Flowers

Ray tensed up with almost every sentence, folding the petal in his hands nervously. "So I'm gonna die?"

"Only if you don't confess to whoever this one-sided affection is for or get surgery for it, although surgery is said to remove said affections."

"If it's one-sided already from the description, why would I do something as stupid as confess?"

"There are rare cases where the feelings grow mutual and the buds disappear." He nodded, gray eyes a bit emptier than before.