Chapter 47：I Should Have Gone Home.

Jin Ha followed Min Hong's tips and his days were smooth, a week passed and the second week arrived, Jin Ha was excited for the upcoming weekend.

Jin Ha was behaving normally the entire time till Wednesday came, when he returned home he refused to speak to Jin Hee and this continued on till the weekend, Min Hong came over to pick Jin Ha up but Jin Ha refused to go.

Min Hong pulled Jin Ha to the side Friday evening and asked him did he forget about what happened and what their plans for this weekend were. Jin Ha did not forget, it's just that he was in no mood to enjoy himself.

You all may be wondering what happened and why the sudden change well because something happened Wednesday, that day Jin Ha's eyes opened and he had a different opinion about humans.

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Wednesday at school.

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*Yawn*

Jin Ha, as usual, was bored out of his mind during art class and decided to leave, he left the class and went to the toilet first to urinate.

The passage was quite as usual and in the distance you could hear the teachers giving lessons.

As he came nearer to the boy's toilet he heard strange sounds and couldn't make out what the sound really was.

Outside the toilet, he took his shoes off and slowly made his way into the toilet.

After he entered he looked around and no one was there, he then looked at the toilet stalls and saw that 1 door out of 5 was locked. He could still hear the sounds and walked up to that stall and stood beside it.

He stood there silently for a couple of minutes but couldn't make out what it was, he thought of checking under the door but he didn't want to touch the dirty floor.

He went into the next stall and stood on the toilet and looked over, he saw another boy on his knees vomiting inside the toilet bowl.

Jin Ha wasn't sure what to make of this scene but continued to watch, not long that boy stopped vomiting and Jin Ha could hear him crying, his head was leaned against the toilet bowl.

After a bit more, Jin Ha thought that it wasn't right to continue watching this person cry so he stopped and left the toilet and urinated in a pot plant that was close by then he heard, "Choi Sang Woo, please return to your class, Choi Sang Woo, please return to your class."

It was the intercom system going off looking for a student. Jin Ha walked back to the toilet to wash his hands when he entered the toilet someone was washing there face. Jin Ha looked back to the toilet stall and it was open, he then looked at the person by the sink and saw his name badge, "Choi Sang Woo" was written on it.

Sang Woo caught wind of Jin Ha looking between him and the toilet stall and smiled bitterly. He looked at Jin Ha and said, "If you have something you want to ask, then ask, don't just look at me."

Jin Ha looked at him and hesitated for a moment, "Are you okay?"

"No, I'm not."

"Then don't go back to class."

"Then where should I go?"

Jin Ha looked at him and a smile appeared on his face, he walked over to wash his hands and faced Sang Woo when he was done.

"I know a place, follow me."

Jin Ha turned around and walked out, Sang Woo hesitated at first but followed Jin Ha.

He followed Jin Ha to a class past the grade 1 classes to an abandoned room that had old files, documents and broken tables and chairs which were all arranged by Jin Ha.

The room was neatly arranged due to Jin Ha needing a place to sleep during classes.

"How did you find this place?"

"No reason really just walked the whole school full and found it."

"..."

Jin Ha grinned, he looked over at Sang Woo then went to a corner and laid himself down. Sang Woo looked at Jin Ha who was suddenly asleep and dazed off, a few minutes later he sat down near Jin Ha.

He closed his eyes and slowly drifted off, Jin Ha wasn't asleep but after 20 minutes Sang Woo started crying in his sleep, Jin Ha got up because his crying got too loud and they would be caught.

He stood up and sat beside Sang Woo and wiped the tears from his face and...

Placed his right hand behind Sang Woo's head and his left on Sang Woo's mouth and shook his head gently and Sang Woo immediately opened his eyes and pushed Jin Ha away.

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The two of them looked at each other but did not say a word, after a while, Jin Ha went back to his spot and slowly started to drift off when he heard Choi Sang Woo's voice, he woke up but did not say anything and just quietly listened.

"Listen, are you asleep?"

"..."

"It's fine if you don't want to speak just listen to me okay? I need to get something off my chest, it's driving me crazy keeping this to myself and I'm really scared."

"..."

"Last month my mother sent me to ask money by my father who was at a gambling den or well by his friend's house that was used for gambling. The money was for electricity, so I went there and asked him for money and he told me to fuck off because he was busy and so I did."

"I should have gone home…"

He stopped talking and brushed his hands over his face then slightly pulled on his nose and sniffed then continued.

"I'm really pathetic, do you know that?"

"Err… I don't know whether or not you're listening to me or asleep, either way, let me continue."

"..."

"I went over to my best friends house because I wanted a book from him to read, when I arrived there his father answered the door and opened for me. He told me that my friend was at his mothers' place and I completely forgot that it was his mothers week that week to have him. So I went there for nothing."

"Or at least that's what I thought, my friends' father said I could come in and look between my friend's things and see if I find what I like I can take it home but I must let his so know. I was happy, genuinely happy, I looked through his things and I lost track of time and started reading the books there."

"His father came in and offered me orange juice to drink and then we started talking but as we're talking my mouth started to get numb, so I put the glass down and tried to speak but couldn't, he asked me what's wrong but I couldn't answer him."

"He rushed to my side and asked me what was wrong but still I couldn't say anything, both he and I were panicking... Or well just me, when he saw that I couldn't speak he started smiling weirdly and I felt shivers throughout my body."

(Sigh)

"He grabbed me by my arm and dragged me to another room and he tied by my arms to the bed and checked me on it, he left the room and closed the door behind him and he was gone for a while then came back and by the time he came back my voice returned to normal."

"He came in and I asked him why was he doing this and he said, "It's your own fault", my own fault? I didn't understand, all I did was ask for a book. He walked up to me and turned me around forcefully and the force hurt my body."

"Then I blacked out, after screaming from the pain I felt up my ass, I later woke up in my house, he took me home, told my mother I fell asleep while reading, I woke up in the middle of the night and when I moved my body, I felt a sharp pain through my whole body that originated from my butt, I got up out of bed and made my way slowly to take a shower."

"As I was showering, I remembered everything that happened to me and I started crying, the water flowed all over my face and I wiped it away, the mistake I made was opening my eyes as my head was faced towards the shower floor."

"Do you want to guess what I saw?"

"..."

"Haha… My legs were covered in dry blood."

"..."

"And I don't know what to do, ever since that day I can barely sleep and it's affecting me at school, I can't even look my best friend in the eyes anymore and I'm afraid of telling him, I wanted to tell my parents but will they believe me? On the outside, he is such a nice man that everyone likes but yet he did that to me?"

"I see him almost every time because he drops my friend at school and fetches him afterwards and I can't look at him. He speaks to me too but how am I supposed to act? To him, it's like nothing happened."

"It makes me sick to my stomach and I'm the only one that is suffering, I've been thinking about breaking off my friendship with his son but he is my best friend and he did nothing to me it was his father."

(Starts crying)

Jin Ha got up and moved closer to Sang Woo and whispered in his ear, "You can cry as much as you want, these walls won't tell anyone".

Sang Woo's eyes widened and he looked at Jin Ha, he recognized Jin Ha from two grades lower than him and he was slightly surprised by Jin Ha's response, it was similar to his best friends fathers words but he did not feel threatened, in fact he felt comfortable around Jin Ha and felt that he could be friends with him.

Jin Ha smiled at Sang Woo and moved closer to him, they were sitting shoulder to shoulder and after a few seconds passed Sang Woo bent to the side and placed his face against Jin Ha's stomach and screamed.

He yelled for a good moment and started crying not long after, Jin Ha didn't move his head but his eyes were looking down at Sang Woo was face was buried in his stomach. He looked at the wall in front of him.

From a side view, nothing changed in Jin Ha's expression, from a front view, that 14-year-old boys face told you exactly how he felt. Grinding his molars together and looking as calm as ever, Jin Ha had the look of a dangerous character, if looks could kill, you and I would be dead.