7 days → winkdeep

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"...."

"mr. park jihoon?"

"y-yes, doctor?"

"i afraid that you need to cancel your college entrance examination registration due to your current condition."

"a-am i going to die really soon?"

"your survival rate reached below ten percent. perhaps consider chemotherapy and radical therapy? even though treatment may not be possible for you now."

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8 days before treatment
monday 6:45 am

wink: jinyoung can you come and see me in 3rd year's art classroom asap

wink: please this is urgent

deep: what happened?

deep: getting into trouble again? ;)|

deep: getting into|

deep: sure

deep: something's definitely wrong again
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"hey jihoon."

jinyoung sat across of me as he closed the door. he stopped calling me hyung since he was in sixth grade, while i was in the first year of middle school. one year difference never bother us.

"you look pretty upset and serious. why is that?" he asked.

bae jinyoung is my best friend since the day his mom brought him to the daycare when he was almost two years old. as much i trust and love him, i never tell him i'm diagnosed with a solemn disease.

i learnt about it two years ago. that explained everything why i kept vomitting blood in the middle of night. whenever i eat something really small, like two spoons of rice, i feel the sense of fullness in the upper abdomen.

two years ago it turned out i already have it for a longer time than average. my parents ran out of money to cure me. i underwent surgeries, however it spread to other area. i'm really shocked i managed to stay alive until now.

"i'm not going to school from next week," i said.

jinyoung replied with a grin, "from? what kind of mischief are you going to do huh?"

i sighed in frustration, "no, i'm not kidding! i'm dropping out from school next week. i'm asking you–"

"what?!" he interrupted me, his eyes bulged widely.

"–a favour." i finished off my sentence, my smile faded.

jinyoung shook my shoulders, "why? did you do something illegal in school? park jihoon, i actually notice that you're acting really strange these days." i pushed him off, he ran his hand on his hair and groaned quietly.

this is the only time where i can tell him before it's too late.

"listen carefully." he straightened his body, gazing intensely on me. i found it uncomfortable but i continued anyway.

"i... it's possible i'm going to die anytime by now. if i somehow survive next week, my doctor arranged me an operation at overseas."

"what?" jinyoung muttered. "that doesn't make any sense, what do you mean by you're dying?"

"that means i have cancer and i entered stage four recently."

his mouth hung, lips slightly parted. my hands expanded to catch him in my arms. i felt hot tears on my shoulders. "is that true?" i nodded my head.

"will you do a favour for me? for the last time?" i wiped his tears away.

"i will do my best for you because you're my only best friend. i can't imagine a day without you. that one time when i had a fever and i couldn't play with you felt horrible."

"bae jinyoung?"

"yes, park jihoon?"

"will you be my boyfriend for seven days?"

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istg i'm not inspired by a yaoi manga–