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39: courthouse pt 1

Sunghoon stood up nervously, his hand shook like hell. I gave him a good luck nod and he walked towards the podium. I couldn't imagine how nervous he was right now. A look was plastered on his face that I had not seen before. Pure fear. His voice wavered and stuttered as he swore to tell the truth. I could almost see his erratic breaths as Amy's lawyer approached him.

"Park Sunghoon. Why did you decide to study with Park Jongseong that afternoon?" 

"I-I uh... I wanted to see Jay- I mean Jongseong and Amy," Sunghoon stumbled through his words. The sweat glimmered on his forehead. Hopefully, he had remembered everything we went through with our lawyer. 

"And why is that? What were your intentions?" The lawyer came closer to the stand, making Sunghoon flinch back. 

"Relax, please. Mr Park," The judge called from behind him, also motioning for the lawyer to step away. 

"We had suspicions of them dating," Sunghoon spoke clearly. 

"We - meaning, you and Jaeyun?" 

"Yes," 

"And why is that?" 

"They were spending a lot of time together. Jongseong never usually misses our plans, but was to go study with Amy,"

"And when you got there were they just studying?" he continued, but his voice changed as if the pressure was about to build up from this point. 

"Yes,"

"Did you study with them at all?"

"I did,"

"So why did you call the need for this secret phone call if you knew that none of your suspicions were true?" 

"W-well, it wasn't my idea. But I didn't believe Jongseong's claims at first. I didn't trust her." 

"But you saw them study and studied with them. Doesn't that prove that Amy had no other intentions?" 

"No, it doesn't. There's more to the story that proved otherwise," Sunghoon's voice raised as he was getting annoyed by the context of the questions. It was true that they were using the first part of the story to advance their case, but who knew if the Judge bought that. 

"You mean the part where you conducted a secret phone call to use as blackmail?"

"Not for blackmail-,"

"But you did make the call?"

"Yes, but-,"

"Your Honour, this phone call, now proved by Mr Park that it did in fact occur, is a similar to phone tapping or wiring a person which in this case should be punishable," the lawyer concluded. He finished interrogating Sunghoon who looked pale and shrivelled. He didn't meet our eyes when he walked back and sat down, just stared at the empty space in front of him. 

11:58 am. 

"We would like to invite Sim Jaeyun to the stand,"  

Jake fixed his tie before getting up. If there was anything we knew about Jake it was that he was honest and true. Even if that cruel lawyer drilled into him, he could handle it. Jake was our main advocate in our case; our key to getting through this big mess. 

Amy's lawyer stepped up again, his expression held more devious eyes as if he had a different plan to ruin Jake. 

"Mr Sim, you are from Australia, aren't you?"

"I lived there, yes," 

"Objection!" Our lawyer emerged from the table instantly, shocking the both of us, "Relevance?"