My One and Only [Murasakibara x OC]

Chapter 3: Abyss and Despair

Sorry for the late chapter, I've been busy with school and other things!

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Deep, deeper, and deeper. Her soul felt like it was plunging, further and further into a black abyss they call despair.
Despair is hard to describe in words but it is seen as the feeling of emptiness recieved when one has lost all signs of hope, all signs of light, plunging them into darkness.

A-And I thought...m-moving away t-to America...and meeting t-them..would help..

Koharu, prior to her attendence at Yosen and her supposed encounter with Murasakibara, moved to America in the hopes of trying to, at least to an extent, stop her anxiety.

She was different, after all. Being diagnosed with severe anxiety and panic disorder, her life had turned upside down in almost every way possible.

This was, of course, until she met three people who were able to help her, two boys and a woman.

She remembered their names clear as day: Himuro Tatsuya, Kagami Taiga and Alexandra Garcia.

They became swift friends and managed to help her overcome some of her anxiety; she still has a stutter and is easily nervous in crowds and around intimidating people, and of course, Murasakibara.

Koharu lifted her head up out of her arm, now drenched in tears, to see a text notification from one of the boys from America, Himuro.

Himuro: ["Did it go alright? Atsushi didn't say a word after lunch."]

Her eyes scrunched up slightly, holding back what seemed to be like a tsunami of tears.

Koharu: ["Of course not. I just can't do it...I'm weak. He wouldn't like someone weak."]

Himuro: ["You're not weak. Atsushi does hide it, but he loves you more than anything else. You are his one and only."]

"Yeah, r-right.." She silently sobbed, slumping back before bursting into tears.  "He would never..."

Koharu looked over at a sharp kitchen knife in the dark corner of her room, blood stains clearly visible on the blade. She winced and curled up in a ball.

"N-No..! I promised A-Alex I wouldn't..."

She held herself back despite her conscious begging and urging her to do it, to let her feelings out and letting them flow down her arm like they used to, breaking her delicate body even more.

Even so, she wouldnt be able to. Her legs were trembling and shaking to the point where she couldn't even stand up, and her arms were no help in supporting her, either.

Koharu had no other choice but to curl up in a ball and conceal herself from the outside world where she thought she belonged, away from everyone, like an outcast.

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Himuro sat down on his couch uncomfortably. He had just talken to both Murasakibara and Koharu and easily deduced that things were not going well at all.

"I guess there's no other choice...I'm gonna have to take things into my own hands. I will make certain that their lives are complete!" He exclaimed to himself.

It was a pretty absurd goal, being two wingmen at once, only he wasn't going to do it alone.

Himuro grabbed his phone and hasitly dailed a certain number, and shortly afterwards the recipient had answered the call for what would be a long, long discussion.

"...Tatsuya?"

"Yes, good evening. This is very sudden, but I need some urgent advice, Alex."