Hate You, Love You. | Jenlisa

Epilogue

Last year was about as dramatic as any teenage soap opera.

But, I scaled through it. High school taught me a lot of invaluable life lessons such as: never take things for granted, always know the devil in disguise and always listen to your gut when it tells you that something is seriously wrong.

After the drama that went down at Aunt Jiwon's bakery, the media decided that hounding me would be the best thing for me. They got wind of who I was, and somehow knew everything that went down.

Once again, my matter was on the front page news and was the only thing worth talking about on the local news station. They aired it for weeks and even camped out at the apartment for days unending, trying to get 'my side of the story'.

I wasn't the only one making headline news.

Jang Kiyong ended up singing like a songbird. Turns out when they slap life imprisonment in your face without the possibility of parole, you'd reconsider what's most important. He ended up implicating himself and Krystal.

He was her right hand man and helped do her dirty work. He told the investigators everything; from how they've been monitoring Jongin and I, to the Lakedale shootout, to how they killed him–execution style.

He also said that he was the one who mailed the head of the dead rat, the notes and he slashed my tires per Krystal's orders. He blamed everything on her in order to get a lighter sentence.

As for Krystal, well she's sitting pretty in the 4 walls of the town's correctional facility. Her case went to trial a month ago and she was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for murder, reckless endangerment of a minor, kidnapping, trespassing and assault.

I guess karma really is a bitch and everything always comes back full circle. The Manoban's where devastated when they found out, moreso Marco because he never though his daughter was capable of such atrocities.

They hired the best lawyers for her, and they tried to plead insanity so she'd get sent to a crazy house instead of prison, but the judge wasn't having it.

Turns out, she isn't little miss perfect. I later found out that Jung Soojung is her middle name, named after her late mom and her squeaky clean record was falsified.

Apparently, she got help from people in the Musitano Mafia and they made her criminal record disappear, hence why she wasn't properly documented in the database.

She had been arrested before in town, back when she was a teenager, and used her middle name. That's how Hyejun was able to link her handwriting to that of the fake note she sent posing as Jongin.

It still bothers me, even a year later, that she was the one behind everything. I never would have thought she hated me that much and it was all because she held a grudge against Jongin.

I still think about him–Kai–whatever aliases he went by. Krystal said that he sacrificed himself for me and it hurts that we never got to properly say goodbye. I sometimes blame myself for everything that went down, but I've tried to put the past behind me and not wallow in self pity.

Mom and Ella were equally shocked when I told them about everything that happened. Mom ended up crying because she couldn't believe that all those things happened right under her nose.

Ella on the other hand thought I was a living character from one of Grandma's soap operas.

In other news, good news even, I graduated high school. I wasn't going to allow Krystal's bullshit to deprive me of writing the exams so I did after the doctors said I was healthy enough. I passed and got admitted to YG University on a full ride scholarship thanks to stellar recommendations from my teachers, school extra curiculars and the counselor.