NEXT MORNING
Starr woke up in a strange house and he spranged up when he found himself on a bed.
It’s surely not Lotus’s mansion so he rushed out of the room, only to bump into Rhythm.
“Rhythm?” He said shockingly.
“I suddenly found you in front of this house yesterday, thankfully my parents aren’t around so I was able to take care of you throughout the night, you were even crying in your sleep, why?, How did you get here?” She asked curiously.
“I need to go right now” he replied and started leaving.
“You don’t know your way around this area, I’ll follow you” she suddenly said.
“No I can manage” he replied.
“Starr, you don’t h@të me…. right?” She asked.
“Why?”
“You kept calling Lotus’s name when you were crying in your sleep last night, telling her not to leave you, you must love her so much” she replied.
“Yes I do” he said and she smiled sadly.
“I’ve been hating her when I noticed you have a soft spot for her, but my hatred disappeared overnight, I’ve realized I can’t even fit into your heart” she said.
“Why?” He asked again.
“For you to call Lotus’s name throughout your sleep, it’s a crazy connection I know, I realized how evil I’ve become but I’m glad I realized early, I’ll just rectify my mistakes and make up with my friends” she said.
Starr kept standing, looking at her for over three years before leaving the house without saying anything.
Rhythm’s tears fell largely as she bent beside the rails.
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Starr went back to Lotus’s mansion but he couldn’t see it anymore, he was expecting this anyways since he broke their bond.
He’s only seeing an empty piece of land.
He cried bitterly as he watched, remembering how she broke him last night just because of Martin.
His temperature is so hot right now, he knows he’s not ok at all as he continued crying.
He sighted a sharp stone on the ground and picked it, he was determined to kill himself with it when his phone rang in his pocket.
He got it and saw his dad’s number.
He picked wearily.
“Am I on to Starr McDonald?” A different voice asked.
“Sure” he replied.
“Mr McDonald was admitted since last night and we need you right now at Hankuk University hospital”
“What!, Dad?”
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UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Starr arrived and couldn’t even control his tears when he saw how pitiful his dad looked on the bed.
“What’s happening to my dad?, What’s happening?” He cried to the doctor.
“He got heart seizure as a result of shock and we almost lost him” the doctor replied and Starr cried more.
He can’t even pinpoint why all these is happening to him, he can’t say why tears became his hobby since yesterday.
“Where’s mum?, She’s here right?” He asked suddenly.
“Well… Mrs McDonald hasn’t been seen here” the doctor replied.
“What!” Starr replied.
“Starr” Davis’s voice made him rush to him.
“Dad!”
“Judy…. Judy is….” Davis said weakly, his neck veins revealing.
“Mum is what?” Starr asked curiously, inching closer to him.
Davis whispered the secret into his ear silently.
“No….no” Starr said, standing straight.
“It’s impossible, not mum” he said, crying more than before.
“Check my phone, the call record” Davis said and Starr got the phone.
He clicked on the record and listened carefully but he hasn’t finished listening when he fell unconscious on the ground.
“Starr!” Davis stood from the bed but he started coughing immediately, holding his chest.
More doctors poured in and they had to rush father and son to the emergency unit.
Martin couldn’t watch anymore so he left the hospital.
He has been watching since Starr came in.
“d@mn this fate of a thing!, d@mn the deities!, d@mn everyone!, d@mn me!” He shouted as he took off the necklace on his neck.
He teleported to Lotus’s mansion and appeared by her door.
He could hear her crying sounds inside and when he went in, her tears filled up the room like water already.
She’s in her mermaid form, drowning in her tears.
“I knew it’ll come to this, you can’t do it, you cruel fate was made for you, it’s your destiny which you have to embrace to be happy, breaking the bond with Starr will cost you your happiness and even if you live, you’ll surely cry throughout your existence” he said.
Lotus kept crying.
“I can’t do this anymore, I can’t, seriously, I don’t care if I’m the second choice, you don’t belong to me” he said.
Lotus looked at him.
He walked to her and placed the necklace on her palm.
“I’ve absorbed my powers from it, it belongs to Starr, go back to him, he’s in serious pains right now, go back” he said.
Lotus started hiccuping.
“I’ll remain the prince of seven fires who fell in love with a mermaid he can’t be with” he smiled sadly.
“Martin….” Lotus whispered.
“Starr is waiting, go to him ok?” He said.
Lotus smiled dryly.
“Wh@tëver it takes, I’ll make sure I save you both from the cruel fate, even if it takes my life, I don’t want to lose Starr either” he said.
“The broken bond will be reset once he wears this necklace, complete the bond sealing and await what’ll happen, you belong to him in the first place, you both are soulmates from the start, you’re meant to be together, I’m a nobody but I’ll protect you both, I’ll make sure Starr lives” he said.
He leaned in and kissed her forehead gently before standing.
He left the room but immediately he got out, he broke into tears.
TBC
