COTE | | Bound | | [Suzune x Kiyotaka]

Chapter 25 || Perfect

SUZUNE's POV

I finished the story, feeling conflicted and hurt from the revelation of my past. For a moment, he stayed silent, staring at me.

"I know, it's pathetic isn't it? Compared to-."

Just as I was speaking, he cut me off with his lips coming into contact with my own.

The kiss itself had a thousand words behind them that I couldn't help but feel vulnerable and fall into his lips. They were soft and I felt comfortable as I leant into them.

"Good enough isn't even comparable to what you are, Suzune."

His voice wasn't monotonous - just as his lips were, it was soft, loving even.

Even though his face was blurred in my tearful vision, I could feel the sympathy from him.

"You're by far one of the most talented individuals I know. Who cares if you and your brother are different? You have qualities that he doesn't. You're amazing, Suzune."

His hand held my cheek and in this moment there was only one thing I wanted to do: cry.

Me, a headstrong girl who is superior to all those around her. Me, a person who does not care to what people say regarding my name.

"I fell so madly in love with you Kiyotaka and it made me forget about everything and anything that happened in my household but since then, insignificant words that don't effect the majority are said to me and it just throws me back to the nine-year old little me who heard that she was unwanted by her family. The twelve year old me who thought that if I just died everyone around me would be ecstatic. I'm just so pathetic."

"Pathetic is what your parents are, Suzune, not you. To have endured such travesties at a young age and manage to come back from all of that, I'm proud of you. I wasn't there to say this but if I could travel to a time where I wasn't within walls, I would be at your side telling you that you're everything someone should be."

Proud of me?

That was words that I yearned to hear for so long.

I laughed gently, holding his cheeks with my hand, "Kiyotaka, you better not let anybody else be seeing this cute side of yours." I said through the sniffles. I blinked a couple of times to clear my vision and when I did, my heart burst.

He was sat there, staring at me and smiling, "You're the only one and you will forever be the only one, Suzune. You achieved this, us. That alone is something that no one could ever out do."

"I... hate to bring this up but, when Bitchinose forced herself on you... I had my first panic attack in a long time. I continuously thought that I wasn't good enough and that you wanted someone better. And then I ranted to you about how trust is needed in a relationship for it to work and I never, not until now, told you about my past. Gosh, I feel like such a hypocrite."

"I knew you were hiding something but everyone has secrets they're unwilling to share and I would have waited even longer for you to tell me, however, I am glad you did because... I vow to never let you have such thoughts about removing yourself from this world again." He begun, "You're good enough." Suddenly, my heart burst again, "You're perfect. Beyond perfect. You are so significant to my life that I couldn't imagine what I'd be like without you, well, I could, and it wouldn't be as amazing as it is now."

I giggled at him as he gave me words of comfort, he was so handsome, and I'm simply smitten according to my own thoughts.

"If I died, I would probably try to find you in my next life, and my life after that. That's how important and significant you are. If you weren't born, I believe that I would have remained loveless my whole life. I would have become bored with the world that I would have returned to the hands of my father but you have given me reason to fight. You are my heart Suzune."