THE SACRIFICE

It was breaking your heart. You see the sadness in his eyes that try as he might he couldn't conceal. It was the fourth time you tried. Last month, your tests came back negative again. Your In Vitro failed again. You are still not pregnant. Despite the best care money could buy, you are still barren. The child your husband longs for still have not come to fruition.

You couldn't bear seeing him conceal his disappointment again, pretending he was okay with trying again. You can't bear the pain of hearing him muffle the sounds of his sobs as he cries on the pillow inside the closet to spare you from his pain. You knew he was hurting, every time someone asks why you still don't have kids. He's envious and hurt every time his friends and members start bringing in their kids during their practices.

Today, he is coming back from his concert tour. Your wonderful husband who defied everyone to marry you, a nobody. This man adored by thousands, who is kind, loving and generous. A man who loves children and animals. He will make a great father. But if he stays with you, it will never happen. You are barren.

Today, you will give him the last thing you could give him. His freedom. The lawyers would have served him divorce papers by now. You gave him back your rings. You signed away your rights to all conjugal properties. All you asked was he never try to find you or contact you again.
All you ask, is for him to move on with his life and be happy. Because you love him enough to let him go.

Today, starts the first day of your new life, your new name, your new face. Taking a deep breath, you willingly walked towards the private plastic surgery center that received the most unusual request since they opened.

"I don't care if you make me pretty or ugly, just change my face completely so that not even my mother would recognize me" were your exact words.

Today, you are erasing your entire identity, so that your beloved husband, Park Chanyeol, will never find you. You gave a last lingering look at his smiling face, displayed so prominently on the billboard across the street.

"Goodbye, my love...." you whispered to yourself before you turned and walked in.

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