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“Let’s reincarnate together,forever.”
After Sarah Thompson died,Ethan drank for three days and nights.
He blamed himself as her killer.
“I shouldn’t have let you donate.I was selfish.God should punish me…”
He dream nightly of those seven years,Sarah’s devoted gaze.
He’d despised her meekness. He saw her willingness to debase herself.
Now,every wrong he’d done pierced his heart like thorns.
He smoked,drank,and haunted bars,numbing pain with depravity.
One day,he met a girl who looked like Sarah.
She worked at a bar and studying part-time,but she was drugged by creeps.
Seeing her taken advantage of,he recalled Sarah’s humiliation.
Without hesitation,he fighting them right away.
He was beaten by crowed and his face ruined.
The girl thanked him,nearly crying.
“Don’t cry.Stay away from bars.”
He walked away,fearing her tears.
This aroused his memory about Sarah.
He wasn’t saving the girl—he was redeeming Sarah.
But the girl fell for him,smitten by his heroism.
“Mr.Carter,it’s cold.Wear thick clothes.”
“Mr.Carter,I got two movie tickets.Would you like to go to the movies with me?”
“Mr.Carter,these are my family’s pomegranates.Try some?”
Seeing pomegranates,Ethan ate like a starving dog.
One,two,three,four…endlessly.
The girl was stunned by his frenzy.
But soon,rashes appeared on his face.
Jessica found him and tossed the pomegranates in the trash.
He retrieved them,eating despite the filth.
Jessica yanked the girl’s hair.
“Don’t you know he is allergic to pomegranates?!”
The girl,beaten,looked at them,teary and confused.
Why eat them, did you know he is react?
Would someone risk their life like that?
Ethan cried and choked,“I want Sarah…I want Sarah…”
Jessica thought Sarah’s death would restore normalcy.It didn’t.
It's been three years, but you still can't forget her and let her go.
Furious,she kicked him.“She’s dead!”
Ethan noticed her with eerily smile.“Her kidney’s still in you.”
Things spiraled into madness.
One rainy night,Ethan dragged Jessica to a desolate place.
Her eyes widened,seeing his scalpel and anesthetic.
“What are you doing?Even if you take the kidney,she can’t live again!”
“You don’t deserve her kidney.You owe her.”
“Jerk!You suggested taking her kidney.You’re the culprit!”
“I know.I lose her forever.I am a loser…”
Ethan used ether to knock her out,methodically removing Sarah’s kidney.
The scene was gruesome.Jessica died from blood loss,eyes open.
Police arrived,nearly retching.
Ethan calmly offered his hands for cuffs.
He smiled and there was blood on his face.“Take me away please.”
He coughed black blood.
Years of smoking and drinking had given him late-stage liver cancer…
Due to mental instability,the court sentenced him to death with reprieve.
In prison, he felt the pain caused by the decay of the organ.
Sarah must have felt this when her kidney was taken.
That’s great. He finally shared her pain.
“Sarah Thompson,you’re cruel.Won’t you visit me in my dream?”
“I miss you.Hug me,please.I'm really in great pain.…”
Ethan convulsed,consumed by despair,pushed toward death.
One morning,he felt no pain, because of final clarity.
Golden sunlight warmed his face.He opened his eyes…
Sarah smiled at him,whispering,“Goodbye.”
Blood trickled from Ethan’s mouth.He smiled contentedly.
