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Artificial Flower― CH. 10

w. Rielin to never fade; only to live.

“Behind the flashiness of an eternal flower petal, there’s a liar who has never bloomed nor withered.” -Eddy Kim.

BGM BTS - Blood Sweat and Tears Piano Cover by DooPiano (Minor Version)

Another year passed. Another, sickening year rotting in misery and depression grasped within your bloody hands.

White walls, white ceiling, white floors― 'white' is the only color that surrounds me, that traps me within. White resembles purity, does it not? Pathetically, I am not. I have been stained by the blood of the innocent, wicked by unforgetting lies. I am placed inside such purity, slowly intoxicating the innocence. I am dying, I am constantly choked by the cruel truth slipping out of his damned mouth. Please save me from this hell that I am drowning from. I cannot take it anymore.

Echoing footsteps from afar slowly increase in decibel. Suddenly, it disappears after a loud clap. Silence. The only thing I can hear is my heart constantly beating. He's here.

The door opens, the revolting smell of medicine enters in, followed by the person who I… can't dare to despise. Why can't I hate him? Because he looks like Eid? No. Because I have loved him once, and that love won't dare to fade away, it's like a curse being placed on me. It's like as if a flower bloomed inside of my heart because of him, yet the thorns rooted from pieces me through, constantly bleeding me out. And did I not, make a promise? That I would never leave him. Perhaps that was the promise I meant to you, Eid. Perhaps… maybe, just at least for a minute… that I can see you through his eyes.

"Eve!"

That addicting husky voice filled with joy echoes into this compact room. Before my eyes is the silver haired male, rather tall and dressed neatly in a suit. I look down to his right hand, he's gripping onto an expensive box of chocolate. The same, damned chocolate.

"I know you like chocolates, so I decided to buy them,"

He says, with the same damned words. He smiles brightly like a little kid as he sits down in front of the me. His amethyst eyes are shining under the fluorescent hospital light. It's sickening, yet I cannot look away. I'm addicted to you.

"Thanks… Add,"

My voice is weak and raspy, as if I'm dying. But does that matter to you? You don't flicker even one bit. As long as I'm next to you. As long as you're the only person I'm allowed to look at, to talk to.

"I love you, Eve."

I'm like an artificial flower created out of plastic. I don't need water or sunlight to live.

But did you know, Add?

You're like an artificial flower, too. You're fake. You faked an entire life just to become Eid. You don't need my water or my sunlight to live.

And did you know…?

The only real, living flower… was Eid. His smiles, his voice, it was all too real. Eid was Eid, himself.

"I love you, too… Add,"

But people tend to pick the fake flower over the real one. Because real flowers rot and die into nothing, while artificial flowers never fade; only to live.

note:

YAY ARTIFICIAL FLOWER IS COMPLETED! Sorry it took me awhile to post this even though it's such a short chapter. I constantly revised it and finally, it's done! I think some of you expected it to be happy ending, but WHO IS RIELIN WITHOUT A SAD ENDING? Plus I didn't know what I would do with the two characters if I let them be happy lmao...

But I hope you guys enjoyed this story! It was such a difficult story to work with because of the abusive-relationship-topic but I do not romanticize such thing! I was actually inspired by another story I read years ago, which suddenly came into my mind thus I decided to write my own.

I apologize if you found any parts in this story to be offensive!

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