The tragic story the petals tell us.

The most tragic soul in town.

Hanahaki was a common disease, almost everyone got it and only a few were left untainted. Sure, over the years there were cures found but many people will either perish or get left with a hole in their heart, something they lost forever. If you had Hanahaki there were only 2 things you could do to stop it; either confess your feelings or get the surgery.

If you confessed you either got your feelings returned or not. People rarely returned their feelings, even if they said they did the Hanahaki wouldn't stop signaling that the love wasn't real. Others didn't get their feelings returned and died, the flowers covering their lungs made it hard for them to breathe so they perished.

The surgery itself was pretty costful but the aftermath? Worse, for some people. If you got the surgery you'd lose romantic feelings, forever. So if you didn't get it you died, if you did get it you died but mentally. While many preferred getting the surgery others preferred to die knowing they loved someone.

As tragic enough as it is, imagine your love having a girlfriend, or worse, a fiance. Sadly this was the case for Noel Gruber. The poor guy, in love with Mischa Bachinsk, who only talked about his girlfriend. Now, Noel knew that he had feelings for Mischa, he just denied it. Up until the coughing started, followed by bloody flower petals. It started whenever Mischa was around, that's how you know it was bad. The worst part about this all? Natalia, Mischa's fiance, was transferring to their school in just a few days. Lovely, isn't it?

Mischa knew nothing about Noel having feelings for him and Noel wanted to keep it that way. He really didn't want to ruin anything between the two, he treasured their friendship.. He didn't want to lose Mischa all because of his feelings for him.. He didn't want to make things awkward between the two, he didn't want to hurt MIscha nor Talia. He knew Talia was a kind soul, she really was, so how could Noel hate her?

Finally, the day where Talia arrived came, and like the choir was told she was in fact really pretty and nice. She was perfect, now Noel knew why Mischa loved her so much. Even the choir seemed to be wrapped around her thumb, not that she was manipulative; she wasn't and that's what made her so perfect, maybe even more perfect than Ocean's academic record.

Noel knew that the Hanahaki would get worse, especially with Talia here, how could it not? Eventually he'd miss choir more than before, making Ocean worried but probably because she was at a loss for a tenor. He sat there, in the bathroom puking his guts out, it wasn't even puke it was just a whole load of flower petals.. If he got 'lucky' enough he'd regurgitate a flower or two. He sobbed silently, oh God how he longed for tragedy for no, not like this. It was all so infuriating and sad, he felt so pathetic.

Eventually when the coughing and vomiting had subsided just a bit he'd get out and return to choir, or any class he had at the moment.

He was good at hiding things so no one, up until now, knew he had Hanahaki. Noel didn't need anyone's pity, it wouldn't help either way. It's only been a while but the Hanahaki had gotten pretty worse, it hurt to even breathe. He didn't want to die, but he didn't want to lose the ability to love either. Noel knew he would rather die loving someone than living and not loving anyone ever again. Unfortunately, this was not the case.

Eventually the Hanahaki had gotten bad, so bad he'd missed school for a few days. No one in the choir seemed to care, they didn't need to anyway. Noel stumbled down the stairs, trying to catch his breath, trying not to pass out, he didn't want to worry his mother knowing how she was. He'd made it to the kitchen successfully without fainting but as he was returning to his room it all went blank, the last thing he heard was his mother shrieking.

When Noel regained consciousness the first thing he heard was the noise of the machines, after a while he heard his mother's worried voice. He opened his eyes to see her chatting with some doctors, where was he? Oh, the hospital.. Nice, just what he didn't want. Wait, why didn't he want it? He couldn't recall.. Not right now at least.

The doctors noticed he was conscious first, as his mother could not see through her blurry vision. One walked up to him asking him some questions and saying he'd be back with some sort of results. His mother hugged him tightly as she sobbed, Noel hugged back with a smile. Wait, something was missing. How come he could breathe normally again? Where was the always haunting pain in his chest and stomach?

When the doctors finally came back they'd told him what happened; he'd gotten the surgery, the only surgery he didn't want, Hanahaki removal. Noel had tears in his eyes now, why wouldn't he? He'd lost his romantic feelings, which put to shame his title "The most romantic boy in town." Who was he now? It seemed that the pain he'd been dealing with had caused him to become mostly numb to this new pain. But Noel rather die than give up his feelings, now he had nothing left..

The doctors had told Noel he'd be ready to go back to school in about a month, that should've put Noel in a good mood, right? Well it didn't. He didn't want to go back to school and see people's taunting smiles, knowing that he'd never be able to love like them again, he knew that the bullying would be worse. There was no way people would pity him for that, if you were 'weird' and didn't fit the norms there was no mercy for you.

Eventually, the day before going back, Noel decided to make his decision; he'd kill himself. There was no way he'd deal with all of this again just to not earn his happy ending. He always dreamt of finally being in love and now he couldn't have that. He lost what kept him alive. So at 12:45am Noel ended his life, at 7:30 his body was found, at 9:16 he was pronounced dead. Noel Gruber, the most tragic soul in town.

A/N;

All rights reserved to me, this is kind of inspired by @spinachart 's "Blood rose petals" on ao3. I will be posting this on ao3 once I can, so if you see this on there then that's why.
Q; Should I post more of my stories on social media platforms?
(Like said in the description this is my first time doing so. I'm not very good at writing so I'm sorry if there are any mistakes or something!!)