Summer Dream [COMPLETED]
by cassiopeia_88
Chapter 5
Survivor
The next day, he received a letter to sign a contract with SM Entertainment. It appeared to be just a few piece of written documents but what he doesn’t knows is that the 7 years of contract would soon change his life forever. According to the contract, he had to pay for all his music, dancing and all other classes. Hence, in order to pay for the extra expenses, he worked extra hard. He took up 3 odd jobs; in the morning, he works as a newspaper deliveryman, in the afternoon, he will walk to the construction site and work as a labourer under the gruelling hot weather and at night, he’ll work as a waiter at a restaurant. Apart from this, he also have to juggle his time between 3 odd jobs and music lessons which he had just enrolled himself in.
Despite working hard, he still couldn’t afford 3 meals a day. At the end of each month, when he received his salary, he would allocate a portion of it for his music lessons and apartment rental(₩150,000), which took up a large portion of it. The balance of it was spent on food.
As the expenses gets more each day, he realised that doesn’t have a single penny left for food. He had no choice but to starve for 2 days.
Gruelling fate have forced him take the last resort; to sacrificed his self-esteem and feed on customer’s food left-over in the restaurant he was working at night.
He was still hesitating; to protect his self-esteem or to die of hunger
Jae Joong POV
(deep inside his heart)
Just for the sake to keep myself alive, for goodness sake, just eat the food
No..no...
I cant... a future artiste, if anyone from the company (SM Entertainment) sees this, it will be a shame to the company ...Jae Joong, no...! you cant!!!
Guelll....( his stomach rumbling)
Take it or die of hunger...aish, i don’t care anymore...
Finally he took the food. He starts to wonder why the food gets salty as he eats before he realised that he was shedding tears. He had never suffered so terribly in his life before. If he hadn’t ran away from home, he’s still a pampered son, waiting to savour his mom delicious cooking.
Despite starving for days, working as usual despite having a high fever and soon eating customer’s left-over have become a norm, he is still facing financial difficulties to pay the full amount of his music lesson.
His used the remaining pennies to called home.
Mrs Kim: Yeoboseyo, yeoboseyo~
Jae Joong: (*sobbing) Umma~
Mrs Kim: Jae Joong ah~ is that you?
Jae Joong: (*recollect his composure) Umma, I’m now at Seoul, I just want to called home because..because~ ( he began sobbing after listening to her mom’s soft tender voice) ...I’m...
Toot..tooo
Jae Joong: fine, don’t ... Yeoboseyo~... (He once again collapse in tears)
A few days later...
One day, as he was on his way to the restaurant, he was approached by a young lady
Young lady POV
Mister, would you like to do some blood donation? He hesitated, for he knew that his body is not in a good condition to do blood donation. On the other hand, if he does, he’ll be given a packet of biscuits and milk. Finally, he agreed to donate his blood in exchange for biscuits and milk.
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Will all the sufferings he had endure worthwhile? Or was it just a waste of time and energy? Will be really managed to earn his way to stardom, after all, he’s just any ordinary boy where you can find on the streets.
Continue reading for his true destiny will be revealed in the next chapter