Truths Of A Lie

Euphonious Ashes

I closed my eyes and slowly reopened them. Darkness. I looked forward and there he laid.

"What have you done with my brother?"

Your brother is at peace.

He sighed. "I'm not a bad person. I'm only as bad as I need to be. To survive."

There was smoke that filled the room and surrounded me. I wiped them away once I couldn't see anything else and saw Jungkook running into the bathroom. The blood spilled from his mouth in long strings.

The image was sickening. Min Yoongi stood behind him, making sure that he was okay. But then, suddenly, I was sucked into Jungkook's body and shoved him back. I watched as they fought and it came back to the time they were fighting in the room.

When Min Yoongi had thrown the chair at the wall and the mirror had broken.

When Jungkook left..

Min watched as Jungkook sauntered away but paused when he stopped at his piano.. The heat rose and all of a sudden, Jungkook walked away. Min breathed a sigh of relief but was crushed when he heard the sound of the keys crashing into ear piercing notes of putrid noise.

His soul was crushed.

The piano..

His piano..

Was his only escape..

His only place where he could be sane again..

Sulking in his pain, his heart hardened.

All I ever wanted was peace.. I only wanted to be left alone with my mother, my brother and my music. But I guess the world doesn't work that way..

More smoke blinded my eyes and I cleared the air to see again.

I knew Namjoon long before he knew me. Jungkook told me about him and I needed a way to pay my bills and get food to stay alive. So, when Jin called me, I seeked the opportunity. I refused to let money out of my grasp. I knew that Namjoon was a drunken drug addict and so, he was easy to manipulate. I received money and love in exchange for a life. It seemed to grant me the one wish I've never been able to obtain but for a moment.
Because I had lost my sanity, everything slowly built up into a mountain of dirty laundry that I was sitting on, waiting for that one day where it became too much to bare and it.. I.. would explode.. and I did. When Lee Mai Fang cheated on me and I saw Jungkook again, I spazzed and let go of everything.
I let my anger kill the innocence in me and the life in them both.

He looked up at me.

"But I am not, on any circumstances, sorry."

I kept his gaze and let all of it sink in into my system.

And your brother? Why didn't you go back?

That was his breaking point. The most evil character had broken into tears.

"If I could go back, I would. But he was a setback. He had his chance to go with me and yet, he stayed behind.."

The smoke began to surround him.

"I have lived with that guilt every single day. I left him alone. I left him in the dust. I allowed him to die alone when I could've gone for him."

He closed his eyes tightly and then hardened.

"But I do not regret leaving him. His episodes of madness would have only kept me from living. I would've never been able to have peace. Or make music.."

He paused and closed his eyes again. He could no longer speak, but his mind could..

At the corners of my youth, a brown piano taking up space on one side..
I remember that time the brown piano that was so much taller than me..
I longed for her when I turned my face up to her..
When I stroked it with one small finger..
It felt so nice..
It felt so peaceful..
It was..

Before she adopted Ho-seok into our family..

Peace..

Before I grew up..

Peace..

Before love..

Before hate..

Before death..

Before anything..

There was

Peace..

But now?
Now, peace doesn't exhist.

Peace is never there.

Peace is a false word

In a false world..

Peace means war..

He laid there, still.

Stiff as a graveyard.

I allowed the smoke to surround his body and force him into the air.

There, I stuffed his body with the smoke and let him catch fire in the air. I used my other hand to suck out his soul before laying him back where I had lifted him.

His ashes crumbled up and blew away, leaving behind

A card beholding the picture of a piano..