MIND MASTERS

My own roots

A week after our birthday, a week after I learned that I am an orphan I tried to look for Mr. Park, because I know he knows everything I needed to know. I acted like everything is normal in front of Mr. Kim and In Ha. Yes, I am calling him Mr. Kim now since I have no right to call him my father. I hated the fact that they are hiding something this important from me, but I know they did it out of love and care. 

Mr. Park is out in the garden of his house with Mina, his daughter. He has a big house that I never understand why he was the driver. Then I realized he was not just a driver. He saw me and went out to see me. I told him everything I know. I am sure that I can trust him. He told me that if I wanted to know more I should prepare my passport with me because he will bring me somewhere. He told me to wait for his call to confirm when will we be leaving.

It was the day before Chuseok when he called me that we will be leaving tomorrow. I made an excuse to Mr. Kim that I will be celebrating Chuseok with a friend since we promised to be together. He agreed right away.

Mr. Kim gave me an allowance before I left. I felt guilty because I knew I am stabbing him in his back by doing this. He doesn't have any clue that I am looking for my real parents. It's weird that In Ho was not there to say goodbye. Dad said he's  busy packing his stuff because they will be in Busan for 3 days to meet the elders.

I insisted that I will be taking the bus, I secretly met Mr. Park 2 streets away from our house. We went to the airport then when I saw the plane ticket I saw that we will be going to the Philippines. 

After 4-6 hours of travel I found myself wandering in this place called "Baguio", we went to this old house, with pine trees outside. It is actually a 100 steps from the gate up to the front door of this house. Mr. Park has the key to this house. 

It was strange to see this house, it was smells old, it looks old, everything about it seems like ancient history. He turned on the lights and I saw a big frame. A family portrait. The woman in the picture feels weird. I feel like I know her, she looks like me except for the mole in her face. Her eye smile feels like mine. Then Mr. Park said that the man and the woman in the picture were my parents and I am that kid in her father's lap. I cried, like I knew the feeling of how they died. It hurts, like I know how it feels to lose them. 

He told me about what happened fifteen years ago and I was shocked in disbelief. I never imagined that such thing would happen to our family. I felt Mr. Kim's pain. I know now why he did that. He wanted to protect me. 

But this was all a lie. Mr. Park doesn't know what my abilities are and while he was trying to tell me his side of the story he doesn't realize that I can read his mind. He told Mr. Kim that I went for him knowing about me being adopted. They plot all this. Mr. Park was threatened by Mr. Kim to kill Mina if he says the truth. So he told me all this twisted truth telling me that Mr. Kim was the hero and the Watanabe's were the villain.  It is too much too handle for an 18 year old like me, but I will find the Japanese kid they were talking about because now I know that my dreams were relevant. I now know that we will be needing each other to reveal the truth about what happened.

After 2 days we went back to Seoul like nothing happened. My acting is better now, like what Mr. Kim advised on my birthday that I should trust no one, well yeah! I will not trust anyone.

**On the day of the Baguio trip, it was unknown to anyone's knowledge but In Ho followed them in the Philippines. He followed them after hearing his dad and Mr. Park's conversation. 

He heard everything that happened and he is full of hatred toward the Watanabe's. He swore to take revenge on what happened to his mother and In Ha's family.