|| A Foreigner in Danger || <VMIN x OC>

Beauty and The Beast

JASMINE'S POV

I played with my fingers, they were still pink from helping Aunt Jeong peel all the vegetables for supper.

I checked the clock, it was nearly 4pm and the twins should be home from school soon.

"I-I'll go and check on the beef-"

I was cut off by Halmeouni who was lying down on the sofa, looking weaker as the days flew past.

"Anja, sit down now. I thought you had better manners than this," she scolded me shockingly as I turned with wide eyes to look at her before dropping down on the opposite armchair.

I briefly met Aunt Jeong's eyes, but I could see she was telling me the same thing behind the tears in them.

"Minnie, I'd never ever, ever ask...but...please at least look after him. Please pretend to shower him with all the love and affection that he...needs."

I gulped and slowly dragged my face up to the petite woman sitting next to me, her trembling, slender hands stroking mine.

She had the most beautiful eyes, they were wide and hypnotising but with a warm chocolate glow that Taehyung lost in his years ago.

Taehyung's Mum had personally come on his behalf; she was practically begging me to move in with Taehyung to be his caregiver.

I always thought she was so pretty, her short hair which never changed and her soft face complemented by her huge eyes was something which both my children were blessed with.

They took after their grandmother.

I was struggling to swallow, a boulder was restricting my breathing as flashes of Sooyoung's blood drenched body had been haunting my every blink.

She was too still, too calm and yet I'd never seen her look so innocent and pure.

I shuddered at the thought of her gruesome death. No matter what had happened between us, she definitely didn't deserve to die, not like that.

I was instantly pulled back in time to when Sooyoung was found unconscious outside Daegu station late after school one day, before I shook my head free from the past.

That's just what it was, the past.

But why didn't we see the signs then? If Taehyung was capable of attacking Sooyoung like that, then of course he could...

Everyone jumped at the sudden sound, Halmeouni turned the volume up on the TV as we all turned to the KBS breaking news.

Taking one look at the screen, I felt bile creeping up the back of my throat.

"It has been reported just moments ago, that reigning idol Park Sooyoung is dead."

"Omo!" All three ladies in the room drew shocked rasps and covered their mouths.

"...She would've been thirty years old tomorrow, and we are still waiting to find the exact cause of her murder. She was found in the Han River by a fishing boat who pulled up a black bag in which her body was stuffed inside. Correspondent Gyeon Yujeong is at the scene now, Gyeon what can you tell us?"

There were light sniffs coming from Taehyung's Mum as I gulped and closed my eyes, but couldn't block out the words blasting from the plasma screen.

The reporter continued in a hurried voice, obviously in shock himself.

"It's a blood curdling sight, hundreds of devastated fans are currently racing towards the direction of the ambulance, and police are desperately trying to control the scene. Considering her popularity and how much she was loved...it...seems...."