Epilogue

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Jiyong

The days after ending things with the Kims were the hardest days I have ever had to endure, even harder than the days of my mother's battle with cancer. No matter how quickly we tried to get the two of them to a doctor it was pointless, they were already gone. I begged and pleaded for the doctor to save them but he just shook his head. I remember falling to the ground crying for the loss of my friend and his lover.


"This is all my fault!"


I had screamed as Seungri took me in his arms, he tried to deny it but I knew it was true. I was the reason that Seunghyun had come out of hiding. If I had kept my emotions in check everything would have turned out differently.

When I went home that night to report back to my father my mother collapsed when she heard of the deaths. My father held her as she cried for the loss of my friend and the loss of Sofia. Once my mother was lying in bed after crying all the energy she had out my father went into his office. Like I had done so many times in the past I stood just outside of his office as I listened to the phone call. He was calling Sofia's parents to inform them of her death. The phone call was short with many apologies falling from my father's lips. All I could think of was that I was the one that killed them.

The Rossi family was on the first flight here, when they arrived the first thing Sofia's father did was demand the head of Woo Bin's father. As much as my father tried to stop him he was hell bent on revenging his daughter's death. My father had barely been able to stop Seunghyun's father from exacting his own revenge but could do nothing with Sofia's father. From my understanding the man walked right into a restaurant where master Kim was eating and shot him point blank in the head and killing the guards before paying off the staff to keep their mouths shut.

The Choi's had their son cremated and placed him in the family mausoleum. The Rossi family were having their daughter sent back to the states where she was to be buried. They stayed for Seunghyun's funeral and offered their condolences. Seunghyun and Sofia's mother met for the first time that day, the two of them held onto each other as they shared in their loss. Gone were their children, the two of them left the world in each other's arms. Yet they would not be laid to rest together, I had only hoped that when the reaper came for their souls he took them together. That they are able to spend time together in the afterlife before being reborn. If they were to be reborn I only prayed that they were reunited again and that, that life would be one of happiness and not pain like this one.

Going up to my friends final resting place I silently said my final goodbyes. I told him of how much I would miss him and how this wasn't fair. I told him how sorry I was for acting like a fool. How I was sorry that I not only took his life but Sofia's as well. That I was sorry that they weren't able to continue living and sharing their life together. That I had robbed them of the chance at starting their own family. I felt Seungri's hand on my shoulder and turned into his embrace as the sobs began to rock my body. He rubbed my back in circular motions trying to calm me as he whispered that it will get better with time. I had only hoped it was true.

My family saw the Rossi's off to the airport. Walking up to the casket that held Sofia I place my hand on it and said my goodbyes. I apologized for being such an idiot from the first moment I met her. I apologized for the same things I did to Seunghyun. I told her to not cause too much trouble in the afterlife and to take care of Seunghyun in my place.

Watching their plane take off all I could feel was regret, shame, and grief coursing through my body. I wasn't sure how I was going to continue on with this life knowing that I was the cause of so many people's pain and grief. Turning to walk a way I was met with the faces of my friends who had come to support me. I had just wished things had turned out differently.

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