𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀

ham wonjin | knocking sounds

"sweetheart? im home!" wonjin shouted as he closed the front door and took of his shoes

when he said sweetheart he was referring to his 10 years old daughter. they lived in a small house outside town and life has been a bit rough for both of them ever since his wife passed away

"papa!" the little girl shouted and ran to her dad

"where is yujin?" he asked. yujin is her babysitter

"in the kitchen" she replied

he carried his daughter and went inside the kitchen where yujin was washing dishes

"yujin" he called

"oh? yes sir?"

"pack your bags and other stuff. and help pack for eunji. we'll be moving to an apartment in seoul"

"we're moving? why?" his daughter asked

"my boss gave me a promotion and bought us a place to stay in seoul so it'll be easy for me to go to work on time"

"oooh that sounds fun"

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three days later they moved in to an apartment in seoul, not far from where wonjin works. yujin also stayed with them

the first few days they moved in, everything went well. yujin and eunji made new friends with the neighbors from the same block, and wonjin had never been late to work since then

but one night, wonjin started to hear knocking sounds from the ceiling. at first he assume it was the neighbor's kid from upper floor playing around

but it kept going every night and it made him feel annoyed. he couldn't sleep well because of the noises that would continue for hours

days turn to weeks and now it's been a month since they moved in. but the knocking sounds could be hear every night nonstop

he asked yujin about the knocking sounds but she said she didn't hear anything. that means the sounds is coming from a room above his

he wanted to go talk with the neighbors but afraid that they could be bad people who will hurt him or yujin or even worse, his daughter

because of the nonstop knocking, he realize that the knocking sounds are always in the same pattern. as if it was a message but he ignored it until one night, the knocking couldn't be heard again and he felt relief

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"papa? are you busy?" asked eunji

"no. i was just reading something. why?"

"can you help me with my homework?"

"sure" he turned off his laptop and sat beside her

he helped her with an essay, some maths quizzes and other notes. when all of that was done, she placed the books back in her bag and took out a textbook "MORSE CODES"

eunji said she didn't need help with this one. but wonjin stayed there with her until she was finished while playing with his phone

pak..pak.. pak

he widened his eyes when he heard something familiar. it was the same knocking sounds from the previous nights

he looked around and noticed that the sounds were coming from his daughter. she was making the same knocking sound using her pencil and tapping it on the table

"what are you doing?" he asked

"learning the morse codes" she answered

"so that's one of the codes?"

"yes"

"what does that mean?"

"s.o.s. a sign of asking for help"

at that point, wonjin was already shivering with sweat dripping down his forehead. all those sounds he heard for the past one month, it was actually a sign of someone asking for help? now that the sounds are gone .. what happened to the person?..