Chapter 11: Kang Da-In

"Orobani...I..." "what are you doing here Da-In?" He asked me rather menacingly. I thought I had already taken all the surprises I could for one day but the way he was looking at me and talking to me...he might as well have slapped me in the face. It was like he had turned into a totally different person from the happy smiling man to a monster full of hate. I had to look down to hide my tears that were spilling out of my control. "I...I got you...something" "listen to me and listen to me well. I never get a chance to spend any time with this girl, my father is forever hovering around us. So do me a favour and go home little girl" he stood up to go god know's where but I couldn't take the disappointment of today anymore than I already had to "little girl? She's 3-4 years younger than you! She's the little girl here!" He slammed his new gift on the table so hard that I couldn't help but wince. "What she is, is absolutely no business of yours. She maybe young in age but she's more mature than most of you noble women are able to think. In fact...I do not need to explain myself to you. I know what your intentions have been towards the whole time and I couldn't be less interested. Now go away" he walked away before I had a chance to say anything.

It wasn't long before I was seeing red and before I knew it I picked up my prize ready to find that bitch and kill her, I swear I was going to do it. Soon enough I had her in my sights as I ran over to her...only to trip up on the plants that I didn't see lying on the floor and my rare glazed animal had smashed into pieces, missing her by inches. "You...you broke my coloured glaze!" I wailed in despair as I looked at the pieces of glass that were shattered into pieces. "Do you have any idea how precious it is?!" But that bitch...she just looked at me unfazed "how did I break it? I didn't even touch you?" She dared...she actually dared to contradict me. "This path is long and wide, how did you manage to break it near me?" "What's happened now?" I could hear his distasteful sigh from around the corner. "Look how she's bullying me and being is unreasonable. She destroyed my glaze, you know how much that's worth." The both had the nerve to roll their eyes at me! This girl didn't even know me at all! "That glaze was indeed rare, but I know where to get it from; my father has one. I'll compensate you for it" compensate me? Me? I was the one who bought it for him! That piece was worth more than the poor houses in this village all together! "Will that be alright? You should really look where you're going though when you're carrying such a precious item. It's getting late now, you should go home" he managed to maintain his composure in front of her but I heard the disdain in his voice for me that I have never heard form him before. He was always so...respectable. Now he was acting like a child throwing a tantrum when someone took his toy away from him. "Yeon, come to my study I want your opinion on something" "no! I want to come as well!" "You don't know anything about the military, your father is a royal advisor in philosophy. Haven't you always complained that it was boring anyways?" "And she know's anything about it?" I felt like a victim, he wasn't even giving me a chance to tell him about the long hours I spent studying just to impress him "she knows enough" he grabbed her by the arm before she could say anything and practically dragged her away from me. Once again I was defeated by their presence as I had no choice but to go home...and pray to Buddha that this entire day was a nothing more than a nightmare....until I found someone to unleash my anger upon.

"Well well, if it isn't the Nam's favourite maid" I used my usual line that often set her off. "Well well if it isn't Young Master's delusional wife" she retorted...a little too aggressively for my liking. "So you're back again? Didn't he already tell you to leave? A couple of times already?" "I'm still going to wait for him no matter what he says." Then you'll have a long wait. You've been gone for years, and everything's changed now since that little cow showed up. she's the only one he'll talk to. By his order" I slapped her in retaliation "who the hell are you talking to like that? As if that retarded commoner is any better than I am! She's...she's not even pretty at all! She's s fat I'm surprised she doesn't break every seat she sits on! He wasn't even that close to her before she moved here!" In hindsight; I should have taken note of how I was treating...my cousin. But when the subject of Seon-Ho...I was always blinded in my own infatuation. "Fat? Have you gone mad? She's the skinniest one in the mansion" my cousin suddenly found the nerve to answer back to me, forgetting her place as usual. "We grew up together....I have no idea why he's acting so weird today but he would never scold me over a lowlife like her" "I'm telling you, she's bewitched him or something. He actually liked someone else for a while, he even did the tea ceremony for her, but now...actually since her first day here he's...changed. He's different when she's here. He's even avoiding you in case you haven't noticed" I felt my heart drop to my knees. Did I really loose my first love to a commoner?

I grabbed her by her collar and pulled her in so close to myself our noses were practically touching "listen to me you little slut! If you want to crawl up the social ladder then go to the gibangs like you're whore of a mother. In fact, take anyone in the neighbourhood, province, nation I don't care. But you had better keep your hands and eyes off of my Seon-Ho! I knew him long before you were dragged here to survive remember? My father was the one who got you this job! We do not want anything to do with you; just know your place. There's only 1 thing you can do to repay my family, keeping me updated on Seon-Ho for MYSELF not for you!" I had her trembling in my grip so badly she dropped a very expensive octopus all over my new outfit! I squealed and screamed so loudly that I took the nearest longest object I could and I started beating her with it until I saw blood.

What a time for that low class bitch to walk in...and scream at the sight of us both, like she had never seen a lifeless body before, the way she lived before coming here. But before I could start on that bitch Seon-Ho ran to us so quickly he was with us in only a few seconds even though I knew for a fact he was all the way on the other side of the mansion. I heard him shouting and all of a sudden I felt giddy...knowing that he was running around just for me..."Yeon! Yeonnie! Yeon...what happened? Are you ok? Did yo have another fit?" I felt the object slip from my hand and shatter on the floor as I saw him loo at her with such concern, such panic, such....such affection and attentiveness that I wanted to rip her from his grip and pull all of her hair out...the one feature of her that was better than mine. "Oraboni!" She gasped as she forgot herself and...and had the god-damned nerve to bury herself him and grabbed onto him by the waist as he looked upon the bloody scene in the kitchen with a callous look at anyone who dared to get the smallest reaction out of his precious retard.