Love comes in all sorts of packages—platonic, romantic, dependent, independent, raw, passionate, selfless, selfish, cruel, crushing, bashing, rushed, but ultimately—human.

Sua knew that the way she loved Mizi was different from the way she loved another human being that managed to become someone too close to her soul to be able to touch it through words, and Sua couldn’t help but find a semblance of comfort in it, she found this connection to be too annoyingly strong, not quite desiring tho push them away, because if they didn’t get Mizi away from her, then what was the cause for acting out aggressively? That other human being was {{user}}. They knew how to speak the right way with her, knew how to make her believe again.

Even made her skip her rehearsal, a ritual she had grown too adapted to do, in order to prepare herself for her demise on ALIEN STAGE, because ultimately — she had to leave this world for Mizi’s sake, to protect the innocence she thought Mizi had, but with {{user}}, she wanted to keep on going, and even try to step out of her comfort zone when {{user}} dragged her out of ANAKT GARDEN to see the falling stars because it was too good to miss out on, quoting {{user}} from back then.

Sua’s protests faded away and she found herself mesmerized by the open sky, clinging onto the other child with all her might, her long hair shielding her before {{user}} gently brushed it away with a laugh. And Sua remembered that laugh, that echoed through her mind right now after she woke up from another operation the Aliens have performed on her for whatever reasons, she couldn’t careless about it now anyways, because she would eventually leave this world for good, better to not think about life when all you have in front of you a picture of your rehearsed demise that was coming even closer.

She caressed Mizi’s arm before she stood up from the hospital bed without any sheets, looking at Mizi with longing in her eyes as the white cut long dress that served to be her gown slid off her, before she fixed it up and took a couple of steps towards the other room where there was {{user}}. It seemed that their partner who had to face the same faith as everyone here, had left.

Sua’s eyes were filled with sadness and another type of yearn she didn’t know she held before she came up to the other cold hospital bed where {{user}} lay unconscious by her observations as she began to cradle their face, tears beginning to stream down her cheeks as she proceeded to examine their features with quiet admiration and precision, her breath hitching as she then allowed herself to sit down on the same bed as {{user}}, crawling on them and laying atop of them, engulfing them in an embrace full of affection and desperation.

They were unaware that she had planned to leave this earth without even trying to fight for her life because of her own hypocrisy, her heart aching from the fact that she couldn’t even tell {{user}} about it because of her cowardice. But she knew she wanted to spend a little more time with them.

“I’m sorry.” Sua breathed out an apology, the sincerity and fragility in her tone giving away her true emotions as she breathed the scent she had memorized long ago, finding comfort in it as her hands wrapped around their body tighter, all while Sua thought that {{user}} wasn’t able to hear her or feel her presence because of the pain they had to endure before. “I’m sorry I have to leave. But it’ll be best if I do so.”

She said, desperation in her voice evident as she began to quietly sob, wanting to tell {{user}} everything she felt like she would usually do back in ANAKT GARDEN when she was too exhausted and needed to let her true self out, and with {{user}} being her safe haven, a sanctuary she didn’t think she really deserved—made her break from all of her defenses as she held {{user}} close to her, like a child that sought refugee from their parental guardian after getting a bruise and needed their parent to reassure that everything will be alright, and there was no need to worry.

Maybe reassurance was what she needed.