Genetics

Chapter Six

~Y/N POV~

(THIRTEEN YEARS OLD)

At this point it's hopeless to even have hope. There's only Aera and I left and sooner or later the both of us are going to die. I know it, Aera knows it so I''ve gotten to a point where I've become numb over the whole thing already.

Despite losing Kyong two days ago and Jimin's kick off that same day, Aera and I are in class picking up our studies. Dr Sun thought it would be a good idea to try and get the both of us back into a normal routine so we're not hidden away in our rooms from fear of dying.

I'm handling it okay I guess. Aera not so much.

She a little jumpy at everything and even keeps checking her own pulse either by her wrist or under her jawline on her neck.

Together we now sit side by side taking notes on the board from Dr Choi once again. I'm done complaining about him, I have more important worries on my mind than him.

To be honest today coming back for the first time into class, I didn't want to leave Jungkook and he didn't want to leave me. Just in case something did happen to me but going down the line of girls that have been lost already, it's been oldest to youngest. Moon was the oldest and I am the youngest. Aera knows this too which could be why she's so out of it today.

Her leg is shaking under her table and she's not even paying attention to Dr Choi anymore just like I'm not. My attention is back on her, worried about her wellbeing. She may be scared but she's acting unusually weird and that concerns me.

Just watching her, I think back to last night. I saw Kyong, in my room just like I did Sara. But she was more broken about the whole death thing compared to Sara and embraced it. Kyong was in denial. I want to tell Aera about it, in some way make her feel better that there's a good place after death, it's peaceful apparently even Kyong admitted it after finally accepting reality. But I don't want to make Aera's fear grow worse.

I heard Dr Choi clear his throat so I turned towards the front of class to see him staring at me through his glasses, head tilted down a little bit and tapping his foot intentionally.

"Do we have a problem Y/n?" Dr Choi

I shook my head at him, avoiding his gaze.

"No sir."

He hummed at me before coming over to stand in front of my desk, holding out a pen for the white board.

"Finish this equation then." Dr Choi

Internally groaning I took the pen from him and pushed up off my seat and made my way to the front of the class. All the while passing Aera a small smile before fully passing her since I knew she was watching my movements. I came to stand by the board, raising the pen against the hard surface and went to word on the equation Dr Choi wrote on the board for me to solve. Behind me I could feel his closing in presence but he said nothing.

The equation was quite simple to be honest, well for someone that wasn't paying attention I seemed to nail it. When I was done I turned around with a smug look on my face and threw the pen back to Dr Choi for him to catch with both hands.

"There you go Doc, nailed it."

I wiped my hands clean and walked passed him as he stared at the board.

"Do the second one! I know you weren't paying attention so do the second." Dr Choi

This time I made my annoyed attitude known, rolling my eyes at him and snatching the pen back from his hands, stomping back to the board. His chuckle behind me annoyed me even more than I already was. But when he grew closer, almost his chest to my back and I could feel his breath on the top of my head due to our height difference I became more creeped out.

"A little space would be nice.....sir."

I hissed the last part, throwing him dirty look over my shoulder but he grinned and backed away holding up his hands as I watched him. Only did I return back to the math problem when I was satisfied with the distance between us.

Now back to business, nailing this problem on the board to show him who the hell he think's he's messing with. I know what I'm doing.

But when I heard Aera suddenly cough, loud and dry I whipped my head around to see her coughing in to her hand. She looked down at it, fear in her eyes and then back up to meet mine. There was blood in her hand and even a little bit still spilling from her lips.

"Oh crap!" Dr Choi

Ignoring him I rushed to Aera's side when I saw the trickle of blood stream down her left nostril. Oh no.

I wrapped my arm around her shoulder just in time as she fell limp into my arms, her head crashing into my shoulder but her weight on mine made me stumble back and I fell to the floor with her in my arms. Pushing myself up to sit on my butt I held her close to me, her head to my chest as I pushed back all her red hair from her face to see her flutter her eyes open and closed constantly with even more blood pouring down her nose and now her ears.

"Aera."

I called her name, lightly patting her cheeks but she didn't respond

"Aera for gods sake keep your eyes open."

Tapping her cheeks a little harder this time, and even picking up her wrist to wave her hand around but it was just limp and it dropped to her stomach after I let it go.

"I-I can't. Y/n it h-hurts." Aera

"What hurts?! Where? Tell me!"

Checking her body up and down I patted her arms and tried to make sense of where she could be hurting. I could heal her, I can do it.

"Here." Aera

She patted her chest slowly with her finger just to drop it to her side and her head to fall limp and her eyes close on me. Out of panic did I push my hand down in her chest, concentrating on healing her, transferring my energy from myself to her. I can't loose another sister, I can't. I won't.

"FOR FUCK SAKE WHERE IS DOCTOR SUN?!" Dr Choi

Ignoring him I focused on Aera but what shocked me was a flash of white light that came from my hand on her chest. I gasped but Aera's eyes shot back open wide and taking a deep breath.

Thank god.

"Aera are you okay now?"

For a minute she stares at me blankly, blinking slowly but saying nothing. Just before her face scrunched up in pain again, and clawed at her chest.

"IT HURTS!! MAKE IT STOP!!" Aera

I tried to grab her hands but she kept struggling against me, writhing in pain and screaming.

"Stop!! Let me help you!!"

Again I pulled her up to my lap, head to my chest once again and my hand to her chest but she grabbed my wrist shaking her head rapidly.

"Don't bring me back this time. Let me go, it hurts." Aera

I don't know what she meant by that but I just focused on healing her pain from my energy to hers. I will not stop until she's safe and pain free.

"AERA!!" Taehyung

"Y/N!!" Jungkook

I heard their voices yet I didn't pay attention, it was only just me and Aera in this moment. Staring into her pleading eyes, holding my hand over her chest as the white light grew larger and larger by the second. This has never happened before but I felt weaker by the second. But I didn't care, I needed to push passed it and keep my concentration.

The voices around us became distant and Aera and I only had each other right now. That's all that mattered.

But then I felt type of large burst of energy flow through me and the white light exploded between us and everything around me grew dark. Numb, exhausted and grief-stricken was all I felt right now in my darkness.