It's been already a day since I woke up in the hospital and met Yuri noona.
She promised to go contact Damian, so she did.
The thing is, after arriving at our previous shack, it was apparently completely destroyed, and Claudia's shack was abandoned.
It seems Damian already knows about my problem with Park Do Joon and took some actions. That kind of relieved me, but I was also sad because of not being able to contact them.
Anyway, right now, Yuri noona was feeding some soup that she brought.
— So tell me, Chris-ah, who's that Eimi you mentioned before? Is that your girlfriend?— asked Yuri noona.
Smiling, I shook my head and replied.
—She is my adoptive sister. Damian and I found her abandoned around 3 or 4 years ago.
— Hmmm...
I could perfectly remember that day...
I was at home with Damian, when we suddenly heard some crying. Staring at each other, we got out of the house to see what was happening. After coming out, we saw a really scrawny kid, crying just outside the door. She was in fetal position, screaming out loud.
Looking at both sides of the road, we didn't notice a soul, then, Damian got into the house, took a cookie that he was saving, and gave it to the girl saying.
— Are you hungry little girl? — he said while smiling at the girl.
The girl abruptly stopped crying, took the cookie and voraciously ate it. Only then she nodded.
Smiling, Damian opened the door and gave her way to enter the house. The girl was still distrustful, so I took her hand and guided her inside. Since that day, she has been living with us, we didn't ask a thing about how she got there or what happened, nor are we interested, she's just Eimi for us and that's it.
Yuri noona ended up listening to my whole story of us meeting Eimi and said.
— You do love her right? — she said with her never ending smile.
I nodded, in a siblings way, I indeed loved her. Then I recalled something
— Noona, can you accompany me to the shack after they let me out of the Hospital — I was actually really nervous, I didn't know if I was overstepping some boundaries.
She smiled and said.
— No need to ask that, I was intending to.
I was relieved.
— Changing the topic, I already notified your school as you told me. The didn't seem very Interested at all.
— It's always like that Noona — I said, not hoping for anything else.
— Hmmm, and what do you want to do after getting our of hospital, If I may ask.
Thinking for around half a minute, I said.
— I think I want to audition noona — I timidly said.
— Audition? — she asked, puzzled.
I nodded, and said
— A singer audition.... — I was embarrassed, so I cut my comment there. Looking at her eyes, I could almost see stars in them, she grabbed me by my cheeks and said.
— Why didn't you say you could sing? I want to hear it, can I? — she innocently asked.
I gulped some saliva but still nodded.
She started egging me with her eyes, so I started singing Park Nam Jung's "Oh wind", even standing up to imitate all his movements.
I once saw him dancing while walking in front of some shop with TV's in display, and sincerely started admiring him...
Anyway, I did all the choreography while singing. After finishing my performance, I turned to look at noona, and noticed she was frowning.
— Is something wrong? — Inquired nervously, was I too bad?
— ...od— I couldn't hear anything.
— I couldn't hear anything noona — I replied while getting closer to her. Suddenly she screamed.
— YOU ARE SO GOOD!!!! YOU ARE THE BEST, IF YOU TRY YOU'LL DEFINITELY NAIL THE AUDITIONS.
I was worried for nothing..
I smiled, relieved. Anyway, she later resumed feeding me, after complimenting me for my dancing for some minutes more.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A couple of days later, I was ready to leave the hospital, it seems I recovered much faster than they expected, but they did warn me to keep going for some checks. But more importantly, I should start donating blood as soon as possible, not for anyone else, but for me.
It seems I got an extremely rare type of blood called Rh null, sometimes called "Golden blood".
I was lucky this hospital had some of it to transfuse during my treatment due to another usual donator. They said it was so rare, only around 40 people around the world had this type of blood.
And the only registered Korean apparently donated continuously. Another person to be grateful to..
On the other hand, as was promised, Yuri noona will accompany me to the shack to see if there's any kind of information I could get about Damian or Eimi.
I didn't want this visit to blow up, so we went near Guryong village in Noona's scooter, and walked there some short route.
After getting there... Indeed the shack was only ruins now.
As I was getting near it, I noticed several burned places. Definitely that damn Hongman fault.
I stood up just in front of the previous existing door. Removing the rubble just in front of me, I bent on my knees, and removed the ever sturdy flat stone there. It was Damian's secret stash. But he never put money in it.
This time though, I noticed a piece of paper in there, apparently survived the demolition. I took it out and opened it. Apparently a letter, I couldn't read that well, so I put it in my pocket meanwhile.
Then, we got to Claudia's house and knocked on the door. After waiting for some minutes, there was no response at all, so I gave up and told noona to go.
After about half an hour, we got again to Noona's scooter and I said while bowing
— Thank you for everything noona — I said, and then started turning to leave.
She kept staring weirdly at me and said.
— What do you think you're doing?
I tilted my head, expressing my confusion.
— You don't have a place now, you're going with me!
I inmediately shook my hands and my head while saying.
— Impossible noona, I already bothered you too much.
She fiercely started at me and said, while giving me a helmet.
— I wasn't asking you though...
I sighed....
After some minutes, we were riding to Noona's house.
It was a little apartment in Daechi 1-dong her grandfather paid for her. Unfortunately, her grandfather died some years back, so the flat is the only thing she has left from him.
After entering, she inmediately said:
— Make yourself at home, it got kind of late, do you mind if we eat ramyeon? It's the only thing I have, and the only thing I can cook — she said, a bit embarrased.
I nodded and, went to the bathroom to wash my hands. Later, I helped her with the ramyeon, after we finished eating, I asked her timidly.
— Noona, it seems Damian left me a letter, can you read it for me, please? — I gave her the letter, she took it, and started reading.
" Dear Jangsu, if you're reading this, it means we had to run from Guryong village urgently. Eimi already told me about what happened today, I hope you're completely safe wherever you are right now, and I'm sorry for being incapable of helping you at this moment — Yuri noona paused a bit to let me think for a bit and then continued — I already knew about your interactions with Hongman, but I never thought it could escalate even more, nor did I know he was involved with Mr. Park. After, Eimi told me everything, I thought it was intelligent to abandon this place, and start anew somewhere else. But, this time I will not be with neither of you anymore. Eimi will be adopted by a friend of mine that's been living with his Korean husband for some time now. Don't worry about their treatment of Eimi, my friend will treat her as her own daughter and she will never miss anything with her. If you're interested, at the bottom of the page I wrote the address of my friend — noona stopped and recited the address, which apparently was in Daegu, and continued reading the letter — For you, I have other plans, I'll leave a phone number of an acquaintance of mine. He promised to take care of you if something ever happened to me, so please call him and tell him about your situation, he'll take care of you for some time — Once again, noona stopped and read the name of Damian's acquaintance, called Lee Sang Min — Don't worry about me, I'll Take advantage of this situation to take care of some unfinished business I have. I hope you don't hate me because of this decisions I made, and I'm waiting for the day the three of us reunite once again"
After a couple of minutes of silence, noona broke the silence.
— Do you want to call the number? — she quietly asked.
I simply nodded, a bit absentmindedly.
Before noticing, I was already dialing the number.
While nervously waiting, the phone rang twice, then three times and so on. Just as I thought the person was actually sleeping, I heard a man's voice on the other side.
— Yes, this is Lee Sang Min, who am I talking with?
....