Chapter 15: The Last Hours
As the days passed, she was used to Ran Rong taking a lot of medicine, used to her less and less awake time, used to her gradually not being able to eat much, and used to her less and less strength to speak and act.
It's just that every time she sees Ran Rong's unbearable vomiting and a lot of hair, she has to bite her lip desperately to make herself pretend that nothing happens, on the contrary, the once beautiful but now haggard Ran Rong's smile is always there.
But the more she smiled, the more sad the people who loved her became, and she could only hide in the bathroom and cover her mouth so hard that she didn't even dare to cry.
That year's "Rising Star Cup" competition finally reached the stage of the national finals, and the game was broadcast live until very late to end completely, Ran Rong's physical strength and spirit could not support it for so long, and she watched it separately little by little, from live broadcast to replay to online video, and accompanied her to watch it little by little.
Ran Rong looked at Ran Ning who appeared in different postures on that gorgeous stage and under the creation of the program team, and laughed, "When I was a child, Ning Ning always told me that my sister's songs were the best, but when she learned me to sing, I realized how talented she was, but for so many years, I have never heard her sing a song completely." She gasped for breath before continuing: "Ning Ning has been hiding behind me since she was a child, and I delayed her too much and too long. ”
She didn't know what to say for a while, Ran Rong didn't care, she took her hand, "Juan, I want to ask you for something." ”
She stretched out her hand and covered Ran Rong's hand, "Sister, you say." ”
"Zhuan, I know very well in my own body that I won't have much time left" She signaled that she didn't need to persuade her, and continued, "You and Ning Ning have grown up together since childhood, you call me sister, and I will also treat you as my sister, Zhuan, I will be gone in the future, please stay by Ning Ning's side, accompany her in joy and sorrow, don't let her be lonely, after I leave, you two are close sisters to each other, okay?"
She felt sad in her heart, nodded vigorously, and Ran Rong continued: "I know Ning Ning's temperament too well, if it wasn't for my wishes, she wouldn't have participated in the competition." My illness is unlikely to get better at all, and we have always been deceiving ourselves. From childhood to adulthood, Ning Ning followed me step by step, I wanted to be like a big tree to shelter her from the wind and rain, I wanted to make myself strong enough to take care of her and protect her from harm, I thought I could do it, but this illness made me understand what it means to be involuntary and what is powerless.
Miracles don't happen, and this time, I'm lost. I know that my mother secretly cries at night, and I can see that Ning Ning grew up overnight, and the person I want to protect desperately is hurt because of me.
It's the only time I've lied in my life, I'm going to let her leave me and find the light that belongs to her, since I was a child, because of my existence, she has been ignored for too much and too long, she shouldn't just be my vassal, it's not fair.
I love her, I love her very much, and I want more people to take care of her and protect her, this is the last choice I can make for her.
Please help me...... Help me......"
For a long time, Ran Rong has been the angel who rescued the actor, and this is the only time she talks about her feelings for Ran Ning. Because of her lack of strength, she said the long words intermittently for a long time, and at the end the whisper seemed to beg.
She never wanted to accept the fact that she was leaving, she had been running away and deceiving herself, but in comparison, she couldn't stand it even more that Ran Rong, who had never been omnipotent, would beg her like this.
She held Ran Rong's hand and whispered: "I really want to go back to when I was a child, my parents are here, I still have a home, my sister is not sick, Ning Ning and I follow behind my sister, so that the children around me are envious." ”
Ran Rong had already fallen asleep, and her voice was so weak that she could barely hear it, "I just want a simple life when I was a child, why did God take so much, why did I have to leave everything I cared about." ”
After that, Ran Rong never mentioned anything about Ran Ning, she began to have a continuous fever, the joint pain became more and more dangerous, and her spirit was not very good, she couldn't go out often, and most of the time she was on bed rest.
Ran Ning, who is in a closed competition, is promoted step by step, and the more she goes to the back, the more time she has for each competition, the more songs she can sing, and the links of the competition are also full of tricks and gimmicks.
After Cheng Shuo's debut, she never paid attention to the "Rising Star Cup" game, and when she saw Cheng Shuo partnering with Ran Ning as a supporting guest, she came back to her senses for a while. She hadn't seen him for a long time, and her first reaction turned out to be that he had lost weight. She didn't expect that she could be so calm and aware of his small changes without resentment.
Once, he said that he wanted to hear how good Ran Ning sang was, which could make her look forward to it, but now his wish has come true, and it is actually in this way. The world is impermanent, creation makes people, and fate always laughs at people's insignificance and powerlessness in various ways.
The next day, Ran Rong's spirit was better, watching the video of the game the day before, when she went to get the medicine and came back, the screen happened to play the picture of Cheng Shuo and Ran Ning singing, she was standing there, advancing and retreating, she could face it alone, but she couldn't pretend to be okay in front of Ran Rong.
Ran Rong took the medicine and put it aside, and pulled her cold hand with an almost skinny hand, "Zhuan, don't blame my sister for being too talkative, sometimes love can't go with the flow, the world is so big, it's not easy for two people to meet, and it's even harder to fall in love." If you really love him, be brave, true love is only once, if you miss it, there will be no more, my sister knows that Zhuan is a brave girl, in this life, you must always try your best to love once, no matter what the result is, at least don't let yourself regret it. Ran Rong was not in good spirits, and he was about to catch for a while when he said a few words, but finally coughed up and coughed up blood after speaking, and hurriedly brought paper and water to her, and after they were all cleaned up, Ran Rong fell asleep again.
She stood on the edge of the bed and looked at Ran Rong who was asleep, like an angel elf, she was thin, haggard and pale from the disease, she was not sad for herself in the last part of her life, but planning for Ran Ning and herself.
She really wanted to ask God, why was she so cruel! But she couldn't do anything, and no one could change the reality that Ran Rong was about to leave. She clenched her palms, her nails stinging her palms, the pain far less than one-ten-thousandth of the heartache.
The day Ran Rong left was like a normal day, and she was even much better, she stayed alone in the room for a long time, and no one noticed the mobile phone she left on the table and the letterhead next to her.
In the evening, everyone watched the "Rising Star Cup" competition, in the competition has reached a white-hot event, every player racked their brains to be brilliant, but Ran Ning chose a quiet song that can almost be said to be unsuitable for competition on such an occasion, she doesn't care about winning or losing the game, she just wants to sing to someone.
Ran Rong's spirit is so good, she has been looking at Ran Ning on the screen intently, listening to her softly singing the song "APlaceNearby" that she likes very much, she knows that it is sung to herself.
The volume of the TV was turned on very loudly, Ran Ning's clean voice came out, and her eyes looked through the camera, as if to say: Wait a minute, wait a little longer, don't leave me, don't leave us......
Ran Rong slowly closed his eyes with an angelic smile.
Ran's mother was lying in Ran's father's arms, her shoulders were trembling uncontrollably, even if she promised her daughter to spend the rest of her life happily, even if she had done all the efforts she could do for her daughter, but after all, it was more than 20 years of companionship, even if she had been prepared, this moment really came, it was still like her heart had been hollowed out.
Even though she knew that Ran Rong had lost her beautiful and radiant face in the end, she still had no way to let go of Ran Rong and accept the result she had known for a long time.
She stood there, trying her best to suppress it, but her tears kept falling uncontrollably, she accompanied Ran Rong to the last part of her life, and she would spend the rest of her life keeping her promise, but she still couldn't let go.
The show was still live on TV, and Ran Ning, who was thousands of miles away, had a heart, covered her stinging chest and couldn't stand up, squatting on the ground and crying like a child who couldn't find her way home.
Ran Rong's funeral was simple and warm, just like the memories that her short life brought to those around her. The dusty Ran Ning said to her sister's still beautiful face in the photo: "I'm back, your dream, I have completed it for you." She tried to squeeze a smile on, but the tears kept falling.
Coming back from the cemetery, Ran Ning and Ran Ning leaned on Ran Rong's bed, Ran Ning was still holding the brown bear doll that her sister liked on weekdays, everything in the room was still the same as before, and Ran Ning, who had never liked to talk, talked intermittently for almost the whole night.
Before dawn, Ran Ning finally fell asleep from many days of running and tiredness, and the excitement of the long competition and funeral almost crushed the thin girl.
He walked out of the door lightly and saw Ran's father on the balcony, the man who had been standing beside his wife and daughter to take care of them, and had aged a lot overnight. She didn't know what to say, she just persuaded him to take a rest, after all, Ran's mother still needed him to take care of her. Ran's father patted her on the shoulder, took out Ran Rong's mobile phone from his pocket, and said in a hoarse voice, "The recording left by Rong Rong." ”
She took it, as if she could feel the residual temperature of Ran Rong on the phone, she clicked on the recording menu with her cold fingers and found her name.
All that was left of the room was the ticking of the clock, and the sky was faintly bright, and a hazy light was shining through, and she looked around, and everywhere there was a smell and traces of Ran Rong, all of which showed that she had not left.
She stood in front of Ran Rong's photo, she already had a plan in her heart, and said softly: "Sister, I will definitely do what I promised you, don't worry." ”
In the following days, she has been doing her best to take care of Ran's mother and accompany Ran Ning. After Ran Rong's funeral, Ran's mother fainted due to physical exhaustion, and she has no energy after waking up. As for Ran's father, he is just holding on to his body, he still has his wife and little daughter to protect, how can he not let himself fall, but the white-haired person sends the black-haired person, this pain cannot be described in words. Ran Ning knew from the sentence "Wait for me to come back" that maybe Ran Rong couldn't wait for her to come back, she was mentally prepared, Ran Rong always left her the most beautiful smile, but when she heard the recording left for herself, it was useless to prepare.
Life and death are the most powerless things in this world, and watching life pass by little by little in front of you is like a blunt knife cutting meat, torturing your weaker and weaker nerves all the time. The more I tried to hold on desperately, the more I felt like I was desperately losing, as if I was standing in an infinite space, with no end in sight from front to back, left and right, up and down, just standing there alone, endlessly......