Even After Death by Lilting Champ

In the Miller residence, the man on the bed moved his fingers.

Then, he shouted, “Liv!” Opening his eyes, he sat up and looked around him in terror.

Janice sighed in relief.

“You’re finally awake.

You’ve been unconscious for three whole days.” Ethan’s memories were still stuck at the beach.

He hastily asked, “Mom! Liv, did you find Liv?” Janice’s heart ached.

She didn’t dare tell him the ending.

“Ethan, please prepare yourself for this.

Olivia is… She is…” “No, that can’t be! Liv can’t be dead!” Ethan couldn’t accept the truth.

He got out of bed bare-footed and then ran outside the door.

“Liv, where are you? Are you avoiding me? Liv, stop hiding!” Ethan searched the place, feeling desperate and lost.

He walked into the bedroom on the first floor.

Everything in the room remained the same as when Olivia left.

The clean bedding was neatly folded.

The flowers in the vase were the ones picked from the yard a week ago.

heads drooping as if

finished the book

open on the page

same in the room, but Olivia

the door to the yard and went to the spot she

wheelchair there, along with

Ethan ran around in the garden while shouting anxiously, “Liv, where are you?

I’ve repented for

come back.” His feet had turned bloody from getting cut by the stones, but Ethan

how long he had

the end, he knelt under the flower

looked at his finger, at the spot where the ring should

the ring had completely disappeared

Footsteps rang in

hope, Ethan shouted, “Liv!” He whipped his head around, but the person who

“Stop looking.

played

have been footage taken from a surveillance camera on the

off her ring and

walked slowly into

had never once looked

was resolved to

the sea covered her

He thought that their relationship had gotten better, but he had no idea that it was just an act

still left

leave him