:: 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨꒰ა♡໒꒱ • 𝘹𝘪𝘢𝘰

020

|| "end of a beginning" ||
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Lumine ran like she did, her heart beating outside her sleeve. She didn't ask Hu Tao who did it or how it happened. Given your situation, the culprit's name was written all over it, Aurora.

She barged inside the clinic frantically asking the nurse where her best friend was. She looked at your sleeping body her hands balled in a fist, her eyes snapping to you and a certain man that sits beside you. "you're lucky this school's clinic is big and well maintained because if it weren't we would've needed to call an ambulance-" "shut up no one asked" she cuts the nurse off her nagging, her patience slowly thinning "kids these days !"

She looked around the clinic smelling a familiar scent, do all hospitals smell the same? She can't help but be brought back in time. Her hands shaking in fear, everything was so familiar but so different. Why do all hospitals have to look alike?... white walls, white curtains, white beds, and the smell of medicine are all coming back to her like a nightmare, a nightmare in which the ghost of the past finally found her.

"Xiao. Let's talk outside. " she said without batting him an eye, "lumine... calm down first," Hu Tao said worried about her friends "We'll be back shortly tao, watch over yn for me" lumine patted her friends back as if giving her a signal she won't do anything out of spite.

xiao follows her outside the clinic his head hanging low. "I'll give you 2 minutes to explain what happened and why you failed to protect my best friend" She crossed her arms, glaring daggers at the man in front of her as if she could rip him apart any second now.

"I don't know how it all happened... I'm sorry"

"YOU BITCH-"Enraged by his answer Lumine grabbed Xiao's collar and pressed him against a wall "I entrusted yn with you because I thought you could protect her. IF ONLY I KNEW YOU'RE JUST A PUSSY WHO HANGS HIS HEAD LOW"

"I'm sorry...."

Xiao could only mutter quiet sorries while lumine looked at him in disbelief while slowly backing off at him. "Aether told me you were unshakable, that you could protect yn from the mess you brought her in"

"I'm sorry"

"Say sorry one more time I'll stitch your mouth shut."

...

"You are incompetent xiao, and I'd like to believe what Aether told me was right but seeing you right now says otherwise"

"This is all my fault..."

"Do you know why we value yn so much? Because she's too nice for this world. She helped me when I was at my lowest and I'll make sure to do the same for her. I promised her she'd be safe here in liyue and because of you, you broke that promise, and look at the state she's in."

"I really didn't mean to"

"I don't give a fuck what you think because the xiao I'm seeing right now isn't the same one Aether introduced me years ago, so better you get your shit together, xiao this is yn we're talking about"

"I-" "Shut up I'm not done talking, prove to me that what Aether said is true if fail to do just that.."

"I'll personally make sure she'd stop with this whole fake relationship shit show."

Lumine ended everything with a threat as she walled inside the clinic leaving Xiao feeling stranded. Slowly xiao felt his body collapse. His hand snaked his way through his hair.

What did happen to him? Everything lumine said was right this was so out of character of him. He roughly scratched his head in frustration while all his shitty actions came back to haunt him.