Birthday Surprise

Epilogue

Jihye was standing alone in front of a cemetery........waiting.

It was a cold winter afternoon. Jihye had forgotten how cold the winters were in Seoul. She was roughly reminded as soon as she stepped her foot out of the Seoul National Airport. Her big black jacket was not enough, her black bucket hat was not protecting her from the cold winter air. She shoved her hands inside the pockets of her jacket and blowing air out of her mouth. She was shivering a bit and was tired of waiting. She was waiting for so long.

Just as she was about to give up on waiting and was about to head inside the cemetery alone, a taxi pulled up in front of her. From it, the person she was waiting for came out.

A small and genuine smile formed on her face seeing him.

"I'm sorry, I'm late. There was so much traffic..let's go in.."

He was about to head in but she held the back of his padded coat and made him turn towards her.

"Jeon Jungkook, you are meeting your own sister after 10 years, don't I at least deserve a hug?"Jihye asked, smiling.

He also gave a small smile and gave her a hug. Jihye instantly felt warmth in this cold winter when he did that,"Don't call my name out loud like this, we might get in trouble, Ms. Jocelyn Park."

He addressed her by her fake name that she created to escape from that night. She replied by addressing him with his fake name as well,"I'm sorry,Mr. Kim Jihoon."

Jungkook smiled. Jihye was amused to see how much he has changed. He has matured so much in these 10 years. His bangs were replaced with a slicked back hair style, his black hoodie was replaced by black suit and padded coat. He has grown up so much.

"Have you lived well?"Jihye asked.

"Um..I've lived,"Jungkook gave a small and insincere smile. Jihye immediately understood he doesn't want to talk about it. She can't blame him.

"Let's go in."

Jungkook nodded and followed Jihye in.

Both of them stood in front of their parents' grave after putting flowers and showing their respects. It's their 25th death anniversary. That's why both Jihye and Jungkook came back to Korea for a day.

They both didn't say anything for awhile while standing there, they had so much they wanted to say to each other, to their parents, but they didn't know how to start.

"Jungkook-ah.."

"Hmm?"

"Do you think..do you think mom and dad would be proud of us for what we did?"

Jungkook chucked humorlessly and paused a bit before saying,"Jihye-ah, mom and dad valued morals before all. And what we did was way beyond that. So no..they would definitely not be proud of us. In our hearts we knew it. But we still did it for our own mental peace, to satisfy ourselves."

"Was it worth it?" Jihye asked and sighed. Jihye had this question for so many years.

Jungkook didn't reply. He had no answer.

Everything happened according to their plan. The families had gotten the video footage and were in crumbles. The whole Korea was shaken with the news of this homicide. Police were searching for Jihye and Jungkook but both of them had taken off in different countries. Police are still searching for them. They had promised each other that they would not be coming back to Korea or see each other ever again because seeing each other would just remind that of that night. They wanted to move on with their life. But they both ended up breaking that promise by contacting each other and coming to Korea for a day.