Alive II Yoonmin

21

I waited outside the hotel for what was no longer than ten minutes for my driver decided to stop by for a cup of coffee as well. I was welcome into the vehicle with a smile of old soul and a cheerful saying of the word morning. 

"Listen boy, I need a favor."

"What is it Benny?" 

The old man besides me fiddles with pockets on the side of his door as we patiently wait for the traffic light to change from red to green. He presses the gas just as he manages to pull out all he wanted. On my lap he set an envoplye and what appears to be a gift bag from the colors. It is a lovely color pink with roses on it, shut with tape at the opening. 

"It's a little something for the sweetheart. I was hoping you could give it to him."

"Sure Benny..." I mumbled. "Will they let me pass it through though?"

Benny shrugged. "It's not like the receptionist gives a damn but if she asks just say it a brush for his hair. My wife send something for him in there, I myself am unsure what it is."

I look down at the two things in my lap. "Your wife knew him too?"

"Oh Agust if only you would remember but I guess I've got sometime to tell you before we get there."

Like Benny said, there is time so we took advantage of it. He told me things about himself, his wife and Jimin too. She was quite fond of Jimin, it was through her that Benny had come to even know of the existence of locked up boy. Benny's wife had met him in the supermarket on Jimin's first day living the town, not the one they were in but one close by. She said that when she saw him, she felt like she was looking at a her dead grandchild. Jimin was lost so she became his guide. It was a sweet story and I am at awe by it. After Benny telling me it, I was reminded by one thing that has clouded my mind. 

"I have one question Benny."

"Tell me Agust, I'll answer it as best as I can." He said cheerfully as he took the final turn that would take us to the hospital. 

"You said to me yesterday, when I got out of the car that the 'rumors are only half true'. Jimin said the same before I left, what rumors?"

As I stare his way confused, Benny smiles. He shakes his head and with his tongue creates a sound of disapprovement . He asks me if I had done research about the hospital before coming. I had not, that was Jooheon's job, min was to find us transportation and Mark's was to book us a hotel for the night, clearly one of us had not done the task assigned. 

"Well what your little air head friend didn't research was the rumors that started appearing about six years ago. See that place wasn't as empty and lonesome as it is now, people use to actually go there. There were the double the patients there are now but after the rumor spread, only those who didn't want to dispose of their crazy family member took their sick ones out."

"So what are the rumors Benny?"

The car stops right in front of the decaying black gates of the hospitals for the sick. Benny looks past me to the opening, he sighs.

"The doctors are as mad as the patients."

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Spoiler Alert: You guys are Jooheon.

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