Frontman's Love (Season 1 & 2)

Indifference

We returned to the apartment in silence. Neither of us took it upon us to make contact, for which I was grateful, I didn't want to talk to Joon-hyuk, I hardly knew him, and I'd rather leave the complaining to the Salesman, at least I know him longer and he's somehow funny, not stiff like his younger cousin. We entered our temporary apartment and I immediately felt worse. I was supposed to manage this fucking game that I hate. I didn't have anyone close to me to cry calmly, because I wanted to keep my tough character with men.

-Voting starts in a moment, put on your masks and we go to the control room- said Joon-hyuk and so we did. I wore my pink one and the Salesman his black one and the three of us went to the control room where we watched the voting. The players were divided half and half, the final vote went to my husband, where of course he gave an O and the game continued.

-I'm not feeling well, I'll go back to the room and lie down- I whispered to Gong, who was standing next to me in my ear.

-Should I go with you?

"Stay, I'll be fine," I said weakly and moved towards the exit, but before the door opened, Joon-hyuka's voice stopped me.

-Front man is fighting- he said and I quickly moved to the middle of the room to watch my husband's fight with... Oh, ironically, my ex. In-ho defended player 333, who apparently got under Thanos' skin.

"Teach your children about morality, old man," said Thanos confidently, and I could see the rage in my husband's eyes. Not only because he came face to face with my ex-boyfriend, who made me feel insecure and In-ho helped me get out of them, but talking about children in the plural is hard for him. He has Min-ho and loves him the most in the world, but his first wife died with her unborn child and it can be difficult. We would like to have at least one more, but it is not very good to talk about it when it comes to the period of games or holidays and Hallowen.

-In-ho, leave him alone, he's not worth it- I whispered to myself as I saw the man grab the purple man by the neck and threw him on the floor.

-Don't say his name among the employees for them is the Front man or the boss or the best player of the game and no one else. They don't know any In-ho-whispered Salesman to me, and we went back to watching the fight.

 He won it. He beat my ex-boyfriend and his asshole. Applause spread in the room, it was clear that he felt uncomfortable and was slightly swollen. Did he gain the trust of player 456 with this act? Probably yes, but I didn't see his face. I left the control room and went to the apartment to rest. It was around 4 p.m. and I didn't have the strength anymore, although I had recently gotten up. I took off my mask, which I threw somewhere in the corner and lay back on the bed. I picked up the first volume of the Twisted series, which I bought not long ago in a bookstore when I was visiting my cousin in New York. I read one chapter and I can't remember when my eyelids got heavier and darkness set in.

***

I was awakened by screams coming from behind my bedroom. Everything hurt me, including my head, and the screams of my cousins didn't help me. I got out of bed and took small steps to the door and started to eavesdrop on their conversation, because it was about me.

"She shouldn't be here, why In-ho brought her here," said Joon-hyuk furiously.

-And what was he supposed to do? Leave her in Seoul so that she would be afraid? The fact that you haven't experienced love doesn't mean that others can't – Gong stood up for me, for which I was grateful to him.

-Yes! It would be safer than here!

-In Seoul, Jun-ho and the people that player 456 hired would be waiting for her, and here he has a mountain of guards, us and the Front man. Not a hair will fall from her head!

-And here are 456 and he is planning an uprising against us!

-But In-ho is there and he manipulates the depths!

-Do you think he can do it? Please, Gong, have more brain than oil in this head. He would sooner die there than dissuade Gi-hun from the idea!

-Have more brains yourself, moron! I've known him longer than you and he's always been strong and that hasn't changed the love for Beverly pushes him further. He knows what he's doing, and he didn't call you to argue with me.

-Love weakened him. Sure, he loves her and his son, but Gi-hun won't care. If Jun-ho told him who the Front man was or that guy who attacked you in their apartment told him that she was with you and you killed his boss, then he will take revenge all the more. Not on us anymore, but on them. Maybe he will have more sense and not reach Beverly's family and kidnap Min-ho.

And so they continued to argue. After hearing that something could happen to In-ho and our little son, I practically stopped listening. I was angry, sad and broken at the same time. Tears were running down my cheeks, but I didn't scream, I just sat by the door, thinking how to protect them. And I came up with a brilliant plan. I'm going to remove my sensitive side and replace it with the indifference that In-ho, Gong and the rest of the guards have to this game and the players. I hate to see someone die, but I have to save my family and my husband's business, which I hate. I have no other choice, but at that time I didn't know what terrible secret I would discover and what was hiding in my husband's office, which is always locked, or in the basement, the door to which is located in my bedroom.