Neverland | Choi Yeonjun

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Living as a girl is never easy. Her parents never let her go out alone late at night so she had always wanted to go on a walk at midnight.

We had a movie night again so after watching a rom-com we headed out for a walk, hand in hand.

Again, the roads were empty, just the voices of dogs howling or the noise of nocturnal insects could be heard.

We reached a high place where we could sit and talk while gazing at the stars and the moon. We sat there for some time having random as well as deep conversations.

"Let's head back" I said reaching out my hand to her. She took my hand but soon let it go then looked at me with an unreadable smile.

"It's time to let go of me, Choi Yeonjun." She said with an angelic smile on her face but tears in her eyes.

"Haewon no! You know that I can't!" I desperately said trying to hold her hand again but her body went transparent.

"You said that you wanted to complete your promise of completing my wishes that included you in my bucket list, and we have fulfilled them, together." She explained.

"Dancing in the rain, spending an entire day together at home, watching a movie, playing games, cooking together, going on a picnic, art date and now, the late night walk. We've completed my wishes Yeonjun."

"Wait, I don't get it, why do you have to leave me again?" I begged for her to stay, not wanting to let her go again.

"I'm really sorry love, that I couldn't make it to the last stage of my brain tumor, on the day of our second anniversary. It broke my heart to see you having such a hard time to cope up with this, so I had to come back to bid you a proper farewell." She said hugging me for one last time, the feeling of the hug was same as always yet the warmth of her body was missing.

"We've completed all the wishes that I wanted to do before I die, so fill my diary with the photos you took and then burn it." She weakly said.

"I can't" I said through my tears, not wanting to give up on her.

"You promised to move on after I leave, I know it will take time but please you have to do it love."

"Can't we just stay like this? Forever in Neverland? Please, love?" I begged.

"It's Neverland for a reason. You have to let me go in order for me to be free and for you to continue. I wish you nothing but a good life ahead. Goodbye my love." She said before disappearing into thin air.

I woke up with a jerk, sweat dripping from my face. I saw out of the window and it was still midnight. The moon, it always reminds me of her, even when she was in this world, and even now that she's gone forever.

I checked my phone to look for the photos we took together for her diary. I thought it was me and her, however in reality it was just me.

Just me, dancing in the rain, eating at the lakeside alone and everything I thought we did together, was just me.

I took took prints of the pictures and pasted them in her bucket list accordingly.

A few days had passed, I couldn't bring myself to burn it. The moments and memories we shared together, her laughter were still fresh in my mind.

However, it's her birthday today, so I've decided to set her free and burn the diary.

"Goodbye my love, I'll cherish the two years we spent together and also the time we spent in Neverland. If afterlife exists, I hope we can be together there, for a long long time."

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A/N: Hope that this story made it to your heart. Do you need tissues? Because honestly I did need tissues while writing this final chapter.