BAEKHYUN'S POV

"Where did you get the balls to show your face in my house?!" I still haven't recovered from the punch that my father gave me when he aimed another one. 

Baekha stood in front of me to stop my dad and thankfully, he did. His fist hanging in the air.

"Step away." 

"No. Appa, don't do this to him!" 

"Step away or you'll say babye to your boyfriend!" 

It was all she had to hear to make her go back to where she was standing earlier. Great! Now my sister just bailed at me. When did she ever get a boyfriend? I glared at her who couldn't even raise her head up. I thought we're in this together and now she's turned into a puppy.

"Do you know what you've done?" 

My father gritted his teeth as he walks slowly towards my direction, scowling at me. I didn't back away. There's no point in doing that anyway. He pointed his finger at my chest, his lips shaking in anger, trying to contain himself.

"You insulted me. You insulted your mother and our family."

"You insulted ME!" I countered and earned a slap on my face so hard that I could feel my lips drip blood. 

"Don't spat back or you'll never see light again."

"You never even listened to me. I don't care if I won't see light again because you never showed me! I'm glad that I did something against your will!" And another slap. 

"This boy doesn't know what he's saying!"

"Oh, I'm a man. Are you?"

"WHAT?!" He was about to throw another punch but my mother pulled him back.

"Baekhyun, stop talking to your father like that!"

"Then he should at least treat me like a son!" I heard my father scoff at my words and looked at me as if I am not aware of the words coming out of my mouth.

Ever since we were little, I never got to decide on my own. It always has to revolve around the greater good that my life could bring to my dad. Even my decision to be an idol had to pass through a lot of circumstances from him. 

He only approved of it when SME made me debut with EXO. And while our popularity is rising, his sales are also coming up in his company. You see, everything should be pleasing to make him look nice.

"Because of you, our family's in danger. Because of you, I'm getting death threats and you don't even know that! Because guess what? YOU'RE A MAN!"

I was taken aback by what he said. Death threats? When did this ever happen?

"See? You don't know a thing about what really is happening around here." He released an unbelievable sigh as he raises his hand in defeat. My mother looked at him in confusion.

"What are you saying? Since when have you received threats? Who's giving you—"

"I guess my mother also doesn't know a thing about what really is happening around here." I plastered a smirk causing them to give daggers at me. 

"Come on, can we talk about that later?" Baekha tried to change the subject and guessing from her reaction, she also knows what my father's talking about. 

"No, we will talk about this right now." No one couldn't stop my mother from saying the last word. 

Aish, this is gonna be a long night. 

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SAEMI'S POV

"Saemi-ya, let's go!" Juda called from her car that is parked in front of my apartment. I was still looking at a certain car parked just across this street. It looks exactly like Baekhyun's car. 

My brows twitched as I try to go near it but it suddenly started and drove off. What was that?

"Come on, Jaehyun and Dongyoon are waiting!" 

Still puzzled, I got inside Juda's car and she drove to our meeting place. 

When we arrived at Jaehyun's place, we were welcomed by a burning smell. My mouth agape and we hurriedly went inside the house to check what was happening. 

"Guys? Where are you?" My voice boomed the whole living room once we entered. 

"In the kitchen!" A distant voice replied and so Juda and I went to where they were and found a pot on the stove that's already brown. 

"What the heck?" Juda gave them a weird look and checked the stove if it's still turned on. 

I turned to look at Jaehyun who's scratching the back of his neck and gave me a timid smile.

"I don't have anything to do with that!" Dongyoon raised both of his hands and pointed Jaehyun. I could only shake my head in disbelief of the disaster they have made. 

"What were you cooking?"

"I was just gonna cook rice but we were playing and I forgot to turn it off." Jaehyun explained, now sitting on the table. 

"Don't you have a rice cooker?" Juda asked as she puts the pot in the sink, causing it to smoke. Jaehyun pursed his lips into a thin line and shook his head.

"Let's just call for a delivery." Dongyoon pulled out his phone from his pocket and I couldn't agree less. 

We all went to the living room and decided to watch movies while we wait for the food to arrive. Juda was sitting on the single sofa while I'm lying on the long sofa. The boys are both on the floor surrounded by pillows. Jaehyun's resting his face on the arm propped on the pillow while Dongyoon's legs crossed.

"Good thing you've thought of coming back home." Juda commented. I nodded my head in agreement. 

"I just finished my work there so I'm finally home." Jaehyun replied.

"What's your work again? I forgot." I asked.

"Secret." He looked at me and gave me a wink making my brows furrow. Suddenly, my phone rang. I took my phone from beside me and saw Min Hyung's name plastered on the screen. 

"Yeoboseyo?"

"Noona, where are you?"

"I'm at Jaehyun's house. Why?"

"I'm coming over."

And the line went dead. It took him less than an hour to arrive just right after our food came. 

"Hyung!" He went in and directly went to Jaehyun whose eyes widen in shock. 

"Min Hyung?" 

"You're finally here!"

"Yeah. I'm here now, buddy."

"Min Hyung-a, come on. Let's eat!" I pulled him away from Jaehyun and gave him a slice of pizza.

"Yah! Why are you removing the pineapple from the pizza?" Dongyoon weirdly looked at Jaehyun. 

"None of your business." 

"Why so cold, bro?" Dongyoon pouted. 

"Tsk."

"Noona, clear your schedule tomorrow." I took another bite from my Hawaiian pizza and looked at my brother with eyebrows furrowed.

"Why?"

"We have to go somewhere very important.."

"Where?" 

"Secret."