❝ So you become their source of oxygen, and they become your source of light and everything in between is water and fire ❞
In which two lost souls that once knew each other find themselves together in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
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❝ My whole heart is with you, your dreams are with me. Enduring life together is making me a little bit happier. We'll be connected without end, can't live without you ❞ — WITHOUT YOU, NCT U
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C H A P T E R E L E V E N
IT'S HIS HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION DAY. A plate is set aside on the clear glass table, and he sits on the vanilla cream sofa. It's breakfast by his dad; French toast with scrambled eggs.
"Where are you going?" Kevin can't help but wonder where his dad is headed so early in the morning. The sun is still asleep behind the clouds sailing slowly in the twilight sky. Birds began chirping after dawn breaks.
"Yujun needs my help at the hospital," Siwoo says, quickly slipping on his shoes, "it's an emergency. I don't want you to panic, but if you need me, call me. Don't do something I wouldn't do."
"Dad, what's wrong?"
"I just want you to be safe." Siwoo walks to his son and cups his face, holding his warm brown gaze flickering with concern. "Promise me you'll be okay?" voice soft, he takes a step back, turning to leave from the main door.
Kevin doesn't even get a chance to run after him, thoughts revolving around the sudden departure.
It's the same gloomy atmosphere floating in their living room, the door closing behind him, casting a shadow from the sunlight spilling across the floor between him and the door.
It's the same mood when his mother left in the morning for an errand, except he didn't expect to get a call from the hospital concerning his mother's critical condition.
Kevin's mom had a heart attack—the oxygen in her lungs collapsed. Her blood became frozen.
Suddenly Kevin's phone rings. He immediately answers the call after looking at the contact's name. At first, he doesn't hear anything until there's haggard breathing across the other line as if his best friend was running.
"Kevin, you know how it feels when you're helpless? You can't do anything. Like as if the world was ending, and you wish how it were all a nightmare?"
"Younghoon, slow down. What's going on?"
"I can't keep believing she will be okay. That she'll stay forever. I wanted her to at least see me graduate. Now she can't. I'm not ready. I'm not ready to let her go—"
Kevin feels a knot tighten in his chest, recalling his mother's admission to the emergency room. "Where are you?" he breathes out, heart beating rapidly.
