flowers [kim doyoung]

twenty-five

"doyoung, now!" she forces him because doyoung won't tell her a thing for the past ten minutes.

he sits and stares at the blank space in his apartment. yuta and ivy were outside of the room, doing their own thing.

keiko felt vulnerable, why was these things are happening?

doyoung sighed. "you do know it's not easy for me to tell you every single bit without hurting my own self?" he murmured quietly, earning a soft look from keiko.

"i do know that doyoung but you can't hide forever with this—" she walked towards doyoung and opened his eyepatch to reveal his black eye.

"—and this" after that she rolled up doyoung's shirt sleeve to see that his veins had become visible to his skin and it's black.

"—lastly, this!" she added as she ripped doyoung's shirt to show that doyoung's veins around his heart were black. it's not normal. absolutely not.

doyoung stared at his feet, feeling guilty that his best friend knew about him.

she shed a tear as she hold doyoung's face with her fingers, "look at me, kim dongyoung" she said sternly, earning eye contact from doyoung.

"listen here you little shit, no matter what happens, you are going to survive. i swear, and now be a good boy and please tell me what happened all these years, with.. with all these things" with her voice trembling, she's gonna get everything out from doyoung's mind and heart.

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bam!

"did you know how long did you keep it from me dongyoung?!" keiko furiously ran out from his room as doyoung was trailing her. yuta and ivy was shocked with the keiko's sudden outburst.

both of them are not close with keiko but from what they observed, keiko is not someone who gets angry easily.

doyoung must have ticked something on her.

doyoung grasped her hand before she could open the door and walked away from his apartment.

"keiko— wait. i have my reas—"

"do you think i can go dating and kiss someone, imagining that i'm kissing you?! i can't stop thinking 'bout you! all these while, i was worried, where the fuck are you?!" she yelled, making doyoung gasped.

he had his eyes dilated, unable to believe that she was saying those things. his heart was beating irregularly. he saw that his heart was slowly bleeding but it didn't hurt instead.. some of the flowers fell along with the bleeding heart. slowly easing the pain that he was enduring all these time.

"wha- what? you like me? you said to me that you would never want a relationship with m—"

"fuck it doyoung. i love you too much for me to stay angry at you and listen here boy, that's because i thought that you would never liked me. i can see it on your heart now, since,, since just now, because i finally believe in these heart things. i- i don't know how! i could see yours only.. and mine" stuttering, she crouched down and said those words. she was crying now as she hold the ends of doyoung's pants.

she stared at doyoung's heart. swollen and bloody. the roses that she saw in the dream were also there

she can't stand looking at him with tears streaming down. she didn't like to cry in front of him, if she wanna cry, she would go and hid somewhere.

doyoung crouched down too and face her. he took her hands that was covering her face and held it. "i l-like you for years, no— i think i love you for years. since we're 15"

"doyoung, i'm sorry that because of me, you suffered. i-i never knew this. that's because you never told me anything! what best friend am i?"

"hey shut it. it's not your fault at all. i didn't told you anything because i treasured our friendship more than relationships. i can't afford to lose you." he reassured her by rubbing circular motions with his thumb on her hands that he held just now.

she just cried, looking down to the floor.

"ehem.. so, is this free drama aired everyday?" yuta breaks the silence with a snarky comment. him and ivy was watching them from the minute they've argued. ivy slapped his shoulders, earning a grunt from yuta.

doyoung looked up to see yuta and ivy sitting beside each other and he had his hands on her shoulder. doyoung rolled his eyes.

"shut up, you have ivy, you can make your own drama" he retorted, making yuta's cheeks heated up.
ivy on the hand, covered her face with her hands and scooted slightly further from him.

"aish, i would never win this with you" he grumbled, cheeks hot from the sarcasm.

back to keiko, she stopped crying and looked at doyoung with a tear stained face.

she held his hands tighter than she was supposed to. feeling him near her was already making her stomach churned in happiness.

she stared at doyoung's heart. it was surprising since his heart had lose all the flowers except three flowers. it was still swollen but half of it was becoming clean and radiates pink hues.

it's like.. it is slowly vanishing, but not quite. she figures that it must be something to do with zaya.

fuck it, she's going to spend her time with doyoung while she has the time.

"let's go to the bedroom, kim"

"w-whaa—"

"BRO YOU'RE GONNA GET LAID, CONGRATULATIONS!"

"no one's getting laid! i'm just discussing about zaya with doyoung, you perv!"