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The Garden of Glass- NozoEli

WARNING!- This chapter contains sensitive material, being suicide and absolute homophobia. Tread carefully with this warning.

Far away from present day there is a paradise. Life is a maze, made up of our dreams, covered in the most beautiful white lilies. In the middle of the maze is Shangri-La, a good end, that will always untouchable to the normal, lustful human being, filled with greed, and pride. In the middle of the maze of dreams there is a garden sculpted fully of glass, where lilies rest on their branches.

"Eli Ayase! Do you understand me? Never do that again."
I looked down at my feet. I understand what I did wrong. Guilt is just about swallowing me by now.

"As long as you're under this roof, your-" Mama cut herself off to scowl."revolting  homosexual acts are absolutely banned! Do you understand me."
I nodded my head.

"Good. Now I will make sure you never talk to this 'Nozomi' girl again!"
She walked off, stomping her feet before slumping on our couch next to babushka.
I took my leave, now knowing it was safe to go to my room.

...

Paradise. If such a place existed, what would it be like? A paradise would be innocent, untouched by this dirty world. A secret place for only two people to be. Just them, and the butterflies fluttering softly. It may be very lonely but at least another would be with me.
But it would probably be unreachable.

Instantaneously, a cold liquid dripped down my face. I flinched.

"How's life without Prince Charming, Tojo?"

I looked up to the girls, absolutely tired of putting up with them. Out of all days, today I don't want to deal with it.

"Why don't you go pick on Yazawa? She's a way bigger target than me."
"She's with some kid from another school.. and they kinda look tough so like..."
At this point I realized that I wouldn't be able to escape their torment. It won't be too long, I hope and I hope. Awaiting the day I finally reach paradise.

...

I spotted Nozomi after finally being able to sneak into school. She was under the usual cherry tree, munching on some melon bread.
I sat next to her.
"Hey," I said, hoping to start up a conversation.
She looked to me. Then she gave me a mischievous smile.
"Hey Elichi."
She looked like a goddess, despite being covered in an unidentifiable liquid.

"Let's run away." Frankly, I was shocked.

"How would we even pull it off?"

"Don't know. We just do it." she paused, looking up at the sky, with a glimmer of hope in her eyes. She spoke again, "Even if for just a minute, I want to sit with you in Urano garden."

In the end, I knew I could never deny a request from her.

"How will we do this."

...

I quickly slipped on my shoes and walked out of my apartment, locking the door as I closed it. I ran down the stairs and quickly hopped onto my bicycle, eager to meet up with Eli. It was a long and painful ride, but I finally made it to the McDonalds we were going to meet at.

Looks like I'm the first one here.

I got off my bicycle and waited at the front for her to finally arrive.

I waited.

In the distance, I saw a mature looking figure, searching through the crowd, her golden hair waving with every turn of her head. I decided to approach the girl.

"Elichi?"

She turned to me, surprised, but her confusion soon turned into a smile. She pulled me into a deep hug, picking me up and spinning me around in happiness. Somehow in this large, large crowd it felt like we were the only ones alive.

Our happiness wasn't long-lived.

"Eli Ayase what are you doing?" An angry voice boomed throughout the entire plaza. An elder, presumably Russian woman was absolutely flabbergasted by our actions. "Why are you engaging in these disgusting actions?"

"Mama, pl-"

"I've told you so many times to stop this nonsense! You don't need this disgusting faggot dictating your life!"

I felt intense pain in my heart. The woman started to approach me, using probably the most aggressive body language I've ever seen in my entire life. She started throwing her hands at me, Eli trying to claw her off of me. A large crowd started to form around us three, anxiety welling up in my heart.

...

The walls around us were grimy, tile floor dirty as our uniform skirts touched the filthy ground. I took small bites from my yogurt bun, Nozomi mirroring my behavior but adding in winces of pain. I decided to break the silence

"Want to run away?"

Silence.

She stopped chewing. "Do you remember my request from the other day?"

"Yes."

"Let's go." With her statement a smile was back on her beautiful face.

I smiled. Silence then came back into our handicap bathroom stall.

"Sometimes, I wish I could just disappear." She started. "This life isn't fair. I meet my soulmate, but the love between us is forbidden. And then I get beat up by her mom."

I giggled.

"I'd be fine with disappearing if I could disappear with you."

"Then let's disappear."

...

School had ended, and me and her had snuck to my home, getting us rat poison. We finally snuck out to get to the gardens that we searched so desperately for.

By the time we arrived, it was around 9:00 pm. We found a spot, a rose garden with Roman decor of renaissance statues and some sculpted benches. We sat, and took a sip of poison. The first thing I felt was my throat closing in and a large pain in my stomach. Eli seemed to have this reaction too, coughing a bit of blood. I laid my head on her shoulder, choking up a mouthful. She started to pet my hair as I slowly fell asleep. but before my consciousness left me, I heard her singing me a lullaby with her dry, cracky voice.

"It's a garden made for us, and we fell asleep cuddling with each other.

I brushed your soft hair with my bruised and broken hand,

more and more."

...

I woke up. Maybe 30 minutes later, I was choking, coughing. I felt a cold body in my arms, Nozomi. Dry blood laced her mouth open and red, crimson covering my skirt, her hands and the floor. A tear rolled down my cheek as I seemingly coughed out my internal organs. Even with my total weakness, I held her tight. Hugging her cold body.

And then my consciousness slipped.

A/N: Thank you for waiting so long for this chapter, even if you didn't. Recently a lot of thing have been happening to me and I want to thank you just for seeing this. There will definitely be much more to come!

-Mия