The Echoes Of Autumn | Minseok

Epilogue

The Present Day - Third Person POV

*I have chosen to attach a song that is Hindi... It's a beautiful song and the video above translates the lyrics to english... So please play to get the full emotional experience I felt writing this chapter...*

3 days had passed since Oh Sumi had last seen Kim Minseok.

3 days had passed and he was no longer here anymore.

3 days had passed and the world continued to spin unknown just what he had done.

So sunk into the corner of the apartment they once called ours was Sumi. Her knees were tucked towards her chest and her head was tilted back leaning against the cold wall. 

Her mind kept replaying the same memory over and over again. How he kissed her lips for last time before joining her sketchpads. How he seemed to fade away into dust in front her with the words I love you mouthed all before the autumn leaves carried him away from her into the depths of the sky. 

She remembers screaming out his name in pure agony dropping to her knees as the alternative past shattered around her.  She remembered how hands had grabbed her pulling her into there embrace in a way to console her as darkness had blurred her vision and she blacked out.

The next thing she knew was that she had woken up in their apartment when she noticed the spot where he should have been was empty. She had rolled over onto his side with her hands clinging to the blanket they shared as his familiar scent wrapped around her.

But she desperately wanted his hands around her waist, for her to simply hear the beating of his heart again thrumming in her ears.

But she wouldn't.

So Sumi sat there allowing that memory to continuously play in her mind like a broken record thinking of all the different ways she could have saved the boy she loved.

How both of them could have had such a long and happy future ahead of them, one they had always imagined they would have,

However, there was still one part of him that she had left, the letter that Shinwon had gave to her once she had woken up in the present.

A letter from Kim Minseok addressed to her.

The letter she had picked up and put down hundreds of times during the day half eager half scared of what she might read.

Now she held that letter in her hands in a brown envelope tracing his scrawly handwriting on the front and soon finding her fingers hovering over the seal that remained unbroken. 

Perhaps three days had been enough waiting.

So her fingertips slid underneath the seal tearing the envelope open with one smooth motion. She hesitatingly lifted the flap pulling out the folded in half paper tossing the envelope aside. She exhaled a long breath trying to calm the unsteady beating of her aching heart and allowed her eyes to glide across the page reading his last words to her.

'My Dearest Sumi, 

My darling, I hope you are not shedding tears as you read this letter but rather reading it with that show stopping smile upon your lips and a warm heart.

The day we first met, where time seemed to allow us to bump into each other that day is something I always found myself treasuring. It was truly a beautiful moment where I became lost in your eyes and my mind erased to a state of blankness for a few seconds.

I had fallen for you those few minutes we spent in each others presence.

I just didn't know how completely an utterly how hard I would fall for you as time sped on.

To our first date where we shared our first kiss down to the first time we found bodies tangled up in the sheets.

Time was good to us for it gave us beautiful moments and love was our guide through this journey we travelled down together.

I had begun to want to have more minutes in the day ever since the day I met you.

Until, the day you passed away caused me to do so many regretful things, things that were not even of my character because I felt lost without you my side.

But if I did anything right in my life Oh Sumi, it was I gave my heart to you. 

I fell in love with you.

But our time together was never enough.

Because, I believe we are fated and destined in life, to do things that we choose.

And I'd choose you Oh Sumi. In one hundred lifetimes. In one hundred worlds. Whether it be past present or future. I'd always choose you. No matter what.

Because my darling we loved a love that was more than a love. Because life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.

You took my breath away...You are the most beautiful and precious memory I will always have... You will always always be beside me like a handprint on my heart...

So although we may be apart, though I am no longer here in all of time I will continue to wonder how many lives I will have to live until I find my way back to you.

But for now Oh Sumi 

Veni [We came]

Vendi [We saw]

Amavi [We loved]

Farewell until we meet again my love,

Minseok....'

A/N

Cue emotional bawling! After months I have finally finished writing TEOA! I'm sorry it has taken me so bloody long to do it due to writers block. I know it does feel a tad rushed towards the ending but I didn't want to keep ya'll waiting plus I lost my plan somehow when I was throwing out version things.

I'm quite sad to draw TEOA to a close since its been on one heck of a journey and means a lot to both me and 

But I really hoped you guys enjoyed reading this fanfic despite it taking ages to complete... I can't thank you all enough for reading this fic and I'll be sure to bring you loads more!

So allow me to kinda slide in a promotion for Duende which is a Kim Taehyung Fanfic that is being updated daily!

Thank you once again!

EKS FICTION.