'I see myself from the other side
Lying still throughout the night
There isn't far that I can go
Before I forget my way back home
I'm only coming through in waves
And I'm too far gone now to save
I feel myself drifting away
I was never meant to stay...
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There she stood watching in silence as her boyfriend broke down in front of her still body. His sobs wracked his body, and he fell to the ground beside her, he was frightened to even touch her in case she would deteriorate before his eyes.
She watched as he clutched his hair in his hands and screamed to the heavens. There was nothing she could do. Every time she tried to touch him, to hug him, to comfort him, a force of some kind wouldn't allow her to. Frustration bubbled under the surface and she too wanted to scream.
It was all her fault. She had been the one to insist on going for a ride. She was the one who wanted to get on the back of his motorbike and ride off somewhere, to forget the world for a moment and just be with him.
It was her fault.
And now she was paying for the price of it all. She was the one lying on the cold tarmac of the road, bloody and broken. And now she had to watch her boyfriend who was in agony, and she couldn't help him.
It was selfish of her to think of these things. It wasn't just her affected by this, but him as well. He was still alive and breathing, while she was just barely that.
How were they to know that a driver would brake too late and ram into them? Or that the motorbike would skid and fall?
It had come to a stop in the middle of the road and Jungkook was left with nothing but a few scrapes and bruises. And there was Sunhee bleeding out and close to dying.
She couldn't take this anymore!
Before she could try to reach out to him again, the ambulance finally arrived.
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Later in the hospital, Jungkook sat next to her bed and held her hand in his own.
"Sunhee, please come back to me." He sobbed. "This is too cruel. You're so young, how could you just die like this? You're strong and you have plenty to look forward to. We're planning on spending our lives together, aren't we? We had so many plans. So I'll wait, I'll wait as long as it takes. So please come back to me."
"I'm right here!" The girl's heart hurt as she could only look on at all of this. It was scary seeing yourself lying in a hospital bed, hooked up to countless machines - including one that helped you to breathe.
"What was that?" Jungkook jumped up, clearly startled, and looked frantically about the room. "Sunhee?"
"Kookie, you can hear me?" She took a step back in fright when she saw him look in her direction, like he could actually see her.
"That's impossible, no way." Jungkook shook his head and collapsed in the folding chair. "I'm just hearing things."
"But I'm right here!" She pounded on the barrier separating her from Jungkook and begged him to listen to her.
Despite all of her efforts, he believed that it was nothing more than his imagination. That what he was hearing was just his way of trying to cope with what was happening. He wanted to keep a firm grasp on reality, even when he felt like his mind wanted to slip somewhere else, to wherever Sunhee was right now.
She continued to pound on the barrier and then her astral body failed her. She felt herself slipping into a deep sleep.
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