"Oppa, I'm home." Myeong Jo came home, removing her shoes.

She didn't hear her brother reply.

"Oppa, Gwenchana? Are you sleeping?"

Still no reply.

She removed her sneakers and went inside her brother's room to check on him.

Slowly opening the door, she peaked her head inside. There he was laying on the bed, sleeping so peacefully under the blanket. He looked like a polar bear who caught cold.

A smile bloomed on her lips. She went inside and sat by the edge of his bed. Gently stroking his hair, she spoke softly, "Oppa, feeling good now?"

Her elder brother Min Yoon Gi worked so hard to run their little family. Just her and him against the world. Today he got sick in the morning. Of course, working so much would bound to get him tired.

Yoon Gi slowly opened his eyes. Myeong Jo knew how her brother hated waking up from his precious sleep. But now, he didn't budge at all. He must be really sick.

"Y-you came?" He uttered, eyes closing again.

Myeong Jo put her palm over his forehead. The fever hadn't decreased. It was just like it was in the morning.

Tension and worries were seen in her eyes. "Oppa, I bought some medicine for you. You have to eat them."

Saying, she opened her 13 year old handbag and took the medicine out.

Yoon Gi looked at her. She looked at him too.

"What?" she asked.

He sighed, "You didn't buy them, did you?"

Myeong Jo gulped down her throat. She immediately moved her gaze away from his eyes. She tightened her grips.

"Stop borrowing money, Myeong Jo! I told you not to. It's better not to buy than borrow!" despite his high fever, he yelled at her, sitting upright.

Myeong Jo gulped, lowering her head.

Yoon Gi pressed his lips into a thin line, "Take some money from my drawer and return the money back to the owner, got it?"

She didn't nod.

"I said do you understand?" he asked again.

Tears began forming in her eyes. She pressed her lips together to stop crying. But she failed. Tears fell one by one.

Yoon Gi, seeing his sister crying, without any hesitation, pulled her close to his warm body. He patted her head softly. She kept crying on her brother's shoulder.

"I'm sorry. You're sick..I'm so sorry...it hurts me to see you like this." she mumbled in her cries.

He kept stroking her hair.

"I'm fine. I'll be okay soon." he said to console her.

She sniffled, wiping her whole face. She pulled away and sat in front of him, lowering her head down.

"I-I got my salary today. But I had to pay back our parent's debt. So it all got spent. I wanted to save some for your medicine but the fee was so less." she explained and he listened.

"It's okay. I understand. So return the money back tomorrow, okay?"

She nodded.

She looked at him, "I'm sorry I can't do anything for you. You always take care of me. but I can't. I'm so sorry."

"Yah, Yah! What's with all these sorrys? I told you to stop saying them. I am fine, okay? Now go rest. I will take the medicine." He tugged himself back to bed.

Myeong Jo nodded and left his room immediately.

Changing her clothes, she laid down on her bed on an empty stomach. There was no food in the refrigerator. She began thinking how her life had been all these years.

Her parents used to gamble a lot. Even after their children were born, they wouldn’t stop. At one time, they lost 3 times straight and had to pay back a huge amount. Before they could pay back, both of them committed suicide. Leaving their 8 year old son and 4 year old daughter to survive on their own and carry out their sins and punishments.

Since then, Yoon Gi's been taking care of her. He applied for so many part times and did errands for neighbours to feed his little sister along with paying back his parent's debt. When she grew up, she began working hard like her brother. Together both of them had spent their whole life with struggles, pains and sorrow.

This flat was their only pride. Often they had to go to sleep without any food. They couldn't buy fancy clothes as they couldn't afford to buy even a spare outfit. Life's been miserable for them. Not like other siblings who were happily living with their parents.

Myeong Jo felt regret and guilty for her brother. Sadly she couldn't take care of him like he did. He was her mother, father, brother, friend and everything. She didn't have any friends as she gave up high school. She didn't know anyone else beside him. To her, Yoon Gi was everything.

She knew her brother loved her so much. Yet she felt like a burden to him. Sometimes she felt that if she wasn't here, her brother would had got rid of a burden and at least got married.

Myeong Jo sighed heavily. She closed her eyes as bad memories were flashing in front her.

She remembered the times when she found a coin and dropped it inside the well, wishing for a healthy happy life. She remembered the time she asked a grandmother who looked as fair as a fairy to make her brother happy. She always, even now, before going to sleep, looked at the night sky and wished to all the dead stars that were brightening without any reason.

"Please, please...just somebody who would change my life. Someone to love me..."

That's how passed all her 23 years life. Wishes unfulfilled, life unhappy.

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The next morning, Myeong Jo woke up early. She did her morning routine and went to wake her brother up.

"Wakey, wakey..." she pulled the curtains away.

Yoon Gi showed no movements.

"Oppa, wake up." she pulled the blanket aside. Putting her hand on his forehead, she smiled. The fever was gone.

"Oppa! You're alright! The fever's gone!" she yelled so loudly that he woke up.

He groaned and got back to sleep again.

"Come on, get up. Or else, you'll be late." she said before going out of the room.

Of course, there was no breakfast for them. So both of them went out for their work with an empty stomach.

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Yoon Gi always returned home before Myeong Jo. Usually when she returned home, she found him cooking (if they had food) or sleeping or resting. But today was different. It was rather shocking.

Myeong Jo's boss gave her an early leave as she looked a bit pale. Her boss was kind enough to do that.

She returned home early. When she entered inside the flat, she found two pair of shoes. One waa her brother's and the other one was...

A girl's?

Her eyes widened. No one has ever visited their flat. Was she a friend or co-worker of Yoon Gi's?

Myeong Jo made her way to her brother's room. Of course she wanted to know the girl visiting them. Without knocking, she opened the door as always.

"Opp--" her words stopped upon seeing the scene in front of her.

A shirtless Yoon Gi was kissing a woman. Their kiss was so rough and passionate as if it was going to something else.

Not acknowledging her presence, he was continuing the kiss, pushing her on the bed. Her eyes filled with disgust and shock. Her brother was having something behind her.

For a moment, she felt nothing but anger. She couldn't believe her brother was doing this.. Right now, he was giving his attention towards another woman. That too secretly.

She clenched onto her fist, bitting her teeth.

"Oppa!" she shouted, the whole room echoed with her voice.

Yoon Gi broke the kiss deliberately and looked at her, shocked. The woman whose dress was almost ripped, pulled the bed sheet over her quickly, widening her eyes at her.

Myeong Jo's eyes were asking for an explanation. She was staring at her brother with so much rage and grudge. Yoon Gi wiped his lips and finally asked, "What're you doing here? Why so early?"

"So this is it? You were having a relationship before I come home?" she asked.

He looked annoyed. He gave the woman an apologetic look and dragged his sister out of the room to another room, pulling by her hand.

"Let go of me!" she pulled away from his grip.

Yoon Gi commanded, "You better not interfere in this matter."

"Me? Interfering? Look who's talking! You're the one who's been--" she couldn't utter as she was feeling disgusted.

"Yeah, so what? So what if I was doing something before you came? Don't I deserve too? I have desires too!" he yelled.

She couldn't keep her boiling mind down, "Then you could've told me. How can you hide this from me? We had no secrets between us!"

"Stop making it a big matter, Myeong Jo."

"Yeah, I come home early and find my only brother, my only close one left in the world with a girl that too without my knowledge!" Myeong Jo yelled back.

"Why do I have to tell you everything? I have some privacy too!" He ran his fingers through his hair.

"That's the point! I never hid a thing from you! Every day, I pray to God, to all the stars to make our life happier. To change everything! I worked hard, you worked hard! We both suffered. We both cried. But we both are each other's strength." She paused.

Then she continued, "I don't even know what love is. All I know is what you do to me is love. I know love is much more than that. I want to feel that too. And here you are with another woman!"

"God, you're my sister, Myeong Jo! Do you expect me to have pleasure with you?" Yoon Gi shot back without thinking.

Her eyes widened, "No! All I wanted was your happiness. Your happiness is mine so you could've told me. I could've been happy too.”

"Stop. Just stop. You already are a burden to me. I've to work day and night to feed you. Or else, I would've married a girl till now. I have to take care of you that's why I don't find time for myself! So stop complaining!"

The room filled with silence after his shouting.

She was right. She was a burden.

Her eyes widened at his statement.

"You heard me? You, Myeong Jo are an obstruction for me. You are a load to me! For you, I have to stay home when I should be seeing girls. I should be having a family of my own while I'm taking care of my sister now! You are a curse, Myeong Jo! You will never deserve love! I pitied you so you got a bit of my mercy. No one will value you or love you!"

They say when people are angry, even the right things sound bad to them. Yoon Gi didn't know what he was blabbering. Right now, he was angry with the fact that he got exposed in front of his sister, having fun with a woman. He had this relationship for a long time without her knowledge. He hid it from her, thinking if he told her, she would be happy but also at the same time, would be hurt. Because deep down, he knew, Myeong Jo also wanted to be like girls around her age who dated happily, had a cute boyfriend and what not.

He just said some words that he didn't mean at all. It was his devil anger speaking.

Myeong Jo stared at the man who raised her. All his life, he gave his time to her. All his life, he said that she was a flower to him. And now his true colors came out.

Her heart broke into pieces. Her voice cracked slowly. And tears from the heart were falling down.

Seeing her crying, he came back to his senses. He realized he may had committed a big mistake. He hurt his sister, his baby sister.

"M-Myeong Jo-ah..." he wanted to hug her right now, feeling guilty.

Myeong Jo's cries were so painful. Her life's already been worse.

"I-I didn't mean to..." he tried to explain.

Myeong Jo ran passed him quickly, crying. Yoon Gi surprised by her action called her, "Myeong Jo!"

She didn't listen. She opened the door and ran outside. Yoon Gi put on a shirt and ran outside too. She cried like hell and ran like a horse. Yoon Gi tried to follow her but eventually lost her.

Myeong Jo ran to where her feet could take her. She didn't want to live anymore. Her whole life was a waste. She troubled her brother. Because of her, he couldn't be happy. He could've left her and got married but he always was there for her. It was her fault not to realize it.

She didn't know where she reached as she was too focused on crying her heart out. Until she opened her eyes and saw she was already on the edge of a cliff.

The night looked painfully beautiful. There were stars, moon and the Neowise Comet. The comet was so bright and moving so slowly. It's been in the sky since the last week. The cold wind was blowing her hair in the air.

Myeong Jo's tears were flowing down like a river. A life with no parents, no friends, only a brother to love you. A life with no happiness, with poverty, with sorrow. A life where if you get your salary, you have to give them to someone else. A life you have to go to sleep with an empty stomach. A life where you never received love. A life where despite your everyday tries, your wishes weren’t fulfilled.

"There's no point in living anymore." she mumbled, her voice fading away.

Myeong Jo decided to end her life. At least her brother would be spending his life without her as a burden.

She wiped her tears and looked down the edge. One step she took, there was no going back. Either she could go back and continue to be a loveless burden or she could end this terrible life right away.

Standing on the edge of the cliff, she one last time looked at the giant bright comet in the dark night sky. Thinking whether or not she should end her struggling life.

"Please save me. Please, someone change my life. Please, I need a person to love me. To realize my existence. Please just this once, grant my last wish! I want to smile like an ordinary girl too."

That was the last thing she remembered before she made herself fall down on her own will.

She, leaving the world, won't make any difference to anyone. So why not do this?

Myeong Jo was falling down the cliff in front of the Neowise Comet and the Moon. She shut her eyes and a tear escaped her eyes. This is how her life ended.

But she didn't know something granted her last wish.

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