MiHyun One Shot Stories

Half a Heart

Dahyun was meandering at the seashore alone, occasionally burying her feet to feel the warmth the refined sand is giving her. She missed it, the salty and cold breeze of air, the sunlight hitting her pale skin, the way how her hair danced along with the waves of the ocean. She loves everything about the beaches, oceans, and the sea.

If she only has a choice where to live, she would probably choose a peaceful island rather than a polluted city. Her work forbids her to do so but another more dominant reason was her past forbids her.

There were a lot of people, locals, and foreigners, enjoying the beauty of the meeting of the sun and the ocean like her. She feels so happy to witness this sight again after a lot of years, the sight that she almost forgot she has witnessed before. The sight that brings floods of memories back in her mind. The sight that she enjoys watching so much before, not because it was more beautiful in the past years, but because she was watching it with someone she loved beside her.

It was Dahyun's first time again for about five years in coming back at places as such, especially the beach where she was right now. The beach that bears the memories of her past, of their past, that she does or doesn't want to remember at all.

Her heart swells again after remembering the years of being left alone, right exactly at that place, it sure had left a big impact on her that she can't even move forward for years. Especially that she was left without even receiving a word of explanation or even a single 'bye' from that someone. She just ran away, without turning her back once more, bringing half of her heart with her and leaving the half shattered in her.

She stopped at a particular spot to give a moment for herself to watch the beauty of the sunset. The orange light that reflects the sea is also reflecting in her eyes. She momentarily closed her eyes to feel the warm breeze of air, the cold water on her feet, and the calmness of the place.

"Mina!"

Dahyun shot her eyes open when she heard someone shouted the name she hasn't heard for long. She furrows her brow thinking that it was just her mind because she, herself, was thinking of her earlier. But when she heard it again for the second time, her heart raced again. Especially that when she turned her head on the side, she saw her.

The woman she didn't see in five years.

The woman who left her.

The woman she loved for so long.

The woman who brings half of her heart with her.

Myoui Mina.

"It's you!" The taller girl exclaimed, pointing happily at Dahyun with her eyes sparkling like a kid who was given an ice cream by her mom.

Dahyun was perplexed and confused, she just saw the girl after her many years of missing in action and how could she act like she never abandoned her? She also notices her thin body like she could fall even with just a whip of air, how her lips were paler than usual, how her eyes got deeper and have bags under, how the fluffy cheeks became into boney one. She furrows her brow at her state.

"W-what--"

"Mina! I told you to stop running, you are not fully healed yet." A girl with a frown and wrinkled forehead approached Mina.

"Nayeon, it's her! The one who keeps on appearing in my dream!" Mina said enthusiastically, about to give Dahyun a hug but the latter steps backward and avoids her.

Her dreams? Me? Why is she talking like she didn't know me? Dahyun mentally asked herself, so many questions were circulating in her mind.

"Oh? The one you keep on telling me before?" The girl with Mina asked, looking at Dahyun with a faint smile.