Memories Of HER

Chapter- 3

                   Bones and Stones

"Congratulations, it's a baby girl. Do you wanna hold her?"
"Of course, I do"
"She looks like a doll"
"She really does. Is my wife okay?"
"Yes, it is quite hard the first time. But don't worry, she'll be better"
"Yeah, This is our first child and we are both very nervous"
"You'll be fine. Do you have a name for her? I need to register her birth"
"Yes. We decided to call her--"

June 8th, 2022

Jisoo bids her father goodbye. She waits for the school bus outside their house. Her father watches her stand by the sidewalk wishing his wife could've been there too. A complete family

"Look at your daughter. All grown up to be just like you. She is a fleeting reflection of you" he says and wipes a tiny speck of tear from the angle of his eyes. It has been lonely without his wife all these years and his daughters were his shield from this world.

Jisoo boards the bus and sits at her usual seat, not before she greets everyone with her warm smile.

The bus stops at a stop to pick up another student when Jisoo gets down. They haven't arrived to school yet but Jisoo has other plans. She has a friend she wants to meet and what she didn't tell anyone is that she has been meeting with this secret friend of hers for a week now.

Present time

"So, you were saying, she mentioned having a new friend in one of her conversations, did she mention who?" Taehyung asks and rests his two hands on the interrogation table slightly leaning over it

"No, we always go to school together but for the last week she got down before we could arrive and said that she was going to meet her friend. I assumed that it would be one of the neighbors of that area but I didn't ask anything. As usual. I never asked her anything" Seulgi replies calmly. Just then her phone starts ringing. She looks at the caller and cuts the line

"You two always went to school together then?" Taehyung asks ignoring the call completely

"yes"

"Then why does it say on the report that on the day of her disappearance she went alone and you weren't there with her?" he asks

"I was sick. I have said this a number of times before. It must be written there somewhere. I had food poisoning so decided to skip the day" Seulgi says being annoyed at having to repeat the same thing over again

"isn't it a convenient time to have food poisoning?" Taehyung says in a sarcastic voice

"What are you trying to get at? That I was involved in this? And who the fuck are you asking the same things again and again when I have clearly explained everything years ago?" she gets angry

"You see the problem is that, when you were explaining these years ago, I wasn't here and the police that took your statement clearly didn't ask the right questions or didn't push you bunch to get the true answers. But things will be different now. I'll find out where she is and I'll find out who did it" he says with a smile in his face, hands in his pockets

"She is dead, can't you see?" Seulgi almost screams

"How can you be so sure?" he eyes her like a hawk

"They found her remains, her bone to be exact, took my DNA and matched it. I was sure that it wouldn't match because she just can't die like that. She had so much left in her life but she-the DNA matched. It was a horrifying day for me and my father, when we opened the report and it said that it matched. It matched" she said and started sobbing