The pain from Jessica’s throat was stopping her from breathing; one of the main factors for staying alive. It felt like ice shards were

attacking her veins, and the worst thing was that the icy pain was spreading. Slowly, it reached other places in her body. Soon she

wasn’t able to hear sounds around her. Taeyeon’s screams were fading, as if Jessica was under water. Her vision was failing her, 

 everything turned so bright and nothing was visible.

~

The pain was gone. She was gone. Taeyeon watched as Jessica’s body slowly starting to fester away from her reach.

“No…please don't. NO!”

Taeyeon was crying into thin air. The traveling soul of Jessica was gone.

~

~

“Hey, wake up!”

One of her eyes popped open, followed by the other one. She was in a dark room like place. Dim lights surrounding her and she soon realized where she was.

“Finally, you’re up. You know you’re one heavy sleeper.”

The man with fox like ears escaping out of the crown of his blue hair was in front of her again. They were in the same room where TOP introduced himself for the first time.

“T...TOP? W…what am I doing here?”

TOP gave her a pitiful smile.

“I’m sorry sweetie. But it looks like you’re time is up.”

TOP used his left hand to grab air around him and formed a small white ball in his palms. In the ball, Jessica saw clearly of how her body was resting

on a hospital bed but in a different room than her normal one. Her closest friends and family were waiting and observing through a glass window.

Doctors and nurses were running around her room with medical machines and medicine trying to save her.

“Look at the cardiac monitor.”

“The what?”

Instead of explaining, TOP pointed at the little machine with a screen next to her bed. It was the machine that read her heart rate. It was unstable, increasing by little and decreasing by lots.

                                                                    32~48~42~28~19~17…

“NO! This can't be happening!”

She turned to face TOP and tried to grab him by the collar of his dark purple suit. This time she succeeded unlike how she failed last time.

“You said I have 62 ing days! You liar!”

Jessica was furious and looked like she was about to kill someone. But as always TOP kept his clam state and looked sorry.

“I’m sorry. But it looks like your body is too weak, it doesn't look like you’re going to survive your 12 hours. I really tried my best Jessica.”

Jessica’s hateful gaze softened. Her trembling hands released TOP’s shirt. She took a few steps back and looked lost.

“No…I'm too young to die. There are so many things I haven’t done and so many people I’ll leave behind.”

She clenched her hair trying to stop the tears from coming out.

“…Taeyeon. What about her?!”

“I can erase her memories of you for the past few days if you want. That’s the all I can do for you right now. I'm sorry.”

Jessica chuckled bitterly and not once did her eyes leave the floor.

“It’s alright, it’s not your fault. I guess all I can do is blame myself for being too weak.”

In the small white ball, the scene at the hospital continued. The people outside the window were staring in horror at the thought that

they might witness Jessica die. It pained Jessica to see some of the most precious people to her crying over her.

Her mom was sobbing next her dad that tried to look tough but really couldn’t. Yoona and Yuri were wiping their tears every other

second. Seohyun still had her hand over as she shut her eyes tight trying not to see what’s going on in the room. Tiffany

was calling someone and reported Jessica’s current stage to her. Jaejoong, Changmin and Hara were biting their finger nails looking

like lost children on their first day of school.

                                                                          17~20~16~10~4…..0

The beeping went dead, and so was Jessica. Seeing what happened, Mrs. Jung sobbed even deeper. Everyone else watched in horror

as Jessica’s chest stopped moving. The nurses and doctors stopped running around. This was it.

Jessica could feel her heart stop, literally. It looked like the person on the phone with Tiffany wasn’t holding it up that well either.

Everyone was dead silence for a while and it felt like time had stopped.

“…Now what?”

TOP sighed as Jessica broke the silence.

“Now, I take you to the big guy. I’m sorry Jessica but it’s over.”

Jessica let out a sigh and along with a single tear. Emotions started overflowing her all at once. Never in her life had she wanted to live

as much, her determination was overwhelming. Her desire was flaming up. She griped her shirt to try and tame her feelings.

Beep…Beep…Beep…Beep

 The annoying beeping sound was back. Everyone picked up their heads and looked up.

                                                                                    0….1~10~17

The monitor read that Jessica’s heart beat was picking up. Everyone gasped at the unbelievable sight. The doctors and nurses were

shocked but quickly jumped back on their feet again and continued their work. They weren’t going to lose her again.

They took two electric pads and placed them on top of Jessica’s chest.

“Heart rate at 34. Clear!”

By command the machine, a young doctor held on top of the two electric pads, sent a shock through Jessica’s body making it jump up

a little. Her heart rate was picking up but still not at an average beat.

“Heart rate at 48. Clear!”

Jessica’s body jumped up a little again due to the shock.

“Heart rate at 52! Clear!”

“Come on people, we’re almost there. She at least needs a heart rate of 60 to live.”

“Doctor, it’s decreasing!”

“Crap! Heart rate at 44! Clear!”

“She won’t be able to survive another run, the electric shocks are too much for a normal human to handle. If her heart beat doesn’t

pick up by then, Dr. Park we’ll be forced to abandon her case.”

“One more try, that’s all we have, Jessica please survive.”

Dr. Park talked as if Jessica’s body could actually hear him.

“Heart rate at 51! Clear!”

The body jumped up again but this time higher. Everyone was on the edge of their seats staring at the monitor.

                                                                            51~52~55….63

Everyone jumped up and threw their hands into the air. Some started crying again but this time the only difference was that it’s happy

tears. Jessica couldn’t believe her eyes or ears. She was going to live! Maybe Taeyeon was right, miracle do happen.

TOP somehow seemed the most excited, even though Jessica’s life was the one on the line, he was particularly jumping in joy. This

was Jessica’s first time seeing the side of him that wasn’t the cool and calm TOP.

“Woohoo! Congratulations Jessica! It looks like your determination grew and that sparked up your situation. Your 12 hours are up.

Would you like for me to bring you to the hospital room right now?”

“…No. Bring me back to the dorms instead.”

Although TOP was obviously confused at why the girl wouldn’t want be at the scene where everything was taking place, he didn’t ask

any questions and went along with it. Like before, he placed his hand on top of her shoulder and closed his eyes. The bright lights were back,

surrounding them both in record speed. Before she knew it, Jessica was back to the same spot where she left.

“Good luck Jessica.”

TOP’s fading noise could be heard in the background. Jessica’s eyes wondered and saw a petty little figure curled up in a ball while her shoulders

moved up and down. She was crying. And Jessica knew it was for her, honestly she was touched.

Jessica walked over as quiet as possible and kneeled down. The brunette still failed to sense her presence as she was too busy crying

her heart out at her recent loss. Jessica slowly picked her hand up and swept her bangs away from her face. The brunette was

obviously surprised and taken aback. When she lifted her head up and saw Jessica smiling at her, her eyes widened and fell back.

“Yah, Kim Taeyeon is this how you greet people? Such poor manners. Tsk tsk.”

Taeyeon didn’t care about Jessica’s insult as she launched herself at the girl. Both fell down on the ground with Jessica taking most of

the damage since she was on the bottom. She could feel her shoulder getting wet by Taeyeon’s tears while her arms were strangling

her to death.

But Jessica didn’t care. As a result her arms automatically s around Taeyeon’s small little waist holding her even closer.