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Chapter 16 - One after another

The woman and the man must be that boy’s parents..

“Jisoo.. do you know that boy?” asked Jhope to Jisoo as he sat back. “Is he your classmate?”

Jisoo sighed before turning to him.

“We should go home now..” she said in a trembling voice as she rose on her feet.

Jhope knit his brows.

Why does she look so sad as if she knew the deceased? What’s her relationship with them?

Then he saw Jisoo going out of the chapel.

“Wait for me!” he said taking the food that was given to him. “I haven’t even had a bite of my sandwich..”

And before he went out, he turned to see the picture again.

“I don’t know who you are but.. thank you for the food..” he said in a low voice before hurrying to follow Jisoo.

*end of flashback*

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“Are you cold?” asked Taehyung as he looked at Jisoo’s face.

They were on the bus after visiting his parents.

He held her hands.

“You’re shivering..” he said worriedly. “I’m sorry.. I didn’t know it’d be cold today..”

He quickly took off his jacket and put it over her shoulders.

“Cover yourself.. you can’t get sick..” he said smiling as he held her closer to him.

But Jisoo wasn’t shivering because of the cold..

Fear.. pain.. guilt.. regret..

All the emotions she felt back then are haunting her again after learning that the husband and wife who got killed in the accident she had caused back then.. turn out to be her boyfriend’s parents..

She can’t believe it.. she doesn’t want to..

What is she going to do now? How is she supposed to tell him that the girl to be blamed is her?

She took a deep breath as she kept herself from crying..

It took her years to move on from her past..

It took her efforts.. lots of them.. before she could forget all of the pain..

She developed trauma and depression 10 years ago.. and she had to get treated for them..

She would stare blankly nowhere and all of a sudden she would cry..

Because she was aware of what she did.. because she knew it was her fault that people died and a boy was left orphan..

And it became worse when her father suddenly killed himself resulting her mother to fall into coma..

All she had back then was Jhope and his parents..

They would spend all night looking after her.. afraid that she would do something to harm herself..

Jhope was always with her whenever she had to see the psychologist.. he never left her side.. and that’s why he’s the only one who knows everything about her..

She used to have nightmares about the accident.. every night it would be the same dream.. every night.. she would see that woman and her husband..