I'm In Trouble

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The usually calming sound of his machineries now made him feel uneasy. It felt like a storm engulfing him and he couldn't breathe. The choice was difficult but it was one he had to make for his own conscience. He couldn't live with the guilt knowing he had helped with these murders and he had always been suspicious of Jonghyun but the other was so nice that he had become friends yet after witnessing it again, it became solid that Jonghyun was a murderer all along. Maybe even before they met. He checked the clips that he had managed to salvage and tried to see if every one of them had been done by Jonghyun. Not all of them were clear but some of them were. So many times. And yet he just sat inside his shop and pretended nothing happen.

He transferred all the data to a pendrive and got up from his desk. He took a look around his shop, knowing he would miss it but things had to be done so no more innocents would get hurt. He found what he was looking for and made his way over to it. He picked up the gift box he had received from Minki and opened it, touching the cufflinks gently. He really wished he could have spent more time with the other. Hold him closer, tell him how much everything had meant to him. How thankful he was. He placed the pendrive into the box and closed it, might as well bring along his one last good memory.

Ding ding ding

Time to leave then.

Ding ding ding

"Kwak Aron."

Aron turned his head and gasped  as several men entered his shop. He took a step back and placed the box down onto the mermaid drawing.

"What do you guys want? I haven't said a word to anyone," Aron said warily.

"We ask that you follow us in peace and we would not have to resort to violence."

"Why? Can't we just talk here? I haven't done anything wrong," He said despite knowing he had a whole pendrive full of their dirt.

"The boss wants to meet you. Says someone broke into the office recently and he just wants to have a chat about your whereabouts."

"Well, I've never been into your office building before. I don't even know where it is," Aron said but it seemed like they wouldn't take no for an answer as they surrounded him. They grabbed ahold of him before he could make a break for it and started to drag him out. He didn't put up much of a fight even though he did glance back at the box. "If you're going to take me, at least let me lock my shop."

None of them responded as they continued to pull him up the steps and right into their vehicle parked in front of his shop. Aron looked back worriedly even though he knew it was highly unlikely anyone would steal anything. His eyes caught sight of a bike that just stopped not too far away before he was pushed into the car.

"What the-"

Baekho didn't know what was going on. He had just arrived at the front of Aron's shop to find the owner being abducted. His first instinct was to follow them but knew they were most likely Choi personnel and getting directly involved any further would be bad for him. He couldn't risk it right now so he parked further away but close enough that he could take a mental note of their car plate number. The car drove off with the owner inside and Baekho approached the tattoo shop. Did he even get to close up? Baekho's reporter instincts told him no and he was right. The door swung open freely and he entered the shop. He knew this would be trespassing but if he could just get the footages away from Aron, he could lower the chances of the other being dragged into this whole case even if he was in the thick of it. The shop didn't look too different from when Baekho first entered except for the little black box on the wooden block and several other shifted items.

"Okay. Where would you put something important?" Baekho searched the shop's back area. He found the laptop connected to the CCTV's data but couldn't find for any of the old footages. "He must have taken it out."

Baekho looked around the shop. He only had to follow his gut and walked towards the black box. He picked it up and opened it, revealing the cufflinks and pendrive inside. This is it. He went back to the laptop and check the contents of the pendrive. Videos filled the page and Baekho clicked into the one with the date of his parents' death. It played and he watched it with his own eyes this time.

His parents appeared on the camera roughly around 2am, seemingly angry at someone. He tried to increase the volume but there wasn't any. He could only guess what was going on in the video. They were both yelling and someone else stepped into the frame briefly but Baekho couldn't tell who it was from the angle alone. He continued watching as the silent argument lasted a solid 30 minutes before a car randomly appeared and slammed right into his parents as they turned around to leave. Baekho found himself choking up, having to see his parents' actual death. He covered the lower half of his face and found himself tearing up but he had to face it. He did all these to figure out the truth and now it was right there in front of him as he watched Jonghyun step out from the car, turning to talk to the person off camera before he started to drag his father into the driver's seat. Baekho wished he had given him a few more punches now. After securing the seat belt, he did the same to his mother with the passenger seat. Baekho's fists tightened and he let out a strangled choke as the video ended with Jonghyun walking off camera.

"Goddammit... God fucking... Damn it."