WITHOUT YOU ||Vmin ff

prologue

When I was seventeen, my life changed forever. I know that there people who wonder about me when I say this. They look at me strangely as if trying to fathom what could have happened back then, though i seldom to explain. Because I've lived here for most of my life, i don't feel that I have to unless it's on my term, and that would take time than most people are willing to give me . My story can't be summed up in two or three sentences;
Despite the passage of forty years, the people still living here who knew me that year accept my lack of explanation without question. My story in some ways is their story because it was something that all of us lived through.
It was I, however, who was closest to it.
I'm fifty seven years old, but even now I can remember everything from that year, down to the smallest details.

It is 12 April as i leave my house, i glance around. The sky is overcast and gray, but as I move down the street, I zip my jacket a little. The temperature is cool, though I knew it's only a matter of weeks before it will settle in to something comfortable.
With a sigh, I feel it all coming back to me. I close my eyes and the years begin to move in reverse, slowly ticking backward, like the hands of clock rotating in the wrong direction. As if through someone else's eyes, I watch myself grow younger;I see my hair changing grey to brown, I feel the wrinkles around my eyes begin to smooth, me arms and leg grow sinewy. Lessons I've learned with age grow dimmer, and my innocence returns as that eventful year approaches.
Then, like me , the world begins to change;
I open me eyes and pause I am standing outside of church and when I stare at the gable, I know exactly who I am.

My name is Kim Taehyung, and I'm seventeen years old.