Hypnotize

Two

D woke, rubbed his eyes, and found blood on the ground and scars on the girl. He stood with shock, just aware of what he had done.

"R-Rose..." He muttered and looked at her with regret.

But then came an unexpected response, "D! Don't leave me..."

It didn't come from the usual high and sweet voice. The voice was hoarse like a sick one, and D made up his mind.

He will trade himself for the way to get rid of the hypnotize.

"Yet I came to beg you again, wise one," D begged again, but this time he knelt, "Tell me how to stop the hypnotize."

The elder cracker up at the statement, "Ha, ha! Stop the hypnotize? Are you crazy, D? Or rather, are you really fine with letting your sweetheart go? She made you happy these days, didn't she?"

D spit on the floor, "That's not even the real her!"

"But think, D, how do you think she will act once she wakes up, tortured these days?"

The elder's reply brought dead silence. D stood still and closed his eyes, opened them, and closed them again. He looked at the elder who was still smiling. A creepy one, indeed.

"Then I shall leave her— when she wakes, that is."

D let out a sigh. All those days it was he the one who was trapped in the cage, chained with his love for Rose.

Rose woke and finds a letter next to her.

She held it and yawned, "Such a weird dream... I dreamt that I was taken care by someone like a baby. How strange! But afterwards, he..."

"He... No, that's not a dream!" screamed Rose, "He hypnotized me... Then he canceled that hypnotize... Why..."

She grabbed the letter and opened it up.

Her whole hand was shaking.

Dear Rose,

You must have woke when you're reading this. I apologize greatly for what I've done these days— I won't beg for your forgiveness. I know what I have done cannot be forgiven.

You must hate me, right?

No, it's better for you to just forget me...

I wanted to be with you, but then I forgot who I truly am, how my past is unbearable. Those love is like the deadliest flower to me, beautiful but deadly.

That's why I hate you, my love.

I hate the encounter of you and me. I hate how you invaded my dark world. I hate how crucial you are, sending me back to the darkness without any sign.

And so, me who have been crazy about the light that you bring to me — pulled you into the darkness and chained you in my world.

But it doesn't matter, you made me realize how lame I am although hypnotized. I understood now. You'll never belong to just me.

I quit. And since I lost, I traded myself for the way of canceling the hypnosis.

I never had a heart until I met you, Rose. You are my heart.

I will never forget your voice, your smile, everything of you. Every drop of memory have been written deep on my heart. But whenever I think of the thought that you won't belong to me no more, I feel like a snowman in the midsummer days, choking with desperate.

You're free now to your brightness and I'll be heading back to my darkness.

I thank you for those memories. I can live on that.

I love you.