BRIANN P.O.V
The air was thick,too still, too cold like I had fallen into a world that remembered silence more than sound.I stood in a place that looked like an abandoned garden,moonlight spilling over wilted roses and broken stone benches.The scent of rain and death hung in the air,soft and unbearable.
And there she was.
Sua.
Her white gown fluttered without wind,stained faintly at the hem with something that looked like dried blood and shadows.Her hair fell freely over her shoulders. and her eyes,those soft, familiar eyes looked both alive and gone as if she was made of light that could vanish at any second.
"Briann…" She whispered,her voice was trembling like a melody fading in the distance. "You have to move on"
My heart cracked open. "Move on?" My voice broke. "You want me to move on when you left me to drown in everything you destroyed?"
Tears blurred my sight as I stepped closer,the sound of my heartbeat echoed painfully in my ears. "I waited for you,Sua.I waited for years.I kept hearing your voice in my head,telling me it was all a mistake,telling me to hold on.I did.... I did...and what did I get? Pain.Shame.Emptiness"
She reached out a pale,trembling hand,but her fingers stopped inches from mine like there was a glass wall between us. "It wasn't your fault,Briann.My death wasn't your burden to carry"
I shook my head violently. "Don't you dare say that.You ran away,Sua! You left me on your wedding day and everything fell apart after that.Do you know how long I waited to see you again? Just to ask why? Just to tell you how you ruined everything?"
Her lips quivered.Her eyes was filled with something beyond sorrow,something close to regret. "I didn't mean to hurt you" She murmured,her voice dissolving into the cold air. "It was my choice,Briann.Not yours to stop.I did what I thought I had to do"
I stared at her,my tears falling without end. "Your choice?" I choked. "Do you even know what your choice did to me? To all of us? You were supposed to be the strong one,the one who held us together.And now you want me to move on....just like that?"
Her expression softened as she stepped closer.The faint glow from her body brushed against my arm like warmth I couldn't touch. "Briann" She whispered, "Massilo was never mine.He was always meant for you.It was your destiny,not mine"
I shook my head and fell to my knees. "I don't want destiny! I don't want him if it means losing you!" My voice broke into sobs,my fingers clutching at the empty air where her gown brushed against the ground. "Please don't leave me again.Not this time.Please,Sua.I can't lose you again…"
She knelt beside me, her face inches from mine,close enough that I could see the shimmer of tears in her ghostly eyes. "You already lost me,Briann" She said softly and her voice trembled with love and pain. "But that doesn't mean you have to lose yourself too"
Her words shattered me.I reached out,desperate,my hand passing right through her chest as her form began to fade into thin mist. "No,Sua! Don't go,please—"
The air around me grew colder and darker.Her face blurred.Her smile lingered, soft, forgiving, heartbreaking before it dissolved into the night.
"Live, Briann" Her voice echoed faintly as everything around me turned to ash.
"Live for both of us"
I screamed her name,screamed until the sound broke into silence and suddenly,I was gasping for air.My eyes flew open to the sterile white of a hospital ceiling.My body was trembling,drenched in sweat.The steady beep of a heart monitor pierced through the quiet room.
My hand reached for the space beside me,half-expecting to feel her warmth.But there was only cold air.
Tears spilled down my face again, hot and endless. "You left me again" I whispered to the empty room. "You always leave"
Outside,rain tapped softly against the window,the same rhythm as her last heartbeat and I lay there,broken between a nightmare and a memory that refused to fade.
It felt like it wasn't just a nightmare.It was a vision,a reminder of all the things I couldn't outrun.My breathing was shallow,ragged like I'd been drowning in an ocean of my own fear.I reached for my chest as if somehow,by touching it,I could stop my heart from splitting open.
But then the pain came.A sharp,searing pain right where my ribs met my heart.My fingers trembled on my skin,the world spinning around me like a twisted carousel that wouldn't stop.I couldn't breathe.My chest tightened further and my vision blurred as if everything was fading into a dark fog.
The room spun and I could barely keep my eyes open.
I tried to call out,tried to say something,anything but nothing came.My mouth was dry,my lips cracked,my voice was lost somewhere in the labyrinth of my mind. I was paralyzed as if something inside me had broken and I could do nothing but lie there.
I could hear Massilo. "Massilo?" His name whispered through my foggy thoughts,but even that felt so far away,as though I was sinking deeper and deeper into some abyss.
Massilo's voice cracked through the haze.He was shouting. "Doctor! Where are the doctors in charge?" His words sliced through the air like a jagged knife.I heard him running, his footsteps sounded so frantic and desperate,too desperate.He was panicking,his voice was shaking,but I couldn't respond.
His presence,though…his voice,his frantic movements…It was the only thing that kept me tethered to this earth.The one thread that anchored me here,in this place between life and death.
But then my sight started to betray me.
It was as though my eyes had become windows to nothingness.The world around me was turning black at the edges,as though I was falling into a dark void.I could still hear Massilo,but his voice was growing fainter like a scream muffled by a thick,suffocating blanket.
"Please! Don't leave! Don't leave me alone!"
His words broke through the chaos in my chest and for a brief second,a tiny flicker of warmth ignited in me.I wanted to reach for him,to tell him that I wasn't going anywhere,that I couldn't just leave him like this.But my body wouldn't respond.
I couldn't fight anymore.The coldness was creeping into my limbs,taking over and the rhythmic beeping of the heart monitor was becoming slower and weaker.I felt my own pulse as if it were slipping away with each beat.My body was giving up,but my heart still wanted to fight.It had to fight.
But then darkness closed in completely.
Everything went silent.
I heard nothing.Saw nothing.Felt nothing.
I was slipping,fading,but I could still hear his voice,somewhere in the distance.It was all I had left.Massilo was still calling my name,still fighting for me.I could feel his presence,even if I couldn't see him anymore.
And in that fleeting moment,with all the darkness pressing in from every direction,I clung to one thing:
Him.
He was here.He hadn't left me.
The last thing I felt before I went completely still,before my body surrendered to the darkness,was the faintest pulse of hope.As if, just for a second,I had a reason to fight back.
Because Massilo was still there.
And in the end,his love was the only thing that mattered.