Devils | Aki Hayakawa x Reader

Part Twenty-Seven : The Words 'I Love You'

I sat down on a nearby park bench, I was so stupid. Pointlessly arguing for now reason.

I was beginning to regret my actions. I was pushing him away from me.

I began to cry, not out of sadness, but out of confusion and the overwhelming pressure that I couldn't seem to shake.

I would apologize, and I would comfort Aki, and fox everything.

"I have to tell him the words too." I said out loud.

"What words." 

I jumped up at the sound of that voice.

"Wha-." I said, holding my hands out in front of me. I was ready to fight.

Arms embraced me, bringing me into a tight hug.

"I'm sorry." Hayakawa whimpered.

His words felt soft, and sad.

I cried alongside him.

"I was so scared that you'd run away."

"I was so scared that you'd leave us." 

I smiled, laughing at our stupidity. I often forget how funny Aki can be, funny in a sense that he is aloof.

I was thankful that we had resolved our indifferences.

...

Aki made love to me again that night, though this time was nowhere near as magical as the first. I wondered if that was how sex worked.

The magic wearing off with every new time it's done.

We still hadn't told each other that we loved one another.

Did he love me?

It seemed like he was just trying to make me feel better.

I needed to tell him the words, the words I love you.

Time is of the essence.

"Good night." Aki muttered.

"Good night." I muttered back.

...

~Dream~

I awoke in a strange land, I instantly recognized the doors in the sky.

I was in hell..

I couldn't understand why I was there. I didn't question it.

I stood up and followed a stream of light, it twisted and turned through the scenery.

Through a forest of trees the size of skyscrapers, it led me through a valley of dead flowers.

The light halted at a carcass, there lied the dead body of ... myself?

Another body laid beside me, it was the gun head.

It's eyes were hidden by the barrel, I couldn't look at it.

That thing, the face, everything began to turn into it. The world went black and white, and I was surrounded by carcasses of the thing I feared most.

I couldn't understand it, or it's resemblance to him.

I just ignored the resemblance and thought of it as a personification of my fear, and my minds idea of the gun devil.

I had no idea what the real one looked like anyway.

The bodies placed their hands on me, I was being engulfed by them.

I began to cry, and a great pressure could be felt on my chest.

Hell had started feeling like hell.

It was murky and grim, there seemed to be no escape.

Endless torture.

That's all that I could see in store for me...

[A/N] Next chapter will be longer I promise 🙏🙏