One Wish

CHAPTER 34

  "Who is this?" "Well, put your hands on your head, turn around and find out," said that mystery man. Saeyoung did as he was asked and looked. It was a thin man with white hair and bright blue eyes. He had flashy clothes, a big tattoo on his right arm and a mask to cover his face. "Well? Do you happen to recognise me?" He had never seen somebody with that bright blue eyes as him before, but the voice sounded sort of familiar.

"You don't? Tsk, what an airhead," and he removed his mask. After he had revealed his face, Saeyoung's eyes went wide. "S-Saeran? Is that you? It is you right? What happened to your hair and eyes-" "And that's the first thing you say to me? You're curious about what I look like?" "I just- Oh god, you have no idea how happy I am. Finally. I have looked for you for the last 6 years. I can't believe you're actually standing in front of me. We can finally be together like-"

"I didn't call you here to be with you again. I came here to kill you." "W-what? Kill me? Why?" "Tsk. You know exactly why. You have no idea how hard my life has been because of you." "Me?" "You left me in the forest that night. You didn't come back to look for me." "What happened to you then?" "The father's men didn't kidnap me. When they retreated and left, I got up and wandered around the woods, until I was invited to paradise. The people there gave me shelter, they gave me food, they gave me everything I needed only on one condition - I had to work for them. It wasn't easy, because with every error I made I got punished. It first happened a lot, because I was such an airhead and couldn't say no to anything. But now I've gotten much stronger than before. I can't believe I was so lucky and didn't go with your plan."

While Saeran had been ranting, Saeyoung had analyzed the situation. After he had left his brother he had wandered to some sort of group, where he had been tortured. That would be the explanation for the hair. But why were his eyes blue? "Saeran-" Saeyoung wanted to say, but he was interrupted.

"One day though, when I was in pain after taking the meds, I thought where could you be? I searched around and it wasn't easy to find you, I'll give you that. Eventually I did find you and then I thought back to my days in paradise. I thought back to the moments when I noticed my hair had suddenly turned white and when I noticed how my eyes were turning blue. All of those things happened because you left me behind. You were having such a fun time though, helping Rika with parties, having fun with friends and so on."

He then walked towards Saeyoung until the gun was against his head. "You were too happy compared to me. After all the things you have done you don't deserve happiness," he then came close to others ear and whispered, "the only thing you do deserve is death." At that moment, somebody yelled outside, "Luciel! Luciel, where are you!?" Saeran looked behind to see who it was, so Saeyoung used the chance to tackle Saeran to the ground and push the gun away from him.

It was Rika, who had yelled outside. She had seen the email when she was looking for Saeyoung. When she saw what was happening inside, without saying anything, she took the phone and called V. Once V came they all escorded Saeran to the car and brought him home. Once they all got home and let Saeran finally free, he immediately attacked Saeyoung with everything he had.

We all watched him - the nice and kind Saeran had turned into an aggressive monster who's life's purpose was to destroy all that Saeyoung cared about. They didn't want to put Saeran into the mental hospital, because they didn't want to lose him just after getting him back. So instead, they started to heal Saeran themselves. Saeyoung temporarily left the school to support his brother and Rika took some time off from work. She is good with words, so she talked to him all the time, convincing Saeran to join their side.

Sadly Saeran was a tough cookie - he didn't listen to them and would keep tormenting Saeyoung, until he... he... well, got depressed again. He had gotten his brother back, but with what cost? The more he tried to talk with him, the more it got worse, until he refused to exit his room. Ironically Saeran then started to calm down. At some point he was calm enough to talk things through with Saeyoung and restore their friendship. After about 6 months both of the brothers were healthy enough to go to school."

Seven looks up at me. "Was that it?" I ask, "I'm so sorry, Seven... You really have been through a lot. Your brother tried to kill you, then you got tormented by him and you've done some bad stuff." "You see now what I mean. I've done horrible things in my life. Saeran is right, I really don't deserve anything after ruining somebody's life like that. I'm so sorry for him that he's eyes changed color. Before we went to the doctor he prayed to someday get them back, but they will never change color again."

Seven then looked down. I can see that it was to hide his tears. I then go up to him and hug him. It's very uncomfortable, but right now he needs to hug somebody. We hugged for a while, so my back started to hurt a lot. "Hey, Seven?" "Y-yeah?" "Umm... Can you sit against my bed frame there?" "Uhh, sure...," he says confused and sits there. For some reason I blush and go on his lap, facing him and hug him again. Since I'm taller than him like this, I'm basically hugging his neck but it feels much better like this.

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