I WAS MADE FOR YOU

CHAPTER - 17

It all happened so fast, the burning house, the desperate coughs from inside that gasped for air, the blazing hot entrance which Taehyun had skipped inside to.
Then it surfed to me like waves.

There's a ringing in my ear that muffled all the other noises besides me. The horrified faces and the cries from women in my proximity.

"Tae-Taehyun, he's s-still inside." My voice quivered as my fingers trembled. My feet froze on the ground as if they had rooted themselves there. A knot of nausea was forming in my stomach and all I could do was stare and stare at the flaming house.

Metres away from the destination of our house, Taehyun and I swing our intertwined hands as we laughed at small jokes bursting out of nowhere. The stars were starting to twinkle in the night sky. The air was chiller than earlier which prompted Taehyun to cover me with his thick layer jacket, leaving him in only his black turtleneck.

And then came the loud chatters, the bustles, the sound of someone screaming, the women crying and the crackles of what sounds like fire. Taehyun and I stared at each other before running to where the chaos was erupting. Just like we had feared, it was all coming from a shelter we were supposed to return to. Our house blazed with the tall fire that engulfed the old woods and the white walls, the door was still intactly closed, the fire starting to lick onto it.

"Are they still not inside? Have someone called 119 yet?" The onlookers had screeched and yelled.

There was a pounding in my chest, its beats as loud as thunders.

"Stay here." Was the last proper thing I could hear before I saw Taehyun sprinting towards the house and kicked off the burning wooden door, trashing it at the side before running in farther.

I could see him no more.

I could not call to him. My throat was starting to helplessly dry up.

"No! Stay here! The firefigters will be here soon!" A aunty was clinging onto my body that now could move and the first thing it instinctively did was to run forward.

"Let me go! Please!" I cried, squirming onto her tight and strong hold.

"Listen to me! You'll die inside!"

I could not care less. All I wanted to do is to set my feet in there and search for him. Taehyun, he had been inside there for more than a minute.

Taking the chance of when she was distracted by the blaring alarms of the firetruck in the distance, I managed to escape from her hold and the sprint in there too. Her loud gasp I had heard from behind.

The acrid smell of smoke and the reek of the burning materials was what first greeted my nose as I skipped inside. I started to cough violently, my throat burned at the smell and I could already feel my back profusely sweating as I tried my best to skipped my way out from the fallen blocks of wood from the roof. "Taehyun!" I called as loud as my stinging throat allowed me to.

I grew worried as all I could see was the burning furnitures and the combusted walls. No sight of Taehyun nor any other person.

"Taehyun!" I yelled, hoping to hear at least a bit of a shuffle but no, all that entered my eardrums were the popping sounds of the burning wood and the crackles that engulfed the place all over.

The black smoke now blocked my vision, all that I could see turned to something black.

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