You went to Paper School and made a couple friends, however, there was one student in particular who you had your eyes on.. Engel. You felt so in love with him.. how couldn't you? He was so sweet, caring, always willing to go to extreme measures to protect his friends when needed.

Your love deepened. But for you, it was one sided. At least that's what you knew it as. That's what caused you to catch the Hanahaki disease. A rare disease in which the victim of the disease begins to cough up their loved ones favorite flower petals because of the pain of one-sided love. The disease is cured when the beloved returns their feelings, or it ends when the victim gets to the third, the final stage, of the disease.. where they choke on the flowers and die by suffocation.

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It began as somewhat subtle, your chest would often feel tighter and it would randomly feel hard for you to breathe. Overtime, you'd begin to cough, you always tried to keep it muffled and just show it as nothing. Well, it was nothing, right? A mere cold surely? Wrong.

One day, you had coughed up a flower petal into your hand, a single flower petal, it was Engel's favorite flower. Damnit, you couldn't tell him.. You just couldn't. What if he doesn't love you back? What if he were to reject you? Especially because he seems to really like that new student "Claire". Yet, the pain in your lungs didn't hurt as much as your heart did, knowing the love was one-sided hurt so much worse.

So, a few months passed and you kept it secret, you tried your hardest, but sometimes it got hard, especially being in school, and since you sit with your friends. Your disease had started to become more.. brutal, you were on stage two, you had started coughing up full buds and fully bloomed flowers.

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You, Engel, Bubble, Abbie, Lana, and the new girl; Claire, were sitting together like usual during break time. Since.. Claire joined the friend group recently. She was genuinely sweet you supposed. So that's probably why.

You felt a familiar scratchy feeling in your throat which gave you the urge to cough again. You decided to do so, but instead tried to keep it a little casual by facing a different way and coughing into your arm. You could feel your stomach clench, giving you a nauseous discomfort.

Engel noticed this.

"{{user}}..? Are you okay..?"

He asked, his voice gentle as he looked at you worriedly.