L'amante dei serpenti

Alternate Ending

                                                                                 5 years later

Jiyong

The sun was beaming down on me as I laid the white flowers on the burial mound. Standing back I did a bow before standing back up. Even after all these years it was still hard to understand that I was here and they weren't.

"I hope you two know how much I miss you. Not a day doesn't go by that I don't think of you. I hope you are both watching down on me and seeing all the good I am doing. I have been working to change things and to make sure that this never happens again."

The tears in my eyes fell as I said my goodbyes and turned to Seungri who was standing back letting me have a moment to myself. Smiling he came up and placed a hand on my shoulder to comfort me. Turning we made our way back to the car wanting to head home.

Arriving back to the house Seungri parked the car and the two of us got out before going into the back seat and grabbing the bags. Seungri reached for them all and told me to just get the door from him, shaking my head I laughed at him he was always trying to show off his strength. Opening the door I held it for him to cross over the doorway before I shut it and followed him up the path to the house. Just as we were reaching the door a squealing little thing came rushing out of the house and leapt into my arms wrapping her legs around me. I let out a hoof as she giggled and held onto my neck with a death grip.

"Sanchu save me!"

Seungri laughed and shook his head as he walked past me into the house probably wanting to rid himself of the heavy bags. Walking with her in my arms I entered the house as a frazzled looking Daesung came running around the corner.

"Jihoo, you know you aren't supposed to be running around let alone leaving the house! Your father is going to be very upset."

Setting the giggling Jihoo down so that Daesung could grab her little hand I followed the two of them into the living room. Just as Daesung and Jihoo reached the table that held her abandoned crayons and coloring books Youngbae came out with some drinks and treats.

"Jihoo I hope you aren't giving Daesung any trouble."

"I just wanted to play."

I took a seat next to her and listened to her explain her drawing, it was a picture of the house with all of us together and two angels in the sky. She pointed to everyone and called out their names, "This is you and Ri sanchu, this is Dae sanchu, this is mommy and daddy, and this is.."

She stopped what she was saying just as the door opened up and walked in a very upset and pregnant Sofia.

"Jiyong I swear to god if you park that close to the door again I don't care if I ding your shit. I cannot be waddling around in this state trying to squeeze through the small space you left!"

"Mommy, daddy!"

Jihoo jumped down from her chair and ran to Seunghyun who swooped her up in his arms and spun her around in a circle causing her to giggle. Once he stopped Jihoo leaned down and gave her mamma a kiss on the cheek. Sofia waddled her way to the couch before slowly lowering herself into it. Seunghyun put Jihoo down and went to his wife lifting her feet and placing it on the coffee table before leaning down and placing a kiss on her lips.

"Thank you darling."

"Anything for you."

I let out a laugh, "Can you two stop please."

Sofia stuck her tongue out at me as Seunghyun sat down with his daughter and turned to me.

"How was it, are they keeping the mound clean?"

"Yes, it was so nice up there. I know my mom would have loved the view and all the fresh air."

Seungri came into the room and sat down next to me taking my hand in his. I looked down at our joined hands and then back to his face and gave him a smile, I was so lucky to have him in my life. Turning to see everyone else I couldn't help but think how happy I was. All my friends were here and starting their own family. I was happy that my mother had last long enough to see this, but sadly her cancer came back and hit her hard. She was gone within 6 months and my father followed after her a few months later. He had always said he didn't want to be on this earth if she wasn't. Ever since I took over the family I made sure to contribute to the cancer society and paid for more research to be done in hopes that someday this world would be rid of cancer. Even with the passing of my parents I was still the happiest I could be with having my friends here with me, to have them walking this earth because I know that things could have been different and it would have been all my fault.