Kihyun

As I stood quietly from a distance while giving Jooheon his moment to reflect upon everything infront of Wonho's grave, a sudden roar of thunder startled the both of us together.

"What the--" Jooheon held his chest in shock.

"Jooheon-ssi!" I immediately rushed towards him.

He looked at me bewildered; it seemed to me as if Jooheon had a weak heart that was easily startled.

"What the heck was that? It scared me to death!" He asked.

"I don't think it's safe for us to be here in this open area anymore. A storm must be coming." I said.

"Alright. Please wait for me! I will just wrap up my message for Wonho hyung and start my prayers for him later on." Jooheon said.

"Don't worry, I'll make sure to stay with you." I assured him.

Soon, I began to feel rain drizzling on us. However, I couldn't leave until our mission was accomplished.

Haneul

I was at lost for words and frozen at the sight of Wonho behind Hyungwon. He was carrying so much negative energy, and I was scared that he would be capable of hurting both Hyungwon and I.

"What happened? How is this possible that I'm out of his body?!" Wonho growled with a deep changed voice.

Hyungwon turned back and looked at Wonho while immediately trying to push me behind him to protect me as we both stood up from the couch.

"Hyung, you used me." Hyungwon said with disappointment in his voice.

Wonho looked at Hyungwon with deep resentment. He truly did not like the idea of Hyungwon being back, and him being thrown out.

"I have to get back inside. Why did you ruin everything--"

"Don't!" I interfered with Wonho as I shoved Hyungwon away and faced Wonho directly.

Wonho stopped in his tracks and looked at me painfully. It looked like he was in disbelief of me protecting Hyungwon.

"You care about that guy? I thought you cared about us more, Haneul-ah." Wonho raised his eyebrow and smirked at me.

"Wonho, please stop this. I've pleaded you a lot of times to leave Hyungwon out of this already." I said.

"But he's the only way I could be with you. No one would notice, Haneul. We could keep living on like that." He spoke in a deceiving manner.

"No--"

Wonho changed his expressions as his face fell down. He was already starting to get impatient.

"Didn't you want to be with me? That's what you said, Haneul, or did you only make me believe it?" His voice spoke with a hint of betrayal.

"I meant that Wonho, but that was before. We can't be because I finally have realizations now. It's wrong, I need to send you off." A tear escaped my eye as I spoke in frustration.

"We can make this work if only you did not start caring about that guy. Who cares if he replaces me and becomes a lost soul? You being with me is all that matters." Wonho grabbed me and held both sides of my shoulders.

I felt Hyungwon taking a step forward as if about to drive Wonho's hands off of me, but I tried to signal him to stay further.

"Come with me, Haneul-ah. Should I forcefully take Hyungwon's body, or should I let you... die?" Wonho slowly caressed my face with his hands as he spoke those dreadful words.

I continued to cry while shaking my head to refuse as I couldn't move my body out of fear. Tears were flowing like a stream out of my eyes as I felt threatened of what Wonho may do.

"Stop trying to use me to forget what you have done to her. Don't make history repeat itself, Wonho." I spoke.

Suddenly, Wonho's eyes widened upon the words I have uttered. I was then certain that it did ring a bell.

However, it was probably a bad choice.

"What did you say?" Wonho was now angrier than ever.

In a flash, Wonho's hand went straight to my neck, trying to strangle me.

"You know about that?" Wonho asked.

I struggled for my breath, unable to fight against Wonho's unbelievable strength.

"Hyung! Let her go!" Hyungwon tried to interfere, but within a blink of an eye, Hyungwon flew away and hit the wall with just a look from Wonho.

"W-what d-did you d-do..?" I struggled to hold Wonho's hand as I was already gasping for air as I found it hard to breathe.

"I need to bring you with me. There's no way I'm leaving this place without you, Haneul-ah. If you want Hyungwon out of this, you'll have to pay the price by offering your own life." He said.

"H-how did you r-reach thi-is p-point?! You're h-hurting me!" I tried to speak a few more words to him.

"You're coming with me. Isn't that what we both wanted from the start? It's happening tonight." Wonho smirked.

Suddenly, Hyungwon charged at Wonho from behind and hit him in the head using a glass bottle, startling and distracting him.

At that moment, Wonho immediately let me go as my body dropped on the floor. I felt lifeless as my breathing was going irregular. My whole body was getting weak as I felt immensely hurt.

I lied down on the floor looking at the scene of Wonho slowly moving towards Hyungwon with wrath.

"Please.. make this stop.." I cried, frustrated by the fact that I couldn't put my body to move and help Hyungwon out.

Kihyun

Both Jooheon and I were already soaking wet from the pouring rain, and so was his prayer book which made it harder for him to see and read properly.

"Let's go back instead!" I got impatient.

"No! We can't give up!" Jooheon raised his voice at me as he was persistent enough to finish.

I stomped my feet, and brushed my hair back out of frustration.

"Alright. I just wanna do this last thing.. Hand me the bottle of holy water that I brought." Jooheon extended his arm.

I immediately handed it out to him, feeling the urgency of the moment.

Jooheon then started blessing Wonho's grave solemnly. I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt especially if this was the only way Wonho would stop bothering Haneul.

"Hyung... please rest now. Hear me out sincerely." Jooheon softly cried.

At that moment, I felt for him. He must have really been close with Wonho back then.

Haneul

Wonho kept moving closer towards Hyungwon about to extend his arms to grab him. Hyungwon had nowhere to go anymore and it was breaking my heart.

"No... please.. no." I tried to bring my body up.

I looked at Wonho and Hyungwon right in front. I was already losing so much strength from crying.

"Agh!" Wonho suddenly started burning from behind.

Hyungwon stared at him in disbelief of what was happening.

"Aghhh! W-what's this?!" Wonho started to fall down from the pain he was feeling.

At that moment, I started to calm down while Hyungwon and I looked at each other. He immediately took the chance to rush to me as quickly as possible.

"Haneul-ah! A-are you alright?!" Hyungwon tried to check my body.

Suddenly, I saw Hyungwon's face turn into disbelief once again as he looked at the marks on my neck.

"H-Haneul-ah, they're fading!" He spoke with widened eyes.

Hyungwon and I immediately embraced each other tightly, feeling each other's deep concern.

However, I caught a glimpse of Wonho slowly standing up from the ground once again. I lightly pushed Hyungwon away as I felt alarmed.

Wonho slowly turned to face us, and this time, sadness was evident on his face. All the rage and the violence suddenly was mysteriously wiped out from him.

"H-Haneul... H-hyungwon-ah.." He called out to us, tears falling down from his face.

Hyungwon and I stood still, not knowing what to do as fear was still present deep inside us.

"I'm sorry." He cried, sincerely.

Hyungwon and I looked at him while we kept each other close. I felt myself starting to cry a stream of tears as well.

It finally felt as if it was the end.

"I hope you both forgive me.. Goodbye..." Wonho spoke painfully as he slowly faded out into thin air.

And that was it. Wonho had disappeared from our sight leaving us unable to process everything just yet. However, at the same time, we were relieved.

"Oh my..." It was all that I could say.

However, Hyungwon had me close to him which comforted me the most. Though Wonho had left for good, Hyungwon's presence was there to keep me safe.

I was deeply glad to have him back. At that moment, I had realized that I made the right choice.

And if I knew, I would never risk my childhood friend's life for anything again.

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Okay I was supposed to make this the end chapter and just create an epilogue chapter, but the epilogue chapter would be the END chapter I guess!

I was quite inconsistent with this book lol, but I'm not the type to scrap everything away once I've made it far already XD

Hahaha thank you all guys, and see you in the final chapter coming up next!

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