Melissa’s POV

“What was that all about?” Gabbi questioned me as she sat herself down next to me on the cold hospital floor

“Nothing...” I started and shook my head fighting my tears “He wants me to move on and not do anything stupid after he dies” I continued and dried a tear that had managed to escape

“What do you mean with stupid?” Gabbi then asked even if I guessed that she already knew

“He don’t want me to end my life after he have left” I muttered and I saw on her face expression that she was about to snap

“You honestly got mad at him for that!? Are you stupid or something!? God Melissa! Did you tell him that you were going to kill yourself!?” she yelled at me

“Indirectly yes” I replied, no need in lying, she knew me too well

“Oh my god! Promise me that you’ll never do it!” she continued almost sounding panicked, but seriously I couldn’t promise that

“I’ll try” I told her and she sighed in relief

“Good, but aren’t you gonna go back to him?” she questioned me and she was right, he could leave me any day now, there was no time for fighting

“Yes” I said and hugged Gabbi before rising and walking back to his room. When I got there I quickly ran up to him and embraced him

“Baby I’m sorry” he started but I just pressed my lips to his. My time with the love of my life was limited and I had to make the most of it! But then I saw that Donghae was in the room as well. I was such a horrible person. I had hurt Donghae; there was no question about it. But I had to take care of that later. Heechul was my number one priority now and Donghae couldn’t possibly understand how much I still loved him after all that had happened

“I love you” I said and Heechul took my face in between his hands and looked me straight into the eyes. I was going to miss those eyes for sure

“As I love you” he said but then Gabbi entered the room and he let go of my face

“I know that you guys wanna make the most of this time and I understand but honestly it’s a bit awkward watching you both” Gabbi said and both Heechul and I blushed

“Sorry” I muttered and Gabbi just chuckled but then a nurse entered the room, she looked at us seeming highly annoyed and sighed

“What are you guys doing here? I don’t think you’re all relatives. The visiting hours finished six hours ago” she started annoyed “So I have to ask you all to leave” she continued and my face dropped. Hell no that I was leaving Heechul! Gabbi and Donghae knew that so both of the started to walk out of the room

“I’ll see you tomorrow” Gabbi said as she stopped in the door, I smiled at her but before she left the nurse started talking

“I’m sorry but do you think that you can stay or something?” she asked. Okey keep calm, she has no idea what she’s talking about

“Yes” I replied simply and I could feel Heechul tighten his hold of me as to say “Don’t leave!”

“But you can’t do that, you have to leave” the nurse said and I got more and more annoyed

“Well I don’t care, I’m not leaving” I replied her simply

“You have to!”

“Why? Give me a good reason why I have to leave then!” I exclaimed feeling my drama queen genes taking over

“It’s past visiting hours and you most likely don’t have a good reason why you should stay” she said very annoyed by now

“Try me” I said almost making it sound like a threat

“Sure, give me a reason why you should stay, a good one” she said and I took a deep breath

“Well, I came here leaving everything behind me when I got to know that the love of my life was dying and that he’d been hiding it from me, only telling me he was sick and then breaking up with me so that I would be over him by the time he died. But he changed his mind. So now I’m here, five months later. I have ruined everything that I built up in South Korea where I left when we broke up. I have only a few days left with him now, so do you think that I would want to leave his side now? I’m 22 and the love of my life is dying! And don’t come here with any crap about that we’re too young to be each other’s love of their lives and that we can’t possibly know that! We don’t know how we know it, we just know it! So for god’s sake don’t make me leave his side!” I said and I was crying by now and I could actually see that the nurse had all misty eyes and then I saw that Ida and Donghae were still in the door looking at me sadly. They were sad for different reasons though.

“I...” the nurse started and then she took a deep breath “I’m so sorry, if I’d known I wouldn’t have said anything, of course you can stay” she continued all chocked up

“Thanks, cuz I’m not planning on leaving his side as long as his heart is still beating”

“I’m right here you know” Heechul pointed out and the nurse smiled a bit

“I’ll leave the two of you, good night” she said and then she left and I saw that Gabbi and Donghae had left too

“You’re such a drama queen but I love you for that” Heechul then said and pulled me closer to him

“I know” I replied and smiled

“So these are the last days” Heechul stated and my smile disappeared

“Don’t say that” I demanded but he ignored me

“I remember like yesterday when I asked you out for the first time...” he continued

“Random or what jagiya?” I asked and he chuckled, god I was going to miss his laugh

“Well didn’t you once say that I was the most random person that you knew?”

“True” I said and the scenes of that moment rushed through my mind. I missed those times

Flashback

It was like a week after the party, after my epic night with Heechul, after that epic kiss and I had only seen Heechul once in school and that was on distance too! Sigh. I was now walking to one of the piano rooms to see what Gabbi wanted. I had received a text from her saying that I had to hurry to her. When I reached the room Gabbi and Hongki (out of all people???) where sitting outside of it playing random songs on their guitars

“Hello” I greeted them and waved at them smiling “What do you want?” I asked Gabbi straight ahead, I was dying of curiosity

“Nothing really” she replied and my face dropped

“What? Are you serious!?” I asked surprised, I’d been curious for nothing?

“Yes” she said and I just sighed and Hongki started to laugh and then they gave each other unreadable looks. What on earth was going on between Gabbi and Hongki??

“Melissa go into the piano room” Hongki then said and pointed at the door in front of me

“Why?” I asked him in disbelief

“Heechul’s there” he said and smirked

“Alone” Gabbi added

“Oh...” I said surprised, of course she had told Hongki that I liked his best friend. But I did as Hongki had told me and opened the door carefully. They were right, he was there, alone. Heechul was sitting by a black grand piano playing some random melody. He was such a good piano player and it gave me Goosebumps listening to him.

He didn’t notice that I had entered the room and I didn’t do or say anything to announce my presence. I simply stood there observing him as he played. He looked so passionate. And I don’t know what it is with me and guys who play the piano. They just make me weak. When he ended the melody he was playing he finally noticed me. He looked a bit surprised at first

“Hey there” he said and smiled a smile that made me melt a little bit inside, well not just a little bit “How long have you been standing there?” he then asked

“Long enough to fall in love with the music you were playing” I replied and started to walk towards him

“Just the music?” he asked as I reached him, I smiled mysteriously

“Maybe, maybe not” I said and sat myself down next to him by the piano

I let my fingers drift over the ebony keys. I really wanted to know how to play. It was a thing that made me very frustrated that I didn’t know. Heechul observed me for a bit but then he started to play another little random melody

“I envy you that” I said when he had played the last note “I’m honestly mad at myself that I can’t play” I continued and he smiled at me looking amused

“You know, I can actually imagine that” he said and chuckled

But then he to my surprise grabbed my right hand and carefully placed my fingers on different keys sand pressed them down gently so that a C appeared. He kept his hand over mine and then switched the position of my fingers and pressed them down so that a G appeared this time

“I can teach you, you know” he after a while said and he let his fingers drift over my hand making me go crazy inside by his touch

“Really?” I asked and he nodded

“Of course, but only if you want to. You know it would mean that you had to spend an awful lot time with me” he replied and smiled

“I think we both know that I don’t have anything against that, but I don’t have a piano” I told him

“But I have. So what do you say? Dinner and music at my place Friday at eight?” he asked and I looked at him shyly

“Are you asking me out?” I wondered

“Yes, a thing that I’ve wanted to do for a long time now and a thing that became inevitable after that night” he said and I couldn’t stop myself from smiling “So do you want to go out with me?” he asked sounding a bit worried, Naaaaaw

“I’d love to” I replied and an ultimate cute factor smile appeared on his lips “One problem though, I don’t know where you live” I continued and I saw that Heechul started thinking and then he grabbed my hand and reached for a pen that was on the piano and wrote down his address on my hand. I looked at it; I actually knew where it was located! (Yay applause to me!)

He didn’t let go of my hand and then our eyes met and in that moment it was only him and me in the room (which it was but still!) and he started to lean into my face and I could feel my heart skip a beat as he got closer and closer. But just as his lips were only a few millimetres from mine the door slammed open and in came Gabbi and Hongki, sigh.... Heechul read my thoughts and let out a big sigh as he pulled away from me. The moment was ruined. Gabbi and Hongki were so dead!

“What are you guys doing?” Hongki asked amused

“Nothing, absolutely nothing” Heechul replied and glared at his best friend. Sigh

End of flashback

Donghae’s POV

Gabbi and I left the hospital without Melissa that night. Sigh. She was spending the night with Heechul. I thought about what she had said to the nurse, he was the love of her life. But at least Heechul wanted me to take care of her after he was gone. But would she let me do that? I wanted to hate Heechul so bad but how could I? He was being too good!

“Gabbi?” I called and she came into the living room to the apartment where we were staying, their friend was apparently away so we had it for ourselves

“Yes?” she asked smiling

“Do you think that Melissa will ever be able to love me just as much as she loves Heechul?” I questioned her and her face twisted and she sat herself next to me on the sofa

“Hae, I think the question is if she will ever be able to love at all after he dies” she replied me and I felt a sting in my heart, no I felt a stab in my heart

“Will she?” I managed to ask, I was so worried that she wasn’t. Gabbi knew the answer; she was probably one of the persons that knew her the best

“I honestly don’t know” she started and wrapped her arms around me “I’m so sorry Hae” she continued and I heard how she started to cry and I could feel the tears burn in my eyes as well. How many times hadn’t I cried over that girl these past days? Too many and I was sure that I was going to do it again. Is she worth it? I have no idea.... But I’m pretty sure that I wanna find out... I know what they mean now when then say that love hurts.... but then again at least she wasn’t dying so I could not even imagine how she felt...

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