You strode towards your mother’s room and opened the door slowly. But despite your gentleness, the door still creaked. Your mother raised her head to look at you. She was using her reading spectacles with the novel on her lap you bought for her not long ago.

“Mom, look, I bought something for you!" You squealed like a little kid and ran to her side. Feeling excited, you took the bottle of medicine and handed it to her. “You’re going to be healthy soon!" Your grin stretched so widely that you thought your face could fall apart.

Your mother’s eyes widened as she placed her hand on her chest and smiled proudly at you. "I am so glad that I have a daughter like you." She chuckled softly as she reached out to pat your head.

“I’ll cook dinner, and then promise me you’ll eat this medicine?" You tilted your head at your mother and she nodded with a smile. She couldn't say no to her only child. “Anything for my one and only daughter, I promised." She let go of your hand and slowly tugged your jacket. “Is it cold outside? “

You nodded.

“Don’t go outside too much, okay? “She started coughing again as you held her hand and squeezed it to assure her that you were fine. “I’m finer than fine, mom." You stood up and glanced up towards the window just across your mother’s bed. “Should I turn on the lights for you? It’s getting dark in here and it will be bad for your eyes. “

Your mother smiled and shook her head while slipping the novel back inside the drawer beside her. “I was just reading it while waiting for you to come back home, because you took almost 4 hours to come home." She lowered herself into her blanket while you helped her with the pillow.

“You usually come home in a blink of an eye. Did something happen?“ She glanced out of the window and back at you. You slightly cringed, you knew your mother will never sleep well if she found out that you ran into a criminal. "The sky is getting dark too, you didn’t encounter any bad guys outside right?" Her gaze hardened as her lips slowly quirked down into a frown, her cheeks flushed from the sudden anger.

For a moment there she looked as if she was healthy, but you knew better.

“Nope. I stopped by the pharmacy just now, maybe that’s why it took me so long." You shrugged but deep inside you, you felt guilty for lying. You did encounter something out of ordinary and the cops from earlier didn't make your guilt fade away either. Thinking back the man in all black made you shivered as you walked out of the room.

“The twinkle, twinkle~" You sang and twirled around. “The twinkle~" With a smile, you sang to yourself as you chopped the tofu. “Sumgyeo do twinkle eojjeona?" You flipped your hand side to side and danced. “Nune hwak ttwi janha~" You flipped your fingers in front of your eyes as if you were applying mascara. “Be ire ssayeo isseo do, naneun twinkle tiga Na~ “

You giggled as you chopped the vegetables and dropped in the tofu while your body moved to the beat of TaeTiSeo’s Twinkle.

For some reasons you were very happy at that moment, maybe it was because you finally bought the medicine for your mother or you were just being happy. But then all of the sudden, the radio stopped, alarmed, you glanced over your shoulders and stared at the radio.

“Breaking news, a prisoner has escaped from prison 4 hours ago –“

Your eyes widened as you quickly ran to the kitchen back door and locked it, the windows around your living room and your kitchen you shut them too, just in case. But then something made you stopped halfway. 4 hours ago?

“The police officers have been searching for the prisoner all around Seoul Street but there was no sign of the man. “

Again, your eyes widened. If you didn't know any better, you thought your eyes would popped out from its sockets. Seoul Street? Your