𝒫ℴ𝓁𝒶𝓇ℴ𝒾𝒹𝓈 || KhunBam

05: A Dance Under The Curse Of The Moon

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Tell me the story about how the moon loved the sun so much that he died every day to let him breathe.

~Unknown

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He looked outside, staring at the pile of snow laying and snow falling alike.

It was winter once again.

"I found an ancient scripture containing the same symptoms Mr. Khun have. I only told you this now because I have a friend of mine to translate it." The doctor informed the younger, giving the sixty-three paged book to him.

"Thank you...for everything." Bam trailed, gripping the book in his hands tightly.

To be honest, he felt...uneasy. Knowing that Dr. Gustang didn't tell the other people about Khun's situation, he can't help but feel guilty. Sure enough, a condition like this would shaken the entire medical world, making the doctor famous.

Bam asked this question once in the past, but the doctor just shrugged it off, saying that he wouldn't use other people's illnesses just to make him known.

'It's a fickle greed' he said, 'a useless thought'.

Bam looked outside his room using the windows, seeing the edo furin Khun bought back then. He remembered how his lover personally decorated the paper that was hanging. It both swirled with the color of their eyes, blue and gold with the art of butterflies and an eclipse.

Khun was still sleeping soundly at his own house, leaving Bam all alone in his own dim-lit room with his chaotic thoughts and the wretched book of Moonsbane laying on the floor beside him as he hugged his knees in attempt to calm himself down.

He picked up the book that seem to weigh heavier. With every word he read, the more his heart thump in fear and devastation. It's a cruel disease indeed, cruel enough that it leaves a bitter aftertaste in his mouth as he stop his tears from falling.

Hanahaki, Star Tears, both of them are from unrequited love. But the condition Khun have, is from loving too much.

<Moonsbane. Just like its name, it is a poison from the moon. It occurs when a person loves someone too much that they are willing to end their own lives for them.>

"Bullshit!" Bam yelled, knocking the glass cup beside him into shards.

<This condition was created to put a boundary on how much love you can have towards a person.>

"There's no such thing as a fucking boundary when you love someone!" Bam yelled again but this time, tears freely poured down from his eyes as he laughed in mockery.

Bam wanted to tear the book into shreds and burn it to smithereens.

The brunette let out a pained scream and threw the book with all his force somewhere in his disheveled room. He doesn't even care about his bleeding hands and knees as he cried out in grief.

<Moonsbane was a curse that is placed in the Khun's bloodline. A member of the family will trigger the condition if they loved someone else more than they love themselves.>

Bam remembered what the bluenette told him back then.

'We were never a family. All the descendants of a Khun only cares about are position, wealth, and fame. That was why I ran away. There was never an ounce of love, but greed and pride.'