Gabbi’s POV

When Melissa left my room I started to go through my clothes and tried to find an outfit for the concert and I was thinking awfully a lot about Eunhyuk, my bias in Super Junior and the one I had gotten closest to. And I thought about Melissa and Donghae. I was really happy that he had come into her life. She was starting to live again and I could see that he made her happy and I loved that. Melissa had gone through so much in her life already so I was really happy that something really good had happened to her for a change. And I knew that Donghae would be able to take care of her and make her as happy as she had never been ever before.

But while standing there in the room trying to match my clothes my phone started ringing. I looked at the caller id. It was Heechul and I got a funny feeling inside of me and not on a good way. I picked up the phone and answered it

“Hello, Gabbi?” Heechul questioned and with that I already knew what he wanted

“Yeah Heechul?” I said and I heard him take a deep breath, okey, here it comes

“I’ve changed my mind, I need her here with me” he said weakly and I nodded, just as I had guessed

“Two days top, hang in there” I told him and hung up, now there was no time to lose.

 I grabbed my computer and started to look for flights to New York immediately, one was leaving in three hours, we could make it, I booked two tickets without a return trip and then I hurried to Melissa’s room. When I walked in she had just gotten out from the shower, she looked at me wonderingly when I stood there panting but I ignored her and grabbed her bag and threw it to her, she managed to catch it but she yelled out in surprise, but I just ignored her

“Pack your stuff quickly” I told her

“What? Why? Are we going somewhere?” she asked confused

“No time for questions, just pack your stuff, please, I beg you. I’ll be back soon” I told her and went to my room to pack my stuff, when I returned I saw that she had just finished with her packing and I sighed in relief, I was worried that she wasn’t going to listen to me as I hadn’t told her why she should pack

“Now tell me Gabbi, what have happened?” she demanded and I sighed

“Melissa, Heechul lied to you” I started and I have known her for 18 years but not once during those years have I seen her looking as confused as she looked now

“What?” she questioned

“He’s not only sick, he’s dying! He’s freaking dying and he asked me not to tell you cuz he wanted you to move on so that it wouldn’t hurt so much when he left. But now he has changed his mind and he wants you with him! Melissa he doesn’t have long left to live!” I told her and I saw how she tried to grasp what I just had said and then without any warning she fell to the floor and in the same second Donghae entered the room and when he saw her fall to the ground with tears rolling down her cheeks he ran up to her quickly and wrapped his arms around her

“What happened?” he asked me panicked and I sighed, how would I tell him?

Melissa’s POV

“He’s not only sick, he’s dying! He’s freaking dying and he asked me not to tell you cuz he wanted you to move on so that it wouldn’t hurt so much when he left. But now he has changed his mind and he wants you with him! Melissa he doesn’t have long left to live!” Gabbi told me and in that moment my mind went blank. He was dying? My wonderful Heechul was dying? No more Kim Heechul? Oh my god... I felt how my knees started to bail on me and in the next second I fell to the floor and I just broke down. I thought that I was over him, I really thought it, at least enough to move on, but maybe I was wrong. He was freaking dying! Everything changed with that knowledge. Sitting there on the floor breaking down I then felt a pair of strong arms wrapping around me.

“What happened?” a panicked voice asked, it was Donghae, ... Donghae, my sweet precious Donghae. I wanted to move on with him I mean I really liked him, I had started to honestly fall for him but now all I could think about was Heechul. Damn I was going to hurt Donghae so much

“We’re going to New York, in two hours actually, Melissa I know that you don’t feel well but we really have to hurry to the airport if we’re going to make it” I then heard Gabbi’s voice say and I nodded

“Why are you going there?” Donghae asked, it was obvious that he was confused, my heart broke even more when I thought about how he would react

“Heechul is dying, the real reason why he broke up with her is because he wanted her to have moved on by the time he died so that she wouldn’t be so broken, but he called me only an hour ago and said that he had changed his mind and wanted her by his side till the end, so we’re going to New York” she told him and I felt the hold he had on me tighten

“I’ll come with you” Donghae answered surprisingly and I had to look at him, why did he want to go with us? I was going back to my ex boyfriend on the night we were going to have our first real date, he confessed his heart out to me and now I’m practically breaking it, why was he doing this? I don’t deserve him...

“Don’t be silly Hae, Melissa come” Gabbi said and I made an effort to stand up

“I’m serious Gabbi, I’m gonna come with you” he said firmly and helped me to stand steady

“Hae stop, we really have to hurry” Gabbi continued and grabbed my bags

“No, I’m coming with you, end of discussion” he said and Gabbi looked at him in disbelief

“Are you sure about this Hae?” she questioned and he nodded seriously

“Yes I am” he replied

“Fine, but we’re leaving like now, so hurry and pack some stuff, we’ll meet you down in the lobby in fifteen minutes” she told him and he nodded and hurried out of the room and then Gabbi went up to me and gave me a tight hug and my hair, she wasn’t one to cry very often but now I heard that she did, Heechul was one of her best friends, this wasn’t only hard on me, he was like her brother

“How long does he have left?” I asked her weakly and she looked at me softly and dried her tears

“We’ll get there in time, I promise” she assured me but I wasn’t pleased with that answer, I wanted to know exact

“Gabriella, tell me how long he have left” I demanded and her face twisted

“It’s just a matter of days” she told me and I let out a big sob, just a couple of days... why? Why Heechul? Anyone but him!

Fifteen minutes later we were in the lobby waiting for Donghae and he arrived shortly after us. He had a serious look on his face and all I wanted to do was to embrace him and tell him how extremely sorry I was but I simply couldn’t, I was scared that he would just ignore me. But he had insisted to come so maybe he wasn’t too mad at me, or maybe he just wanted to be there for me, as a brother. We caught a cab and told the driver to hurry to the airport. Arriving there Donghae purchased a ticket for himself and then we made our way to the gate. Donghae didn’t say a word so when we got on the plan I just stared at the seat in front of me crying quietly. I wanted him to comfort me so badly, but I was really scared. But then I felt how he wrapped his arms around me and pulled me close to his chest and my hair and kissed my forehead softly as he had been reading my mind

“I’m here for you princess, always, no matter what” he whispered in my ear and that made me calm down a bit but it didn’t stop my tears, nothing could stop them now

Donghae’s POV

“Did she fall asleep?” Gabbi questioned me just as the plane had gone up in the air and I nodded and looked down at the little beautiful girl lying in my arms sleeping.

I loved her so much and it pained me so much to see her in this state. She was broken and I was broken cuz the reason to her brokenness was that she obviously still wasn’t over Heechul. And that pained me so much; it felt like someone was stabbing my heart with knives. I had never loved anyone like I loved her and she loved someone else. I was in love with a girl whose heart belonged to someone else. Would she ever be mine? Would she ever get over Heechul and start loving me? She said she would be mine, but how long was that going to take? Was I going to wait that long? Aish so many questions that I’m starting to get a headache

“Why did you come with us?” Gabbi then asked and I turned to look at her, she looked at me concerned but she also looked very tired and sad

“I made a promise that I would protect her if I got a chance with her and I got a chance yesterday even though it’s gone now and who knows if I’ll ever get it again but I got a chance and I’m keeping my word. But I would’ve done this either way, I love her so much and I’m always going to be there for her and protect her” I told her and her face twisted

“I really like you Donghae, you know that right? But this is a thing that I feel that Melissa has to do and I hope you understand that and when it’s over, I will fully support you. I don’t want any other guy for her” she said to me and I smiled weakly, she liked me but she liked Heechul more and that hurt a bit, but what did I expect? He was her best friend after all

The flight went good, Melissa slept through most of it and when she wasn’t sleeping she was crying. For every tear that escaped her eye my heart broke into another piece and soon my heart was completely chattered. When we arrived in New York we took a cab to another of their friend’s apartment and dropped off our stuff. He wasn’t there when we arrived and we didn’t stay for more than a minute. We were soon in the cab again heading towards the hospital. Melissa was still crying and I wondered if there was anything left of my poor heart.  Arriving at the hospital a nurse told us where to find Heechul and we hurried up to the 12^th floor. We came to a long white corridor and outside of his room, room 513 a Korean man and a woman were sat. They probably were Heechul’s parents.

Siwon’s POV

“So are we ready to go? Is everyone here?” manager hyung said as we stood outside of the hotel on our way to the concert

“Donghae is not here” I pointed out after looking around

“Nor Melissa” Eunhyuk noted

“Ooooo” the boys cooed, we all knew about the day that they had spent together yesterday and about the date that they were going on after the concert so we all jumped to conclusions of course

“Sorry to break it to you guys but neither Gabbi is here” Leeteuk then said and we all got disappointed

“Aaaaaw and I was hoping that they were together somewhere showing their love to each other” Kyuhyun said and I chuckled

“Kyuhyun please, we don’t need to get images in our heads!” Yesung complained

“I can go up and check where they are” I offered

“I can go too” Sungmin said and the two of us got up to the floor where we had our rooms, I first checked Melissa’s room but no answer and Sungmin had checked Gabbi’s and no answer there either, so we went to Donghae’s room. I had the key to his room just as to all the other members and we opened it. But that room as well was empty.

“Where can they be?” Sungmin asked confused and scratched his head

“I have no idea” I said but then I caught the sight of a white piece of paper that was lying on Donghae’s bed, I picked it up, it was a note from him, I read it and there it stood where they were, but it made no sense, or did it....? “New York” I said and Sungmin looked at me wonderingly “They’re in New York” I continued

“What? Why are they in New York?” he asked and I reached him the note so that he could read for himself

“Let’s go down and inform the others” he said after reading it and I nodded, so we went down again to the others where they were waiting for us

“Did you find them?” Leeteuk questioned and we shook our heads

“No, which isn’t so weird cuz they have left Paris” Sungmin answered and everybody looked confused

“What?” Kangin said

“They went to New York, Donghae left a note” I replied

“Then read it!” Leeteuk demanded and I nodded and took it up from my pocket

“I and the girls have gone to New York, it’s complicated, and I’ll call you as soon as I get the time. Sorry but I just had to go with them. I’ll explain it on the phone. And get prepared to go here. She will need you here.

Donghae” I read and the boys looked at me confused

“What was that supposed to mean?” Ryeowook wondered and I shook my head

“I don’t know” I replied truthfully

“Maybe it was something about Heechul” Eunhyuk suggested “Maybe he wanted her back or  something” he continued, but I couldn’t possibly believe that. Melissa wouldn’t do that to Donghae and if that was the case he wouldn’t go with them, but he had written that it was complicated...

“Or...” Kyuhyun started but then he stopped and frowned and we all looked at him curiously “She said he was sick, maybe” he continued and then he stopped himself again, he took a deep breath before continuing this time “Maybe he’s more than sick” he said seriously, and we all thought about it, it was a possibility

“Whatever it is we’ll know when Donghae calls us but now we have a concert to do” Leeteuk said and he was right, we had to do this concert and just wait till Donghae called us and told us what really was going on

So we went to do the concert, it was a bit troubling explaining Donghae’s absence when we didn’t know the reason why he had left. We decided to lie and said that he wasn’t feeling all too well and that Melissa and Gabbi stayed at the hotel with him to keep him company and to make sure he wasn’t getting worse.

The next day while having breakfast Leeteuk’s phone started ringing, we looked at the caller ID, it was Donghae, Leeteuk put him on speaker phone

“Hi Donghae, what’s wrong?” Leeteuk answered, no hello, how are you? We wanted to know so badly why they all of a sudden had went to New York. Donghae sighed, that wasn’t a good sign

“It’s Heechul” Donghae started and we all looked at each other, we had been right about that after all “His sickness seemed to be more serious than he had told Melissa, he’s dying and have like two three days left to live, he called Gabbi and said that he wanted Melissa by his side, he hadn’t told her cuz he wanted her to have moved on by the time he passed away but he didn’t manage to die without having her by his side. So when Gabbi told her there was no way out and I insisted on coming with them” Donghae continued, Kyuhyun had been right, he was more than just sick, he was dying

“Oh... how is she?” Leeteuk questioned carefully

“She’s broken, it’s obvious that she still loves him a lot” he answered and we could hear on his voice that he was tired and sad

“And how are you?” Eunhyuk wondered

“Well what can I say, the woman I love is with her dying ex that I thought that she was over by now... when he dies I have to start all over again, make her fall for me all over again, but who knows if she’ll ever recover from this” he said and I felt sick, Donghae and Melissa didn’t deserve this. It was so obvious for us that they were meant to be but god seemed to have another plan for them before they could be happy together. Maybe this was his way of showing them that after they had gone through all this together they would stay with each other forever, and that then they would know that they are meant to be.

“Donghae, she will, she will love you completely one day, and if you are sure about that she is the one then you will wait” I told him

“I know” he replied

“Don’t worry, everything will work out for the best” Kangin tried to assure him but I knew that he felt like everything was hopeless now

“We’ll take the first plane to New York after we’re done with our breakfast” Leeteuk then said “Hang in there” he continued

“Thanks guys” he whispered “I love you guys” he continued

“We love you too, good bye Donghae, we’ll see you soon” Leeteuk said and then he hung up “Pack your stuff guys, we’re going to New York” he said and we all nodded, Poor Donghae, Poor Melissa....

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Guys I cried while writing this.... it's so sad.... :(

Now she nows about Heechul and he will appear in the next chapter. And it will get if possible even sadder. I hope you liiked this anyways.

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