The Masked Stalker

Chapter 8

Yeonjin was starting to cry but made sure nobody could hear it. He felt so bad that his life became even worse than it was. Soomin, by his side, felt really guilty because it was his fault. He decided to become Jiah's friend. What if all of this never happenedt ? What if Soomin never accepted to be his friend ? Everything would be different for sure, but why did it have to happen ? Every choices that we made impact the past, the present and the future. The future is made by our past decision, it would be different if you didn't make that one choice or mistake. Everytime someone enters our life it changes but we don't notice it. For Soomin and Yeonjin, it was hard to hide their couple, hide their feelings. By Jiah and Soomin's side, they are watching a movie. The atmosphere is weird and uncomfortable but Soomin tries to keep his cool. During the whole movie, Soomin tried to not move and breathe slightly but Jiah didn't care of him at all. Some moments late, Jiah puts his arm around Soomin's waist. Soomin startles but doesn't do anything else. The seconds passing feel interminable. The movie passes slowly but finally finishes. Soomin is reassured and he notices that it's already midnight. Soomin gets up and goes to the basement but Jiah smiles to him and wishes him a good-night. Soomin is confused; why is Jiah so nice with him ? He looks at him for a bit and goes to the basement. He joins Yeonjin who's sleeping in his tears. Soomin notices it but doesn't do anything . He lays on the ground and finds sleep. By Jiho's side, his community service serves to help the cops with organisation. But in relation to his interrogation, he blamed it on himself and will have 14 years of jail for kidnapping, torture, infos leaked on the darknet and hacking. Jiho didn't do any of these except for complicity. It was principally Jiah's fault. Minhee, her, was getting badder and badder. Her mental health was messed up and didn't go to school anymore. She had a demence and a severe depression too. She wanted to kill Jiah and she will do it. She decided to leave a note on her phone leaving the date of his death, when she will kill him. It was her old plan, the plan she could have do if the police didn't take care of the case seriously. She already knew how to shoot due to her precedent entertainment. Minhee wanted to kill him because she couldn't control her mind and decisions. She wasn't herself anymore but him. She put herself at the same level as him. Sadly. He clearly manipulated her by someone. Friends of friends are dangerous sometimes. She's decided she is going to kill him. Minhee will kill him right now. She dresses herself, takes her gun and a dagger. And goes on her way to his house. She was stressing a litttle and she also didn't care at all if she would die or not. She wanted it at the deep of her heart, she was suffering too much. She is almost at his house but Jiah knew it. He knew she will come, he was already prepared for this. Minhee arrives at his house. The door is openned, she enters. No one is here. She slowly looks around, she knew the danger she was digging into. She keeps the gun in her hands very careful. Suddenly, the door closes itself. She looks back and sees Jiah a knife in his hand standing in front of the door. Minhee doesn't have the time to react because Jiah already run to her and pins her violently to the ground. Minhee successes to hit him at the eye and she arrives to get up and runs to the basement door. She opens it and sees her friends she can't help but feels happy to see them but that's not the moment for this. Yonjin and Soomin look up and are happy to see Minhee. Minhee screams to them while crying that they are free by now, they can go. They run to the basement door and to the final exit door but Jiah gets up and shoots at Minhee's heart by the back and she falls on the ground. And while Soomin and Yeonjin reach the door, Minhee dies and he last words are that it was a pleasure to had the chance to meet them. With a final  breathe, she dies with a slight smile. Soomin cries and doesn't want to go. He doesn't want to leave her behind. Yonjin forces his hand and runs. Jiah waits a little before running after them. They run to the train station because Jiah lived near it. They run to it and they tumble on a  broken dyke and falls on the train's rail. They can't get up and keep running because Yonjin's leg is broken and Soomin's neck is broken. Jiah walks close to them before arriving in front of the rails. Yeonjin makes him fall on the rail by pulling his leg and Jiah falls on the rails without any bruises but stay here. The train is coming closer and closer. Yeonjin and Soomin hold each other hands, scared to die. Soomin slowly starts to remember of his life: "When he was 11, his parents have been victims of a car accident. He streets until an old man adopted him . That man was very nice and caring towards Soomin. He even enrolled him in a school. But sadly, good things always have ends and the man died 3 years after he adopted Soomin due to oldness. Soomin decided to join a highschool but he was very shy so he couldn't socialise with anyone. But there was someone who was bullying him. At lunch time that person would spill water at him. One day, that person wanted to do it again but a girl stopped him and spilled water at him instead. This girl was Minhee. Just after doing that, Minhee went to Soomin and apologized for his behavior. Soomin says that it was okay and Minhee explained that he was a friend of her and she didn't knw he would do that. Soomin excuses them and Minhee invites him to eat with them. Soomin accepts and they eat together. Minhee was a popular girl in highschool so she had many friends but for Soomin it was the opposite, she was his only friend. With time, they eat together at every meals and spend a lot of time together. When highschool was finished, they decided to go in a litterature school to write books together. Soomin was immediately taken but not Minhee She had to try 4 times before she coud be taken. When they entered the school together they were very happy to find each other. And that's how their life went until here and meeting Yeonjin."