Chapter Eighteen

Confrontation 

Namjoon POV

I continue to play the video of the security camera and see the man that killed Kyung walk away from him. As he walks the wind hits in the opposite direction, making his jack and hoodie lift up a bit. I look down at what he was wearing. I saw a very bright pink shirt tucked inside his black jeans. I stood up in shock. Is that Jinhwan? Thats the outfit he wore the day when he got drunk, he probably got a hangover and threw something on top. He still has that same clothes from that night-it has to be. I quickly grabbed my phone dialing Taehyung's number, I need to warn him. 

Taehyung picks up the phone in a heartbeat, "Hey what did you find?" He asks curiously. 

"Taehyung it's him, it's Jinhwan," I say. It felt like a weight was removed from my shoulder. 

"How do you know?!" 

"The guy in the security cameras is wearing the same outfit Jinhwan wore the night before. Hot pink shirt, black jeans, and same vans. Kyung looked at him like he was shocked to see him, like he knew him and was afraid," I mention. 

"That means, Jinhwan remembers what we talked about at the bar. He didn't forget, he was just trying to make us feel like he did so he could smoothly kill Kyung," I nodded through the phone. 

"Exactly," I smiled proud, "Heres the thing, the place of death is different," 

"What do you mean?" Taehyung asks.

"Kyung didn't get shot at school, he left after Jinhwan did. We don't know where they went but Jungnim is looking into it," 

"If we are sure it's Jinhwan who came to his school to threaten Kyung, it had to be him who killed him," 

"It only makes sense..." I sigh heavily registering everything, "Who would've known..." 

"Namjoon I need you to keep digging until you have perfect evidence that this was Jinhwan. This could be what separates Sunny from him," Taehyung says sounding a little desperate. 

"I'm on it," I hang up the phone and turn around to Jungnim.

"Man it's late, go home, I'll keep looking into it," I tilted him head.

"Are you sure?" 

"Yeah, what else would I do," I smiled. 

"Okay. Let me know if you find anything," Jungnim nods and I quickly head out. 

I feel a little satisfied that we have a lead on Jinhwan. Of course a part of me wishes it isn't him because that puts most of us in danger. It doesn't matter what internal skills we have, we don't want violence to be the answer of this problem. But Jinhwan is deeper than he seems, so this could be what solves our issues. 

As I enter my house, I walk up to my room feeling exhausted. My covers look at me waiting to be messy, and I walk over and opened my bed sheets. I find myself under them, and grab my pillow to cuddle then fall asleep right away. 

Jungnim POV

When Namjoon leaves I chug a bottle of energy drink to prepare myself for the hunt I need to do. Namjoon is a good friend of mine and whatever this is seems urgent, and if this man is actually a murderer I need to solve this for him. I need Namjoon to be safe. 

As I delete the tabs where the security cameras are, I start to look into the police statements. The sheet I found of the crime, is short and brief, 

Name of Victim: Choi Kyung 

How He Died: Shot

Time of death: 7:15pm

Suspects: None

Place of Death: School

Leading Story: Kyung was staying in the school library when a man came behind him and shot his heart. Causing him to die. 

Usually when I solve cases with short summaries like this means that the police either didn't receive enough information, or are hiding information. And if Namjoon can indicate a main suspect that easily, then the police are definitely hiding something. I sigh looking at my computer trying to figure out what's wrong. I manage to hack into the South Korea Seoul Police station reports and look through their cases. I didn't find anything that would help with this case, so I search up the head officers names. I figured if anyone would have access to hide an investigation, it would be them. The names of Kim Sue, Jung Nam, Park Soon, and Euhn Doen appeared on the screen. 

I take my time to look through all of their names, and in their profile listed all their cases and investigations that were handed to them to lead. I was mainly looking for files with sketchy names, but I still managed to take the time looking into each files. Kim sue, was loyal. All his files were contained with cases that were all finished and over with. Jung Nam seemed new to this position by the dates of his files. But they all were finished except two which was in the process of investigation. Park soon also had finishing cases. However, Euhn Doen has a file which is labeled Private Cases. I assume they need a password to get into their files because this titled seem to be asking for trouble if anyone else could see it. 

I clicked on the file and see two cases. One labeled Kim Yumin, and another labeled Kim Jinhwan. I quickly tapped Jinhwans name not giving time to investigate the other. I see the full summary of the murder. 

Name of Victim: Choi Kyung

How He Died: Shot

Time of death: 7:15pm

Suspects: Kim Jinhwan [Confirmed]

Place of Death: Vally off of Highway 1

Leading Story: Choi Kyung was walking home from National Korean High School, when Kim Jinhwan ran up to him and shot him dead. 

Turned Theirselves In: Yes

Date of handed information: October 17, 2020

Date of Arrest: None

I read the piece of information over and over again, I was surprised Jinhwan turned himself in. I quickly got up impatiently and printed the sheet out. 

Namjoon's POV

The next morning I wake up by my alarm. I begin to roll off my bed and head downstairs to make breakfast for myself. As I was pouring the cereal into my bowl I hear my phone ringing. I look over at it and read Jungnim's name on the screen. I put down the box and hurried to answer the phone. 

"Jungnim," I answer.

"Namjoon, I found the file of the police officer who hid Jinhwan's case," I widen my eyes and hitched my breath in shock. 

"Oh my god...So there's proof he murdered Kyung?"

"Yea, he confirmed it when he turned himself in," I narrowed my eyes brows.

"Turned himself in? How could he do a good gesture like that, but hide his case?" 

"He probably wanted the case off his tail, he wanted to control it," 

"Huh..." I chuckle thinking of Jinhwan's actions, "Thank you Jungnim," 

"Of course, swing by before school to pick up the case sheet," I nodded excitedly. 

"I gotchu!" 

Taehyung's POV

I walk into school with a lot on my mind. The thought of Jinhwan being a murderer shook me to the core. I definitely don't want sunny around a man like that. His emotions changes so quickly and his motives do too. If he got so angry at the thought of Kyung to kill him so effortlessly, what could he do to Sunny? I don't want sunny to feel confident to kill anyone who threatens her because it'll rip her up little by little with each kill. She killed one person and she's already going through so much. And instead of spending every moment with her and make sure she's okay, I'm running around because of Jinhwan.

I clench my fist at the thought of Jinhwan, how violent I want to be with him. My relationship is at risk because I'm spending so much time figuring out a way to get this psycho away from Sunny. If only I could address this situation with him myself, and handle it in a way that I want to. 

I turn the corner after walking a couple stairs and see Jinhwan walking down the hallway. I grind my teeth frustrated and start walking towards him quickly. Once I catch up to him, I grab onto his arm and pull him into the door next to us that led us into a classroom. Jinhwan turns around to look at me confused and surprised. 

"What are you do-" I quickly interrupt him as my rage builds up inside. 

"What the hell is wrong with you?!" I shout shutting the door behind us. 

He looks at me confused," What are you talking about?" 

"What were you doing at your old school the other day? huh!" I puff as I stare at him with threatening eyes. He looks at me chocked up.

"What? I wasn't there," Jinhwan fixes his poster looking right at me, I shook my head getting upset. 

"Don't give me that bullshit! You were there! You saw Namjoon and I didn't you?" I take a step closer to him. 

"Taehyung-" He tries to look innocently at me. 

"You remember Namjoon and I asking about your old school and Kyung!" I start to walk towards him as my voice increases upset at the situation, "You were afraid that we would go to Kyung and speak to him, so you wanted to get there first!" Jinhwan looks away for a moment collecting my words and I continue to walk up to him, "You threatened him! You killed him!" As I make my final steps to him, I aggressively shove him onto the wall and walk up to his face, "And you want to be around sunny?" I felt my rage build more, "A murderer to be around my girlfriend!" I take a second to catch my breath, and I was sure the students in the hallway could hear me. 

It was silent between Jinhwan and I for a couple of seconds. All you could hear was my panting and his thoughts. Jinhwan begins to smirk, and I look at him confused. He starts to softly laugh as he steps up into my face.

"Taehyung why would I kill Kyung? Why would I face the man who made me hate my life?" He walks in front of me towards the door, "Now that's just crazy," I turn around before he has a chance to leave. 

"Cut the damn act! I already know, " He turned around to face me and tilts his head. 

"Where is the evidence that shows I convicted this murder?" He asks confidently. I couldn't say anything because I had no proof on me, and I couldn't expose Jungnim, "See Taehyung, this is why I tell Sunny you may not be the right one because you try to find anyway to control her," I stare blankly at him. 

"You know nothing about our relationship," Jinhwan laughs.

"Oh trust me, I do," He laughs walking towards me, "Who do you think Sunny talks about during class, or during lunch when you're not around, even while walking home?" I felt the guilt in my chest, "All you do is control her and worry about me," 

"No you know you're a bad person with secrets that we all are starting to find out. You are scared about what I can do with that information, Jinhwan. You aren't the person you show to Sunny, and I may not be at times, but it's because I'm trying to protect her," Jinhwan starts to grind his teeth holding back his emotions. 

"You know nothing about me, and you just sound crazy with those thoughts and ideas Taehyung. Keep that up and Sunny will leave you," He turns around preparing to leave the room when he speaks one last time, "You should be careful Taehyung, I shouldn't be your only concern," he turns his head and look at me, "That killer might come for you too," He slowly smirks before leaving the room. 

"Aish!" I raise my voice while kicking an empty cardboard box. Jinhwan is driving me crazy, his true character is showing and it's just getting me more upset. 

"Taehyung!" I hear Namjoons voice in the hallway before opening the door to this room, "Good I've been looking for you," He walks up me, "Woah you look upset," 

"I just confronted Jinhwan..." Namjoon looks at me shocked, "I know it was a bad decision. I just can't stop thinking of Sunny. What if he really did kill Kyung?" Namjoon sighs handing a paper to me. 

"He did...He turned himself in," I look down looking at the sheet, I couldn't believe what I was reading, "I guess he got a cop of the name Euhn Doen to cover up his name," I looked at Namjoon. No words were able to come out of my mouth, I was so angry. I needed to punch something-anything, "Taehyung," 

"Where is he?" I ask under my breath walking towards the door. 

Namjoon follows me, "Taehyung you can't do anything stupid!" 

I quickly open the door, "Where is he?!" I look down the hallway seeing Jinhwan about to turn the corner. I ran down to him ignoring what Namjoon was saying. 

As I grab the back of his collar, I turned him around to face me. He looks up at me surprised and I quickly start to throw punches at him. He falls onto the grab and I quickly get on top on him, holding him down with my vampire strength. I punch him repeatedly while Namjoon calls my name running down the hallway. I smell the blood that was coming out of jInhwan's nose and lip but I continued to hurt him. I lay all of my anger on him. My anger with the relationship I have with Sunny, the news I just hurt about Kyung, even Jinhwan's warning. I lay it all on his bruised and bloody face. 

"Taehyung!!" I hear sunny's voice shout my name in front of me. She quickly dropped her bags and placed her hands on my arms trying to get me off Jinhwan. I wouldn't budge, Sunny this is for you. 

"Yah stop!" Namjoon yells beginning to help Sunny out and manages to get me off of him, and teachers run to Jinhwan to help him out. 

Sunny watches as Jinhwan leaves with the teachers seeing his face. She then looks at me and hits my chest, "What is wrong with you!?" I don't respond and just catch my breath and hold my fists together. 

"Taehyung," I looked at Namjoon, "Not here, not now," 

"Namjoon you can go, I'll take care of him," Namjoon looks at me afraid to leave my sight, but I just nod at him letting him go comfortably. I knew what I was getting into already. Namjoon leaves after patting my shoulder and I look at Sunny who was furious with me, "Taehyung," 

"I need a napkin," I get up and she quickly supports me holding my arm. We walk into the bathroom to clean off the blood on my hands.