•°•Abandonment•°•
Irena (eng. Irene) is a 17 year old girl from Bosnia. She didn't have friends. Ever. She was a bit chubby and she had a long dark brown hair and big blue eyes. She loved singing and listening to music. She loved old music because it resembled real life and no matter how sad or happy songs were they were all true. She realized that the most when she was abandoned and left alone in Korea by her parents.
They moved to Korea because her father was from Korea and he got an opportunity of a lifetime. She was 6 when they moved there. For two years she's been learning korean and her parents decided it was time for her to go to school and make friends. Except it wasn't that easy. And to top it all she was going to become big sister. She was scared and excited at the same time. Nine months later her younger sister came to this world. She was so happy until her sister got all the attention and soon she felt abandoned and unloved.
Nine years later, one morning, she woke up and found the house empty. She thought that maybe her parents took her sister to school so she also went to school.
When she came back the house was still empty, even cold and abandoned like her. She called for her parents and her sister but in vain.
Finally she found a letter on the kitchen table. It said:"Irena, dear, we had to leave in a rush, your mom got a call from Bosnia. It's your grandma. She's sick. We took your sister with us because she could take her leave from school and for her to see her mother's homeland. We love you."..
...
Her eyes were full of tears and she started crying and went to her room. She played her song and fell asleep. In the middle of the night she woke up because she was hungry. The fridge was almost empty, just some prosciutto which she didn't eat and milk and one half of bread. She ate some bread and drank some milk and went back to sleep. But she couldn't fall asleep without her song. Song her mom sang to her. Her favorite song. She took her phone out and started typing. She wrote the lyrics in Bosnian and translated it to korean and posted it on her account with link of the original MV. After barely three seconds she got a notification *MY_96 liked your post*
She played the song from her playlist and managed to fall asleep.
Tommorow morning, when she woke up, she ran down the stairs and called for her family but after no one answered she remembered their letter. She suddenly felt even more abandoned and that bright smile she had on her beautiful face was suddenly gone. She went to kitchen and found only the remains of bread and milk that was now spoiled and not useable so she only ate the bread and took her phone and saw another notification *You've got a new message from MY_96*
She thought that was weird but it can't get worse than being left alone. She opened it and found a link with message down below.
*"How beautiful"*
She opened the link and it led her to a video of herself singing her song in bosnian. She was fourteen then. Even though she was surprised to see this video online, she started crying, not just because of her situation but also because she loved singing and this song is so sad yet so beautiful. And she thought she was never gonna sing it again or hear anyone she cares about sing it...
One week passed by, she went to school every day as she's supposed to, then two weeks passed by and then three..
One morning, after a while, she got another notification. It was an audio file of MY_96 singing her song, in bosnian.
She felt so happy yet so alone, so alone yet so loved, so loved yet so empty. She couldn't bring herself to stop listening to him. He had a voice of an angel. She kept listening to him.
In the fourth week she was broken, no...she was shattered. Her family left her for good. By herself, with no money and no food, all alone. It was 16th August today, it was her birthday. She went to her favorite place in town. It was an old bridge. She crossed over the fence and put her headphones on and pressed play. **MY_96-Tebi majko misli lete (eng. Mother Your thoughts are flying away).
She jumped.
She couldn't swim and even if she could she didn't want to but his voice kept ringing in her ears and she suddenly became aware of everything.
Of life.
And so she decided to try hard to swim. She was running out of breath and loosing her consciousness slowly but somehow she managed to get to the surface and breathe in. But that's when she saw him.
Some young man jumped in. To save her. She didn't realize what was going on so she did her best to stop him. To share her sympathy and to show her remaining sense of any kind of feelings with him. To save him.
After they somehow managed to get out and dry themselves, he just stared at her with surprise and delight in his eyes. He hugged her and she hugged him back.
Irena: Why?
MY: ...(silent)
Irena: Why did you jump?
MY (thoughts): Because I was trying to
save you...
Irena: Here (gives him one earbud)..
This is what saved me...my
favorite voice singing my favorite
song...
MY (thoughts): I thought "I" saved you?
MY took the earbud and heard what she said is her favorite voice...It was him..
MY: .....(shocked)
Then he hugged her.