Chapter 54:

“Goodbye”

Every goodbye makes the next hello closer.
- Anonymous

P.S. congrats to Lovelora!!! For answering right! The last trivia’s answer is “Water” ahehehe

Previously on TCOATH:

The secretary of her father came to the garden and brought a trolley… containing Hae Jin’s old materials for sketching, painting… when she was young…

“what is this?”-Hae Jin asks as she puts down her tea cup

“Well, I heard from a reliable source… you have quite a gift, I would love it if you draw me...”Mr. Song says in a calm way smiling at her with his request

“But----…”-Hae Jin stops mid-way she knew that her father doesn’t like this type of venture from her, this made her surprise…

“Take it as if it’s my last request…hmm?”-Mr. Song says as he smiles, eyes begging

“Okay… just don’t move then… okay?”-Hae Jin says, she picks up a charcoal and a blank pad, positions herself, and draws a line and drafts his father’s figure…

“You have your mother’s eyes indeed…”-Mr. Song blurts out as Hae Jin sketches seriously, Hae Jin stops and stares at her father, this is the first time ever since their mother died that her father speaks about their mother…

“And I have your stubbornness…”-Hae Jin comments and chuckles out of it

“Indeed you did…”-Mr. Song says chuckling, he suddenly moved from hi sitting position

“Father I said don’t---…”-Hae Jin was cut off when she looks up and saw her father fell to the ground

“Father? Abeoji? Abeoji?!!!”-Hae Jin puts her pad away and runs across to her father and shakes him

“Abeoji? Gwenchana?! Help! Help! Please!!!”-Hae Jin shouts through her lungs as she holds her father’s hand….

Continuing:

AT THE HOSPITAL…

It’s like a scene from a movie, everything moves dreadfully slow as if time itself punishes her… the ache she felt not only from her shattered heart that’s wrenching but also from her head, that’s having this---- thump… thump… thump… a scene from a movie, a scene that anyone don’t want to be in. the reality of the situation made my heart even ache and shout in panic, fear and regret…

-----Muffled sounds---- then   ~~

“Abeoji! Please wake up! Please!”-Hae Jin clasps her father’s hand trying to get him conscious…

“*sniff*Abeoji… jebal….”-Hae Jin tries to scream at her father but only came out a sob instead…

“Ma’am… you need to back up… we’ll get him immediately to the emergency room.. please”-One of the nurses tries to hold back Hae Jin when she refused to leave her father’s side…

“Emergency room? Why? We were just having tea… then…*sniff2x* Otoke…”-Hae Jin’s tears drop and flowed on her face… the regret and the panic… she clasps her hands covering her face… she drops herself to the ground and sobs helplessly..

--Running steps echoed the hall of the hospital - -

“Hae Jin-ah!!”-Ji Hoo’s voice echoed the hall as he run pass the others and approach the sobbing Hae Jin

“Hae Jin-ah… I heard…”-Ji Hoo hugs his girlfriend as he tries to calm her…

“Oppa…father*sniff*father’s…”-Hae Jin couldn’t continue her sentence and just sobs

“What’s happening here?! Yah! What’s wrong with our father!!?”- Woo Bin punches one of the guards that has looked after their father

“Song Woo Bin… calm down”-Jun Pyo grabs Woo Bin before he could throw another punch…

“Everyone!”-the secretary of their father arrives with folders in hand

“What the---…”-Yi Jeong raises his brow as he looks up, while squeezing the hand of Ga Eul

As the secretary walks toward them… Hae Jin pulls away from Ji Hoo and tries to get up and meets the secretary half-way…

“Milady…”-The secretary bows at the red-eyed lady in front of him

“Ahjussi… what’s wrong with my father? He just---.”-Hae Jin

“I cannot divulge anything yet as to---…”-Secretary

“Anyone here the secretary of the patient??”-A nurse slips out her head out of the emergency room door

“Here…”-Secretary

“You have to hurry… he’s asking for you”-The nurse signals the secretary

“Oh.. of course…”-Without saying anything the secretary went in to the room, leaving everyone dumbfounded..

“Why would your father ask for the secretary instead of his kids?”-Jae Kyung asks confused like the others…

---5minutes passed by but felt hours when----

**toot…toot…toot…**the red light on the emergency door blinks multiple times

Everyone outside the room looked at each other… when

“Ma’am, Sir please move! Make way!”-A bunch of nurses running towards the room, as they opened the door, all caught a glimpse of Mr. Song being revived by the doctors… the image made Hae Jin gasp and clasps her hand on , her eyes teary again and she just let them flow…

“Otoke…”-Jan Di grabs Jun Pyo’s hand and they look at each other praying that everything will turn out good…

“Hae Jin-ah look at me okay? Everything’s going to be okay…”-Ji Hoo holds Hae Jin’s wet face and made her face him

“How can you be sure?”-Hae Jin says

“Just----…”-Ji Hoo was cut off when everyone’s attention were caught by the light that was blinking earlier now it turned off by itself…

A short silence then---- the doors of the emergency opened and came the doctors that attended their father… Hae Jin saw from where she stood the image that would be painted on her memory, the memory of her father being covered by cloth up to her face, the secretary standing beside her father sobbing… another doctor shaking his head and saying something to the secretary… before the other doctors that came out said something---

“No, No, No, No… no…”-Hae Jin almost fell backward if Ji Hoo didn’t hold her, she clasps her hand to , muffled cries gave in…

“I’m so sorry… there’s nothing we can do…”-One of the doctors says it and everyone fell into silence, as the doctor left, Woo Bin’s face was blank, confused… and couldn’t believe anything…

“O…Otoke…”-Hae Jin pulls away and runs to the emergency room, she slowly walks toward the cold body of her father, she lifts up the cloth and stares at the frozen image… she traces her fingers at her father’s still black locks of hair…

“*sniff2x** a..apa….”-Hae Jin hugs her father, leaning, putting her head over her father’s cold chest… sobbing, helplessly…

“A..pa…apa… wake up… jebal…apa….weoyo!!”-Hae Jin sobs, shouts to no one… shaking her father… everyone got teary-eyed… eventually Ga Eul clasps her hand to , stopping herself… tears flowed on the faces of Jan Di and Ga Eul, even the known cold Jae Kyung couldn’t bear it she hugs her shocked boyfriend…

“Aish!! Why!!!? How could you do this!! Come back… apa… jebal!”-Hae Jin grabs the sheets cries aloud…

The helpless Ji Hoo couldn’t do anything… he stood there nothing to do…

TO BE CONTINUED…

Trivia:

“ We’re hundreds, Thousands, Millions, Billions and even more;                                                                 

We’re all the same, we eat, we drink, we feel sore.                                                                   

Warm and cold we feel it,                                                                                                                   

we live, we die we stay fit.                                                                                                                  

One World, One Earth, One Globe, One Air,                                                                                                

We always say life’s unfair…

What am i??

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Hello guys!!! Here’s my first update for this weekend!! Mianhe if I wasn’t able to fulfill my twice update last week… emergency~~ I’m sick too even now… have a flu… what’s ur reaction on the new chap huh? I know it’s short but please comment!!

Staying as Humble-Goody2shoes♥♥