Photography Is Art Too

[12] - FINAL

It only took a few more days until MC was released from the hospital and returned to the apartment she hadn't been in for so long. It felt so strange to her walking through that door again. The last time she touched it, she was told that a bomb could go off and the glass from where Saeran broke in was still scattered on the carpet. It was just as she left it, if not a bit more dusty.

V was by her side as she stood in the middle of the living room. He watched her back, not wanting to be back in this room, in the apartment. He wanted to leave, to go back. The memories he had here with Rika hurt him, and the ones he made with MC made him smile so much until she disappeared.

"It's strange isn't it? Last time I was here, I was taken away." She pointed to the window and scoffed. "I was whisked away through that window, taken to the roof and flown away." MC spent her time with V right now by choice. She could've left and went home on her own, but she called V to take her. She wanted to be with him, and she hoped, he wanted to be with her too.

"I don't like the idea of you staying in this apartment anymore MC." MC put her hands behind her, as her back was still to V.

"It's safe now. Mint Eye was abolished, Saeran isn't an enemy, the bomb is no longer a threat and I'm safe." MC looked down. "And.. Rika's getting the help she needs to be healthy again." MC took in a breath as she looked up again, swaying to and fro. "You know, I'm pretty sure Rika didn't stop loving you." V's breath hitched and MC continued. "I bet, if you wanted to, you could wait for her, and when she comes back, she'd be happy to take you back. You can get re-engaged, you can get married like you planned to, and you can have your 'sun' back."

MC didn't want to say this, but she wanted V to be happy. She wanted him to live the way he wanted, not out of guilt, or a promise he made to try to make others happy, she wanted him happy. If his happiness meant he went to be my Rika's side again, she's support him with a smile, she happily help him. She's set up dates, she'd help Rika on what to wear, how to act, and how to be herself without being harmful. She's help them grow, if that's what he wanted.

"I don't want Rika." MC let out a shaky breath as she blinked back the tears that wanted to fall from her heterochromic eyes. "I'm serious MC, I don't want to go back to that." V huffed as he rambled. "The relationship I had with Rika, it wasn't healthy, and I'm partially to blame for not forcing her to get help. I know that, I see that now. She injured me, MC, and I nearly lost my sight because I thought it was right, 'it was for her'. But, MC, I know, she may have been my Sun, but, I finally realized, if I look at the sun for too long, I'll go blind."

"It'll be hard to live in a world without a sun. It'll be dark, lonely even." V nodded.

"I know, that's right. It will be, but I know what I need now. I need something that's' bright, that shines on me so I can see my way through life, but something I can gaze at and admire for as long as I desire, something I can look at and never suffer from it." He was silent for a moment, and MC never spoke to him.

"I need a moon, MC." MC chuckled.

"You sound like you need a solar system." V smiled.

"I already have one. Think about it. Rika was once my sun, and so, the sun she shall stay, but I don't need it. I have the planets I need and I will find my moon." V chuckled at himself.

"Jaehee is Mercury, the first planet in the solar system, the leader.

Zen is Venus, because of his beauty and his ability to capture an audience with his talent.

Next Earth, that would be me, myself looking for my moon.

Mars is Saeyoung, it's he the planet we look for life on with so many mysteries and stories yet untold, yet a strong planet.