The Masked Stalker

Chapter 2

Yeonjin looks Soomin deeply in his eyes and tells him that since they met, he feels happier and has feelings that he never had before. Soomin blushes slightly, his eyes are wide open. Soomin is definitely choked. No one has ever been in love with him. Soomin could not lie because he felt the same too. Soomin and Yeonjin keeps their eyes contact and Soomin leans closer and tells him that he felt the same. Both are blushing and Soomin leans even closer and leaves a small kiss on Yeonjin's cheek. Yeonjin's satisfaction is indescriptible and he smiles shyly. Yeonjin then looks away still blushing and asks Soomin if he's okay for being in a relationship with him. Soomin accepts and looks at his watch. He notices the hour, it's 6pm so he must go. He then gets up, Yeonjin watches him getting up. Soomin then waves at him before going away, leaving Yeonjin alone on the bench. Yeonjin is still blushing because he started to love Soomin even more. He then  slowly gets up and goes home. At Soomin's side, when he arrives home, Jiah calls him and they both talk for hours. Soomin doesn't tell anything to Jiah because he wants to keep their relationship secret. The days pass and Soomin receives a message from Jiah. The message was saying that he felt deprimed these he doesn't know why. Soomin after reading the message, answers. His message says that he should come to the park near his school like he lives near his school. Jiah accepts and asks for his adress. Soomin gives him the adress of the park. He has a doubt because he could be a possibly criminal. But no, Soomin tells himself that he is too paranoiac for nothing. He knows him since 3 months and he talks with him everyday, why should he be scared ? They never had any arguments together so everything was safe. Jiah and Soomin decide themselves for spending the entire week together. Jiah will come the day of tomorrow after the lessons. The day of tomorrow, Soomin does his usual ritual. He joins Minhee, him and she go find Yeonjin ect... After finishing their lessons, Minhee must go quickly for personnal reasons. She leaves and Yonjin and Soomin find themselves alone. They talk together and exit the school together but there's one thing that they don't know; Jiah is already here and he watch them. Few minutes later, they notice him on a bench. Soomin, happy, runs to him leaving Yonjin behind him. Soomin introduce Jiah to Yeonjin and they both seem to get along well. In fact, Jiah was jealous of Yeonjin. He could not stand seeing them being so close. They talk for 10 minutes before Yeonjin who receives a message, apologizes and announces he must go home. He leaves and Soomin waves at him. Jiah profites of this occasion to invite Sooomin at a bar. Soomin accept and they go to the bar. Jiah pays 2 cocktails for him and Soomin. Jiah buys a cherry blossom cocktail for himself and a pineapple cocktail for Soomin. Him and Soomin talk about diverse subjects and Jiah takes care of not being drunk. Soomin gets drunk because Jiah bought him many different cocktails. Jiah profites of this occasion to take him to his house. Soomin is drunk so he doesn't have conscience of what is happening to him. Jiah takes Soomin in his basement and ties him up. The day of tomorrow, Jiah takes a walk in the street of the park. He goes near Soomin's school without noticing it because he was too focused on his thoughts and also was listenning to music. Suddenly, Minhee and Yonjin joins Jiah ans ask him if he knew why Soomin did not come to school. Jiah lies and says that he doesn't know and that he was probably sick so there was nothing to worry about. Minhee instantly knows he is suspicious and that he lied. She knows that Soomin is very organized and that he would tell Minhee a day before being absent. Yonjin doubts about it but ignores it. He could have forget to tell them. They go away and leaves Jiah behind. Minhee tells Yeonjin about her feeligs toward Jiah. She says that she never liked him and that Soomin started to recede of her. Yeonjin nods and says that anyways they were being too paranoiac. Minhee gets a bit upset because she knows that Jiah was suspicious and even more, she was certain  that Jiah did something to Soomin. When she tells Yonjin this, he giggles and says that she watched too much movies. He then adds that there was no way he would do something like kidnap him. He keeps laughing while walking with her. The following days, Soomin doesn't come back. Yeonjin and Minhee were sure that Soomin was kidnapped. Minhee proposes to Yeonjin to go to the police office. Yonjin tells her that it may be too early. Minhee doesn't listen to him and grabs his hand violently so they go at the police office together. When they arrive, they tell the police the story but they don't take them seriously and reject them. Minhee is pissed off and Yeonjin and she go print disappearance displays and they display them in every streets. A week later, Minhee receives a call. She answers and a man's voice is heard. That man is saying that the day when Soomin has disappeared he was at his bar with a tall, dark haired man and when they left he forgot his phone at the bar. Minhee thanks the man and hangs up. That description was Jiah's description. He indeed is tall, he has black hair and black eyes with a red glint.  She then runs to Yeonjin's house and tells him the new. Yeonjin and Minhee precipitate themselves to the bar and when they are arrived, the man gives them the phone and Minhee takes it. She unlocks the phone and read the last messages with Jiah. The last messages are:

"-Jiah: Damn, i feel depressed these times... I don't even know why lol.

-Soomin: Oh that sucks man... What can i do so u feel better ? 

-Jiah: U see we live near to each other, would you like to spend the entire week at my place ?

-Soomin: Yeah sure ! If that's how you could get better i accept!

-Jiah: Cool ! So, where do you wanna meet me ?

-Soomin: Let's meet at the park next to my school !

-Jiah: Okay ! Sound good. 

-Soomin: But i have one more question...

-Jiah: What's it ?

-Soomin: Will you come without your mask ? You see, i'm kinda curious to see how you look like."

The last message by Soomin was seen but Jiah did not respond. Yonjin and Minhee understand that Jiah was always wearing a mask. They remember seeing him with the mask on. They both understand that he wore one to keep his identity. But what if it was not the reason ? Minhee was 100% sure that Jiah had a criminal record so she search his name on the internet. The problem is that she does not know his last name. She still searches his name and find some informations.