I bowed to them only to see her parents looking at her picture.

ME : (-bowing again-) My heartfelt apologies. I am sincerely sorry I couldn't take good care of your daughter.

Her Mom broke into tears while her Dad came to me furiously and held me by my collars.

MR. LIM : What? "SORRY"?! (-yelling-) YOU JERK! Will your sorry bring my daughter back!!?

I wasn't taken in surprise by his actions. I believed I deserved of much worse so I quietly took all his anguish and harsh words.

MRS. LIM : (-stopping him-) Honey, calm down. (-crying-)

MR. LIM : How can I keep calm, whe- (-holding his tears in-) When I lost my precious daughter to this scumbag! If you were so confident about loving her then why didn't you take care of her well!

He couldn't control anymore and planted a nice punch on my face pushing me to the wall.
I didn't guard myself and took the punch even though I had enough time to dodge it. The punch made the corner of my lips to bleed. No surprise it was from a Taekwondo Trainer.

Her mom tried her best to stop him, but he came to me and held me by my collars again.

MR. LIM : Why did you do this to her? Tell me, WHY!

He was about to hit me again when Sanie's younger brother, Kuan yu came in running and stopped him.

KUAN YU : Stop it Dad, hitting him won't bring Ahjih* back to life.

By then Sanie's best friend, Sana and Jimin came in hearing the chaos. Kuan yu took his Dad away from me while Jimin rushed to me seeing me bleed.

MR.LIM : I will sue him, he killed m-

Sana cut him off and stood in front of me like a shield.

SANA : I am sorry, but I think your words are too harsh. I can understand you being upset, but this man loved your daughter too. He has all the luxuries, he could've gone back to his place and sleep comfortably but he spent the whole night sobbing in her graveyard last night . . .

Sana kept on while Jimin dabbed the blood off the side of my lips which was swollen now.

JIMIN : (-quietly-) Are you okay, hyung?

I nodded taking the handkerchief from him.

SANA : Your blaming him so recklessly is not quiet professional and you might upset your daughter's soul with your unhealthy conduct with him. And about her death, (-controlling herself-) Her death is caused by the hospital's malpractice. So, if you want justice, sue them not him.

Her Dad finally had his tears spill out from his eyes. He fell on his knees in cries and I got reminded of the time when Sanie told me that she was the closest to her Dad and would fight with her mom all the time.

I could never imagine how heart wrenching it must be for him to bear through this.

In the evening, I sent all the boys back to the dorm to rest since they were helping me and doing almost everything in my stead.

Her family was with her so I gave them privacy and sat down on a table outside her room with a bottle of soju.

I was about to fill my shot glass when I was reminded of my promise I made to Sanie.

"SUSAN : Promise me you won't drink.

ME : (-without hesitation-) I promise."

I stopped and kept the bottle back, my eyes getting teary again.

I felt she was always near me and watching from a distance. I wanted to show her my smiley face which she used to love but I was failing, I was failing constantly while helplessly letting the tears flow instead.

In the meantine, I didn't realize her dad was watching me from the door of her room. After a while, he walked to me to which I looked away wiping my eyes and was about to stand up.

MR.LIM : Be seated.

His tone now was more gentle and soft making me look at him before sitting back down.

MR.LIM : (-sits himself opposite to me-) Pour me a glass.

I instantly obeyed taking the soju bottle with both of my hands and filled his glass courteously.

As soon as I kept the bottle down he took it and gestured to take my glass. I obediently took it in both of my hands and politely fowarded it a little towards him.

MR.LIM : (-pouring my glass-) Are you okay? (-referring to his punch-)

ME : Ah, Ye. I am fine.

MR.LIM : (-taking his glass and gesturing me to take mine as well-) I am sorry about earlier, I acted immature.

ME : (-taking my glass-) No, it's alright. (-respectfully-)

He drank it all in one shot while I hesitated a little but since it was her father I too drank it in one shot looking to my right.

The liquid churned my throat for I was having it after a long time and that too in one shot.

MR.LIM : I am oversensitive when it comes to her. Hope you didn't take it to heart.

ME : Of course not. I can understand. You must be having it hard. I am sorry you had to see this day.

MR.LIM : (-pouring himself another glass-) It's not your fault, don't be sorry. Her time neared so she left us.

He drank it bottoms up once again while I was still recovering from my frist one.

ME : Are you going to let the hospital slide?

MR. LIM : No. I am going to sue them for sure, so that no father have to lose their daughters to them in future.

My respect for him never lessened but today it sure increased more.

Days went by and I couldn't bring myself out of the grief of losing her. Her loss made me negative towards Kookie making it alive, so I never visited him after her death.

I had nothing to console myself with, everytime I did something for an escape from the marshy thoughts that constantly dragged me deep into the desolation, I ended up recalling her each minute.

I never realized before that she was always there, in everything I did and everywhere I went which made me feel more forlorn now that she was gone.

I lost my sleep, my smile- I lost myself. I finally became a sane human being but ironically that was the only thing abmormal about me then. I became quiet, and moved my body only when I needed to walk.

My muscles felt paralyzed because of the sudden withdrawal of movement at all.
I saw a man in the mirror . . .

"Please give me a Remedy~"

-Jamais Vu

Suffocating myself in the confined room became my daily life and sleeping pills, my food.

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Fifteen days later

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*Phone rings*

No one was home, Joonie and Jin hyung were at Kookie's, Jiminie and Taehyungie were probably on their way to the hospital to change shift with the former two.

I was like a corpse, lying on my bed, but the constant ring woke me up eventually.

I received it without looking at the caller ID.

*Over the call*

ME : (-sleepy voice-) Hello?

_________

Is the call giving you any special instincts? ;)

Ahjih* :- Address to older sister in Taiwanese

Note : In korean culture, when young people drink with an elder who they aren't very close to, they drink  their shots looking to the side hiding from the elder to show respect. Just like Jhope did in the scene earlier.

I am sorry for not updating last Sunday. It was a busy weekend, although I did try to do it but the Video was incomplete so I had to delay the update. 
Hope you didn't wait for too long. Love you~♡♡

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