See You Again...

Goodbye... I love you.

Keiji's POV

              It's 5:48 PM, I'm driving back home when I suddenly got a call from... Kou? I answered the call and to my surprise I didn't hear Kotaro's voice. Instead, I heard sirens, many people's cries and a girl, who was speaking on the phone. Her voice is familiar... 

Kotaro's mom: K-Keiji? Dear? 

Keiji: Mom? What's going on? What are those noises? Where's Kou?

Kotaro's mom: Sweety... just please go to the hospital.

Keiji: Wait-What? Why? Did- Did something bad happened to Kou?

Kotaro's mom: The bus we were riding on our way home...

           I got more worried and stopped the car, knowing I wouldn't be able to focus on the road anymore. I can hear her crying through the phone and I got more scared. I have an idea on what she's about to say... Please say it's not what I think it is...

Kotaro's mom: I-It got into... a... c-car accident... and Kotaro... He... was sitting be-beside the w-window and... then...the w-window shattered and... i-it hit him...

           My suspicions were correct. At that moment, it felt like my whole world collapsed. I can't even imagine what I'd do if he dies. 

            "K-Keiji? Are you still there...?" I can hear her ask with a shaky voice. "Please come to the hospital..." Then the call ended. I drove as fast as I could to the hospital. Please survive... Please stay alive... Don't leave me... Pease... I cried.

       I entered the hospital and the doctors told me to wait. I saw it with my own two eyes... Bokuto Kotaro, the love of my life and my world, covered in blood and bruises. He was somehow, still awake. The doctors tried to save him but it wasn't long until one of them said... "I'm sorry... It's too late for us to save him. One of the shattered pieces of glass hit him in the heart... I'm afraid we can't do anything..."

      "No... No... Th-There has to be a way! H-He can't die! Not like this! Please! Do something! Anything!" I said, crying. "Keiji..." I heard a frail voice call my name- it was Kotaro. "G-goodbye..." "N-no... Don't say that..." If before, saying 'goodbye' was normal, now it feels like... being stabbed int he heart, just not physically. "I love you..." then he closed his eyes. I wanted to speak. I wanted to say 'I love you too'. I wanted to thank him for everything... but I didn't have the strength to. All I could do was cry. Cry and cry. Usually crying helps lessen pain, but now, I'm convinced that I will carry this pain in my heart until the day I die... The day we see each other again. Why? He promised to stay by my side forever... He promised that we'll never be separated... He told me that we'll always be together... no matter what... So why?! Out of all the people in the world, why does it have to be him? Why not anybody else? Why him? Why? Why...?

      I cried for hours. I know that the day where one of us will die is going to come, but I didn't expect it to be so soon.

    One day... No matter how long it will take us... no matter where it will take us... I promise you... 

We'll meet again.