'a mirror of perfection'

prologue | kiddos

MARCH 18TH 2012.

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a rainy day in icheon , two young girls. the shins. their mother was sick. god awful. crying and coughing, wailing on her bed. she didn't have anyone anymore, had both of them when she was 16 and now faces the regret of not swallowing her birth control. she had called them to go get her medicine so she could at least get up. 

the girls left at 2:17pm that day, walked through the rain in their matching rain coats and wellington boots. ryujin, the older one held her sister's hand closely. it was cold and yuna was shivering, her teeth creating a piercing noise, even through the mask she wore. they had walked and walked and walked, their little feet only taking them so far. the pharmacy decided to move to the outskirts of town and now the shins had succeeded in making both of their dresses dirt brown and their knees red from previous scrapes and the cold. 

ryujin had been making mental notes of everywhere she turned, she hadn't taken a route like this before, this confused her. the streets weren't busy which made yuna extremely relieved. no cars had passed, no couples had crossed them, holding hands and canoodling and no creepy adults. they were almost at the pharmacy and ryujin was adamant on getting home as soon as possible. 

that's when it started, the low jazz , the gray maybach stopped right in front of them. then hopped out- 'hello young ladies'. oh not him. it was recognizable, the way he slurred his words. everyone knew park jinyoung, tried their best to hide their children from him. nobody could move out though, the people who lived in icheon weren't exactly rolling in buckets, well except for jinyoung. jinyoung had money, too much. parents had been trying to take him out for years, didn't work. he was untouchable and ryujin was briefed about all of this. she whispered a short hello, grabbing yuna's wrist tighter and tighter until yuna was fighting to pry her hands away from her. 

'oh oh ryujin, isn't it?' jinyoung said, a sly smug on his face,' leave your sister alone, i'll take you both where you're meant to go.' yuna stopped fighting against ryujin, then gripping even tighter to ryujin's dirt blue polka dot dress. 'we're fine sir' she said, hoping he would leave her alone. he wouldn't. she saw him do this to another girl. she didn't know her. it was last year. her name was yeji. entered jinyoung's maybach with her brother and never came back after that. jinyoung moved closer to the girls, an emotion of annoyance appearing on his face. 'you little bitch'.

the last words they heard before jinyoung had already shoved them into his car. then speeding off without a trace.

who saw all of this? a little boy, choi beomgyu.