Mirana drove around and took the long way back to Meracle’s house to cool off the sad mood. So it took about an hour and some minutes more to get back.

When the women arrives at Meracle’s house, they saw that the lights were on. “Huh? A robber?” Meracle muttered. Meracle opens the door and walks in to hear that the bathtub water was running. The girls followed Meracle while on guard. The sound of rushing water stopped and they saw a silhouette walking out from the corner on the upper floor where the bathroom was. Meracle’s eyes widen. “No way…” her lips muttered.

A masked man just came down and out the bathroom. “Oh Meracle. You are finally home? Thanks girls. You can set Meracle in the room down the hall to the left in the upper floor.” He said to them. Now that they heard the voice, they couldn’t believe it.

“Jin?” they all said at once. “Is there anyone else that is supposed to come out of the bathroom?” Jin said.

“Wait…. How did you come home so fast? Also, why are you still wearing that mask?” Meracle could still not believe that Jin got hom so quickly.

“Mmmm to keep it short, I’ve memorized the map already and your gps on your car took us a long way making three lefts. So all I really had to do was to go one direction leading me home. As for the mask, I was about to take a bath until you came home. I’ll also need you to help me with first aid later. My body kinda hurts still from this morning” Jin explains. He then just walked right back up the steps and into the bathroom whistling.

“Hey Meracle?” Gisela said to her. “Yeh?” Meracle automatically respond. “Is this guy a monster or a secret masochist? He gets beat up and still comes back home smiling faster than a car on the streets driving home. He he” Gisela weakly laughs.

“Hey Meracle. How does Jin look after all these years?” Rosa said. “You’ll know in about fifteen minutes…” Meracle did not want to answer her. A sudden jealously was in her heart when Rosa asked her the question. “Does his hair still covers his face? Does he still look like a school kid? Or does he look manlier?” Rosa continues to bombard Meracle with a bunch of questions. Meracle shot a glare at her. “I said, you’ll know in fifteen minutes” which shuts her right up.

“Does his body still have a lot of scars?” Mirana said out of the blue. “Scars? I’ve never taken a good look at his body since I’ve been avoiding it a lot…. I mean I’ve seen it but never really paid attention” Meracle murmurs. “Wait, how do you know that he has scars or not?” Rosa turns to Mirana. “We are both from the same high school he was from…” She mutters.

“Wait a minute. You saw his body in high school?” Meracle eyes popped open while she asks this. She thought Mirana and Jin was already in a relationship. “Ah don’t misunderstand. I was in the nurse room one day and saw him changing because he got beat up badly” Mirana told a white lie. “Oh that’s all? We’ll have to ask Jin when he gets out” Meracle calmed down. But she was still worried.

-Fifteen minutes later-

10:00 pm

“*psst* Rosa. How did Jin looked when he was in middle school?” Gisela whispers. This made Rosa frowned a little. “You should know him as well Gisela.” She replies back in a low voice. “Huh? That Jin? Then I’ll bet that he’ll still look like a school kid” Gisela snickers. Rosa only glanced sideways at her and back not saying anything.

Footsteps could be heard walking down from the bathroom door down the stairs. *Step*step* The girls could feel the anticipation of seeing the mysterious man’s face. The hallway was dark and the living room was the only place that had the lights on. When light shone on the tips of his toes, they all leaned forward to see his face except Meracle. She only pouted while waiting for Jin to come down. ‘*Hmph* he’s only showing his face. I don’t know why you girls are all so interested’

“Why is it that you guys have yet to go back home yet” His voice rang out. ‘Eh? How does he know that we are still here?’ they looked to one another. “What are you talking about Jin? I’m the only one here” Meracle tried to hide the fact. “I can feel your presences you know. If one was bullied all his life, he could feel people’s presences beyond the normal means.” Jin sighed. But it was hard to maintain that sense because he was overly stressed. Not to mention that sixth sense, all other senses felt like they decreased dramatically. ‘What the hell? He got super senses now? How strong is it?’ their eyes widen at the thought.

“Just come out Jin. If not I’ll pull you out myself.” Meracle threatens Jin. Jin said nothing and paused in one place for a while. He gave a long sigh and came out. He walked in the room with only a track suit pants on and sat right on the bed. He had no shirt so his scared torso was in plain view. His casual shirt got ruined in the car crash and he didn’t want to ruin his tux. “Oh no…. he’s hot…” Gisela swallowed her own words. Not a trace of muscle was on that body but only scars. This only made him look manlier in a strange and androgynous way. But the track suit pant gave her a sense of familiarity. She didn’t know why though.

“Happy…” Jin murmured. “Eh? Jin. Why do you only have a track suit pant on?” Meracle ask Jin. “I was about to ask you to get me some clothes but it seemed like you wanted our company to take a good look at my body. No matter. Help me by applying medicine on my wounds Meracle” Jin said. But on his body, there was no wounds.

“But Jin. There’s no wounds at all….” Meracle said. “Eh? No wounds? …. Then it must be internal damages then….” Jin’s voice diminishes. Meracle felt something was off. Why would he asks her to treat his wounds if he could do it by himself?

“Ah that’s right. What are you girls staying here for?” Jin asks them.

“Oh. We were talking about staying over the night. So we were talking about where to stay. Right Mirana?” Rosa nudged at Mirana to play along. Meracle was about to speak up until she was hit in the side by Rosa. Meracle turns to Rosa to see that Rosa was holding a paper up that reads, ‘Just play along. There is something I want to confirm’. Only then did Meracle played along. She then wrote instructions for her. “Is this true Meracle?” Jin ask her. “Yeah. We were wondering if we could use the living room for our guests. You could let two sleep on the bed here and I’ll stay with Rosa. If, that’s okay with you”

“Sure. No problem, let me get the spare blankets” Jin said and went to get the blanket. Just then, Meracle pushed him down on the bed and asks, “Hey Jin. How do I look to you at this moment? Am I beautiful?” She pins him down through body contact. Jin could feel her entire body on him. The softness of her chest and her heavy breathing made things a little steamy for Jin.

Jin raises his hand and place it on her cheek. “I think you are beautiful no matter what.” He answered. “Is my hair still blue and beautiful as I am?” she then ask him. She looked deep in his eyes but saw that it was still dull. Jin closes his eyes and smiles. “Blue? Hah!” he snorted. He still remembers the short blue bob cut wig she had on since the start of the date. But that doesn’t mean he couldn’t feel the difference in movement in the air. He was ninety percent sure that she switched wigs. He moves his hand to her hair and slips off her wig. “It doesn’t matter does it? But I think you would be more beautiful if you stopped hiding your hair with these wigs. Hair like the golden sun should not hide behind falsity for its beauty will only be overshadowed and eclipsed by the values of others. You are a strong woman and you don’t need anyone to tell you that you are beautiful because you are the most beautiful woman in the world.” He sweetly said. He said and pulls her close and gives her a warm hug while caressing her hair. “At the very least, you are the most beautiful woman in the world to me” He whispers to her.

‘This guy is too smooth. It should be a crime that such a man could exist’ Rosa smirked. “Thanks Jin.” She said softly. “Anytime Meracle.” He whispers in her ear. In her heart, she felt so much warmth. A warmth that she forgotten for a long time. But she sobs in his arms softly for a good while. “I’ll get you guys pillows and blankets as well so wait for me up there okay?” she added.

Not asking anymore questions, they all smiled and went up half way to wait for her. Rosa, Gisela, and Mirana went outside the living room to give them a bit of time. When she was finally done, she went up with the group and feigned to go in the room. They all waited at the top of the stairs looking down for two long hour without making any noises. During that time, Jin was sitting up on the bed in the living room with shut eyes. ‘Seems like they are all sleeping in the same room then. Whatever, they might come down later’ He thought. He was waiting for them until he was fed up with waiting. ‘They must’ve been really tired then. Oh well, that’s a good thing. I’ll move out just in case’

When Jin thought that they finally are sound asleep, he opens his eyes but still couldn’t see. He let out a sigh and carried with him a spare blanket. He walked to the other empty room staggering a bit. He stubbed his toe around the corner while walking forward and fell down. Meracle wanted to go down and catch him but was held back by Rosa and the others telling her no. ‘Hm? Is there someone up there? Maybe they are just passing by. I need to hurry.’ He thought. Stress impaired most senses in his body and he was too tired to care. He couldn’t tell how many was up there. He only knew that there was someone. He just needed to rest.

“Ah geez. If Meracle sees me like this I’ll probably get more drama then necessary. Really shouldn’t make her worry.” He mutters in the darkness. He slowly crawls to the other room and wraps himself in a blanket and shuts his eyes. ‘There is no doubt that if Meracle sees this, I’ll get more drama than needed. I hate drama. But those bloody tasers did a really good job. Too much stress on my body… Just hoped that it wasn’t Meracle watching me’ He thought to himself.

Just then, he heard footsteps coming down the stairs in the hall way. The footsteps were coming in his direction. “What is it Rosa?” he said without even looking. He recognized the footsteps by putting his ear down to the floor. “Well aren’t you one smooth criminal he he… Your sixth sense is impressive but it is only a sixth sense. It was sharp because you were anxious when Meracle got home but dulled when heard that she was sleeping and did not notice me standing up on the upper floors. Pretending as if you can see but in truth there is no light in your eyes.” She giggles. “I don’t know what you are talking about. There was never such a thing in my life.” He denies. “Don’t play hero. I know you can’t see. Don’t worry. Meracle is asleep and the other two is sleeping next to her. You can lower that sixth sense of yours. You don’t need to hide anything” She slyly smiles behind him.

“And so what if I can’t see? So what if it is by my sixth sense? What would you do?” Jin asks Rosa after letting out a sigh of relief. ‘Heh you may be smart but you fell for it Jin’ Rosa thought.

“What would I do you ask? I would try to help you Jin. You are the person who saved me this morning. Isn’t it time I pay you back?” Rosa really wanted to help him out.

“You already paid my medical bills and still want to help me? No thanks. I don’t like owing people anything.” He waves his hand flaccidly

“You saved three lives today. THREE. You were hurt because of me. If I’d been hit by that car, I would’ve died a long time ago. Forget the car crash incident. You also went to shield Gisela as well. You stood up for Meracle. You’ve made her happy and gave her a bright smile. Happier and brighter than I’d ever seen her. So-“, Rosa was about to continue talking.

But Jin interrupts her saying, “So it is best to not let her cry again. I told you guys that she means worlds to me as of now. So all the people related to her must also not get hurt. So until the day I leave this house, I will not let her cry ever again for something or someone that is so unimportant. He had no considerations for her nor does he have any worth to be able to speak or stand right in front her. I just don’t want her happy days ruined just because of some garbage. I might not know what love is, but... I know pain of being betrayed and loneliness more than anyone else do. Just don’t make it harder for her.”

Rosa was silent for a while. The group above heard this as well as Meracle. They were crying silent tears because of what Jin said. The fact that he not only considered Meracle’s feelings and happiness but those around her made their backed up emotions flood out of their eyes. “Then tell me this Jin. When did you lose your eye sight? Was it after the taser or even before that?” she asks sternly

“… *Sigh* I can’t hide anything from you since you are too smart. I’ve been through temporary blindness after extreme anxiety or stress many times so it wasn’t a big deal. Or so I thought. The car crash since this morning was my first major stress but has yet to cause temporary blindness. The second was the gang up in the bathroom but they were only minor and I was punched only around the body so I thought it was okay. But the tasers are the ones that really did a number on me. I’ve lived my life like this so I thought that it wasn’t a big deal. But it seems like I am going to be blind for a while now” Jin admits. “I’ll probably be able to see by tomorrow morning if not the day after tomorrow.”

“Wait… What if you go blind one day? What if you becomes permanently blind? What would Meracle do?” she questions him.

“I would probably disappear like always. That way, she’ll probably forget about me. I’m might not be anything to her anyways. I’ve only been here a few days. I’ll just make her forget about me. I’m pretty sure that you also remembered me as well and how I really act.” Jin shrugs.

“L-like always? Even during middle school? Is that also why you disappeared during middle school?” Rosa was almost at the point of yelling.

“…” Jin said nothing. He just kept quiet. She was not right but things would’ve gotten more complicated if he said anything. He knew that Meracle could’ve been caught up in his bullying and suffer a worse fate if she was not as strong as him.

“Why aren’t you saying anything?” Her hands trembled and wanted to hit the man.

“Bullies during the depression were more ruthless to the weak and those around the weak. When the bullies goes farther than needed, they would sometimes smash your fingers, twists your arms, break a few bones or even take a life as if it was an easy game to them. If it wasn’t enough to go after you, they would go after your family and those close enough that can be counted as friends. But most people who were bullied ended up dying through extreme stress and depression which leads to suicide. I remembered that the reason why I left her was to protect her from all this.” Jin said to keep things simple. There were times when he saw danger approaching her and so he either got rid of those dangers for her or took them for her. But he can’t remember why she was so important to her. He just knew she was important.

“I-I see… But how many more secrets are you keeping Jin? There are people who can help you. I can help you get rid of your chronic temporary blindness so you will never be blind ever again unless someone gouges your eyes out” Rosa said.

“…..Even if you get rid of my blindness I’m still going to die in three years’ time.” Jin told her.

“What? Three years? Why haven’t you gone to the hospital to get things cured? Have you even told Meracle this secret?” Rosa’s eyes widen.

“What’s the use? I have too many secrets and no money to begin with. Also, what I am dying from cannot be cured. It is not a sickness. Money cannot cure what I have. It is something beyond technology. If you were in my shoes, what would you do in these next two years and some hundred days? Would you let those around you know your conditions and make them sad?” Jin asks her. Jin opens his eyes to feel that a bit of his eye sight came back. He stood up staring at the crescent moon in the sky. He turns towards the blurry image of Rosa and smiled. The image flashes from her silhouette to deep darkness in his eyes but mostly darkness. The sight of the man in front of her made her heart ache. She could still see that he was pretending to be able to see. He was still pretending the pain he felt was no different from drinking water.

“The more someone knows about me, the more complicated things get and the sadder they might feel once they know. Just too much sad drama. I don’t like drama. So it is best if everyone knows less about me and feels nothing when I am gone. The only thing I am wishing for is her happiness and to live in peace until the designated time for me to leave. So for her sake, don’t tell her. I’ll also be happier that way as well.” Jin sighed.

Jin walks towards her which made her scared that he might collapse like before. “I’ll be back later. Just going to get some fresh air” Jin whispers to her when he passed by her and walked right out the door. Outside the door, he thought merrily to himself, ‘Man. How long has it been? Two? Three days since I’ve been here? Maybe four since it might be passed midnight? So much has happened and I really did not expect to show a bit of my face already… Twice as well. Twice I had to show a bit of my other side. This girl is too troublesome. It’s a shame that I have too many secrets to keep and too little to share. But because I am able to keep things a secret I am able to protect those close to me. You’re one of them Meracle even if you don’t know it. I don’t know why myself ha ha…’ Jin chuckled at his weakness. He walks down the road for a good midnight stroll. The air smelled as bad as always but it was a familiar good yet bad small. A smell similar to home but worse. The irony is the fact that the streets looked clean but smells so heaven forsaken terrible. Jin laughs at the ironically bad surroundings while walking down the streets and continues to enjoy the moments of peace away from all the problems for a while.

But little did Jin knows, Meralce heard him. “Idiot… You have too many secrets and should’ve said that in a quieter voice… Now everyone knows …” Rosa bitterly said.

Meracle was up stairs and was crying rivers. “We’re all *Hic* crying *Hic* because you *Hic*haaa* are too kind *Hic* to others *Hic*sniff* and too heartless *Hic*Hic* to yourself moron… *Hic*sniff*Hic* This is why I hate fake people. *Hic*Hic*” She blubbered at little white saying.

In truth, when Meracle asks what color was her hair, she already switched wigs because Rosa asked her to play along. Rosa wrote for Meracle to test his eyes through the use of her wigs. Rosa had a suspicion that Jin could not see. But he was walking too perfectly to tell. He showed no flaws which made her even more suspicious. When a person gets electrocuted by four tasers, the person should’ve been out cold for the next while if not slightly paralyzed or staggering. But Jin acted as if everything was normal. The person’s eye sight should be blurry because of over stressing the use of the eye and mental strength regardless if he has the strength to resist such a strong electrocution. But he came in and out perfectly. Too perfectly.

His ability to sense things and how he got home so fast was something that made Rosa worried about. Jin was able to tell the presence of things because he was bullied so it became overly sensitive. But the damaged sustained would still cause him to be slowed and that very sense would be overly abused and should've been slightly impared as well. The only conclusion she came up was that Jin rushed home by running and vaguely sensing things to map out his surroundings which is why he also took a bath. Maybe that was how he got home so fast. But that doesn’t mean that it is perfect. If it is the difference in the moment in the air, all they had to do is to be still for a long time.

The last thing that raised the last flag of suspicion was when he asked her to help him treat his wounds. But his body was already recovered on the outside and not a trace of injury could be seen.

The whole Meracle and Jin on the bed was an act. Rosa wrote to Meracle to switch wigs from the blue bob to a scarlet red, lock him down with her body, and asks how beautiful she and her hair is. But the criminal was smooth. He snorted at the word blue but did not say anything more about the wig. He slipped off the hair and used his silver tongue to sugar coat words to make them believable. His topped those sweet words with a warm hug, a caressing hand through the hair and ropes in her heart with honeyed words.

‘To be strong enough to protect them and to be sweet and calm enough to make those around you not worry. Damn. If I had a man like that, I would believe every word he say without a doubt even if he keeps acting like that’ Rosa cried in her heart. Not only did he outsmart the actors, he acted all the way to the end like he was fine with sweet words. Not even Rosa would be able to tell that he was acting if it wasn’t for his first mistake about his injuries.

“Here, Meracle, let’s go into the room first. If he comes back in now and see you crying, it will only make things worse” Mirana suggested to Meracle. But even she couldn’t stop crying. “Dammit Jin. Now you got us all crying.” Gisela complains while carrying Meracle with the help of Mirana to the room.

All four of them plopped on the bed wearily in tears after hearing Jin speak about his life. They too had hardships and pain to live through in their life but his was unbearable. They thought long and hard what type of life he had if he lived an entire childhood like that. But the more they thought, the more depressing and sleepier they got. Mirana, Gisela, and Rosa wanted to leave after Meracle was done crying. But one by one, they all fell asleep on the same bed without even knowing it.