Kai's Cinderella

Kwan’s POV I wake up with my sister’s necklace into my hands.
I hold it up in the light and smile remembering when I was a small baby the only memory that I have of my mother.
Flashback I’m only 3 years old maybe and my mother is holding me while she tucks Hwa Young and me into bed.
We’re sharing a room because my dad was having my room fixed.
Hwa Young reaches out and grabs our mother’s necklace.
“Mommy, can I have your necklace?”
I know that my mother was sick around this time only cause I know she spent a year from when i was small in the hospital.
She shakes her head, “No, sweetie I got this necklace from my mother and father when they still owned a jewelry shop. So I keep a memento of the most precious things too me in the world close to my heart.”
She opens the necklace and there’s a picture of us with her and father.
I laughed as I reach out and hold the locket in my chubby hands.
Hwa Young rolls over and asks, “When I get older can I have the necklace?”
Our mother tapped her chin as she ‘thought’ and nodded her head, “Of course as long as you grow up into a strong older sister too protect your baby brother.”
Hwa Young leaned forward and kissed mother’s forehead, “I’ll protect Kwan no matter what.”
Our mother laughed as she took her necklace away me carefully and pulled out one of our favorite stories to read to us that night.
End of Flashback I open try to open the necklace, but it won’t open. I sigh as I try to open it again and it still won’t open.
I sigh as Kai walks into my room and sits on my bed, “Whose necklace is that?”
“Why do you want to know?”
“I want to find my Cinderella.”
“Your what?” I ask purely confused…
Why would his… Cinderella have mother’s necklace… Noona’s necklace?
“I met a girl while she was dancing and she has stolen my heart.”
Wait, is he the 1 that the guys told me that calls my noona his Mysterious Cinderella?
Oh well?
“What about my sister?”
“What do you mean?” he asks sounding purely confused by all of this.
“Don't you like her?”
I watch his face change to confused like my sister told me when I was a kid, “What are you talking about?”
I chuckle as I think of when I woke up and I told them that my sister was like Cinderella.
If only you knew who this necklace belonged to.
Kai’s POV I watch as Kwan looks at me and smiles, “Don’t you remember the day I woke up and you comforted my big sister.”
Flashback Kwan had woken up and he tells us about their step-mother who is evil.
I watch as she slips into the bathroom, but not before I see a tear in her eye
I knock on the door as everyone leaves and say, “Ya, Hwa Young I’ll stop by after school to drop off your homework is that alright?”
“You don’t have to do that,” she answers me after a while.
“I’m stopping by later to see my mother anyways so I might as well.”
“Alright Kai I’ll see you when you stop by later then.”
“Alright do you want to guys to come with me?”
“No, it’ll be okay if they don’t come with I’d hate to ruin more of their day then I already have.”
“That’s not true,” she cuts me off.
“Kai please just do this for me, please. I don’t need them to see me like this.”
No way am I going to let her act like this. Lucky for me my mom gave me a hospital key and they open about every door in the hospital.
When I open the door there she is standing in front of Hwa Young as she tries to wipe her tears away quickly for I wouldn’t see them.
“Hwa Young,” I kneel in front of her, “if you are afraid that they’ll see you as weak you’re wrong. Seeing you like this we can see your strength. We know what you’ve been through and all this time you’ve survived and became stronger. So you’re not weak or a burden instead you helped create a new world for us to look at and join. Because of you we are even closer friends we don’t’ fight as much and stick together more.”
I remember her looking up surprised by my words, “Why are you saying this, Jongin?”
“It’s because I care about you as a friend. You were the first person besides my friends to stick up for me. You were never once afraid of me like the other girls are even though they claim to like me. You didn’t try to stick onto me and you didn’t’ change yourself. I know that there isn’t much I know about you, but I’d like to change that because you’re all I ever seem to have on my mind lately.”
I hug her without thinking I just want her to smile like she always does.
I want her to be shining brighter than the sun like she did when we first started to get along.
End of Flashback I shake my head, “Maybe I do like her?”
“Then why not tell her?”
“Because I like my mysterious dancer more.”
Kwan puffs out his cheeks as he looks away from me, “Hyung, leave my room since idiocy is contagious.”
I don’t get the time to ask why before he gets out of his bed.
I watch as he pushed me out of the room and shuts the door in my face. I notice that he has packed bags around him.
“Congrats on getting out of the hospital,” I tell him through the door before I begrudgingly leave him alone without any facts on who the Cinderella is.
As I’m walking down the halls I see Hwa Young who looks beautiful in a blue floral summer dress and a small white choker around her neck that’s in a shape of a rose.
Maybe her brother is right maybe I’m in love with her, because I can’t take my eyes off her face seeing it look so angelic.
There's so many things that I don't understand about my feelings for her.
There's so many things that I don't understand about her.
Your POV I’m walking to my brother’s room to notice Kai walking down the hall. I keep walking mad that he likes the mute me more than the real me.
I walk into Kwan’s room and he hugs me right away dressed in street clothing.
“Am I going to be living with you and step-mother?”
I shake my head, “No, you’ll be living with big bro.”
I watch as Eric walks into the room and smiles slightly, “Hey, Kwan I guess your sister told you.”
He nods his head and seems to let go of a breath he must not have noticed he was holding.
I watch as he hugs Eric and Nana. I can’t help but to smile at them.
I ignore the voice of my brother thanking our ex-brother-in-law.
I look at his table to see my necklace.
“Kwan, where did you get this?”
“Oh Kai had it and Mrs. Kim gave it to me last night. I believe you should wear it that’s what omma would want.”
Even though I’ve never truly felt like I deserve to wear the necklace I slip the necklace around my neck. It almost feel mother’s arms wrap around me telling me it’s alright that I can still wear it.
I smile down at it as I whisper, “I miss you mom.”
I pick it enough for I can kiss it and I pull my brother into my arms.
Quietly he whispers into my ear, “You should tell Kai that you’re his Cinderella.”
How did he know this and why should I?
Kai would never look at me like he does when he watches the other me dance. Kai would never talk to me again if he found out that I was his Cinderella.
What a laughable thought?
Still this isn't just for myself this is for mother.

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