Time and Fallen Leaves :: jeongcheol

TAFL :: 18

*jeonghan*

after seungcheol hugged me, we stayed at the bench in front of lia's room and i saw some personnels was cleaning that room already since the one who used it ever since was now gone and they were ready to get it occupied by some another patients. the doctors including my mom was prolly on the fourth floor to where the morgue was along with lia's parents while i choose to stay here.

i felt like i couldn't look at lia's body now shes gone, now that heaven took her away from us. it would surely broke me every time i will be reminded by how the way she died right inside my arms and right next to me. i still could feel her here, beside me.

"take this, hannie. your coughing already."

i couldn't argue anymore when seungcheol already showed me the opened bottled water in front of me which left me no choice but to drink it though, i knew to myself that i couldnt. maski yata pagkain hindi ko magagawa as of the moment. after i drank the water, i was about to wipe my lips using the back of my palm but he was the one who did it for me. gusto ko sanang kiligin but it wasnt the right time for this.

it took more than an hour before i decided to go to the morgue to have some updates about her burial. i told to seungcheol to go home already because it was getting late now and for sure his family was looking for him. he was hesitant to leave me alone but i told him that i was with my mom and i can handle myself. before he could follow me, he kissed my forehead and he told me plenty of, "its going to be alright."

after he left, i made my way to the morgue and i didnt know how did i got there seeing lias parents was crying while waiting outside the room. her mom informed me that the funeral service was already on its way here and even if they wasnt ready for this thing to happen, they had already accept the fact that lia was gone. that she left us here.

"you need to go back to the dorm yoon jeonghan." thats what my mom greeted me once she saw me waiting with lias parents on the benches.

i shook my head. "i-i cant leave them alone."

"but you have schools tomorrow. be better studying than waiting here."

wala na naman akong choice kundi sundin si mama but i told her that i was going to visit lias burial tomorrow and i would help her parents financially kahit galing lang din naman kila mama yung perang ibibigay ko. but at least it came from my heart and i did it purposely. that night when i came back to the dorm, i couldn't stop from crying so hard instead of studying thats why i woke up with swollen eyes.

even if i dont want to attend my schoolings for today, i dont have a choice but to do so since my mom and dad had been telling me to study before i visit lias wake. when i went inside our room, i asked sejeong if she was feeling fine now and im glad that she wasnt pale and was gasping for air anymore. sowon and others asked me what happened on my eyes, i just told them that some insects bite my eye when i was asleep kahit hindi naman ako natulog kagabi.