The Other Side | Minsung

Time flies by

"Your lying. You said my dad was an electrical engineer" Jisung said as he felt tears prick in the sides of his eyes.
"You have a birthmark on your lower back in the shape of a deformed star" Blake said "and that scar near you ear you got after you tried to pet a squirrel in the garden when you were 3".
Jisung looked at Blake who wasn't faltering with his words while looking straight at him.
Jisung dropped the gun which fell to the floor with a clang.

His mum came up to him and held him but Jisung didn't say anything, he just stood there. All of them stood in silence for a few minutes while Jisung didn't move an inch. He barely even blinked.

"Why now?" Jisung said looking up at Blake. He told himself not to cry and at the moment he was doing just that.
"I wanted to be in your life Jisung. Your mum refused to let me in" Blake told a half truth.
Jisung looked at his mum.
"I didn't want you in this world Jisung" his mum said and Jisung understood what she meant. It was a dangerous place and you are always at risk.

"Jisung I'm sorry for keeping this from you" his mum said stroking his hair.
Jisung feeling vulnerable turned and hugged his mum. She hugged him back and kept him in her arms to make him feel safe.
"Jisung I have some business to attend to. I'm going to leave you here with your dad to get to know each other" his mum said leaning away from the hug.
"What I don't want to stay here" Jisung said alarmed.
"Please Jisung you will be safe. You should get to know your dad" she said.
"He's not my dad" Jisung said.
"Okay" his mum gave a sympathetic smile and let go of Jisung and left the room.

"Jisung" Blake said.
"I don't want to talk to you" Jisung said quickly.
"Fair enough. You can just listen, please there's something I want to show you" Blake and Jisung left the room.
Jisung kept his head down and listened to Blake. He began going on about why he had created the gang and how he didn't want it to be a gang of killers but Jisung didn't care.
He wanted to go home but he didn't know where they were and his phone was off. He had to wait for someone else to take him home.

They entered a very homely room contrasting the white and grey walls in the corridor. It was almost as if they walked into a cozy cottage in the woods.
Blake walked over to a drawer and pulled it clean out and put it on the table.

"Have a look" Blake said and moved back allowing Jisung to get close without being too close to him.
Jisung looked through the drawer to find all kinds of photographs of Jisung. It showed him when he was young. Running around, at the park, covered in mud, crying, hiding behind the bushes and many more. Jisung flicked through them and could remember some of the memories engraved in his mind. He looked through more to see him, his mum and a young man who Jisung thought must be Blake standing altogether smiling.
There were others with just him and his mum and then some with him and Blake. Most of these instances he couldn't remember because he was too young but looking at them made him emotional.

"You actually cared?" Jisung asked holding a photo of all of them wearing matching outfits.
"Of course I cared for you Jisung. I still care for you, but when your mum came to me for the debt she told me not to take you because you were not meant for this world" he said.

Jisung went back to looking at the photographs and flicking through them.
He stayed looking at the wide range of photos for a good 20 minutes. There were times where he was wondering what errand his mum needed to run which took so long but went against it.

"When's Jisung getting back? At least he knows how to play the games because no offence Changbin but you suck" Felix said laying a 7 of hearts.
"Well I'm sorry" Changbin said rolling his eyes then laid a 10 of hearts.
"Four of a kind" Hyunjin said.
"Hyunjin sweetie" Felix laid his cards placed face down and looked a Hyunjin.
"You know I love you but I've had to tell you this THREE TIMES. WE ARE PLAYING BRIDGE" Felix yelled.
Jeongin burst into laughter as he laid down a king of hearts.
"I believe I win this one boys" Jeongin picked the four cards up and onto his small pile.
"I did say you should play something more for Hyunjins small brain" Seungmin said.
"Hey" Hyunjin looked at Seungmin offended.
"Yeah like snap" Chan said.
"Not you too" Hyunjin said at the smirking Chan sat sipping his coffee.

As the group argued a lady wearing a maids uniform holding a broom walked up the stairs. She made sure she was not seen as she picked a lock to Chans study and entered closing the door behind her.
She sat down on his seat and opened his laptop. Luckily she didn't need the password to download the flash drive as she plugged it in.
The green bar flashed up on the screen as she began to wait for it to finish.
She was about 3/4 done when she heard voices down the corridor.

"You really want to feel Minhos wrath" one said.
"I'm pretty sure I'm the only one he will listen to Seungmin" the other said.
"Fair point Chan" they said.
"You heading straight to his room?" Seungmin said.
"In a moment I left my jacket in the office I'll just pop in and get it" Chan said.

The woman's eyes widened as she looked to see indeed a jacket was hanging up next to the chair.
She looked at the screen 97% compete. She urged the download to hurry up.
When it had finally finished she shut the laptop and grabbed the disk. She stood up and moving the chair back just as the door turned and opened.
She ran and grabbed her broom and began sweeping as a man entered the room.
"Who are you?" Chans voice was authoritative scaring the woman.
"My names Jessica Mr Chan I was just sweeping" she said.
"I'm positive I left the door locked so why are you in here" Chan said unconvinced.
"I'm new. I was set to clean all upstairs rooms. I checked the door and it was unlocked so I was sweeping" she said.
"Was it now?" Chan looked suspiciously at the woman. She looked older than most of the staff and kept her head down refusing to look Chan in the eye.
"Get out don't come in here again" Chan said.
The woman bolted from the room.

The first thing Chan did was walk over and check his things. Nothing has been moved. He then opened his laptop to see the screen was still locked and nothing had been tampered with.
"Maybe I did leave it unlocked" Chan scratched his head.
"Well you are old" Seungmin said from the doorway.
Chan rolled his eyes grabbed his jacket and chased Seungmin away from his office then locked the door and began heading to Minhos room.