.

"You won't get a scolded if you did not try to escape the last night," Jin replied.

Jin's word only triggered Yumi,

"It's easy for you to say that because you don't know how I feel!" Yumi said and then she walks away.

Jin's gaze followed Yumi, 'tsk, tsk, tsk,' Jin chuckled inside, 'When will she realize that her parents are doing their best for her?'

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Yumi rode in a taxi and went to North Cemetery.

Yumi touched the name on a tombstone in front of her, "I'm sorry, I didn't bring your favorite flower," Yumi said as if she is talking to someone.

Tears started to fill her eyes, and an image of a bloody woman lying inside the bathroom flashed into her mind!

'Why do you have to do that, mom?'

'You gave up so easily,'

'Why did you choose to leave me in this lonely cruel world?'

'Why did you leave me in alone in this world that is full of traitors?'

'You're the only person I could trust, you're the only one I could run to whenever I feel alone.'

'Why mom?'

Yumi's shoulders shook as she cried so hard.

Yumi spent her entire afternoon in the cemetery, she didn't know for how long she has been sitting there. Yumi looked around her when she felt odd.

There are few people in the cemetery, but why she felt like there's a pair of eyes watching her from afar?

Yumi got up from sitting on the ground. It's already sunset and it will get dark soon, and she has to leave the cemetery before it gets dark. Her bodyguards are surely searching for her the entire afternoon.

"I have to go, mom," She said before she turned and left.

Yumi walks to the exit of the cemetery, but he brows automatically knitted when she saw her bodyguards standing outside the car.

'How did they know I am here?' Yumi asked her self.

She didn't tell anyone tho!

"Good afternoon, Young Miss," The bodyguards greeted Yumi when she approached them.

Yumi just looked at them with her confused expression, "How did you know I am here?" she asked.

The bodyguards looked at each other, but they did answer Yumi's question.

Ryan opened the car and gestured Yumi to get inside.

Yumi suddenly felt that odd feeling again, as if a pair of eyes are watching her from afar. She can't help but have goosebumps.

Yumi took a deep breath, she then hurriedly rode on the car without asking questions again.

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Shortly after Yumi's arrival, a taxi stopped in front of the Alcantara residence, Jin got out of the taxi after paying for his bill.

The taxi drove away and Jin rung the doorbell and waited for it to open.

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"Son!" Adelfa blurted out as soon as she saw her son entered the gate. She was carrying a laundry basket in her hand.

"Mom," Jin smiled and approaches his mother.

"Ohmo!" Adelfa's eyes went wide open when she saw the bruise on Jin's face.

"What happened to your face?!" She asked worriedly.

Jin froze, 'Oh! He forgot to put plaster in his face!

Jin lifted his hand and touches the bruised part of his face, "Oh!" Jin tried to think for alibi,

"Did you got into a fight?!" Adelfa asked again.

"N-No, mother!" Jin replied instantly, he doesn't want his mother to worry.

"I just bumped into something, this afternoon," He added,

"Oh!" Adelfa blurted out, she then looked around as if she is searching for something, "Where is your bicycle?" Adelfa asked with her knitted brows.

Jin froze again, "Ah, I left my bicycle at school," He said.

"Why?" Adelfa asked again.

"Uhm, I can't drive it, because it has a flat tire, but I will bring it back tomorrow, don't worry mom," Jin assured his mother.

Adelfa just sigh!

She knows she has nothing to worry about because she knows that her son is not the kind of person who would look for trouble.

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Z Grand Hotel,

Mr. Alcantara is talking to someone on the phone while pacing back and forth.

Alicia silently watches her husband and waited until he finished talking on his phone.

"Did they find her?" Alicia asked as long as Mr. Alcantara turned off the call.

"Ennn..." Mr. Alcantara nodded his head.

Alicia heaved a sigh of relief, " That's good," She said.

She then looked at her wristwatch, "It's already five pm, are you coming with me?" She asked,

"Yuhan must be waiting for us to come," she added.

Mr. Alcantara sat beside his wife, he held her hand and spoke in a low voice, "I'm sorry, honey, I can't make it today," He said.

Alicia lowered her head, "Oh," She blurted out with disappointment in her eyes.

"I have to meet an important client and..."

"It's alright," Alicia interrupted her husband.

"I'm sure Yuhan can understand," She added.

"I have to go," She said as she picks up her bag and gets up from her seat.

"I will let Vin send you to Yuhan," Mr. Alcantara said.

"Ennn..." Alicia agreed.

Alicia stopped by in a bakeshop to buy a cake before she headed to an apartment within the City.

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A five-year-old boy is sitting in front of the table full of foods.

The boy doesn't seem to be happy even though his friends came to celebrate his birthday.

"Yuhan, why you looked so lonely on your birthday?" A woman in her late twenties asked the child, but Yuhan did not reply.

"Don't worry, mommy will surely come, alright?" The woman said again, just then, the door opened and Alicia entered!

"Surprise!"

Yuhan instantly turned his head to the door, and his eyes instantly lit up when he saw his mother!

"Mommy!" Yuhan got down of his chair and ran towards his mother.

Alicia spread her arms as she kneels down to level with Yuhan.

The two of them embrace each other as if they have not seen each other for a long time.

"I thought mommy couldn't come..." Yuhan said with his teary eyes.

Alicia smiled, "Of course I will!" she said and then she touches Yuhan's little face, " How can I missed my little man's birthday?" she asked.

"Little Yuhan missed you so much, mum," Yuhan said.

"Mommy misses you too, sweetheart," Alicia said as she lightly pinched Yuhan's cheek.

Yuhan stretched his neck as he looked to the door where his mother came in,

Alicia followed her son's gaze, "Why?" She asked.

"Where is sister Yumi?" Yuhan asked.

Alicia froze and blinks her eyes a few times, she did not expect for Yuhan to ask about Yumi,

"Uh,..." Alicia pursed her lips and tried to think for an alibi.

"Sister Yumi is busy at school, so, she couldn't make it," Alicia said.

"Oh!" Yuhan blurted out in disappointment.

"How about father?" Yuhan asked again.

"Sweetheart, Daddy is also busy in the company, he can't also make it today," Alicia said.

Alicia can see the loneliness started to form on Yuhan's eyes, and it made her heart ached, Yuhan might felt unwanted by his stepfather and stepsister.

"Don't worry, sweetheart, mommy is here with you, alright?" Alicia tried to console her son.

Yuhan forced a smile on his face, "Yes!"

"I am happy with mommy!" He said.

Alicia smiled, Dimitry doesn't have a problem with Yuhan, he even planned to adopt him. He wants Yuhan to take after his last name, but they have a problem, and it is Yumi.