"Fire, When I looked around I saw the entire room was engulfed in bright flames"
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For her dreams are no more just an illusion. They were trying to tell something. She is going to find what that story with help of Jeongguk. When destiny cross th...
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Myung-He's pov
"Time always leave something behind"
Jeongguk held the newspaper reading it interestingly "Myung, that's in here too."
Jeongguk pointed to the old newspaper.
There alongside the article about the fire was one about a missing case that happened that night.
Jeon Jungkook; Twenty five years old.
The eldest son of the Jeon family who were on the same level as the Kim's.
There was a grainy photo. Even with the poor quality there was no mistaking that it was the same man. It was scary to see his face on the news.
This is the stranger I had seen in the rain. This was the ghost I talked to. It's the ghost of Jeon.
Goosebumps perked up in my entire body. I was struck with fear and yet I was in awe.
I suddenly realised something.
"The photo!."
If there was one in the article about Jeon then there must be one in the article about Taehyung as well. I snatched the newspaper.
"Damn. Nothing." There was only a photo of the Dorm.
"Too bad but they're connected."
Jeongguk pointed at the articles about Kim Taehyung dying in the fire and Jeon Jungkook "Both on the same day at nearly the same time."
A horror ran down through my body.
"Hey Gguk. So that night we took the wrong road. I saw the light in Taehyung's room. I might not have been imagining it right?"
"I didn't see anything, so I can't either confirm or deny it."
"You don't believe me?"
"Not really," Jeongguk shrugged lightly.
"You're so sneaky."
"But it was a strange night. I'll admit that. Because I didn't take the wrong road," he declared.
Under that heavy gaze I couldn't help but believe him.
"I know," I answered.
"In any case it's not impossible that there was a light in the room," Jeongguk smiled at me.
"Yeah."
You are basically telling me I'm delusional.
"Several impossible things that are all linked together have happened so it's not possible to just call it a coincidence and sweep it under the rug. There's some sort of inhuman power going on here."
"Yeah." Isn't that what I'm saying from the beginning?
"There's a postscript on the article about the Missing. It seems that at the time the Kim and Jeon families were at odds with each other. But things changed after the Second World War and the two families decided to join forces to survive the changing world leading to a merger by marriage."
He paused and wrapped his arms around my shoulders.
"Marriage? Between who?"
"The engagement was between Kim's adopted daughter Manobal and Jeon Jungkook, Jeon's oldest son."
"Manobal? Hold on, I'll look for her in the binder." I searched through the alphabetical listings.
"There she is. Jeon Manoban. She's married to the president of Seok Pharmaceuticals and known as Seok Manobal now."
"She is!?" Jeongguk leaned over to peer at the page and his Breathing teased my nape. "They're a lovely old couple."
"Hmm." I shivered when his voice touched my collarbone.
"Yeah it's her." He seemed satisfied with the picture of her younger days.
"Of course the engagement called off when Jungkook went missing that day," Jeongguk continued.
"So, that means that Taehyung and Jungkook knew each other," Joengguk closed the paper and set it aside.
Jungkook who had been desperate to meet someone in that downpour.
Taehyung who had been waiting for somebody even as the fire burned around him.
Now we were walking through the corridor leaving the library. My thoughts stop to understand an unavoidable question.
"Hey Gguk?"
"Yeah Myung."
"It's a crazy thought but what if the person that Taehyung was waiting for was from Jungkook? What would that mean?"
