Five
Years Later
Kim
Young Min
Seoul,
South Korea
Five years
have passed and I still wasn’t over Choi Eun Sun. My dreams were filled with
her smiles and tears. On the streets as I drive I see women that resemble her
walking with their children, my heart beats remembering the child lost and how
devastated Eun Sun had been that morning. She was out there somewhere; somehow
she managed to stay hidden from my eyes, out of my reach and out of my life.
Days after
Eun Sun disappeared I hired a private detective to track her down, the only
thing he found was the house she bought in Guri. I had talked to a few of her
neighbors but they all said the same thing, Miss. Choi stayed to herself and
never had any visitors, then one day there were moving trucks and she was gone.
I left my numbers with Eun Suns neighbors
asking them to let me know if anything changes with her house, Five years and
still no change. I kept in contact
through the year with
Eun Suns sister Soon Yi. I always felt as though she
knew where her sister was, but when I asked her…her answer was always the same
“Young Min she has not contacted me in some time now. I think that you should
give up on her now. It’s been years and I don’t think she has plans to come
back from where ever she is.”
On one of my visits I noticed something new in Soon Yi’s
living room, picture of twin girls 2 or three years old. I hadn’t noticed it before, when asked about
the picture Soon Yi looked nervous saying the toddlers were her best friends
daughters. They looked so familiar.
Days later I had a flashback of Eun Suns last day with
me. Could she have gotten pregnant again that morning and found out later. The
thought ran through my head a thousand times after seeing that picture, and had
she been pregnant the child would be about four or five. Impossible doc said that
it would be a long while before she could have children again.
It was a
Wednesday afternoon when Secretary Oh knocked on my office door,
“President Kim there is a Mrs. Byun Chung Ae from Guri
to see you.”
A short stout woman in her fifties with short curly
black hair walked into my office, She was well dressed and looked around
nervously. I stood as she and greeted her at the seating area in my office she
bowed as I offered her a seat. I say,
“May I offer you some jasmine tea Mrs. Byun?”
“Huh…oh yes.”
“What brings you here today?”
“Well President Kim, some years ago you came to my
neighborhood asking about the Choi home…”
“Yes I did.”
She showed me the card I had left with her and placed
it on the coffee table and continued.
“You asked to contact you if there were any changes
with that home. Just recently there have been moving trucks coming in and out of
the property, and repairmen working on the front gates. When I asked one of the
men why all of the sudden the repairs, the man said that the owner would be
returning soon.”
I was practically sitting on the table so close to
Mrs. Byun that I could smell the rice wine she had with lunch earlier that day.
I was excited, Eun Sun was returning to her home.
“Mrs. Byun how recent was this?”
“The trucks started coming early Saturday morning, I
noticed them because I was coming in from the morning markets.”
My heart
was racing…racing. Out of my excitement I grabbed Mrs. Byun and hugged her
tightly thanking her over and over again. Her body stiffened, I had frightened
her. Quickly I apologized and escorted
her from my office. If this information is right, then the only owner of this
house is Choi Eun Sun.
Sitting behind my desk I was thinking of questions to
ask her as soon as I saw her, “Why did you leave me?” Where have you been?”
“Can we start again?” But with these questions, would she even want to see my
face? Had she moved on to another love? Would she forgive me? I called
Secretary Oh on the intercom,
“Cancel all appointments and meeting for the rest of
the day and get me Detective Jang immediately.
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