Haneul tossed and turned in bed as the old memories ran through her head.

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“No!” I yelled at him, “I refuse!”

“You refuse?” He asked menacingly, “Do you really now?”

BAM. BAM. BAM.

I heard the unmistakable sound of several gunshots come from the Browning Auto-5. I saw the bullets come out from the gun, but I didn’t know where it hit for something happened to move itself in front of me. The object pinned me to the floor, although it wasn’t very heavy. I lay there, stunned. That was, until I felt something warn and wet stain my cheeks. It was then that I came to my senses and realised what had happened.

He had taken a shot at me, but somebody else had taken the shot for me. My eyes widened and I quickly pushed the light person off, already knowing who it was by the scent of her clothing and shampoo. I hoped against all odds that maybe there was just someone else in this world that cared about me enough to take a bullet for me and smell of that exact same sweet smell of lavender and lemon. But what I saw crushed all the hope I had.

“Unnie!” I screamed at her curled up figure on the floor with three holes in her. Two in her stomach, one in her right thigh. “Why! Why did you…” I trailed off unable to speak those words. I noticed the figure who shot her quickly running away from the room

I saw the corners of her lips curl up slightly, “Why? Is there even a need to ask, my precious dongsaeng?” She said as I felt the soft, smooth skin of her hand brush against my own. She held gently onto my left hand with her right and curled her fingers around my own. “Why other reason would an older sister jump in fr-”

“Ani… Unnie…” I breathed out those words in ragged breaths, “Don’t say those words. Don’t speak anymore. I have to call an ambulance… Jebal…” I said as I shook my head and fumbled through my bags for my phone. I pulled my phone out with my right hand, still with my left hand laced through her fingers. I saw there was no connection and I screamed at the phone in annoyance. “Wae!” I screamed, “Wae!”

“Haneul-ah. Calm down.” She said in a strangely calm voice for someone about to die and losing so much blood, “I want to tell you something now that the man is gone. Mr Jung. At the very top. He’s a bad man. He’s a very, very bad man. He’s not who any of you think he is at all. He’s selfish and greedy to start off with. That time when you found that old book that you couldn’t understand that the IAI confiscated, you were so close to his secret. And today that man that shot at me wasn’t actually aiming for you. He knew I would jump in front of those bullets for you. It’s because I got suspicious after you found that book, so I went and investigated and found out the truth. I don’t have enough time to tell you the truth now, but I want you to investigate it. Start from the pocketwatch I’ve left in my room, if they haven’t confiscated it already. I’m sure you can work it out. You’re my talented, beautiful, smart, genius of a sister who’s also so kind and soft when she needs to be.” She smiled gently at me as her hand reached up and touched my cheek, “I’m sure you’ll do me proud.

“Unnie… No… Don’t give up on your life like this!” I sobbed, tears finally managing to come out of my eyes which hadn’t seen real tears in years, “Umma and appa don’t deserve to lose their good daughter like this! No…” I said, almost choking on the lump that formed in my throat.

“Haneul-ah.” She said, trying to silence me, “Don’t waste these tears on me… Don’t waste them on anyone. I’m sorry unnie can’t live long enough to see who’s the lucky boy who’ll get my precious sister in the end, but promise me some things.” She chuckled a little at the thought of me, her cold sister possibly falling in love with a male like that and having him love me back just as much.

“Anything.” I said, trying to control my tears.

“One, first of all investigate into that book. Two, I still love umma and appa that much, so please take care of those two idiot parents for me.” She paused to chuckle, then looked me in the eye with her beautiful piercing eyes that could hypnotize and pull the truth out of anyone.

“And three. Let me tell you Haneul, I love our parents, I love my friends. But the person I still love most in this world is you. I wouldn’t be willing to jump in front of a gun for anyone else in the world but you. Not even our umma or appa, though they may weep that their older daughter loves their younger daughter more than them. And this is probably stupid of me to say this, but I just want to think like this for my last moments on this earth that I’m the person that loves you most in this world. Not umma or appa, I want to think it’s me. Not Woohyun or Sungyeol, I still want to think it’s me.” She smiled at me, “Am I selfish for wanting to think that I’m the one that loves my younger sister the most? Probably…” She sighed and answered her own question, “But what I want you to promise me, is that after I’m gone you’ll find someone who loves you at least as much as me. Someone who’s willing to do foolish things for your happiness, for your safety, for just you.” She placed emphasis on the last word then her eyes started to droop downwards and her breath became even more ragged than before, “Promise me that, Haneul?”

“Of course I will unnie…” I said and my tears couldn’t stop flowing anymore.

“Oh and one last thing. Don’t cry for anyone that’s not worth it while unnie’s not here. Unnie may not be as strong as you and may be a weakling, but rest assured that if I find anyone’s treating my precious dongsaeng badly I would kick their asses.” She chuckled, “I can’t believe I’ve managed to last this long with three bullets in me.” She said, then coughed up blood which caused my eyes to widen again. Then she only just smiled at me with blood on her face softly and said the last few words so softly with her eyes slowly drooping close and her pulse dangerously weak, “Jang Haneul, Cho Sorami, Zhang Tianmei, Skylar Jang. Live a good life. You deserve one. And don’t ever, ever, ever forget the most important fact of all. I love you so, so much. And I hope you don’t ever forget me.” She said and then I felt her pulse stop. I stared at her body dumbfounded, wondering how anybody could still look that beautiful even with blood smeared all over their face and three holes in their body.

 “Andwae…. Andwae… Unnie… Please get up…” I yelled at her still body that lay on the floor in a pool of blood as the reality of the situation was slowly starting to kick in, “Ani… Unnie! Don’t do this… Please…” I shook her body and gained zero response from her. I stared dumbly at the body on the floor. The person I loved most in the world had just left m.

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“I’m leaving!” I heard from downstairs. I wonder what my father was screaming at such a late hour. According to my internal clock, it was exactly 11:58:43 pm.

“Yeah! Leave. Leave like the coward you are.” I heard my mother scream at him, with what I could guess to be tears in her eyes by the sound of it.

“I’m ing sick of you and all your IAI . You dragged our daughters into this and look what’s happened.”

“Don’t you go blaming this on me.”

“First you took the music away from my life. Then, you took my favourite daughter away.” He shouted crossly from downstairs. I froze at my bedroom door I was about to open at what he just said.

“You can’t have a favourite! Why do you have a favourite daughter? What kind of a parent are you?” Mother screamed back at him, almost as if defending me because she knew I was listening.

“So what? Han Bi was the one good at music, not that Haneul and her ty 4 and a half octaves. Han Bi could sing almost 6. That’s what I call talent. And look at her and all her musical ability. And she was also the obedient child, not like Haneul.” I felt my heart being squeezed at these words. I knew I was never the obedient child, but I didn’t want him to say it like this. It took every fibre of my being not to break down and cry at that point in time. I was still weak from two weeks ago from my sister’s death.

“Haneul loves you more than me.” I could heard mother saying in a soft voice which I still managed to hear because of my alert hearing, “Do you know how much she would be hurt if she were listening to these words right now?”

“Do I care?” I heard father sharply say which made me swallow the lump which formed in my throat and curl up by the door, pressing my face into my knees, “It doesn’t matter how hurt she is right now, because she should be.” I heard my mother’s sharp gasp of breath, then my father continued, “She was the reason her sister died so she should be living in hell by herself right now.” He said and I heard the door slam open. “Goodbye. I don’t think we’ll ever meet again, but who knows. This world likes to play cruelly with some of us.” I heard the door slam shut and my mother’s soft sobbing.

“Haneul, I know you’re listening. You can come down if you want.” I heard her say through tears. I got up from my fetal position and opened the door slightly to see tears strewn all over my mother’s face. I knew how much she loved my father. She went against everyone close to her’s protests to go out with my father and marry him. She still loved him so much she was willing to do just about anything for him.

“I’m sorry umma…” I said with my eyes lowered to the floor and the door fully open now, “It’s all my fault.”

Then the flashback dream turned into a nightmare as something that never happened all the hundreds of times I had dreamt this same scene before happened.

She looked up at me with angry red eyes which I never remembered her actually having, “It is.”

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Haneul threw her blankets away from her all the way to the other end of her bed and sat up panting. She put her right hand over her chest where her heart was and slowly calmed down. “Why did the dream change suddenly.” Haneul whispered into the air to nobody in particular, “It didn’t even happen in real life… Why did I dream of it then…” Haneul looked to her bedside stand and saw it was 6:16 already. She frowned as she remembered she had set her phone alarm on 6am, which meant she had slept through her alarm. Haneul never slept through alarms. She sighed and decided to get up and prepare the breakfast.

She sat on the edge of her bed and wiped the beads of sweat that had formed on her forehead off of her and stood up and walked over to her ensuite. She quickly took a 2 minute shower refreshing herself, wrapping herself with a towel and took another 2 minutes to brush her teeth. She walked into her walk in wardrobe and felt a headache coming up as she decided what to wear. She closed her eyes and walked in spun around a few times and just grabbed something random. She opened her eyes to find it was an impossibly short sequinned skirt and wondered to herself where in hell she got it from.

“Did Young Bae oppa tell Jiyoung oppa to get one of his girls to buy me clothes again?” Haneul said and sighed as she frowned at the dress. She put it back where it belonged and then opened her shirts drawer and pulled out a random Abercrombie & Fitch top. She nodded to herself, then walked over to the shorts drawer and pulled out a pair of plain denim black short shorts. She went back into her room then threw the clothes she picked out on the bed and was about to take off her towel when she realised that she hadn’t gotten any undergarments yet. She groaned and went back into her wardrobe then pulled out a random pair of undergarments.

She walked back into her room and pulled off her towel and then finally decided to look at the ‘random’ undergarments she pulled out. She stared at it wondering when a pair of lace half see-through Victoria’s Secrets undergarments set managed to get into her wardrobe. Haneul sighed and just put it on because she reasoned that since it was underneath it wouldn’t matter how strange it looked. As Haneul was about to put on her top, she heard the door open. She whirled around still with only her undergarments on to see someone staring at her strangely with a red face.

“Um, whoops?

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A/N

Double update again!!!

I won't be able to do double updates anymore for a while now because school started again (yesterday) T_T