Chapter Three
"This relapse isn't too serious, isn't too bad, but I'm afraid a complete recovery is impossible" his solemn expression is enough for Laito to guess what's going on "Even if the illness is under control, she'll never be able to fully recover, and even if she can somehow hold on, she won't have long to live..." he paused to heave a sigh, and with a serious tone he quickly added "Cherish her as much as you can"
Laito showed no sign of hearing what the doctor said. He stood, he stayed there, staring at the ceiling unblinkingly. Minutes later, he smirked and like a fire it grew into a menacing laugh "Ch... Cherish her?"
"Si-" before the doctor could even utter a word, Laito's fist flew towards his face, making it more abstract than before.
Three weeks had passed since her sudden operation. Yui has been admitted to the hospital for observations and for her recovery. For the time being she needs to focus on recovering and forget about school for awhile. She gets to live like a normal person again, her day and night switched back to normal. Laito visits her during day and goes to school during night, it's as if he's living in the hospital. She's quite worried about him since he barely gets to rest, but then the realisation that he's a vampire and he couldn't possibly die because of fatigue hits her.
"Bitch-chan aren't you going to ask me?"
"Ask you what?"
"Why I didn't came that day"
Laito never left her side since. Even though the Vampire couldn't admit it himself, a hint of regret mixed with guilt is stirring inside his chest. She never asked him nor confronted him about that day, she showed no sign of aggravation or hatred towards him, she acted as if nothing happened. The typical Yui Komori he knows always behaves this way, but it ticks him off, he wants her to get mad at him, he wants her to hate him because somehow in that way it eases his conscience for amusement would overcome guilt.
"I'm used to it" she hesitantly answered "You got tired of me, right?" the vampire simply shrugged "It's okay, I'm used to it..."
"You shouldn't get use to som-"
"My father constantly leaves me in the hospital whenever he gets sick of me, he only returns when he feels like being a father again" she tried to smile "Until one day he never returned" but it turned upside down "I couldn't selfishly ask him to stay with me, and I can't possibly ask you that" her eyes began to water "You shouldn't consider my feelings, after all I'm just your prey, right?" she bit her lip in attempt to restrain herself from sobbing "You really changed, and I don't like this side of you. Please continue on acting the way you were, the Laito Sakamaki I know, because with that man leaving wouldn't be this hard"
She's actually embracing her death, she's even preparing for it. She always has something to answer, she always has a reason for everything, this human never failed to amuse him. Her unwavering fate and how her words affect him are diverting. She knows the truth, but her mind and heart remains pure. How did this maiden ended up as a sacrifice, he always wonders to himself.
"I didn't changed, bitch-chan" he patted her head "This is a side of me who only surfaces around you. The me who shows affection and sentiment, the me who I thought I killed together with her" his words are full of sincerity, but she couldn't hear the last word for it's merely a whisper "I'll try my best to hide him, if you will let me know you and be my girl"
The vampire couldn't make up a good excuse for why those words came out of his mouth. This human makes him do the things he doesn't expect he could do. It's weird, but Yui find it adorable since he said it with a straight face. It came out not as a joke, not to tease her, but to simply arouse her curiosity once again. Laito is indeed full of surprises.
"Know me?"
"Yeah~" he giggled "I want to know Yui, not the bitch-chan I know, but the Yui Komori from before the 'sacrificial bride' thing happened"
"That's absurd, being Laito's girl is the last thin-"
"Don't tell me you're planning to die without experiencing the thing they call 'romance'?"
He has a point. Somehow like any other girl, Yui has been dreaming about someone courting her, about a gentleman who will treat her as a princess, about the person who she'll be with in the altar of God. Laito is not the man she's expecting, but opportunities like this won't come again twice. She pouted as she realised that she's starting to reconsider his offer.
He smiled "You know me, I don't accept 'no' as an answer"
"Then I don't have a choice, do I?"
In his own way he can make her heart flutter, make the zoo dance in her stomach, make the abstract world beautiful, make her mind go blank, make insanity sane. In his own way he changes her own perspective about life. This vampire is really something else. So even if he tortures her to the extent that she wishes to die, she couldn't stop loving him.
He smirked "Let's live in this dream loving eachother, bitch-chan" he winked "Please don't wake up yet"
A/N: R&R :D Please continue on motivating me, I appreciate it = ̄ω ̄=
