[✔] The Colour of Tainted Love || Junhoe

Epilogue

A year had passed.
The sky was shining brightly and the smell of cherry blossom trees was in the air.

A woman got out of the car in her black pencil skirt. Her husband held her hand and looked her in the eyes.
"Stop making this face. She wouldn't want to see you like that."
The woman didn't give him a response.
They headed somewhere hand in hand.

The way was long, yet the woman wished it would be even longer.
Now she stood there. Silently facing the grave in front of her.

Kim Eun Ji & Koo Jun Hoe, it read.

Tears started flowing as the mother remembered the terrible scene from a year ago.
Her beautiful, young daughter had hanged herself in her room after being devoured by sorrow and loneliness. When she wanted to tell her daughter's loved one the sad news the woman saw the same terrifying scenery once again.
He, too, had ended his life.
In his dark room the man had died of an overdose on sleeping pills, after enduring days and months filled with emptiness and despair.

Both died on the same day of a broken heart. It was as if they had planned it. They had planned to end their lives on earth, where they were pestered by many and hated by more. They wanted to start a new life somewhere else. At a better place.

Sorrow and regret filled the married pair's hearts. Ever since they had lost their dear daughter they felt responsible for her death.
They knew they were. If they would've let their daughter follow her heart they may have lost a successor for their business, but at least she would've still been alive. Now, not only did they lose their successor, but also lost their beloved daughter, their only child.

The pair seeked their daughter's forgiveness, so they had her body buried together with the man she loved. They took care of him well and brought flowers for both of them, as they knew that he had nobody else to visit him.
The two thought it would help their daughter forgive them.
But they didn't know for sure if they really did it out of pity towards the young man or much more in order to satisfy themselves. After all, they were the ones who took away everything from him. Family, friends and love.

Thinking back, mistakes was all they made.

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The End