Seventeen imagines

#64 "Rebound"

#svtshortimagines #Joshua (#64)

I am inside a shell, shell of hallowness. A hallowness holding in a thousand oceans tears. Or it holds a thousand pieces of glass that are wedged in between my soul and body.  That is my pain.

I hugged my knees, looking at the blank page of my life.

He approached me and hugged me behind. However, the coldness inside my body conquered my whole existence.

"Don't cry anymore. Everything's gonna be fine," he whispered in my ear, a sounds echoing deep within.

Tears fell down, like a dew in the morning, bit by bit turned into a thunderstorm.

I stood up although my knees are giving up. I lifted my head even though it is heavy as wrecked ship. I stepped back even tho I want to stop moving forward.

"Are you okay?" Joshua asked.

My feet locked as well as my stare. From a blank page of my life to his black hole eyes.

"Of course I am! I am so strong ha ha ha ha!" I forged a laugh and smiled.

Joshua sighed and shook his head. "Idiot."

I looked away and turned around, still catching my breath from preventing a sorrow tears from falling down again.

I need to be okay. I want to be okay. Yes, I need to.

"How can you be okay if he cheated on you?! STUPID! IDIOT!"  He shouted.

My hands start to tremble, my lips are shaking and my throat hurts so bad.

"He cheated on you. That jerk cheated! Yet you are okay?! Ridiculous!"

"Joshua. Stop. Please. Stop it," I sobbed and couldn't hold back my tears.

Joshua approached me and holds my shoulder. "Stop loving him. I begged you. Stop looking at any other guy."

I closed my eyes and sobs hard. "I am not okay. I am not okay. I said I was, but I couldn't. What will I do Josh? What will I do?!"

"Love me!" He shouted.

My eyes widen and my world stopped revolving.

Joshua, my closest friend said something I couldn't imagine.

"W-What?" I asked.

He cupped my cheeks and looked me in the eye. "Just love me instead. Choose me. Hold me. Kiss me. Sleep with me. Be with me. Smile for me." And he started to cry.

"J-Joshua d-don't be ridiculous. I know you take pity on me but---"

"I love you."

"Huh?"

"I am in love with you."

And just as he said it I saw a man standing from afar. The man who cheated on me. The one who brought me inside the shell of hallowness. And the guy I used to love so bad.

And so... A fool like me said something a bitch will do.

"I love you Josh. Kiss me," I said while looking at that man watching us.

Joshua leaned closer and whispered to my ear, "You said that because someone is watching us behind right?"

My eyes widen and my mouth opened. He knows it. Joshua knew someone is watching us and it is that man.

"I don't care," Joshua mumbled. "Even it is hurt, even I am just a rebound. I will still do it,"

And then he kissed me.

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