The bed was cold when Jia woke up and worriedly glanced at the child in her arms. His tossled hair still looked the same like the the day before, his clothes still smelled the same. With stinging pain in her heart Jia brushed over the childs arms and shivered under the coldness of his skin. Within seconds Jia swung her eyes open and sat up, putting Bo's arms on her lap.

He was sleeping so peacefully.
So quiet.
Not even a little breath would escape his closed lips.

"Wake up, Bo.", Jia whispered in despair and put her fewerish warm hands onto his pale cheeks.

"The sun is shining, Bo."

Bo remained quiet and kept his eyes closed.

"The sky is bright today."

His face expresion looked so innocent and pure, as if he would feel the bright weather in his heart.

"You would love this sight, you always loved it."

As Bo still didn't answer Jia took him by his shoulder and shook him carefully.

"Bo it's time to get up."

Silence

"Bo!"

Nothing

"Wake up!"

Nothing but silence. Not even a heartbeat.

Jia knew exactly what had happened but she couldn't accept itin any way. She tried everything she could, calling him, reanimating, praying.

Nothing.

No answer from Bo or from his heart.
No answer from god.

She was all alone.

Desperately she screamed at the window from where the sunrays shone on them.

"Why would you shine on a day like this?!?"

Tears floated down her cheeks in waterfalls, she felt so dry on the inside.

So empty.

So alone.

"Don't leave me Bo.", she whispered into his ear and her tears dropped onto his face.

He would just shone with quietness and peace at her like before as if he wanted to say: "I'm here."

"I said I wouldn't leave you...", Jia cried out and hugged him tightly.

"I promised you."

The pain the illness caused to her body suddenly didn't feel bad anymore, Jia enjoyed the stinging pain that made breathing so hard for her.

"Jia! Bo!"

A shouting woman interrupted the painful silence and grief. The mother of the lifeless boy swallowed her own cry when she spotted the child in Jias arms, who barely couldn't hold him anymore.

"Is he?", she questioned Jia, who replied with a weak nodding and then broke down again.

"How could you let him die?!"

"You don't deserve to have his love!"

"I hate you!"

"Bo never loved you."

Jia didn't even look up from Bo's bed and instead covered the dead body on her lap with a white blanket.

Liling furiously stepped towards her but when she saw the face of her peacefully resting child she stopped back in pain and fell down in the corner of the room. She remained quiet, with her hands covering her face.

"Can you take the tubes out of my arm?"

Jia awaited her answer, but Liling didn't even look up.

"I said I wouldn't leave him. I need to be with him."

Liling now stared at her with teary eyes and the prior hatred in her eyes had vanished.

"I'm too weak to do it myself."

Liling closed her eyes and imagined how it would be like to see Bo again, standing on the beach and waving over to her.

"Mom", he would shout over to her and show her a shell he found in the white sand.

Which way was the best to choose?

Being with your own child forever, or doing what Bo would want her to do?

Bo would want her to be happy.

But she couldn't be happy without him.
Never.

A second before she had reached Jia's bed to help her with the tubes, a knock on the door forced her to stop her action.

"Baekhyun.", Jia cried out and swung her arms around him, and he prevented her body from breaking down at the floor.

"I'm here...", he calmly whispered at her forehead and kissed it softly.

"Can you help me with the tubes Baekhyun?"

But Baekhyun just ignored her question and bowed down to caress Bo's cheeks.

"You've been so strong and so loved."

Then he faced Jia again and mumered: "Bo wants you to live, and so do I."

"Do you think so?"

"He told me, the last time I spoke with him."

"But..."

"Jia..."

Baekhyun pushed down Jias protesting arm forcefully and stepped closer to her.

"Let him go."

Jia nodded under tears and then pointed towards Liling and Baekhyun understood quickly. Slowly he stepped over to the woman sitting on the ground and hugging her own legs. She stared somewhere at a wall with an expresiionless face and didn't notice Baekhyun who suddenly sat next to her.

"It's not your fault."

"It is..."

The woman turned her head over to him and broke into tears.

"You couldn't change anything."

"I left him."

"You saved so many people last night..."

"But not my own child."

"You couldn't have saved him, even if you stayed."

"I.."

"You should say good bye to him."

Liling looked up from her tears but then actually nodded her head. Baekhyun gave her an encouraging smile and companied her to Bo's bed.

"Bo!", she cried out loud and covered her mouth in pain.

"My son."

Baekhyun however squinted at Jia and helped her out of bed. She could barely let Bo's hand go, but she knew Liling needed this. So she took Baekhyuns hand and followed him with careful steps to the door.

For the last time she stole a glance at Bo lying in his bed as if he would only sleep for a while.

Or for an eternity.

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Ugh I think I died hundred times while writing this
Sorry for breaking all your hearts with this shiteu ><