•The Ghost of Flowers• {[Nomin]}

✨🌸 Chapter 51 🌸✨

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Jeno slowly cracked his eyes open from the bright light shining through the window, warming up his black t-shirt and pants that felt nice and comforting.

The boy groaned and stretched out his limbs, blinking a few times to adjust to the light. He noticed a person lying in front of where his head was rested, chest moving up and down peacefully as his face remained unmoving.

Jeno became saddened at the sight, suddenly remembering he was still in the hospital and had fallen asleep in a chair with his head rested on the hospital bed. No wonder his neck felt extremely stiff and the smell of bleach wouldn't leave his nose.

The sun shined so bright on Jaemin, highlighting the beauty he still managed to hold even when in a deep sleep. Jeno would usually smile at a sight like this, but his frown only deepened knowing that he may be like that for a while. What Renjun said last night made him nervous, and all he could do was hope that something miraculous happens.

Jeno leaned over the mattress, placing one of his hands on Jaemin's frail shoulder as he gazed closer at his face. A tear formed slowly in Jeno's eye, making him wipe at it before it dare spill onto his cheek. Seeing Jaemin like this hurt him more than anything else in the world could. Thinking about even coming this close to losing someone so dear to him, his one happiness, shook him to the core. It was too real, yet seemed so sudden that it could be mistaken as a hoax.

"Jaemin..." Jeno softly whispered, rubbing his soft pale cheek that sparkled from the sunlight's rays. The dark haired exhaled, not even knowing what he was about to say. But all he could tell is that he needed to talk to Jaemin, even if it fell upon deaf ears.

"I'm... I'm sorry it took us so long... We faced so many bumps when trying to be together, only if I communicated better..." so it was a bitter conversation. That isn't the tone he wanted.

"But... I almost didn't mind. Waiting for you, I mean. I may have been stupid to not realize my feelings sooner, but I couldn't help but melt under your gaze. You meant so much to me that I couldn't help but be afraid, but I was afraid for the wrong reason. And when everything finally worked out, I always felt warm and fuzzy inside whenever you were merely in my presence. I'd never experienced something like that before... Man, the effect you have on me," Jeno chuckled at the end, then moving his gaze back to Jaemin.

"You better wake up. Or else I'll take all of you exo albums and eat your vanilla ice cream," Jeno laughed bitterly once more, feeling a couple more tears slide and drip onto the mattress he was now sat on.

"Even though you tease me sometimes, and make me feel like a bottom... I still love you more than you could imagine. From the way you smile, to the way you always joke around. You're always so caring even at difficult times, and I could never match up to those standards of amazingness. Yet you still showed me how much I meant to you, too, and I took it for granted," Jeno bit his lip and wiped at the tears, suddenly feeling his chin quiver under the wet droplets.