Beautifully Deadly

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Everyone though it was just a myth. A beautiful but deadly myth. But it's real. A disease that was long forgotten. Born from unrequited love. Their is a cure, but many prefer to die instead of being cured.

It's called Hanahaki Disease. As stated, it's born from one-sided love. A flower starts to grow inside your lungs. Once it takes root, the only way to be cured is a surgical procedure that causes you to stop loving the person, and you'll never be able to love them again. Slowly as it grows, it'll sprout flowers, and you'll start coughing them up. As time passes the disease will suffacate you.

I know this because I'm suffering from it. I've fallen for my straight best friend. I know my feeling will never be returned, but I, like many others, prefer to die then stop loving them. It's the devastating truth. Many love me and will miss me but... Dying because a flower growing inside me is better then to never be able to love them again.
I sigh as I put my pen down and close my journal. My throught started to burn and I cleared my throught, even though it doesn't help. Not even a second later, I'm thrown into a painful coughing fit. Once it's over, I sigh again. I take a deep breath, trying to breathe normally again, and look down at my hands. "Rose petals..." I mumble out. I still remember when I first started to suffer from this disease.

I stretched as I walked toward the tree that we all were supposed to meet up at. They wanted to introduce someone to me today.
I was lost in thought, until I saw her. She was wrapped in his arms, and that all were smiling. At that moment I couldn't stop myself. I ran away. Later I found out she was his girlfriend. That's when it started. The burning in my lungs, the sudden struggle to breath as it felt like my lungs were being crushed. It took its root. But that was almost a year ago.
No one knew that I'm suffering from it, and I've managed to avoid everyone. They used to try, but they stopped 2 months ago. They gave up. But it was best for everyone this way. Less painful for them.

I jumped slightly as someone began banging on my door. "Pikachu! Open the damn door!" A voice I could easily recognize as Bakugo yelled. "Please!" Another voice cryed out, that I also recognized as Kirishima, Bakugos boyfriend. Shortly after, another few bangs sounded from the door.
"Go away gu-" I tried to say, but was cut off by a coughing fit. Before I knew is, the door was as kicked open and they ran in. All of them, even her. "Kami..." Ashido started, but stopped after I hear a gasps coming from her. I eventually stopped coughing and looked up at them. Their eyes were wide as they looked at me. I struggled to catch my breath, and averted my eyes to look at the puddle of crimson colored petals that surrounded me.

"I said go away." I managed to wheeze out. The burning only got worse by the second. Breathing got harder as I was thrown into another coughing fit. I couldn't stand any longer, and ended up collapsing onto the floor. My vision becoming blurry. "What did you do, eat a flower or 8?" Kirishima joked looking at all the petals that surrounded me. They didn't get it. Of course they wouldn't. I was just their idiot of a friend.
I shook my head and pointed towards my journal, not able to speak. But they didn't get what I was trying to do. I knew my time was almost up, and their was nothing anyone could do.
I laid down and closed my eyes. Their voices became drowned out by the ringing in my ears. "To late..." I mumbled out. I managed to open my eyes, and as soon as I did, tears started to stream down my face. With what little strength I had left in me, I looked over at their blurry figures, and managed to say, "I love you, Hanta Sero" as I took my last breath.

Seros POV

We all stood their shocked. A puddle of flower petals surrounded him. "Kami?" Ashido called, but he didn't respond. I walked over to where he pointed and found a journal. His journal. The others followed behind me. They read over my shoulder as I skimmed through every page.

Once the last page was read, I shut the book and looked at them. Ashido was crying and Bakugo looked like he just saw a ghost. None of us could believe it. That's when I broke, no we all broke. Exept for Makoto. She just smirked. "That's what he gets for thinking he could be with you." She says, smiling.
"He didn't think that he could be with Sero... He knew he couldn't... But he didn't cure himself." Kirishima mumbled, leaning onto Bakugo. "Doesnt matter. He deserved it." Makoto said smugly. That's when Bakugo hauled off and punched her. She looked terrified and ran off.

~~Next Day~~

The whole class found out then they went to check on us and Kaminari. We were excused from doing any work for today, and everyone around the school, even class 1B, kept trying to cheer us up. I broke up with Makoto. I should have figured it out. My lungs burned from all of the crying. Or so I thought. The flower was cut out, and put in a vase. His room stayed the same, but with photos of him, and that damned flower. It sat their mocking us. Showing us that we did nothing but aid in the death of our friend.

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"It'll never die..." I muttered, looking at the flower that killed him. It's been a year, but it hasn't lost a petal or wilted. I sighed quietly and looked around the room, remembering all that we did, and all the fun we had. I shook my head and walked out of the room, closing it behind me.
I walked to my room and sat down. I grabbed his last journal and hugged it tightly.

Hanahaki Disease. Once a myth to us, but now a known disease. It took my best friend. A flower grows inside of your lungs from unrequited love. At first people thought he swallowed seeds or something, but now they know he didn't. It's real. We all know this, especially me because, I Hanta Sero suffer from it because I realized that I loved my dead best friend, Denki Kaminari, to late.

"It really is beautifully deadly."

A/N
Hey guys. So this was what I've been working on for the past month or so. I know it's not the best but I tried. Also, this book is eligible for the 2019 Wattsys. I'm not sure if I should enter it or not. What do you guys think?

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