Ineffable 𓇢𓆸 || Jakehoon

🍂 Chapter 78🍂

Sunghoon's POV

I couldn't breathe. I couldn't-everything felt too much, too heavy. Every step I took felt like I was wading through water, the weight of Jake in my arms, his lifeless body draped across me like a broken doll. I ran. I didn't even know where I was going, but I was running, my legs aching with each stride, my heart pounding like it was trying to break out of my chest.

Please, Jake... please...

His head rested on my chest, the weight of it almost unbearable, and I could feel the coldness of his skin seeping through my clothes. I had never felt anything like this. The weight of loss, the suffocating emptiness, the overwhelming silence in my ears. No. No, no, no...

I stumbled out of the camp, the chaos still raging behind me, but all I could think of was Jake. I had to get him help. Someone has to save him. Someone... please...

"Eunhee!" I screamed, my voice a desperate, guttural shout, my chest heaving with panic. I saw her then, standing near the edge of the camp, her eyes wide in shock as she helped others.

She looked at me, her face stricken with horror as she saw Jake in my arms. Without a second thought, she ran toward me, her feet barely touching the ground. But when she saw him-saw Jake-her face fell.

I could see it in her eyes. She knew. She knew he was gone.

"Eunhee!" I cried, my voice breaking like glass, the sound of it ragged and raw. "Please, save him! Please! Please, Eunhee! Help him, please!"

I was like a madman, shaking her shoulders, desperate, clinging to whatever hope was left. The world around me spun, and my heart raced too fast, too hard. I couldn't think. All I could see, all I could hear, was the sound of my own voice, screaming.

She looked at me, her hands trembling, her face full of grief. And then she shook her head.

"I'm sorry, Sunghoon," she whispered, her voice thick with sorrow, "There's nothing we can do. He's..." She couldn't finish the sentence.

No. No. No. NO!

I felt my body tremble, my hands shaking violently as I clutched Jake closer to me, as if somehow the pressure of my touch could bring him back. "No! No! Don't say that! Don't say that!" I screamed, my voice breaking, my words coming out in sobs. "Do it again, Eunhee! Do it again! Please! Save him!"

But she didn't move. She stood there, helpless. Her eyes full of pity, full of sadness. She couldn't save him. She knew it. I knew it.

I can't lose him. I can't.

I felt my legs give way beneath me, my body collapsing into the dirt, but I didn't care. All I cared about was Jake. I held him tighter, his cold body pressed against me like it was the only thing left in this world that mattered.

He's breathing! I can feel it! I can see it! I thought. He's alive! He has to be!

I looked down at him, my chest heaving as I clung to his lifeless body. He looked like he was just... asleep. His face was peaceful, too peaceful. There was no sign of pain, no sign of anything. Just the cold weight of his body, the blood, the darkness.

No... no...

But my mind wasn't ready to let go. I couldn't. I couldn't face the truth. Not now. Not ever.

Jake can't be gone.

Suddenly, I felt arms around me. Jay's. Heeseung's. They were pulling me away from Jake, trying to force me to let go, but I couldn't. I wouldn't.

"Sunghoon, enough..." Heeseung's voice was soft but firm, his hands gentle but insistent as he pulled me back. His voice broke through the haze of panic, the sobs still choking my throat. "Enough, Sunghoon. You need to believe the truth."

The truth?

I couldn't. I couldn't hear it. Not now. Not like this.

"No," I whispered, shaking my head violently. "No. I won't. I can't. Jake is-he's-he's breathing. I know he is. I saw it. He's fine. He'll be fine... he's just... just sleeping... He's sleeping, okay? He's sleeping. I can feel it. I know he's still with me. I can see it. Please, please help him. Help him, help him..."

Jay and Heeseung's arms tightened around me, but I couldn't feel it. All I could feel was Jake-his weight, the blood, the emptiness. They were pulling me away, trying to hold me back, but it didn't matter. Nothing mattered. Not anymore.

"Sunghoon," Heeseung's voice cracked, thick with emotion. "You have to believe it. He's gone. Jake is gone. You need to let him go."

I shook my head again, my heart pounding in my chest, the pain too much. "No... No, no, no, I can't... I can't let him go. Please... please... he's just sleeping, right? He's just sleeping..."

I could hear my voice breaking, turning into something foreign, something unrecognizable. The world spun faster, the pain in my chest rising higher, suffocating me, and still, I couldn't stop the words from coming.

He's gone. He's gone. He's gone. I've lost him. I've lost my love.

I felt like I was losing my mind. My grip on reality slipping like sand through my fingers.

"Please," I whispered, broken. "Please, I need him... I need him, Heeseung hyung. Please... don't make me... don't make me face it..."

But the truth was there. In the hollow emptiness where Jake should've been. In the blood, in the silence.

He's gone.

And I couldn't breathe anymore.

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Sorry guys for the sad ending and idk but I really want to end it in this way and this is not the end because still winter season didn't came. So way more to go guys. Once again sorry and thank you so much for reading this 🥹💗