~ Together by a String ~ (Jiyoo)

~19~

She was shaking my body and shouting my name with audible pain in her voice. She tried kissing me to feel my lips hopefully twitch, giving me CPR to start breathing again, feeling my pulse while slightly slapping my face to wake me up, but I wasn't responding to anything. She pinned our foreheads together and screamed loudly, alerting the cops and paramedics that immediately rushed to us. I watched her call out my name while audibly screaming and hugging my lifeless body, rocking back and forth and shouting at the top of her lungs while her voice was cracking because of sadness and agony.. My Minji was devastated..

"Did.. I die?"

I tried to open the small locket with my hands and escape the darkness but it got smaller snd smaller, until it completely closed. The light traveled around me and stopped a few meters away from me. The closer I got to it, the further it went.

"N-No, Minji needs me, I can't die now..."

I didn't stop running and followed the light in hope of reaching it. I saw another one appear next to it and in there, I was lying on what seemed to be a bed and many lights hovering over me. I saw a few doctors around me and all of them trying to wake me up.

"Minji.. Where is she?"

I saw the light fading away from me completely and I was back in the same spot as before. Nothing but darkness. I dropped to my knees and cried out.. I wasn't seeing anything and that scared me a lot.

"Please... Let me be with Jiu.."

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I then heard my name being called. That voice... It was my mother's voice. I got up from the ground and followed the sound with full speed.

I was tired. I was in pain. I was alone. I was hurt. But no matter what, I didn't stop. I followed the voice until I finally reached a door.. The door to my old room. I hesitantly opened it and got sent to what seemed to be the past.

"Isn't that me?"

I looked at a young version of myself, playing with Yoojung and laughing. I looked so happy there. I then turned my head and I saw another memory. Here I was having my first guitar classes with my mother and my dad and brother just watching us. I smiled at the cute memory but then it all became dark.

I turned around and I was in school. I saw my old homeroom teacher run to me and inform me about something... about my parents' car crash.

I was then in the hospital, watching the doctors try their best to save them. I looked at young me and young Yoojung and I saw how sad we were.. I remembered the pain we felt, the tears we shed, the people we hid ourselves from - I remembered it all.

I tried to hug younger me but then.. she turned into Minji from 4 years ago.. from that awful night.

She was all bruised up, blood covering her whole body and that horrified look she had.. I can't look at her in that state.. my poor Minji, she was so sad and hurt.

"Yoohyeon, wake up."

"Huh?"

"Wake up. I need you next to me."

"But, you're here?"

"Wake up, this isn't real. Come back to me - to the real Minji."