The Cult

Chapter two: Noona

“Hey! Jiminie smile!” His sister tells him as he looks through the camera in her hands.

Taking a photo of his grade school graduation.

“My little brother is all grown up!” She cheers.

He momentarily stares at the white ceiling.

What a dream was it to remembered such memory.

He turns to his right looking at the wall clock on his bedroom.

3:00 A.M. he reads.

He decided to get up and drink some water taking his phone with him as he strode out of his room using his phones flashlight walking downstairs.

Reaching the kitchen he immediately turns on the switch for some light.

He turned off his phone's flashlight as he took out a bottle of water pouring it on a empty glass.

Before he could drink the glass of water he heard footsteps making him froze on his spot.

He abruptly turns but only a gushed of air welcomes him.

He places the glass of water down the counter than drinking it.

“Eomma?, Noona?” He calls out.

Looking through the doorway which nothing but pitch of darkness he waits for someone to come out.

“Appa?”

“Why are you still up?” His father asked emerging out from the shadows.

He breathes in relief. “Had a dream...um...Appa..., when did Noona came home?” He asks.

His father took another glass from the drawer pouring some water into it before answering him. “Last week., why?”

“She wrote a letter to me.” He mentions.

His father drinks up the glass of water. “Oh?, what did she told you to make you come home to make you spend your summer vacation here?”

He sighs. “She...., nothing. ”

“I remembered you would rather work doing part time jobs near your university during your summer vacation than come home as you told us you'll be able to saved more money so we won't be sending you much.” His father stated.

“I know...., it's just-”

“Son, are you having troubles in your studies?” His father worriedly asks.

“No.” He shakes his head meeting his father's gaze.

“What is it then?, your mother is worried about you, she told me when you came home yesterday you we're crying. ” His father asks again.

“I just missed all of you...” He answers.

“All right.” His father stated, adding. “Just know you can tell me anything that is bothering you, I'll try to listen, son.”

Jimin nods.

He decided to leave the room, making his way upstairs he saw his sister staring down at him. “Noona?”

“I begged you not to come looking for me, did I not?”

A few minutes passed before Jimin could think of a response for it's been the first time in a long time since he heard his sisters voice.

“What?” He asks. “I don't understand.”

Suddenly his sister lost her consciousness and fall luckily he was in front of her to catch her. He worriedly calls her name out. “Noona!, Noona!”

He hears rushed steps and soon his father is beside him. “What happened to her?!”

“I don't know?!, she fainted we we're just talking, Appa.” He answers.

“Carry her, wait for me outside, I'll wake your mother and get the car outside. ” His father instructed.

“So what did the doctor say, honey?” His mother asks beside him as they are gathered in a hospital room with his sister sleeping on the hospital bed.

“The doctor said she was over worked and needs rest although I asked him to do some further test just to make sure.” His father answers.

“Jimin, nice to see you again, it's been so long kid!” The man says with vigor as he entered the café.

His father once was working on a electronic company and decided to resigned when her sister graduated from college and decided to make a café shop that is quite popular in their town which made them had two more branches in their town which is their parents source of income. His mother manages the other branch helping his father. The given money some of it went to his studies in the university.

“Yeah, hyung.” He responded.

“So I heard from your mother, your sister is in the hospital, how is she?” The man asked again.

“She's doing fine now Lay hyung, that's why Eomma asks me to come here and get the papers you should hand her today?” Jimin says.

“Oh?, Yes!, I almost forgot wait here I'll get it inside the office. ” The older told him.

Lay is the manager of this branch his mother is handling a man who studied back in China yet became a tourist in Seoul and met a girl there that is the one he marries and settled in Busan instead.

Lay comes back holding a folder handing it to him. “That's it.” His dimple deepens as he smiles at him.

Jimin nods.