The Cursed and the Wicked

The Reaper and the Outcast pt. 5

Jae looked over at Bahati as she grabbed her belongings and ran to the door.

"What do you mean?" Jae asked he quickly followed her.

Bahati still had time to go back to Ya Hoon's house and get the ghost to pass over all before she had her first class at school.

She rushed to get on the bus with Jae still behind her.

"How are you going to get Seo Yeon to pass over?" Jae asked her as he sat down next to her.

Bahati got out a notebook and started writing in it. She showed Jae the notebook.

It read "To get her to forgive Ya Hoon".

Jae scoffed at what he had read. "That's never going to happen. Honestly, I don't want her to. Ya Hoon was the one that caused her of all of her pain and grief. Why should she forgive her?"

Bahati started writing in her notebook again and showed it to Jae. "Forgiveness is not for the other person. It's for the victim herself. Holding grudges causes nothing but pain. Remember earlier, we saw her crying before she poofed away?"

Jae nodded his head as he finished reading her message. Bahati began writing another message to him and showed him the book. "Even after death, Seo Yeon is still hurting and in pain. Forgiveness will take that away".

"What about Ha Yoon? Won't she forget?" Jae asked her.

Bahati shook her head. "She won't. I will make sure she won't". She wrote in the notebook.

"What about the boyfriend?" Jae asked. "What happened to him?" Jae asked. "I feel like I have seen him before".

Bahati went through her bag and got out her cellphone. She opened up Instagram and went straight to the picture of Ha Yoon and her boyfriend. She showed it to him.

"Look familiar?" She whispered to him.

Jae stared at the picture, until it finally came back to him.

"Oh yeah. He killed himself and I was assigned to take him to heaven to be judged". He told Bahati, finally remembering where he had seen his face before.

"Do you know where he was casted?" Bahati whispered to him again.

Jae shook his head. "Unfortunately, no. After us reapers send a soul to heaven, that's it. We don't stick around and find out where each of them are going. I don't think I want to. Watching souls getting casted into the fiery pits of Hell would be a scary thing to witness". Jae told her, shivering.

Bahati nodded her head, agreeing with him. That would be scary to witness. She wouldn't want to stick around either. It would hurt her too much.

When the stop came, Bahati immediately hopped off the bus and headed straight for Ya Hoon's house. She remembered where it was, so she didn't need to use the GPS on her phone to look it up.

Bahati knocked on the door and rang the doorbell one time. "Yi Ha Yoon? It's me! Okeke Bahati! I came back like I said I would!" Bahati screamed from outside the door, but there was no answer.

Bahati twisted the doorknob to make sure it was locked, but it wasn't. Bahati looked at it confused as she pushed open the door slowly and walked inside with Jae following behind her.

Bahati looked around to see Ya Hoon's entire first floor was ransacked. Furniture torn and pushed on its side, mirrors, paintings broken and ripped to shreds. It was a catastrophe in here.

"Ya Hoon?!" Bahati called out.

She went straight to the kitchen because she heard shuffling around in there to see Ya Hoon on the floor, blood tickling down from her head and Seo Yeon hovering over her, holding a knife and pointing it at Ya Hoon.

"This isn't good. If Seo Yeon kills someone, she will definitely without a doubt get casted straight into Hell". Jae told Bahati.

"Oh no", Bahati said, running over to Ya Hoon and stood in front of her, defending her.

"Seo Yeon, you must stop this!" Bahati yelled, trying to snap her out of it.

Seo Yeon only looked at Bahati, tears falling from her eyes. The anger it was still there, but there was also pain and anguish. Bahati understood how she felt. She was betrayed by her best friend, the one person she trusted more than anybody and she goes and betrays her.

"Seo Yeon, I know how you feel, trust me". Bahati told her.

Seo Yeon only looked at her in disbelief.

"I never had any friends or was never in a relationship, but I had family, but they abandoned me before they even got to know me".  Bahati admitted.

Seo Yeon stared at her sadly, like she was trying to apologize through her eyes.

"I understand how you feel. You're angry and frustrated, but more importantly, you feel hurt and betrayed. Ya Hoon was your best friend. You trusted her more than you trusted anyone else, even perhaps your ex boyfriend. Then she goes and betrays you. She steals your boyfriend and then have the audacity to rub it in your face and bully you at that". Bahati said, looking down at Ya Hoon in disappointment.

Ya Hoon avoided any eye contact with Bahati.

"Yes, I have heard from your sister what Ha happened. She is still just as upset about your passing. She loathes Ya Hoon with a passion and rightfully so, But is this really what you want to do?" Bahati asked Seo Yeon. "Do you really want to hurt or even kill Ya Hoon and damn yourself to Hell for all of eternity?" Bahati asked. "Is she worth all of that?"

Seo Yeon stared at Bahati and then back at Ya Hoon, before shaking her head.

Bahati smiled and sighed in relief. "You're still in pain, I know that Seo Yeon,  it forgiveness can take that all away. I promise. I would never do anything to betray your trust".

Seo Yeon drooped the knife and continued to stare at Ya Hoon.

"I forgive you", She finally said, smiling.

A bright white light engulfed Seo Yeon's spirit form as she ready to pass on. That's when Jae came in. He placed a hand on her shoulder and smiled warmly at her.

"I'm proud of you", he told her. "I'll be back", he said before the two of them disappeared.

Bahati sighed in relief again, before looking down at Ya Hoon again.

"As for you", she said in a stern tone, making Ya Hoon hold her head down more. "I'm not ever going to let you forget Park Seo Yeon and what you did to her. You were lucky that I came back in time before she got rid of you for good".

Ya Hoon stayed silent.

"You're going to write a letter to her and one especially to her sister apologizing on what you did. It's not much, but it is a start. Then you're going to pay her grave a visit and pray for her spirit to rest in peace ". She demanded her, making her nod her head.

Before the day was done, Ya Hoon has did all of those things that Bahati had commanded her to do. Her and Bahati and visited Seo Yeon's grace together and prayed for her spirit to be at ease. Ya Hoon apologized to her directly. Bahati believed that Seo Yeon can finally Rest In Peace.

Jae poofed back into Bahati's apartment just as she walked in, throwing her bag in the couch and lying in it.

"You did good, Bahati", Jae complimented her.

"Thanks. It's what I do best. I'm just glad I can make a difference in someone's life, even if they are dead". Bahati smiled. "I'm just proving my parents wrong", she said, sighing before yawning and closing her eyes.

"You definitely had already did that", Jae whispered to her.