Random one-shots

Dreaming Alone by ATC featuring Taka {Hurissa}

A/N: HAPPY HURISSA DAY! Today is the first anniversary of Hurissa day, and I hope there will be second, third and more. This one-shot was created to celebrate this festival. Further more, it was posted on 12:07 HK time! I hope you will enjoy it!---- XXOO, Waterpurple

The story starts laying in the dark with someone new
I'm feeling tired from all the time I spent on you
But I know I'm strong from all the trouble I've been through
The story starts where the story falls apart with you

Merissa's POV
I stared at the text you sent me, feeling no hope at all.
I'm tired of this game---- the game of love, the game of guess, the game of disappointment, the game of chase.
I'm tired of the this feeling; sometimes I thought I got you and sometimes I thought I lose you for eternity.
There were no need to become the loser in this game.
Leaving the game before being hurt was a better choice.
But how could I leave?
Just like when you fell into a blackhole, there were no way of getting out of the hole again.

Don't lie, bright eyes
Is it me that you see when you fall asleep?
Cause I know it's you I dream about every night
Giving me a feeling like
Love in the summer
Way I've never felt with another
Don't lie, bright eyes
Is it me that you see?
Tell me I'm not dreaming alone

I... I didn't know do you understand my feelings towards you. It was so strong like a drug.
I woke up, I thought of you.
I went to school, I thought of you.
I saw a post on Instagram or Facebook or whatever, I thought of you.
I slept, I thought of you.
As if you washed my brain so everything was related to you.
That was why I'm so scared of the thought that you don't like me.
I hope I could read minds because I was suffering over the thought 'did Hugh Cantrell like me or not' like the little girls that peel off the petals of a flower to test whether their crushes like them.
Once, you didn't go to school for a day.
I literally felt like someone took my heart away.
It wasn't 'hurt' or 'pain', it's like someone suddenly took away something you got so used to.
I knew so clearly that no one need another person to survive and I can survive on my own.
I'm strong.
Or am I?

I was surprised at how much you knew about me, even we only met for such a short time.
Hugh Cantrell: u r an egg
Merissa Nickleson: What a good compliment to a girl (roll eyes emoji)
Hugh Cantrell: No
Hugh Cantrell: When I mean u r an egg i think u r hard on the outside n so soft in the inside
Hugh Cantrell: That's really... cute
Hugh Cantrell: Or another feeling IDK how to explain
You didn't know how shocked I was when you sent that message. I could barely send a reply.
Merissa Nickleson: 1) Im not an egg 2) Im not hard on the outside n soft in the inside 3) Im not cute
Hugh Cantrell: Then u are pretty
Merissa Nickleson: I'm not cute OR pretty
Hugh Cantrell: U r stop denying
It's like suddenly someone read your mind and told you 'I know you. I understand what you feel. You are brilliant.'
That was one of the moments I thought 'he's the one.'

How can I leave you?
How can I stay strong?
How can I stop liking you?
You were so irritating and annoying, but I couldn't help and fell in love with you at the same time.
Please tell my a way to stop falling in love, because maybe then I would suffer less.
However, emotions and love were the only things that humans couldn't control, and that's what made us human.

The story starts lying in the dark broken and bruised
I count the scars left in my heart from losing you
And I was wrong but let's be honest you were too
I miss the part where I was falling hard for you

Hugh's POV
I leant against the chair, thinking about you. More precisely, thinking about us.
We had always been in an on and off relationship----oh, yea, we were not even in a relationship. I didn't know was the sense that 'you like me' was only my imagination.
I hope it wasn't, because if it is really only my imagination, I would probably die.
I remembered the good old days when we were totally... crushing on each other? I wasn't even sure were you crushing on me. I was totally crushing on you anyways. At that period, it was like my brain was a radio and there was only one channel: Merissa Nickleson.
We used to chat about everything. I caught a glimpse of your inner personality. You laughed at my jokes.We argued about minor little things, but we both knew we enjoyed it. Once, I didn't go to school because I went to a competition.
You told me you missed me.
You had no idea how that meant to me.

So don't lie, bright eyes
Is it me that you see when you fall asleep?
Cause I know it's you I dream about every night
Giving me this feeling like
Love in the summer
Way I've never felt with another
Don't lie, bright eyes
Is it me that you see?
Tell me I'm not dreaming alone

When the rumours spread out in class, I had no idea how that happened.
We were 'enemies', weren't we? At least on the outside we were.
I hated the rumours; rumours are like a weapons, it embarrasses you and makes you become afraid to fall in love.
But it was also the rumours let me realise how much I was crushing on you.
Just when I was thinking about us, my phone lighted up.
Averie Sycamore: we need to talk
Hugh Cantrell: what
Averie Sycamore: do you love Merissa
Hugh Cantrell: its none of your business
Averie Sycamore: Merissa's business is my business
Hugh Cantrell: I'm not telling u anyways
Averie Sycamore: Shut up everyone knows u like her
Averie Sycamore: Tell her
Averie Sycamore: i didn't think u like her because of the rumours
Averie Sycamore: its because the things u sent her
Averie Sycamore: Tell her u love her
Averie Sycamore: i am sure she like you too
My first reaction was 'wtf'.
The second reaction was happiness.
Few of the best things in the world was your crush liking you back.
The third reaction was disappointment. There's no way Nickleson love me; Sycamore was probably pulling a prank on me again.
Hugh Cantrell: good trick but not good enough to fool me lol
Averie Sycamore: shut up im honest
Averie Sycamore: im not playing a trick this time
Averie Sycamore: but anyways if u dont belive me i dont care
Averie Sycamore: bye
She offlined.

Never believe what Averie Sycamore said was a common sense like 'never tickle a sleeping dragon' (Merissa told me this quote).
However, she was also extremely loyal to her friends---- especially Merissa Nickleson.
She would never hurt Merissa Nickleson.
I started to reasonably thinking (which wasn't a thing I usually do).
What's the pros and cons of telling Merissa that I love her?
Pros: I didn't want to hide this feeling anymore. Furthermore... it's a 50/50 chance. A 50/50 chance that she loves me or not.
Cons: Nickleson may tell all the others I like her and embarrass me...
I was immediately ashamed by this thought. Merissa wasn't this kind of person.
I decided to tell her the truth.

I can't take back the things I said
And I won't say that I regret
Any day that I was yours

Merissa's POV
I remember those beautiful days, when I was crazily crushing on you, when I didn't care about anything but you.
Now it's different.
But I didn't regret those days, apparently, because it was few of the happiest moments in my life.
It's over now, however, and I needed to learn to let go things that do not belong to me anymore.

Don't lie, bright eyes
I know it's me that you see when you fall asleep
And you know it's you I dream about every night
Giving me this feeling like
Love in the summer
Way I've never felt with any other
Don't lie, bright eyes
It'll always be you and me, so why are we dreaming alone?
It'll always be you and me, so why are we dreaming alone?

I saw you today at class.
You looked at me, eyes filled with sadness---- the kind of emotion I don't usually see on your face.
I turned away. If I'm going to leave this game, I've got to be determined.
"Merissa!" You ran over and clutched my arm, "We need to talk!"
"What? What do we need to talk about?" I stared at right in your eyes.
"I... I need to tell you something," You pulled me to a corner of the classroom. I could feel the others staring at us, waiting for something to happen.
"Listen," You took a deep breath, "I love you. I mean it."
I took a step back, too shocked to say anything for a moment. "You... you love me? This isn't a dare, right?"
"Were you deaf? I said I mean it." You chuckled weakly, "I... I just wanted to tell you this. That's all I wanted to say. Bye."
When you started to walk away, suddenly, my muscles could work again. "Cantrell!"
Everything was dizzy, like fireworks exploded in my head.
I ran towards you and kissed you right on the lips. A kiss that was so long it seemed to be eternity. A kiss that was so sweet I would love to drawn in it. A kiss that I didn't want to end but we needed to breath.
"I love you too."
You had the brightest smile I ever saw.

'Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control.' ---- Anonymous