Water Droplets (KaiStal f.f)

Ch. 17

The rain falls like a bucket of water onto the pedestrians and I now. The skies have darkened to a metallic gray color, coated with a tint of white from the clouds.

There is no umbrella to cover me; the water dribbles down my long hair and face. Do I have to explain how I feel right now?

I fall down onto my knees and cry into my hands, not caring if the people stare at me or call me rude for blocking their way.

Why am I letting this affect me so much when this isn't even real? My brain tells me that something is not right, obviously, but I cannot figure out anything that is happening. Will I be able to handle my feelings if I leave this world, leave Kai, to go live my normal life again?

The atmosphere around me begins to dry up and none of the water hits me anymore. A sound of rain hitting an umbrella now stands over me.

Staring up with my red eyes, I look at the kind person who is like my savior.

"Krystal... we weren't friends for very long; you didn't like me anyways..." Minhyuk looks like he's about to die of dehydration; his once handsome face now shrivels up into his cheeks, his lips white and do the same.

"I... have to go..." His lips tremble to the sound of the rain. The hand he holds the umbrella with shakes...

"Where to?"

"Home."

He smiles as a tear rolls down his face...

I reach out to touch his arm but his whole body begins to fade away from the air and he's gone.

The rain begins to beat me down again; my confusion grows. I cry even more; even though I barely know who Minhyuk is and was, he was part of this life. He was my first friend and I watched him just disappear.

I get up onto my feet and begin running in the direction I last saw Kai go. I cannot bear to lose him as well.

If Minhyuk just disappeared, it's probably only a matter of time before Kai does.

I run for countless miles, letting my body practically die but live on breathing the droplets of air from the rain. No matter where he went, I need to find him.

I need to hold him, to feel him in my presence.

"Kai! Where are you?" I yell, running into an alley just a few miles away from the park. Not minding if I get f*cked by gangs, I keep going in and repeatedly screaming his name.

There's no use at this point if he's trying to avoid me.

"Soojung..."

I turn my body 40 degrees to my left and there he is, 20 gets away with his knees up to his shin and his eyes drowsy as they can be. Did I cause this to happen? To make him so depressed?

"Kai, where ha—" I run but then my whole world changes. Literally.

I look up at the sky, only to see that it just changed from gray to black. Only a few streaks of white are here and there in the sky, if it's even considered a sky anymore. The rain stops in midair and just freezes in that form.

Is this our destiny, Kai?