Detour

18

Jisoo

How am I supposed to face him today?

No personal messages on weekends, no personal Skype messages, no anything. He sent updates about what we have discovered in Andeok but apart from that nothing else. Was he shocked with what he had done too? Why has he not contacting me?

I am glad my entire weekend was occupied by Bum, who visited me Saturday night and left just this morning. He spent his precious vacation with me before he dived into another mission. They were going to be sent to Middle East for few months for some mission he was not allowed to tell me of course, and we will not be seeing each other probably for a month or two. Dad and Soohyun had a video call for two consecutive nights and all that they could notice is that if I was okay and I looked like my mind is flying elsewhere.  

We spent the entire Sunday out, but he noticed I was pre-occupied again of something. Damn Jung, you are even distracting my supposed to be family and bonding time with my favorite brother. I tried to re-focus myself and enjoy the rest of the entire weekend with Bum.

I bumped my head on my steering wheel, oh well, Bum and I also picked up my car yesterday. So no going to the office together for me and Jung. What am I supposed to do now?

I heard a notification from Skype and checked it immediately.

Dong-goo: Kim, where are you?

Namjun: Tom is already here. You didn't come together?

Insub: Another week of LQ from Tom and Jerry. HAHAHAH

Geonhee: Have you seen our pretty visitor? She's been clinging with Jung the moment she came.

Visitor? She? Clinging to Jung?

**Coming up. Here at the parking lot.

I hastily climbed out and went my way inside the police station. People pooled inside the elevator as I walk through. The moment I reached the 12th floor, few people greeted me, which I replied of a brief nod. I went straight to my cubicle, and my team mates circled around like paparazzies. 

"Have you seen Jung? With the reporter chic?" Insub welcomed me with a seem to be gossip.

"I obviously just came in today."

Our eyes all darted to Jung and a loud human being beside him, both of them walking side by side with Jang. She was chatty, blabbing things and stuff to Jang, but every now and then, she threw lingering looks to Jung. At times, she would act like a clinging vine on his arm. He did not noticed me and did not throw a look at my station.

Was he ghosting me or what? After he confessed that he likes me?

Fine. I can do the same.

I opened my working laptop and started reviewing the most recent post mortem report from the re-evaluation of the autopsy. 

Sharp force wound of neck, left side, with transection of left internal jugular vein. Multiple stab wounds of chest, abdomen, and left thigh: Penetrating stab wounds of chest and abdomen with left hemothorax and hemoperitoneum. Multiple incised wounds of face, neck, chest and left hand (defense wound). Multiple abrasions upper extremities and hands (defense wounds).

The next report shows the re-evaluated depth and.... my eyes caught something.

Subsequent autopsy shows that the wound is through the skin, sharp lacerations at both sides, elliptical, and slit like and both angles were sharp and pointed. The subcutaneous tissue, and the intercostal musculature and it penetrates into the pleural cavity through the 8th right intercostal space striking the rib.