𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 - 𝐀. 𝐆𝐀𝐊𝐔𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐔

𝟰 :𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖 𝗕𝗢𝗫

-monsters in the dark can you see the stars
when will the universe be ours?

THAT SAME NIGHT YOU ENDED UP WIDE AWAKE TILL THE DEAD OF NIGHT. You sat outside your room's balcony, the bright crescent moon being the only light source during this eerie night—the nights when you're home but still felt lost.

The wind was howling—the wind represented your fantasies of a loving mother. The way the wind would comb your [hair color] hair just like how mothers tended to their child. At least that's what the books have told you.

With the wind's strong breeze, Your vintage music box awoke, and you saw the lady you never wanted to see again. The petite ballerina that looked too familiar was faced with your [eye color] expressive eyes.

You always felt uncomfy whenever you see the ballerina's state. You felt sympathetic for the said dancer. She's going in circles. The false joy she felt when the music box opened, only to realize that she's still trapped and controlled. How terrifyingly familiar.

The melancholic tune directly speared your heart. As if the ballerina wants you to decipher the song's subtle message.

Who Wants To Live Forever by Queen.

Your breath hitched as the strong sense of familiarity pulls on your heartstrings. This is the song someone dear to you sang to lull you to sleep. Who wants to live forever?

Who would want to live forever? Who would want to watch everyone else die? Who'd like to stay in this hell people call life? Who would want to feel that lonely?

As for you, those questions can be answered with a simple: "not me." Immortality shouldn't be prized; it's a burden to live that long— why do people choose to love forever when that love must die? Gakushuu, How strange to dream of him even when you are wide awake.

This sense of doom, hopelessness, and despair was something you never wanted to feel. However, this is an overly-cruel world. You should have known better than expect a firework display in a cage full of rain clouds.

"Let's talk."

You greeted your uninvited visitor with tired eyes.

"You're losing focus."

"And you care too much," you faced his amethyst eyes.

"So now it's my fault?"

You yawned before standing up, deciding to go back to bed. Until Gakushuu clutched your wrist once you were beside him facing opposite sides.

"You better get yourself together before [last name]-san decides to act," his voice low and rigid.

"You should trust me more, love."

"Not with the results you're giving."

"You give out pieces of yourself to people but never let them see the whole picture. I've seen it. I know who you are," he stated.

"Have you forgotten that we monsters shall remain hidden in the dark? We wait and wait just so that we can come to the perfect timing. I never failed something, such as timing. Do you perhaps doubt me?"

"Should I?"

"No," you replied.

"You act like you're indestructible, but you're not Gakushuu."

"What makes you think you're not so vulnerable too?"

"For example; Would you even consider dying for me?" He breathed.

You paused and turned your head to glare at him before reaching unto his ear, whispering: "The real question is, would you live forever in this hell and still find your way back to me?"

And in one swift move, you were against the cement of your balcony railings. The redhead's breathing was rigged while your eyes shined in mischief, your mouth forming a smirk.

"Short-tempered now, are we? Ga Ku Shuu," you taunted in your cherry tone.

"It certainly didn't please me when you thought I wouldn't do anything for you."

He paused, finally looking at your [eye color] orbs with a new sense of confidence.

"Monster or not," He finished.

You smiled and pushed the two of you off the balcony. While the calming wind breezes through your hair, you closed the minimal gap between you, sharing the same struck of adrenaline. Both of your eyes shut close as you kissed Gakushuu slowly and carefully as if you weren't performing such an extreme stunt. It only took two hits before He lost himself in utopia with the white spots erupting behind his closed eyelids like shining constellations.

As for Gakushuu, kissing you feels like stopping time. It amazed him even up to now how you could easily replace his rainclouds with your cherry euphoria. It makes him wonder if you can hear his racing heartbeat. Amazing how you knew exactly how to tug on his heartstrings and how He can't get enough of the feeling of drowning in you.

The redhead felt dizzy for the fact that you were kissing him and falling down the six-story mansion. While you were simply enjoying the moment as if the world promised you forever even in such risk.

And the world did.

For the concrete that was supposed to be your deathbed felt like soft clouds. Your lover let out a muffled sigh of relief as his head faced the airbag. And you were only chuckling as you saw your personal butler; Kenji winking at you. Gakushuu got off of you and lay down on the airbag, eyes still closed, trying to take in what just happened. Kenji whistled and took out two flags that said, "Go [last name]-sama" in one and "Go Asano-sama" on the other.

"Where did he even get those?" Gakushuu knitted his eyebrows in confusion. While you carelessly let your rather loud laughter fill the once calming night. Although you were not entirely unconscious of the [eye color] eyes glaring at your figure through your father's big tinted window.

If you got the chance to choose, you would make the most of what time you have left, not wish for more. If only you did got the opportunity to choose. If only.