I looked at myself in the mirror, trying to form a delicate smile on my lips. I tilt my head sideways to check on my face and try to remember something, but that I don't even know what's that certain something that I want to remember, weird right??

I grab my brown sweatshirt from the hanger and slip on it and again, gave a smile on the mirror all over again. I lift my hand up and touch my cheek, trying to feel how they felt like against my own skin. Well, it is smooth. And I run my hands through my hair and my smile falter immediately. A bunch of my hairs tugged on my fingers as retract them infront of me. And I can't deny that my sickness had started to invade my physical appearance.

"Allen?"

I heard my moms sweet voice echoed throughout my room. I quickly washed my hands and cleaned the sink free from my hairfalls and called out a reply "I'm here." to my mother. I heard her soft footsteps on the floor and the door went open right before I could get out.

"You were taking so long, I was worried." I smiled.

"I'm fine mom, I'm fine." I assured her.

My dad and mom decided to take me out for awhile since we never have the time to go on trips and vacation because I kept my vacation on hospitals. And I was glad for it, at least I could have spent my remaining days with them and especially Marcus.

I slid inside our car with Marcus on my arm. I buckled myself safely and rolled down the heavy tinted window to have a better view of the surroundings and places that we might passed by.

"Ready?" Asked dad.

"Yup!" Me and mom replied happily. This is gonna be exciting.

Dad manuevered the car out from our garage and into the pavement and in just a second, our car headed to its direction.

"Honey? I never knew you kept a teddy bear with you. Its the first time I've seen it." Mom called out, his head tilted from the passenger seat to look at me as dad kept his eyes on the road.

"Well, I had him since way back childhood."

"Oh? But I've never seen it. Did someone gave it to you when you were at the hospital?"

"Nope. I just found it in our backyard. It was enclosed in a tight tube."

Once those words left my mouth. Dad hit the pedal suddenly making me and mom throw ourselves upfront, luckily we had out seatbelts on.

"What's wrong hon?" Mom asked puzzled.

"You said that you found it in our backyard?" Dad asked threateningly. I froze and just nodded. In a quick move, dad remove his seatbelt, went out of the car and opened my door.

"That thing is cursed. Throw that thing away! He's a monster." My dad yelled and snatch Marcus from my grip and walked away.

"Dad! Please don't! Dad!"

I yelled as I tried to grab Marcus back to me. But because of the seatbelt and my oxygen tank putting a weight on me, I didn't even have the chance to even grab him before dad could do so. I was hopeless. Beyond hopeless. I cried, just looking at him being drag by my dad away from me, the thought of him being gone from me made me panic.

Dad went to a nearby bridge and under it was a ten meter high water and is flowing fast due to the strong current. He held out Marcus's frail body unto it and immediately dropped him without any hesitation.

I couldn't comprehend anything. I can't even hear anything, all I know is I was tearing off from the seatbelt and remove the wires from the oxygen tank from my nose and came running out of our car. I was almost hit by a truck but I kept moving, luckily I was able to dodge it before it could hit me.

I kept my breaths into soft pants, but later on as I quicken my pace, my breath become ragged and was suffocating me already. It was hard to breath, more like it was painful to inhale. Heavy sweat started to run from my forehead but I didn't stop. All my head could process is to save the only one who had made my life happy and worth living.

And I love him too...

"Marcus!" I yelled and jump right down the bridge without a second thought, with only having the thought of saving the stuff toy whom I love.

"Allen?!" My dad called out before the water immediately consumed my weak body. It was freezing cold and I was slowly loosing the flow of oxygen unto my body.

I need to save him.

I saw him floating ahead of me so I tried reaching him and swam faster as I could. I couldn't loose him, not now.

"Marcus!" I called in a raspy voice. "Ma-"

Right before I could finally reach him, my body suddenly froze and my chest ached like a wrecking ball just smashed right to me. It was painful that it made me weaken more. My vision started to blacken and later on, the freezing cold water consumed my frail body. Pulling me deep under while I loose my consciousness. I watched the surface above me starts to zoom out from me, my hands unable to reach them to call for help. I was helpless and slowly slipping away. I couldn't breath and last thing I saw was a white light that seemed to encaged me from the darkness that consumed me from under the cold and lonely feeling of the water that had brought upon me.