Silent Affection: A Future Popee x [OC] Reader

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Her silence was hurting him so much.

Despite not saying a word, the silence was stabbing his heart like needles. And he was pleading for it to stop.

What happened?

...

Wow.

How could she have been so blind?

She had everything, laid out in front of her right as soon as he walked through the door. 

But could she really accept that?

What made him change? Did he change...for her?

Out of every one she was feeling right now, she decided to display an unfortunate embarrassment. Palms over her eyes, she let out silent and slow sobs, feeling foolish.

All he could do was stare at her. He felt pathetic.

"..."

'Is that all I am to you? A poor, pity case...?'

"..."

'You run and leave me and wolf...then come here?'

"..."

'Why?'

"..."

'Why, Popee.(?)'

"Look...I had my reasons, okay."

She stared hard at him, tears stinging her eyes, trying not to let any more fall.

Everything from the past was coming back to her. 

He left them.

He, himself, said, that he was tired of them. Despite acting like a child for most of his teenage years and forcing his anger onto everyone else, now, he wants to keep silent?

Now, she was hurt.

Instead of lashing out on him, and quite possibly attacking him, she shut him out. She decided that it doesn't matter what he feels now, if he wasn't willing to tell her. After everything they had been through.

Doctor man, or now renowned as Popee, looked down in his lap in shame. 

Shame.

First, love, and now shame.

Popee was starting to become a disappointment to himself, having already broken two rules of his easy-earned "adulthood".

He was starting to wonder if it was worth it, doing this at all.

He had almost nothing to gain from it.

He lost his family, the majority of his relationships, his "only" accomplice that would stay with him no matter what, and now he's lost...and dare he think about it, his only potential "lover".

What would've happened if he had never decided this for himself? His eyes started to appear in a faded state as he thought, now having barely anything to care about anymore.

...

She sat on the bed, listening to the audio on loop.

Eepop's stomach was tossing and turning around, wondering how.

How did she do it?

What could, and would potentially happen if she shared it with anyone else.