lunk into the dark depths of the sea


    Strangely, I didn''t feel cold. Instead, there was a conforting warmth, like I had returned to my mother''s embrace. It was so soothing I didn''t want to open my eyes. I just wanted to stay asleep right there, in her arm.. ""Her blood pressure''s crashing! Start transfusion-400 milliliters!"


    "Debritor! Hurry up! Clear!"


    "Move aside! Prep for surgery!"


    "Ari, please! I''m sorry! Ari, don''t scare me like this-how could you do this to yourself?"


    "Art, please wake up! Ari...


    "Don''t hold me back! AL."


    The noise was overwhelming. All I wanted was to sleep, I tried to say something, but suddenly, a surge of blood spilled from my mouth


    "She''s coughing up blood!"


    Did I just cough our blood? Did it mean I was still alive?


    1 struggled to open my eyes-and somehow, I did. Above me, bright, ring lights stabbed into my vision, and chantic, frantic voles surrounded me.


    "Ari, stay with us."


    A voice echoed in my mind, tugging me back. Through the haze, 1 glimpsed a familiar face. I wanted to smile, to tell him I was okay, but something kept pushing out of my mouthBelongs to ? n0velDrama.Org.


    I forced a slow, shaky sale in his diction, ying to lift my hand toward him, I felt relieved,forted just by seeing him the one person who had given me warmth after I''d lost my


    But before I could fully reach him, my smile faded, and the world dissolved into ckness aga


    felt or amende joury, drifting in limbo for what seemed like an eternity. I didn''t know where I was going or what I was looking for.


    In this dense fog, veices whispered around me. But whenever I tried to listen closely, they would fade away. So, I kept walking


    There was a strange sense of prace, though I could see nothing, hear nothing


    "Ani? Please, wake up, okay?" a voice murmured beside me, cholu with abs


    "I''m so sorry. I didn''t know things would turn out like this. I''m a terrible friend-1 never should have brought up that awful thing.." "Ari. I''m your bear friend, your closest buddy. Don''t scare me like this, I can''t live withour you!" In the darkness, 1 livesed quietly. I couldn''t speak, nor could I find Teri


    I sighed I wanted to tell her that is was really okay.


    *Dear An, wake up. It''s me, Jonathan!"


    Jonathan? I mood up in the fog, straining to se


    "pon?" I called into the emptiness. "Jon, where are you?"


    "Dean diri, you''re the best, right?


    Brould hear Jonathan''s suppimad sobs