ferment.
A week in the water
I had a dream. I closed my eyes and saw the sea.
Every time a wave crashes in, a human voice is heard.
엄마
000! Wake up... You don't have to go to boarding school. Open your eyes. Okay? 00...
김태형
Wake up, wake up. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please... 000, 000. Wake up.
민윤기
You've lost so much blood, you little shit. What have you done?
김태형
No, I didn't, I didn't make this happen. I... I just,
민윤기
Selfish bastard. Even if someone dies... Even if someone dies, you'll ignore them?
김태형
Don't die! Please, please 000. Wake up. Don't die. You didn't get stabbed in the forehead. You're okay. Okay?
민윤기
If only you had come to your senses and reported it a little sooner, it wouldn't have been so bad as excessive bleeding!
???
Don't you have type AB blood? Bring me any antigens you have!
엄마
Oh my, oh my, 00...!
The body moves with a jerk.
I'm alive, I want to say a word, but the sea water is getting in my throat.
I spit it out with a squeak and this time sand grains come in.
I feel my strength draining and I am being sucked into the deep sea.
Thud, thud.
I can hear the sounds outside, but I just float still like a mermaid.
Yesterday it was Min Yoongi, and today it was Min Yoongi.
He cries every day when he sees me getting rich. It's so pitiful.
I want to reach out and pat her as she cries so tenderly, but my hands are deep in the water.
He talks to himself in front of me every day and then disappears.
From 9 o'clock when the hospital visitation begins until 7 o'clock when it ends, he only looks at me.
Aren't you going to school? Oh, it's vacation.
Today someone said this to me.
민윤기
It was the last day of school yesterday, and it's been four days since you collapsed. Everyone knows that.
민윤기
Today, I fought with that kid who gave me the keys. I couldn't help it. He was trying to trick Kim Taehyung into letting me go.
민윤기
And that bastard Jung Ho-seok... planned and orchestrated the whole deal. This was his game.
민윤기
000, you ran as a character. So fucking, so fucking pathetic.
민윤기
Since I'm going to be lying down like this anyway...
And then I cried. When I got tired of crying, I fell asleep. When I woke up, I cried again, looking at myself.
Kim Taehyung came over for lunch today. He just stared at me quietly, leaving me alone. It was so funny I almost burst out laughing.
But my laughter seemed invisible outside the water.
I don't know when, but the two of them went outside. It looked like they were going to fight. But I couldn't see them. I couldn't even remember what time it was.
Because you can't see outside the water when you're underwater.
Because there is no need for time in water.
No one came until it was pitch black, and then the sun rose and set again... After three days of staying with my mom, only then did Kim Taehyung come alone.
After a while of silence, the sun rose high in the sky and she began to cry and speak.
I'm sorry.
That's all Kim Taehyung said. He was sorry.
Please spare me, please forgive me just this once. I'm sorry.
It seemed like a criminal was turning himself in, but that wasn't the case.
Kim Taehyung didn't apologize to me, the victim.
It was raining on Human 000 and Min Yoongi. I'm sorry.
I pleaded, saying I was wrong, asking for your life. Forgive me just this once. Tears streamed down my fingers as I begged.
And then he says:
김태형
A scarring transaction, a scarring transaction. It may have touched tissue.
김태형
00, please forgive me just this once. I really did something wrong, so please just let me go this once.
김태형
I'm sorry I dragged you into this in middle school. Really. Really...
김태형
Even if I hate your sight, even if I hate you enough to kill you. Just close your eyes and just get up. Okay?
김태형
Let's go back to when we were talking about our study room. I forgot your pretty smiling face. Yeah?
In the end, he cried too, like a child without thinking.
The sight of her holding my hand tightly with her big hand and crying loudly.
I felt like crying too.
In an instant, my hand was pulled out of the deep sea without warning.
Kkadak,
I moved my fingers.
김태형
...000! You heard me, you heard me!
김태형
You're going to wake up... You're going to wake up, right?!
김태형
I knew it. Thank you, thank you. Thank you...
I said I was in a coma.
They said I could be in a vegetative state, that my nerve center had been damaged.
But I let the people outside the water know that I was still conscious.
It happened a week after I fell into the water.