Strawberries & Cigarettes- Meanie

XX- Epilogue

Play; Strawberries & Cigarettes by Troye Sivan

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"Hey Wonwoo. How are you?" Mingyu asks as he approaches the older.

"I'm okay, hanging in there what about you?"

"I'm good. I gotta remind myself that you're gone though." Mingyu chuckles bitterly as he looks at the grave.

"It's already been a year you know. I hope the afterlife is treating you kindly. Especially after how horrible living treated you." Mingyu sighs as he takes out a box of cigarettes and lights one.

"I promised myself when you told me everything I would never touch a drug or a cigarette yet here I am." Mingyu speaks as he breathes in the smoke.

"It's the only thing that calm me, but it's bittersweet. They taste like you and that makes me unable to forget you. It might just be because of the fact I can't let you go, I'm hanging on to the only essence of you I have left. And they are slowly killing me. But I'll live. For as long as I can, but only for you." Mingyu speaks as tears blur his vision.

"I miss you my Love." Mingyu whisper as the tears finally exit his face.

He hears steps from behind him and feels an arm get swung around his shoulder.

"Come on now Mingyu. Let's go." He hears Vernon say as he leads him away.

"Okay." Mingyu replies as he follows Vernon's lead, Mingyu throws one last glance at the picture plaster on the stone slab, his wide smile and happy aura. Something he would kill to see again.

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Wonwoo sit on his grave staring at the two longingly. How he wished to talk to them once more, he was lucky if the cursed souls, he was allowed to visit the world of the living. Mingyu came to him everyday since he was buried.

Wonwoo still in the clothes he died in, blood permanently running from his forearms and nose, a white clean dripping from his mouth constantly. The people in the world of the dead would stare at him weirdly with pity or disgust painted on their faces, it's quite obvious how he died; that's why he spent most of his time by his grave.

It brought him a comfort, a feeling of being connected to the people he loved, he listened to their every word.

No matter how much he reached out to hug or kiss the younger he never felt it. No matter how much Wonwoo cried or wept he knew the younger would never know.

That's the cruelty of it though, to watch the man you love live his life with you in the shadows but again Wonwoo was thankful. That Mingyu would continue living even though he didn't and he knew one day maybe in a universe or reality far away; they would meet again to live a happy life, but for now.

He had to wait.