Chapter 1294: Light
Gregor’s grey, muddled eyes moved slightly, suggesting thoughts. Lifting his shaky hand, he pulled off his oxygen mask and said, “I want... another cigarette...”
“Another?!”
Nana jumped to her feet and turned into a middle-aged woman. With a furious expression, she snapped, “The cigarettes are killing you! Two packs a day? Of course you’ll get cancer!”
Gregor had turned into a middle-aged man, too. He tore off the tubes connected to him. “If I hadn’t broken up with you, I wouldn’t have started smoking to get through the heartbreak!”
“Oh, and you’re blaming me now?!” Nana became twenty years younger, a college student. “Who broke up with whom?!”
“I just didn’t think the long-distance relationship would work!” Gregor matched her age.
“Then why did you seek me out to get back with me?” Nana shouted.
“Ugh, I’m not arguing with you about this! I just mean that it’s all part of my precious memories! There are more than ugly things and darkness in the world. There are also beautiful things and light!”
Gregor jumped off his bed and suddenly became a young man around twenty-seven years old. He wore a patterned shirt and a pair of loose shorts, his hair parted on the side. He was holding a ring box in his hand.
Under the gentle light of the setting sun and amid the whispers of wind from the sea, Gregor got on one knee before Nana, who was also dressed like a tourist. He opened the box and said, “I love you, Nana, like wind moving eight lightyears without asking about the return trip. Would you go on this journey with me for the rest of your life?”
“Say yes!”