Dream Love : Dream Land - Chapter 116

“Hey, I think someone following me.”

Melanie said in a rush to Beom-Soo, who as usual picked up her call quickly at the time.  She tries not to sound scare there, but in her heart, she is feeling a little anxious. Who knew if that person trying to do something bad to her?

At that moment she could hear that the man cursing in his breath. Also, she  heard the sound of the keyboard being pounded loudly by the man.

“I got you!” Beom-Soo said.

“Wait, what?!” Melanie didn’t expect Beom-Soo to do the hacking on the street camera.

“Just use the highway. If you get into the normal road, I can’t find you as there’s no CCTV.” Beom-Soo said there.  Trying to be calm.

He tries to zoom in to see the taxi.

“There’s two people inside the taxi. One the driver, one is the passenger who sits next to the driver. I bet the passenger is the one that wanted to follow you.”

“Can you see their face?”

“I’ll try to capture their face, but the resolution is not that high. Just… Focus on the road Melanie.”

Melanie tried to press the oil there as the road that she enter now was quite wide and not crowded.

Arrive at a red light, facing the intersection of four, she stops there. Seeing from the side mirror, she could still see the taxi in the back and getting closer.

“They really follow me, right?”

“Seeing that the driver is always looking at your car its the best to say they are.” Beom-Soo explains there.

“Tell me which of the road is not crowded. I want to speed. As the person using a taxi, the driver must not want his license to be pulled, while I can always pay for the summons from the police.  Even better if I can attract them.” Melanie told Beom-Soo her plan.

Beom-Soo didn’t really agree on that plan of course as she would still risk her life in whatever choices she made. But, he still need to assist.

“Stop being smartass while you are now in danger. Just keep going straight. The road there is wider and not congested.  Also there is a traffic police within 1 km from where you are.”

“Nice!”

As soon as the traffic light turned green, Melanie continued to press the oil pedal with speed. She is really over the set speed limit and she don’t even know how many cars she has already cut in at the time.

She was about to reach the area where the traffic police were, as Beom-Soo said to her before, but suddenly, arrived from a junction that was supposed to have a red light where a medium-sized lorry continued to speed towards her, not even stopping.

“Melanie!”

Beom-Soo, who was watching the horror scene from his computer kept waking up from sitting. His eyes began to widen when he saw the car Melanie was driving was hit by the truck and dragged all the way. His body began to tremble there. He could see that the traffic police who were not far from the scene now  rushed to help.

“Melanie? Can you hear me?” He can’t hear anything now. Probably her smartphone also crash on the scene.

Beom-Soo, even when in a state of shock, he still had time to look at the taxi that followed Melanie a moment ago. It seems that the taxi continued to make a U-turn as soon as they saw the accident.

Close all his hacking data. Beom-Soo gets a hold of himself, takes his car key and rushes out of the house. His mind is now flooded with Melanie face. Over and over again.

After an hour, that far away Melanie is, Beom-Soo finally arrives at the scene of the accident. The lorry and Melanie car has been pulled to the side of the road and the road has been cleaned by the fire department to avoid congestion.

Seeing Melanie’s car there shattered, Beom-Soo began to tremble again there, his breath seemed to disappear. Not knowing where Melanie was and how her condition is, he started asking the firefighters and police who were still there at the scene.

“I’m sorry, sir. The one, in the car is my family. We talk before while she is driving and suddenly we lost contact. So I am her to search for her. Can I know where is she? Is she okay? ”

The officer continued to answer,

“Oh, you’re her family? Her phone is broken and we can’t call her guardian. We are just about to call her office as we got her work card over here. She’s miraculously survived the accident. The driver of this truck is drug positive and he is driving in intoxicated  condition, that’s what happen here. ”

Beom-Soo let out a sigh of relieve there. But what actually her condition? She cant just go out the car unscratched looking at the car condition.

“So, where is she now?”

“She’s been brought by the ambulance at Hospital University nearby, follow by our officers. You can find them there to know more.”

Finally. With that, Beom-Soo continues to rush to go to the said hospital. As soon as he arrived at the lobby he saw the police officers there who wanted to walk out.  He didn’t stop them.

Arriving at the hospital counter he kept asking the nurse who was working  there.

“Can I know where the patient who had the accident just now between the car and the truck was?”

“Can I know the patient’s name and your relation to her?”

“Her name is Melanie and I am one of her family.”

“Oh, that one. Let me brought you to where she is. ”

The nurses than take Beom-Soo to the room that houses Melanie. Just open the door, he could see that the woman was sitting on the bed with a sad expression.

“Ah, you’re here… Thankfully. ”

Seeing Beom-Soo arrive there, Melanie’s face turned a little cheerful. She hurried to get up there and reached for her handbag.

But, Beom-Soo look so serious at his face.

“Let’s go…” Melanie stopped her words now as Beom-Soo held both of her shoulder tight and watched herself from top to bottom. He could see that her wrist was bandaged at the time, but no other injuries.

Knowing what was playing in the man’s mind, Melanie was grinning there.

“How lucky I am right? With that much damage to my car, I still survive the accident. Meanwhile the lorry driver is the one unconscious right now”

“It’s not funny Anna.” Beom-Soo started to call her real name there. To let her know how serious this is.  She could die. ”

Melanie was silent there. She lowered her face instantly.

“No need to pretend to be strong in front of me. I know you better than that. You’re not alone anymore. A lot of people are on your side now.”

Hearing that makes Melanie broke into tears. In Dream Land, she also being  alone and here, she also used to be alone. Suddenly, when there’s a lot of people enter her life and care about her wellbeing she feels a bit awkward and didn’t know how to react.

“Back then… I was so scared.” She finally break down now while expressing her feelings like a child.

“My phone didn’t work, and I didn’t remember anyone’s number. I’m afraid if I get out of here alone, someone else will follow. So I just waited, even though the doctor told me to go back.”

Beom-Soo finally hugging her there. Saying that its fine now. Everything Is fine.

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:: Beom-Soo house::

Once at his house, Melanie, who wanted to crash there for tonight because it would be too far if she wanted to go to Byung-Hun house, continued to lie on the sofa in the living room. Releasing her tiredness while closing her eyes.

“You can use Jieun’s bedroom in the upstairs.” Beom-Soo tells.

“Aaa… It’s fine.  This is already heaven for me.” Melanie said as she finds that sofa to be so comfortable with her now. Although she suffered no other injuries other than her slightly injured wrist that needed some stitches earlier, she finds that her whole body is now aching all over.

Beom-Soo was only able to shake his head when he saw her behavior.  He then when to his room and took an extra blanket and pillow to give to the woman.

“At least clean yourself up first before going to sleep. Refresh yourself. There’s a new toothbrush in the bathroom. You can use it.”

“It’s fine. I got my own inside my handbag. Can you get me a new towel and a pair of clean clothes, dad.” Melanie is teasing the man now as she listens to his nagging non – stopped started from inside the car before.

Beom-Soo just ignoring her. He then throws the blanket and pillow over the woman’s body while going up to Jieun’s room to find out if there are any clothes that the woman can wear. Luckily Jieun didn’t bring all of her clothes so there is still a shirt and pants that could be borrowed.

“Hey!” Melanie gets annoy now. At that time she opened her eyes and change her position to sit. Feeling lazy.

“Here. Jieun pajamas. You can wear this in the meantime.”

Seeing the cute cartoon pajamas there which different from her preferences, Melanie just takes it anyway. She didn’t have any much choice.

“Did you find what I asked you before? About Sarah?” Melanie can’t wait to find out.

“I found a lot of information that I didn’t know about her before. Her dad is a doctor, her mother is a florist who already died last year. The information said that her mother try to file for divorce 11 years ago, but her husband just left her like that without being divorce. She raised Sarah alone all this time. Then her dad information just banish in 2013. Missing in action or something might happen. ”

“What is her father’s name?” Melanie’s heart was suddenly beating fast there.

“Dr. Martin Rudolf.”

Melanie didn’t even flinch.