Cãll Of the Sãnd(MxM)

Realization

AN:/ Merry Christmas peeps! ho ho ho!

The clock ticked away and so did the ailing woman's life.

Probably.

But one couldn't be so sure about her life because none of the doctors till now was able to diagnose her illness that she seems to have caught so suddenly and it took such a turn that she had already stained quite a number tissues blood red along with burning with fever. No medicine or saline worked on her. She laid on bed puffing hot breaths, occasionally coughing up blood that is dripping down from the corner of her lips. 

A gentle hand wiped away the sweat on her forehead with a wet towel, wiped out the blood dripping from the corner of her lips. The owner of those gentle hands was Raven. He have been sitting beside his Reijin noona for three days. He only left the seat for bathroom breaks. He eats whatever the bodyguard, Horus cooks for him. Initially he felt bad for bothering the bodyguard like this, but the latter insisted, saying that it'd be his repayment to Raven who is taking the pains of watching over Reijin while he is away to find Seth. 

Its been a week since Seth has gone missing and it have been four days since Reijin collapsed on the hallway of SDQ building while she was on her way to find Horus in the cafeteria.

Reijin is yet to gain consciousness.

She has been kept in her apartment since no hospital is able to cure her. Although Raven was against this, but it was Reijin who begged for them to keep her in the apartment. Due to the missing issue of Seth, all the schedule of the band have been cleared. The band members are cooped up inside their dorms, often calling Raven to get updates on the situation.

Whilst sitting here and nursing Reijin, Raven had got some time to think. He realized that he always went with the flow and never stood for minute to think about himself. Now that he got time, he thought about several things. One of them being ill-luck that has been haunting the group, especially Seth ever since their trip to Egypt, how Raven's eyes somewhat always followed Reijin whenever the boys visited at Seth's house and Reijin would cook for them, how Ken, would always huff and puff due to the spicy taste of the Korean dishes that Reijin would serve them but the boy would still eat it up nevertheless. As he was reminiscing these memories which seemed a distant recollection as compared to the current situation. 

Raven sat on his usual seat and watched through the window as the sun waned down its light and welcomed darkness. It was twilight.

It was at this time when two dark orbs opened much to the joy of exhausted, worried boy who had stationed himself beside the Reijin for the past few days.

Raven sat on a chair of the dinning hall of the apartment of Park siblings while Reijin was with Horus inside the her room. After she had opened her eyes, she asked for water and Raven could swear that he had never ran in such speed during relay race of his high school sports just as he ran to the kitchen to fetch noona a glass of water.

As if on cue, Horus too returned at this time and upon seeing him at the threshold of her room, Reijin requested a private audience with Horus.

It has been fifteen minutes since then.

Raven's feet were visibly shaking due to various reasons---joy, excitement, sadness and anger; they all piled up into an annoying ball in his throat as he waited patiently for Horus to exit the room. Two more minutes later, Horus reappeared from the room and disappeared into the kitchen probably to cook something for the starving girl on the bed. Raven entered the room and he simply couldn't tear his eyes off the red-haired beauty who sat on the bed basking on the last sun rays that poured in happily from the glass window of her room.

Even though she looked gaunt due to continuous suffering, she still looked ethereally beautiful with her hair down and her dark orbs strangely shinning as she sat on the bed leaning on the pillow at the back. When she cast her gaze at the speechless boy at the door of her bedroom, she smiled at him weakly.

And it was at that moment, Raven realized that how gravely fucked up he is.

He understood at this point all of his emotions that he harbored towards her, why his eyes never left Reijin whenever he visited her along with his band members, why he always secretly wished that it wasn't Ryujin but Reijin with him. The boy blushed as a naughty voice spoke within his mind;

"I like her. I love Park Reijin."