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･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. TWELVE ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ.
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Jaehyun re-enters the room with puffy eyes. "Sorry." He mutters, eyes cast downwards. His phone buzzes and he fishes it out of his pocket. "Taeyong and Jungwoo need to be picked up from Han River bridge."
"Do you want to drive?" I ask, Jaehyun jingling his keys before exiting the apartment. I follow him to his car, getting in the passenger side. He doesn't speak. His eyes holding a strange emotion - guilt?
In the years that I had known Jaehyun, he's never acted like this. He usually speaks his mind, always open about what he's going through. I've never witnessed Jaehyun act so silent before, and it's very worrying.
The bridge slowly approaches. Two boys standing side by side, looking over the rail into the blackness of the cold water below. "What is Taeyong doing?" Jaehyun asks, panicked by Taeyong leaning dangerously over the safety rail. The car comes to a sudden halt, Jaehyun almost throwing himself out of the car.
"Jaehyun, calm down. Taeyong's not going to jump." I grip his arm to stop him from walking into the traffic but he pushes my hand away.
"I can't lose the one thing that's important to me." His eyes look menacing. Before I can blink, he's running towards Taeyong. A car screeches, almost hitting Jaehyun. With quick reflexes, I pull him backwards, making both of us fall.
"Jaehyun!" Taeyong shouts, locking eyes with the said boy through flashes of moving cars.
"You saved me..." Jaehyun trails off, looking fearful. I sigh, standing him up.
"Are you okay?" Jaehyun nods at my question, eyes lowering apologetically.
"Jaehyun, help!" Jungwoo's soft voice shouts over the sound of rushing cars.
Taeyong had collapsed. Jungwoo, clutches onto his arm, desperately trying to hold him up. Jaehyun, without thinking runs across the road, cars honking at his careless decision. I quickly but safely make my way over to Taeyong who seems to be disintegrating.
Flecks of burning orange flake from Taeyong's body, as he slowly begins to disappear. Jaehyun kneels in front of him, hands pressed against his cheeks. "Please don't leave me." Taeyong laughs, taking Jaehyun's hands in his own.
"You know I could never promise that." Embers fall from Taeyong's body until he no longer remains. The wind picks up, blowing away the ash and the smoke into the frost-bitten air.
Taeyong's cold words were left imprinted in Jungwoo's mind;
nothing lasts forever.
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