[part IV] A sorrowful nightmare_chapter 4

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SeongWu checks out the living room. Yoo Hwan stil trying to calm Ji Hye down since she can't stop crying. It's not the right time to ask, but SeongWu don't have any other choices.

"Uhm... Excuse me... may I talk to Yoo Hwan for a moment?"

SeongWu clearly awares that Ji Hye won't let go of Yoo Hwan that easily. She is still terrified because of what happened. He takes a pen on the desk and draw a small magic circle in her palm and write a spell along her arm.

"Stay here for a while. You'll be okay."

"Really? Th... thanks..."

Those spell really help. Ji Hye curls up on the sofa and stay silent while Yoo Hwan following SeongWu to the bedroom.

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SeongWu shows him the album and Yoo Hwan immediately startled.

"How did you find this?"

"He show me the place. He is the one possessed you two all this time." – SeongWu speaks while pointing to the youngman in those pictures.

Yoo Hwan looks surprised and somehow confused.

"It couldn't be him! He couldn't possess us."

"Yoo Hwan, I knew it's hard to accept but the death is unpredictable. Maybe he hold too much hatred before his death, that's why..."

"It's impossible! He's alive!"

"What?"

"Kyung Soo... still alive... He couldn't possess anyone."

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SeongWu sits on the sofa, trying to figure everything out.

"So... this guy was your classmate in university?"

"Yes!" – Yoo Hwan slightly nods.

"He was in coma since the accident last year?"

"Yes"

"But the one I saw was him."

"Maybe you was wrong...."

"SeongWu can't be wrong." – Daniel suddenly show up at the front door.

He leans on the wall with a bit of laziness on his face.

"Niel?" – SeongWu is surprised but Yoo Hwan and Ji Hye evern more startled.

"How did you get in here? The door was locked, even the elevator required keycard..."

"I have my way." – Daniel said while fixing SeongWu's hairs – "Why do you look so shock?"

"You said you didn't want to go..."

"Not now!"

Daniel looks at the album on the desk, checks out some photos. His bunny teeth slightly show with his smile.

"If you are so sure that he couldn't hurt anyone, why won't you take SeongWu to him and check things out?"

Yoo Hwan's expression suddenly seem kind awkward, as if he's trying to hide something. He takes a glance at Ji Hye, then nervously looks at the album. Unlike Yoo Hwan's confusing expression, Ji Hye looks rather calm. She checks out those photos. She seem to be so calm, to the point it's look like she doesn't even care, as if she looking at some stranger, not her own beloved husband.

"This is the one who want to hurt me?" – she ask.

"Ji Hye, I told you it's impossible. He's still alive. How could he become a spirit and possess anyone?!?"

"Actually... he could..."

SeongWu getting some clues. The thing he saw was a dim shadow and much more weaker than normal spirit. SeongWu felt very strange, but if he was alive then it's can be explained.

He's alive. His soul still attached to his body. Only a part of his soul get out and haunted Yoo Hwan and Ji Hye. That's why his spirit was so weak.

Yoo Hwan hesitiates.

"If I let you see Kyung Soo, can you end this?"

"I'm not sure, but I'll try my best."

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SeongWu takes his car and drives to the hospital. However, Daniel sits in the back seat with Ji Hye, while Yoo Hwan sitting in the front, next to SeongWu. The situation somehow feels really awkward.

SeongWu checking the rear view mirror. Daniel sitting in the back and keep staring at Ji Hye.

What? Why are you looking at her like that?

Daniel suddenly looks back at SeongWu and sees his confusing face. Their eyes meet through the rear new mirror, but SeongWu can clearly see Daniel is slightly smiling at him. He is obviously teasing him.

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SeongWu drives to the central hospital. It's seem like Yoo Hwan has been coming here quite often. Most of the nurses knows him well and greeting him casually.

Yoo Hwan takes them to the inpatient department. He opens a room at the end of the corridor. The room is quite spacious, but only have one bed. Lying on that bed is that young man, Kyung Soo. Beside having intraveous drip, he also has a lot of other machine surrounding him, keeping him alive. He's still breathing but no sign of any movement.

"He has been like this since the accident." – Yoo Hwan said with the sadness filling his eyes.

SeongWu steps closer and touchs Kyung Soo's body. It's still warm. It's clearly that he's still alive but SeongWu can't feel anything from him. This body is alive but it's just an empty shell.

"Do not touch him for too long." – Daniel pulls SeongWu's hand away from his body.

A living body without a soul. It'll longing for a soul to fill in. Touching such a body for too long is absolutely not good for SeongWu.

"When did he got into the accident?"

"Last year. Not long after... I met Ji Hye."

SeongWu has been keeping attention on Yoo Hwan's expression. He could see that Yoo Hwan didn't want Ji Hye know about this man. He want Daniel to takes her out of this room for a moment, but he just didn't feel comfortable while thinking about Daniel being with her.

Suddenly, she just leaves the room without saying anything.

"You two just stay here. I'll go after her." – Daniel said, then follows Ji Hye.

After they left, Yoo Hwan finally can lossen up a bit.

"You don't want Ji Hye know about him?" – it's so obvious that anyone can noticed.

SeongWu checked all of photos in that album. He already had the feeling that the realationship between Kyung Soo and Yoo Hwan wasn't just a mere friendship.

"You and him... not just a friend, right?"

Yoo Hwan slightly nods, unconciously holding Kyung Soo's hand.

"We was in the same department in university. He was a top student back then. He was no.1 in every exams we had." – Yoo Hwan stop and sighs. – "He could had a bright future if we didn't met... if we didn't be together..."

"What happened?"

"When we were in our 3rd year, we decided to come out with our families. Kyung Soo's family didn't approve. His mother passed away since he was a kid, his father was very strict and couldn't accept us. He was so mad that he even disowned Kyung Soo and thrown him out of his house. My parents didn't say anything but they just kept ignoring me. We took part-time jobs but still couldn't afford enough for our school fee. In the end, Kyung Soo had to quit university."

Yoo Hwan talked really quickly. In his voie, SeongWu can hear his unbearable pain and sadness.

"When I was getting ready for my graduation, my parents suddenly arranged my marriage with Ji Hye. I refused but somehow Kyung Soo knew about that and he been really upset. After that, he got hit by a car..."

"Have you ever though that your parents told him?"

"Of course I have, but they already swore on their life, I couldn't question them anymore. I didn't know who told him about my marriage but it's still my fault that he's like this now."

"What about his family?"

"Kyung Soo's father moved to the countryside after disowned him. I told him about Kyung Soo's accident but he didn't care. I haven't contact him since then."

"JI Hye-ssi didn't' know anything?"

"She just knew that one of my old classmate had an accident, nothing more..."

SeongWu kinda got the situation. If Yoo Hwan and Kyung Soo relationship was the reason why he hate Ji Hye, it's can be explained. Maybe because Yoo Hwan's feeling for Kyung Soo was too strong that it attracts Kyung Soo's soul and let his soul get into Yoo Hwan's body. However, how can a living soul can leave its body and seek for vengeance, SeongWu still can't explain it.

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Daniel follows Ji Hye to the hallway. She isn't notices his existence at all. She goes to a corner of the emergency stairs which barely has people pass by. She leans on the wall and suddenly collapse. She just sits there on the ground with her fingers grasp on her skirt so tight that it almost ripped off. Her shoulder are shaking and her face showing a vicious anger.

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