<Final Chapter>
"I remember everything now."
The room was now so silent that anyone could practically hear a pin drop.
And Jisoo was, of course, crying. "You... what?"
"I read that article last night," Taehyung continued as he tried his best to hold back his tears but they kept falling, anyway. "Last night, Namjoon-hyung sat next to me and we talked a bit about you.
"'You know Kim Jisoo by now, don't you?' he asked me that night - he had asked me that question a countless number of times over the past five years. 'The nice lady who comes by to visit me everyday?' I returned without much thought, just as I usually did. "'She's still just a nice lady to you?' Namjoon-hyung blurted out under his breath, with a small sigh. 'You two... were really so much more.' 'I know,' I replied him nonchalantly, though I didn't actually know. I didn't actually know how much more we were, neither did I even know who you were to me. At that moment, you were still just a nicr lady to me - I couldn't lie about it. And though I had tried for days and months and years to remember who you were... I simply couldn't. Every time I tried to remember you, my head hurt and my vision began to spin... it wasn't easy. But everything changed last night, when I read this article of you.
"'This is who she really is, Taehyung-ah,' Namjoon-hyung spoke gently and patted me on the shoulder, before getting to his feet. 'Read this, and then tell me if she still is the "nice lady who comes by to visit" to you.' I was skeptical as I watched Namjoon-hyung cast me one last meaningful look, before he left the room. I was skeptical, what an article could do to help me remember... and if there even was anything to remember. After all, to me, it didn't make sense at all - how was it possible for me to remember literally everyone else except for you? After my operation, you were the only unfamiliar face in the room - and yet, everyone was telling me what an amazing person you were, and how in love I was with you. Watching the video you showed me everyday didn't help either - it was confusing, to have that on one hand, and have absolutely no impression of who you are... or any memories of the times we shared.
"And that's why I was skeptical. But knowing you as the 'nice lady who came by everyday' had its plus points. I liked you, I really did. Whether it was a certain vibe you had, or was it a sense of familiarity I didn't know of back then... I enjoyed your company. And I was willing to give it a try nevertheless, for your sake. That's why I read the article. And you know what the funny thing was? The moment I began to read the article, my tears started to fall. I have no idea what it was... but I somehow knew that I was the person you were talking about in that article. I was the person you were waiting for. I was the person who inspired D+1... and you, coming this far from the person I knew... after five whole years, you were still by my side. Memory by memory slowly began to crash back into my mind... leaving me overwhelmed but happy, but in tears - happy tears, of course. As I burst out of the room and sank to my knees on the floor, crying uncontrollably with Namjoon-hyung's and Jennie's arms wrapped around me... everything finally felt right.
"You know, three years after my surgery... Namjoon-hyung and Jennie finally got married. That day... that was one of the happiest days of my life. As someone who was literally at the brink of death, being able to see one of my closest friends take the woman I once cared for the most as his wife... it was truly an emotional day filled with tears. You were there at the wedding - I saw you, and seeing you stare at me with those tear-filled eyes evoked a certain type of emotion that I didn't quite understand back then. And that wasn't the only thing. Over the past five years, I've gotten to achieve so much more than what I had set out for myself to achieve. I wanted to see Hyeyoung graduate. I wanted to see see her in her elementary school uniform too... and I achieved all that. And in a year from now... she'll graduate. Not only that... Jennie is with-child, and I'll soon be able to see their baby - carry him and be an uncle to him. I... I have achieved so much.
