Hello! It's the continuation series of Life After. You probably want to read it before you start this one. But it's actually okay to read this independently.
Anyways, enjoy!
"It's too bad we can't see the baby's appearance for now.", asked Ha Eun.
Zen lovingly stroked Ha Eun's round belly, a gesture he's been loving to do for the past month. He saw pregnant women a lot, but he's amazed how much different it made when you're carrying twins.
"What do you mean by that? You can see the face from the sonogram.", replied Zen.
"No, like, what colour would their eyes, what hair colour."
"Why, it doesn't matter."
Ha Eun eyed Zen angrily.
"What?", Zen asked again.
"I just want to know if my babies would inherit their father's mutated gene or not."
"Hey, you fall in love with this gene!"
Laughter cracked between the two and Ha Eun nuzzles Zen's face.
In the end, the twins somehow inherits Zen's appearance, though a toned-down version somehow. Their eyes are red, but not as deep as Zen's, so is their hairs that was more like dark grey than the cool grey Zen had. Ha Eun joked that Zen must've eat up all her genes that the twins ended up looking more like him than her, but as time goes by the twins face was more and more like their mother, just with the details of their father.
Zen jumped when he heard a cry from the baby monitor. He was dreaming.
He rushed to the nursery to pick up wailing Hyun Young.
"Ssshh, you'll wake up Ha Young."
He looked at the clock, it's late already and Ha Eun is not home yet.
Yoosung, Jumin Han
Yoosung: Oh, Jumin! Hello!
Jumin Han: Hello Yoosung.
Jumin Han: How's work?
Yoosung: Ah! I just finished my night shift, it's a great thing I didn't get the late night shift.
Yoosung: What about you Jumin?
Jumin Han: I just had dinner with a client. He insisted on a drink afterwards, so I can only get back now.
ZEN has entered the chatroom
Yoosung: Oh Zen!
ZEN: Hey Yoosung, can you get to the house now?
Yoosung: What? Now? To your house?
Yoosung: You know your house is far right?
ZEN: Ha Eun isn't home yet. It's already late, her phone's off. I called her work and they said everyone gone back already.
Jumin Han: What do you intend to do?
ZEN: I'm thinking of going to her work, see if she might have a car problems or something.
ZEN: But I need someone to take care of the twins. It's late, I couldn't leave them to the neighbours after all.
ZEN: Hyun Young has been all fussy too.
ZEN: So I need you Yoosung!
Jumin Han: Why don't you let me go?
ZEN: Take care of the twins? No.
Yoosung: Zen, it's not like you have any choices now. Hahaha.
Jumin Han: No, I'll check on the route with Driver Kim. It's closer from my point to Ha Eun's workplace, rather than having you go all the way here.
Jumin Han: I'll keep you posted.
ZEN: Well, alright then.
Jumin was not the kind to talk in car rides. Driver Kim knows that. He's the kind to enjoy the city view and the lights as they pass, and maybe commented on one light that was broken of the bunch.
But he since has changed. Not drastically but a bit. Ever since he became the godfather of the twins, he showered them with love too, just like the rest of the RFA members, as they were all the twins' godparents.
"Ha Young was the more social one, I presume. She always laughs and likes the attention she gets.", said Jumin.
"Well, she has her father's genes."
They stopped at the lab and it was dark. Driver Kim had asked the security guard and Ha Eun already went home hours ago. They trailed the route from her work to their suburban home. As he peeked from the rear-view mirror, Driver Kim can see a hint of worry in Jumin's face.
They reached a bridge spreading over the river underneath it. The traffic was jammed there, which is odd, considering the hour. As the police guided the traffic to keep on moving, Jumin saw the skid marks and a broken road railing.
His heart skips a beat.
Jumin wanted to throw his phone into the river. Zen has called him, 10 times. He didn't have the heart to answer it. What is he supposed to answer with?
'I'm waiting near a traffic accident scene. I'm afraid it's Ha Eun.'
'I'm just sitting here with no news for you.'
Jumin ordered Driver Kim to drive them down to the river. Where a number of police with their red and blue lights have already gathered. He managed to pull some string and got the information from a policeman that a car crash had happened and the car went down the river. They are now waiting for a vehicle to scoop the car.
Deep down in his heart, Jumin could just leave the place if he didn't believe Ha Eun was down there. There is still a small drive from the bridge to Ha Eun and Zen's home, she might be there. But for some unknown reasons, Jumin stayed there.
He made a personal call to the police department's top brass and ordered the speed up of the crane delivery. And finally they arrived.
He checked his phone that was mostly filled with missed calls from Zen, and also angry texts from him.
'I saw the accident near our home. Are you stuck there?'
'HAN JUMIN PICK UP YOUR PHONE'
Jumin dialled Zen's number, not before going inside his car, to prevent Zen from hearing the hustle of the policemen and the sounds of the siren of the police car.
"Hey you jerk, why don't you pick up! Seriously, you're just…. Urgh… Hyun Young was fussy, Ha Eun's not home and you're not picking up your phone! Undependable! You know that!"
"I'm….."
Jumin couldn't finish his sentence because the sight in from of him was the sight he doesn't want to see. He knows that silver car.
"Jumin?! Han Jumin what happened!"
To be continued...
