Yonghwa at the doctor

they waited in the waiting room

yonghwa with his headphones on listening to music from his phone his black curls were messy

and he wore a white buttoned shirt with a silk ribbon tie tucked inside a pair of skinny jeans and brand name sneakers on his feet

and a blue peacoat and a mask covered his injured face jhaesun sat beside him letting him lay his head on his shoulder

and they were ushed into a male doctors office before long

yonghwa was actually surprised the doctor seemed rather young and handsome and also

a man, he half expected some older female doctor with prim glasses and a reproachful face

that was automatically judging you from head to toe the moment you stepped into her office

"Hello good morning," the doctor said with a friendly look on his face sitting behind his desk

"Please have a seat all of you" the three sat down

"I am Doctor Douglas for adolescent youth most of my patients call me Doug I treat injuries as well as provide counseling to young patients I am a child therapist how can I help you today?"

"Hello Dr. Doug this is the first time I have come to you I am General Gregory park and this is my sixteen-year-old son Jhaesun park

and this young man with us he's fourteen years old Moon Yonghwa and he's my son's friend

he's in a bit of trouble, I am just trying to help, he also has an injury that needs looking at"

"Hello, young man are you willing to be treated by me? Dr. Doug asked

"I don't mind" he replied "I am not scared of doctors"

"alright very good then" Dr. Doug smiled "come into my office let me examine your injury and we will have a chat"

"Jhaesun and his dad may come to if you feel comfortable"

"they can come I don't mind Jhaesun is my best friend I tell him everything anyway," Yonghwa said

"very good then," Dr. Doug said smiling "come into my exam room"

they went into his inner examination room and a counseling room next door they went to the exam room first

jhaesun helped yonghwa unto the exam bed as the doctor put on gloves

and came to remove his mask and the cool packs taped to his face

"you put on medicinal ointment and used cooling packs?" Dr asked

"yes Mr sawyer put them on for me before I got on the plane" Yonghwa replied

"you traveled overnight with this injury? how long ago?" Dr asked

"it was late yesterday evening when he hit me" Yonghwa replied

"Does your neck hurt when you move it? if it feels painful it means you suffered whiplash" Dr. Doug asked gently holding his face in his hand

"a little bit it stings and aches" yonghwa replied "but I think it's from the bruise I had to sleep on my other side on the plane but it wasn't stiff or anything when I woke up"

Dr. Doug nodded "that's good so no whiplash then an adult hit you?"

"yes he's really bigger than me and his hands are large " Yonghwa replied

Dr. Doug nodded "the bruising is quite big, I can tell even the size of the hand that caused it,

"your injury is worrying for me, you see the force of the impact of the blow, could have ruptured your eardrum, you would be needing surgery if this were any closer, you got extremely lucky,

"you must have moved at the last second to avoid most of the blow, there's a chance you could have even lost your hearing in this ear, why did he hit you? I cannot imagine you could do anything that terrible that deserves you to get hit this hard?"

"It was my dad," Yonghwa admitted "he was mad because I said something rude about my stepmother"

"Why did you say something rude about your stepmother?" Dr. Doug asked lightly not pressuring him just having a conversation

his manner kept yonghwa talking comfortably Jhaesun realized he was very good at that

"I dont think it was rude it was just the truth but i said it too rudely because i was mad too," yonghwa said,

"so what did your stepmother do that made you speak about her so rudely then?" Dr asked

"she wrecked my moms things" yonghwa replied

"your mother's things?" Dr asked softly

"my mom died last year and my dad got remarried not long ago" Yonghwa explained

"I heard that woman saying nasty things about my mom gossiped about her on the phone

"she insulted my mom so i took down my moms pictures from the walls and put them in my room

"and complained about me to dad all the time even falsely accused me of stealing stuff

"she complained about my piano playing

"so my dad had sound control technology installed in my studio

"so they could mute my studio and not have to hear my playing anymore

"she gets jealous of seeing my moms things my dad hid my mom's personal things she left behind and tried to throw away her hand-sewn quilt

he stuffed it in his junk drawer until it got filled with dust and cobwebs and smelled moldy

he let his new wife thrash my moms family photo albums and he forgot my moms death anniversary its coming up in two weeks I wanted to have a memorial for her and I asked him for the quilt and the pictures,

the quilt is like an art piece that my mom and i made for dads wedding anniversary it has special messages and memories of our family stitched

into the patches, each patch has a different story and meaning she wanted dad to have a meaningful gift that would express all her feelings about our family to him and how much she loved us"

"i see so it a really special quilt," Dr. Doug said

"yes" yonghwa replied "it took weeks to stitch it all while dad was at work she had to do it

in advance, so it would ready in time for the anniversary date so she worked really hard to finish it in time"

"i looked up ways to preserve quilts online and found out you can frame them so i found an antIque place that does framing for things so i wanted to have

it framed along with some her pictures and hang them up with a memorial plaque the big frame for the quilt is real silver with flowers design and would come

with some small matching silver frames for the pictures and they could add a plaque and I could get it inscribed with a special message in memory of my mom

it only cost five hundred dollars for everything" Yonghwa finished

"It sounds like it would have been a beautiful memorial for your mother then," Dr. Doug said

"Tell me about what happened what lead up to you being hit what was the situation"

"yes" Yonghwa replied "but both of them reacted badly when I asked for the pictures and the quilt so I suspected

they had done something to my mothers things that are kept in my dads closet in his room

so i rushed up there and thats when i found my moms family photo albums had been thrashed by

my stepmother, it looked like she got mad and chucked the albums around,

the pictures and the albums everything was a mess I was so upset I decided

I wouldnt leave until I got all my mothers things back from my dad

I dont want them destroying what is left of my mothers things

I wanted them all and would take care of them they are my memories of my mom and i love her so i should have them to remember her they are all she left behind so I was upset and

we argued I might have used bad words and he hit me after that I don't know what happened I exploded lost it and started to trash his bedroom"