ICE AND FIRE - CHAPTER 77&78
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💜 ARRESTED 💜
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“A-Yeong,you can’t do this to me. A-Yeong please wake up,you just said you love me too. Don’t you care about my feelings anymore? Don’t you want to see us displaying our lovey dovey to the whole world? Then get up already!! There’s no way we achieve all that if you’re lying down here. No A-Yeong! No!! You can’t leave me,not now… Not forever!!”He cried bitterly,still shaking her vigorously,but she made no attempt in answering or opening her eyes.
She was already gone!!! GONE FOREVER!!
Ji-hoon lifted her lifeless body, hugging her to himself,his tears wetting her bloody body while A-Yeong stayed lifeless in his arms.
Aerum ran in immediately,but stopped abruptly when she saw the scene before her. She was already crying before reaching and now? Seeing ji-hoon condition and A-Yeong already lifeless drove her insane,she ran to them and grabbed A-Yeong from ji-hoon.
“A-Yeong!!”Aerum tapped her cheeks,but nothing happened.
“Let’s take her to the hospital!!”Aerum shouted and ji-hoon nodded before carrying A-Yeong up in a bridal style,they were about leaving when they heard a scream from the stairs.
“Aunt!”Aerum called,but it came out like a whisper.
A-Yeong mom was crawling difficultly,with her both hands tied at her back,her two legs tied against each other.
She literally heard the gunshot, and you can imagine how scared she was,and now… they’re carrying her daughter?
“What happened to her?”She asked as aerum hurriedly untied the robes from her.
Aerum gave her no reply,she stood up then wiped her tears.
“She’ll be fine, we’re taking her to the hospital”Aerum uttered and A-Yeong mom grabbed her.
“I’m going with y’all”
••••
<MR CHUL’S MANSION>
The triplets broke the hug after few minutes,with beom-seok hiccuping slowly.
“I’ve forgiven you,not like I have a choice”Si-Woo scoffed and Hyun-Woo pinched her arm’s.
“Just saying my mind”She rolled eye and beom-seok chuckled.
Hyun-Woo helped beom-seok up, after which they all settled back down.
“I’m happy that things worked out easily”Mrs chul smiled and they laughed.
“Uhmmm,can I call you mom too?”Beom-seok asked slowly and Mrs woo nodded.
“Okay!”He shrugged and turned to his siblings.
“Let’s go to my room”He told them, Hyun-Woo stood up hurriedly while Si-Woo rolled eye before standing up.
They left to his room afterwards.
“I’m happy”Mrs woo giggled happily.
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<BEOM-SEOK ROOM>
“Wow,it’s really spacious! It’s literally our entire apartment”Hyun-Woo complimented and Si-Woo hit him immediately.
“Stop saying that,this room isn’t half of our apartment,so stop lying”Si-Woo rolled eye and beom-seok went closer to her.
“I’m sorry sis”he pleaded, while holding his two ears.
Si-Woo only rolled eye before sitting on the bed,her legs crossed.
“I’ll only forgive you on one condition”She said, tapping her legs on the floor.
“Si-Woo! Thought you’ve already forgiven him??”Hyun-Woo gasped.
“Not interfere”Si-Woo pointed her index finger at Hyun-Woo only chuckled before Sitting down too.
“Do a frog jump ten times”Si-Woo smirked and the gasped.
“That’s way too much little sis”Beom-seok pouted and Si-Woo rolled eye.
“I’m the oldest,but you’re calling me little sis? That’s a bonus to your punishment,do a frog jump twenty times”Si-Woo folded her hands and beom-seok squeezed her face, giving her a puppy eye.
“Oh jeez! Si-Woo”Hyun-Woo chuckled.
Beom-seok pouted and began doing the frog jump, Si-Woo only kept smirking, enjoying the show.
He stopped when his phone began ringing.
“Can I answer the call?”He asked and Si-Woo winked.
Beom-seok took his phone, seeing the caller’s ID,he began smiling which got Si-Woo and Hyun-Woo chuckling.
★Hey babe…
★A-Yeong… A-Yeong… A-Yeong…
Aerum literally kept hiccuping, without saying anything.
★Where are you guys??★ beom-seok asked hurriedly.
★City hospital ★ she replied, still crying.
★I’ll be there★ He Said and ended the call.
“I really have to go”Beom-seok turned to them.
“I’ll go with you”Hyun-Woo uttered.
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<CITY HOSPITAL>
Aerum kept pacing round the waiting room, eagerly waiting for the doctor to come out.
She hasn’t stopped crying either, ji-hoon was sitting down on the chair,his eyes so f-__-king red with how much he’ve cried. He isn’t crying,but his eyes showed how much he was pained.
The door opened and the doctor came out, removing his glosses while exhaling repeatedly.
“How is she?”
“She survived right?”
Ji-hoon and aerum threw the question at him.
“I’m sorry,she already stopped breathing before she was brought here”he replied and that was it, ji-hoon’s feet left the floor and he came falling down heavily on the floor.
“She’s…she’s dead?”Aerum asked,hot tears trickling down her cheeks.
Beom-seok and Hyun-Woo rushed in immediately.
“Aerum…”
“Pumpkin!!”Aerum called, rushing to him in tears.
“Ji-hoon”Beom-seok called, breaking the hug with aerum,but ji-hoon gave him no reply.
He was smiling sadly,a smile which showed how sad and broken he was.
“A-Yeong is dead”Aerum threw the bombshell, sobbing bitterly.
“Dead? How? What happened? I saw her today in school”Beom-seok kept asking,and instead of giving him a reply,aerum continued crying.
Beom-seok went closer to ji-hoon, squatted before him and held his two shoulders.
“She confessed before dying bruh!”Ji-hoon muttered,tears flowing down his cheeks before he could control it.
Beom-seok sighed heartbrokenly, before pulling ji-hoon into a hug.
“I know the feeling!! Be strong,you can cry all you want,but just know that you have a shoulder to cry on!”Beom-seok muttered,patting his back.
“She loved me beom-seok!! She really did!”Ji-hoon hiccuped slowly.
Hyun-Woo went over to them,patting ji-hoon softly on the back.
“You’d be fine!”He uttered, looking around sadly.
“I’m not sparing who did this,the person must taste my wrath”Ji-hoon muttered and beom-seok broke the hug, staring down at his face.
“Do you know who ki||ed her?”Beom-seok asked.
“Her mom and aerum knows”Ji-hoon replied.
“Aerum….”Beom-seok stopped talking when he couldn’t find aerum.
“Where did she go?”
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<MR CHIN-HAE MANSION>
A shattering sound in the living room,got Mrs chin-hae hurriedly rushing down to the living room.
She smiled on seeing aerum,but seeing the broken bottle in her hand,blood trickling from the cut area,her eyes widened madly.
“Ara!!”She shouted in shock, rushing to her.
The moment she made to touch her,aerum shifted back.
“Where is your husband?”Aerum asked with so much bitterness in her voice.
She wasn’t standing before her mother as aerum,but as her wounded lion who was ready to ki||.
“What happened?”Mrs chin-hae panicked.
She haven’t seen this side of Ara,since she knew her as her daughter. So what could have woken the devil in her?
Mrs chin-hae made to reply,when Seo-Jun climbed down the stairs, which got aerum smirking.
She immediately charged towards her,with the broken bottle in her hand and Seo-Jun took to her heels.
“I’ll ki|| you!!”Aerum shouted manically, running after her.
“I swear Ara,dad didn’t mean to”Seo-Jun shouted and aerum threw the bottle forward,and it got stuck in Seo-Jun’s back,but she kept running with it,her blood already wetting her cloth.
She knew stopping was gonna lead to her death,so she choose running with the bottle stuck in her back,rather than being murdered in cold blood.
Seo-Jun finally ran to her dad’s room, shutting the door behind.
“Dad!!”She cried, falling on her knees.
“Ara is here?”He asked and Seo-Jun nodded, crying already.
“$h|t!!!!!!!”He screamed, roughing his hair angrily.
“I’m loosing much blood”Seo-Jun cried and Mr chin-hae squatted down, before pulling the bottle which was stuck on her back with full force,blood began pumping out.
“Arrggggg!!”She whimpered tearfully.
“I’m sorry”He muttered and Seo-Jun glared at him angrily.
“You shouldn’t have done that dad! The girl was innocent,but you ki||ed her. How do I even get myself treated right now huh?”She yelled and began crying.
Meanwhile, aerum just came out from the kitchen with a knife in her hand.
“Ara what’s going on?”Mrs chin-hae kept asking, following her from behind.
Aerum had tears in her eyes,as she continued marching angrily towards her dad’s room.
“Ara….”
“They ki||ed my best friend! Why mom huh? What did she do? She was innocent,he could have ki||ed me instead than taking a mom’s only daughter! She was all her mom got,no husband…no other children,only her,only her mom!! But what did my bastard father do? He took her away from her mom forcefully,after all the investment? We would be graduating from high school in three months time,but she won’t. All because of my f-__-king dad!!”Aerum shouted began crying.
Mrs chin-hae was already shocked beyond words! Her husband,a murder? He ki||ed an only child? When did he became this cruel or was he really a cruel being before she married him? And to think that her younger daughter was taking the steps of her husband?
“Oh Jesus!!”Mrs chin-hae shouted and turned to aerum,only to see her gone.
“Ara??”She rushed upstairs.
Aerum was already pulling the door, banging on it repeatedly.
“I’mma ki||ing them both today”Aerum spat and stuck the knife in the door, literally trying to destroy it.
“I have a better idea”Mrs chin-hae said and Aerum stopped, breathing heavily.
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<NEXT DAY>
After A-Yeong corpse was lowered in the grave, everyone began dispersing. A-Yeong mom,aerum, ji-hoon, beom-seok, Yu-Jun and few more others were left.
A-Yeong mom kept crying endlessly, staring at A-Yeong tomb which had her name boldly inscribed on it.
Now she was left with nothing, absolutely nothing. No husband,no child. Only she was left in this cruel world.
She sighed and wiped her tears slowly, A-Yeong was gone and gone forever,no amount of tears was going to bring her back.
“Rest in peace, friend like no other”Aerum smiled sadly.
“Shall we go on?”Ji-hoon asked and Aerum nodded, beom-seok tucked his hand in his pocket.
“Time to pay for your deed’s”Beom-seok uttered.
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<MR CHIN-HAE MANSION>
“Where do you thinking you’re going?”Mrs chin-hae asked, blocking Mr chin-hae and Seo-Jun’s path.
They where already descending the stairs with their luggages.
“Get off my path woman!”He snorted and Mrs chin-hae chuckled.
“You want to flee? After taking an innocent girl’s life? Are you kidding me??”She asked and Mr chin-hae rolled eye.
“Ion care,just get off!!”
“Mom,we don’t have time for this,we need to leave please,just get off”Seo-Jun pleaded.
The door broke open, and the cops walked in with Mr chul, A-Yeong, Ji-hoon, Beom-seok and A-Yeong mom.
Seo-Jun made to run and the cops shot her immediately,in her back actually…the same place the bottle got stucked in.
“Seo-Jun!!!”Mr chin-hae called shockingly.
Mr chul walked closer to Mr chin-hae, standing right before him while locking eyes with him.
“I trusted you as a friend,I was ready to give out my son to your daughter,in expense of his own happiness. How could I have known you’re this evil? You where ready to get rid of your own daughter? As if that wasn’t enough,you ki||ed an innocent girl. I regret knowing you”Mr chul spat and Mr chin-hae began shaking.
“I’ll make sure you spend the rest of your entire life behind bars!!”Mr chul added with an angry glare.
Mr chul gave Mr chin-hae a h@??ful glare, before stepping away from him.
A-Yeong mom was the next to step forward,she was already in tears.
“You took the only source of my happiness from me! The only one that I’ve been literally living for,You took her away in the most cruelest way ever! It won’t forgive you for this!”She said in tears before stepping away from him.
A-Yeong came forward next.
“Dad…”She chuckled sadly.
“Do you even deserve to be called one? You don’t,and I h@?? the fact that you’re my father. You took the only friend I had away,you ki||ed her with no remorse. Had it been the cops wasn’t here,guess what I would have done, I would have hit you so badly on the face, making sure to destroy it totally cos seeing your face, reminds me of how much I h@?? you. I’ll never forgive you either. Let’s not meet again,not in this life,not in the next!!”Aerum spat with so much bitterness.
It was ji-hoon turn this time. He had a murderous look as he walked closer to Mr chin-hae.
“You’re happy that you finally took her away, aren’t you? Just so you know,I’m not forgiving you for taking my first love away from me. I won’t”Ji-hoon muttered.
Beom-seok stepped closer,his two hands in his pocket.
“Ion have nothing much to say, they’ve already said all…but one thing is sure,you’re getting the punishment you deserves and one more thing…”He smirked.
“I’mma make sure that you stay there will be a living hell, you’d regret taking A-Yeong away from us”He spat.
“I don’t even know how I got married to such a $cvm!!”Mrs chin-hae muttered.
“What are you waiting? Go on,arrest him”Mr chul uttered.
“You’re under arrest Mr chin-hae,for the murder of A-Yeong….”The cop wasn’t chanced to complete his statement,when Mr chin-hae brought forth his hand.
He already knew that it was the end for him,so what’s the need of waiting for him to finish off?
The cop handcuffed him tightly,then turned to the other officers.
“Take the daughter to a hospital,she still needs to serve her term! We’d keep our eyes on her!!”He spoke and bleeding Seo-Jun was lifted immediately.
The moment the cops went out with Seo-Jun and Mr chin-hae,aerum broke down into fresh tears.
Their vehicles sounds, which was driving out of the mansion was heard afterwards, and Aerum continued crying.
So A-Yeong was gone forever?? She couldn’t believe it, thou she was already lowered.
Aerum kept crying bitterly.
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TBC….