"Love Barrier" | Kim Mingyu

53 (THE END)

Jia' POV

In a cold vip room of the Hong Hospital, it has been six days since I spend the night here to take care of my injured father. It's far from the dangerous spot but bullet is still a bullet and it will cause more harm if it's not getting treated right. Hospital has a distinct scent that lingers in the air and it makes me sick in every way possible, I hate it. It's also tiring because for as long as I remember staying here, we received no less than a hundred baskets of fruit and flower stands from business partners and close people, surprisingly, there's also one from the Kim's family.

After the incident that night, police keep visiting me everyday for more information that will be useful for the investigation. But the more they ask the more I keep quiet and even YoungHyun can't get me to open up too no matter how hard he try to persuade. Today is no different from the other day either. Two police come again to dig some evidence that can be only provided by me, the only witness/victim that remain untouched besides, one dead and one hospitalised.

"Miss Baek, can you try to remember how many people they had that night?" The police ask with his recorder pointing straight to my face, ready to record everything I will say.

My hands and feet cold. The sounds of the gunfire, my previous driver and my dad's red blood splashed everywhere on the ground and the last conversation I had with Jungkook is playing and haunting again and again in my head. I get dejavu, still, I refuse to give them even a tiny piece of clue. "Maybe 3 to 4? Wait or 5?"  I sounds like I'm the one that questioning them instead, "I can't remember so— can you stop coming?"

The police are puzzling with my answer, they don't know whether i want them to help or to go home at this point. "Miss Baek, please do understand that you're the only source that can lead us to find the culprits. If you still refuse to cooperate we can't do anything but to close the case."

"Yes, please." 

The police and his partner looking at me weirdly as if I'm twisted so YoungHyun who is also with us the whole conversation, speak up. "It was a traumatic experience, I guess it still triggers her to try to recall the memories." He said calmly while they nod to show their comprehension of his reasoning. "Let's talk again another time when she's ready."

Hearing that, the police stand up and send themselves off immediately since the boss of the boss already said so.

YoungHyun switch his attention back to me once they out of the room. His gaze fixed on mine. "Who are you trying to protect, Jia, that even I not allow to know?"  He tries to lower his voice so he doesn't wake up my father who is sleeping peacefully on a gatch bed next to us.

His question get to me because why do I need to protect people that tried to kill me? I'm not sure but what I know is that loving me is not a crime, even though I can't give the same feeling back but I do feel those sincerity in what he has for me. One of his words that stuck, 'we never betrayed people that trusted us'  maybe Jungkook was right. My father got all the benefits while gave them hope and false promise just to betrayed them the next day. And maybe they never intent to hurt us in the first place if only—

I will burry that memory, I will take it to my grave if I have to because at least loving me isn't going to be a horrible thing he do.

YoungHyun gently pull my cold hands to warmed with his. "Jia, you're safe now you know that?" I haven't said anything yet but YoungHyun seems to read my mind pretty fast. "It's okay, I don't have to know if you don't want to. As long as you think it's a good decision, I will tell them to close the case and make sure no one brings it up again so you can take your time and move on from this nightmare."

I try not to breakdown, for some reasons he always choose the right words to say at the right time. He added, "I might not know what secrets that you're keeping but whatever or whoever it is is not important anymore. You don't do anything without reason and i trust you, Jia. I'm sorry it took me so long to get to my sense."