Empty Worlds (len x piko :3)

Chapter 6

That last week went by all too fast, I think now, looking back. Len and I were both trying desperately to make it last forever: never spending a moment apart. Gumi was around too, of course, but for the most part she stayed away, probably wanting to give us our time together before the end of everything. At night I would somehow always end up crawling from my bed into Len's arms, not wanting to spend a single second without him. It was hard, very hard, to ignore the fact that we only had that one week- the elephant in the room, so to speak. Everyone around us would throw pitying glances our way when they thought we weren't looking. How sad it is, they seemed to say to eachother. Only one week-poor things. Still, someone like Len will easily find someone new. One night, I think it was the fourth night, the anger that was bubbling up in me just seemed to explode. I stood in our- mine and Len's- room, and simply started to scream, staring at my flushed reflection in the mirror. Within seconds, the blond was with me, trying to stop my tears, trying to wrap his arms around me- but I wouldn't let him. Instead, I turned to face him. "DON'T TRY TO COMFORT ME. You don't know a thing about hardship. Everyone knows that you'll forget about me as soon as I'm gone! You'll have no trouble finding someone else! No, don't deny it, Len. You know it's true!"

At that point, the tears overtook my voice, and I buried my face in my shaking hands.

I felt gentle fingers prying away my own, lifting my chin up so I was facing him again.

"Piko..." he whispered helplessly. "Why're you saying these things? Who told you this? You...you don't honestly believe that-it's true?"

I couldn't meet his eyes.

"Piko," he pressed. "Do you?"

I let out a shuddering breath. "No."

He sighed, in relief, I think. "Good."

Len slipped his arms round my waist. "Good," he whispered again, placing a light kiss on my lips. I sighed and let myself relax into the contact, pushing all of my negative thoughts away.

The next day, Gumi came round, determined to get us out of the house. "C'mon, guys! You've been holed up in there all week! You need some air!"

Rolling his (stunning) eyes, he let Gumi drag us both out of the door.

Later that day, we were all sprawled on the bench in the very same park where they'd seen me for the first time, watching the sun (artificial) set. As it sank down below the spindly arms of the trees, Gumi laid her head on my shoulder. Len looked over sharply, but relaxed when I smiled at him.

"I wonder when we'll be like this again," she mused quietly.

"If," I corrected her, but with no real venom in my voice.

"No, when," she replied, but with a certainty in her tone that I couldn't bear to rebuff.

But, when would we be like this again? Just the three of us, at peace with everything?

It was hard to admit that I didn't know.

So there we were, trying to create an infinity out of seven days; or the two we had left. An impossible task?

All too true.

Sometimes, I think, love simply can't be enough.

-Len POV-

Really, it seemed like nothing in my life was easy. On the sixth day, I had a concert, along with Luka and Rin- a sort of goodbye, as it were. This was precisely the last thing I wanted to be doing right now-it was as if they were TRYING to maximise the time Piko and I spent apart.

But one good thing came of it all: there was a guy in the wings checking our mikes before we went on. He said his name was Ritsu, and after I came off the stage, he had something to say to me.

"You look like your world is gonna end in a day," he chuckled. When I opened my mouth to respond, he shook his head, laying a delicate finger over my lips.

"Shhh... Listen. Whoever it is, you and they'll make it work in the end. Trust me, I know about these things." He smiled, flipping his long scarlet hair over his shoulder. "And say hi to Lily from me." Ritsu winked, and walked away.

I woke up, a cold, sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.

It was the seventh day.

"You'll make it work..."

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Hi! pikokagamine here with another chapter. Hope you enjoy! sorry it's been so long in the making but here it is.

hope you all have a lovely day.

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