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Love in Autumn - Chapter 70

Published at 27th of December 2018 03:30:58 PM


Chapter 70

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Once Ha Na and Ahn Song Ho entered the hospital room, Jun felt their movement and opened his eyes.

"Oh, you come?" Jun asked while rubbing his sleepy eyes.

"En. How is she?" Ha Na replied and put down a basket full of fruits on the table beside Ji An and started to unpack, putting it inside the small fridge provided by the hospital. The basket full of Ji An favorite fruits. There were strawberries, pear and grapes. While Ha Na busied tidying up the fruit basket, Song Ho who came with a bouquet of flowers felt awkward with only him and Jun around.

Didn't know what to do with the awkwardness, Song Ho went out to ask for flower vases. It would be good to have flowers inside the room to cheer Ji An up. At the very least, the room would not feel so stuffy and gloomy.

Due to the noises inside her room, Ji An finally opened her eyes for real. It seemed the anesthesia finally worn off. When Ha Na noticed her opened eyes, she could not contain her excitement.

"Song Ji An. Thank goodness you finally open your eyes. You almost grow mold all over your body. Are you feeling okay?"

Listening to her best friend cheery reply made everything sounded so normal and she was glad for that. "En. I am feeling better. How long have I fallen asleep?"

"One full day." Ji An was startled to see Jun was still there. Wearing the same clothes as what he wore last night when she awoke for a while.

"You're still here." Even though she did not expect it to happen, Ji An felt warm by his attention to her. She did not expect doesn't mean she didn't have any hope that Jun would stay through out. Embarrassed by her own selfishness, pink blushes started to appear on her cheeks making Jun alertness soared up.

"Are you okay? How come your face so reddish? Should I call doctor?" Jun started to bombard Ji An with questions, worried about her fast changing condition.

"No, it's okay. I just woke up and felt the room was slightly hot." Ji An touched her hot flush cheek, feeling more and more embarrassed after discovered by Jun.

Finishing preparing the fruits for Ji An and wanted to give Ji An and Jun some space, Ha Na dragged Song Ho Oppa towards the sofa and turned on the TV inside the room. It was early in the morning, so there was nothing interesting to watch except news.

Suddenly a knock could be heard from the door and Detective Jo's head popped in.

"Am I too early to come?" Detective Jo asked casually with a smile.

"Ji An, I am the one calling Detective Jo." Song Ho Oppa stood from the sofa and went towards the door to greet Detective Jo.

"Hello, Song Ji An-ssi. I have heard your condition from Song Ho-ssi. Am I disturbing you so early in the morning?" Detective Jo tried to be polite. Although he knew he needed to get her statement as early as possible. People tend to alter their memory after some time had passed.

Understanding the implication of Detective Jo presence inside her room, Ji An knew sooner or later she needed to recall whatever had happened to her during that night. There was no time to delay. She knew it well as she was also a reporter. And she would do the same to the other victim.

"Yes, I know why you are coming. We can start."

"Are you sure?" Jun was still beside her, concerned filling his handsome face.

Touched by everyone caring attitude, Ji An was even getting more convinced.

"Yes."

"Okay, Song Ji An-ssi. I will go straight to the point, so you have more time to rest. The whole interview today would be recorded as part of victim testimony. Separately, I will conduct interview with Lee Jun-ssi for witness testimony." Detective Jo had taken out his mini recorder along and put it on the small breakfast table that had been arranged by Ha Na.

"Let's start. Yesterday we received a report from Ahn Song Ho-ssi about assault and attempted **** case towards Song Ji An-ssi. Could you recall back the incident from the beginning till the end?" Besides mini recorder, Detective Jo had a notebook ready to write down any important details that Ji An might say during the interview.

"I was on the way home. Took a taxi and since my house was inapproacheable by car, it stopped at the end of alley. I would need to walk all the way to the alley before making a turn to our rooftop house."

"It was dark. And there were street lights. Suddenly I was grabbed from behind and a voice was talking to me, asking me not to move."

"I was scared and tried to break away. But everyone I tried to break away, he would hurt me either slapped me or kicked me. In the end, I lost consciousness and when I woke up, I already in this hospital." With every detail she tried to convey, Ji An clutched her white sheet tighter till her knuckles had the same color as the sheet. She was walking through her nightmare right in front of everyone.

Ha Na cried listening to every detail and Jun wanted to hug her and tell her nightmare to go away but he couldn't. Even Song Ho feature was hardened following every words coming from her mouth.

"Do you remember anything about your attacker?" Detective Jo tried to probe his physical feature.

Ji An closed her eyes, trying to recall her attacker feature from her memory,"He is tall. Much much taller than me. His body is very muscular, typical buff guy and very strong. Oh, I could smell alcohol from his body."

"Any special features? How about his skin? Eyes? Nose? Any tattoo?"

"Skin is darker like he was exposed under the sun for very long period of time. I didn't remember anything particular about his eyes and nose. It looked normal to me."

"Are you sure? Try to remember. Any unique feature will help a lot during investigation."

Ji An tried so hard to remember but she couldn't. "Sorry, Detective Jo. I can't remember."

"Do you think you can work with my sketch artist?" Detective Jo tried another angle.

"I can do that!" Ji An excitedly reply. She remembered her attacker face, just there was no unique feature that she could recall.

Since Ji An had agreed to the sketch artist, Detective Jo arranged someone to come that afternoon and within one hour, the attacker face had been published all over.




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