EXO Short Stories

I feel my heart get crushed when I noticed that Mei is chatting with one of her male classmates. I try not to get jealous of him, but I can’t help it.
I’m in love with Mei I have been since I can remember.
She’s the only girl that makes me feel a strong amount of happiness being around like I feel when I’m around my mom.
Christmas is tomorrow and I still don’t know what to get Mira. I think I’ll go with a bouquet of her favorite flowers and confess my feelings for her.
I open my phone and call Luhan-hyung to ask him a favor.
I ask him to pick me up and be my driver for the night since he’s probably has some free time until he picks his girlfriend up at 11 pm on Christmas.
He shows up at my apartment complex.
I tell him the first place to get to.
I stopped at Mei’s favorite flower shop where she helps out on her free time.
Luhan comes in with me mostly cause he’s probably looking for something to get his girlfriend for he can do something for Christmas.
I ask for Mei’s favorite flowers and look at Luhan, “Should I get her a card as well?”
“Yeah, but what are you going to write on it?”
“Hey… I’m not sure completely,” I mumble the last part.
I look over at the girl behind the counter, “Can I have a card that I can put in the flowers?”
She nods her head and hands me a medium sized card for I can place on a small stand that she hands me as well.
I stare at the card until I write;
“To Mei,
I want to get something off my chest. I have to tell you this before I lose my courage. Chang Mei I love you. I’ve loved you since I met you 8 years ago when you transferred to my school. I’m not asking you to love me back or even you to answer my feelings in anyway. All I want to do is get this off my chest because we don’t know when you’re coming back from California.
-Merry Christmas,
Love Sehun.”
I look over the card, “What do you think?”
Luhan-hyung looks at it and nods his head, “It’s not that bad, but I guess since you’re probably going to tell her in person anyways so I guess there is no point in it.”
Luhan-hyung ends up talking to the flower girl and talks to her about what he should get for his dinner with his girlfriend.
I pull out my phone and text Mei, “Are you home?”
I don’t get a text back from her yet as we exit the flower shop and out to Luhan’s car.
“Are you ready?”
“Yeah as I’ll ever be,” I tell him.
“So I guess off we go to Mei’s place we go.”
“So your finally confessing to her now, what caused you to want to do this?”
“She’s leaving for California or at least that’s what I heard. She’s supposed to help with her grandma.”
“Then let’s go then,” hyung answers me as he pulls out of his parking spot and drives to Mei’s place.
As we reach Mei’s street to see that she’s at her window of her house.
I look at Luhan-hyung and he shrugs as he parks, “Go get her.”
I nod my head as I jump out of the cart with the flowers in hand and I carefully place it behind my back as I walk up the sidewalk.
As I reach up to knock on the door Mei opens the door before I can even knock.
“Sehun, you’re here,” she says acting surprised.
“Yeah of course I am. We have a tradition to uphold. So I’m here to give you your Christmas present.”
“Really, what is it?”
I move rock back and forth on my heels as I look over at her and whisper, “Guess what it is?”
“I’m not sure… Did you get me any kind of jewelry?”
I shake my head, “No.”
“Then did you get me… a scarf?”
I shake my head again, “No, I did not. Do you give up?”
“Yeah, I do just tell me what you got me please Sehun.”
I pull the bouquet of flowers from behind my back, “Here you go.”
She pulls it up to her face and smells the flowers where she smiles.
“My favorite thank you, Sehun,” she says to me smiling brightly as always.
She looks at the card then looks back up at me, “Is there anything else you wanted?”
I stop rocking and look her in the eye and slowly I know I smile at her nervously, “Yeah… I wanted to tell you that…. That… I… love you.”
She doesn’t reply me instead she simply stands there staring at me.
I feel like it’s a good 5minutes and give her a nervous laugh, “I guess you don’t really know what to say do you. I should probably go.”
I walk back to Luhan’s car and hold in my tears.
I open the car door and slid in slamming it right behind me.
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah,” I lie to him refusing to look away from the window, “let’s go. She didn’t say anything to me. She just stared at me.”
“You sure you want to leave her like this?”
“Yeah, let’s just go.”
He simply looks over me and pulls out when we hear a scream.
I turn around in my seat to see Mei on the ground bleeding.
“Stop the car”,” I shout and once Luhan does I jump out and race to Mei.
When I reach her she’s already out cold.
“Mei, please wake up,” I reach to push to push some hair out of her face smearing blood on her cheek.
I look down to see that there’s blood everywhere and that the car is nowhere in sight.
“Mei, please wake up. You’re alright. You understand me you’re alright You have too be alright.You understand me so open your eyes.”
I feel her body move a little bit as her eyes open and she smiles and blood dribbles out of her mouth.
“Sehun… I…”
I feel a hand on my shoulder, “Sehun… Sehun,” I try to push the hand away from me.
It doesn’t work and I hear my name again.
I’m being shaken to wake up in my room and Luhan is hanging over me.
“What do you want, Luhan?”
“Sehun, your mom is visiting you today. So if I were you I’d go take a shower and get dressed.”
I yawn as I stretch and open my phone to see it’s December 24 and almost a year since Mei has been out of my life.
I wonder what she was about too tell me.
Could she have loved me like I loved her and still do.
I want too see her, but I can’t anymore.
I want too talk too her, but i know she won’t hear.
I want too hear her voice, but she can no longer speak.
This is the truth that I face everyday.
My mom visited until 10 at night.
Being with my mom makes me feel lighter, but I don’t’ want to move back home, because that’d just be retreating.
It sucks like Mei being gone isn’t bothering me, but I can’t help it.
I’m lying in my bed and try to decide how to celebrate Christmas without Mei.
I open my phone and look through my pictures and realize that one’s with Mei are all in the same area.
I guess I could go to Mei’s favorite spot.
I could act like it’s Christmas with her.
So I stop by the flower store that Mei used to work at.
I buy Mei’s favorite flowers and look at my bike as I hold them in my hand.
I lift them up to my nose so I can smell them, “Now I know why she likes them so much. These smell really nice.”
I reach what I call Mei’s fountain since she’d always sit here instead of a bench. When it was warm out she’d stick her feet in it and in winter she’d fill water guns up so she could shoot at people with them soaking them a bit.
I sit at the edge of the fountain and look at the sky, “Hi, Mei how are you doing? I’m not doing very well since you,” I bit my lip and suck in a deep breath of cold air, “Anyways I miss you so much. It’s so much harder without you by my side. I heard about your grandma I’m sorry, but I guess she’s in a better place… like you. You missed it I made it I finally decided what I want to do with my life. I decided that I’m going to be a trauma doctor so I can help people like you.”
I feel the tears rushing down my face.
I reach up and wipe them away as I look up and I set the bouquet where Mei would always sit.
I hear the small clock stick 12 and the chimes go off.
“Merry Christmas, Mei. I miss you, Mei. I really do. I wish I could go back. Back to exactly a year ago and change what happened. Even if you didn’t’ answer my feelings I would be alright with that, because then you would be alive. I wish I could back to a year ago here I had yet to give you the flowers, exactly a year ago.”
I hear a deep-ish voice, “Is that really your wish?”
I don’t’ stop myself as I nod my head and answer the voice, “Yes, that is my wish.”
I hear the voice say, “Then so it shall be. You will be given one more chance to make it with Mei again.”
I hear the bell chime again as in the corner of my eye I see a shooting star. The wind picks up and I close my eyes not wanting anything to get in my eye. When the wind stops I feel a single snow flake hit my cheek causing me to open my eyes.
Standing in front of me is Mei in the exact same clothing that she was wearing last year.
“Sehun, what is my present? Is it behind your back? Tell me I said I give up.”
“Ahh… Here you go.”
I hand her the flowers and I don’t act nervously like I did before.
It doesn’t’ matter if she loves me back or not as long as she stays in my life.
“You made me a card as well.”
I hold my breath and she seems to set it down, “I’ll be right back. Stay right there. Oh did you get a ride here?”
I nod my head, “Text them that you’re going to stay here.”
“Really? Would your parents be alright with that?”
“Yeah, of course it’s not that we’re going to do something that they’d hate.”
I lift an eyebrow and text Luhan anyways, “I’m going to stay the night at Mei’s house. I’ll just have my mom get me from Mei’s place in the morning.”
“Alright. Go get her tiger.”
I almost want to hit myself at that text, but stop myself to see that there’s another one.
“Do you have clothes to sleep in?”
“Yeah, I still have a thing of pajamas here.”
“Alright see you in a few days then.”
I hear a crashing sound as a car crashes into a pole instead of Mei.
I roll my eyes and a slight sigh is released until I hear Mei call for me.
“Sehun are you coming in or just gonna let all the cold air in?”
“Sorry Mei I’ll close the door.”
I walk inside and take off my jacket and shoes.
As I walk inside I notice that Mei is holding a small package in her hands.
“Merry Christmas, Sehun.”
“Wow, is this my present?”
“Yeah, well it’s one of two I have for you. This one is just something I had lying around.”
I rip off the wrapping to see that it’s a diary.
“A dairy…?”
“Open to the 10th page to today’s date 4 years ago.”
I open it up and remember that it was the same day that we started this small tradition.
“Dear Diary,
I’m not sure what to do anymore. I realized that I’m in love with my best friend of the last 4 years. It’s kind of funny that I realized this just yesterday. So tonight I’m going to tell him my feelings.”
I stop reading and look at her surprised, “That’s why you called me over late at night. We were hardly 16 years old, how did you know I’d get there that night?”
“I knew you would bug your parents until they gave in. You can read as much of that diary that you want.”
I nod my head as I look at it, “So do you still?”
“So I still what?”
“So you still love me?”
She looks at me slightly shocked, “Of course I still love you, Sehun.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, I just didn’t’ realize that you loved me like this. I thought you were just protective friend of mine. I guess I was wrong.”
“We both were.”
“What do you mean?”
“Nothing,” I answer her as I look at the window. “just thinking about something to much.”
“Really what would that be?”
“That I was stupid this morning being jealous of you and your classmate.”
“Oh him… he did ask me out, but I told him I wasn’t interested. That I was already in love with someone who I wasn’t ready to try to replace.”
I smile at her as I lean forward taking her face in my hands, “I’m glad you think that. I love you.”
I kiss her gently on the lips.
As I pull away she reaches over and hands me a small present.
“Here you go. You’re real present.”
“What is it?”
“Just open it and you’ll see,” she giggles as she stares at me.
I give her a look before I open the present too see that it’s bubble tea from the store I like.
“Wow that must have taken you forever too get this.”
“I did because I didn’t know we’d be confessing tonight. Also want too know another surprise?”
“Of course,” I tell her hoping that I look how I feel at the moment.
“I’m staying here in Seoul. My parents told me that I should stay in school instead of taking a leave for a while. They are just cleaning out my grandmother’s old nursing home room and I don’t have to go.”
I know that my eyes are wide open and my mouth is hanging open from the feel of it.
I shut my mouth then say, “I can’t believe it. Really?”
“Yes, really. What don’t have any faith in me once we are dating how horrible?’
I chuckle as I wrap my arms around her and pull her into my chest and partly on my lap, “Not that. It’s just surprised me I thought you would have told me earlier.”
“I know it’s just I wanted it too be a surprise not counting I just found out a few hours ago after i got home and I knew you’d come here too see me. So what is your Christmas wish, Sehun?”
I look at her and smile secretly, “I already made it and it came true.”
It brought me back too you.

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