Perpetual Rain ✓

Letter

When I met you I'd already lost my entire world. How can you hang on to something so incomprehensible? How could you want to live in a world that would one day forget you? How can you pour love into an abyss? But then there you were. There was something in those brown eyes that was so beautiful, so safe and warm.

In just one look I was "home." I made a connection, and like God himself had arranged it, you fell for me. That first day we talked, just the two of us, I still recall the conversation, the feeling you gave. You didn't know it for sure, but that day you saved me. You were right, I was so lost...

We became inseparable, and though not together you never left me to suffer alone, not really. You remained just a call of your name away. Before I knew it, I had fallen for you, so deeply and incomparably in love with you.

But don't years take a toll on love? Perhaps our story wasn't quite right in its time. A modern life we all want to strive for, for some the drive so strong it could destroy us. The yearning for a career, a love story, a family, and children of your own. I know you yearn for it, and though not needed now, I know what day it could destroy you. It could destroy us.

As much as I am in love with you today as the day I said it, perhaps this just wasn't our time. But, perhaps we'd get our time. We'll find each other again and relish in what we have, what we had, and what we could have... in life.

I can't marry you. I can't bare your children. I can't build a home with you. I can't grow up and grow old with you. But, what I can do is give you the best possible chance to have that one day. I can only hope, that one day, I can be the one to give you everything you deserve.

This is how I will show you my love, I will sacrifice everything to give you what you need, and I know you'd do the same thing for me.

Thank you for giving me a love I have never experienced. A debt I can only hope to repay with this. Taehyung, I love you.

Until we meet again, goodbye...

He folded up the letter gingerly, careful not to wrinkle it or damage it in any way. Tucking it back into its pressed while envelope he brought it to his chest. He pressed it against his heart and held it there tightly, shielding it from the downpour of rain as he hugged it to his chest in the place of her. Jimin couldn't say a single thing that would comfort him.

Inwardly, Jimin felt guilty. He felt as though a gift he didn't deserve was granted to him. Sure, he had his own hardships in his life that would cause anyone to want to give him a second chance but, why Y/N? Why did she choose him to go with Taehyung into the next life and not herself? Was she incapable of choosing herself? Did death put that restraint on her?

Rubbing at Taehyung's shoulders Jimin looked over at the man he had briefly come to know as Death, or rather Yoongi, whichever name it didn't change what he was. A man clad in all black, the only color upon him was his pale complexion that was nearly almost white.

"What happens now?" Jimin decided to ask in Taehyung's place. His best friend was in no condition for conversation. Moving around Taehyung, Jimin approached Yoongi. "How does this work?"

Yoongi pulled one of his hands from behind him and waved to the open air beside the group, gesturing toward the wooden bridge. With a swipe of his hand, he revealed a pinhole of light that grew from thin air just at the center of the old wooden bridge. There was nothing from within it, only a blinding pure white light, it was barely the size of an apple. Yoongi let his gaze cast back toward the boys. His face was as deadpan as ever.