TAE YEON’S STORY

HE’S GONE (PART II)

Don’t wait until it’s too late to tell someone,

How much you love,

How much you care.

Because when they’re gone,

No matter how loud you shout and cry,

They won’t hear you anymore.

The sound of the door being slammed closed echoed. And the black Jaguar sped its way to Seoul International Airport. I threw my gaze outside the window. My wet eyes looked heavenward, seeing the black sky and the glittering rain ready to pour. Oh, the agony I was in, wanting to rewind back the clock, wanting to at least meet him for one last time, wanting to tell him that I love him, wanting to tell him that I truly care about him. I guessed it’s no use no matter how loud I shout and cry. It’s too late now. He’s gone. He can’t hear me anymore.

Kwon Ji Yong… GD…Ji….

I closed my eyes tightly, trying to imagine him smiling, trying to remember how he teased me, but what popped up inside my imagination was a gory vision of death. He was bleeding, he was dying, he was drawing his last breath and I wasn’t even there beside him. I guessed there was no relieve for the excruciating pain that I felt inside my heart and the miserable rain poured down heavily outside as if the ocean itself is the sky, as if the raindrops were actually my own tears.

Kwon Ji Yong… GD… Ji…

Is this even a reality? Am I really losing you to death? Ji… knowing how you were such a big part of my life and now you’re just gone really killed me… Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. I don’t want the memory if you are not here with me, Ji…

I guess we can’t see each other for one last time then.

Kwon Ji Yong…. GD… Ji….

I’m stupid! Gosh! I really am! I should have gone to see you off today. I’m sorry Ji… I