ZeeNuNew: Is it to Late?

Feelings and flowers

DISCLAIMER: photo is found on the internet, I don't own anything except my own imagination. One little note: Red gardenia's is a flower symbolizing love at first sight

It was another fan-event and Zee had picked NuNew up at his home. They were going together because P'Aof had told them it was a couple-event with Max and Nat. NuNew was glad that Nat also were going and that he had P'Max too. Because of late, there was these feelings inside of NuNew and he didn't know how to control them or how he should tell Hia Zee about it. It seemed that they kept flaring up whenever Hia Zee was near and NuNew didn't want to bother Hia Zee with his problems too much, as Hia had much more work than him. He often called Hia in the evning, but Hia had been so busy lately and they couldn't talk much as Hia also needed his sleep. Besides, NuNew couldn't tell him that he thought that he got this fictional disease. Besides, whenever he kept his distance between himself and Hia Zee, then the flowers weren't as bad and it didn't hurt as much.

As they drove to the venue of the event, there was silent in the car. Usually they didn't mind the silence, but today it was awkward and seemed to be suffercating them both. Zee tried to start a conversation, but NuNew just answered with one word or didn't answer at all. It troubled Zee that his Nuu didn't talk about what was bothering him when there obviously was something. Normally they would talk about everything, but lately Nuu had distanced himself and Zee didn't have the time to take a long talk with him because of his work. Zee felt annoyed and at the same time he felt guilty. When they arrived at the event, Nunew immediately went inside without waiting for Zee and met up with Max and Nat. Zee trailed after him and Max gave him question worthy look. Zee knew Max and Max knew Zee, so it wasn't that hard to guess what the silent question was. Zee shrugged on his shoulder and walked over to Nuu. He had on purpose said they needed to be there an hour before the actually time so he could use work as an excuse to talk properly to Nuu and to make it more believable he had asked Max and Nat to be there before time too. As Zee approached, Nat quickly looked at him and nodded, Nat knew NuNew had been down lately and they had talked much, but he had promised not to tell Zee as NuNew didn't wish for him to know. What NuNew didn't know, was that Nat had told Max. Though Max hadn't said anything to Zee, the information they carried was a heavy burden.

Nuu knew when Zee was near, he could feel the tingling feeling inside his chest and he could feel the vines slowly tangle more around his lungs as Zee came closer. -At least it wasn't a flower with thorns- NuNew thought as more vines slowly tangle in his lungs and took his breath away.  Zee came up behind Nuu and hugged him close to his chest.

"Nuu... I think we should talk na?" Zee whispered in Nuu's ear.

NuNew stiffened at Zee's whisper and a shiver ran through him because of his sensitive ears. He wanted to turn around, but his Hia just held him and prevented him from turning around. Nuu didn't know what to do, he didn't really want to talk about this and he knew if Hia first got him alone, he couldn't say no. As more vines slowly tangled in his lungs, NuNew could feel a cough-fit rise up from his chest.

Out of Zee's view, Nat and Max stood and observed them. Nat had kept a close eye on NuNew, as he actually had read about the disease and when NuNew slowly started internal panicking. Nat approached them even though Max had tried to stop him. He understand Max's concern but he also did not want his best friend to cough bloody petals up in front of his crush. So he did what any best friend would do, he intervened.

"Papa...." Nat called but didn't get a respond. So he tried again. "P'Zee!!"

Zee let go of NuNew and turned around to Nat. However, before Nat could answer him, NuNew fleed to the nearest bathroom with Nat on his tail. Nat got to the bathroom a split second after NuNew and even though he had investegated the disease, he was still shocked to see his best friend bend over the toilet, coughing blood and flowers.

It wasn't just petals anymore, it was whole flowers. In a way they were beautiful flowers. It was red gardenia's, the flower symbolizing ones first love. Bloody red gardenia's.