Guilt

The Stalker

Yonghwa's POV

I walked back home, my footsteps slow.

"I think you should be alone today," Dr. Seo had said, taking me out of the house.

I didn't even see Seohyun when I walked out. I didn't look for her.

My phone buzzed. Seohyun, it read.

I threw the phone onto the ground, and it slid across the sidewalk.

I breathed in, I breathed out.

I went over to where my phone had landed. It was face up.

It buzzed again. I sighed. 

"Guess this phone's not going to break," I muttered as I checked the screen.

Curious, I click on the link Seohyun sent me.

A video begins with Seohyun sitting at the piano.

"Yonghwa, I'm so sorry," Seohyun whispered and began playing.

She breathed in and started singing.

 

"I was always this perfect little girl who never did anything wrong

That one day I broke out of my shell, I messed up, I can't go back in

Locked myself out of my world, Can't do anything no more

But this winding road of fate led me straight back to you

What kind of a sick joke is this? One in seven billion chance

I wanted to get away from you, but now here I stand again

Oh, baby I'm so sorry, I want to scream

I never meant to ruin things between us

Oh, baby can you forgive me? I want to ask

But I'm worried that I already know the answer."

 

She stopped playing, and the video ended.

The song expressed our situation so well. I couldn't help but being impressed with her songwriting skills.

She was a perfect little girl who messed up once. 

And we could've easily never met again, but something brought us back together.

One in seven billion chance. 

One person in seven billion killed my Junhee.

And that person just had to be the one I love desperately now.

One mistake. She made one mistake her entire life.

But that one mistake, it was so huge.

It made someone lose their life.

And it just happened to be the love of my life.

I laughed bitterly. Wasn't Seohyun love of my life until two hours ago?

How can you forgive someone for something like this?

Sorry doesn't cut it.

Sorry doesn't change the fact that Junhee's long dead and gone.

But revenge doesn't change it either.

For the last two years, I loathed the person who killed Junhee. I wanted to kill the driver.

But now? When it's Seohyun?

Now, I don't have an answer to that question.

Is it right to forgive or to want to get revenge? I always thought revenge.

However... I don't want to kill an angel.

 


Seohyun's POV

Two years.

From the moment I stepped into Yonghwa's house and saw her picture in his room, I knew who he was.

I knew he was lying through his teeth as he talked about their relationship.

Two years I've spent miserable, tightly grasping the driver's wheel whenever I had to drive.

Two years I couldn't get behind the wheel, and even when I did, I was tense.

But Yonghwa was more miserable than I was during those two years.

My phone beeped, and I almost dropped it. 

Yonghwa.

I nervously clicked on the text.

To: Seo Joohyun

From: Jung Yonghwa

Subject: ...

Dear Joohyun,

I might as well be up front with you. I'm mad.

My heart sank. Tears began swimming in my eyes. I continued reading.

Knowing you, you might be crying. Don't cry, you idiot. I want to say a couple things to you.

You might not understand, but Junhee was everything to me. She is literally what kept me going, what kept me living in the years I was with her. I loved her enough to abandon Shinhye, I loved her enough that I wanted to kill whoever drove the stupid car that hit her.

But now I don't know, Joohyun. I don't want to kill you. But if I'm going to be honest with you, I hate you right now. I can't even talk to you, or bear the thought of you. I feel terrible for saying this, but I want to take away the person that you care about the most.

That's you, you idiot, I thought, crying.

But that's one part of me. The other part want to hug you tightly so you would crumble. I want to comfort you for all the guilt you must've been going through for the last two years.

I froze. I stopped reading and I slowly pressed delete.

I put down the phone. 

The sobbing came exactly three seconds later.

Because that was the terrible thing.

That was the terrible thing that's been eating me up.

I didn't think about this again until I met Yonghwa.

I wasn't going through any guilt.

I completely forgot that I was a murderer for the last two years.

I'm not this angel he thinks I am.

I'm not the perfect little girl who needs comforting.

I'm a devil that deserves to goto hell.

And that's what makes it even worse.


You better run, run, run, run, run

Run, devil devil, run run

Because he's catching up to who I really am.


A/N: Is Seohyun really a perfect little girl? What other secrets is she hiding?? What was at the end of Yonghwa's text? I'll update soon!!! Leave a comment below!

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tantalizingeyes #1
Chapter 1: Omg, Yonghwa here is so creepy. Hahahaha!
pinaii89 #2
Chapter 1: Just found this one and started...yongyong is so creepy on the first chapter and i cant believed he beat that girl up! My heart is beating nervously after chapter 1 but im hooked!:)
iLuvgogumaYS #3
Chapter 10: Please update.. :)
ela2807 #4
Chapter 9: Soooo curious,,,please please update.. dont make me hang n hang n hang again.
jyhixx
#5
Chapter 9: so much cliff hangers, please update soon again!
ela2807 #6
Chapter 8: My heartbeat stop for seconds. Oh my god. So tragic. Please update soon.
dinewonew
#7
Chapter 8: new reader is here authornim. i'm sooo in love with this story. update soon, ne? i'm really curious what happen next and how yonghwa will react to that.
insoice
#8
New reader! Aww hopefully no more trouble for yongseo.. update soon!! Fighting authornim! :)