INSIDE MONSTER. THE FUGITIVE.

CHAPTER 21: TWO MONSTERS. WHO IS THE REAL ONE?

When Marie entered the storage room, she found DooSan lying on the ground and crying. Seeing him like that scared her a lot. Especially when she noticed him squeezing the phone at his chest, which made her kneel next to him. Then, touching his arms, Marie shook him and tried to make him react by asking, „DooSan, what's wrong? What happened?"

She didn't receive an answer from her son because DooSan didn't have the power for something like that. All he could do at that moment was cry and murmur strange words. He also shuddered with all his body because of the powerlessness felt inside, the one born in his soul the moment he realized that all he believed in all those eight years had been a lie in fact, and that all he knew wasn't the truth but someone's invention. Particularly, it had been a lie all he had thought about SolHi, truths that he had found out one by one, so unexpectedly that he felt it as though a hammer hit the top of his head. DooSan started to feel all that after the day Min Hiok told him that YuSan had been in love with SolHi and that this had been love at first sight for his brother.

„Something I can't believe," murmured DooSan through sobbing, allowing his mother to hold him to her chest. Then, sticking like a child to her chest, he cried all those tears he hadn't been able to cry all those eight years of pain or that last year of terror, which he spent away from SolHi.

His tears and nonsense muttered words scared Marie a lot. Because of this, she insisted on finding out from him what happened and finding a way to help him. Yet, although she'd been asking him for minutes in a row what happened, DooSan said nothing. He just kept talking to himself, blaming himself for things she didn't understand. Even so, Marie was aware that if her younger son suffered so much and cried all the pain from his chest like that, it was because something serious had happened.

Eventually, when DooSan calmed down a little and only tears were bathing his cheeks, although he stopped shaking, Marie touched his cheeks with her palms and forced him to look into her eyes. By doing this, Marie finally noticed the phone DooSan squeezed in his hand. Yet, she didn't pay too much attention to the black object but to her son, to whom she said, „DooSan, stop it! Don't scare me like that and tell me what happened! Talk to me, son! It's the only way I can help you with this!"

DooSan said nothing, not even this time. He kept silent for a long time, trying to hide at his mother's chest, listening to the melody of her heart, a melody that had always calmed him down when he was still a child, which was a beloved melody at that moment too. Then, when he finally managed to calm down and order his thoughts, DooSan decided that he had to choose the words he'd say to his mother while trying to explain why he cried. Why exactly? Because he knew how much Marie suffered because of YuSan's death and didn't want to hurt her more. In the end, DooSan said, „Just... I didn't know that the truth would hurt like that."

Marie frowned. „The truth? What truth?"

„About..." DooSan kept silent again after that, not finishing his thought. Then, to hide the cruel truth that he found out that night, he decided to change the subject and focused his glance on SolHi's things, asking Marie, „Why are they here?"

This question made Marie look at him for a while, stunned. By doing this, she was probably wondering if her son had lost his mind or if he was still lucid. Seeing the determination in DooSan's eyes and that he was pretty calm, although he seemed to be a human ruin only minutes ago, Marie took her eyes off DooSan and looked at the stuff he pointed with his finger. Stuff that seemed strange to her because she remembered only a woman's purse, which she found among YuSan's things after his death, not the rest. A purse whose content she hadn't ever checked, thinking that this would tear her apart. She also didn't do that because she tried to respect YuSan's personal life even after his death. That's why she simply gathered all the things she found in his room and took them into the storage room. By doing this, Marie tried to avoid another truth: to find out that YuSan was with So Su Yon again because she thought the purse might have been hers. A woman Marie wanted to avoid at any cost because she knew how much he suffered when they broke up and whom she was sure that she wouldn't ever be able to forgive for her betrayal, not even after YuSan's death.