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EternitiesXII. SANG HYUK
It was a Tuesday.
She was a four minutes late when she entered the classroom. Everyone stared at her, mumbling amongst themselves. She sat down her seat which was beside mine, her head hung low. I smiled at her; she smiled back. It was the sweetest smile I've seen in my life.
...The sweetest smile I've ever seen from her.
By the afternoon, she took her pills again. It was an obvious lot today. I neared her and asked if she was okay. "Are you having enough sleep?" I asked as I stared at the dark circles under her ruined eyes. She nodded lightly, the smile didn't fade. By dismissal, she ran towards me, crying. "I'm just so tired..." She said. There were many things that I wanted to tell her the next day.
But what I saw was a note:
"I'm sorry, Hyuk... Happy Birthday."
...She died that Wednesday.
150 words.
PROMPT 10. It was one of those days when everything seemed to go wrong.
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