2. This month is gonna be tough, everything is so messed up.
3. I need to stay lucid, for jiyeon.
4. I promised her parents, I'd take care of her...
5. ...and I will keep the promise at all costs.
Memuatkan…Memuatkan…
1. I call amanda, instructing her to ready the pilot and my plane...
2. ...and to make arrangements for me to be away from work for a while.
3. It's the worst possible time, but disaster doesn't plan itself around your calendar...
4. It just sweeps in and punches you in the face, demanding your attention.
5. And right now, this situation has my full and undivided attention...
6. My first priority is jiyeon.
Memuatkan…Memuatkan…
1. I never thought I had to fear an infection.
2. It isn't fair. And I don't understand.
3. She'd been doing so well.
4. The room is so empty and lifeless...
1. Yet I can't help myself from laying on my mom bed since it's the only place I can smell her scent.
2. I can hear kir and my dad behind the door talking quietly.
3. I don't know what I'd do without kir.
4. She is my rock and my love for her has only quadrupled in the past two weeks.
5. My grandma comes in when the sun begins its descent across the sky.
6. She sits down on the bed beside me.
7. "Jiyeon-ah.."
1. "Grandma..."
2. "My jiyeon, baby, don't cry, she's in heaven, your mom is in a better place."
3. "Umm.."
4. "As soon as we got to the emergency room..."
5. "Your mom asked one of the nurses for paper and a pen."
6. I wonder why she's telling me this...
7. "Uh?"
1. Until she pulls a square of paper from her pocket and hands it to me.
2. "Even though we assured her she'd be fine once they got the antibiotics into her system..."
3. "She seemed to know something we didn't."
4. "She wrote this in a fury while they attached her to an iv drip and removed her port."
5. "Then she folded it up and told the nurse to give it to you. I haven't read it."
1. "It's for you, from your mom."
2. I hold the paper in my hands.
3. It's still warm from my mom's hand...
4. I savour the image of a determined mom in her one last rebellious act against the fucking sickness that took her.
1. "CAN YOU LEAVE ME ALONE?"
2. SHE NODS AND RISES FROM THE BED, GIVING ME PRIVACY FOR WHAT IS SURE TO BE AN EMOTIONAL MOMENT.
3. "OH MOM!"