"...What I'm about to tell you is really bad news. We never had a chance to save her."
"What?" Chiyako asked, tears pouring like crazy out of her eyes.
"When she got here she had no pulse, her heart had stopped long before the ambulance arrived on the scene."
"Oh my God!" Choyako whispered.
Continuing the doctor said, "Will you come with me, just to make sure that it's your daughter?"
Chiyako followed the doctor into the room appearing a second later out with a pale face. There was no question in Yumi's mind that it had been Miki.
"I'm so sorry," the doctor said apologizing again and again. "According to the police she had gone through a green light and a car doing well over 150 km hit her. She had no chance."
Chiyako couldn't get her mouth to open.
"She died as soon as the other car hit hers. I'm so sorry."
"My baby girl," Chiyako shrieked as she store with blank eyes down the corridor to see Yuu running towards them.
Yuu stoped in his tracks as he say the look on Chiyako's face. He would never forget that look as her hurt eyes pierced through him. He knew something was wrong, as soon as his father told him that Miki had been in a car accident.
"Yuu," Yumi said, watching her son approach.
"Miki?" Yuu cried out.
"I'm really sorry Yuu, they couldn't help her."
Yuu suddenly fell to his knees thinking only about his one true love. "She'll be alright right?"
"Honey, she's gone."
"No, there has to be a mistake!"
"I... saw her pale... face..."
"No, no! It's a mistake!" Yuu cried, almost in tears.
"Yuu..."
"No!" Yuu whispered as he couldn't push the tears back. His Miki the girl he loved dead. Gone forever leaving him behind in a cruel world. She was everything for him.
He places his head on his hands as the tears poured out like waterfalls. Never had he felt so much pain as he felt in that moment. Miki wasn't there with him. Her wonderful smile, her hyperactive self, her beautiful face, her life. Never again would he be able to witness her growing up. He needed her, just like she had needed him. He wouldn't be anything without her.
His mind went back to the day his glimpse had first come upon her. He had seen her and instantaneously feel for her. She wasn't like any other girl, she was a girl who brought out the best of him. The moment his eyes had fell on her he knew she was the one for him.
Trying his hardest to pull himself together, he asked the doctor if he could go in and have a look at Miki. Not declining the young man's question, the doctor lead him into the room where Miki was lying.
Not since he had met her had he seen her face so pale, no color at all. She was lying on an operation table sourrounded by blood. As much as Yuu didn't wnat to think it was Miki, he knew it was her. Her blood covered most of her face, however the genlty closed eyes, her lips and her hair told him right away it was his Miki lying there convered by blood. Her face had no expression on it, which gave Yuu the impression that she didn't die in pain. There were still chunks of glass going through her forehead and face. One as Yuu could see, went right through her eye.
His eyes, not wanting to believe what they were seeing, moved downwards until he could see the rest of her body, prior to shutting. The doctors had opened her, trying their hardest, which was never hard enough, to get her heart to start to beat again. Failing they had left her open, most probably for a mortian to fix up. Then there was the pile of blood, which she was lying in. All the dark red liquid soaking up in a wonderful blue dress she had on, staining the material permanetely.
To him she just looked so fragile, Yuuwanted to touch her, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. She was just lying there without any life in and there was nothing he could do to help her.
"Why?" Yuu cried aloud. "Why?"
The doctor stympathizing with Yuu just put an ram around his shoulder.
"It's all my fault!" Yuu cried.
"No, it's not," the doctor said in a soothing voice.
"Yes! I didn't have to come home at that time! I'..." Yuu weeped, however stopped mid sentence for he didn't know what to do.
Yuu's mind finally left blaming himself for the accident and ventured over to the thought of the other driver. That man or woman hopefully suffered a lot! I hope he's dead! Yuu thoguht angrily as he felt his tears roll down the side of his face.
"The other driver... is he dead?" Yuu asked the doctor wanting to ehar that he was ripped up into a million pieces and then served to lions, just to make sure he wasn't alive.
"Not more than a scratch, I'm afraid," the doctor said being totally truthful. As a doctor and as a human being he was required not to lie at no matter the cost. It was better for the patient to find out right away and not for people to have been lying to him.
"No! He's supposed to be dead! Look at my Miki!" Yuu complained as the tears poured out of his eyes stronger and heavier than before. His Miki was still lying in front of him with no more strings of life and the person who had casued the accident wasn't even scratch! Life was so unfair! Why did God have to take Miki away from me? Why? Why did Miki have to leave this planet at such an early age? She had so much more life left in her, more delemmas to face, more goals to achieve... And know all that was left of her was a thin undeadly pale body covered in blood.
"The other person was drunk and stoned out of his mind without a piece of identification on him," the doctor said. Continuing he added, "I don't know much about what happened, all that I knew is she was the right one."
"No," Yuu whined. "I want my Miki back! Please! Get her heart to beat."
"I'm really sorry, there's nothing we could do about it."
The air of the room made him gag. He felt as if he was already dead. A part of him was. The part more suprior of him. His Miki. What he wouldn't do to switch places with her. She was supposed to be the one alive! Happy, smiling and hyperactive as always. Please God make her come back to me! Please let her live her own life again like she was living it before...