Dancing On Thin Ice // KTH

Chapter 94

CARMELA

"You killed my... my best friend. You raped her... you raped Jules--" Carmela swallowed a sob. "You're fucking evil. And you're gonna pay for it." She channeled hatred into her broken words.

"I didn't kill her, goddamn!" Taehyung yelled out.

Carmela just scoffed, sliding her tongue along her upper teeth. But Taehyung's eyes flashed angrily, dangerously. The tall bare-chested boy began to move towards her, and Carmela couldn't deny that she did feel a little scared right now. But she quickly straightened up, hands fisted and raised chin.

"So. How did you do it exactly? I never seen a criminal so damn slick before. How did you get away with it so easily? It can't just be the fact that you're a man, come on there's gotta be more."

"I just told you, I didn't... I didn't rape anyone, Carmela. And I spent two whole years locked up for nothing--"

"For nothing? For NOTHING? You didn't... rape Jules?" Carmela tried to steady the anger building in her voice. "Okay. Alright then. I'm gonna ask you a question."

"Shoot me."

"Trust me, I will. Taehyung, where were you? Just tell me where you were. Keep in mind that the answer you gave me that morning two years ago is still fresh in my mind."

"Carmela--"

"Don't say my name. Just answer the damn question. Where... were you the night Jules was raped?"

"I..." He scratched his neck. "Look, I was crazy drunk and high at the same time. Jimin gave me these pills and it knocked me out--"

"Oh my god..." Carmela felt a sob escape from her throat. "You were drunk while you--"

"No! I... I don't remember ANYTHING from that night I... I don't remember going to Aaron's damn party and--"

"Why don't you just GIVE IT UP? Just say you can't remember raping her because you were drunk a-and high when you did! You disgust me so much and I'm just crying--" Carmela wiped her face.

"Listen to me, I only remember going to my house after practice and then... going to yours. That's it." He shrugged and gazed at her with expressionless eyes. "I swear."

Carmela opened her mouth to say that Roxana and Hosi had seen you at that party and Jules said your name--

"Carmela?"

It was Hosi's voice.

"God, where are you man?"

Carmela jumped and looked around. But there was only her and this criminal in the hallway.

"You gotta be kidding me, Hoseok." Taehyung muttered angrily, and the veins in his arms and hands bulged.

Oh no. If Hosi saw Taehyung, he'd beat the living shit out of him and end up sleeping in a cell for who knows how many nights. That couldn't happen. She couldn't let that happen. Heather was already dealing with so much. The pain of losing a child is a deep type of pain that's hard to invision. It's completely unimaginable, and if you were to somehow imagine it correctly, you'd probably get diagnosed with severe depression or immediately suffer a heart attack.

Carmela vowed to go home, with Hosi safe and sound by her side.

"Carmela? You in there?" A series of knocks on wood echoed through the place, a subtle beat of music playing in the background.

Carmela frantically looked at the end of the dimly lit hallway. No one was coming around the corner but Hosi's voice was pretty loud this time. He was getting close.