Koi No Yokan

Goodbye, Kang Seri †

TW: This chapter contains minor details about suicide and blood. If you are squeamish, feel free to read the next chapter.

Hyewon's POV:

It was Sunday, Eomma told me last night that she was going to go home today and she told me she won't be cooking breakfast anymore, cause Jjaeyeon was here with us and she could just cook for us. Why is Minju knocking incessantly on my door now?! Ugh! I got out of her Queen Size mattress and opened the door. Minju's face came to view, her frantic face evident.

"Oppa! Eomma! Eomma, said we should find her dead body at WM!" Minju told me and showed me the letter, Eomma left.

Her cute Hangul writing came to view, I paused for a bit to read it, then after reading, Chaeyeon rushed out of her room, she was holding the same letter, I took them by their hands and started a mad dash to WM. Adrenaline pumped out of me, that I crossed the street with the two of them, not minding if any car was passing by, I just needed to find Seri Eomma, I was desperate to save my Seri Eomma. I knew which room she frequented and if I am not mistaken, it was the vocal room at the end of Fourth Floor, a floor four floors directly up from our Practice Room in the fourth floor where she always stayed with Haneul Appa. Once we arrived at WM, I alerted the security personnel.

"Please get emergency services! A trainee is in there somewhere, she may have harmed herself!" I shouted at the security personnel.

The security immediately nodded and one of them came with Minju, Chaeyeon and I, it must've been quarter past four, I'm not at all sure, I just had to find Seri Eomma, that was my goal right now. We took the stairs up to the fourth floor, I can't wait for an elevator to open and bring us to the fourth floor. I ran frantically down the entire fourth floor, I saw lights on the vocal room. I looked over at the other security personnel who brought along the keys.

"Please hurry and open this door!" I begged the personnel.

He quickly inserted his keys and turned the key, unlocking the door, I pushed past him and I'm your Girl ? Greeted us, my eyes quickly fixated on Seri Eomma, she was laying on the floor, blood still oozing out of her temple and a small pistol laid on the side of her head. A Ruger .22 LR Silent SR, I knew because I've seen my Eomma carry a similar pistol for protection against bad entities, it was a Rich man's thing, to go out with a pistol for your protection, especially if you owned one of South Korea's big businesses.

"Ande! Seri Eomma!!!" I ran to where her body was and fell on my knees.

Chaeyeon followed suit, then Minju.

I touched her arm and slapped her arm lightly, she felt cold to the touch.

"Eomma! I told you not to leave us right?! No, no! No!!!! You couldn't be dead! No!!!! Please! No!!!! Fuckin' someone please call the ambulance!!!!" I shrieked at the view of Eomma.

Seri Eomma was gone by now, I can't feel a pulse, I don't see her breathing. I tried to carry Eomma but the guys from the ambulance quickly came in and took Seri Eomma to the hospital, leaving Minju, Chaeyeon and I reeling to oblivion. They both hugged me, crying, no, wailing for Seri Eomma. The pool of blood and gun on the vocal room floor was a reminder to us that she finally ended her misery. No reasons as to what happened to her to take her own life, it would take us quite some time to find out the truth. Policemen came in to the vocal training room, the music still played, I'm your girl ? how much I hated this ambiguous song was beyond me. I would never again listen to this song, until five years after this event, until I heard the new Eomma hum the familiar song, bringing back memories of Lexie Eomma.

The police cordoned the area with yellow caution tape. The area of where her body was laying lifelessly earlier was also cordoned off. Police investigators found us and asked us to leave the room so they can properly investigate the matter. How dare they ask us to leave the room! We were still crying, trying to grasp our thrown off balance and they want us to leave?! What the hell do they think? That Seri Eomma was murdered by someone? She fucking killed herself! They helped us up and we were brought out of the room albeit unwillingly. An investigator approached Minju, Chaeyeon and I and asked us.