You're My Only One! || KNJ - AU || ✓

Chapter Thirty-five

- 𝐘/𝐍 𝐉𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒' 𝐏𝐎𝐕 -
═══════════════════════

"How have you been sunflower?"

My blood runs cold, my mind goes blank, my eyes grow wide and my body becomes frigid as I just stand there, staring at the man in front of me, the man I yearned to see all these years, but never thought would be able to see again, the man for whose death, I've blamed myself for all these years, the man who always meant more than the world to me.

"Paa?" I finally ask. I just cannot recognise my voice myself. It's like I'm underwater.

"Yes sunflower, it's me, Paa." He speaks and that seems to break me out of whatever trance I was in.

I realise that I was unknowingly moving towards him, so I immediately take steps backwards, putting a distance between him and me, not being able to believe my eyes.

This can't be true. Can it? How can a dead man be alive? I was there at his funeral for fucks sake. Sure enough, I didn't see his dead body during or before the funeral, but his casket was as heavy as he was.

Then what the hell is all this?

Are they all together kidding me right now?

Is this one of his look-alike, that's pretending to be Paa in some sick joke?

Wait! Was he never even dead, and I simply blamed myself all these years for nothing? Did I lose my sleep, my peace, my calm and myself over nothing?

I keep backing up till my back hits the wall and I stop dead in my tracks. I look from Paa's face to his wife's, to Appa's, to Joon's and back to Paa.

I frantically shake my head and yell at the top of my lungs. "WHAT KIND OF A SICK JOKE IS THIS?"

Namjoon takes a step towards me but I stop him with a hard glare. "You knew that my father was alive, didn't you?" I ask him in a low voice. My head spinning and my heart aching with betrayal.

The man I loved with everything I have, the man I gave myself to -- not just emotionally or mentally, but also physically -- the man whom I forgave even after he went and cheated on me, and the man I took all that hate from the media and fans for, did this to me.

I turn to Appa with an equally hard glare. "And you Mr. Bang Si Hyuk. I gave you the place of a father in my life, of the one man who always meant more than the world to me since day 1, and you go and do this to me?"

Just as I thought it couldn't get any worse, Ash and Jack's parents walk out into the living room with a guilty look on their faces, which mirrors everyone in this room except for myself.

Without thinking or wasting another second, I send my live location to Ayesha and call her up.

"Ash... There's a location I just sent you. I need you and Jack here as soon as possible." I speak, controlling the tremble in my voice with so much effort.

"Hun, what's wrong?" She asks, her voice worried.

"I don't have enough time to explain anything, and neither can I explain anything on the phone. Just... Just come here as soon as you can. I need you both right now... Pl-lease..." I let my voice give away at the end, but before she could ask me anything else, I hung up the phone and fell to my knees.