Chapter 7

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A girl running around at night, chasing her breathe to sustain her body enough air to keep going. She stops, taking a deep breath, she kneels down, gasping, crying, her body reaches its limit. She turns around as a shadow figure shaded her face. Her teary eyes gaze on the shadow figure coming closer to her, it was a man wearing a black hoodie holding a knife. Her jaw stiffen as her flesh freezes, “Please…. Don’t hurt me, please let me go.. my mom and dad is so worried now please.. I promise not to report you to the police..” She stands up, have her hands hold each other in front of her chest. The man plunged the knife into her stomach, blood flows out from her mouth and stained her clothes as her eyes begging for her life releases a river of tears, “Ple….sss… do… hur…”, her blood filled lips speaks, then her body decides to give up as her bloody mouth opens wide to breath the last air in her lungs. The man breathes deeply and heavily while his hand holding the bloody knife shakes, “Die...” He whispered.

The police department wonders what will they do after the news about a murder of young girls are spreading throughout the land of the rising sun. The murder surprise them who lived in a country that was known to have a less crime rate, and now, a cold blooded murder is happening. Parents are now having fear for their young girls to go out especially when the night comes.

Mrs. Akiko and Jae-Hwa, is having a video call, sitting on a table facing a laptop, “What do you want in your birthday my love?” Jae-Hwa asked, “Ehhh…. Actually, I have nothing to ask for all my life, I already have a lovely family.. and a handsome and loving husband..” Mrs. Akiko replied, “Since before our marriage, you still flatters me all the way.. Well I’ll send you your birthday gift later..” Jae-Hwa check his watch, “What will be your gift to me?” Mrs. Akiko asked, “It will be a surprise so I won’t tell you” Jae-Hwa replied, “Anyway, where’s our daughter Mizuki?”

“Oh.. she left the house, but no worry, she’ll be safe, thank God she’s now able to go out without fear in her heart”

“I’m glad she’s fine now, I can’t believe she will recover fast, thanks to Bong Cha and her cousins most of all, to my brother Hak Kun”

“Mizuki is so lucky, she have all of us who loves her..”

“Mizuki is kindhearted, so she will loved by people around her, she reminds me of you in our younger days Akiko”

“But she really inherit your characteristics Jae, the characteristics of you that I fall in love with.”

“She have both our characters, Akiko, because she is the fruit of our love..”

“If ever she found love one day, I hope the person she will be with is like you hon..”

“I wish, and I hope, that if the time for us to let her go comes, the one she will be with will take a good care of her and protects her..”
Jae-Hwa check his watch for the second time, “I have to go now my hon, and Happy Birthday my love..” he said, “Please tell Mizuki I love her so much..” Akiko blushes like her former teen self, “You didn’t change Hon, you’re still the same Jae-Hwa I met, take care and I love you so Much hon..” the conversation ends and Mrs. Akiko turn the Laptop off and proceed to do the house chores.

On the other side, Mizuki is having a window-shopping in a cake shop, she take a look on different kinds of cakes, she stroll around looking at the cakes with different designs. As she move one side to another, coincidentally, Michael is also having a window-shopping in the same cake shop, checking on the cakes, exactly they turn around facing one another with their noses almost one inches away from each other. Mizuki lost grip of her mobile phone and it falls in the ground. Mizuki and Michael reacts quickly and picks the phone ends up in a situation where their hands touches each other, then they look into each other’s eyes, shocked by the coincidence, they pull their hands away from each other then look away. Michael look back to Mizuki, and so on Mizuki as well. “s-sorry” Michael said after he see Mizuki’s twinkling star-like eyes with her deep black Iris, as she slightly stretches her lips each sides into the opposite direction, her dimples appear.  “Ehh…” Mizuki’s eyes and mouth opens, she quickly pick her phone and stood up, “Sumimasen!” she bow her head slightly in a fast motion multiple times to Michael as her smooth and slightly chubby check Start to become pinkish. Mizuki walk away after bowing her head multiple times. Michael gazes on Mizuki’s angelic face, long, black and silky hair with bangs, and he proceeds checking on valentines day chocolate cakes afterwards then proceed to other cakes.

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