(Continue...)

A few days later, the trial on Len was done. A trial that not attended by Rin. Len wasn’t really paying attention on the court although it decided his future. To him, his future was no longer important, it was Rin’s that was. He didn’t care how Rin’s family’s lawyer tried to corner him and how his lawyer did his best to defend him. He didn’t care what the witnesses said. He only wanted him to be proved guilty so that he could, even a little, soothed Rin if she knew the Len who always bully her went to jail. He only hoped he could go to the hospital one last time before he went to jail, but…

“Kagamine Len is acquitted of all charges.”

After sitting for hours in the court, only that last sentence by the judges and knocked sound afterward heard by Len. He was acquitted just because the witnesses saw him did nothing when Rin crossing the road. His family and friends were all hugging him in relieved but he didn’t feel any relief at all. He felt even more guilty. He saw Rin’s parents walked away in tears, silently went passed him without even meeting his eyes. Len shook off his family and friends and ran to the judges who were about to leave the room.

“I did it! It was my responsibility! I’m guilty!”

Len’s shouting was so loud that the whole room fell silent. The judges looked at him in confuse.

“It’s pure accident.”
Without wanting to hear any other of Len’s words, the judges left.

Len was shocked that he couldn’t hear his family and friends cheered for him. He had fail on atoning his sin to Rin and her family and it made him felt far more guilty. His friends invited him to go with them partying over his win in the court but he rejected them, there was other place he wanted to go. If that day was his lucky day―or his bad day from a different point―he prayed it might last a little longer until he reached the hospital. There was where he wished for the real miracle to happen the most.

“Your eyes matched hers. You can become a donor.”

Len couldn’t believe what he just heard. Him! To Rin! Tears once again forming in his eyes but this time, it was tears of happiness.

[Thank you… Thank you…]

Len couldn’t stop thanking as he hugged the lab report with the result that he was a compatible donor for Rin.

[Rin, I could pull you out from the darkness now. I could show you colors again. Wait for me, I’ll come for you. I’ll definitely will come and save you. Please wait for me. I’m almost there…]

Len wiped his wet eyes and looked at the doctors who somehow seemed quite nervous. They might had realized his love toward Rin and the request he was about to made.

“I want to donate my eyes for Rin.”
“You can’t.”
Len’s heart skipped a beat. “Why? Aren’t I compatible?”
“You’re still fourteen. You still have a long way to go before losing your sight.”
[Rin is too.]
“Besides, you have to be dead to donate your eyes or at least dying. It’s not like donating your kidney or…”

The doctor hadn’t even finished his words. Len grabbed a pair of scissors on the table and pointed the edge to his throat.

“I’m dying.”

(To be continued...)