Inseparable. Shiro and I were inseparable from that day on.

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"Hey Autumn?" I lifted my gaze to see his gentle smile. "Yeah?" I couldn't help the soft smile come to my face, it's something that happens whenever I see him like this. "We will always be together... I promise you, you won't be alone again." He gripped my frail hand with his. "What about when we leave the hospital?" "Autumn, are we ever going to leave this hospital?..." the mood suddenly got serious, but he broke it with his cute laughter. "It's a rhetorical question, don't worry, you don't have to answer it."

We looked up at the bright blue sky, as it watched over us with its fluffy white clouds as companions. "Shiro?" "Hm?" "Where do you think we will go when we die?"

"When we die? Autumn, we're not going to die anytime soon..." "I know, but, where will we go when we do die?" "Well... I don't really know. But I hope we both get to be together again." "Mhmm yes!"

"I think... If we die of our illnesses, we'll just wake up." "Wake up?" I looked at him confused, but he still see,ed to be focused on the clouds. "Yeah, we will, just you know, wake up. We will wake up, and won't be ill anymore." "But Shiro, if it weren't for our illnesses we wouldn't have met each oth-" "Yeah but, what I mean is... We will both wake up in a world where we aren't sick. And everything is perfect. We can be together again."

"You mean Heaven?" "Some people call it that, but yes, Heaven I guess."

I looked back down to the ground... and then I looked to my IV drip... I sure hope I go to Heaven...

"Autumn? Are you going to be okay? Ever since they did that operation, you've been, quiet." "I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine, but you know what I mean..." "They still haven't told you what you have, have they?" "No..." "Then what did they operate on?..." does he have to keep asking these questions...?

"Look Shiro, I don't know anything about it. Okay? So stop asking. Please?"

Silence surrounded our lonely souls as we continued to gaze up at the sky. The thought of being separated from Shiro scared me... when we die of our illnesses, will we really see each other again?

"Hey Autumn...." I felt his hand grip mine tightly. "You know I love you..."

"And you know I love you too..."