Declaration - Kim Hongjoong

Chapter 36

"Is something wrong Wooyoung? Why do you look so pale?"

"Hyung!"

The younger snap out of his thought and came near the glass that is separating them. He was profusely crying and his sobbing could be heard from the other side.

"Hyung I'm sorry! It was an accident"

The person on the other side breathe in alarm. Till these days, he was always the confuse one, never in his life gets whats his friends were doing when he is not there. They always kept secrets from him and he feels a pang in his heart thinking if he is even important to them like they are to him.

"Tell me whats wrong Wooyoung?",
he ask calmly and tries to make the other calm down by telling him it was okay when infact the both of them knew it was not.

"Can you apologize to Hana no- Semi for me? I'll tell everyone, I'll confess please I'm scared..."

"What are you talking about Wooyoung?"

"We didnt mean to hit her that night. We were drunk, I was drunk and since you broke up with her, I feel like it was okay if she get away from our life forever. I was young and dumb and sickeningly drunk. I didnt do anything when the girls threw her in the river because I was afraid and a fool. We killed Hana and now karma wants us back and the two girls who were on that night died because of it, I dont want to be next, I want to live..."

Hongjoong didnt breathe for a second and let it sink inside his head. His classmates he once called his friends, how could they? How could they carelessly did that to the person he love the most in the world. But he was embarrassed of the word, the word that he loved her when he didnt even act or show that he did.

The day Hana and Mingi were almost kissing in front of his eyes, he cried to sleep. He misses her so much that he wanted to hear her explanation but when Eunhye told him of what Hana used to do that is being a prostitute to earn money, he was disgusted and he hated her. How could he fell in love with someone like that? He despise her but everytime he sees her in the School campus, it was like fate doesnt want his emotions for her to run away that easily so he started dating her step sister to hide how much he was desperate for the girl but no matter how much he wanted to hate her, his heart could never lie that she was the only girl and will always be in his life.

He left the prison with a heavy heart and message Semi she wanted to meet her. Hana was death, but his bestfriend is not. He already lost the most important person in his life and he couldnt afford to lose another one no matter what sins he commit, he will always be a brother to him.

Semi folded all of the dresses and a shoe she got from the room. It was a place where they put a collection of all the evidence for cases. Some are years old, some even a decade, they kept it safe until the victim's family took them for remembrance.

She put it on the passenger seat and proceed to the driver seat before clicking her seatbelt and drove off. Even if 10 years or 100 years pass, they deserve to know what happened and how it was, so she arrived Seoul in the afternoon after a long ride and even before resting for a while, she rang the doorbell to a rather big house.

A middle aged woman open the door and call for his husband after what Semi had offered for them. It was an old clothes of a girl, probably very old and torn with hint of dirt on them.

"I'm very sorry that your daughter Park Sunhee drowned while visiting Mundo river 10 years ago and since she was not from the village, no one knew her and thought she was someone else so they burried her in there. After signing some papers here, you can take her ash and bury her properly here. Again a deep condolences to your lost".

Semi left the couple who broke down in front of their house, like every drama they were hoping for the return of their daughter after 10 years, all beautiful and grown up, not the news to collect her remainings.