The more that you deny things about it, the more the disease is getting worse.

Hanahaki disease.

You thought it was just fictional, a kind of sickness you only read from novels and mangas.

Until you started coughing blood along with flowers with it.

By photography you thought that you can just forget those feelings for him and move on but you just found yourself taking more pictures of him to cloud your memories and drown yourself to a feeling he will never reciprocate.

Xiao, your classmate and considered best friend is one who is causing you such suffering but just like your feelings, you cannot tell him your condition as you don’t want him to be worried or distance himself.

“Hey… can you take a picture of us?”

Xiao asked you politely while you were adjusting the lens of your camera which you answered with a smile.

He nodded and pulled a young lady beside him.

Lumine, his girlfriend. The only one who he has been dreaming about ever since the three of you became classmates. While positioning the camera to take a good photo of them in an adorable pose.

Your chest felt hurt again and the urge to cough pent up making your hands shakes almost dropping the camera.