"Who the hell is he? Huh, Gulf! Tell me!!" Mew interrogated, grabbing Gulf by the arm and shaking him furiously. He didn't care if they were making a ruckus in public.
Anger clouded his judgement and he didn't have the patience to wait until they got home to settle the scores.
Home.
Something that was once their place to seek comfort, love and peace but now - it has turned into a constant battlefield, resentment and cold wars.
Their relationship was hanging by a thread and even though living like this made them grow weary, none of them had the heart to say those three words.
"How many damn times do I have to tell you that he's just a nobody?! Your jealousy is killing me!!" Gulf raised his voice and retorted.
It was like watching the most heart-wrenching movie on mute. Tears streamed down their angry faces as they defended themselves without truly listening.
"You know what, forget it. You're always like that."
If Mew had known this would happen, he wouldn't have picked a fight with Gulf over nothing.
If Mew had known this would happen, he would have listened to his tua-eng, his sunflower, the love of his life, his oxygen.
But it was all too late.
Everything happened so soon.
It was too fast.
He had no idea what he was doing or where he was going. All he knew was that he wanted to leave Gulf as fast as he could.
Mindlessly setting a foot upon the asphalt road, bright lights shining from the incoming vehicles nearly blinded Mew.
The loud honk and the loud screeching from the brakes rang in his ears loudly, enough to cause sudden loss of hearing.
The next thing Mew knew was that he was on the hard ground. It took him several seconds to finally register what had happened.
And when he struggled to turn his head to the side, the last thing he saw was the love of his life lying in a pool of blood.
"Gulf..." Mew mumbled as he stirred in his sleep, alerting his parents and Jom who had been by his side since the accident 10 months ago.
"Mama, Gor is awake!!" Jom sprung from his seat when she confirmed that her older brother had woken up.
"Luk..." His parents hovered over him with teary eyes.
Knowing how much their parents had missed their son, Jom excused herself to give them privacy and went to look for the doctor instead.
"What happened, Papa... Mama? My head hurts terribly... Why am I here? Where's Gulf?" A series of questions left Mew's tongue.
It was as if his body had been waiting for so long to finally verbalise the questions.
Mama J and Papa J looked at each other with uncertainty. They didn't know what to say even when they had rehearsed so many times while waiting for Mew to wake up.
