Reason to Live [Michaeng]

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MINA

"She's so cute" Chaeyoung said squealing.

"She is. She bought you strawberry milk juice so she should be cute." Chaeyoung is telling me about the six-year old girl named Nari whom she met earlier when she roam around the hospital. It was really funny when she told me about how she met the kid.

She was looking or more like staring in a strawberry milk juice inside a vending machine since she don't have any money to buy one. The younger kid notice her and kindly bought it for her and then they became friends instantly. It was funny since it should be the other way around.

"I also met her pretty unnie." she suddenly said causing me to stop my thoughts and look at her.

"Pretty unnie?" I questioned.

"Yes, that was what Nari-chan calling her."

"Was she?" I asked.

"Was she what?"

"Pretty?"

She thought for a second before smiling replied "She is."

"You like her?!" I unknowingly raised my voice causing her to look at we wide eyes.

"You sounded jealous girlfriend Minatang." my mom intervened chuckling.

"I don't. I was just shocked." I instantly reason out.

"Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. Why don't both of you take a walk on the hospital garden outside?" my mom suggested.

"Yes. Yes. I want too." Chaeyoung excitedly jump like a kid.

"Let's go Mina-unnie." Chaeyoung hold my right wrist as she pulls me out of the room. "Bye Mom."

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As we go out the hospital building to the garden, my thought wonder aout this pretty unnie that Chaeyoung mentioned earlier. I don't know why I was quite bothered by her but I just do. Maybe because she is a stranger?

Is she really pretty?

"Unnie"

Do Chaeyoung like her?

"Mina-unnie" Chaeyoung wave her hand in front of my face as she calls me making me stop in my thoughts.

"Yes?"

"I've been calling you. You ignored me. We're here already. Let's sat there." She said as she point the long bench nearby with her lips. My eyes landed on her lips as it stays in kissy gesture. Her red and cute lips. A very plump lips.

I felt a hand on my left cheek making my gaze darts up in her eyes. Realizing on what did I just to my cheeks heat up making it rose colored.

"You okay, unnie? You've been deep thoughts. And now, you're getting pinkish." she worriedly utter as her hand in my left cheek goes up in my forehead. "You're temperature is fine though. Are you okay?" she asked again.

She is kind. Very kind.

I smile at her. I raise my right hand in my forehead where her hand is. I hold her hand down as I squeeze it before letting her go.

"I'm fine. It's just sun's reflection."

"Okay, unnie."

We sat down the bench and look around.

"I like the hospital." Chaeyoung said.

"You do?" I asked as she nods. "Me. I don't like here. Hospital reminds me that people dies. Our life has it ends." I said my eyes in the white building in front of us.

"It shouldn't be." she replied. My gaze revert at her seeing her look at the hospital with a smile.

"Hospital should remind us of life. This is where babies born. This is where people gained they're second life. Workers here tries their best to extend people's lives. People die, it's true. Though they want to live more but when life ends, it ends but it also means a new beginning for them in heaven. So us who are living should do our best to live the best out of the remaining days of our lives for them. We, the ones who remembers them will treasure their memories in our hearts until we met them again. Tell them the good things we had done while their gone. Tell them that we indeed live a life." she said with so much sincerity. My eyes are still in her admiring her outside and inside.

She, who looks like kid, sees the good side in everything. The good truth. The positive side.

"I know I lost my memories but that doesn't mean I lost my life and stops living in it. I lost my memories but then I gained much more important." she utter and turn her face to me looking directly in my eyes.

"You. Mom and dad. You are all very kind to me. I don't know what I have before but I'm sure what I have now and I don't want to lose you all." she said.

She place her hand on top of mine. "Let's live our life to the fullest. Even I don't recover my memories as long as I am happy living. That is all matters to me. Together, we will live." she said smiling.

I smile at her in return. My heart swells with so much emotion with her words. With her kinds words. Sincere words.

Living doesn't sound so bad after all. We just needs to see how to live. For me, someone showed me. Chaeyoung showed me.