Chapter 15 : The Death (1/1)

Meen rose immediately. "Finish!" she shrieked. Sungjong only laughed at her attitude. Really like a kid. They just finished joining the pieces of the puzzle. All the 1000 pieces were formed a picture.Sungjong stared the picture. He wondered if the others were ready to celebrate both of them.Meen observed the picture. She was confused. "What happened?" asked Sungjong, realized that Meen suddenly kept quiet."Nothing. It just... " Meen drew her face nearer to the picture. "I think this is... me..." she pointed the picture. "This is... my omma?"Sungjong followed Meen's finger. Meen was true, the figure in the picture looked exactly like her. When they stared the picture for a moment, they could see the image became clearer. After a few minutes waiting, they got the real image. In the picture, Meen was lying on a bed with transparent tubes attached onto her. Beside her was her mother, Mrs Jung who was sitting there, probably waiting for her to conscious. Meen narrowed her eyebrows. It looked like her mother and herself... very much!"Is that me? With my omma? How can she be there?" Meen started to tremble.Sungjong didn't answer any of her questions. She caught him by the collar. "Tell me, what was all these about?!" she lost her calmness. "Meen," Sungjong held her shoulders. "I want to admit. Yes, that's you," he pointed to the picture, "and that is your omma. For your information, you're coma in the ward right now. Your mother waits for you patiently by your side."Meen released Sungjong's collar. "Is it the real me? Then... why am I here?" She seemed couldn't accept the truth. She ran out from Sungjong's chamber and went downstairs. At that time, Sunggyu, Dongwoo, Woohyun, Hoya, Sungyeol and Myungsoo were there in the main hall. Meen was astonished.Sungjong arrived there and panted for a while. "Do you find the message now, Meen?" questioned Woohyun. He still smiled... scarily?Meen stood stiff. She didn't know what she needed to do. Sunggyu stepped forward. "I hope after this, you changed and become the best daughter of theirs, Meen." He pointed to the house compound. Meen followed Sunggyu's finger and saw her parents, Mr and Mrs Jung were there, opposite the house compound. She nearly yell. "Omma! Appa!"Meen's limbs couldn't move even an inch. What had happened? "Because of my workhard, I managed to complete my song, Meen. It's specially for you. Only you," Dongwoo held his violin."I have given you the advice. I think Sungyeol and Myungsoo did so. So, keep our counsellings for good. They may benefits you one day," Hoya patted her shoulder."Don't forget to keep our identity as a secret," added Sungyeol. "We can't be known by others.""Stoooop!" yelled Meen. "I am muddled up!"Sungjong came and whispered to her. "This is our plan. We know..." he caressed Meen's cheek, "you're the good daughter of them. We just want to tell you about us, the livings here."Meen began to cry. "Actually, Meen, I fell in love with you since we met by the gate a few months ago. Do you still remember our very first meeting?"Meen nodded. "I got the news that you like me and want to know me further. I feel guilty about it.""But why, Sungjong? Is it a mistake of loving you?" her tears rolled down to Sungjong's hand."You can't love me. You really can't."Meen petrified. "Don't you love me?"Sungjong turned his face to other direction. Hoya made his way to one of the curtains in the hall. The moonlight was allowed to enter the house. Meen found their shadows, except hers, were not there. The shadows even didn't form. There was only her shadow on the floor. Meen looked their appearances. Their body were not solid too. She could see the wall behind them through their translucent bodies. Meen covered her mouth with her palms. She couldn't believe what she had saw."We're not human, Meen," Sungjong added."You're not human? What had happened to you?""We're the victims involved in the fatal accident years ago. It happened in front of this bungalow. Our souls were left here since people couldn't believe that we're died because of an accident. The neighbourhood here assumed we're died because of too addicted to drugs, but it's absolutely false," Sungyeol drank his coffee. He purposely dropped his mug on the floor. However, the mug didn't break, instead it floated in the air. "Remembered what I've told you about myself? Actually, beside me, all of them were hated too. Sunggyu hyeong who met us and asked us to live with him. But then, somebody had sabotaged us and caused the car that we rode on that day went mad. We hit the wall and... we died," Myungsoo fished out his mirror and threw it to Meen. Amazingly, the mirror went through Meen's face smoothly. Woohyun gave Meen a book. "This is the message I meant to you before."Meen accepted and skimmed the book. At first page, she met a blank page. When she started skimming, all the word stated in the book after the first page was..."Death?" mumbled Meen.Woohyun smiled. Meen threw the book onto the floor. What happened to Sungyeol's mug happened to Woohyun's book too. Meen stepped backward. "I... can't believe it!" shouted her. "So, why did I can go into this house? What for?" "Because you love me, Meen," replied Sungjong. "People around here did expect there were ghosts in here. They kept intruding our home. Nevertheless, they still didn't know the truth and didn't meet us yet. As for you, Meen, it was totally a different kettle of fish. You wanted to know me because of your love. Though I'm sorry because we can't be couple."Meen burst into tears. "Sungjong..." she reminisced the puzzle. "Then, what am I doing with my mother there? In the ward?""You were hit by a car before you reached her, Meen. You didn't realize it, did you?" answer Dongwoo. "You supposed to be dying. But we want to give you chance since you are kind hearted. We agreed to teach you moral values so you can change to a better person later.""You are in the hospital now. Your omma is waiting for you there."Meen couldn't say anything. "Then, does it mean... I can leave this place now?""It's up to you then. We can't force you. You may choose either your love to your parents," Sunggyu pointed to Meen's parents, "or your love to Sungjong. But if you chose Sungjong, ..." He gave a signal to Woohyun.Woohyun received the signal, opened the last page of his book. The word 'Die' appeared.Meen wiped her tears. "I have to be patient so that simple things can be simpler, ain't I?"Sungjong nodded. Meen thought."Before that, I want to make a confession."