(4) Unknown Letter
-Mina's P.O.V-
I woke up as I stretched my arms. I turned my head to see Jinsoo who was sleeping cuddled in her blanket. She had tear marks on her cheeks, but she still had a soft smile on her face.
I understand how it felt with not seeing your family. The thick tear marks on her face showed how she longed to see them, to be with them. Though I've been away from my family, but I've still seen them, had spent time with them. I patted Jinsoo's head and got off the bed.
-After a while-
"Sweet Jinsoo will you make breakfast for me?" I asked her jokingly. "Have I ever said no?" Jinsoo said as she dried her face with a tissue. "Errr...nope," I said. I watched her make the breakfast for us. We did our breakfast.
"What are our plans for today?" Jinsoo asked me. "Well there is nothing important today, but Jin invited us to her house by 4'o clock this evening, so we have to go there," I said. "It's noon, we still have 4 hours. What about cleaning the whole storeroom? Its hella big and you promised me that you will help me clean it."
I suddenly remembered my promise that I made almost a month ago. I collected the brush and the dusting cloth while Jinsoo grabbed hers. We both lived in a storey apartment. We went on the upper floor which only consisted of a big storeroom and a washroom. Jinsoo opened the door of the store and coughed. There was no bulb there, but the light passing from the window made us possible to see.
I entered the room too and no doubt there was A LOT OF dust. "Here have a mask," said Jinsoo, giving me a mask. "Gee thanks." "I will clean that part and you clean the front part, okay?" she asked me. "Yeah sure," I replied. We began cleaning the store. It was such a hard work. I took a box and cleaned the dust off it. It was written MINA on it, so it was my box. I opened the box and began to clean everything.
There were a few books of my school, my old scarf, a watch that I used to wear in kindergarten, a few pictures of mine and few other things. I put them inside the box neatly and put it in a corner. I cleaned a few other boxes and went downstairs to drink water and to get some for Jinsoo.
I returned with a glass of water for Jinsoo and found her staring at something. "What are you doing?" I asked. "It's just... nothing. You go and clean your part," she said to me a bit confusedly. "'Mon you can tell me," I told her. "Ok then, have a look at this."
-Jinsoo's P.O.V-
I showed Mina what I have found. "What is it?" she asked me. "I don't know about it either," I told her. It was a picture of a girl almost five years old which I recognized was me because of the scar on the side on my neck. The picture was fully torn from around me and all we can see was only me and someone's hand (only that person's hand holding mine was shown).
There was a note which was also torn. I picked it up and decided to read it, but the scribbling on the pencil was faded away. I could only read a few lines which were: I can't bear this, it's no longer safe here and please take care of my possession.
Questions were swirling in my mind. Which possession? And what was not safe? And most importantly who had written it for whom and for what reason. I looked at the paper again and there was also a date that I noticed just now. 17th July. 2002. What happened on this date?
"Do you anything about this?" Mina asked me. "I...I don't know ANYTHING about it, but what is this thing doing in my box?" I said. "It is something related to you, that's all I can say about this," Mina said. "You are right. Hey! Just let's clean the room. It is 2 o clock already," I said, changing the topic. I put those mysterious things in the box back and helped Mina clean the room.
We got ready and went to Jin's house in a taxi. We reached there and Mina ringed the bell. Jin came running like a 6 year old kid rushing to get his present towards us. The sound of her footsteps seemed like that. She opened the door and greeted us, "I was waiting for you already!" "Will you not call us inside or should we stay here the whole evening?" I joked.
We sat in the TV lounge and she went in to the kitchen. "Take of your coats. I'm turning on the heater!" she called from the kitchen. We both hanged our coats on the hooks and went in the kitchen to help her. She was making hot cocoa for us. We grabbed our cups and went in the lounge. "So guys! What you did in the morning?" Jin asked.
I and Mina told her the whole story. She seemed a bit surprised too. She stared at me. "Do you think it is real?" she asked confusedly. I don't know was all I was able to say. "Don't worry. We will sort this all out later, but, now leave this and let's have fun," Mina said to light up the room. "Let's play a board game," Jin suggested. "Which one?" Mina asked. "Ludo!" I half screamed. With them I forgot about the note and the photo, but I didn't know what to do later about this.
-To be continued-
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