☆60. The Familiar Photo☆
"It will be okay, Jimin-ah"
The old woman sobbed while trying to reach the baby's eyes to cover them but couldn't when the man shot her head and a loud sound of the shotgun ended up creating a harsh splash of blood, scattered over the backseats' window. A broken wrist watch was lying on the seat which was ticking 9:45 and the seat black leather cover had the printed letters embossed like of a sign 'LJ'
"Do I have to finish the baby as well?" The man questioned on the call and with a nod ended it while shoving the phone into his pocket.
"Oh, you are so small, you little poor thing. I don't want to do it but..." The man sighed while pointing the gun at Jimin and before Jimin could react, a woman wearing a short black leather skirt and purple cropped top hit the gun by her huge black bag. Everything was blur infront of Jimin's eyes.
"You wench!" The man yelled but that woman hit his head with her bag, making the man to shot the air up in the sky.
The woman hit the bag on his head again and again until the man fell down, giving an opportunity to her to grab baby off the baby seat but the seatbelt was all tangled so, she picked up the whole babyseat, the man tried to grab Jimin but only could grasp Jimin's yellow baby sock, as the woman began running away.
Jimin could feel that woman's racing heartbeat when she had hugged the babyseat close to her, running in an alleyway. He heard that man's yell after them but until the police sirens engulfed the whole place.
The man aimed his gun on that woman but couldn't shoot her once he felt the police cars rushing closer. He tsked as he chose to run towards the forest with Jimin's sock unintentionally still in his hand while the woman hid behind a wall and crouched down.
"You don't seem to cry like other babies" That woman panted while looking at Jimin who was voicelessly watching her. "Why would someone want to kill an innocent angel like you?" She whispered while holding Jimin's small baby fist clutched close.
"Mom! Mom! No! What happened to her?! Jihyun!? Where is Jimin?!" They heard a woman's cry with the police sirens near the crime scene. "Jimin?!! Where is my baby! Jimin!!?"
"She is probably your mom, Jimin" The lady talked to Jimin once she realized his name. "Let's go, let's go back to your mother" She added while standing up but as she bended down to pick Jimin's babyseat she was hit by a metal rod on her head and fell down on the ground.
Holding her head and looking up to find that same man from earlier pointing his shotgun at her. "I would have killed you for this if I wouldn't have liked you this much" That man whispered while bending down to her and his phone began ringing.
"No. I couldn't kill the baby but I have him now," That man talked on the phone while picking up Jimin's babyseat. "What do you mean there were two babies?!... fuck!" The man cursed while shoving his phone in his pocket. "Sorry, small baby, there is a little change in plan. Boss wants you alive" the man snickered while rolling his eyes.
"I can't believe I really forgot that you are just a slut. Obviously, a guy who can sleep with men for money can definitely do anything for money" Jungkook scoffed being in his office and Jimin just looked at him with his teary eyes.
"Slut. Slut. Slut." The word echoed in Jimin's ears as he suddenly woke up with a hitched breath to frown at the bright light of the hospital ceiling, he hovered his hand on his face to shade his eyes but hissed. His back of hand was covered with tapped canola.
"Where is my chain?" Jimin mumbled soon when he patted his neck to realize the loss of chain he was feeling on his neck was real. He wasn't wearing his chain anymore.
Jimin managed to sit up and took off the tape from his hand as he harshly took out the needle off his hand, a few drops of blood gushed down his hand but Jimin didn't care as he threw the canola away.
Jihyun was filling a cup of coffee in a corridor of a hospital, standing infront of a coffee machine while trying to call Jungkook but the latter didn't seem to attend the call.
He just leaned on the wall while sipping upon his coffee as he began scrolling his gallery images in his phone. Sadly, smiling at Taehyung and his selfies. Waiting for Jungkook to call him back whenever he would be done with what he would be doing. Jihyun just caressed Taehyung's picture on the phone and swiped aside the image to make his smile disappeared.
The photo of Mi-Sun in his boyfriend's arms and kissing him on the lips being in a club, appeared. Jihyun had completely forgotten about it. It suddenly gave a hope to Jihyun to talk to Jungkook.
Jihyun nodded to himself while shoving the phone in his pants pocket as he started walking away with his coffee to enter into a hospital room having a label on the door as 'emergency ward'.
Jihyun was about to sip upon his coffee until he noticed an empty bed, he was pacing towards to.
"Where is the guy who was laying here?" He asked a nurse who was fixing the bed.
"That blonde boy in weird woman's clothes looking for his chain? He left an hour ago without..."
"What?! An hour ago?! Where?! Why?! And you let him?!" Jihyun panicked but it was pointless to yell at her so, he geared up to run outside the ward to look for Jimin. "Also, the white T-shirt you are wearing were invented as an undergarment for navy men, woman's clothes" Jihyun scoffed before running outside, making her to look down at her shirt.
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
"Here's what you wanted" that bartender boy extended Jimin's gold chain towards Jungkook who was driving his car.
"Did anyone recognize you?" Jungkook asked while snatching the chain from his hand to look at it fondly and throwing a white dress shirt at the boy.
"With vulgur clothes like these, can anyone recognize me? Though, these people are nuts. Nobody recognize me that I'm not one of their orphanage children. But, the kid who was about to come at the Wacko as a new bartender is really fussing around in my laundry room. My dorm isn't big, what if my roommate sense it? I'm not a professional, I have attended just four drama classes when I was a kid and I am only in the 2nd year of agency training, I am not a damn detective yet, I'm still a student. I messaged Suga hyung about it but he replied me to shut up or else he will tell my mom that I smoke" The boy mentioned while taking off his sparkling and revealing shirt to wear the white dress shirt Jungkook had thrown at him.
"You are Suga Hyung's cousin that's why I am bearing with your overflowing bullshit, if you would be one of mine, I would have slammed your face at the window like a flat cockroach. Shut the fuck up and Just tell me what I wanted you to know. Did you get Jimin's birth record or I wasted my money on your college fee for nothing?" Jungkook asked while focusing on the road infront of him.
"I'm hoping to give you the fee back and keep your darling instead" The boy muttured as he rolled his eyes while buttoning up his dress shirt.
"Pardon?" Jungkook questioned with a serious frown.
"Nothing, I'm just saying that what you told me to do was really cheap. Even my girlfriend won't like the fact that I'm telling hookers that I'm sleeping with their men, besides that, he looked really hurt to even say anything to me, he isn't after your money, that's what you wanted to know but I swear he will kill me the next time I come across him" The boy complained while rubbing his face with a makeup wipe, removing his makeup roughly like a naive man.
"Bark the information already" Jungkook emphasized.
"There are 600 orphanages in the city and we don't know how many of them are working under Kosan. And, they put those children for work. Either sexual or else, they work for Kosan in order to have food and I'm fucking mad about it. I'm feeling to go and punch that fuckwit man instead of passing him smiles which I have been doing for a week" the boy started while taking out his phone and showing a photo of Kosan to Jungkook.
"He looks familiar..." Jungkook noted as he looked away to the road.
"Nobody knows about Jimin's real father but his step father, Lee Sang was a right hand of Kosan until he became an alcoholic. Kosan, he is like a big mafia boss or something, he started this prostitute chains since a really young age but back then they used to kidnapped college going girls and boys. However, now it is working on a huge scale. Jimin's mother Roselyn, she was forced to get married to Jimin's step father and was just pregnant twice. First time, the baby was snatched by the father who was a rich man so, they couldn't do anything and the second time, the baby died after a few days. I tried to find it but couldn't get anything about Jimin's birth record in the orphanage documents. They have lists of everyone. The children are kept in orphanages since their first breath but Jimin's record starts from a weird mark" The guy narrated.
"Did you have the sheet?" Jungkook questioned while pulling up his car with a pavement on the road.
"Yes. Here I stole the whole sheet to help you understand what I'm trying to say... the whole sheet says the word new born with kids names but Jimin's end with this" The boy showed Jungkook a folded document and Jungkook began reading it.
"A random mark means... they didn't know about Jimin's age. He wasn't a new born when he entered the orphanage" Jungkook whispered while studying the sheet.
"Maybe his mother tried to hid him and succeeded till..."
"Hiding a baby is rational but hiding a pregnancy isn't for a hooker who has to work no matter what on daily basis" Jungkook interrupted.
"Probably she acted that the baby died?" The boy guessed while making his hair parted like a sexy man and turned out to be a really handsome 'manly' looking guy despite of how he was looking a few minutes ago.
"Then where is the record? Her dead baby happened after four years of Jimin's record in the orphanage. Her first baby's record happened eight years before Jimin, Jimin's record starts and then four years gap between Jimin and the last dead baby" Jungkook tried to explain.
"See, I'm still studying, not a detective yet but it clearly means...
"Jimin wasn't born in the Wacko" Jungkook completed his sentence with a smirk.
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Jihyun was looking around in the alleyway near the hospital, which also lead to the Wacko. He ran back to the Wacko while looking for Jimin, he wasn't sure where to go, it was a lot later but the Wacko was all lit up with colorful lights and neon signs.
Jihyun didn't have much experience of such places and ignored all the vulgur comments he got by the scary drunk men on the street.
He was all alone without his driver this time, visibly looking rich, young, innocent, vulnerable and scared. Wandering around the street wasn't safe as he felt a small group of men following him, he ended up walking ahead and thought he was just thinking it but clearly, those men were following him.
Jihyun began running and climbed up to the club he believed Jimin works in. He paid for the pass in the speed of light, watching the club's bodyguards pausing the way of those men following him, asking them for the pass money.
He rushed in without looking behind and kept walking between the dancing people, trying to get camouflage between people as he noticed those three men walking in the club. Surely, they paid for the pass.
"Jimin!" Jihyun breathed out as he finally found the latter sitting on the barstool at the bar, still wearing his red sparkling cropped top and pants with red crystal chains all over from the choker to waistbelt. Jimin had just put his side face down on the bar counter, holding a bottle of beer and his eyes closed. "Jimin?" Jihyun whispered while poking his arm, looking around distressed.
"What do you want?" Jimin asked with a frown without opening his eyes, sounding drunk.
"Why did you come here from the hospital?"
"I didn't have money to pay for that shit" Jimin replied.
"I had already paid. You should be treated. You are extremely pale and weak and passed out a few hours ago" Jihyun tried to explain.
"Shhh..." Was all Jimin stated while putting his finger on Jihyun's lips. "I lost everything. Thanks to you" Jimin stated tipsily while finally opening his eyes and sitting up straight to drink more.
"I have already told you. I wasn't involved, I didn't know anything. I have already apologized" Jihyun mumbled in a low voice.
"Fuck off, you rich kid!" Jimin yelled and Jihyun just sighed.
"Come on, let's go. I have to call a cab and take you home" Jihyun grabbed Jimin's wrist and realized his back of the hand was swollen blue because of the needle.
"Take me home?" Jimin asked with a drunk laugh while caressing Jihyun's cheek with his index finger. "Are you sure about it, honey?"
"Shut up and let's go..." Jihyun tried to drag him but Jimin pushed his grip away.
"I will wait here"
"Wait for what?" Jihyun asked.
"For Mr. Jeon. I know he will come. A stupid bartender told me he has been sleeping with other people, he is over me. But nor I have grown old neither my beauty is gone. Why he would go with someone else?" Jimin shrugged with a chuckle.
"I'm beautiful, he used to say that I was beautiful! Am I not beautiful anymore?! Why he did that?! Why?! I'm pretty, I have a good skin, a sexy body! But I thought he doesn't want it either, he wanted love! And I betrayed him! I'm a jerk! Lost everything! My love! My chain! I lost my chain too! I have been finding my father with that but I couldn't and now the chain is gone!" Jimin yelled as his eyes began filling up with tears and he sniffed.
"Jimin, relax..." Jihyun tried.
"I'm a loser! I couldn't find my dad, couldn't run away, couldn't stop my mother from marrying that jerk! Couldn't forgive a rapist and became a murderer instead! Couldn't abort my child and gave her a shit life! Couldn't protect Hoseok hyung who is lost for several weeks! Couldn't return money of Jin Hyung for which he is working his ass off in the restaurant! Couldn't collect money for Melody's eyes! Couldn't give her a normal life where she could see and learn new things besides learning that her papa is a slut! Couldn't save my love watching him go with other guy! Couldn't stop being a traitor to Mr. Jeon! Couldn't make him realize that I love him and didn't meet him on purpose!" Jimin was crying out loud now and Jihyun just sighed while looking around.
Detective Chan walked into the club all alone, wearing a black dress shirt and pants as he swiftly walked up towards the dancing huge bird cage but there was a woman dancing inside. He began looking around until he finally spotted Jimin at the bar.
"My Mr. Jeon! Jae-Hwa! I thought we were a family, Mr. Jeon!" Jimin cried while Jihyun just looked at him, seem to search for a way to calm him down.
"Why did you do that, Mr. Jeon?! Why did I do that, Mr. Jeon?! My Mr. Jeon! Jungkook! Jungkook! I love you, Jungkook!" Jimin wailed.
"Jimin..." Jihyun tried to console him until he was interrupted.
"What's wrong here?" Jihyun saw an unfamiliar man who happened to be detective Chan asking Jimin, ignoring Jihyun's presence. "Why are you crying?" He asked while wiping Jimin's tears and Jihyun just watched him holding Jimin's waist and then tracing his hand down on Jimin's ass.
"Get away from me" Jimin sobbed while pushing him away but the Detective grabbed Jimin's arm. Looking for Jungkook who wasn't there, obviously, giving an opportunity to Chan.
"Let's go" He began dragging Jimin away with him towards the rooms but Jihyun grabbed Jimin's other hand.
"Excuse me, we are talking and I'm with him, he clearly doesn't want to go with you" Jihyun started and Detective Chan scoffed.
"Let go of him" Detective Chan ordered while pushing Jihyun away and twisting Jimin's hand harshly which was already swollen, making Jimin to cry due to the pain.
"Hey! Why are you holding him like that? Let him go or I will call the police" Jihyun threatened while getting between Jimin and Chan.
"I am the police, kid. And this place is illegal anyways" Chan stated while forcibly dragging Jimin away towards the corridor having rooms by holding him in a backhug manner while Jimin was too drunk to protest, just crying.
"What Jungkook hyung would have done in this situation?" Jihyun began thinking hard, visibly panicked until he finally realized what Jungkook would have done in this situation.
He grabbed Jimin's bottle of beer from the bar counter and harshly stow it on Chan's head from behind. The bottle broke into pieces and Chan yelped while holding his head and Jihyun grabbed Jimin's arm to run away.
Succeeding in dragging Jimin out of the club without looking behind.
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
"They can't run away. Nobody can. Jimin used to work at Kosan's restaurant since a very young age, until he was maturing and becoming sexually attractive like he is right now..." Suga's cousin was mentioning until he noticed Jungkook's glare and cleared his throat.
"I mean... he caught the attention of a police officer of the district. Kosan was trying to please that officer to make him do a shit for him, I couldn't figure out what. Then suddenly, Jimin was arrested by the same officer. God knows what they did to him, a weird pole dancer at the bar told me that he wasn't okay mentally and one night he stole Kosan's knife and chopped that officer into pieces" The boy further mentioned.
"As if it would be easy to steal his knife..." Jungkook sarcastically snickered.
"Exactly. When the officer wouldn't agree on Kosan's work. He used Jimin's mental health to finish his issues. So, your sweetheart is an unluckily murderer as well but didn't go to jail. That woman told me that Kosan put conditions on Jimin to work as a hooker or he would send him jail, Jimin used to get scared of the word 'police' so, he had to" The boy explained.
"But at the end of the day, he worked what he was afraid of..." Jungkook whispered with a sigh.
"Kind of. Jimin was the starter of male hookers. Though, he was disappeared for nine to twelve months, like for a year, three or four years ago. Nobody knows why but after he came back, he stopped giving money to the club. Jimin was forced to work, walk and talk as a hooker in the name of a drug they inject to rebels. Strangely, since two years Jimin stopped paying to the club and asked everyone he knew for a debt he hasn't paid yet but Kosan didn't inject him"
"Probably because he wasn't in the city"
"Nah. They are behaving really creepy with Jimin in a nice way as if they want him to do something for them. Jimin for a fact, has stopped working and I heard them talk about going somewhere for work to the upcoming event being held in the city, it is about the Mayor and I know why, because he is raiding on the red zone areas, I read it on the news" The boy told Jungkook.
"The jewels display? That's the only big event coming in this month and the Mayor's wife is participating in it, obviously he will be there too" Jungkook noted.
"I don't know. I just got whatever I could grab from Kosan's office. Sneaking in was hard. I got some photographs and papers" The boy stated while taking out a punch of photographs from his pants' pocket.
"You took these for me or for your personal interests?" Jungkook scoffed as the photographs were of some naked woman and some was of random people with Kosan.
Jungkook stopped shuffling the photographs until he looked at the one particular which was now at front of him. "What is this..." Jungkook keened his eyes at the picture.
"What?" The guy asked, peeking at the photo that had three men standing somewhere, looking as if they were laughing together on a joke or something and it was a random click.
"I have seen this photo before somewhere..." Jungkook whispered to himself while thinking hard.
"That's probably the younger version of Kosan with Lee Sang who is Jimin's step father and... the middle one looks like..." the boy wondered. "He looks like... I have just seen a face like this..." He was still wondering until he looked at Jungkook's face through the rearview mirror. "You..." the guy suddenly ended up pointing at the rearview mirror and Jungkook looked down at the photo with a frown.
Jungkook kept looking at the photo that was still infront of Jungkook but now Jungkook wasn't in his car anymore.
But he was standing in the living hall of his family's mansion, holding the photo straight on a wall, beside a bigger photo frame attached to the wall of his living hall.
And that bigger frame on the wall has the exact same photo but on a bigger scale.
☆END OF THE CHAPTER☆
Bạn đang đọc truyện trên: AzTruyen.Top