~ Kennith Simmons x Reader - Hypnotized ~

~ 24 ~

After half an eternity (y/n) and Kennith broke away from each other again and looked at each other smiling and with reddened cheeks, but suddenly a thought came to (y/n) and their gaze clouded slightly. "Kennith.. if you've felt this way about me all along, why did you also hypnotize me and bring me to you? I mean... I can't remember anything that happened during the trance and that's not really a pleasant feeling..." "Well, I couldn't let you spend all the time with Alex during that little brainwashing session! Besides..." Now Kennith took their hands in his and smiled charmingly at them while he finished speaking: "...I wanted you with me to make sure you were okay and to admire you~"

Normally (y/n) would have fainted at that look and his words, but they pulled themself together and instead said with a small sigh: "That's not how it works, Kennith. I know you probably didn't mean it completely badly, but you can't just brainwash me into returning your feelings. You can't force something like that, you know that yourself, right?", they asked, lightly stroking the boy's cheek, who nodded sadly in response. "Next time just invite me for an ice cream before you hypnotize me, okay?", (y/n) joked, whereupon Kennith had to smirk a bit and replied with a slight flirty voice: "If I'm honest you're more the one who hypnotized me~"

(Y/n)'s cheeks immediately turned slightly pink and they groaned in a played annoyed voice: "Ughhh, can't you stop being so damn cute at least once??" "Unfortunately not, I guess it's just my nature!", Kennith responded with a confident grin, to which (y/n) just shook their head with a smile and unceremoniously gave him a kiss on the cheek, which in turn made the boy blush. "Guess you're not so confident now, huh?" "S-SHUT UP!"

But no matter how sweet this moment between the now official couple was, they still had to come up with something because of the consequences of Kennith's brainwashing. Unfortunately, this was easier said than done, and slowly but surely they were also running out of time. After all, everyone in Michigan had seen Kennith on TV, and it was only a matter of time before someone who knew him gave the police his address. "Oh, let's give it up! There's no way to solve this mess! Maybe I should just turn myself in and get locked away. That would be best for everyone anyway...", Kennith sighed dejectedly and sat down on the grass to bury his face in his knees, but (y/n) immediately protested: "Are you nuts?? You finally managed to confess your feelings to me and now you want to voluntarily get yourself put in jail? Oh no no no, I won't let that happen! Together we will find a solution..."

Although they tried to sound as confident as possible, it only worked halfway, and Kennith said with a furrowed brow: "Oh, and what should this solution look like? The only thing that would help here would be that everyone would just forget what I did..." Then it suddenly clicked in (y/n)'s head and they spoke out loud the thought that had come to them: "Kennith, that's it! You can't undo that you brainwashed the whole nation, that's true, but.. what if you do the exact same thing again to erase any memory of it??" Now they grabbed the pink-haired boy by the shoulders and shook him slightly as they continued excitedly: "Think about it! That way everyone would forget what you did, no one would have to mourn the deceased anymore..." "...and I wouldn't have to go to jail and can stay with you forever...", Kennith finished their sentence and his typical sly grin appeared on his face.

"Then what are we waiting for?", (y/n) asked and was about to turn around, but Kennith quickly held them by the hand and voiced his concerns: "But... what if I only make things worse by doing that? Or it doesn't work?? No, I.. I can't do this (y/n)..." (Y/n) immediately turned to Kennith and suppressed a sad sigh. They knew that the boy's self-esteem wasn't really high after everything that had happened, and that he couldn't make any more wrong decisions now, otherwise they would probably find him with slit wrists himself one day. "Listen.. I know I keep repeating myself, but I know you're not a bad person. You have a good heart, Kennith Simmons, so listen to it. What do you want to do now?" Kennith thought about (y/n)'s words for a moment before finally looking into their (e/c) eyes and answering resolutely: "I want to do the right thing." "I didn't expect anything else...", (y/n) smiled, and shortly after, the two of them made their way to Kennith's house hand in hand, taking as many shortcuts and secret paths as possible. Just in case the FBI was really looking for them already...