twenty four
Piles of Regrets
Kyuhyun’s running along the hospital corridor giving all of his strength to get into the place he’s supposed to be. He just got the call that turned his life upside down. After what seems to be the best week of his life, he still thinks he just got a prank call.
They got a call in the morning stating that Sera should bring herself as soon as possible to the hospital. She finally got the heart she always needed and she needs to be prepped to surgery within four hours, while doctor Kim personally picks up her donor heart from another hospital in a chopper. They hurried themselves to go to the hospital and Kyuhyun was on her side from the beginning, they were so happy about the good news and they’ve begin wondering what they’ll do once she’s fully recovered.
The transplant surgery took six hours and after what seems to be forever for him, she finally awake. Sera was weak as usual but something is different from her now, she looks more alive than she was in the past few months, even her team of doctors are cheering for their favorite cardiac patient for being able to bounce back as soon as she received the donor.
Sera’s put under observation room for a whole day before she’s allowed to be moved into a normal room and she’s done very great the doctors finally gave her a ‘go’ to enter a regular patient room. Doctor Song and doctor Kim declared that her new heart is beating beautifully just like a good heart should and after a while, Han Sera finally able to have a normal heart that beats on its own.
Kyuhyun stays on her side from the beginning of her operation until the end, he never left her side during her recovery nor during the time she’s being observed in her own room. It’s important for him to stay by her side, he wants to show his support to the woman he loves.
After the observation, Sera asked him when’s the last time he had a meal and he stunned in his place not being able to answer. Maybe it’s two days ago when they had breakfast before the good call.
As usual Sera doesn’t want to burden him and she worries that he’ll collapse if he skips another meal, so she asked him to grab something to eat from the cafeteria before she’ll allow him to watch over her again. Kyuhyun agreed to her, first of all she’s declared ‘okay’ by her doctors and second of all, he was starving, so he took his break and dragged himself to the cafeteria.
Kyuhyun was just finished his meal when his phone rings and doctor Song’s number displays on it. he picked it up and later on he wished the ground will open up and swallow him.
“Kyuhyun-ssi, please come to her room.”
“Is something wrong?” He gets up and put his tray back.
“Han Sera just passed away.”
Kyuhyun stand still on his place, he believes it’s a prank call because he just left her minutes ago and she was fine.
“Don’t joke around, it’s not funny.” He replies coldly.
“She had a . She was prune to blood clots. A clot could have formed in her suture and travels to her brain, it only takes seconds. When we got into her room, it was too late.” Doctor Song explaining her cause of death.
Kyuhyun run like he’s never ran before, he needs to get to Sera, he needs to see her and make sure that the call he just got was really a prank call. She was fine minutes ago, she was happy and giggling with him less than an hour ago. There’s no way her last words to him was “go get yourself a meal.” And his last words to her was “I’ll enjoy a real food after this.”
He’s arrived in front of her room and his heart breaks at once by the time he sees her. The liveness in her has gone, her fair skin has slowly turn blue and her pretty face no longer radiates warmness.
It is true, his Sera is now lying soullessly on her hospital bed.
Kyuhyun enters her room and takes Sera’s body in his embrace, he can’t let it happen, he can’t let her go without a proper goodbye, he can’t just leave her in the most hopeful time of her life. He hugs her tighter, he doesn’t have to care about her LVAD device anymore, he doesn’t need to care about her post-operation pain, because Sera can’t feel those anymore.
She’s gone.
His tears pour freely as he shares his last chance to take her in his arms. He shouldn’t have gone to the cafeteria, he should’ve stayed next to her so when the occurs he could call the doctor faster and maybe she’d be helped. She was all alone when it happened. He cries for some more, knowing that he’ll regret this for the rest of his life. The love of his life has gone to heaven and he could’ve actually done something to prevent that from happening.
On the edge of his despair, Kyuhyun begins to wails in frustration. He hugs her soulless body tighter while throwing her his apology. He apologizes for not being by her side, for not being to keep his promise to protect her, for not being able to make her happy.
He wails again as his last attempt to get rid of the pain in his heart.
The next thing he feels is the pain in his face, the pain stings him badly it forces him to take a moment of silence from his own despair.
***
Kyuhyun opens his eyes and find Han Sera is sitting on the edge of his bed. He blinks his eyes several times to get a grasp of what’s happening. He notices the fact that he’s breathing really fast and his body b
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