Chapter 92
Sleep
They left. Everyone has gone.
I was alone now.
I dragged my dead feet towards Aoi’s room.
Visiting hours were long past, but I knew I needed to be by her side.
She needed someone to be by her side. No matter how much it hurt me to see her like this.
The hall was still empty so I quietly slid open the hospital door and slipped in.
“Aoi..”
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Chapter 93
Sleep
“Aoi-chan…” I said again. My voice shook.
She was lying there motionless.
Her broken body must be hurting.
Soft hair in a disarray,
brushed back from the bandages
wrapped around her forehead.
There was a respirator over her face,
each breath sounded so painful,
a raspy rush of air.
It seemed like it took so much effort just to breathe.
An IV drop and a machine that monitored the heartbeat
were beeping quietly, as if to lie that she was just asleep.
She will be in a stable condition for now.
I heard the doctor’s voice in my head.
Without the IV, without the respirator, she might die, I realized.
Without these machines… I didn’t dare think about it.
Just a few hours ago,
she was smiling, smiling at me.
A few hours ago,
she had her arms around me,
and I felt her warmth all over my body.
A few hours ago,
she had been shining,
as radiant as an angel.
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Chapter 94
Sleep
How could this have happened to her?
Why hadn't it happened to me instead?
I'd give anything to change places with her.
She didn't deserve this.
How could I let her go through this pain?
Now, I could only silently wait by her side.
I found a stool next to her bed and collapsed onto it.
Moments ago, I couldn't cry.
But now, the tears came like a waterfall.
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Secondhand Memories (Pioneer English Cell Phone Novel)
Teen Fiction[Coming-of-age, Romance, Existential, Japan] Seiji and Aoi have been inseparable childhood friends and eventually, high school sweethearts. Believing in naive dreams and love, all seems well until a tragedy separates them with a chasm of frozen time...
