WHY DO YOU LOVE ME? - riki

✧ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 19 - ᴅᴏᴏᴍ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏʀɪᴢᴏɴ ✧

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𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝟭𝟵 - 𝗗𝗢𝗢𝗠 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗭𝗢𝗡

𝘼 𝙒𝙀𝙀𝙆 𝙇𝘼𝙏𝙀𝙍 -

𝙍𝙄𝙆𝙄 𝙋𝙊𝙑 -

"You need to be careful around her, she will rock-" I cut Konon off by slamming my fist against the windowsill. I had enough of the bullshit words that kept spewing out of her mouth. This was my life and my key to freedom from this fucking curse and she was not gonna mess with my head to stop me.

"I know what I'm doing Konon."

"Rebellious now are we?"

"I've always been like that." Suddenly a woman barged into the room and shoved some fliers into each of our hands. "You two must be careful. Doom is approaching us quickly and will corrupt this world, he has found a way to curse us all." She panicked and I lightly chuckled amused before asking.

"How do you know this?"

"God. God spoke to me." She looked up to the ceiling as if she could still hear 'God's words' ringing through her brain as he 'gazed at her with love'. She's right, Doom is approaching humans quickly and little does she know she's standing face to face with him.

"I'll be careful thanks. Wouldn't want him to bring Doom to me." I nodded and tucked the flier away in my jacket pocket. Konon shot me a 'wow-you-really-just-said-that' look and the corners of my lips pulled up into a smile.

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𝙃𝙒𝘼𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙉𝙂 𝙋𝙊𝙑 -

Riki had invited me to go on a picnic date with him. To say I was surprised by the invitation would be an understatement. I was practically gobsmacked by the idea of him asking me out on the date and it not being the other way around. Our last date at the mall went pretty smoothly so to hear that it went well enough for him to ask me out this time meant progress. Big progress. I was definetly gonna be free from all this bullshit soon.

I had also been skipping most of my hospital appointments. I wasn't sure whether it would be a good idea to go to the hospital and get checked out because if they found out that some sort of magical miracle was preventing me from feeling the pain of my illness, I would definetly become a rat test subject for them. Hospital appointments were off the table.

I didn't want to think about the pain of my cancer. Having that bracelet made me feel as if the illness wasn't even there in the first place.

"That bracelet has become your weakness. You depend too much on it and in the end, that will destroy you."

Riki was right. It had become my weakness but also my strength. I was able to go on with my life feeling and basically thinking that it wasn't there. The uncontrollable cell division that had piled itself into my pancreas. I had to take advantage of this strength because who knew if it would ever be gone again.

I don't know, maybe next time Riki won't hesistate to not hold my hand. Maybe he'll change his mind about being so nice to me and end up letting me die the next time. So for now, I'd rather not think about all that.

I walked into the small modern mansion infront of me and was greeted by a very happy Daeun. She was wearing the cute duck graphic shirt that I'd gifted her last Christmas and some really baggy shorts that looked like they belonged to some sort of bodybuilder. "Nice fit." I pointed to her outfit and she did a little curtsey letting me in.

"Wow, the house is so nice!" I squealed and ran around like a little kid going to the funfair for the first time. "I know right. So what are we feeling? Talking, cooking, movie?" Daeun asked and jumped onto the sofa as I joined her. She'd invited me for a girl's day in. No Jake. No Riki. No Taehyun. Just for the two most hardworking women in the world to get a day off. "Definetly should watch You's new season." She cheered and got up to get us some snacks as I put it on the TV for the both of us.

"Ah, I've been waiting so long for this one, Joe's in London. Maybe I'll move there one day." I said and imagined me living in London for a few seconds whilst Daeun jumped back on the sofa with a bowl full of food. "London? I never really thought about that. I was thinking Brisbane or something. It's kinda nice there I heard." Daeun shrugged taking a bite out of her Snickers.

"Really?" I cocked a brow and gave her a funny look knowing the exact reason why she said Brisbane. "You know, if I'm right then I'd suspect a certain someone actually lived in Brisbane for a bit. He has a pretty strong australian accent and I think his name is Jak-"

"Okayyyy, series time!" She laughed, I could tell she was fluestered and she knew that I'd seen right through her little comment. She put on the series and we started watching it occasionally telling a few stories every half and hour. "You know Riki and I have started dating-"

"I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN SOON! I- OH MY GOD WHERE WAS THE FIRST DATE!" She jumped up and down on the sofa and shook me rapidly whilst I just burst out laughing at her reaction. I couldn't tell her that the first date was decor shopping for his house... that would be pretty weird. So I just settled with a white lie/truth.

"We haven't gone on the first date yet, but he's taking me out for a picnic soon."

"Oh, I knew he was hooked onto you from the moment I saw him look at you in the restarurant. I'm so proud of you love!" She pretended to cry like a proud mother and started stroking my hair as I jokingly and gently shoved her off of me.

"Okay thanks mom." I groaned like a teenager and Daeun pulled me in to repeat the same action again. "No worries my lovely little Hwayoungie flower!" She cooed and pulled on my cheeks. This girl. I thought and chuckled to myself as we continued binge watching together.

- 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝟕𝟑 -
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AUTHOR:

I'm sorry for not updating last weekkk

I completely forgot due to exams :/

but here's a double update as my apology

love you guys <3

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