Artificial

Prologue

Why...?

What is this feeling?

I am slowly falling down, my face is almost at the rough concrete ground, damn this will hurt.

“Renea!” I heard him scream but it was slurred. Probably it’s because of the loud echo of the gunshot earlier.

I tried to turn my head towards his direction but when I did, the world just became a blurred picture.

Where are you?

I raised my hand to reach for him, even though I’m not sure if the rippled gray figure was him or not.

I waited for my body to hit the hard ground but it never came. Instead, a pair of arms wrapped around me and pulled me in. “Is it-“ I started but was cut off.

“Sshh… don’t talk… It’s going to be fine…” he assured me.

I would’ve hit him for cutting me off, if only my head would stop throbbing. Even though it was safely cradled in the hollow of his neck, it hurts so much I wanted to curse the whole planet.

The noise of metals scraping with each other and angry shouts wasn’t helping either.

I felt warm liquid on my face so I lifted my hand to his face. “Why… cry…?”

I hated how weak I sound. Why can’t I speak properly?

His body was my only source of warmth; his sobs and angry muttering make me want to scold him so much, not that I did much of that before.

I chuckled at how cold it is. For some reason, I felt my eyelids grow heavier, my consciousness slowly slipping out of my body.

Ah, I get it now… I thought as I realized what will happen next.

But instead of fear, I felt relief like; Finally… a vacation…

I don’t know what I was doing… but my lips involuntarily curled up.

Am I smiling…?

The blurred world faded and perhaps, for the last time…

The time from when I met him played around me like a movie.

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Special Thanks to cutielilprincess who motivated me in continuing this...