pellucid. + jhs.

shier

"honey?"

"yes?"

"are you still meeting
hoseok in the woods?"

"yes. why?"

"jae..."

"what? is there
something wrong with
hoseok?"

"i talked to the priest
hoseok supposedly knows
yesterday..."

"okay..? so..?"

"he said he doesn't know or
seen anyone named hoseok
before..."

"what? but hoseok—"

"jae, i think you need to stop
talking to him."

"no. mom, you probably got
the wrong priest okay? talk
to—"

"honey, you've only started
to talk about this hoseok after
...what happened...i—"

"what's your point, huh?
what are you trying to get
across?"

"jae, hoseok doesn't
exist."

"... you are
lying."

"jae—"

"how can you say that?
just because you haven't seen
him—"

"none of us did. no one.
we have asked, jae, we have.
and, you know your father knows
about every res—"

"you are lying! you are lying!
you don't know how happy
and better i've felt ever
since i've been friends with
him! don't ever say he doesn't
exist!"

—jae walks away in anger.

"jae, wait!"