the dying swan

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Have you ever heard that swans choose a couple only once in a lifetime and forever? Maybe not, and maybe yes, but it doesn't matter now. Do you know what happens if a swan's lover dies? The second swan is also dying. So it happened with our heroes. But let's talk about everything in order.

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A year ago

Felix and Hyunjin were walking. They have been dating for a year and decided to celebrate it this way. They walked in silence, watching the sunset fade away. But this silence was interrupted by Felix with an interesting question that he had just come up with. —Hyung, did you know that swans choose their mate once and for life?— Lix asked. — No, but I would like you and me to be like swans, — Hyunjin replied. — Let's do it!—Felix exclaimed joyfully. In the end, it was. It's both sad and joyful at the same time. Why do you ask sadly? Yes, because they will also die like swans. From the fact that the beloved will die.

A month ago

— Henie, be careful, please, Felix asked him before he left. —I'll try Lix,—Hyunjin said and left. By the way, he works in the police and therefore he often goes to the crime scene. Sometimes they even have shootouts with criminals or the mafia. And usually everything ended well, or rather no one died. But this time it was different...

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— Hello. Are you Felix — said on the other end of the line. — Yes, it's me. Something happened? Felix asked. — Unfortunately, yes. Hwang Hyunjin was shot and unfortunately did not have time to save. Please accept my condolences — after these words, the connection was cut off. And after these words Felix cried for a very long time. So long that he had no tears left. That's why when everything is good, some bullshit necessarily happens in life? Why can't you live without it? Even God doesn't know the answer here. A little later, when Felix calmed down a little, he called Minho. His brother always supported him in difficult times. And I arrived quickly enough — Yes, tin of course...— said Ho seeing his crying brother — Is everything so bad? — in response, only a nod after that, he began to calm Lix.

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A little later, Lix fell ill. Flowers began to grow on his body. To be more precise, daisies. He always loved them. And Hyunjin knew it. Always brought them. But now daisies bring pain. Both moral and physical. When this disease began, Felix woke up covered in blood due to the fact that daisies had grown. The doctors told him that it was an incurable disease. Horror of course, but it looks like it was meant to be.

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Lix hasn't eaten anything for the second day. He started fainting. Ho tries to force him to eat at least something, but, alas, it does not work out. Doctors say that Felix does not have long left, because larger daisies have begun to grow on his body and they are only getting bigger. The doctors also said that soon the daisies can reach the heart and if they germinate through it, Felix will die.

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On the fourth day of the hunger strike, Felix dies. But not from hunger, but from chamomile in the heart. He will be buried next to Hyunjin.

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About a month after his brother's death, Minho throws himself off the roof and dies...