Futility [Completed]

Ten: "The Vile Boy"

"Life: We just live to make something new for the world"- Sharp

When Sharp left the town and head to Hence, he realized a big part of him died already. Sharp let go his own dream, sister, friends and his mom. He wonders if he will leave his own sadness and time will heals the pain inside of him. Sharp left without a word for Othello and Gray, he knows that they will find him in Hence place. When he came to the hospital he meet Hence sister, Doctor Ellie Gwyn
"I thought, Hence was in this hospital what happened to him?"
"He was discharged few months after showing sign of recovery from his insomnia, we'll talk about this later when I got home. Here is the address, I will catch up later." Ellie was a busy doctor in the psychiatric hospital.
"I hope you can talk to him, take care" Ellie bid her goodbye, she lead Sharp to their house nearby the hospital.

After his encounter with Ellie, Sharp went straight to the address. Before he presses the button, he let out a big sigh and decided to press the doorbell at the main gate of the house, in a few minutes an old woman welcome him.
"I am Hence friend, can I come in?"
"Oh, you are the one that Ms. Gwyn told me earlier about you coming here. Please come in, Hence is at the garden" after she said that to Sharp, he follows her and leads in the garden and finally he saw Hence sitting on a wheelchair. Sharp look at the lady beside him with his questionable look.
"He hurt himself last week" she said and left me with him. As I approach Hence, I saw him holding a teddy bear.
"Hence?" he looks at me and shows his heart-shaped smile.
"It's a nice weather to see you again, Sharp" he said, I smile back at him and hug him
"What happened to you?" I said to him as I slowly kneel down to level my eyes to him.
"I just fell down on the stair, let's stop talking about me. How's school?"
"School? What do you mean?"
"You better study hard Sharp or else you will not going to beat Min in your bet" The one he was talking about was almost 10 years ago.
"You know what my sister save me today. She will be a good doctor someday and dad will never scold me again" What is happening? I decided to stay until the night and wait for his sister, Ellie. I try to understand and act like I was part of Hence imagination, while in reality, it happened a few years ago. When Ellie came home, she invited me to have dinner. It was silent and too innocent as Hence trying to say some familiar scene and after we eat he was sent to his room.
"So tell me what is happening to him?" I talk to Ellie, we are now having hot tea in their living room.
"Hence has an amnesia, the only thing he remembers was before my dad died and the remaining memories were still buried and blur for him. Somehow it causes too much trauma from his childhood, Sharp. Too much emotion was building and plus having insomnia helps him to trigger more"
"When it starts and why he is sitting on a wheelchair?"
"It was the cause of trauma and too much side effects of different kinds of medicine that he takes. The wheelchair thing, do you remember when he was entering a college exam for a medical university, he tries to hurt himself and fell down on the stairs. He acts it last week and Hence complaining that his legs were injured and he needs to have a wheelchair and when we examine it none of his complains are true. As a doctor I try to figure out what was the cause of all this, Hence suffered too much from his past with my dad's attitude towards him" I can't find any words to say. I was speechless on everything that Ellie said to me.
"The only thing we need to do right now is to accept the truth here, Sharp. Medication for him helps, but Hence needed the most was the presence of his friends" I try to cut Ellie's words,
"And I am sorry to say this, but I think I am the only one who can provide his needs when it comes to his friends, Ellie" she nods and decided not to ask further.

Since that day, Ellie decided to keep Sharp beside Hence. She understands that her brother needs the presence of Sharp. After a few months, life for Hence becoming easy as someone can understand him.

One night Hence was sitting in the veranda of his room and silently admiring the stars and the moon. When Sharp came with his medicines, Hence suddenly ask Sharp.
"How can I become a star, Sharp?" When he head Hence, he suddenly remember Karu. Sharp sat bedside Hence and also look up in the dark sky with moon and stars.
"I really don't know Hence, but there is one thing that can assure you. I heard this from the very important person in my life" I look at Hence and he really curious about what I am going to say.
"To be a star is complicated, but you can be a star by your own means"
"I don't understand"
"That person told me to become a star is to achieve your dream and continue to dream more. But for me to become a star, you need to accept the reality. The reality of your life, accept who you are, love your flaws, enhance your strength and make your weakness become your own stairs to reach what you want no matter how small or big it is" After that I look at Hence and he continues to look up the stars, I don't know if he will understand the meaning behind it.