My hand shook as I held the pen. The pen that would end Yeri's life.
After that accident, she was rushed to the hospital. When she got there, I was separated from her and was asked to wait in the seating area in front of the surgery room.
All I wanted was to take back everything I said and did: the words I said to her when we broke up, the shitty things I did to get over her, not protecting her from lisa.
But I just had to not be careful and find Yeri who pushed me out of the way.
<flashback>
"Yeri, wait!"
I shouted as she ran after I nearly touched her for the first time in three months. I just wanted to hold her in my arms but I just let every chance slip by.
As I crossed the road, I saw Yeri looking at me, scared. I looked to my left to see a car hurtling towards me and closed my eyes out of fear, waiting for the car to hit me.
I felt something small push my chest into the other side of the road, and heard a thud.
I open my eyes to see my hand was badly scraped.
I sit up to find Yeri lying on the road, her blood pouring out of her arm and head. Her brown eyes fluttered open and I ran to her as fast as I could.
I scooped her into my arms as I sobbed.
"I love you, I love you, I'm so sorry for hurting you."
I chanted this like a mantra, hoping that it would somehow make sure that Yeri would be okay.
Her eyes looked at me, and I saw so many things go through them.
Sadness. Hope. Pain. Love.
Then she closed her eyes.
"Yeri! No, wake up! Please!"
<end of flashback>
She's on life support in a comatose state. The pen I held was the one that would mark the paper that would take her off of life support.
In simpler terms, she will die.
My tears started to drop down on the paper, staining the fresh printer ink as I signed my name on the paper.
"Yeri, please forgive me."
The doctor takes the form and gives me a solemn nod, signaling for me to go spend Yeri's last moments with her.
I run to her room and open the door.
The familiar sight of her in a hospital bed, the sounds of various machines beeping would soon be gone.
I dragged up a chair and sat next to her, holding her cold hand. My heart was slowly breaking as I tried to take in her features.
"Yeri-ah," I whispered.
"Do you remember when we were dating how we watched a medical drama? I remember how you cried when the doctors had to take off the life support for a sick 7-year old girl on the show. You cried, then asked me to do this:"
<flashback to a year ago>
Yeri was crying hysterically after watching the doctors take off the breathing mask from the child.
Jungkook was trying to console her, but he was also tearing up.
After crying sometime, Yeri looked up at him with swollen red eyes and asked,
"Jungkook, if this type of thing were to happen to me, take me off of life support after two months, okay?"
Jungkook looked at her in shock and scolded her for thinking such a thing. He promised her that he would do it, IF it happened. Then he tickled her until she cried from laughter.
<end of flashback>
"I guess I'm actually going to go through with that promise." Jungkook laughed bitterly at what he had to do.
"Just know that I love you."
He gently kissed her forehead and made way for the doctors to take her off the machine.
He couldn't hold himself together, and began to let his tears fall.
The doctors moved to remove the mask, until a nurse shouted.
"STOP! Look at the patient's hand!"
Jungkook whipped his head to find Yeri's hand moving its fingers slowly. Then he saw the most joyous sight:
She opened her eyes.
Yeri spotted Jungkook, with his puffy, watery eyes and smiled softly.
She whispered, "Thanks for keeping our promise. Remember that I love you, and find someone else that loves you as much as I did..."
Her heart rate on the machine began to rise rapidly, alarming everyone in the room. Jungkook was now hysterical, his heartbroken cries echoing throughout the room, as he shouted for her to wake up again. The doctors and nurses quickly ran around the bed, trying to slow down her heartbeat back to normal. But they knew it was futile.
The machine beeps slowed down until there was one continuous beep.
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