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The Final Countdown?
Maybe I should just die…there’s no reason for me to live anymore; you’ll never be mine and it hurts so much. I can feel the gaping hole of emptiness in my heart growing bigger. Just the sight of you and her together drives me closer to insanity. I stared out at the vast blue of the sea in front of me. My toes were hanging just off the edge of the cliff. I gazed down and watched as countless waves crashed against the rocks below.
“Mmm, 50 metres, maybe?” I estimated out loud to myself. If I jumped from the right place I could land on the jagged spikes of stone. I winced at the thought but still the thought of losing you was more painful. I could feel my whole body beginning to shake as I began my mental countdown.
10, 9…Time had already begun to slow down.
8, 7, 6…Hot tears began to fall from my eyes as the past 5 years of my life flashed by.
5, 4…Your smiling face shone in my mind.
“Maybe in another life.”
3.A breeze passed; silence. I begin to lift my foot.
2.Rushing footsteps.
1.“Sayu!”
I felt myself beginning to fall, my eyes wide open in shock. You were there. Looking up I saw you jump off the cliff after me where I had been moments before.
“Eri…” I whispered out, my voice getting lost in the whistling wind.
I felt your arms warmly embrace me. You positioned us so that we were falling backs first, you underneath. I realised what you were doing, but too late before I could do anything. We hit the water hard, you receiving the worst hit; you had broken the water to protect me. I was thrown out of your arms and under the waves. Pain surged through my left leg; I had injured it on impact. I fought my way to the surface taking several deep breaths after surfacing.
“Eri!” I screeched out.
Turning my head back and forth I scanned the water for you, the fading light making my search harder. My heart was about to burst out of my chest; you couldn’t die. I breathed in deeply before diving back under the water. The salty water stung my eyes but I ignored it. I saw your body floating downwards slowly. I swam towards you at full speed. Grabbing you around the waist I began my ascent back to the surface. My lungs began to scream in agony from lack of oxygen, if I didn’t get air quick the both of us would die. Bursting above the waves I desperately inhaled. Quickly turning to you I realised that you were unconscious. There was no way you were going to give up so neither would I. Holding onto you I struggled back to shore. I weakly dragged you out of the water and gently placed you on the sand.
“Eri, please wake up,” I panted out. I lay on my hands and knees next to you, water dripping off of me.
“You can’t die…Please, just say something. Anything!”
You coughed quietly.
“S-So much for me b-being a t-turtle, huh?” you joked smiling at me. I felt tears falling from my eyes again as I pulled you into a hug.
“Don’t you ever do that again!” I ordered.
“You’re saying that to me? Why did you jump off of the cliff?” you asked.
I froze.
“Sayu?”
I unlatched my arms from you and kept them at my sides. I turned my head away.
“We tell each other everything, Sayu, so why can’t you tell me this? We’ve always been together,” you said dejectedly.
“I’ll tell you but there are going to be so many consequences,” I sighed out.
“We always work through them though, don’t we?”
I weakly smiled, you were still yourself. I brought my gaze to meet yours.
“I love you, Eri,” I stated.
You stared at me but quickly smiled and hugged me.
“I guess this is a problem isn’t it?” you sadly asked.
I nodded into your shoulder.
“That’s why I jumped, because I know that we can never be together because you have Gaki-san to love.”
“I’m so sorry, Sayu. I’m so sorry,” you apologised your grip around me tightening.
“It’s ok.”
“No, it’s not! I left you all by yourself!”
“I know that you never meant to.”
“Please don’t do this ever again. I need you, I really do. You’re always at my side; I wouldn’t be myself if you weren’t there.”
I heard you sniffling.
“Please, Sayu, I need you.”
I nodded; even if I could never be the one who you loved I guess be the best at whatever came next.
“Promise me.”
“I promise that I will never try to do this again,” I vowed.
We continued to hug for several minutes. You sneezed.
“Cold?”
You shyly laughed and nodded. I smiled.
“Did you hurt yourself?” I asked.
“Surprisingly no, but my back and legs kind of hurt,” you admitted.
I picked you up and placed you on my back.
“Yay! Rabbit back!” you excitedly squealed.
“Honestly, you still act like your shoe size,” I teased.
“But this is fun!”
“Hai hai.”
We both laughed as we made our way back to the hotel. I may have been cold on the outside but I was warm on the inside. These moments that we spent together will never leave my memory, ever. The hole in my heart will slowly heal but you will always be my number one; always and forever my Eri.
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