True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice
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"I trusted you."

Kang doesn't faze. His eyes dead. Bearing no emotion. He's on his knees in front of me. So romantic isn't it? I'm so gone. So broken. So dumb.

"We have to discuss this." He tells.

"Discuss what?" I am so confused. "You think I look like I will discuss any shit?"

His jaw clenches. "Are you going to sign the papers or not?"

"Or what?" I frown, "You're gonna kill me. What else?" I don't know what to say anymore. I am still processing this. This betrayal. His love for me. Love. Love. God. I thought he loved me.

"Did you leave me with any choice, Kang?" The rage is slowing down to a heartbreak. And tears are almost coming on the brim but I don't want him to see them. Don't wanna come out so hurt.

He's looking straight into my eyes. Both of them. And If I wasn't wrong I see how they soften up for a second. How he doesn't want this either but again I might be delusional. Maybe it's the mirage my eyes are creating.

"Okay, stop the drama." Mr Kang is running out of patience and I'm glaring at him now. If I could, I could split his neck in half and do this world a favour of eliminating this man of demon from it.

He's pointing his finger at me, "Your choices are clear. Sign the papers and fly away far away from this place or die." He shrugs, "Simple, right?"

"Fly where?" What does he mean?

He's scoffing out a big laugh. "I don't know manh, at least you're surviving right?" He comes closer, rests his palm on Kang's shoulder and keeps his eyes on me. "Isn't that a big deal?"

I see Kang stiffening up under his touch.

Kang. Song Kang. That guy who made all of these ten days worth living than any days I had after my parents passed away. How could someone feel so much at home? Like a safe place.

He can't really betray me, can he?

How can those genuine eyes lie to me?

But again, I don't know what to say. I don't know what to do. All I can do is love him either way. Cause even after all of this, sickly I can't even stop this stupid feeling from fading away. They're so strong. And I just want to get him and run far away.

But it isn't really possible. Maybe there's that 1% chance.

None of them is going to have me sign those papers either way. I am not letting this sick man have what he wants willingly, at all. If I die. Then that is that.

"I am not signing the papers. Just get done with this and kill me." I declare. I give up.

Mr Kang groans, slaps his palms on his lap, "C'mon I thought you weren't this boring."

My eyes are red and teary, my heart is a mess and he is making me out as a damn boring person? I almost jumped at him and Kang got his palms stopping me from getting up.

"What do you think you're doing?" His tone is laced with calmness. "Sit back." I can't read him at all and it is so so so annoying.

My head is buried down and I'm shaking and crying out. "God, son can you just stop this dramatic nonsense." His father is sighing hard. Hands on his forehead. "Girls are fucking irritating for real. Specifically this little shit."

I am crying more and his father keeps blabbering.

"Parents died. I get it. There are so many kids without parents, like, please. Cut the crap. Just think about yourself and live." He is making my blood boil and I don't know how to release it all out.

"You just simply have to sign a few papers goddamit. Go live your life then." And he calls in for a man. Asks for the documents and he scurries away only to come back with a file.

"Here. Just make it easy." He sounds done with this. My eyes looked up to find the very familiar document I had. Familiar? No. It's the document I had locked in my cupboard.

The cupboard one Kang scurried out to find his tie.

Tie.

It wasn't his tie.

I can't take this.

Please someone just kill me.

"You did this?" My cheeks are wet. Hair slicked attached to my cheeks and I just want him to tell me he did not do any of it and kiss me a thousand times, take my hand in his and take me out. Assure me everything will be alright.

But it's too late for that. He nodded a yes. "I lived with you for a reason. You can't be that oblivious Hana."

My face tilts, my eyes all honest. "Oblivious? I was blinded by you to see anything else, Kang."

His lips part very slightly. "Please don't make this so hard." I feel him whispering if I wasn't wrong. What? Did he say that? I'm blinking a hundred times.

Mr Kang has pushed back Kang and the gun is now pointing towards me. "I can't believe this girl." He is loading it. "We will work with fingerprints." He has come to his last resort. "If you wish to die? Let me grant that then." The trigger is almost pulled until Kang kicks his dad's arm and throws his father's gun far away.

"STOP FUCKING RIGHT NOW!" He is growling like a beast. His eyes all wide and his blood boiling. "YOU'RE SUCH A FREAK!" He had taken his gun out in a few seconds and shot him in the knees.

Loaded it in a few seconds and pointed his gun right at his forehead after Mr Kang had fallen right on his back. Eyes at all the men surrounding Kang with their guns.

"One step forward and I'm going to kill Dad." Kang has given everyone a warning. A very serious one. "Keep all your weapons down."

No one moves.

"DID YOU NOT HEAR ME?" The howl is loud. "DOWN! NOW!" All the guns have fallen that second. "HANDS UP!" He yells again and everyone has got their hands behind their nape.

He nods his head at one of the men closest to me. "You. Open her up right now!"

"Son." His father calls for him. "Look, you're not—"

"Shut the fuck up or you want another shot in your damn head?" He has never spoken to his dad that way and that makes his dad stunned. "Oh, you're turning your back on me just because of a girl?"

He grits his teeth. "She's just not a girl, Mr Kang." He leans forward, his hair now scrambled, "I'd prefer you respectfully refer to her as Miss Hana."

His father looks so angry. He has never lost his composure. Now that his son is turning his back on him he really can't take it. He would've never trusted him with this. Never. Too foolish of him.

"YAH!"

Kang suddenly turns on the call only to see me at a gunpoint. Shit. He shouldn't have averted his gaze.

"Let the boss go, or she dies." My face is squeezing under this man's palm and it's so disgusting and ew. I'm not able to stand still. My heart is racing and Kang's gun is long thrown.

He didn't think even a second to let go.

As soon as the man loses his grip, I stumble forward and see Kang catching me in his embrace. God, I missed him so much. I knew he could never betray me. I knew my heart.

"Hana..." he is so much worried. "I'm so sorry for all of this." His eyes are teary. "Are you okay?" He is checking me everywhere. My face, my arms, my wrists. "That would've hurt you wouldn't it?" My wrists are bruised because of the ties and he is kissing them.

"I apologize." He is still kissing them. "I am so sorry I couldn't solve this mess up."

I cup his head. Let him see me. "It's alright. You being with me is enough." I brush his hair away and he just wants to kiss me.

"Now you're gonna die off—" Kang immediately pushes me along to the corner and there's firing going on. I almost had my heart burst open.

"Kill him!" Mr Kang commands in extreme pain and all the men are focusing on us. Managing to dodge all the bullets with his excellent instincts he tries to take me out of the danger.

Until, until one man catches sight of my leg. Shoots and it all happens within seconds. It hit my calf and I fell abruptly on the floor. Kang is shocked. Notices the bleeding. Carries me up and immediately finds a corridor and shuts us inside a room.

"Oh, Hana what do I do." I've never seen him get so panicked before. It's panicking me too. "I-I think it's okay until and unless I have to cut my le—"

"Dear God Hana, don't talk about such things. There's nothing like that going to happen." He is finding something to tie my leg with.  Grabs a curtain and tears it in half. Ties it around my leg.

He is looking back and forth in my eyes, "Does it hurt?"

I hum, "Too bad, but not as much as it was a few moments ago." I say and he throws his shoulders, shakes his head and scrambles his hair. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you about it."

I am confused, "About what?"

"The documents weren't the original ones. It was a copy. A fake one. I wanted you to sign them and leave this place." He is running fingers through his hair, regretting, "I was going to join you soon. Had few arrangements done."

I gasp. "No way."

He nods, "But you were adamant on not signing on documents. I get it. You were so strong there. I admire you so much."

I feel bad. Somehow.

"I'm so sorry—"

"–no you don't have to apologize—"

And the next thing I know my lips are on his. He is taken aback. Breath stuck in his throat. I kiss him hard and he's groaning. Out of pleasure.

"Hana" I let go and take a sharp breath until he doesn't let me have a few seconds of them. Cups my face and locks his lips with mine and I'm feeling so much better.

"How much ever I wanna kiss you I can't. We have to get out." He informs. I agree. He bites his lips. "Before they find us we have to–lord—" he kisses me again and I'm the one who's taken aback now.

He lets go. "Let's go, never mind." He picks me up bridal style and my arms are hanging out around his shoulders. "Hold me tight." He bursts open the door and the men are all around the corridor searching for us.

There are so many of them. "I don't think we will make it out alive." I jinx and he shuts me up. "Stay here."

"What?" I disagree.

His soft eyes fall on me again. "Do you remember my promise? Hm?"

"What promise?"

"The clock didn't strike twelve yet, Hana. I'm still standing on the promise of keeping you safe when you agreed to become my girlfriend."

"Kang..." Why do I feel like It is going to be something I don't want to happen?

It wasn't only me who had to be safe, he was also equally in danger. "I'll keep you safe. Count on me." He kisses me and lays me down and my heart is pounding like crazy.

"Hey, what does that mean?" I don't want him to leave. I don't want him to fight anymore. Just want him to be with me.

He gives me just one look, "Just trust me." He smiles and takes off in the hall. My legs hurt. My mind is spinning and I want to go out.

As I immediately take a support to stand I hear a shot. A single shot. Everything silences.

~ play the song Truth Untold
by BTS from here ~

I barely walk with a heavy heart only to cry out. Song Kang's gun was pointed at Mr Kang and he killed him.

He did it.

He killed him.

I am shedding tears. He catches sight of me. "It's over." He is covered in his father's blood. Ruined and ruined. I walk towards him. Spread my arms. Cry.

He runs to me. Picks me up and spins me around. Is so joyful. I am so happy.

"Kang" I stuttered "We are free". He nodded and kissed me. "Yes, my love. There's nothing to worry about now!" He hitched smiling in pain. I curled up in his arms and stayed there listening to his heartbeat syncing with mine.

And the only one thing left for me to say to him was...

"Look at me," I call for him. Lower him down and he is having his nose nudging against mine. I caress his cheeks. Let those magical three words out. "I love you."

He is breaking apart.

"Y-you what?" It comes out as a whisper.

"I love you" I repeat and he tightly shuts his eyes. "I can't take this anymore." There's so much happening and he is smitten and gone and emotional.

"I love you so much, Kang." I kiss him and he grabs me by my waist tight and pushes me into the deepest kiss he could ever give.

He lets go. Breathes hard. "I'm so glad to make you happy." He rubs his nose against my cheeks and I smile, "You're my happiness."

He shakes his head and laughs, tears slowly springing up in his eyes, "I'm so glad I met you." He gives me a soft kiss on the cheeks. "I'm glad these ten days have been the best days of our life."

"It was." I nod, lick my lips and sigh.

"So glad to complete the list before time ran out." He whispers and my eyes open. He's resting his nose on my shoulders and I blink confused. "List?"

He distracts the conversation. "Can you please repeat you love me? I don't really wanna stop hearing it." I pout and he pouts back, "Pretty please."

I laugh and throw him off of me. Barely stand supporting myself on the wall next to me. "I Hana Yamamoto, declare that I am in love with Song Kang."

"I love you too." And he comes back to me. Smiles and love glowing on his face.

"No no no tell me again." I push him back again and he laughs with his head thrown back. "Alright."

He steps two times back.

Smiles.

Winks at me.

I laugh.

"I–"

I flinch.

"–I love—"

I scream.

"–I love you."

Three shots were hit right in his heart. By his father. Who uses his gun to do so? In his last breath. Tells how a betrayer is a betrayer and dies after killing his son.

Kang stumbles towards me and falls right in my arms. I freeze. Blood spits out his lips. He's coughing.

"Huh?" My body froze as my eyes darted over his back.

3 bullets were shot at him.

My trembling hands roam around his face "Kang?" I call him out. He is conscious.

"You're being too loud." He is smiling. Blood is flowing in rivers. I am not sure if I can breathe. My consciousness has left my body.

"H-hospital." I hold his heavy body. Try to clog the bullet wounds with my hands. He is glancing at my red red red hands. "T-that won't help, what are you doing–" he is coughing and still smiling.

I am crying so much. "Shut up please." I don't know how to help him. "I'll take you to the hospital" As I am preparing myself to get up he holds my wrist and doesn't let me go. Pulls me closer. Looks me in the eye. Brushes a hair strand away from my face.

"It's okay. It's too late for that." He is barely talking and I am shaking my head. Not trying to listen to him. "No–no please."

He cups my cheeks, "This was bound to happen."

"NO IT IS NOT!" I scream and tears are streaming down his cheeks. "Ten days, love." He tells and I don't understand. "The time's up."

I have laid my head on his chest. Crying nonstop. "Please hold for me. I will look out for help." I beg at this point. "N-nothing i-is going to happen to y-you" 

"Hey..." he murmurs bringing my hands to his lips. Kisses them. Looks back at me. The life is slowly leaving his glowing eyes.

"What if you and I were to part ways, only so that we could find each other again?" He kisses my hands again as a tear falls again from his eye.

"No, no that-" Pulling me closer he hugs me for the last time whispering "You were the best thing to ever happen to me. I have always loved you. I will always love you. In all the lifetimes.  It's going to be just you and me. I promise."

I nod. "No, you're going to live what do—" his hands leave the grip. And he is slipping away. My heart falls. Dread fills me. I take a look at him and I find him smiling like a blooming flower and closing his eyes before me.

"Kang?" I call and he does not respond.

"Stop acting Song Kang" I wipe my tears and smile instead, "Fine. I love you too" I say, but still he remains. "I know you are okay, you just fainted I think so,"

I immediately lay my head on his chest wanting to hear a heartbeat but I heard nothing but silence...

"Hey, can you hear me?" I glide my hand under his back holding him up, ignoring the blood that was oozing out on the floor.

I still get no response...

"You can't leave me, please, please talk to me" I beg while caressing his face with my trembling fingers, "Come back" I kiss his shut eyes. "Please" I kiss his lips. "I love you" I place my last kiss on his forehead. "Please, please, please." I am begging.

"I've got nothing but you, how dare you leave me alone!" I hug his figure close as he keeps slipping away. "What would I do without you?"

I can't live like this. "You think I will be okay without you? Huh?" He didn't say anything but the smile he gave me before leaving doesn't fade. He was still smiling as I was now free from all the pain, all the suffering.

No, I was not, I needed him.

"Song Kang, I still want you"

"I still want you... I still want you"

+++

I woke up!

The beeping sound of the hospital rang in my ears as before,

I found myself in hospital.

Kang. Kang. Kang.

Where was he?

The blanket is thrown. My legs have reached the floor and suddenly the doctors are coming to check on me. Eyes wide and shock covering their faces.

"Miss Hana—"

"Kang, where is he?" I am crying, "Please tell me where he is?" My legs have started to walk but I suddenly am not able to. It's like they have jammed up. I'm wobbling and I fall head-on.

"You need to stay put!" The doctor worries and all the patients around the room are looking towards me. My body is swollen and my muscles have jammed up. I don't know what's wrong with me.

"No, where's Song Kang?" I ask trembling, my heart racing. Expecting with every hope that he is doing well and he just fainted earlier. I want answers.

"Song Kang?" The doctor is frowning. "What?" He is helping me up and making me sit on the bed but I don't want to sit at all. I want to go and find my Kang.

"Please, just let me go!" I wail. Tears falling terribly and wetting my cheeks. My hands shaking and I'm suddenly trembling. "Please take me to him," I beg and beg and beg and the doctor looks so helpless.

"I'm so sorry but there's no patient here with the name Song Kang." He is trying desperately to calm me down. "You were the only one found alive."

My heart drops. "Alive?"

The doctor apologizes.

"Is Kang dead?" I can't come to believe it.

He is sighing in distress. "Who Kang?" He asks me, "Don't you remember what happened to you before you got admitted to this hospital?"

My chest is so heavy. "I—I-was shot in my leg." My head hurts. "Kang tried to save me." I'm so pissed. "His dad tried to kill me for the dam—"

The doctor calls nurses and they are jotting something down very immediately on their sheets.

The doctor rests his hand on my head. "Listen to me very carefully Miss Hana." He calls and I am not able to form any words. My throat aches. My heart hurts so much.

"You were in a coma for a year."

My face drops. It's been a year since it happened? Lord.

"You got in an accident while travelling with your parents in your car." He informs me about it and my sobs have turned off. Unbelievable. Impossible.

"What?" I spit. Few hiccups following me on the way.

He nods very slowly. "Your parents were the only ones who got injured along with you," he said, getting to check my vitals.

I squint my brows, "What do you mean?" I don't understand anything at all. What did he mean by my parents? How did he know about my parents?

"I'm sorry about your loss." He took a deep breath, "We couldn't save them but they did have a funeral." he completed the statement expecting me to cry my eyes outright at the moment but why was he saying something that happened three years ago?

"It happened three years ago." I mutter, "I'm well aware. Just tell me where is Kang."

I retort, remove the needle from my hand and get out of bed and the doctor widens his eyes, "What are doing miss!" He panics again while I try getting away but the nurses come trying to hold me down, "PLEASE LAY DOWN!"

"I WANT TO SEE SONG KANG!" I yell cry out, and get away from the hold of them, "Did he get admitted to the other hospital?" Tears are uncomfortably falling and no one gives a shit. I hate hospitals. I hate everything.

"Ma'am there's no one called Song Kang!" The doctor groans in full rage not being able to hold himself back again.

"CAN YOU FUCKING STOP AND LET ME GO TO HIM!" I scream, eyes tight shut. Crying my eyes out when suddenly the nerves around my head again start to ache. A little too much.

"Please, calm yourself. You were in a coma for a year and your sudden movements would only hurt you."

"A year? How?" I wipe my tears. "You mean the accident happened a year ago?" I ask and he stiffly answers, "It's been just a year. Not three years."

I am losing it.

"A year?"

He nodded "Since the car accident happened you have been in a coma and during the accident, your head was been injured. You've had a concussion" 

"Did I not wake up even once after the accident?" I frown not believing him.

He shook his head, "Not even once, we did not believe you to come back to your normal state. Your body did not want to come back, but for ten days you have been showing great recovery. If you had stayed longer in the vegetative state you would have been dead."

"Does that mean I came back to life?"

"Indeed a miracle" the doctor mentioned walking past me and handing me some stuff from the accident.

And that's when I found my bucket list under the things I had carried with me in the car.

All the things written on the list were played in my head. Every single bit of it. The whole list! the whole fucking list happened to play in my head just to wake me up?

By hurting me again, making me picture a person who I loved. Again?

It was a dream?

Kang was a dream?

He never existed? The person I gave my heart to, who did everything to save me. The person I stayed with for 10 days, was not real?

I guess I was in debt to the world, to let it sacrifice each thing I ever loved.

+++

2 years later after the recovery...

After my discharge, with my family's insurance money, I was living a good life and I was here standing in the school I wanted to go in.

"Please, fill this form." The headmistress asserted handing me a pen.

After filling out the form the homeroom teacher takes me to the class with her. My head is lowered. Hands clasped tight on the bag.

"Good morning students, this is your new classmate, Hana Yamamoto. I hope you all will treat her well." She announces and everyone welcomes me with a round of applause.

My homeroom teacher has pointed at the very last bench of the class next to the window. "There's an empty bench. You can have your seat there." She gives me a little push and I look back at her and bite my lips. Take my feet to the last bench.

And there's a boy seated next to me.

My eyes still low. Very shy.

I hang my bag next to my bench. Take my seat. Remove my books. Finally try to take a look at my seat mate only to shut my eyes because of the direct sunlight falling right in my eyes.

My seatmate deeply chuckles, raises his palm to stop the sunrays, "Hey," he tilts his head to let me see him and as soon as I take a look at him my heart drops.

His pink lips smile. "So nice to meet you, Hana" he introduces himself,

"I'm Song Kang."

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A/N

Finally, the book met the end

I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I enjoyed writing this book

Hana and Song Kang will be remembered

I'm not crying :)

I like to thank all the people who have read the book and appreciated it♡

Thank you for staying with me till the end!

I love you all.

So finally Stay safe and happy

My readers ♡

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