. . .

Maybe she was just tired, maybe the rain today makes it gloomier than yesterday, or maybe... just maybe it was just her.

Choi Jinri tilted her head as she stared in the mirror. Dead black eyes and pale plump lips. What was it that changed her? What was her problem? She have a complete family, a best friend, and also a boyfriend that loves her. So, what was it?

What made it turn around? Was it when her parents kept comparing her to her sister? When people starts to taunt her about being her best friend's assistant? Is it the part where she kept being embarrassed by her teacher for having a low grade? Or is the part when she started dating a popular guy and almost every girl hated her because she wasn't pretty enough.

She doesn't clearly know where to choose. She looks in the mirror and she sees nothing. Her chest rose as she took a pair of scissors and began to cut her hair. Tears started to roll down her cheeks unknowingly. Her lips shivered as she dropped the scissors, a big lump got caught in as she looked at herself.

Is this enough? She asked herself.

But when she went in the bathroom and opened the medicine closet, she knew it. It wasn't enough.

…

“Jinri, dear. Your dad and I bought your favorite food. We felt bad about yelling at you earlier.” Mrs. Choi turned the door knob and her heart skipped a beat when it wouldn't budge.

She bit her lower lip and turned it again. It was lock. There's one rule in the Choi's family that must always be obey — the doors must never be locked.

“Jinri, Honey! Open the door.” Her voiced raised in panic and she started to slam the door. “Jinri. You will be in big trouble if you do not open this door.”

A minute passed and there was no answer. Mrs. Choi run to her room were her husband was.

Mr. Choi was reading a book when his wife suddenly went inside their room, he got startled by his wife's sudden entrance. He sat up and he watched his wife frantically pulled the drawer were they keep all the keys in the house, “Honey, what's wrong?” He asked. He got no respond because his wife immediately run outside and all he heard was a subtle mumble, “My baby.” His heart suddenly got heavy and followed his wife.

“My baby! Jinri!” Mrs. Choi's voice echoed in the whole house. It was a shriek of horror and devastation.

The first thing that Mr. Choi saw was the empty bottle of pills scattered on the floor and he couldn't even speak, his vision became blurry when he saw her daughter in his wife's arms; pale, lifeless, dead.

"Daddy, what's goin-" A voiced appeared out of nowhere but it stopped mid-sentence. 

Choi Sooyoung gaped at what she saw, her legs suddenly failed to carry her weight and her knees dropped on the floor, “No.” she whispered as she stared at her crying mother holding her dead sister.

…

It was their first actual dinner without her. It was quiet and none of them looked at each other because whenever they do, they remember her. And the empty seat that used to be her place can be felt.

Mrs. Choi went inside her room, she leaned on the door fra