My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

Hendrix guided me to a chair while people started crowding around Irvin as his blood slowly spread into a puddle.

I looked at him, and he opened his mouth to speak wordlessly to me. I didn't know what he was saying. I only felt that my heart felt like it was being crushed to the point of no breathing. Hendrix walked up to him, reached out his hand to check his breathing, and looked at me solemnly.

I got up and tried my best to push myself towards him. Irvin reached out his hand to grab hold of me. The second he opened his mouth, jet-black blood gushed out.

I shook my head and tears blurred my vision. "Don't talk, Irvin. You'll be fine. The doctor will be here soon."

He forced a smile, his face a little pale. "Arianna, once all of this is over, in my next life, I'll meet you and I'll make you... fall in love with me first."

didn't know what to say nor what to feel, and my head was buzzing. I choked and

lost his parents at the same time, and I shouldn't have ignored his feelings. I even distanced myself from him and dismissed how he felt. I even overlooked the only thing he had in life that still kept him going.

a smile, and more blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. "It's all right.

many times that I had experienced someone's death. Time and time again, I watched the people who loved me and the people I

both the direct and indirect cause of them leaving. D*mn it, I was clearly the one who should be

face, at the passive Nerissa who was not far away from me, and the passers-by who were immersed

so cold. My heart felt like it had been stabbed by hundreds of sharp knives. It was so

hadn't even had time to think about my last words to

them from taking him away. However, Hendrix forcibly

ground and felt a wave of hatred rise in my heart. Looking at Nerissa, whose face was pale from fear,