Tainted Heart

Chapter 11

"If you didn’t, then who did it?" Moon asked Beom Seok.

"I don't know. But whoever did it, I am glad. Noona, are you sure? You know you don't have to." Beom Seok tried to make her understand. "Noona, think about me, mom, dad, ahjumma and ahjussi. Think about your fans and the girls. Think about Sun-hi noona. She won't be happy in heaven. Please...." he pleaded.

Moon sighed and held his hands. "You, ahjumma, ahjussi, eomma and Mr. Lee will be just alright with time. The fans might even forget me. And for the girls, I wish them best."

"Noona, it was not your fault." he pleaded.

"Let's not talk about that. How is nana doing?" She asked.

Beom Seok hesitated a bit. "What happened? Tell me." Moon became concerned. "She is....she is doing fine....yeah absolutely fine." he lied.

Later, Moon asked Madame Shin too. But her reply was same as Beom Seok. She didn’t know that too.

Next hearing was three days later. Someone was saving her. But who? Who knew about the past? Only her, Beom Seok and...........

But they were not the one and she was sure of that. Moon was standing on her balcony thinking about these things. The internet was full of her. The news of her being innocent also spread like wildfire like the news of her being involved but the hatred did not reduce that much. Honestly she cared least about that. Light cold breeze was passing by. She thought and thought about the last few days.

Suddenly her eyes caught up on a drawer beside her bed. She stepped forward towards the shelf and sat on the floor. Opening the drawer, she pulled out an old poster and admiringly looked at it.

April, 2014

Teacher Kim was taking lecture of Miyeon's class. She was basically asking what children of that class would like to become in future. Miyeon was quietly listening to others as she didn’t have anything that she wanted to become or anything at that moment.

"Sim, I want to be an idol in future." Hearing her, everyone in the class laughed. Teacher Kim asked everyone to be quiet. Hearing others laughing at her, the girl seemed a little off. But Miyeon could see her passion in her eyes. The girl was determined.

Later, at library, the girl was sitting at library watching something secretively. Miyeon was standing behind her but the girl was so much focused that she didn’t notice. "Sun-hi." Miyeon called her name and the girl named Sun-hi immediately hid the paper so that Miyeon can't see.

Kim Sun-hi, 14 years old, one hell of nerd, wear big glasses but one hell of beauty. Lee Miyeon's one of best friends.

"What are you hiding? Show me...." Miyeon asked.

"Nothing....." she hid the paper and looked at her, "Are you here to make fun of me for my career choice? If yes, not interested right now."  Sun-hi said.

"You are changing the topic." Miyeon said. "Besides,  why would I make fun of you? At least, you know what you want to become but look at me, I don’t even know. Now show me..." Miyeon forced.

They were kinda having a fun banter of bull fighting over the paper. Sun-hi was quite protective whereas Miyeon was quite stubborn.

"SILENCE." the library assistant warned. "Mianhae.. " apologising Miyeon sat opposite of her on a chair.

"Right! You are forgetting that this is a library and people are here to study." Sun-hi attacked with her words.

"Which you are not doing right now. Then what are you doing?" Miyeon counter attacked.

"Fine." Sun-hi sighed surrendering knowing the fact she couldn’t really win over the stubborn queen, Lee Miyeon.

Sun-hi held the paper in front of Miyeon. It was basically a poster of seven boys. "K-pop?" Miyeon asked. "Nerds follow kpop too?" Miyeon teased playfully.

"Wae? Can't we?" Sun-hi said showing her tongue to her.

"Fine. You can." Miyeon gave in.

The poster was of BTS No more dreams. Sun-hi talked about how she discovered them and how she was a fan of them since they debut abd how they inspired them to dream of being idol. Miyeon wasn’t really into k-pop that much back then but she was listening to Sun-hi's every words and was chuckling from time to time thinking about how cute she was.

"Why are you studying like a goat then?" Miyeon asked.

"Because unlike you, I am no princess of any castle. I need to earn to be something." Sun-hi said. "If I have money one day, I will be buying more and more merch and show off those to the world." Sun-hi said smiling and her eyes lit.

After Sun-hi's death, she kept the poster with her.

"Miyeon, come downstairs for dinner." Moon heard her mother's voice from outside of her door. She put the poster back in its place and wiped off the tear that escaped from her eye.

"Coming....." Miyeon said and went for dinner.

Time skips,
On the day of hearing,

The judge and jury heard both sides of stories. The judge asked, "Do you want to say something in your defence?" Moon nod her head as no.

The girls in their hotel room were praying for Moon so that she would be saved somehow. Her mother in her house was hoping for any miracle to happen while her father was secretly praying.

"No, my lord." Moon said.

"Then by the jury's decision and my decision combined, we have decided-" The judge's words got cut off as Moon's cousin Lee Beom Seok stood up to say something.

"Your honour, if Miyeon is guilty, then I am guilty too." Beom Seok and everyone present in the courtroom started whispering.

Miyeon looked at him shocked and gave him a 'why do you do that?' look.

"Order....order" The judge said. "Mr. Lee, whatever you wanna say, come to the witness box, please." he added and Beom Seok got on witness box.

"You honour, mianhae. Mianhae noona. But I can't let you do this. I can't let you sacrifice yourself. If you are guilty, I am guilty too." Beom Seok said.

"Me too."

"Me three. "

"Me four."

They turned towards the owner of voice and the place from where the voice was coming from. One girl and two boys were standing at the exit and entry way.

"If Miyeon is guilty, if Beom Seok is guilty, we three are guilty too." The girl among those three said.

"Do not interrupt court like this. And What ever you wanna say, say it. But only on witness box." The judge said.

"Mianhae...." They apologised and bowed.