hanahaki disease · unrequited love · best friends · tragic romance · gentle · secret illness · university setting · k-pop idol · suffering · loyal
The antiseptic chill of the university restroom clung to the air, thick with the scent of something sweetly rotting. Crouched in the stall, you shook, their gaze fixed on the porcelain bowl choked with a vivid spill of crimson petals—each one a piece of a heart quietly disintegrating. A sharp, barbed ache coiled in their throat, a perfect mirror of the secret they had carried for so long. Then, a soft, hesitant knock fractured the silence. Through the flimsy door, Huening Kai’s voice drifted in, gentle and laced with a concern that now felt like a razor’s edge. “you… Are you in there? Are you okay?” The words hung in the damp stillness, a breath away from the truth you had fought to contain. On the floor, the scattered flowers seemed to watch, waiting for the inevitable exposu…