Lee Zachary's Point of View
Amaranthine Park
I stumbled upon the familiar park where me and Spade used to go to.
How long has it been? fifteen years?
15 years ago...
"Sorry kid, you don't have anough money. Why not try asking your parents for money, how about that?" The casier gave the teary eyed boy a sympathetic look while returning the ice cream back in the freezer.
"B-But it's for my friend, I promise to pay you back." He tried-hoping the cashier would give the teary eyed boy a chance.
"I'll pay for it." The eight years old Zachary said which made the teary eyed boy look at him in surprise.
"Really?" The teary eyed boy's eyes lightened.
He looked so happy. Zachary thought to himself.
"Y-Yeah." Zachary stuttered after seeing the boy's full appearance.
He was beautiful, very beautiful.
"Thank you mister!" The teary eyed boy caught Zachary by surprise by hugging him tightly like they've become instant besties.
Zachary's face flushed red by the sudden action made by the boy.
"S-Sure." Zachary hugged back which was unusual since he doesn't like skinships that much.
"U-Uhm.. I'll pay for it now." The stuttered Zachary broke the hug to get some cash from his wallet.
"That would be $2.50." Cashier smiled at the sight she was seeing.
Young love. She thought.
Zachary paid the items and handed the ice cream to the beautiful boy he met a while ago.
"Thank you so much! I don't know what to do if it weren't for you!" The boy smiled and thanked him again after getting the ice cream out of his grip.
"You're welcome." Zachary smiled, to a stranger, for the very first time.
Present...
Fifteen years since we left Japan, and fifteen years since I last saw....
15 years ago...
"What's your name?" The beautiful boy asked while walking along with Zachary in the park.
"Zachary" Zachary said cooly.
"Yours?" Zachary added.
"Jun. Kim Seok Jun." The boy smiled before heading to the playground section of the park.
"Let's go!" Seok Jun held Zachary's hand and dragged him to the slides.
Present...
Junie. My first love and my...
15 years ago...
"Zachary, please don't leave me." The beautiful boy, Seok Jun cried in the arms of a teary eyed Zachary.
"I can't, we need to leave for America." Zachary said softly, holding large tears from falling.
"I'll miss you." Seok Jun looked at the Zachary in the eyes, with pain of being left and pain of being in love.
Seok Jun was in love with Zachary.
Zachary's heart was thumping. The love was not one sided at all. In fact, he was also in love with Seok Jun which made it more harder to leave.
"I love you." Zachary blurted accidentally while looking at the younger's eyes.
The younger drew their faces closer and closer until he felt the soft plump lips of the younger against his.
"I love you too." Seok Jun said after breaking the kiss they shared under the moonlight.
Present...
First kiss...
I can feel my heart tightening everytime I remember his crying face.
Such young love was born because of an ice cream.
Sadly, It melted too quickly...
I stared at the familiar swing where me and Seok Jun made one of our happiest memories.
15 years ago...
"Zachary! C'mon! Push me!"
"What if you'll get hurt?"
"I won't, silly. This is a swing, don't be such a party pooper."
"Okay, but promise me you won't get hurt."
"I promise."
Present...
Where me and Spade made one of our saddest memories.
15 years ago...
"Don't you wanna play with me, Hyung?"
"Of course, I want to. I'm just tired, okay?"
"Is it because you have a new play mate?"
"No, Of course not."
"Liar!"
Present...
I never lied to Spade.
My parents were forcing me to train, in order to protect him.
I was tired.
I started training when I was seven years old. They taught me martial arts, how to use a gun- everything was all for Spade. No, Jung Hyung.
I was born to protect him.
Our bloodline had been serving the Park family for almost a century. If you are born a Lee, you are meant to protect the Park.
Sometimes, I wonder if I'll ever find happiness. It's not that I don't like being with Jung Hyung, I know we're friends but there will always be a huge wall between a boss and a follower.
And that wall shall never be broken.
After that swing incident, Mr. and Mrs. Park consulted a doctor. Jung Hyung was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
I already knew this was coming. Afterall, Spade was the first person to put blood on my pale clean hands.
13 years ago...
"Z-Zachary hyung. S-She's not breathing anymore. Do I need to put this thing on her chest again to wake her up?" Jung Hyung looked at me with his emotionless eyes while pointing the bloody knife on his grip.
I was terrified by the scene before me.
It was Jung Hyung...
on the top of his dead maid's body...
covered in blood.
Present...
Jung Hyung was molested by that maid. She was sent to take revenge on the Park family by harming their precious heir, but to only trigger the beast inside of the little one.
The Park family took it as a self defense at first, until Jung Hyung started bringing dead cats at home.
Jung Hyung loved seeing blood so much. Jung Hyung loved seeing people die in agony. Jung Hyung loved to kill. From bringing dead cats to playing with a dog's eyeball.
It was all terrifying, Until that swing incident. Jung Hyung tried to kill me after not believing my excuses. He tried stab me with a knife I didn't know he had been hiding. I should be thankful to Mr. Park. If not for him, I could've been dead by now.
After discovering the results, Mr. and Mrs. Park decided to send me and Jung Hyungbto America to cure Jung Hyung. It was hard for me to leave my love but my purpose is to protect the Park family's heir.
Me and Jun only communicated by sending letters to one another. I remembered how it would take months to receive a letter from him, but it's all worth it. Seeing his picture and cute penmanship is all worth it.
Years have passed, suddenly Jun stopped sending letters. His last letter was eleven years ago... leaving me hanging-waiting for his beautiful letters.
As to Jung Hyung's condition, he never changed. It got worse and worse. There are times he was soft as puppy, there are times he was aggressive as wolf.
Fourteen years, still his condition is ongoing. His condition was unexplainable as to why he was not getting better.
Jung Hyung knew he's sick, he wanted to cure himself but after years of medication-he gave up and embraced the wicked murderer within him.
"Oh look! aren't you the assistant of that masked Spade guy?" My attention drifted to the familiar guy with shiny black hair in front of me.
Waves of memories from a month ago suddenly flashed inside my head.
Flashback at the Himamura clan's Residence...
"We've been expecting you, follow me" The Yakuza with a shiny black hair greeted us with a smile and led the way."We've been expecting you, follow me" The Yakuza with a shiny black hair greeted us with a smile and led the way.
Present...
"What do you want, Zhuhan?" I asked sternly, completely remembering his name.
"It's Zhan." He gave me that "you think you did something" look.
Can I die?
"Okay, Zhan. What brings you here?" I tried to hide my embarrassment by keeping myself composed.
"I'm a normal person, I go to parks." He said-making his way to the swing I was eyeing a while ago.
I decided to turn my back on him to leave this nostalgic place until I heard him say something before my departure.
"Oh yeah, tell your boss to stay away from Natsuo." He said with his cold and intimidating persona.
"He doesn't like to associate himself with disgusting people."