The Hwang Hwang Couple
19

"Eat."

Hyunjin sighed. Yeji's mouthful with the tasteless porridge was only until the fifth, but the six-minute younger man already felt like vomiting.

"It has. I don't want to eat anymore." declined Hyunjin. He pushed Yeji's hand slowly back to the bowl which was still almost full.

Yeji looked at him fiercely.

"When do you want to heal if you just don't eat?" said it. "Eat. Let it heal quickly."

"Retailor."

The response given by Hyunjin succeeded in making Yeji fixated. He was very close to forcing his twin sister's mouth open for a bite of nutrition, but his movements stopped.

Rhetorically. What a slapping word.

Yeji lost count of how many rhetorical sentences he had said four years ago.

Four years ago, when they were sixteen, Yeji's life stopped for a few seconds, when Hyunjin was diagnosed with lymph node cancer.

"Eating can't cure disease, Yeji" Hyunjin said. "People say that just to make me feel better. Unfortunately, it doesn't work anymore."

Yeji almost lost control when Hyunjin said so.

"Have not spoken. Eat it."

The sharp-eyed woman brushed away the delicate sigh inside her chest. It can't, can't radiate negative emotions to Hyunjin. Not for now, when Hyunjin already had to open non-stop in the hospital.

Not for now, when Yeji's role in taking care of Hyunjin physically and mentally becomes very important.

The two Hyunjin beads glare far to the left, gazing at the green scene behind the blurry window. His lips formed a flat line, but he never cried. Hyunjin is a strong boy. He is much stronger than his brother.

"Am I going to get out of the hospital? Can I go on an excursion without drugs? Is my life normal again?"

Hyunjin. Yeji held her eye patch to not get wet.

"Heh, kid. Don't talk weird, I told you." Yeji said quickly, grab Hyunjin's attention again to face her. "You'll heal soon, I know that."

Yeji's last words were rhetorical and full of sugar, but a small smile was transmitted to the man sitting on the white bed.

"Well if you say that, I believe."

Yeji's heart melos so-so. She loved him very much, she knew.

"Now, eat it yourself. I'm going to the toilet."

Yeji said no more hearing Hyunjin's response. He walked out of the room, closing the door firmly before his knees gave up.

Hwang Yeji knelt down, fell down, sat on the hospital floor with tears breaking. The tears that were held back, the tears that he never showed to Hyunjin.

Yeji reached her chest tight, claustrophobic about the feeling of pain and sadness. Hyunjin did not know how scared Yeji was when he was in the doctor's room earlier. How her heart rate stopped when doctors said Hyunjin should be injected with euthanasia.

How the universe says, Hyunjin is not strong enough to live anymore.

Yeji was crying so much, her voice did not reach the room. His whole body was shaking. He was unable to look into Hyunjin's hopeful eyes. He failed to be a good brother because he fit into a good husband (":