Brave Things
Part 11 Cloudy Dreams

It took me about 6 hours drive from Canberra to the rehabilitation center where my two sisters were being treated.

That's why we didn't see my mother when we landed in Australia 3 days ago,

Jimin said she rented a small house in the Victoria area so she could continue to monitor my sister's condition in the hospital, going back and forth to visit them even though until now there has been no significant change after almost 3 months of treatment.

Mother left her tertiary belongings at one of Jimin's family villas in Melbourne, and lived modestly in her modest rented house. His home in Victoria was very small, not allowing us to ride.

Well, of course there's another reason, he said he wanted to spend a little time with me here, like on his honeymoon, even though we're here for something else.

I myself refuse to consider this a honeymoon, because it's the least soothing trip I've ever had in my entire life.

First, we left Jisung with Hanji, although Jimin had calmed me down many times and said that Jisung would be fine, somehow I was still worried about him.

Then I was also nervous about going to see my mother suddenly, she didn't know I was coming, maybe she thought only Jimin alone would come to visit. I don't know how he reacted when he realized I was going there. Mother educated me quite hard, so even though I was married, I was still a little wary of being scolded by mother.

Lastly, I'll meet Jimin's ex-girlfriend.

I actually never talked about this to Jimin, even though Jackson told me a speck of news about it to me.

I think Jimin was the one who found out about everything Jackson told me when he caught us at Jackson's bar the other day.

Honestly, I'm a little depressed and nervous. Want to immediately end the purpose of this trip and return to Beijing peacefully. But Jimin seemed to have no problem, he seemed to be enjoying the situation, he even wanted to add a day at the hotel we were staying in Canberra.

"1 or 2 more days doesn't matter Luna-yah, they're not going anywhere. Don't you like being here with me hm? Without interference..."

I rolled my eyes hearing his words. I know, he enjoyed our intimate relationship here, without Jisung's interference, without him having to work, without me having to cook or clean the house.

Even on the third day we did not leave the room at all except to get off breakfast and let our room be cleaned by the hotel clerk. Lunch until dinner we did in the room, until it felt like maybe my womanhood was blisters because it was pounded endlessly.

"I just don't want to fidget for long, if we meet them soon, we're free to linger anywhere in the country." Answer her.

Even in Beijing, I always serve him whenever he wants, he acts as if this is our last chance to make love.

But finally, even with a cluck of dislike, Jimin still obeyed me and prepared to book a car for us to drive to Victoria.

6 Hours of our trip through with Jimin who drove alone, I felt guilty because I could not help him to take turns driving, so could not bring myself to sleep for a second. Though Jimin has repeatedly told me to close my eyes if I feel sleepy.

I was of course sleepy, I fell asleep at 1am after Jimin had finished his activities touching me last night,

If I was anemic, I might have been hospitalized for lack of rest to serve my own biological needs here.

I don't understand why Jimin looked so fresh, he even seemed to enjoy the scenery along the beautiful journey we passed. While I was drinking my second bottle of coffee in order to resist sleepiness and accompany Jimin chatted along the way.

We went straight to my mother's house in Victoria and invited her to the hospital together.

Mom said she could only monitor my two sisters from behind a glass barrier, even after being caught by the police she didn't have time to talk to my sister at all.

Yeon Jin and Yeon Seok are immediately picked up by Jimin's hospital in intensive care as drug addicts, whose original goal was only to avoid severe punishment as drug dealers.

But it turned out that after being examined, my two sisters were really addicted to it and needed real intensive rehabilitation treatment, making my mother move here to continue monitoring them, sometimes mothers cook for them to eat so as not to get bored with hospital food.

Jimin funds all of those activities in silence, I just found out after mom told me the full story. A little ashamed of Jimin, he has really contributed to my family and I played with his patience the other day.

When we arrived at the largest rehabilitation and mental care center in Asia, Mother asked us to go first to see my sister because she had to go to distribute the food she had prepared to the health workers who were standing guard in my sister's ward that day. Makes us think, it's good we went first to see Jimin's ex-lover who he told me about yesterday.

The distance is quite far twisted back from my sister's place, about 4 blocks separated by various stairs and parks.

Turn back that far just to prove that her ex-boyfriend, Anna, was completely insane, not engineered her treatment just to get Jimin off the court table.

I no longer blamed this, but he actually took me inside Anna's room, seeing how she stared at our arrival blankly, his right hand carried a doll like carrying a baby, while his left hand was infused and wrapped in bandages on the upper arm.

This girl is battered.

We entered accompanied by a doctor who explained how Anna was doing, Jimin chatted seriously because he was also in charge of Anna's situation at this hospital.

The doctor explained how the hospital had to add more doses to the drug that was given to Anna so that she did not continue to try to hurt herself.

A woman as beautiful as this, hurt her perfect face for hating her look on the glass.

I can still see clearly, even though behind the bruised and unkempt face, this woman had once become very beautiful.

His cheeks were thin with high cheekbones, his nose pointed, high brow lines, tiny lips with sharp eyes. Much different than my slightly puffed-up face structure.

Jimin brought me closer to Anna,

"How are you doing?" Jimin asked Anna, not letting go of her embrace on my waist.