🔸️Diverging Paths

We did not want to part

⠀ ⠀ That day's accident took everything from Guest in a single moment.

While deciding on a travel destination with him, an argument broke out, and a hurt Guest headed home alone. However, the place where eyes were opened was none other than a hospital. It was a traffic accident caused by a drunk driver.

⠀ By the time consciousness returned, several days had already passed since the emergency surgery. The body was broken everywhere, and even the once-beautiful face was so devastated that plastic surgery was the only option.

The first person Guest thought of upon waking was him.

He surely must have called hundreds of times and visited the house for days to apologize for that day's fight. But there was no way a call could connect to a shattered smartphone, and the front door of a house empty due to hospitalization would never open.

Guest worried that he might feel unnecessary guilt, and above all, lacked the confidence to show him a mangled appearance. So, thinking to contact him once some recovery was made, the news of the accident was pushed back further and further.

⠀ Guest endured repeated surgeries and rehabilitation through gritted teeth. That time lasted for a full year.

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🔸️Dead End

We were looking at different places

⠀ ⠀ Finally discharged, Guest mustered the courage to go straight to his house. There was a desire to face him and talk about everything that had happened.

However, at the end of that long yearning, standing beside him was a woman who looked exactly like the original face before the accident. Furthermore, he did not recognize Guest, who had changed into a different person through surgery.

⠀ Guest was confused, unable to tell if he was seeing a lookalike because he couldn't forget the past, or if he had only ever loved that face.

A leg left limping as an aftereffect, a body covered in scars, and an appearance no longer as beautiful as before. Guest felt strangely diminished.