Chapter 19 – Victories Of The Weak

Chapter 19 – Victories Of The Weak

Min sat down at the desk in her small apartment. The place was peaceful since she was home alone. Jackson was spending more and more time away these days. Min was beginning to suspect that Jackson was back on drugs. He seemed to only return every three or four days to check on the execution of his plan. She had no idea where he was when he was away. Whenever Jackson was there, he complained about Min's apartment and the living conditions.

"I lived better than this when I was in the abandoned warehouse," he would tease. Min was sensitive. She worked hard for the little that she had. She didn't appreciate Jackson demeaning her when she was doing him a favor by letting him live there. But for right now, she had to put up with Jackson, at least until their plan was finished.

Min turned on her computer. A rat scurried under her foot and startled her. She kicked at it, grazing it's back with the heel of her shoe. She had several traps set up in the apartment. She knew it was just a matter of time before her trap caught it.

Min pulled out her old camara phone. It was a model about three years old that she purched from Ebay. It still worked well, so she had no reason to try to buy another. She used her camara's usb chord and connected it to one side of her computer and the other side to her camara. She flipped through the pictures that she had snapped while in Jimin and Jungkook's room. The pictures revealed nothing incrimating. She went through each and every image on her phone. The pictures of the old letters that she found in Jimin's suitcase turned out to be letters he had written to his mother while traveling. The pictures of the single King bed was something, but she had no way to prove it was the room Jimin and Jungkook were staying in during their visit. All and all, Min came up with nothing.

She looked up from her computer for a moment and contemplated her dilapidated surroundings. Her salary as a maid was barely enough to pay her rent. She was able to eat for free at the hotel by eating surplus food and left overs. Whenever they cooked too much in the dining room, Min would take the leftovers and use them to feed herself for the week. Her life was pathetic and she needed a change. This plan of Jackson's needed to work.

"Damn!" Min cursed. There just isn't anything here that I can use. She thought to herself. Min looked at the picture she took of the tube of lube that was sitting on the night stand. It was lying next to Jungkook's boarding pass.

"Well maybe, I can do something with this?" She said aloud. "But is it enough? Is this solid evidence. It really doesn't definitively tie them together. Oh no, this won't do. This is trash." Min began to cry. There just wasn't enough there to make a case for blackmail. She had no time to go back to their room to look for more evidence. Min was distraught. She had failed.

She rested her head on her arms on her desk. The tears rolled fast down her face. She sat up and wiped her tears. This was pointless. There was nothing here. Min stood up. She was still wearing her maid uniform and her apron.

She looked down and saw a bug crawling on her apron. She removed her apron and shook it out to dislodge the bug. A small piece of black plastic dropped to floor. Her first instinct was to step on it because she thought it was another bug. But as her eyes focused, she realized it was the sd card that she had removed from Jungkook's camara. She had forgotten all about it. She slipped the sd card into the slot on her computer.

She combed through the pictures looking for something useful. Most of the shots were of Jimin. There were a few shots of them together but they were innocent. As she continued to scroll through the pictures, she found her pace slowing. Within minutes she had become captivated by the pictures of Jimin and Jungkook. She found herself smiling when they were smiling. Laughing when they were laughing. They were a beautiful couple and they seemed very happy together. She became so captivated by the pictures that she almost forgot what she was trying to find.

It was getting late, she needed to get prepared for work. She clicked on a thumbnail view, there were literally thousands of pictures on the sd drive. She took one last scan.

"Another dead end," she mumbled. Her disappointment was muted by the fact that she really didn't expect to find anything anyway. She scrolled back up on her way to exit the disc when something caught her eye. It looked like someone kissing. She clicked on it fast. She blinked three times to make sure her eyes were clear and not deceiving her. She leaned closer to the screen, eyes wide.

"Oh SHIT!" she said quietly to herself. Min enlarged the picture more so that it completely filled her screen. There it was. A picture of Jungkook standing shirtless in his underwear in front of the camara. It took her a moment to realize the picture was actually a video.

"Click it," She said to herself. But for reasons she didn't understand, her hand waivered. What was she about to see? Was she about to see something that would destroy them? For a brief moment, she considered closing the folder completely and anonymously returning the memory card to Jungkook.

At the most opportune moment, the pesky rat inhabiting her home, ran behind her again. It was an instant reminder of the squaler in which she lived. If should could get the right information to Jackson, it could mean a very big pay day. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath and clicked the large white arrow.

She watched as the two lovers played to the camara. First Jungkook stripped completely naked. Then a topless Jimin came from behind the camara and serviced Jungkook. Both of their faces were clearly distinguishable in the footage. Both were moaning and looking directly into the camara. She watched as the scene evolved into one of the most sensual, erotic and beautiful love making sessions she had every witnessed. These two, Jimin and Jungkook, were deeply in love. Real love.

"Why did you film this?" She spoke to herself. "You should have known better. Now I have to use it to destroy you." She continued speaking to herself.

She needed to get the information to Jackson immediately before she talked herself out of it. She hoped that Jimin and Jungkook would just pay the money they were asking for. She didn't want their intimate pictures to be leaked. Min felt torn. She had never felt so much moral duality in her life.

She thought strategically about how she was going to share the information with Jackson. Releasing too much at one time may prove counterproductive because that would give Jackson all of the power. NO, she needed to do something different to win this battle. The answer came to Min almost immediately. Min decided that she would be the sole possessor of the sd card. She was not going to let Jackson have it nor was she going to copy it. This was the surest way to make sure that she maintained the upper hand and didn't get cut out of the deal. In her heart, Min never wanted the footage leaked. Her only desire was to get the money and give Jungkook his sd card back.

She used her phone to take a short video of a couple of scenes from the drive. Then she made a few still photo screen shots from that. It was enough to give Jimin and Jungkook the evidence that they needed to prove the threat was real. She was wearing a large locket around her neck. She took the locket and opened it and placed the small sd card there for safe keeping. This way Jackson would never know where the original sd card was located and she would be able to keep it safe with her at all times.

Min packaged up all the screen shots and video into a text and sent it to Jackson. Jackson jumped when he received the text alert. This was it. This was the text that he had been waiting for. They were finally going to find a way to blackmail Jungkook and Jimin by threating to expose their true relationship.