Light In The Darkness's
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Several times the circumstances of Trus made me give up! But when I was silent and lowered my head, I remembered that God had an amazingly beautiful plan. At least I'm back strong! - Sandara Park.

THE POV SANDARA PARK

Survive, endure and endure! that's all I can do when the storm comes back to life, seeing the middle-aged woman helplessly rolled on the white bed makes me really fragile, my heart is broken.

"Become..." I turned my head because of the low call and found a beautiful girl standing on the threshold.

"Boomie." I remember when I knew it was him.

"You okay ? how can ?" His voice sounded very worried.

He closed the door and walked quickly towards me then hugged me tightly while I only nodded lightly in his embrace.

"Why didn't you call me?" Park Bom is back to being him, he's really my most chatty friend.

"I know you're busy and I don't want you to worry" I replied.

He rolled his eyes bored. "Come on Sandara, you think I'm ready for you ? I'm more worried if you don't call me." she replied from the living room couch in the room.

"You don't have a schedule today?" I said while serving one cup of tea on the table.

He looked at me and then he turned to the bed not far from where we were. "Night class, right ? how's auntie doing ?"

I sat next to Bomb. "Better than yesterday, I'm past the critical period." I answered while staring at the bed, where the person I loved was lying helpless.

The beautiful girl looked back at me. "I know you're a strong girl, but don't push yourself, I'm there, I'm here." she said in a soft voice I understand.

I looked at him and nodded slowly.

I'm so grateful God sent a friend like you, Park Bom, a chatty girl who can understand my life. Life is quite complicated.

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POV AUTHORS

Rough long breaths filled this dimly lit room, a closed room deliberately rented by two young men who were still neat in their formal suits.

"Ji, you can't go on like this." Advice one of the men who was accompanying his friend to drink.

"What do you mean?" The reply was flat after gulping down one small glass of his whiskey.

"Pardon is difficult, but at least you can make peace with the situation, don't you force yourself too much ?"

"Let's go, I'm comfortable like this." His dark eyes continued to reassure the handsome man sitting opposite to him, if he was comfortable like this!

"Some one will return you someday, I'm sure. Spend your drink we still have work after this." continued the man surnamed Dong, he's Dong Youngbae.

Kwon Jiyong again sipped a glass of drink that Youngbae had just poured for him, he did not even care about the meeting he was going to attend after this, he did not even care about it, for him drinking is the most effective medicine when he is not okay.

We never know, what ridiculous destiny will play us, God has arranged everything, no one knows and our task is simply to go according to what has been outlined. Nothing is certain with one second ahead, all that is certain is what is happening right now.

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The sun began to return to civilization greeted by the darkening sky. Silence, that's all Dara felt after Bom, her best friend said to go to college.

There was nothing he did but sit on the sofa with an unshakeable look from the bed, where his mother was sleeping.

There were a lot of things running around in his brain, things he shouldn't have taken care of himself, things he shouldn't have thought of at his young age, he wasn't even 19 yet.

The gaze began to drift in endless daydreams, until a soft voice was able to make his body slow down.

"Become.."

The voice he memorized, the look in his eyes seemed to know where to look. "Mother." He immediately approached his new mother.

"You didn't go to college, son?" his voice is still very weak.

"Just collect the task, Mom, Boom had come to help collect my duties" explained Dara.

After all how could he go to college with his mother's current state ? the only person who can take care of his mother right now is him. Her brother was still on his way home.

"Mom can go home?" Kyung Ran tries to sit down but Dara prevents him.

"Doctor hasn't told you yet, let Mama recover and then we'll go home. Jo Won will be here soon. "

Dara petrified her mother to justify her lying position.

"He's home?"

"Yes, I told you to stay but she said she wanted to see Mom, she's also on vacation for a few days."

"Surely he's very angry." Kyung Ran's gaze was blankly staring.

"Mom doesn't need to worry, I'll advise her." she took a seat right next to the bed.

"Mother plans to stay in Japan after this." My eyes could not escape to look at Dara.

The long-spirited beautiful girl let out a heavy sigh. "Don't think about anything right now, I need to heal and recover first. We'll think about that later."

Silent because the two women were in their minds, many things they considered. Dara who tries to find a good way out and Kyung Ran who tries to keep her two children no longer in the shadow of trouble.

"Bara" the voice broke the cold aura in this room.

"Wonnie, have you arrived?" greet Dara after the cute handsome teenager entered with a large backpack.

"You're coming home, son, have you eaten?" Kyung Ran's voice warmed up to welcome her youngest son.

"How can I stay with Mom like this? I'm gonna beat the culprit." Reply Jo Won flat after putting a backpack that he carries in any direction.

"Jo it's not time, I've bought some food. Eat and rest for a while." Dara immediately mediates a very fiery looking sister. He stood up to greet the handsome brother who was two years younger than him.

"Mom is okay ? which part is sick?" Like dust in the wind, the flat face of the teenager turned anxious when he approached his mother and found the middle-aged woman was injured quite a lot in the legs.

Dara turned to the two people who were looking at each other, a gaze that was very inexplicable, mixed feelings dominated the two. He knows his sister is not a random person who does not know the rules, he is a good boy and also gentle but one time when Jo Won was really angry and knew someone he loved was hurt, he said, it will be very angry.

"Mom's fine, eat it. Your name is waiting." Kyung Ran grabbed her son's hand and rubbed it gently.

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"Ji, can you come home early? To Mom's house."

"I still have a meeting, about nine I'm home."

"Alright, go straight home when your business is done."

"Yes." Yeah." No other words came out of the lips of the man who was staring blankly at the city view from the top of his office rooftop.

"Hey, time for the meeting." The heavy voice he was very familiar with broke his daydream.

"Hm, why are you going upstairs while the meeting's about to start?" He rants like a fool who knows no reason. How could he nag Youngbae who clearly reminded his schedule.

"Your phone is busy sir." Decih Youngbae while turning to walk first, left her ignorant master.

Kwon Jiyong, he just stepped in silence. It looks so cold and mysterious, doesn't it ? a 25-year-old man with a gloomy aura and sharp eyes.

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"It's natural that if you're angry with Jo, we should also be patient to know who did it. You came home to make Mom heal fast, didn't you ? and not to add to his worries ?" Dara said carefully. He and his sister were chatting outside the room where his mother was being treated.

"Aren't you sure about the guy ? I'm pretty sure that bastard did it! Dara, you know Mom's still very influential on her career." Jo replies, she's very sure of the culprit who made her mother like this.

Sometimes she was like that, calling her brother at will. Let Dara accept that.

"Although you or I are very confident, at least let me recover and be safe." He really begged his sister to stay calm and not rash.

"Yeah... " Said Jo Won lazily.

"Week weekend night, don't you want to go to church? In front of this hospital is a church." Dara's hand stretched out to rub the head of her sister who had grown beyond her high posture.

Yes, Jo Won is growing beyond Dara now.

"I'll take a shower and go." replied Jo Wong briefly.

"Tomorrow morning change, you're the one watching Mom and I go to church"

"Yes, I take a shower first" Jo Won replied as she started leaving Dara alone.

We also never know, no, which patience will make God believe and take all our problems ? Dara was very sure of that, no matter how great the storm would tear apart her defenses. He believes one thing, God is there for him as he continues to pray and try, a lesson that his mother instilled early on, precisely since all obstacles began to appear in his life!

"Dee, where's Wonnie?"

Just got the girl out of the bathroom and the mother had already rushed her with questions.

"Just went to church." Reply Dara, she just finished taking a shower.

"Tomorrow, my mother's friend wants to come."

"Of course, Oh yeah, eight o'clock the doctor said, I have to do an X-ray."

"Mom felt a little dizzy while sitting." Kyung Ran's

"I've already told you the complaint I've had with Dr.Pyo, I'll ask you again."

Dara took a position sitting on the sofa to continue the activity of drying hair that is still half wet.

It was quiet for a while until Kyung Ran suddenly said a sentence. The sentence that made Dara stare at the middle-aged woman was serious.

"Mom has one request Dee."

"Mom don't look at me like that, what do you want?" It just

can't be seen pleading like that.

"Mom wants to see you get married." Kyung Ran.

As a thunderbolt during the day, Dara froze, the sentence she just heard actually made all her nerves seem to stop functioning. He even looked at his mother with wide eyes.

"Don't think shit. I just want someone to protect you. I intend to stay in Japan with Jo, at least that will change things a little bit, we'll be calm, even a little." The middle-aged woman tried to explain her reason.

Still silent, the girl who used to be called Dee was like a fool now, suddenly the girl lost her concentration.

"Mother won't force you, tomorrow Mother's friend will come with her son. You can think about it after seeing him tomorrow, don't make him a burden." The woman seemed to know what her daughter was thinking.

"Mom, even though I agree, shouldn't you also ask for approval from your friend's son as well?" Dara tried to make a sound in the midst of her chaotic thoughts.

"Yes, I just want to talk about this. So that you are not surprised, do not be too burdened. Have you eaten?"

Lie if such a sentence is not surprising, the proof is that the sentence managed to make Dara's heart beat faster now.

"Have you, you want something?"

"Mineral water."

In his silence taking drinking water for Kyung Ran, the sentence that his mother had just said came back, but he should not be seen thinking even though his brain was trying hard to think what he should do, he said, at this time Dara just wants to look ordinary while setting his mind that is still chaotic, he will think about it later after Jo Won comes and replaces him to look after Mom, at least Kyung Ran said to think about it again after meeting the man, making Dara a little calm.

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\=\=\=Another Place\=\=\=

The night continued to creep, the dark and cold felt more real. The wind was not too strong, but able to make the crown of the man who was walking was dancing freely, Kwon Jiyong just arrived at his mother's house. The mother's request to return home early he granted. The man will just enter the house but there are many home assistants who greet him.

There was no reply from the cold man, his steps just continued to tread towards the kitchen.

"Have you eaten Ji?" Welcome the middle-aged woman when the man who is often called Jiyong entered the kitchen.

"Not yet." In short while sitting on one of the chairs that circled the dining table.

"Let's eat, I've cooked. Youngbae's not coming?"

"He's replacing me for today's meeting." Reply to the man as the woman he greeted Mom concocted food for him.

"Your job isn't done yet?"

"Only ordinary meetings, there are political parties that ask for financial assistance."

"The party yesterday?"

"It's different."

"Eat and take a bath after this." his mother asked warmly.

"Mom want to talk about yesterday ?"

"Eat first."

One plate of rice and side dishes was in front of Jiyong, but the dark eyes of the man were still fixed on Gi Ran, his mother was again being treated in the kitchen to mix anything else.

"Let's eat together." Jiyong

"Mom ate."

"Dami Nuna called me this morning, I talked to her about everything?"

"Far before I talked to you, your brother and I knew the girl." Gi Ran looked at his son expectantly.

There was no answer from the man, Jiyong was too busy with his thoughts.

"Someone deserves to be happy Kwon, including you. The universe has thousands or even millions of hidden ways to change the human state." Gi Ran continued when his son was silent.

He knew very well that his youngest child was dissolving in thoughts that came from the past.

"Nobody can replace someone. I'm happy with myself right now."

"Not happy, just looking happy." Gi Ran looked at Jiyong inside. "Mom just wants someone to come with you, even give you back. Not being able to fully bring you back just makes you able to make peace with everything."

"I'm comfortable like this." Jiyong was still pampered with her stance.

"It's not like that the reality." Gi Ran said confidently.

"What if I hurt that girl?"

"You're not that bad as Kwon."

"Mom have any other purpose for getting me to marry her?" Jiyong's forehead creased faintly as he asked that, he just thought behind Gi Ran who was not afraid to persuade him there was another hidden purpose.

"You won't be alone forever, nor will you be forever someone else. At least I know how you are, you just fell too deep in the past, you don't intend to find someone who can cure you. I'm just trying to get my son back. It's just Ji." Gi Ran sat next to his son while rubbing Jiyong's back gently making the man knead his own forehead.

"Eat, you may choose your own path after seeing the girl. It was Mom's choice and so was Dami." The middle-aged woman continued with a warm smile.

"Mom should eat with me too" she replied

"All right."

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\=\=\= Hospital \=\=\=

"Drink." That heavy voice really made Dara come to her senses from her mind. The girl was sitting daydreaming on the sofa in the room where her mother was being cared for.

"You're back." Reply while receiving a cup containing drinks brought by his youngest brother.

Jo Won has just returned from church, not forgetting the handsome teenager brought drinks and food for her brother. "Mother slept from earlier?" he glanced at the bed where his mother had slept.

"Just now, have you eaten?" Reply Dara, he was enjoying the cold chocolate that Jo Won gave him.

"Already, how's the X-Ray going?"

"There's nothing to worry about, we just need to take care of mom. Only recovery."

"Thank God. How's college?"

"I'm off tomorrow, today's my last entry"

"You're saying there's a tournament in China Jo?" Dara remembered something when she noticed Jo Won eating the fries she had brought.

"Yes, three more days." The teenager seemed to stop eating and stared doubtfully at Dara.

"I don't know if I'm confident." The handsome boy who was sitting next to Dara.

"Focus on your tournament, there's nothing to worry about, I'm fine. Just focus on your school." Dara faces Jo Won completely.

There was nothing Jo Won said to reply to her brother's sentence, the boy just kept quiet while playing his own fingers.

"Hey, don't worry anything." He grabbed Jo Won's hand and rubbed it slowly.

"This may be the last time I'll be quiet. I didn't expect something like this to happen to anyone, only if this kind of thing had to happen again, I wouldn't stay silent. Whether it's you, Mom, Grandpa or Grany who ask me to calm down, I will still beat up whoever did it. " Jo Won looked at Dara seriously, the teenage boy was expressing his frustration.

"This kind of thing won't happen and you can do what you say. It's night, rest." Dara's white hand stretched out to gently rub Jo Won's head.

"Hm."

Dara did not expect the night to pass quickly, she just did not want to welcome the sun with a mind that was not yet completely sure. Tomorrow is the beginning where the decisions he makes may change the situation, not the situation, change the comfort and tranquility of his mother. Currently there is nothing the girl does, just stay behind a thick blanket that covers her body on the sofa, she then looked at Jo Won who was asleep on the bed with his mother, and then looked at Jo Won who was asleep, two people who are the reason he should not give up or be angry at the situation there. He is only worried about the present, will his decision tomorrow will really change everything, or even the decision he took will add to his life burden. All he knew was that he only knew his mother's friends, not their sons. Dara only hoped that when morning came, when she visited the house of God, there was an answer that answered her question tonight, not something big, just a belief that kept her confident and accepting.

What the world has reason to explain is why they are so shocking to humans, there is no reason or right answer, only, as humans know, things are surprisingly well written long before they are born.

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5Ams

Pieces and pieces of dark events play out like a terrible film, nothing is clear from the face of the perpetrator, just the harsh treatment of the little girl who was holding the younger boy, the relentless punch continued to hit her back accompanied by hysterical screams from the woman who was slumped on the floor.

"West, HEY... "

The soft voice of Jo Won is like a help for Dara, the girl is immediately awake with a hunting breath and a forehead that is wet with sweat.

"Joe..." He immediately hugged his sister.

"You're having nightmares again?" Jo Won rubbed the back of his brother who looked agitated and difficult to breathe.

"Where are you going?" Not answering, the girl asked another question. Though Jo Won witnessed how almost ten minutes the girl moved restlessly in her sleep, Jo Won also felt it was difficult to wake up the brother who was having nightmares.

"Don't try to avoid my question." Said Jo Won, still rubbing Dara's back.

"My mind is just not okay. Is she awake?" The girl took off her arms to look at the bed, but the mother was still asleep.

"Hand, let me buy breakfast. Today there is mass and seven o'clock has begun." Jo Won stood up and then pulled up the jacket that was draped on the sofa.

"Time to wash Dee's hair." The god before disappeared behind the door.

Dara is made dumbfounded and annoyed with Jo Won's pranks. "Take a look at you" he hissed.

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"Don't daydream." Dami's voice made Jiyong who was reading the lowest newspaper slowly.

"I'm not daydreaming." The reply was flat then his attention returned to the paper containing this writing.

"Jenny hasn't woken up?" Gi Ran who just finished cooking.

"Not yet, she woke up last night ma'am and went back to bed early last night." Dami replied, the beautiful woman was taking mineral water in the refrigerator.

"Mom talked to her?" lirih Dami compared to the mother who was busy arranging food.

"Here, he's with Mom. You wanna come along too?"

"Jenny's tutoring the piano today, I convinced him." Excited Dami who then walked out of the kitchen seat

"Uncle..."

Focus Jiyong was distracted by the typical voice of the little boy who was already beside him sitting, the hand of the boy about four years old was writhing on his leg. "Hey, already up?" He immediately carried the beautiful boy onto his lap.

"Jenny's down with who?" Dami hurriedly walked up to her daughter with a little panic.

Alone. " Answer the boy innocently.

Jiyong rubbed the niece's long mane lovingly while the little boy's owner was just in disbelief, the princess coming down the stairs herself, while the beautiful boy's room was on the third floor, though he slalu familiarize if going up and down the stairs must be accompanied. A fine blow to Dami this morning.

"He went down by himself?" Add Gi Ran who is arranging food on the table.

"Yes" replied Dami while returning to petrify his mother was arranging food, while the princess was already cool with Jiyong.

"Mom, I have an important meeting today. Youngbae said I can't represent. Can we go home before twelve ?" Jiyong turned to her mother who happened to be next to her.

The middle-aged woman nodded steadily. "Yes, we leave after breakfast if so."

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Morning promises nothing but new hope to the man who is confident in his prayers and optimistic on his efforts. The wind blew quite hard out there, dropping the yellowed leaves, Dara seemed steady in every little step towards a place that she believed would convince her answer, convinced his heart of what he was worried about yesterday. A small step that then led Dara to the church door that had been opened, saw some people praying in the silence of her state, the girl thought she was the first but in fact, she was, there are already more people looking for stability in this place.

Sandara took a position in the front row of the wooden chair row, he looked confidently at the ornament of the cross on the altar, his heart was starting to calm at this time.

"Miss..."

Suddenly there was a handsome boy standing in front of him, making Dara look away and he smiled warmly at the little boy. "Hi."

The five-year-old boy grabbed Dara's hand that was glued to his knee, rubbed Dara's hand and said with a slurred tone. "Everyhting be fine, Nuna can be married and happy."

The sentence that made Dara speechless, she was completely frozen at the moment, was really too synchronous with her state and how the little boy she had never known suddenly said so.

"Dongie, what are you doing with this nuna?" A middle-aged woman made Dara's consciousness return, the girl smiled and greeted the woman who was approaching her.

"This lady is having a problem, ma'am." Follow that sweet boy innocently.

Dara smiled in response to the words of the boy who was still tightly grasping his hands, how did this boy know.

"He comforts me bi, what's your name ?" He turned back to the boy in front of him.

"Shin Dong Hee" she replied.

"Dongie likes to talk like that, sorry if it bothers you." The middle-aged woman then sat beside Dara while the little boy was still struggling with Dara who happened to also really like children.

Dara shook her head slowly, a sign she did not mind what the adorable boy said, her white cheeks filled up really made anyone who saw want to bite her. "No problem bi, she's so adorable. " Continue Dara while pinching the cheek of the kingpin slowly.

"What's your name, son?"

"Sandara Park."

In the end Dara did not immediately pray, his attention was shifted to a small chat with Mother Dong Hee, just a few minutes, because the little boy was suddenly saying goodbye to go somewhere.

Dara returned to herself, her eyes returning to the altar, she began to pray after putting her hands together and bowing her head. Wisdom in the eyes while his heart is communicating to God, may what he wants be quickly granted.

TBC.