AMBER

I had my head on her thighs. The flowers of our tree were blooming. The perfume of the flowers filled the air.  I breathed in deeply. The pollen tickled my nostrils. I opened my eyes and saw her face. Her eyes looked in mine so deeply that I felt like she could read my soul. She had free access to each feeling I could feel and to each tought of mine. I was hers and she was mine. What more could I desire? I smiled to her and caressed her face as she took my hand. She got closer to my face to kiss me. A sweet but strong wind started lulling us while the music of the petals helped us to get lost in each othet. The feeling of her lips on mine was just... amazing. Everything was perfect. A petal of Sakura ended between our mouths while we were taking a break to breath to start later kissing each other again. She took away the petal from my mouth.

"This, will be my kiss when we'll be far from each other. When you'll ever see a petal of sakura, it will be my lips. Kiss it, and you'll kiss me" She said

"I'll keep this exact petal as a symbol of our love and a memory of the taste of your fresh lips" 

When we arrived to my stop, I was thrown down by the two big men. All of my body hurt. My lips were full of cuts. My eyes were both so swollen and black that I could see nothing. I probably had an arm broken and a foot broken too because it hurt so bad. I was on the floor incapable to get up. Everything was blear. I couldn't hear any noise. I looked for my mobile phone but they probably had taken it. I started feeling a sort of liquid coming out from my mouth. I could taste a flavor of iron. It started diffusing inside all my mouth. With my arm that I could move I reached my mouth with the hand and touched that liquid. I moved my hand in front of my eyes trying to focus what I was losing. I understood I was bleeding. I knew what had just happened but I didn't realize it yet. It happened too fast plus, I could just think about Krystal and this took me so much despair that I started crying. I don't know how much I stayed there, on the floor, crying because after a while, my eyes became even heavier and a black light came over me. A lot of images flashed in my mind. There was everyone I met and everything I did. If I was remembering everything, I was probably about to die, I thought. I remembered the face of my parents when they discovered I was with Krystal. I remembered my mother hugging me during the night to tell me she loved me uncoditionally. She didn't care if I liked a boy or a girl. Then, it was the turn of the face of my father. We were working on the garden of our home. He told he saw I was suffering, that he still loved me no matter what, but Krystal just brought me many problems and I had to forget her. That time I got angry and I didn't talk to him for months. Then the face of my sister Jackie, she was telling me how is having a boyfriend and she asked me how was having a girlfriend. I felt so loved from her... Then it was the turn of the face of Jessica, the day she blackmailed me at the park. Then my mind ran to Krystal parents. I saw them once and I was escaping from her home after the first time that we made love. They looked so strict that they froze me. My mind made me see an old memory of me, Henry and Minho playing together at basketball, when we still were kids. That afternoon we broke the window of an old woman who was awlays angry with us because we always . We ran away laughing. We were so happy. The face of Minho became bigger and I had just arrived to the roof of the school when he told me he loved Krystal. I started running away and I ended in the locker room with Hyuna and when I kissed her I then found myself kissing the lips of Krystal and the last thing I saw was the petal she was holding between her two fingers that day under the Sakura tree. We had just made a promise. The petal of Sakura would have always been our symbol. That's why from that day on, that tree has been my second home. It was the only safe place where I could remember in peace our love. After that I saw nothing else. I saw just a lot of dark and I was in a room all black trying to escape. I remember me screaming but I couldn't hear my own voice. I was screaming to help me and save me from that black room but nobody could hear me, I was mute. Not even when I cried inside that room I could hear my shouts. I started thinking that maybe if I had let go, and stopped to fight I would have died and so I would have felt better. Maybe, since I was mute, it was stupid keeping on screaming. No one would have heard me anyways. I was alone, fighting against a black wall. I didn't scream for some time and I could feel my strenghts getting less and less. I did not even cry anymore. I was waiting for that white light that everyone talks about. I decided I would have died. All of a sudden I started hearing the beating of my heart. It was so feeble and it beated very slowly. I was sitting next the wall of the black room and I started feeling the walls beating to the rythm of my heart. I coudln't move any part of my body. If I tried to, it was like trying to lift a skyscraper. I could almost not hear the beating of the walls anymore. When all of a sudden I heard a voice. It sounded so familiar. It was at first very weak. I tried to understand what it said and where it came from. I put the ear near the wall and I was almost sure the voice came from there. It started to be louder and louder. Now, I could also hear what it said. It called my name. It called me like a request for help. Then when the voice was loud enough, I could finally understand whom that voice belonged to. It was Krystal voice. I was sure about it. It was her. She didn't want me to give up. She was on the other side of the wall and I had to save her. I had to set her free. I had to see her once again before I died. I called her name. At first my voice couldn't come out, but her request for help was much more important than my own life. I had to answer. She had to know I fought for her. I promised I wouldn't have left her. My voice became stronger and I could scream a bit louder. I felt the beating of my heart was becoming stronger and louder too. It took me a while to feel again my arms and when I felt just a little bit of strenght flowing in my veins I used it to bump my fists against the wall. I screamed her name louder and louder till when I could finally get up. I felt my heart was in flames. All of a sudden, her voice stopped calling me. I could only hear the beating of my heart. What did happened to her? What did they do to her? I could feel my anger and my concern becoming bigger and bigger. I screamed as loud as I could. The walls of the room trembled. The floor of the the black room trembled as well and then it split in two. The hole became bigger and bigger till it became a crater. Its inside was red and there were flames coming out from it. It thundered and it expelled fire arrows. They hurt me and burned my skin. I fell on the ground. The crater was about to me in when I heard again that voice. I raised my head and saw some Sakura Petals flying in the room. I raised my hands and catched them. I clenched my fists as I got up. The petals became part of me. They gave me life and strenght. I screamed to the crater then I bumped my fists on the floor with all the strenght I had screaming how much as I could. I then dumped my strenght on the walls too with my fists. The walls trembled even more and some cracks started to appear everywhere. A white light started to shine from the cracks. I approached to the wall and touched the cracks. I pushed with my fingers inside the cracks. The light became stronger and it filled in all the room. The walls exploded. I covered my eyes to protect me from the explosion. I watched the floor but there wasn't no more and also the crater had disappeared. I removed my hands from my face and everything around me was of a white light. I was floating in anything but it was I felt as if I was underwater. I felt a hand touching mine. I turned to that hand. I tighten my grip. I saw Krystal face. "I saved you" I told her. She smiled to me and then a brighter light coming from her blinded me. When I opened my eyes I labored a lot to keep them open. I could see someone in front of me but the images were too blurry. I heard from far away saying "She's waking up". That someone had a shaky voice as if she or he had cried a lot hoping for me to wake up again. I felt my eyes were heavy and they were wet from tears. I could feel my whole body hurt a lot. I watched around me and even if the view was very limited I understood I was at a hospital. I heard a nurse calling my name trying to understand if I could react to external impulses. When I could see better I focused my view and I saw my mother. I got goosebumps and I felt so guilty and sorry for her. She was crying.

"Mom" I said with difficulty. Now I could see whom I was holding the hand to. My mom caressed my hand.

"I'm here honey. Don't worry" My father and my sister where there too. They came to hug me and cried happy that I woke up.

"What happened?" I asked them

"An old woman found you on the subway in a bad state. She said you were bleeding from everywhere. She called to the hospital and they came with an ambulance. They said you had cuts all over your face, a broken foot and an arm broken too. Also, some guys beated you very hard on the head and they tried to stab you" She said sobbing, she tried to control herself "But you're safe now"

"How much have I been in coma?"

"For five days. They hit your head hard" Five days? How could I have slept for five days? I started getting alarmed. I needed to know about Krystal, immediately "Also some of your classmates came to visit you yesterday so I told them you would have received them when you would have felt better"

"Mom, Krystal? What about her? She... she... she's in danger. Mom! Mom I have to help her" I said gasping for air

"Sssh, calm down. Calm down baby" she said caressing me

"But I have to- she is-"

"You're too ill right now.... Anyways..." She stopped to think and then she watched my father. What was happening??

"Anyways??" I asked impatient. She looked at me lovingly

"Your father lost the job and Krystal parents called us on the phone... We decided to sue them" 

"What and... Krystal?" I asked with my heart in my throat. She looked again my father and then my sister who got a sad expression. She watched the floor and then me with teary eyes. "I'm sorry" she said. The universe fell on me and this time it crushed me completely and for ever. I cried and cried and cried till my pain created a chasm in my body. I survived for nothing. I died inside. I lost her.

_ HI everyone! here's the ninth chapter. I hope you liked it!! What do you think happened to Krystal?!? O_O Stay tuned to find out more.. Thank you to all my readers and for your comments. Good night or good morning to everyone, bye ;) xoxo_