...in which fairy tales do not have a happy end

Myungsoo/Sungjong

1455 words

dedicated to naznew

Miracles happen and wishes do come true, he was told once.   However, when he was told he would never be able to laugh with his friends, sing, or simply talk again, because, as the doctors so eloquently put it, his voice was gone despite all the attempts there had been to save it, he so desperately wanted to laugh at the irony, because his wish, his dream was gone within a second. Mute actors rarely existed, after all.   He couldn't laugh. Dry wheezing is all that would come out of it if he tried.   What an irony, truly. It was a week later that his parents told him they were moving.   14:03, June 17 2014 From Sunggyu: You haven't told us that you're moving away! Is it true? I mean, we could at least say bye to each other, no? If Sungjong hadn't told me and the rest, we wouldn't have even known, would we? Honestly, we were all kind of stunned when he told us. I tried to get the reason why you're moving out of him later, since you wouldn't pick up your damn phone, but he kept saying he didn't know. The kid was behaving weirdly, so I guess he does know, after all. Suppose you don't want to talk about it, but suddenly leaving without any intention to say goodbye is, I don't know, overdone? What happened?   15:26, June 17 2014 From Dongwoo: Hey~ What's going on, handsome? We heard from Sungjong you're leaving... It's that serious, huh? I won't dig around to find out why, don't worry, just don't disappear completely, okay, or I will find you and murder you. Keep in touch! Plus, you need to hug me for the last time before you go. Your hugs are the best ^-^ Love you.   He stared at his phone, tears on the edge, thinking of what to reply to the two of his friends. They were hurt, of course they were, he had sent Sungjong to tell them instead of doing it himself. Like a coward. How could've he told them without the ability of saying a stupid greeting, though?   He could clearly imagine Sunggyu frowning at his phone while typing the message, carefully picking every word. He could clearly imagine Dongwoo bawling his eyes out and constantly re-typing the words because of the tears.   "If Sungjong hadn't told us..." "We heard from Sungjong..."   Sungjong. If not for Sungjong, they wouldn't have even known because, being the coward he was, he wouldn't be able to tell them himself. He would get pity from them if he told them, because they knew what he wanted. Pity was not something he wanted or needed. Then a new message flicked on his screen.   15:58, June 17 2014 From Sungjong: Woohyun and Sungyeol cried earlier. I'm sure Dongwoo did, too. Are you still sure about this?   He had to supress the urge to throw the phone across the room. Tears fell over. He wanted to scream; surely you can see the irony in that. He was completely sure what he did and did not want; of course he wanted to stay, how could he even be sure about deciding to leave when he wasn't the one to make that decision in the first place?   No, he wasn't sure. He wasn't sure about anything anymore.   He didn't reply to the message