Scourge ✝

Chapter 6 ✝

"H-  Hye Jin?"

"Yes, Hye jin. Do you remember now? Do you also remember how you killed my mom?" i blurt out in anger.

"What hye jin? No? I didn't kill your mom, why do you even think i did?"
Taehyung says as he sits down on the floor in front of me.

"Do you not remember Taehyung? Didn't you say you'd take your revenge? And you even wrote your initial there do i look like an idiot to you?" tears stream down my face, i hate myself for crying in front of him.

"Oh god Hye jin, i was a kid! You really think i came all the way back to busan and killed your mom? I didn't even know your mom's dead" he looks at me with pity in his eyes.

"I don't believe you. There was no one else with an intention like that except you. And what about the 'T' that was written there" I cry out louder, i can't control myself.

Taehyung comes closer and holds my face, "Look at me Hye jin, do you think i could kill someone?"

I look straight in his eyes, those innocent eyes of his. No, i dont think he could kill someone, but. "I dont know Taehyung" I move his hand away from my face.

He holds my shoulder and turns me to face him, "Hye jin, i can prove it. I was not the one who killed your mom."

I look at him with uncertain eyes, all these years i believed he was the one who killed my mom but now, i have a feeling that he did not. Then who? Who else would want to kill my mom?

"How can you prove it?" i ask as i wipe the tears off my face. "Ask jimin, i was with him all the time, i dont know when it happened though but i never left seoul." Taehyung looks at me with pleading eyes.

"Of course Jimin would say you didn't,  he's your friend." I cant just believe him like this.

"Okay, you're right. Then give me sometime, I'll figure it out, but I'll prove it to you that i didnt kill your mom. I swear, when did this happen?"

"23rd of september, 2 years back." I said as i start walking away from him. He holds my wrist to stop me, i turn around. "Where are you going?"

I look at him with confusion. "Wherever i want to. Now leave." i said and tried to free my hand from his grip. "I need to know where you are going to be, at least give me your contact, I'll need it."

I roll my eyes. "Give me your phone" he gives me his phone and i enter my number in it. I give it back and start walking away from there but i could feel him staring, "Hye jin" i stop again and turn around "Now what?"
"No.... nothing, bye" he says. Whatever. I walk out and go back to my hotel room.

*Taehyung's POV*

I sit there after Hye jin left. I feel so strange after seeing her, she's all grown up. Wait, what did i think, she'd still be a kid?

I don't know why I'm feeling this way. But i have to find a proof that i didn't kill her mom. "Think taehyung think. 23rd september, 2 years back, where were you?"

Oh god i can't remember anything, i don't even remember where i was yesterday. "Fuck it" I have to figure out so many things.

I pick my phone up and dial Jimin's number. "Damn, this boy never picks any of my calls." Then i dial Yoongi's number.

"Hey hyung"
"yeah what do you want" usual conversations with yoongi (:
"Hyung uh, do you by any chance, um, do you remember where i was two years ago?"
........
"Probably in your gym, why?"
"no, hyung do you remember where exactly i was 2 years back in september. Or with who?"
" Damn. No Tae, i got things to do. Now bye"

Of course.

I remember i did not leave seoul since i came here, but how do i prove it? If i know where exactly i was, i would be able to make her believe but i dont think I'll remember it.

"Actually, there is a way."

*Hye jin's POV*

I keep replaying what happened earlier with taehyung, i twist and turn in my bed, i don't know what's right and what's wrong. Did Taehyung really not kill my mom? Then who?

My thoughts were interrupted when i heard my ringtone. "Hello." no response. "Hello?"

"Oh, Hye jin, it's me, Taehyung."
Damn, his voice.. It's so deep.

"I, um, Were you able to get any proof?"
"Can i see you?" He says all of a sudden.
"Wha- Ye- I mean, OKAY, I'll see you at yoongi's café" i said all at once.
"Okay, I'll be there in 30."
I disconnect the call.

Calm down Hye jin, you'll find out the truth, whatever it is. I hold my pendant, "Please help me find out the truth god."  I leave my room.

After the bus ride, i reach there, in almost 20 minutes. I open the door and bells again "Cute." I go inside and sit down on one of the chairs.

Within minutes Taehyung walks in. He's wearing a hoodie and a denim jacket.

He looks around the café and makes his way towards me. "Hey" he says as he sits down on the chair in front of me. "Hey" i reply.

"so what did you want to talk about?"
I ask looking at him in the eye.
" See Hye jin, it's too hard to find what i was doing exactly on that day, but i know i didn't leave seoul. So instead of proving myself, I'll help you find your mom's killer, that way you'll know i wasn't the one and you'll also find who did it."

Is he kidding me. "Bold of you to assume I'd agree on something like this taehyung. If you cannot give me a proof of your innocence, imma kill you. It's either this or that." I was talking to him but he was continuously looking at someone behind me.

"Are you even listening to me? The hell Taehyu-"
"Don't turn around" He cuts me off.
"Why?"
"Get up, let's leave." he says and stands up.
"What the hell Taehyung?"

Taehyung grabs my hand and pulls me closer to him and whispered in my ear, "Hye jin, trust me, come out of this café with me. Right. Now."

His voice sends shivers down my spine. I immediately start walking out of the café with him. "What happened?" i ask as he starts walking away from the café while holding my hand.

"There's someone following us."
I turn around and see a hooded man.
"Why he is following us?"
We continue walking towards an abandoned lane, we increase our pace and so does the hooded man.
"will you tell me something Taehyung?"

We walk and walk, and we reach the dead end to the lane. There's no way out except for going back the way we came in. And there he stands, the hooded man.

"Finally, Taehyung" he said.