Ch. 16

Melted Ice.

-No one's POV-

Chanyeol had disappeared in the fog, and the wind blowing hard on the
trees and the sand of the tennis yard. Sehun didn't see any waves from
him to tell him goodbye, nor he heard anything from him. Sehun was sat
on the corner of a strange shaped building, where there was something
for him to sit. It wasn't dirty, although even if it was, he wouldn't
care and would still sit, and his head was leaned against the wall.
His mind was blank, he thought of nothing. He was feeling dead, but he
was breathing and seeing. He didn't know why he was like that, if it
was either the story Chanyeol had told him, and the fact that he had
changed a lot since before, that he was being sensitive, or something
else.

", man."

He could hear a quiet voice, like a whispering almost noticeable
between the sound of the hard wind, and the sound of the leaves being
pushed against the ground. It took him a while to realize it was his
own voice. The weather became really bad, so nobody was outside, he
was alone. He felt some water on his cheek, he was wondering if he was
crying or if it rained. But since his mind was blank, he was stupid.
He didn't have any reason to cry for, it rained. He felt something
falling on his hair, the rain became more stronger.

"You fell in love with a human fox, man."

He continued to talk to himself. He couldnt see anything because of
the fog, so even if someone was here, which wasn't the case, he
couldn't see anything. But he didn't care, anyway.

"You were involved in an accident, and you lived your whole life not
knowing it."

His mouth was talking on its own, like if the discussion was between
Sehun's mouth and Sehun's mind.

"You met a little girl so randomly, you talked with her for not so
long, and do you remember how much you cried when she died?"

His words were longer and longer, and for a reason, he was becoming
out of breath. He didn't even know why he was acting this way, but
everyone has their depressing time, right? Things happened to Sehun so
quickly, he had never time for him to think about it. He had to do it
one day anyway, and he did it.

"You rejected your bestfriend's love to be in love with a fox."

He laughed.

"Your lover is a fox."

He grinned, like if he was making fun of himself, which he actually
did. He, at that time, wanted so badly to join the band, and ask them
what they were doing at that moment, with the weather, which was the
reason he went outside despite his bad condition at first, but he had
no clue of where they could be. He was feeling tired of his life, even
if he was quite happy and had nothing to complain about, but he was
tired. Maybe he had too much shock, and the time when he asked himself
why it all happened to him are countless. He closed his eyes, and for
the first time, he never wanted to open them again. He wanted to fly
to another world, feeling the cold wind and the warm rain on his face.
He wasn't feeling sick anymore.

~~~

When he opened his eyes again, which was hurtful to do, his forehead
felt really bad, like if it was really heavy, his cheeks felt cold,
while his throat felt hot. His hands were cold and his wrists were
hot. His condition had obviously got worse than before. He felt like
something was blocking his lungs, and he was hurt in his eyes. Each
times he was moving them, he felt like they would go out of their
places. He tried to catch his phone to see the hour. It was 9pm, and
he had recieved 3 messages. They were all from Taeyeon, asking if he
was getting better. He was wondering why nobody had sent him messages,
wondering if Taeyeon or Luhan had told them about his fever, which he
was scared of, but he remembered he didn't have they numbers.

He quickly replied to Taeyeon's message, telling her he had got
better, which was a total lie, but he didn't want to make her worry.
But at the same time, he didn't think he could go to school the next
day, so he told her not to come in his home the next day, and of
course he told her not to worry for him. It was pretty hard to say he
had got better, and saying that he was probably not coming to school
the next day. He was looking at his message again, looking if he did
some mistakes, and grinning because his message was quite stupid,
maybe because of his sickness. He thoughts were interupted when he
heard a shout.

"SEHUN! Put down that phone now!" He quickly recognized his mother's
strong voice. He sighed and put down his phone, preparing himself
mentally to how his mother was going to punish him and shout over him.
"First your condition got worse and you can't do anything but stay on
your phone? Even though you have friends now, it's not a reason! You
should have called me when you woke up.." Sehun put his arm on his
eyes, hiding them, and sighed.

"I just woke up." He stopped and breathed heavily. "I'm sorry mom." He
tried to smile, but of course he couldn't. His mother, instead of
being angry, smiled slightly and walked closer to her son. "I will not
get angry against you while you're sick, it's useless." Sehun was
touched when he heard his mom's words, but he didn't express anything
in his face. "You learned your lesson now. Please don't do that
again." She said before she kissed her son's forehead. "It's burning."
She paused. "Your forehead is burning." Sehun didn't react. He knew,
after all. He knew that he did something wrong, he was feeling guilty
as well. He heard step going more and more away, so he noticed his
mother was leaving the room. She thought Sehun was sleeping again.

"I love you." Her mother whispered those words a mother is supposed to
say to her child. But she didn't express her emotions a lot, that was
the first time Sehun heard those three words coming from his mother.
When he heard the door closed, he smiled. He smiled.

~The next day~

Biip. Biiiip. Biiiiiiiip. Sehun hurtfully opened his eyes, slowly but
surely, and all he could see at first was blur. Even if he had three
blankets, he knew at his first move the morning that his condition got
worse. After a fews blinks, his view became net again. The bips sounds
continued to bother the half awake guy, so he turned his head, and
noticed his neck had lot of troubles making a move. It hurted a lot,
and almost couldn't move. Since it hurted, instead of turning his
head, he sat, noticing his whole body was hurt, and he turned his
whole body. He looked at his phone, it was 6:45, the bips sounds were
his alarm.

"Damn I forgot to turn that off." He told himself, almost
whispering. He took his phone and turned off his alarm. When he put it
back on his desk, he had just realize his words (it was maybe the
sickness which made his mind go on slow motion) he had whispered
himself before. He had never talked this way, not like he had never
said something like "" or "damn", it's just that he had never
talked like that before, and he didn't know why he just talked this
way suddenly. It then reminded him the incident that other day with
the teacher, when he talked bad with the teacher. It was maybe the
sickness that made him go that way. So he was sick since a lot of
time? He didn't know.

"Was that your alarm?" He heard a female voice, which he immediately
recognized, it wad his mother. Sehun looked at her, he noticed that
she was half asleep, half awake. He realized that he had awoke his
mother. "Do you want to go to school?" Sehun shook his head. He didn't
use to skip school, he rarely did, and sometimes, even if he was very
sick, he would still go to school, but this time, it was very
impossible. "You should feel so bad right now.." She said sadly, and
she seemed more awake.

"I.. I'm sorry.." Sehun tried to talk, but had to take deep breath,
and more than usual, and coughed a lot. His mother looked at him
worrying, and she ran towards her son. "If I woke you up.." He finally
said after a few seconds. His mother smiled, she thought it was cute
that even if his son was sick, he would still apologize to his mother.
"It's nothing Sehunnie." She caressed Sehun's forhead, slowly. It was
hot, very hot. "I had to wake up anyway." Sehun succeeded to make a
little smile for his mother. He wasn't so close with her, but he liked
how whenever he was sick, she cared about him so much. Sehun's mother
then left his bedroom, because she had to leave for work, but just
before she reached the door, she turned.

"Oh, are you hungry? I can prepare something for you." She asked her
son. It took a while for the question to reach Sehun's mind, so he
shook his head in response, a little bit late. His mother knew that
whenever Sehun was sick, he would eat a lot, so that moment, when
Sehun refused to eat, she started to worry a bit more. His condition
should have been really bad. She worried more, but still gave Sehun a
smile, although his eyes were closed. "Take care, Sehunnie." She
finally said before leaving completely the bedroom. Sehun nodded
slightly, even if he knew his mother wasn't here anymore, he heard the
door closing. He sighed deeply, and tried to sleep again. Sehun knew
that once he was awake and that he talked to someone or opened his
eyes, he could no longer sleep anymore, but he still tried, because he
was sick. In fact, he closed his eyes and immediately felt asleep.

~~~

Sehun opened his eyes again. He didn't know why he had woke up again,
until he heard loud knocks on his home's door. They seemed very in
hurry, so he quickly looked at the hour, and it was already the
afternoon. After a while, the knocks didn't stop, so he deducted that
he was the only one home, so he had to open, because the one knocking
seemed to be in a big hurry, hearing how loudly he was knocking and
quickly. He tried to wake up and succeeded easily, so he noticed his
condition has got much better. He was still hurt everywhere, he still
had difficulties walking, using his muscles, but he felt much more
better than the morning, which he remembered only barely. He walked
the fastest he could, which wasn't so quic, and opened the door,
firstly slowly to see if it wasn't a strange stranger, but he saw
Luhan.

Luhan was looking down, his back curved, so Sehun couldn't see his
face. He saw that Luhan's right hand was on his mouth, and his left
hand was on his stomach. He was coughing really hard, and seemed to
feel very bad. Sehun didn't wait any longer and took Luhan's body and
made it sit on the sofa. He could more see his face, even if his hair
were hiding it mostly, but he could see his hand on his mouth.

"LUHAN!" Sehun shouted even with his bad condition. "Why are you
coughing blood Luhan!" He shouted very loudly, and stood up, wanting
to do something for his lover. It broke his heart so much seeing his
lover coughing blood like that, and he felt guilty not opening the
door sooner. His entire right hand was red, entirely covered with
blood. Luhan couldn't speak yet, and Sehun could understand. He took
him to the bathroom, and took some cotton. Luhan was limping a tiny
bit, feeling really un well. After a while, Luhan was only slightly
coughing, and not so often. Sehun had cleaned his lover's hand and
gave him medicines to appease the pain. Both of Luhan's hand were on
both of the side of the sink, he was breathing deeply and calmly while
Sehun looked at him, with full of curiousity.

"I'm sorry.." he said after a while. "For entering you home this way."
Sehun didn't say anything, not like this had disturbed him, because he
could do anything for his lover, but because he was mostly curious
about what happened to his lover. He had forgotten that he was sick.
"But , this is happening way faster than it should be, Sehun."
Sehun was surprised by the tone Luhan used. It was low, cold, and
wasn't like the Luhan he knew. Luhan continued to breath deeply, and
his look was hard. Sehun saw the other side of Luhan. He had to, after
all.

"This is supposed to be happening one week before my transformation.
Say goodbye to one week, only one week's left, Sehun."  The way Luhan
was saying Sehun's name made him shiver. Luhan had changed so much so
suddenly, but Sehun understood, Luhan was in a critical situation.
Sehun's heart felt stabbed when he heard the news. He couldn't think
about the fact that his lover was going to be a fox in one week. One
week only. He was thinking about all the things that they could have
done in one week, all the fun they could have had, and how happy they
could have been together. He couldn't imagine, he didn't want to
imagine. All he could do was to kiss his lover on his soft lips.

"I love you." Sehun said after breaking the kiss. "Let's stay together
until the very last moment." Luhan kissed back, the kiss was longer,
softer, and it felt like a goodbye kiss, but Sehun didn't want to
admit that. After a while, they both broke the kiss and looked at each
other's eyes, with a look full of love and full of sadness. They
couldn't say anything, they didn't need to, they knew what each other
was thinking. After a while, Sehun smiled slightly.

"Sorry for not coming yesterday." He said, breaking the long romantic
silence.  "And today." Luhan smiled brightly, coming beside him and
taking him in one of his arm. "It's nothing, idiot, you were sick."
Sehun wanted to say that he still was, but at the precise moment he
realized he wasn't so sick after all, because when he was Luhan, the
pain disappeared. Sehun smiled at Luhan's words, and wanted to kiss
him, but Luhan suddenly started to cough hardly again. Blood could be
seen in the sink, and Sehun started to worry again. He really didn't
like seeing Luhan coughing blood.

"Luhan!!" He shouted, trying to help him again. This time, Luhan's
coughs were differents, they weren't louder than the last time, which
would be hardly possible, but he seemed to agonize more. His coughs
seemed more painful, and it sounded like he was going to cough his
lungs. "I.." Luhan tried to speak between his coughs. "Humans
medecines.." Sehun didn't want his lover to continue to speak because
he was already suffering, so he tried to guess what he was going to
say.

"Don't work on you?" He asked and Luhan nodded, before being roughly
pushed on the wall by himself because of the pain and because of his
lungs. "Luhan!" He shouted when he saw Luhan being pushed on the wall,
and heard the loud sound.  "Do you want to go to a veterinary??" Sehun
shouted, giving some handkerchiefs with water to Luhan, trying to help
him, even if honestly he didn't know what to do at all. "There is one
very near here!" Sehun wanted to convince Luhan, but he shook his
head, his coughs became less rough, and after a while, he stopped
coughing. He started to breath deeply, and he walked towards the
living room and laid on the sofa, puttin one arm on his eyes.

"Normal humans don't know about foxes-humans." He finally announced
Sehun when he felt like he could finally speak. Sehun was standing up
beside Luhan, and he looked at him with sadness, or a feeling that he
couldn't describe. Sadness? Anger? He didn't know.

"Tell the band they won't ever see me again." He continued.

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Ma-Boo
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Ma-Boo
#1
There won't be many otp in this story. Only some exo otp and.. a little bit a taekey but that's all.
awesome_stal
#2
SeYeon?TaeLlli?KeyStal?
Sorry...Key and Ssul don't really match -.-
OnASnowyDay
#3
ah, cool. is this seyeon? :D