The Breath completed The Breath AUTHOR: gaksitalGaksital
LEAD: Seohyun (SNSD)
GENRE; SETTING: angst; friendship
CHAPTERS: 1
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"Juhyun, have you come to say goodbye?"
"Taeyeon, where are you going?"
"I'm going home." And she smiled. "To my final home."
When she breathed, it was as if she carried herself away with that breath.
Seventeen-year-old Juhyun tried to catch it but it effused through her fingers.

"If you live to be one hundred, I hope to live to be one hundred minus one, so I never have to live without you."
Winnie the Pooh

thoughts PLOT: The Breath revolves around the friendship of two children (Taeyeon and Seohyun) living in an orphange.  I was particularly impressed with this as it was one of the only Silent Love entries for my competition which didn't choose to focus on romantic love.  Juhyun (Seohyun) is sickly and Taeyeon takes her under her wing.  At the actual starting point of this one-shot, their situations are sort of reversed – they're both in college/senior school, but Taeyeon has been taken horribly ill.  As she rushes to Taeyeon's side, Juhyun reflects on the time she met Taeyeon and how they got to know each other and became good friends, and how Taeyeon saved her life.  Essentially, the story is a snapshot of the "now" with a rewind into the past before joining up with the present moment again, and it's pretty