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."

nor what to feel, and my head was buzzing. I choked and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

have ignored the fact that he 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.

corner of his mouth. "It's all right. I

eyes slowly closing I couldn't remember how many times that I had experienced someone's death. Time and time again, I watched the people who

leaving. D*mn it, I was clearly the one who should be hurt and

the

never thought that the world could be so cold. My heart felt like it had been stabbed by hundreds of

die so soon? I hadn't even had time to think about my last words to him, and to recall what

to stop them from taking him away. However, Hendrix forcibly wrapped me

Looking at Nerissa, whose face was pale from fear, I said slowly, "Nerissa, you were the one who should