| Raekkuno Fanfiction | [Long Stories]

2.3 Painful Embrace

A/N: TW: Implying Suicide, Implying Abuse.

11th Oct 2021 8:30pm (Rae POV)

I was lying in bed after a long stream of solo queueing Valorant trying to reach Plat for the first time ever in my entire Valorant career, I was scrolling through Twitter when I received a Tweet notification from Sykkuno, even after all those horrible things he said to me, I still hadn't blocked him on any of my socials in the hopes that he would one day make it up to me, it would have to be a pretty grand gesture to make me forgive him. So many tears were shed from what he said, I was crying in my bed for days after he basically told me he hated me and that he never wanted anything to with me, I must've binged The Notebook at least 7 times. But even after all that I still couldn't hate him. I was definitely disappointed in him, but I didn't hate him.

Shaking off my thoughts, I opened the Tweet only to see that it was created three hours ago and read out "Happy Anniversary Babe! One whole year!", knowing that the Tweet was about Richie, I felt my face redden and I said aloud "Dick!" in anger. I hated him so much. To be more accurate I resented him, though I had no idea why. That was a lie, I knew exactly why I resented him. And so did he.

I pressed on Sykkuno's profile picture and looked through his media only to see that he had posted a selfie a couple days ago, something he rarely to never did. In the selfie he was wearing the Valkyrae merch hoodie that I had given him a few months ago as well as having black nails, I couldn't help but smile at seeing him wearing my hoodie, I hesitantly liked the photo before closing Twitter and throwing my phone in fear of him noticing that I liked it. It was then that the phone started ringing so I walked over to the other side of my room and picked it up, I didn't recognize the number so I thought about declining it before I realized that it could have been urgent so I accepted the call.

I didn't hear anything coming through the phone so I decided to speak first.

Rae: "Hello?"

Just like before I was met with silence but I continued talking.

Rae: "Who is this?"

I could hear somebody breathing on the other end of the call and was beginning to get creeped out so I announced I was hanging up.

Rae: "I'm hanging up now."

Just when I went to hit the red button to hang up I suddenly heard someone yell my name.

Sykkuno: "Rae!"

Rae: "Who is this?"

I recognized the voice but I couldn't quite place exactly whose it was.

Sykkuno: "It's me..."

Realizing who I was talking to my heartbeat began to beat faster and faster as I felt my body tense up.

Rae: "Sykkuno?" I questioned softly, still in disbelief that he was calling me.

8:30pm (Nobody POV)

Sykkuno: "Yeah... it's me..." He spoke slowly.

Rae: "Why are you calling me? And why is it on a number I don't recognize?" She interrogated, her tone becoming more stern, though to say she wasn't glad to hear his voice would've been a lie.

Sykkuno: "I'm calling from a phone at a local diner, my phone is dead and there's no WIFI to message anybody..."

Rae: "Why don't you go home to Dick!?" She questioned annoyedly, something he took notice of.

Sykkuno: "Well... About that..."

Rae: "What!?" She interrogated, her tone becoming more and more hostile.