Tainted Heart

Chapter 12

Beom Seok got off the witness box and hugged them tightly one by one. They hugged him back. Beom Seok gave them a nod as he knew everything would be alright then. Moon gave them 'please don't do anything' look.

The girl among them got on the witness box and touched on the bible, "Whatever I will say, I will say the truth."

"Please...do not..." Miyeon again said gesturing her.

The girl sighed and looked at the judge, "Your honour, my name is Kim Sun-young. I am friend of both Kim Sun-hi and Lee Miyeon."

Sun-young looked at Miyeon, "Miyeon-ah, I know you don't want anyone to know. I know we sacrificed a lot for this but it's high time. Really." Sun-young said as she wiped her tears off.

"I know we blame ourselves for her death specially you. But how long? It was not our fault. Sun-hi herself said it. For god's sake, stop blaming yourself. You are taking the blame but what about us? You are repenting the guilt in you by sacrificing yourself but what about us? How we gonna survive thinking you sacrificed yourself when it was not your fault? You didn't think about us. You didn't think about Sun-hi. When did you become so selfish? This, Miyeon, I don't know her." Sun-young said while her tears flow down.

Moon looked down. Her tears were flowing down constantly. She was selfish. She actually didn't think of anything. She actually just gave up. Sun-young was absolutely right. She was guilty and she wanted to be free from this guilt.

Sun-young looked at Yeong-suk and her mother, "Yeong-suk, I know you have lots of grudges towards us. But know one thing, Sun-hi meant a lot to us, to her. We could never bully her, never hurt her. In fact, we are guilty for not be able to protect her and watch her die in front of our eyes."

The two boys looked down. They were secretly shedding tears too. Miyeon was looking down the whole time molding her hands into fists.

Sun-young let out a deep breathe. "Sun-hi, I, Miyeon, Ryung and Seo-jun, we five were the best best friend ever. Sun-hi was not our friend at first. As we were belong to affluent families, Sun-hi used to keep her distance from us in a way. We don't know when where how but we became best friends ever gradually. She was one hell of nerd and a completely innocent human being." Saying this Sun-young chuckled remembering the past while one tear dropped from her eye.

"She used to care about what people would say while we....we didn't care. Honestly she was not rich like us but she had everything other than that. We four were....were cold while she was sunshine, epitome of hard work. We used to behave in front of others as if we didn't care about her a lot because slowly she became our weak point, specially Miyeon's." Sun-young paused to look at Miyeon.

"We were worried that someone might take advantage of her being innocent and take revenge from us by using her which actually happened. That day, when Sun-hi......."

14 May, 2015

Miyeon was sitting in the class along with Sun-young. It was the class after break. 20 minutes passed but Sun-hi was not still in the class. Teacher Kim was teaching the class as usual but Miyeon was sketching on her desk feeling bored like always. She looked at the clock and then looked at the door. Sun-hi was not coming still. She felt weird. She whispered to Sun-young.

"Where is Sun-hi? The class is going towards the end almost."

"I don't know. She has been acting weird from these days. Not attending classes, not talking to us properly. The other day, she literally fought for that playboy, Max with you. I wonder what's going on her mind. I am not having good instinction about these honestly, Miyeon-ah." Sun-hi whispered back.

Downstairs, outside the school building, there was too much noise suddenly. Everyone in the class started feeling curious to see what happened. All of them started murmuring among each other. Miyeon and Sun-young both looked at each other trying to figure out what's going on. Teacher Kim slammed her book on the table and said, "Silence in the class."