(Six Years Ago Continued)
Tian Yuan had just reached his house when he got the call from someone telling him that his father was in an accident and now was admitted to a hospital in the neighboring city.
Tian Yuan's felt sweat running behind his back. He couldn't believe this. Just a few minutes ago, when he was deciding whether he should go and see Liu Ji Fan or not, he had talked to his father.
It was only after that he had decided to go and see Liu Ji Fan. He had wanted to accept his feelings for him but that phone call changed all of his plans.
The remembrance of the phone call made Tian Yuan's heart sink inside his chest.
'You don't even know what I can do …"
The words rang in his ears and he could his hands going cold. Tian Yuan flinched visibly when he heard his phone ringing again.
He looked at the phone that was still in his hands and his hands started to tremble to see the familiar but unknown number.
"Hello…"
Tian Yuan said hesitantly and heard the familiar voice of the woman.
"I think that by now you must be known to what I can do. And if you don't then tell me I can show you again …because from what I remember, you have a mother too, Tian Yuan."
Tian Yuan's eyes went red and he was breathing through his opened mouth.
"You…what did you do to my father?"
Tian Yuan shouted loudly. However, he heard nothing from the other side except the sound of continuous beeps.
The call was cut.
Aunt Tian who heard the shout ran towards the door.
The middle-aged woman was startled when she saw her son's state.
"Xiao Yuan, is everything alright?"
Tian Yuan looked at his mother with blurry eyes. It took him a few moments to respond and he said
"Mom…Dad…he is in the hospital."
Aunt Tian's eyes widened and she was speechless. She thought that it was she who heard wrong so she asked her son again
"Xiao Yuan, what did you say just now?"
Tian Yuan this time didn't say it. He instead went inside the house. Aun Tian followed him in the confusion.
She saw Tian Yuan going towards her and her husband's room. When she stepped inside the room, she saw that he had a bag in his hands and he was filling it with some clothes.
Aun Tian saw this behavior of her son and finally concluded that what she had heard must be right.
Her husband was really in the hospital.
Fear and panic flashed inside her eyes and she immediately walked to her son.
"Xiao Yuan, tell me…is your father fine? What happened to him?"
Tian Yuan's lips trembled as he heard his mother's trembling voice. He dropped the bag on the ground and hold his mother's hands.
"Mom, everything will be fine. We need to leave from here, alright? Help me. We will go to see Dad. Here…pack the necessary stuff. We need to leave for a long time."
Aunt Tian felt very assured by her son's words and murmured to herself
"Okay, I will pack all this."
Aunt Tian didn't really understand why she needed to pack all those clothes. However, her mind was blank. She wanted nothing except to see her husband as soon as possible so she just heard whatever Tian Yuan said and did everything silently.
Tian Yuan saw that his mother was packing her and his father's clothes so he went to his room and collected a few of his clothes, some cash he had saved, and some other important things.
When he came back to his father's room, he took all the cards and money from there too. By now, AUn Tian had already packed everything from the almirah.
Some of them were very unnecessary. Tian Yuan could see this and looked at his mother. Guilt flashed inside his heart when he saw how blank his mother looked.
However, he didn't even have any time to comfort her.
He just took the heavy book from his mother and then walked towards the exit of the house. In between, he turned around to check whether his mother was following him or not.
Fortunately, she was.
This was how Tian Yuan left the city he had lived since he was born in frenzy. It was surely not a good experience for him but it was unforgettable for him at the same time.
Tian Yuan had many thoughts inside his heart and mind. Liu Ji Fan's thought crossed his mind many times too.
Many times he thought of calling Liu Ji Fan however the anger of whatever was happening stopped him from doing that.
It was all because of him. After this thought, Liu Ji Fan's thought never crossed his mind. He was just thinking about his father.
How his father would be…
Tian Yuan thought that if the situation was serious then he would take his father to some big hospital though he prayed that everything was alright. In between, he talked to his mother too.
All these thoughts continued to flash inside his mind until he reached in fro0nt of the hospital, his father was admitted in.
It was at that moment, he got another call.
"Is it Tian Yuan?"
"Yes."
Tian Yuan said immediately as he continued to walk towards the hospital's gates with his mother.
All his hopes, his world came crashing down when he heard the next few words from the other side
"Tian Yuan, I am very sorry to inform you but your father is not alive anymore."
When had he thought that even before he will reach the hospital, he will lose his father!
All the luggage from his hands fell down on the floor. He saw his mother looking at him in confusion but he didn't know what he should say.
A tear slipped down from Tian Yuan's red eyes when the person on the other side of the phone continued
"He kept whispering your name until his last breath."