❀ 29- Forever
TAEHYUNG'S P.O.V
I sat near the window of my hospital room and waited to see her walk out of the hospital. With my arms folded, I rested my chin on top, and soon, I spotted a small figure walking out of the building.
I sat up, and pulled the blinds all the way up and opened the window, the night breeze filling up my room as I tried to stick my head out the window.
"Ow!" I cried out as I hit my head on the top hinge of the window. With one hand holding my head, I fully stuck my head out, and began to holler at her. "Hyeri! Hyeri!"
She stopped, and turned around, looking around as she tried to locate my voice.
"Up here!"
She craned her neck, and looked up to see me waving furiously back at her. From the 7th floor here, I could almost see her beautiful face clearly, and smiled even wider.
I wanted to see her face again, just one last time.
"Taehyung! That's dangerous! You should be careful!"
She yelled, cupping her hands around her mouth.
"Hyeri! Saranghaeyo!" I yelled back anyways, and she turned away as she sighed. But not long after, she turned back and made a big heart with her arms, and smiled at me.
That's my Hyeri.
"Saranghaeyo!" She yelled back afterwards, and started waving back at me. "Goodnight!"
With that, she turned, and walked back home, leaving me waving her goodbye as I watched her walk away from me, one last time.
"Annyeong... Hyeri-ah."
After watching her small figure disappear when she walked around the corner, I sighed and stood up and walked back to my bed, where I sat down, and leaned forward, resting my elbows on my knees.
The memories from earlier drifted into my mind, and I put my hands on my face as I started to cry.
(8 HOUR'S EARLIER )
After I left my hospital room to go change into causal clothes to go out, it was not long until my doctor also came out of the room, leaving only Hyeri inside.
"Taehyung," He called me back, and I stopped and turned around and waited for him to catch up to where I was. When he finally did, he stopped in front of me and looked at me with conceiving eyes.
"Enjoy it well." He only said, and patted my shoulder before leaving me standing there alone again.
With those words he said, I knew... I wasn't healthy at all.
I knew it was my last day to ever see her again.
I knew... I was going to die soon.
(PRESENT TIME)
I stared out the window, the nurses wearing suppressed sad faces as they changed my IV streamer as I lay in my hospital bed feeling weary inside and out.
"Nurse," I called the one nearest me.
"Yeh?"
"Am I going to see her again?" I asked, feeling every inch of hopelessness.
She looked away, blinking rapidly as she tired to think who I was talking about, and turned back when she realized I was talking about Hyeri. With a smile that I knew was forced, she nodded.
"You will. Again." She says reassuringly, and squeezed my hand for what I thought was, support.
"I miss her..." I say, more to myself then her... and turned to look out the window.
"Goodnight, Taehyung."
The nurses say as they turned off the lights for me as they headed out the door.
I watched them go through the window above me, and they nodded sadly with each other, knowing that I was going to pass soon, and that I will never see Hyeri again.
Questions that I have thought over and over in the silence of the night began to drift again.
How is she going to live after I am gone?
Who will she marry... instead of me?
In her future... will she ever let her mind wonder and think about in the past about the strange boy that taught her how to love again?
I shook my head, and thought of something else that made me feel more relaxed.
Because of her, not only I showed her how to love... she was the one who taught me what real love was really like.
The more I thought about it... I realized it was her who taught me how to love.
I loved her. And she loved me. But in the end... one love has to go, while the other lasts forever.
I looked up at the droplets in the IV storage bag hanging above, and felt myself getting drowsy the more I watched it. My vision soon blurred, but I still turned my head, and looked towards the window.
Looking out in the nights sky, and smiled enjoying the peacefulness until it lasts before I fell asleep.
But peace didn't last long.
"Agh!" I cried out, feeling the pain enter my heart as I reached and grabbed my chest. My throat tightened, and I couldn't breath as I reached for the emergency button.
The next few stages were only in bits and pieces.
I opened my eyes and saw my mother and father running beside my bed as they pulled me, their faces filled with worry, shock, and so much sadness.
Although I couldn't hear them, their faces were enough to tell me.
By the time I blinked again, I was staring up at bright lights, and felt them put the mask on my face as they readied me for surgery again.
The pain that filled my whole chest spread all over my body, until I barely felt it anymore.
The lights didn't blind me, it made me imagine Hyeri being here.
"Taehyung-ah..." I hear her whisper as she stood near my bed, as the doctors began to work on me.
I turned to see her smiling down at me.
"It's not your turn." She said softly, and everything happened quickly after that.
I heard the beeping heart monitor go off and looked to see the line go flat.
I stared blankly as I felt them breath more air into me, and felt them place the defibrillator on my chest as they tried to revive me back.
With every pull they put in, I didn't feel a thing as I watched Hyeri smiling down at me.
She started to lean forward, until our faces were only a few inches apart.
"Saranghaeyo... my love..." She said and pressed her lips on mine, kissing me goodbye.
Tears began to escape my eyes as she began to fade away, and I only saw the bright lights above me.
.
.
.
"I got you!" She yelled as she pushed me over, and we stumbled together in the grass covered land.
"You got me," I say with her, as I wrapped my arms around her as we laid together, her resting her head on my chest.
She sighed. "I wish we could do this forever and forever."
I looked down at her. "And this too?" I say as I began to tickle her, which she started to laugh and squirm until she got a little angry at me.
"Aniyo!" She says after calming down. "I meant us, being here forever."
"Maybe we are living in forever, and it is just the two of us."
I say, looking up at the oddly beautiful blue sky.
I began to sit up, and looked around to see we were very alone, surrounded by nothing but grass and flowers, and the sky.
"Where are we?" I asked her as she began to stand up and walk around.
"We are living in forever, pabo." She says, and smiled down at me.
The surroundings were every familiar, and it wasn't until I stood up with her and saw the ocean view below, and all the mountains in the distance and imminently knew we were still on Jeju Island.
I turned back to see Hyeri collecting flowers, and saw that there was flowers here, unlike when we were still at Jeju Island when there wasn't any.
There was many different colored flowers, from lilac purple to lemony yellow, all grown and almost covered the whole entire area.
Seeing her collecting the flowers made me feel very happy, but yet somehow sad.
"Taehyung-ah!" She called me, and I came running towards her and grabbed her in my arms and spun her around in my arms as she laughed about while she held the flowers in her hand.
"This is for you," She says after I placed her down on her feet, and she gave me a single yellow flower.
I took it in my hand and smiled at it.
"It's beautiful."
"Isn't it? I wonder who placed all the flowers here."
I only smiled, and she reached and took my flower, and tucked it on my ear, and placed another on my other.
"Now you're a flower boy." She said as she looked at me, giggling as she did.
"May I make you a flower crown?" I asked her, and she nodded excitedly.
While I mended the flowers together she collected me, she laid in my lap as she sang a song under the cherry blossom tree that was in bloom.
The breeze blew the buds, and they fell softly in many on the grass around us.
The scenery never changed even a bit while I was working on the flower crown, and I never really wondered why. When I was done, I didn't notify her as I looked down at her in my lap.
Her eyes were shut, and it seemed like she was drifting in sleep.
She was truly beautiful, but somehow she looked even more beautiful as she laid rest in my lap.
Like the soft wind blowing about, I placed the flower crown I had made for her, on her head as she slept, not knowing anything happening around her.
I watched her a moment more, feeling complete now.
It was my turn now, as I leaned down and placed a gentle kiss on her lips one last time, before I held her head up as I moved my legs away, and placed it gently back down on the grass this time.
"Saranghaeyo... Hyeri-ah..." I whispered to her, and reached forward and caressed her face with my hand. "Live on well for me."
And like the wind, I stood up and walked away with no sound to my footsteps, scared not to wake her as I go.
As I walked, I couldn't stop feeling the urge to turn around and run back to her, but I knew I couldn't.
I stopped, and turned around one last time to look at her, and smiled to myself, knowing how she will be when she wakes, and walked on.
As I began to wake, I felt aches all over in my head, in my chest, and in my body... but I was alive.
(play the song here) --->
I opened my eyes, and saw blurry images of my parents... who then hugged me and kissed me with overjoy as well as many other people looking though the glass... but I felt someone missing.
"Where... is she?" I asked them.
Their expressions of overjoy was cut back, and they looked back at each other with furrowed expressions. I looked up at them, waiting for them to answer me, but they didn't do so.
"Where is Hyeri?"
I looked up at my parents, then turned to the window to see the boys trying to hide their crying from me, and saw that there was an empty spot where she would be.
"I need to go find her," I say as I sat up from my bed.
"Taehyung-ah, you must be careful, you're not fully recovered-"
"Where is she?!" I yelled, and they were silenced as they had to open the door for me. Everyone walked along with me towards the place where I could only confirmed it to be true.
We reached the door, and I didn't bother to look in the room before I opened the door to see Hyeri's parents sitting near her bed, watching her.
Slowly, I raised my eyes and looked on the bed to see Hyeri laying there with her eyes closed.
I smiled. "Hyeri!"
There was no answer.
"Hyeri?" I called her again, as I made my way towards her.
I stood above her, and chuckled.
"Hyeri-ah... I lived through my surgery. I don't know how that happened, but I'm surprised to say I am still alive." I say, and reached down and caressed her cheek.
Horror struck me when I felt they were cold.
"Hyeri?" I called her, and began to shake her up. "Hyeri?"
"Taehyung-ah..." My mother called me, and I turned around.
"Hyeri... she took off to the hospital after hearing about you... she must be so worried..."
My father took it in place of my mother.
"She got hit by a car early this morning when you were still in the emergency room,"
He took in a deep breath.
"she's gone now... Taehyung."
I felt like something knocked the air out of my lungs, and I dropped to my knees.
I realized... the Hyeri that I thought I had imagined being with me in the emergency room when I thought I was about to die... wasn't my imagination at all.
"It's not your turn." She had said to me before she kissed me goodbye.
"It's not your turn."
I turned back around and heard her parents starting to cry again, and I turned back to see my parents, as well as the boys, and even Sungjae and saw the girls, Yura, Sojin and Minah all there, and all crying.
I turned back to the sleeping girl laying on the hospital bed.
"Aniyo..." I say, and looked at her peaceful composure as she slept. "That can't be..."
Only then, she wasn't wearing a flower crown on her head as reality interrupted my imagination as I saw the head wrap in place around her head, and the bruised and bloody markings all over her body.
"Hyeri-ah..." I called her name, dropping down to my knees as the tears came flowing down my face.
"Wake up..." I say as I began to shook her lifeless body. "Hyeri!"
I began to sob loudly, holding her cold hand in mine as I cried.
"I was the one who was suppose to die!" I cried, my tears blurring my vision as I looked up at her.
There was no way she could die so suddenly, so soon like this. It wasn't real.
"Hyeri!" I sobbed for her, and leaned forward and hugged her body against my own.
"Aniyo..." I say, holding her as I rocked her back and forth in my arms as I cried. "You're alive... you're alive and well to see me living as well. You were suppose to see me live... Hyeri-ah..."
This wasn't suppose to happen. This wasn't suppose to happen at all.
I was suppose to die... but why her? Why?!
"Mianhaeyo Hyeri-ah... mianhaeyo..." I whispered in her ear, as I cried, not believing that she couldn't hear me now. If only I had died in the emergency room, we'd both be living our forever by now.
But in the end... one love has to go, while the other lasts forever.
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