Chapter 4: Promise
***Taehyung's POV***
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SEOYEON IS GOING TO DIE WITH ME??!!" I shouted at Yoongi, who jerked back, surprised by my sudden outburst.
"Calm down, calm down Taehyung. You didn't let me finish. I asked you earlier about the promise... Do you Remember?"
*flashback 3rd person POV*
"Taehyung Oppa, how much do you love me?"
Seoyeon and Taehyung were sitting underneath a tree to hide in the shade. The sun was extremely hot that day, but no matter how hot and humid it was, he still wanted to hold her in his arms. She was sitting with her back to Taehyung and leaning up against his chest. Taehyung was leaning back into the tree.
"I love you so much. Words can't even describe how much I love you," he answered as he planted a kiss on her right temple.
She was so beautiful in his eyes. Her smaller frame smiling underneath him as he slowly pulls away from the kiss made his heart beat rapidly.
"Oppa, if I was to die, would you follow after me?" Seoyeon suddenly questioned Taehyung.
"Pabo-yah. Why are you asking me that?"
"I'm just curious. I just want to know how much you really love me," she giggled in response.
"Lee Seoyeon, I would rather die in your place. Don't you say those words ever again."
Taehyung was upset at how she easily mentioned death. It had never crossed his mind that they were going to ever part. He only looked forward to a future with her.
"No, if you die, I will follow you. If you leave, I leave. If you live, I live," Seoyeon said while slightly turning her head. She was looking at Taehyung's lips and waiting for him to close the distance between them. A small smile crept at the corner of Taehyung's lips. He knew exactly what Seoyeon wanted, but he was not willing to give in to her.
"What a beautiful day!" He looked up to the sky as he stretched out his long arms, no longer holding onto the upset girl.
"Yah! Oppa!" Seoyeon called out to Taehyung. She had a cute little pout on her disappointed face. She finally sat up and turned around to look directly at Taehyung. She was still shorter than him even when she is sitting and he found it to be extremely cute.
Seoyeon put her hands on his cheeks and pulled his face down towards hers. Their lips met and the sweet gentle kiss soon turned into a war of tongue which Taehyung won. She lightly bit his bottom lips because she knew how much Taehyung loved it.
When Seoyeon had enough of Taehyung's lips, she broke the kiss leaving him wanting more. She pulled him in for a hug and whispered in his ear.
"I love you Kim Taehyung."
Taehyung pulled back and closed his eyes while resting his forehead up against hers.
"I love you too Lee Seoyeon."
*end flashback*
"But we never made a promise..."
I was slightly confused. I didn't understand what is going on.
"While sitting underneath that tree, she spoke about death and wanting to follow you if you ever leave the world behind. That was the promise that Seoyeon had made to herself that day."
Yoongi turned to look at Seoyeon, who was now being loaded into an ambulance. I was so caught up with Yoongi that I didn't even realize when it arrived. I got into the ambulance and sat down while the EMT was working on Seoyeon. I didn't even take a second look at what they did with my body or the other driver. Seoyeon was my priority right now and her safety was my only concern.
We arrived at the hospital and Seoyeon was rushed to the emergency room. I ran after following her into her room. The doctor came into the room to exam her. The impact of the car accident was hard, but the seatbelt did its job and saved her. She was bruised on her chest where the seatbelt had stopped her from hitting the dashboard. The doctors had to take some blood samples and do more exams to see if she was internally bleeding and if she had any broken ribs.
My beautiful Seoyeonie was laying in the hospital bed. Her small body was hooked up to so many machines and her monitor continuously beeping. Everything had happened so fast. I couldn't bear to see her like this anymore so I walked out of the room as the nurses left.
When I got outside of her room, I turned around once more to look at her through the glass door. I backed up into the wall and slid down the wall onto the ground. I covered my face with my hand and started sobbing lightly. I wanted so much to take her pain and suffering away, but I couldn't do anything. How could a dead person help her?
"What are you going to do about it Taehyung?"
I sniffled and looked up to see that Yoongi was standing next to me. He was looking down at me and he had a hint of sadness in his eyes.
"What can I do? I'm no longer alive..." I silently replied while sniffling.
"She made that promise. Now you are dead, she will follow you. Are you going to allow that? When those words were spoken, the tree has heard every word exchanged between you two. It was her witness," Yoongi simply explained. (Please read Author's Note below)
"You were against her promise. You didn't want her to mentioned death. You loved her enough to take her place if she died. Those were your words do you remember?"
I nodded, remembering everything about that day when the unintended promise was made.
"That is why you are given a chance to change her life. You could let her keep her promise and leave with you right now, or you could complete a mission in order for her to stay alive. So, what are you going to do? Is she going to leave with you, or is she going to live?"
A mission? What could the mission possible be?
"I-" Seoyeon's monitor suddenly started beeping crazily interrupting my thoughts and conversation with Yoongi.
*beep beep beep beep, beeeeeeeeeeeeeep*
Doctors and nurses rushed into the room and I quickly stood up and rushed closer to her door. I watched through the glass doors as the doctors got the defibrillator ready. I turn my attention to Seoyeon and her body was laying lifelessly on the bed, but her ghost was standing next to her body, staring directly at me.
"Seoyeonie?" I whispered ever so lightly. She had started running towards me.
"Taehyung Oppa..." She loudly cried out to me.
"Clear!"
The doctor zapped Seoyeon's body.
"Ugh..."
Seoyeon's ghost halted and her hands clutched her shirt on her chest. She was heaving very heavily as if she was in pain.
"Clear!"
The doctor zapped her body once again. This time Seoyeon's ghost started flickering but quickly turned full ghost again. She fell on to her knees and slowly sat down while still clutching her shirt. Her gaze landed on mine as she weakly calls out to me.
"Oppa... Help me. Neomu apa..."
I couldn't bear the pain of watching her suffer anymore. I turned to Yoongi, got down on my knees and begged him.
"Please Yoongi, let her live!"
To Be Continued...
Author's Note:
I felt I should explain a bit more in detail about the promise that Seoyeon had made. In my culture, we have a belief that a person can't make promises/oath regarding your life or someone else's life to a living thing or have a living thing witness or hear those words spoken by you. In Seoyeon's case, the tree that was shading the two was her witness and I explain it in the book but wanted to go a little deeper to let you all know how I came up with the idea.
This belief of ours usually never ends up a good thing because most people use it the same way that Seoyeon did. They want to prove their love for the other and once an oath or promise is made, if something was to happen to one or the other, the one that leaves the world first always comes back for the one that is still living.
This is more of a horror belief in our culture, but I have never once heard of the dead loving the living so much that they were willing to let them continue to live so I wrote my first book using this belief in a positive way instead of the usual horror way. I hope I made sense. You are welcome to ask questions if you want and I will answer the best I can. ^_^
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