The Masked Stalker

Chapter 5

Trigger Warning: This chapter contains gore and can shock sensitive people. If you are sensitive, please skip this chapter.

As he places the corpse in the fridge, Jiah looks at Soomin and Yeonjin watching from the basement door. There is a small silence before Jiah speaks up. He then asks to Soomin why was he dating someone else. Soomin sighs and says that it was his life so he didn't have to decide for him. Jiah giggles before approaching and arriving right in front of him. Soomin steps back a little and Jiah says that he will control his life; every choices, every decisions he will make will be decided by him. Soomin swallows, looks down and accept. He can't help but suffer. He nods, knowing that if he doesn't obey him he will be tortured again. Yeonjin can not even react, seeing his boy friend being a slave was hard to see. Jiah orders Soomin to be his and nobody's else. Soomin accepts unwillingly. All he had to do was to break up. Jiah suddenly kissed Soomin's and let him go back in the basement. When thye go back in the basement, Yeonjin crosses his arms and looks at Soomin. Soomin tilts his head and asks him what's wrong. Yeonjin answers that he din't want to break up with him. Soomin sighs tiredly and answers that they don't have the choice. Yeonjin cries furiously and says that they could at least fake their break-up. Soomin hesitates a little, he also didn't want to break up. After a minute of hesitation, he accepts. There was some risks for them but they didn't care, they knew they will be alright. The days were passing slowly and Jiah liked to kiss Soomin's cheek so Yeonjin could get jealous. Jiah knew they were faking their break up but he didn't care as long as he was with Soomin. By Minhee's side she knew that Yeonjin was also kidnapped. The whole city knew that there was a kidnapper. But there was still a problem, the policeman who went to Jiah's place has completely disappeared. It was the policeman Jiah killed. And the others didn't want to go to Jiah's place, not because they don't take the story seriously but because they are scared. Minhee doesn't know what to do anymore; she is alone, she has a depression, she lost all her friends besides Soomin and Yeonjin, has bad grades, she even self-harms and skips school very often. Her favourite teacher noticed that Minhee wwas not okay. At the end of the lesson, her teacher convoked Minhee. Minhee and her teacher talked together about her feelings. She explains everything that happens in her life. They talk for at least 10 minutes before the school bell rings. After the talk, Minhee felt a little better but not too much. As she runs downstairs, she can see few students mocking her. She finally exits the school and runs home. She secretly opens the door and walks upstairs to her room. Minhee changes her clothes to pajamas and falls in her bed. She falls asleep very quickly and dreams: "When Minhee was 10, she lost her parents in a car accident; they went to a party and ended drunk while driving and only Minhee survived. Like they were dead, her grand-parents adopted her. The problem was that they were very strict.When she entered college, she has made two close friends: Yuna and Sana. Years by years, in 8th grades, Minhee started having feelings for Yuna. She was stressing about the idea of confessing her feelings. One day, she takes her courage and decides to confess to her once the lessons finished. When they are, Minhee tells Yuna she wanted to tell her something a little risky. Yuna accepts and asks what did she want to say. Minhee stresses and tells her what she thinks, everything about her feelings ect... When she finishes to confess, Yuna looks at Minhee and laughs she says to Minhee that nobody could like her because of her shyness. Suddenly Sana joins Yuna and Yuna explains the situation to Sana who joins her laughter. Minhee can't hold her tears and runs crying all her tears. Yuna and Sana weren't friends with her anymore. They started spreading rumors about Minhee and started to bully her. They did it for 2 years but Minhee couldn't talk about it because if she did her grand-parents would call her weak. After these 2 years, Minhee finally quit college and goes to high school. High school is better for Minhee but her life still isn't because she was beaten up by her grand-father and her grand-mother would throw boiled water at her. Since her grand-mother did that, she has a scorch on the neck because of it. The worst for her was that she was still beaten up so that was the reason she was often hanging late with Soomin. She also was broke and fatshamed by her grand-parents because she was a little pudgy by her morphology. In the high school, Minhee had completely changed; she became bolder and had more character. She was popular and had many friends . But one day, when she was eating with her friends, she saw a boy eating alone and decided to see him. That boy was Soomin. He didn't have any friends since he was new. Minhee and him talked for a bit the time to exchange their names and Minhee proposes to Soomin to eat with her and her friends. Soomin was sadly feeling a bit uncomfortable but Minhee reassured him quickly. They were nice to him but Minhee noticed that he felt more comfortable with her. They were not in the same class sadly but they still were very close friends. But at the end of the day, like she was hanging with Soomin, her grand-parents saw that and beaten her up. Minhee could not talk about it. Not even to Soomin. But one day when she was getting grounded, she cutted her hair to prove her independence to her grand-parents. It didn't please them but they didn't care more. She also dyed one of her highlights in black. And when they finally finished high school, Minhee and Soomin decided to go in a special school to learn litterature and become authors. When they send their requests, Soomin is accepted but not Minhee she was trying everything to go in the school and successed at the 3rd time. And there her life is." She suddenly wakes up like from a fever dream and goes drink something before returning to bed. She sleeps peacefullyand wakes up the next morning. She brushes her teeth, gets dressed on and goes downstairs in the kitchen. Her grand-parents are still sleeping so she takes a breakfast. While eating, she receives a notification on her phone. By reading it, her eyes widen.