♣ MINT ♣

vi)

Months passed by and I fell in sick, at night I

scream his name, asking if he’ll comeback, if

he still remembers me. Nana have been busy

contacting my mom asking if she can take me

back just to separate me from this place, and

that may be a way to cure me.

“Xiumin..I miss you..” I said as I stood up

and wrapped my bed sheet on my body, open

the window and letting the wind to enter, the

minty scent once again entered my system,

the same scent that Xiumin has, the scent

that felt home.

“I missed you too..” A voice behind me said.

I turned around hoping to see the person who

owns that voice, and I did, he was there, very

much alive smiling at me while he held his hand

towards me, he still looked the same with his

hair slightly messed up.

“Sorry if it took me long enough to

comeback..but I did..see?..” he said as he

stepped towards me.

“BaoZi…Xiumin..take me with you please..” I

said as I held tightly at him, “please..”

“_____-ah, how about your Nana?..your

mom..”

“Mom can understand…she knows you..she

knows that you’ll be here for me..she also

told me this, I’ll age while you won’t, I’ll

grow old..but I’m willing to take that risk..”

“Sica asked me that a few years back..if she

can be like me…” Xiumin trailed off. “I said

that there’s a way but…I can’t possibly let

you take it..”

I looked at him straight in his eyes, he cares

for me, he really does.

“My life..it’s the payment for being like you

am I right?..Minnie?..” I asked him and just

as I expected the answer is yes.

“It should be me who should kill you..” Xiumin

said in a soft voice, “but I can’t..i can’t

possibly do that..I can’t hurt you…”

I looked at him, and made him understand that

the same thing is once again happening, when

he left me there in the forest with Nana and

the one who shot him, I caught a glimpse of a

deer with long branching horns looking at me,

blaming me for everything that has happened,

telling me that I shouldn’t let Xiumin love me,

but I can’t. I continued to go back to the

forest with my heart filled with the hopes of

seeing him again, but instead I saw the deer

looking at me, telling me that I can only be

with Xiumin if I died, and I accepted his

offer, I accepted this illness that is causing

me to suffer more.

“Minnie..I already am dying..” I said as my

eyes felt heavy. “Please end my suffering..I

want to be with you..”

Xiumin looked at me straight into my eyes and

I bet he saw everything, from the day that he

left, he clenched his fist as he saw

everything, he looked at me as if asking if I

would be ok after this and I gave him a soft

nod.

The minty scent once again filled the air

around me, as with a swift movement he

moved cutting out the breath in me, and even

before I fell in the depths of the darkness I

heard Nana and mom screaming.

Light, that is what I saw as I opened my

eyes, the coldness that wrapped around my

body suddenly became warm, everything

around me gave off a scent of mint.

“Hi..” A warm, sweet voice called my

attention, and he was there beside me smiling

at me as he held my hand.

But just outside the forest stood my mom,

carrying a bouquet of pink roses and tulips

she smiled and finally bade goodbye with the

words…

“Take care of ______-ah, Minnie..and love

her..”