Rainbow 彩虹

#8: Desperate Measures...

Joong: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Joong gave a very loud scream when Dr Jung cut through his skin with a scalpel. Jae tried to hold him down on the operating table, but he was squirming like crazy because of the pain.

Dr Jung: JAE!!! HOLD HIM DOWN, OR ELSE I CAN'T OPERATE AT ALL!!!

Jae: YES DR JUNG!!!

Jae looked at Joong who was screaming and squirming around in pain. There was nothing she could do to help him ease the pain. She held his shoulders and tried to push him back onto the operating table.

Jae: Joongie-ya... Just look at ME... LISTEN to ME... Don't think about anything else... Just LISTEN to ME...

Joong: AHHHHH!!! I CAN'T NUNA!!! THE PAIN!!! IT'S TOO PAINFUL!!! JUST LET ME DIE... I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!

Jae: NOOOOO!!!!! YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DIE!!!! I'M NOT GONNA ALLOW THAT!!! YOU STILL OWE ME MONEY!!! YOU CAN'T DIE BEFORE YOU RETURN IT TO ME!!!

Joong: Nuna... Mianeyo... I can't take this anymore... Just let me go...

Jae: NOOOOOOOO!!! YOU'RE NOT LEAVING ME AGAIN UNTIL YOU CLEAR YOUR DEBT TO ME!!!! YOU PROMISED ME!!! I'M NOT ALLOWING IT!!!

Joong's eyes were slowly closing as the pain was making him go into unconsciousness...

Jae shook Joong's shoulders really hard but he was slowly slipping away...

There was nothing she could do...

But she couldn't let him leave her just like this... She couldn't do anything to save her own parents... She didn't want to lose her best friend to the war she hated to the core like this too...

She had to do something...

Jae: JOONGIE!!! WAKE UP!!! DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES!!! STAY WITH ME!!!

She grabbed his face with her hands and leaned down to give him a kiss on his lips...

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Joong's POV:

My eyes were closing slowly as the pain overtook my body and I was starting to feel numbness from all the pain...

I could hear Jae-nuna still calling for me to stay with her...

But I couldn't open my eyes... The pain was too much...

I didn't want to live...

I wanted to die...

I wished to die...

If I lived, I'd have to go through the pain of seeing the woman I love marry someone else...

It would be better that I died now... At least the pain would be lesser...

Then...

Suddenly...

I felt something warm and soft on my cold lips. I felt a pair of lips on mine. And it was slowly taking my mind off the pain. 

Who did this pair of lips belong to? 

Was I dreaming? 

I forced open my eyes drowsily. I saw Jae-nuna's face in front of mine, with her eyes closed, but tears were falling down from her eyes, and her tears dripped onto my face...

She was kissing me... 

The lips belonged to her... 

The one I swore to protect and never let her cry again...