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Sitting there with tears rolling down his cheeks for the two hundred and sixty second day made him feel pathetic. Weak. Angry in way.
Angry that he was going out of his way to visit Sooho every day that he could and the bastard couldn’t even flinch a muscle? Twitch his eyelid? Hum a small groan? Nothing at all.
The boy in front of him really was just a corpse at this point, a painful memory to remember.
Any other person would give up and let Sooho go, let him pass on, be happy and free. But Sieun didn’t want to. He wasn’t going to give up on Sooho, not now and not ever.
”You don’t want me here?” Sieun heard himself mutter into the silence of the hospital room, “You’re supposed to greet your friends, asshole.”
The sunset lighting creeped through the blinds on the window. Usually the visitor would be told to leave due to visiting hours being over, but Sieun had become good acquaintances with some of the nurses and other staff. They gave him special treatment.
Probably because they felt bad.
”How can I keep doing this?” Sieun asked Sooho, sniffing before wiping his nose with his jacket sleeve, “How am I supposed to go on without you?”
Of course Sooho couldn’t respond, he was comatose. He was dead to world as of right now.
”Friends are supposed to meet halfway, Sooho.” Sieun said, his voice wavering as a tear slipped from his eyes, more following after and he couldn’t stop them.
After a few minutes of Sieun’s cries and sniffles, his voice filled the air again. “I miss you. I wish you were here. Your Grandma worries about you so much, I can tell. She won’t tell me she’s stressed, but I know she is. I know you’d scold us both if you could, not to worry over you. You just don’t understand it. You’re my first friend. You’re.. my only friend now. You can’t leave me, Sooho. I’ll follow you wherever you go. So don’t die, because I’ll follow you there too.”
Sooho’s body sat motionless on the hospital bed, the only noise coming from him was the sounding of his soft breathing that was almost completely drowned out my the gentle beeping of his heart monitor.