Jeon Appa
Baby Ahra
The sound of loud music booms, people dancing freely, and flickering lights. Jeon pulled himself back into the dark world he had been trying to leave behind, drinking, gulping, gulping down the hard, intoxicating liquid was medicine for him all along, a medicine to forget all his pain. His wounds were so deep that they stuck in the walls of his brain and the recesses of his heart, including the fact that his mother died.
Jeon's biggest wound, which made it very difficult to get up was even very difficult to trust others.
"Hey!. Jeon are you coming?"
Faintly Jeon turned his head towards the source of the voice, his eyes were hard to see clearly now because the room was so dim in addition to the condition of his body which was already affected by alcohol.
"You... Jimin?" ask Jeon to make sure. In addition to the voice that Jeon is very familiar with, Jimin's face and height can still remember Jeon well.
The person Jeon mentioned as Jimin earlier Jeon saw him nod. "Yes. I'm Jimin, are you really drunk right now?" ask Jimin again.
Jeon even spent more than one bottle, maybe 3 or 4 that he had spent, can be imagined what Jeon's condition is now. "For so long don't see ya." Jeon said with a crisp laugh, his words like the one who is making a mess now, very chaotic.
"You're the one who's never been here. Did you forget that I owned this bar?" jimin's rhetorical statement to Jeon, which Jeon later replies to an asymmetrical smile, is true Jeon forgot that Jimin is the owner of this bar, Jimin is as rich as he is.
Jimin now takes a sitting position next to Jeon. "You lost?. Not succeed?" jimin asked after he also got a glass of drink the waiter had prepared for him.
Jeon was silent. Just look at the glass. Didn't answer any of Jimin's questions, didn't intend to discuss any of his current problems.
"I'm still Jeon's best friend?. Yeah, I know you want to change, you want to leave this dark world. I-i know. But you can't get rid of me either." jimin sipped his drink.
Jimin and Jeon have been best friends since then, very well. Even Jimin who will always be there when Jeon feels difficulties, including in a slumped condition, Jimin who is always ready to be present for Jeon. It's just that in the last few months Jeon said he wanted to change, because he felt his father was starting to believe in him, proud of him as his biological son and no longer mentioned the name of his illegitimate son. Jeon was even willing to get better just to show his father.
However, everything changed in just one day, his efforts for months just vanished, an instant turned into pitch-black darkness that even before had almost become luminous.
"Is that important?, Jim." asked Jeon suddenly. While Jimin begins to confuse what Jeon is referring to, which issue he is talking about.
"Jeons. Look, whatever it is, everything in the world is important" replied Jimin. Honestly Jimin was just trying to make Jeon's mood improve, which Jimin knew Jeon was a figure that was so fragile even though he looked very hard.
"So you think so?"
Jimin squealed, increasingly astonished. What Jeon meant. "What do you think?" jimin asked back, maybe by fishing he could know what Jeon was asking exactly.
"Leave all this? This dark world?. I thought that by doing that my father would be devastated. But, no." Jeon fell silent, recalling how it had happened this morning, when he was informed of his position. Feeling his pride had been completely dropped.
Jimin shakes his shoulder. "You ask a person who obviously cannot leave the world Jeon, of course you will not get an answer that is in accordance with your expectations. You better ask yourself that." Jimin answered honestly, smiling with one corner of his lips. Clearly Jimin could not have left his predestined dark world to him since he was born, his parents who founded and ran this bar for decades, Jimin's life was fully fulfilled through the course of this bar. Despite fully knowing this is not good, Jimin has no choice but to follow what has become his destiny.
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Jeon was forced to open his eyes right when after hearing a voice so loud that he disturbed his sleep, realizing that he was now asleep on the sofa in the middle room when he woke up, Jeon believes he must not be strong enough to go to his room because he was too drunk last night.
His head felt so very dizzy, plus hearing the loud sound of the baby crying, making the contents of the head almost broke. Wait, which Jeon knew his neighbors no one had a baby, then how there was a baby sound that could now be heard so loudly crying.
Feeling increasingly dizzy and upset, Jeon decides to check out, wanting to find out whose baby is crying outside his apartment and has disturbed his sleep. Want to curse and immediately throw it away if the baby can not stay still.
Chequek..
Jeon was stunned, silent for a moment after opening the door, seeing that no one was standing there carrying or holding a baby. All Jeon saw was a basket lying not far from his door and where he stood.
The baby's voice kept getting louder, so Jeon resuscitated.
Someone threw the baby away. That's what Jeon had in mind now.
Jeon tried to check the contents of the basket, when he saw there was a piece of paper that was deliberately left as a message. In a hurry Jeon immediately unfolded the letter and read its contents.
ΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠ
Anyone who reads this letter, and finds my baby. Please take care of this baby, please, I am just a mother who is helpless to look after and raise my own baby.
So please.. Can you keep him until the day I can come back well and look after him again. Helpme.. Please please.. Please take care of my daughter, I love her so much.. Please.
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Jeon patted his forehead but not hard enough, only he could not stop thinking, there was a baby who had just been dumped by his own mother right in front of his apartment.
Jeon glanced at the baby at a glance, still crying the same as before, the baby was wearing a pink blanket, as well as a matching hat, there was even a small bag containing milk supplies Jeon found in the basket. His mother really prepared him.
Is his mother really in trouble?. Benak Jeon monologue. Jeon felt pity when he saw the little baby's face that looked so clean and innocent, indicating he had not had any sin. Seeing the baby reminded Jeon of his late mother who had to conceive Jeon for 9 months alone while the father was busy cheating. Is the fate of this baby's mother the same as Jeon's mother?. I don't know Jeon doesn't want to think too far.
Jeon tried to hold the baby, tried to hold it, no matter what he was doing right now, he just followed his instincts, even the headache he felt when he woke up was like it was no longer felt.
It's funny, but Jeon himself doesn't understand. The baby fell silent after a while in the arms of Jeon. Make Jeon smile for himself.
"You feel the light?" jeon asked the baby, as if the baby would answer his question.
Then what Jeon saw was the baby smiling at him. "You like me?. Is my face funny?" ask Jeon again to the baby.
Until the next second Jeon thought back, if he should just take care of the baby like the contents of the message he had read earlier, he said, or did he leave it to the police and trace who the identity of this baby's mother who had the heart to throw it away, but if it is not found then the fate of this baby will end in foster care. Jeon doesn't want that to happen, this baby is going to be harder and harder to meet his mother later.
Wait, what if the letter that the mother of this baby is writing is true, if the mother of this baby is indeed in a time of difficulty and helpless?, he said?, is it not written that he will return one day, someday. What if the fate of the baby's mother was the same as the fate of the late mother Jeon. Jeon was not willing if this baby could not see and recognize the face of the mother as he was, Jeon did not want what happened to him also to this baby.
Jeon wants the baby to be reunited with his mother.
"Ahra.." said Jeon, looking at the baby, now he has decided to take care of the baby, "From now on, I will be your father."
Jeon took the baby with him, immediately taking the baby basket to his apartment.
A baby who reminds himself of his late mother, he decides to give the same name to his mother as well. The baby is named Jeon Ahra.
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