[5] Obey Me!
ZION POV
I'm currently getting ready for the festival. I want to show everyone my performance.. I want them to know that Raku is mine, but I can't.. For him I'm just a school mate who knows him.
The songs I'm going to sing is; White Horse by Taylor Swift,Come Back… Be Here by Taylor Swift and Sakura Koi by Mosawo. These songs are Raku's liking, I once saw them on his repeated list. This must be important to him?
"Be ready because we're leaving!" Dad said, I didn't get any additional information on Raku's health, Joshua suddenly didn't reply to my text's.
I'm putting my coat on and getting ready when suddenly I felt my heart ache, this is getting serious. It's been a year since I experienced this, so maybe I should go to the hospital to get a check up. I just hope that Raku would remember me once I die, I hope he doesn't regret being with me back then.. Once again, I'm going to let him go but I would go back and steal him.
"Let's go!" I said with no reaction at all, many stories are building up inside my brain, what if he remembers me? I'm sure he would go with me and I know that he would be so proud seeing me slowly achieving my dream.
I didn't talk with my dad through the hours of our travels. I want to keep this feeling-- that feeling where you know that there's something missing with your life, that feeling of you're alive but dead.
'I want you here, please! I hope you will go to the festival and cheer for me like in the past, I hope you will remember me.. This is the last time I will be seeing you!'
I felt the tears in my eyes just keep on falling like there's no tomorrow, I just look at the window and look at the scenery.. This is my last chance, to see if he's fine… this is also the last time I would be seeing his face, because after the festival I'm going to Japan.. Maybe I'm not going back? Even though my parents don't know it, I'm doing this because of the baby in my tummy.
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It doesn't take much time to arrive. When we first parked there's so many people and most of the stalls were crowded. I could smell the pheromones of the alphas, but I only liked Raku's pheromones.
"Let's go!" Dad said and I pretended to stand straight, I'm glad that I drank my pills earlier.
We walk through the stage and it's just time for them to call my name. I didn't get nervous at all because every festival, I'm most likely to sing. "Let's give it up for Zion Pioneer Chu!!!" the host calls me out and I just walk through and smile.. I'm going to miss this type of thing.
I'm going to miss everything about here, even though most of those memories are painful. This place has been our bridge, this place witnesses how our life upside down.. This also witnesses our story ends..
"You can do it! Remember our deal!" Dad said and without any hesitation I looked at the crowd and saw most of them were smiling at me while some were looking at me with a 'You-can-do-it' look, maybe they pity me. We didn't disclose our relationship to the people, only our closest friends knew.
"Before I'm gonna start singing, I wanna announce that this is the last time I'm gonna be here, this song--" before I finish my sentence the whole audience begins to go wild.
"WHY ARE YOU LEAVING?!!"
"THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I SAW YOU AND YOU'RE GONNA LEAVE?!!"
"PLEASE BE BACK WITH RAKU!!"
That was just some of their shouting, "I can't come back with Raku since he's with someone his family is happy about, don't worry about me I'm happy for them.. And also this song I'm about to sing is dedicated to him.." I said with a smile, I looked at my dad and for a second I saw him pity me, he didn't stop me seeing Raku but mom did.. I don't know why but I don't care anymore..
The melody of the song I'm about to sing is making me remember our past, "Say you're sorry, that face of an angel
Come out just when you need it to~" it makes me cry to just remember our first meeting. The look in your eyes that time, that makes my heart beat races its pulse.
"As I paced back and forth all this time
'Cause I honestly believed in you~" although you're lying, I still believe you for the sake of our relationship, but if I found out that all this time you're lying, I'm not gonna forgive you!
"Holdin' on, the days drag on
Stupid girl, I should've known, I should've known~" I saw the crowd sings as they lift their hands and wave it to the melody.
"That I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairytale
I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet
Lead her up the stairwell~" it's a pity that I'm not the one who's on your side right now, but I know that you're happy because in the past Angel has been the one for you.. I know in myself that this decision I made has a great impact on your future. That's why I do it, I don't want you to suffer.
"This ain't Hollywood, this is a small town
I was a dreamer before you went and let me down~" maybe letting you go seems the easiest thing to do, but my heart aches at the thought of you not getting what you love, it's okay for me to lose everything for you!
"Now it's too late for you and your white horse
To come around~" if there's another world, maybe loving you is not a sin.. Our memories are fresh in my head, and it's just a memory anymore..
I look at the crowd and notice that most of them are holding a handkerchief, I smiled at them and I saw how they pity me for what's happening..
"Maybe I was naive, got lost in your eyes
And never really had a chance~" the build up tears in my eyes started to fall, I can't stop it since this may be the last.. I hope you're fine.
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Raku's POV
It's been 8 hours since I got out of the hospital, I'm currently walking at the. music festival when I heard loud cheers from the Center of the park.. Maybe there's a band who's playing.
"Did you see how Zion's tears keep falling?"
"yes! And honestly, I'm still wondering why they broke up!" I heard from the passerby, ``Is Zion whose singing?
I don't know why but I felt a sense of happiness in my heart, this thing has been with me since the day I had a terrible headache. When I saw Zion for the first time, it felt like a piece of me came back to complete me.. I still don't know why but I'm pretty sure that it's something between us.
I walked through the crowds and I heard Zion's voice echoing across the audience..
"Ohayou. no tabi mata hikareteku
Haru no kaze, anata no nioi~" he sings that line while his eyes closed, his voice is amazing as he is, he leads the crowd to become crazy and sad.
When he opened his eyes, I saw tears building up in his eyes and there's this heartache I always felt when he looked so sad.. What are we back then when I still have my memory?
He looked so sad to the point that the tears kept on falling, maybe something happened between him and his lover?
"Raku is so lucky that his boyfriend has a beautiful voice!"
One of the people in the audience said that made me shocked and I feel my feet won't move even though I want to leave.
That phase had a big impact on me, I don't know what to do because of that.. I don't want to believe it but there's this thing inside me saying that I should hear more.
"They are always sweet to each other, right? It's just a shame that Raku didn't recognize Zion when they met with an accident."
"Yeah! And one of my cousins said that Zion donated a lot of blood to Raku when he almost died! My cousin is in incharge on their rooms that day!" I heard them also say, it's been 6 years since the incident happened and now the truth has been resolved!
Maybe that's the reason why whenever I'm with him I always feel relieved, but whenever I'm with my family I always feel that my blood is boiling!
When I look at Zion, he's looking at me also.. I tried to walk but I felt my body become so heavy that later on I collapsed.
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Zion POV
I hurriedly ran when I saw Raku collapse, I didn't expect him to be here watching me.. I thought he's not yet out of the hospital?
"Please call 911!" I pleaded with the people around us. My focus is on Raku laying down in a cold cement that I didn't feel the presence of my father who's on my side.
"The emergency is coming, we need to leave!" he said and my tears started to fall again, I just can't leave him here.
"Please let me be with him for the last time! Let me escort him to the hospital!" I pleaded while the tears were falling.
This is the last time that I'm gonna be with him, I don't want to waste this time! My father was looking at me when he nodded.
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Minutes later the ambulance came, "I'm waiting for you at the airport, make sure to leave after you drop him off!" dad said and I just nodded.
When we got in the ambulance, I immediately held his hands. I can feel the tremors and it seems that he is struggling, I don't want to be separated from him but I have to.
I don't want to leave him but I can't do anything because one day,we will see each other again, but I don't know if he will still love me.