INSIDE MONSTER. THE FUGITIVE.

CHAPTER 31: THE DREAM

„Daddy!" DooSan suddenly heard someone calling him. Looking behind him, he saw a five-year-old boy heading straight toward him. The boy was so happy while pedaling his bicycle. „I learned how to do this!" The child shouted again. „I'm great at this, can you see that?"

Seeing the boy, DooSan seemed surprised at first. Then, he smiled and said something to the one with whom he was talking by phone, hanging up the phone call after that. And, still looking at the child, he smiled at him. He even made a sign to the boy that that one was doing everything great.

Suddenly DooSan shuddered when he saw a black car heading at speed toward the kid. Then, throwing his phone away, he ran as fast as he could toward the child, who, hearing the noise of the tires behind him, looked back. Yet, even if he saw that car approaching him, he didn't do anything to move away from it. That's why DooSan shouted, going crazy, „No, Un, no! Move aside! Aside! Now! No!"

The rest... was darkness all around. A thud was only heard after this - of the tires sliding on the asphalt when the driver finally stepped on the brake pedal. And, soon after this, the impact of the car with the bicycle was heard. Then... nothing more.

Nevertheless, it had been enough for DooSan to feel his blood freezing in his veins. And, sitting on the bed, he touched his chest with his palms. He was breathing fast while his eyes looked through the room, as though he didn't understand where he was. Only in the end, he realized that he had dreamt everything and this calmed him a little, especially after he understood that he was still in SoRan's house, in the same bed that he had shared with SolHi. Yet, she wasn't with him.

„Where did she go?" The man wondered, frowning when he realized that he was alone. Then, standing up, he left the room.

It was darkness all along the corridor, just as he saw nobody there. There was also silence in the rooms found on the second floor of the house, and this bothered him a little, even though he didn't understand why, so he hurried to descend the stairs eventually. Getting to the ground floor, he saw IuNa in the small living room of Lee's house. She was alone there, holding a broom and a dustpan while gathering some hair from off the floor. Seeing this, DooSan frowned, not understanding what was going on there. Because of confusion and amazement, the man stopped halfway descending the stairs and stared at the young woman who didn't see him coming at first.

Hearing the noise coming from the stairs, IuNa looked at DooSan, smiling. „Are you finally awake, Sleeping Beauty?"

DooSan squinted at her. „In case you haven't noticed, I'm exactly the opposite gender of the Sleeping Beauty."

„Yet, this doesn't mean you can't be one," replied IuNa, chortling. Then, finishing sweeping the hair, she threw it into the small trash can she brought for this.

„What's that?" DooSan asked, staring at her.

„Just... a change of look!" The young woman said, grinning.

„Yeah, I could understand that. What I don't know is whose look you've changed."

„Of someone who deserved that," responded IuNa seriously. „Of someone who didn't deserve to lose so many things in such a short time. Even her hair."

„SolHi?"

„Herself! Actually, I thought that a change would be something good for all of us. It will also draw less attention to her because you cannot deny that her „extravagant hairstyle" was something easy to notice. Besides, I considered her hairstyle a kind of offense brought to the modern style. So, as it was something that bothered me, I decided to bring her closer to modernism. Your girlfriend deserves that, right?"

DooSan cooked his nose. „I see that your journalist's nose hasn't retired yet. It still smells the stories related to lovers and scandal from far away."