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She wants to live, but she can’t fight for her life. Her breath was running low and her consciousness was gone. But she saw a boy swimming towards her. She didn’t know the boy, but the boy grabbed her hand and pulled her up.

Ruby thought she wouldn’t make it, but a boy she didn’t know had saved her. When she woke up Ruby woke up in the hospital and both her parents and Ricky were by her side. They hugged her while crying and feeling relieved. Ruby is thinking whether the boy she saw was just a fantasy or a dream. But then she looked at a picture book on top of her desk drawer. She opened it and saw a an oil painting of the sun setting in the ocean. Then there’s the little inscription on the bottom corner of the painting that says, ‘The view of the rising star is the most beautiful.’

It’s a funny message, and she doesn’t understand. But she started waiting for the sun to rise, and it became her habit. Then she felt happy