Ji Won was in his depressed state again. There was this
empty void inside him that he couldn’t erase. It was
a recurring pain that never seemed to end. He felt lonely.
Whenever he sees Min Sung and Kyung Hee together, it disturbs
him. He could’t figure out what it was but he kept
finding something wrong with the picture. Then a knock came
on his door.
“Come in,” he said, without bothering to see
who it was.
I entered Ji Won’s room holding a tray of food. Now
these days since he was in his isolated stage, he didn’t
eat much anymore. I was beginning to worry. I didn’t
have much time left with him so I wanted to take care of
him the best I could with the time I still had left.
“Hyung? Are you hungry? I brought you some food.”
Ji Won turned around to see who it was. It was Min Sung.
“Just put it down.” Min Sung placed it down
before Ji Won. Ramyun, mee-yuk-gook, rice, and curry. ‘How
does he know I like these food?’ Ji Won thought. “Take
it away I don’t want it.”
“But hyung, you haven’t eaten for days. Please
eat a little bit.”
“I said take it away!” Ji Won yelled, his anger
exploding. He knocked over the tray of food. It ended up
spilling all over Min Sung. Ji Won and Min Sung stared at
each other. Neither of them knew what to say. Min Sung leaned
over to clean up the spilled food and then left.
Ji Won fell back in his chair. He ran his hands through
his hair frustrated. Min Sung was too much like Mina that
it was driving him crazy. Ji Won knew he was out of line
though, so he began to walk to Min Sung’s room to
apologize.
’What a mess’, I thought as I stripped out of
my clothes. I soaked myself into a hot water bath, hoping
it could wash away all my troubles. When I was done with
my bath, I wrapped myself up in a towel and got out of the
tub. Then I heard my room door open and then close.
‘Must be Kyung Hee’, I thought as I began to
put my clothes on.
Ji Won entered Min Sung’s room, not knowing what to
say. He wasn’t good at apologizing. He looked around
and didn’t see Min Sung anywhere. Then he heard the
sound of water draining. He figured Min Sung must be in
the bathroom.
Ji Won opened the door slightly and saw Min Sung’s
bare back. He shuts the door quietly and began to leave.
He planned to apologize later but then his mind began to
sort out what he had just seen. Min Sung’s back had
an ‘E’ on it. Ji Won breaks the open the door
to the bathroom.
I was buttoning up my long sleeve shirt when my door suddenly
opened. I stared at Ji Won in shock but then remembered
I wasn’t completely dressed yet. I buttoned up the
remaining buttons and then faced him.
“Hyung!” I said surprised. “What are you
doing here?” I caught Ji Won looking down at my shirt.
I had buttoned it all wrong and a great deal of my body
was showing. Oh hell, I thought. “Hyung, I can explain-“
I began to tell him but I never had a chance to.
Ji Won stared at Min Sung’s exposed body. Without
thinking, he ripped open Min Sung’s shirt finding
that Min Sung was indeed a woman. Min Sung stood still,
stunned at what Ji Won had just did. He turned Min Sung’s
back to him. There it was. His ‘E.’
“M...Mina?” he asked uncertainly, afraid to
hope.I didn’t know what I was more embarrassed from.
Letting Ji Won expose me or being caught. In all my life
I had never been angry at Ji Won but I didn’t know
why I reacted impulsively. As I held my shirt together,
I slapped Ji Won across the face hard with my other hand.
His head snapped to the side. He held his cheeks as he turned
to face me.
“How could you do this to me Ji Won?” I asked
him screaming. “Get out! Get out!” I started
to push him out the door.
Ji Won was in shock. Mina, he thought. He grabbed her arms
as she pushed him out. “Mina, don’t! Is it really
you?”
I glared at him. As if he knew, Ji Won took off his jacket
and puts it around my shoulders. I zipped it up, covering
myself. “Yes Ji Won, it is me Mina.”
“But I thought you were dead.”
“I didn’t die. I faked my death.” “Why?”
“So I could go to Korea.”
“You came all the way from Hawaii to find me? Why
didn’t you just tell me who you are?”
Ji Won looked at Mina, who had tears coming out of her eyes.
He was about to brush them off for her but then Mina pushed
his hand away.
“That’s the only way I could do to be with
you. Join SechsKies.” Ji Won stared at Mina as she
continued talking. “After you left me all alone in
Hawaii, my life became so miserable. Not because of my stepmom,
but because of you. I finally found a way to leave Hawaii
to find you. I was so happy when I thought about how I could
see you again. I thought—“
Ji Won began to feel a rush of mixed emotions. Mina’s
words made him sad but seeing her alive in front of him,
made him want to hold onto her and never let her go. He
paused to let her continue.
"—I thought that we could be together like we
were….oppa and dongsang in Hawaii. But obviously,
I was wrong. You had all those girls around you that you’ve
completely forgotten about me.”
Ji Won felt his heart shatter into a million pieces. Each
one of Mina’s words stabbed him like a knife. “Mina,
you don’t understand. I—“ Mina didn’t
wait for his explanation and ran. Ji Won chased after her.
“Mina!” he yelled as he chased her out of the
hotel. “Hyung,” said Su Won as he saw Ji Won
ran by him. Ji Won pushed him out of the way. Kyung Hee
ran up to the 5 Kies. “What happened?”
Su Won shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t know.
Ji Won was chasing Min Sung and kept screaming Mina.”
Kyung Hee stumbled back and Sung Hoon caught her. ‘Oh
no, poor Mina,’ she thought. She turned around to
see Sung Hoon looking at her sadly. Kyung Hee moved close
to him and held onto him tight. Neither one of them lets
go.
