The halmoni gave a confusing look to Seung ri.

"Child, there must be something that you're holding onto. That's the reason why you have been stuck here for such a

long time." She let out a low sigh and looked at the clock that was ticking behind me and Seung ri's head.

"Ah, it's almost time for me to prepare at the market. I wish the both of you luck." She got up and so did Seung ri and I.

"Ah! Young man!" Halmoni yelled out. Seung ri turned his head around, "Yeh Halmoni?"

"I must warn you one thing, do not fall in love with anyone. Or else you will have even more difficult time to go to

heaven." She said with a serious face.

"A-araso. Thank you Halmoni." Seung ri bowed respectfully.

"Let's go back to your house and make you a y woman." Seung ri told me.

"You're making it sound so wrong."

"Well... how else am I supposed to say it?! We better hurry up if you want to get this over with."

"UGh. I'm going to start complaining again."
 

-At the house-
 

"Here. I got this dress for you. I stole it from my cousin."
 

"Is it the same one you stole the ID from?"
 

"PSH. Of course! She parties all night, it's unbelievable how she survives during work the next day." He took the dress

out of my drawer... wait a minute... my drawer?
 

"Yah, how did the dress get in there? Did you put it in here last night or something while I wasn't here or while I was

sleeping?"
 

"When you were sleeping last night I secretly put the dress in here so that I didn't have to carry it everywhere."
 

"At least you could have told me that you were going to put in there!"
 

"Why are you suddenly being all mad about me leaving a dress in the drawer?"
 

"It's called privacy in the girl's drawer! I have important things in there!"
 

"I didn't see anything! I just got in your room and put the dress in here and it was dark too! So I just plopped it in here

and I went some where else."
 

"AISH. Just don't touch my stuff in here okay?"
 

"Let's stop arguing right now... we have to get to work." Seung ri put the argument we had aside.
 

He held up the dress that was pretty exposing to me, It was spaghetti strap and it was red... plain red... silky too.
 

"I don't think my umma would want me to go out of this house wearing this..."
 

"We can sneak out! It's so easy. I'll just give make a mess in the kitchen so she has to clean it up and not look up or

turn around." I nodded at his decision. It's pretty smart I have to say.
 

"So just wear this, get a nice bag to match with it- mmm I think this will be okay." He picked out the black purse that

was lying on my bed.
 

"And don't forget to wear make up and curl your hair a bit. They'll die for your hair." I got confused at the last sentence

he said.... they'll die for my hair? What the hell does that supposed to mean?

After I got dressed up and everything I quietly went downstairs holding the high heels I got in my closet and my purse. I

saw Seung ri ready to spill the sugar can that was next to the stove.

I looked at the door that was just 10 feet away from me, and I saw it was unlocked on the doorknob so that I wouldn’t

waste my time trying to unlock the door and just open it quietly and shut it.
 

Then Seung ri knocked the sugar can over and my mom looked over her shoulder. She saw the sugar spilled all over

the stove and yelled, “AISH, what the hell happened?” She immediately stood up and stomped her feet to the kitchen

and passed the stair case. Seung ri then spilled olive oil all over the stove too. “AH! How did that happened?! There

was no wind blowing it to get it knocked down ugh!”
 

The oil started to drip on the floor and so my mom had to go down to the basement to get a mop to clean it up.
 

“Go out the door!” Seung ri commanded me. I was about to go climb down the stairs but Seung ri stopped me.
 

“Hold on! I’ll go bump up the volume so your mom won’t hear your footsteps or you opening and shutting the door.

 

Seung ri ran toward the TV and turned up the volume. I quickly ran towards the door and opened it and shut it. I gave a

big sigh relief and walked a block away from my house to wait for Seung ri.

About 3 minutes later Seung ri came and made me follow him to the police station. Once we got there, there was only

the security officer sitting at the front desk.
 

“Well, young lady, how can I help you?” The officer asked.
 

“Tell him.” Seung ri said.
 

I automatically got what he meant, and so I cleared my throat and tried to sound as mature as I can. “I am here to visit

my friends Yunho, Jaejoong, Micky, Junsu, and Changmin.”
 

“I’ve never seen you here before ma’am.” The officer looked at me from head to toe.
 

“You must understand officer, no one had told me that my friends are in jail. I’ve been away from the country for more

than seven years. Now I came back and I just got the news that they are in jail. Which is making me curious, what have

they done to be prisoned here?”
 

“They all have murdered a young man name Lee Seung Ri five years ago. Apparently , your friend Yunho isn’t here. He

seemed to have escaped during the nighttime when no one was watching.”
 

“Do you know where he went?”
 

“No, I do not. He’s been gone for more than a year now. Nobody ever found him. We’re all predicting that he went out

of this country.”

“And you didn’t check the airports all over the country?”

“We did, but he never boarded on any planes. He probably stole a ship or made his own boat and sailed out. Who

knows what happened to him?”
 

I gave a fake sigh to show a little bit of frustration. Then the officer led me to a telephone booth.
 

“Ma’am, who would you like to see first? I cannot take all of them out.”

“Just see Jaejoong only. He’s the closest one to Yunho. He must know something” Seung ri said.

“Jaejoong, please.” I told the officer. I waited for a couple of minutes until I saw him. I picked up the phone that was on

left side and held it against my left ear. So did Jaejoong.
 

“Who are you?” Jaejoong asked me.

“I’m… Yunho’s fiancé, Soo Young.”

“You’re a good liar sometimes Sun Mi.” Seung ri commented. Although I didn’t turn around to give him a dirty look, but

I wanted to.
 

“Fiance? He doesn’t have one.”
 

“He met me five years ago and gave me a ring. He never told you because he didn’t want you guys to be upset that

he’s taken and when school was over we were going to get married that summer. But I flew out of the country for a

while. When I came back yesterday, heard that he was in jail and that he escaped… I was worried and wondered if

you knew where he went.”

“Why did you call me out?”
 

“I remembered Yunho saying that his best friend is Jaejoong. And I was wondering if you knew where he escaped to. I

really miss him.” I tried to look like I’m about to cry.
 

“Well…. You do look like Yunho’s type. *sighs* Good thing these things aren’t recorded. He’s here… but he got plastic

surgery.”
 

“How-how did you know this?” I asked.
 

“He mails me a letter typed up. The police here don’t read my letters and I make sure that I splat the paper with red

paint on it so when I throw it out, the police won’t be able to read it and thought that I was just messing around with red

paint.”
 

“Do you know how Yunho was able to escape?”
 

“We used to sleep in the same room. He didn’t want to be in prison at all. So he some how got his friend to help him

break windows… well we didn’t have a window but they are bars. No one was here at night, his friend was really good

at taking the bars one by one out. I didn’t follow him because I felt that it wasn’t right. So after Yunho got out, his friend

place the bars back in perfect condition. It may not sound real, but it’s true.”

“Oh no… my Yunho got plastic surgery? How can this be?”

“I don’t even know what he looks like now. But he told me that he changed his name to Eunhyuk. And also he does not

look anything like himself, at all.”
 

“No, how will I find him again?” I started to tear.

“Don’t worry, he’ll probably see you on the streets one day-“

“If he sees me on the street, I wouldn’t KNOW its Yunho!”

Then we had silence for a good 20 second. “I’ll go now. Thanks for your time.” I said and hung up.

I got out of the station and wiped the tears off my face.

“You okay?” Seung ri asked me.

“I’m okay, I guess I got a little emotional haha. But man, the police forces these days aren't very good at keeping track

with their victims. And I can't believe Jaejoong fell that I was Yunho's fiance! I didn't even have a ring to prove it to him!"
 

"I told you, he's blind by your beauty and just wanted to give you any information you wanted so that you won't be mad

at him for not telling you anything." As we both were walking, we both heard a voice-

“Soo Young?” I turned around and saw Seung ri’s mom.