Send me "black bird" for a darker memory of my muse's past.
shut up, shut up, shut up! hyejung couldn’t even tell if she was yelling that at herself, or if her father was drunk yet again and was putting all of his frustration onto her mother. she didn’t deserve it-- as in her mother didn’t deserve the s!&* that’s taken from her father. it was absolutely horrible and terrifying for someone of hyejung’s age to even experience. there’s poundings on the walls now, they were very thin and then another voice enters the other room. hyejung is huddled up against the wall where her bed is, eyes wide open with her arms wrapped around her knees. go away, go away. please. her eyelids slip to a close, a single tear slides down her chin and down onto her clothes. bringing her knees closer to her chest, she mumbles to herself to try to get rid of the yelling.
she could tell that her brother was now involved, since there was not only one but two male voices yelling at the same time. hyejung couldn’t hear her voice anymore, and it scared her. she felt as if the lines on her forehead got deeper from furrowing her eyebrows, was her mother okay? was her brother okay? don’t even mention her father, because he’s the sole reason why they want to get away. they want to run away, they want to flee. she was only six, her family wasn’t meant to be broken. no, they were fine when they were out in the public. but behind closed doors came flying fists and words so cruel that it would make one feel as tiny as the ants that they stepped on. hyejung sniffles, her door slams open and she sees her father raise up an arm that contained a half-empty beer bottle.
first hyejung’s crying and the next she’s screaming, yelling, begging for help. the sheets get tangled under her legs as she’s desperately trying to get out of his grip. this wasn’t what she wanted, this wasn’t what she expected. they were fine, they were fine if he was sober. her father had a split personality once he was drunk. he became a stranger-- someone hyejung didn’t recognize at all. the soft gaze in his eyes would harden up an his lips would not kiss her forehead but instead spit out the most vile words to break the girl down. six, only six. she wasn’t meant to be here nor was the rest of her family.
her father could burn in hell.
that was the very first time hyejung had wished that upon her father.