Hali opened the door of that room. Beside him is Ice who looks so lost.

They stare at each other. Seeing each other's sad face is only worsen the mood.

"I am so stupid, Right?", Hali asked Ice.

"I still wished that somehow he will be inside his room, hugging Mr.Shark and greeting me cheerfully like he always did.", he said to Ice.

Somehow he can't cry anymore.

Maybe because he already cried too much. But still, his heart is still aching.

It's more painful because he can't cry.

"I got that nightmare, maybe if i tried harder back then, this kind of thing won't happen..", he said, he clenched his fist.

Ice is still silent, he stare at Hali with the same expression, that usually cold expression is now turned into a fragile and painful expression.

"I got that nightmare too.", he said to Hali.

"....i'm so cruel to him back then..", he said to Hali.

"You know, he tried to protect us until the end.., in that nightmare, and now too.", Ice said.

"I confronted him back then.", Ice said to Hali.

He turned on the lamp inside that room that filled with navy blue stuffs.

His hand is brushing all the things he could touch in that room. The room looks clean and neat.

"...you are so eager of leaving..", Ice said, he touched the table in front of him.

There's no dust, it feels like Taufan already prepared for this.

He already cleaned the room because he know that maybe he won't be able to do so anymore.

"You even cleaned the room...it's too neat, it doesn't suit you.", Ice said, he ignores Hali who is still standing near the door.

"..no..", he said.

"Somehow it's still suit you.", Ice said, his tears fell again.

He hates that his emotion is taking over his rationality.

He hates that no matter how much he told himself that crying won't solve anything, all he can do is crying.

"You know Hali..", he said.

"When i confronted him back then, his reaction really surprises me.", Ice said as he recalled that time.

The Taufan who usually grinning brightly, he was so cold that day.

"In your nightmare, everything stopped after you died, right?", Ice asked him.

Hali furrowed his eyebrows, he tried to remember that nightmare.

He remember that he is so scared about this nightmare, he always tried to forget about it.

But somehow, after what happened today.

After what happened to Taufan..

It's not that scary anymore.

"..yes, i bid my farewell with him and..the nightmare stopped.", Hali said to Ice.

"Inside my nightmare, Taufan tried to protect us from the villain..", Ice explained.

"At least we should try to survive.", he continues.

"But, you know what we did?", he asked Hali, his eyes is locked with Hali's pair of red eyes.

"..we didn't listen to him. Not even Gempa." , Ice said, his smile looks so broken.

How stupid.

How selfish.

"We feel like we've lost everything we had, so what's the matter?", Ice said, his tears is streaming down as he gritted his teeth.

"It's better to die and end everything quickly, rather than running away and trying to achieve the impossible.", Ice said, his voice sounds so sad but somehow it feels like he is mocking someone.

He mocked himself.

What can i do rather than running away?

"It's so cliche, the ending of that nightmare is Blaze who died a few minutes before i died.", Ice said.

"I could hear Gempa and Taufan's scream.", Ice continues.

"But then, just like me and Blaze.., Gempa attacked that villain too.", Ice said.

"After that , i don't know about anything anymore.", he stopped talking, he wipes the tears from his cheek.

Hali is silent, without Ice saying anything, he already understand what happened next inside that nightmare.

"I keep telling myself that he is cruel for doing something like this.", Ice said.

"For hiding these things, for leaving us in the dark..", he continues.

His light blue eyes is locked with Hali's red eyes, once again, his gaze looks fragile and helpless.

"But i wonder who is the cruel one exactly?", he said, his voice sounds so hoarse, he let out a sad smile.

Hali didn't say anything. He couldn't say anything.

All they know is the fact that Taufan hides everything from them, and that he died trying to protect them.

"...he is cruel,huh?", Hali said, his low voice sounds so tired.

"Indeed, maybe he is cruel..", he continues.

"Or even if he is not, we will try to think that way, so that we can run away from our own guilt..", Hali said.

He sneered, but his eyes looks so desperate and sad. "So selfish, isn't it?"

"Us, and also him.", he said to Ice.

He didn't know anymore, he is too tired to think.

He is too tired to try figuring out what happened.

He is too tired, for being desperate.

All he can do is wishing for something impossible.

Wishing for something as silly as beileving that the world is cube shaped.

He wished for him to be here.

He wished that everything is just another nightmare.

That if he wakes up, Taufan will be there, gathering with all of them again.

Ice touched something big and fluffly on Taufan's bed, "Mr.Shark.."

"You are lonely, aren't you?"

"Your owner, he can't be with you anymore.", Ice said, his hand trembles.

"He can't be with us anymore..", he continued.

Suddenly The crystal that he protected carefully is letting a little bit of light, a gentle wind is swirling around that deep blue crystal.

Ice is silent, "...is it too much for hoping that your owner will be able to gather with us again?" , Ice said as he held that crystal.

"..so that we can be together again..", Hali said.

"All of us..", he continues, it's saddening how this wish feels too impossible for them now.

Ice hugged the shark Plushie and stand up, "..i'll take care of him."

"We can't just abandon him, right?", Ice said as he hugged Mr.Shark.

"At least until the owner is back.", Ice said to Hali.

Hali's eyes got wider. Is it even possible?

Ice put the blue crystal on Hali's hand.

"I'll take care of Mr.Shark, so you have to take a good care of this crystal too.", Ice said.

Ice walks away from Taufan's room,

Taufan, i'm tired of running away.

Accepting reality that you died protecting us..

Or trying to seek for something that sounds impossible.

Which one is the decision that will make you feel proud of me?

//author's note//

Sooo writerblock is still haunting me but i hope you guys could enjoy the chapter hshshshhs 😭😭😭

See you on the next chapter!