After my treatment ended, I returned home.
Silence...
For a moment, everything was quiet.
But I had always been alone.
I had always isolated myself from others.
However... my family was different.
They were the reason I endured this hell.
But now...
I cry—
While the anger burns inside me.
Why must the lives and worth of the weak be defined by the strong?
Why this discrimination?
Aren't we all human?
Aren't we equal?
Hahahaha... HAHAHAHA... HAHAHAHAHA!!
No.
Not all humans are equal.
I understand that now.
As long as I am fine, people care about me.
But if not...
They will take everything from me.
Life has two faces.
Suddenly, a voice came from outside—
"Hey, Kim! Can you hear me, man? Are you inside?"
I turned my face toward the window.
"Oh—Jack..."
"Kim, why haven't you been answering your phone?"
I looked at my phone.
Ah... the battery is dead.
"Sorry, Jack. Wait a moment—I'll come right away."
I opened the door.
"Please, come in," I said.
Jack asked, "Are you okay?"
I told him, "I'm fine, don't worry."
Then Jack asked, "Where is your mother? Is she outside?"
I told him that my mother died yesterday, along with Mary, in an accident.
Jack's eyes widened in shock and anger, but I cut him off.
"But Jack... there's something I have to tell you."
Jack replied, "Of course, what is it?"
"But before that... I saw one of them. I saw the same driver."
"He was talking to my neighbor."
Jack gasped in disbelief, "Wait—what?! Was he with them? Was he... one of them?!"
Shock and panic fill me.
Jack...