Unreal (KaiStal f.f)

Ch. 25 - Goodbye

June 30, 2100.

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This past week has been a complete mess; more people are waking up from their coma and they're in a worse condition than Jongin and I was. Most of them are in a mild state of a mental illness, but they're all recovering back into normal people. Their memories are gone as well, to no surprise.

Lee Ahyeon (Amy) was one of them. I was lucky enough to be able to fly back to the hospital and visit her. The once sociable, talkative girl that I knew was, is now gone. Her horrid screams for mercy as I take her hands into my grasp, her eyes telling me that she's afraid of me...

"Ahyeon-ah, it's me. It's Soojung, your best friend."

She screamed for the nurses to remove me from her sight forever, and I'm afraid that I won't be seeing her for a long time, if not ever. It pains me to know that I had lost her, but I was in her place not too long ago and I need to be understanding.

The hospital days was just a period of time where I found myself healing from trauma, nothing more. Sure, I always found myself crying or trying to comfort Jongin who was going through a moment of panic, but I'm thankful that I was able to experience something that is rare to other people.

If you haven't noticed already, I used the word 'was'. To make everything clear, Jongin and I are planning on moving out of the hospital to our own condo by the end of this week. We are not talking about marriage yet or anytime soon, so don't get too excited.

Standing over someone's grave isn't that exciting either, you know. He's already been buried with flowers held in his hands and a blessing from everyone, including Zaq Anderson. I still don't understand why he even pulled the trigger on himself; maybe he felt too guilty to even live? What if he regretted something so much that he was willing to take his own life?

It's depressing.

The thing that has been on my mind most is Dr. Seo's last words: "Please take care of Jongin and find the people who began all of this." What does he mean by "began all of this"? Begin what, exactly? Without him here to tell me more, I find myself clueless to what he was trying to say.

"Doctor Seo, you asked me to take care of Jongin as your last wishes..." I set a bouquet of white flowers on his grave. "We're moving in together soon, so I hope that it's close to what you wanted."

The wind suddenly wavers through the linings of my black dress, and I look around in fear. Being alone in a grave yard with the wind blowing is something you always see in horror films.

As I'm looking over my shoulder, the bouquet of flowers flies away from the designated spot. I turn back around and run after it until the wind just stops blowing and the bouquet lands on someone else's grave.

"Aigoo, do you have a mind of..." I pick up the bouquet but drop it when I the name of the deceased person catches my eye.

Kang Min Hyuk
2080-2100
Died in coma

Even though I never had any special feelings for him, he was the first person to become my friend in the game. In that time, we met once at the pool and he was flirting with me; I knew he liked me, but I just couldn't love him back. I just couldn't...

Sniffing my crying snot, I remove exactly 5 flowers from the bouquet and rest it on his grave.

"This is the last act of kindness I could do for you. I'm sorry that couldn't make you happy, Minhyuk-ah. Please rest in peace," I whisper and let drops of my tears fall onto his resting place.