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... Young-mi POV...

...(Ten years later.)...

Happy Eighteenth birthday to me.

Spending it alone was not my ideal plan on how to spend my birthday. Well, not much difference from the last two birthdays I've spent alone.

My sixteenth being the first birthday after Ji-Yoon had gone missing, and I had later found her dead body a few days later. Another family member I had to bury, leaving me alone in this world.

Only to speak to myself from time to time just to remind myself that I have a voice. My dad was killed when I was ten. Murdered in front of me for my stupid wonders when I walked off to try and find that boy by the stream again.

It should've been me killed by the hybrid, not him. He was trying to protect me. I haven't been near that stream since. I still get the nightmares of my father being torn to shreds.

If it wasn't for my mother's quick actions of taking me away, I would have been next without a doubt.

Not that life got any better after that incident. My mom, grief stricken by the death of my dad, she slipped into a deep depression and took her own life a year or two later.

Another scene I would never forget when waking up to see my mother dangling from a tree.

My sisters would have surely agreed and if it wasn't for Ji-Yoon's quick thinking to get us moving because of Jae-Young's screams, we would have been caught.

Another death fell upon our family, when I was fourteen years old. Jae-Young, fell seriously ill. Ji-Yoon suspected that it was lung cancer.

It was hard to watch my little sister slowly die when there was nothing we could do to help her. It was very unlucky and after her death, we had to bury her just like my mother and father, or what was left of his body.

That left Ji-Yoon and I alone together for another two years and a half before she went missing, and I found her dead, lifeless body by a nearby trap.

Her body......well let's just say she was brutally violated as well as murdered. She was ***** when I found her, let's just put it that way, and I may not know much about that kind of thing, but Ji-Yoon taught me a few things about sex education from books our mother stole from a village bookstore to keep us educated.

But with that said, I know what was done to her, was the cruelest deed to be done.

So ever since Ji-Yoon's death, I travelled around the woods until I found this waterfall. Just behind it, is a little cave, so I've made due here for a very long time, actually.

The whole two years I've spent here it's been rather peaceful actually and only have I ever seen at least five different hybrids wonder past this place in two years also. It's very secluded here, so a lot of privacy. But to be honest, I don't know how long I'm going to last living on my own like this.

Sure, I've lived like this for the last eighteen years of my life. I don't remember what it's like to have a home,

a house filled with warmth and home cooked meals and such.

My parents did what they could to keep us alive but unfortunately due to the living, the lifestyle and tragedies, it hasn't been the best life.

I've not seen one human ever since after Jae-Young died.

I didn't trust him though, he was too full of himself and arrogant and believed he was invincible and that is what got him killed.

Ji-Yoon was upset as it was her first crush, but I didn't care much for the guy. My first crush, you could say, was that hybrid boy, a year older than me if I remember correctly.

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