~Hanahaki bitch~
~Tw blood! Cursing! Cheating! Y a y ;-;~

Wait hold on-

So you're telling me that Jared's parents AREN'T assholes in this one-shot??

Indeed!

For once, Jared has good parents.

You're welcome.

🌹Flowers🥀

Jared watches as Connor and Evan talk, wide smiles on their faces. He feels a pit form in his stomach when Connor suddenly gets nervous.

Connor tells Evan something, avoiding eye contact the entire time. Evan gets ten times happier and says something back. Connor's mood brightens as well and he pulls Evan into a kiss. Evan kisses back instantly.

Jared feels a tear drip down his face.

Did Evan forget they were boyfriends...?

He suddenly feels his throat get scratchy. He rushes away. He doesn't want them to know that he was watching them. He goes to the bathroom and locks the door.

Jared curls up on the toilet, tears streaming down his face.

The scratchy feeling comes back and he coughs, not thinking much about it until a few seconds later, he's coughing again. He opens his eyes to find rose petals on the floor.

Jared's eyes widen and he covers his mouth before he can cough anymore. He backs further into the stall.

He can't survive that.

He won't be able to.

He doesn't have enough willpower.

Jared feels himself needing to cough and he turns around, coughing into the toilet this time. A few petals fall out of his mouth, floating around in the water. He stares at them in fear, knowing now that his thoughts were correct.

He has the Hanahaki Disease.

And Evan does not love him anymore.

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Jared stays in the bathroom for the rest of the school day, only coming out because if he doesn't get home then his parents will kill him.

He stops by his locker for long enough that Evan decided to come along and talk to him. Jared gets the scratchy feeling again. The feeling he gets when he's about to cough up rose petals, he figured out.

"H-hey, are y-you o-okay...?" He asks softly and nervously. "I d-didn't s-see you i-in c-class today..."

He sure as hell can put up an act.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Jared chokes out, trying to keep himself from coughing. Evan smiles and kisses Jared's cheek.

Jared feels sick.

Is Evan cheating on both him and Connor?

Does Connor know?

Or worse, does Connor have the Hanahaki Disease too?

"I'm glad," Evan says. Jared almost cries.

He usually asks what's wrong when Jared says he's fine.

Because when Jared says he's fine...

Evan knows he doesn't mean it.

But now, he doesn't even care.

Evan gives Jared one more kiss on the cheek— what happened to lip kisses?— before running off.

"Wait do you want a ride-?" Jared starts to call after Evan but he's already gone.

He breaks.

Tears run down his face.

Some guy shoves him and calls him a name but he's too grief-ridden to hear it.

He cries into the hoodie that Evan gave him when they first started dating.

The soft blue one that still has Evan's scent on it.

Jared suddenly reminds himself where he is and wipes his tears away, rushing out of the school to get in his car and drives away.

He gets home about ten minutes later, parking and slowly walking inside. He hopes that his parents don't see him. He wouldn't be able to handle that.

As soon as he walks in the door, though, he hears his mother rushing over.

"Jared, honey, is that you?" She calls out. He flinches and purses his lips before responding.

"Y-yeah, it's me..." He calls out, cursing to himself for stuttering. Her head pops out from the living room doorway.

He feels vulnerable.

There are tear tracks streaking down his face.

His shoulders are tense.

He's shaking ever so slightly.

His mother's eyes widen and she rushes over to her son.

"Jared, what's wrong?" She asks softly. He breaks once again. He starts shaking and sobbing into his mother's shoulder.

"M-mama, he's ch-cheating o-o-on m-me..." He sobs out. "H-he doesn't l-love m-m-me anymore..."

Jared's mother gets angry.

She runs her fingers through Jared's hair. It makes him think of Evan.

He tries to hold himself back but he can't.

He stumbles back and coughs. A total of 8 petals come out of his mouth.

She instantly gets terrified.

Jared shakes from the pain and tears.

"I-I'm gonna d-die, m-m-mama..." He says quietly. She shakes her head.

"No, you won't die. I promise. I will make sure of it." His mother says softly. Jared sobs, pressing his lips together.

"B-but... H-h-he doesn't l-love me a-anymore..." He says, his voice cracking.

"It's okay. You don't need him to love you." She says sweetly.

Jared, for the first time in a while, was terrified.

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Part one :)))

I just wanted to get this out because it's the first one-shot since the hiatus thing.

So yeah :))))

I'm back.