TRICKS AND GAMES - Lee Taeyong

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9.00 AM. FEB 9th 2015.
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LEE TAEYONG

SO UNFORTUNATE. This is what the reality always want. The tears to fall from a person. The sound of a crack in someone's voice or a crack of someone's heart. It is keen for someone to feel down.

And the years I thought I will experience, I do not think I will ever live in those years to experience more than what I already have.

Those years are officially just imaginary. In those years, I could have figured out this world more.

But this world is just tricks and games aren't it? We just have to go through the challenges of life, the quests, and the pains and the feelings, just for us to go 'have fun'. Because in the end, you will only be thankful that it all happened, then you will leave anyway.

I thought that I will die in the years of my old age when my hair is grey and I have grandchildren.

But no.

"Mommy?" she has been hugging me for fifteen minutes and I do not want to let go.

"Yes honey?"

"I don't wanna go." my voice cracks.

"Please don't let go. I can't go anywhere if you hold me tight right? I don't wanna go..." tears starts to fall from my eyes as I let out all the words through my mouth.

"Tae..." everything is fading from my vision and my breathing is starting to slow down.

I exhale my last breath the same time I close my eyes.

09.30 AM. FEB 9th 2019.
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WÙ LÍCHÉNG

"OH SO NOW THAT YOU'RE HEALTHY, YOU CAN BE COCKY? LISTEN LICHENG, I PAID FOR ALL OF IT." Yifan sarcastically says. I just chuckle.

"Hey Yifan, I want to visit Taeyong." I look at him with a smile.

"Sure! You know where his room is?"

"Yes."

"Okay, stay safe."

"I will." I turn back around to go to his room.

Room 358... Room 359... Room 360... Bingo!

The bed is empty. There is a girl sitting on the chair beside the empty bed. She is a crying mess. I do not know why it is painful for me to see the pain the tears show.

"You're Licheng." she says as she looks at me in the eyes.

"Yes, I am."

"He left you a note." her voice cracks. She stands up and walks towards me. I receive the note reluctantly.

For Licheng, the patient from Room 332, my friend who accompany me in my cancer journey. Stay strong.

"He didn't die, right?" my head feels so heavy all of a sudden.

"I'm Lee Taeha, Taeyong's sister. The one who wanted to fall to death from a rooftop, but her brother was there to catch her and ever since, he made her feel worthy again, when she thought she doesn't even worth as much as a penny. He saved lots of people, like you and me, just by his kind heart. I witnessed his last words and last breath."