Teruhashi felt better, that was the first thing she noticed. She could breathe more and the scratching in her throat, while still there, had lessened greatly. While a lot of last night is a blur one thing stands out, this being pink rose petals. Teruhashi did not understand why that was the image in her head, but it was so vivid it scared her. She squeezed her eyes closed, wishing the thoughts away.

The sound of the door opening startled Teruhashi, she calmed quickly going naturally into her perfect pretty girl persona. With a smile on her face, she tried to say hello to the doctor, but her throat wasn't healed, so all that left her lips was a high pitched squeak. The doctor was quick to quiet her. "do not try to speak, your throat is already damaged. It is important to have a lot of rest. Your brother is on his way." he spoke while walking closer to the bed. "do you want the news now or when your brother is here. Nod if you want the news now" after Teruhashi's nod he continued, "you have a possibly fatal disease called the hanahaki

a disease, are you familiar with this?"

Teruhashi was overwhelmed her eyes widened while he spoke, but she nodded at the doctor's question. "I want you to think over the idea of having surgery, it will completely cure you, no more throwing up flower petals." he says with a bit of happiness in his voice, but that went away quickly before he spoke his next words.
"But after the surgery you will lose all romantic feelings for whoever you are currently in love with, it will not affect your chances of falling in love again, but you will never love this person again"

Teruhashi knew all this but it was still hard to hear, she never thought that this would happen to her, she was supposed to be the perfect pretty girl. Which means that whoever she loves is supposed to love her back.

But when Teruhashi thinks about having the surgery her body fills with fear, she didn't want to forget what it feels like to be in love, she didn't want to lose her love for Saiki. Even thinking about not loving Saiki anymore felt like agony.

In that moment she knew that she wouldn't have the surgery, not willingly anyway. Teruhashi could feel the hope bleed out of her, she didn't know if the doctor was still talking and frankly she didn't care, all she could think about is that this disease proved

that Saiki didn't love her.

That was more painful than that entire day of thorns growing in her lungs had been. Sobs fall from her lips and shake her chest, Teruhashi finds it harder to breathe but she didn't care, the pain from the realization of her unrequited love was the only thing on her mind.

The doctor left soon after, realizing that she wasn't listening, letting her soak in and come to terms with the news. All Saiki has thought since coming into school is "what a Pain", all because Teruhashi is not in school.

All the thoughts in the entire school's head are about that girl, even when she's not at school that girl is annoying me.

I roll my eyes yet again at some idiot who is thinking about her, "will today ever end?"

When Kokomi was just about to fall back to sleep after an hour of crying, the door burst open to reveal her idiot brother.

He instantly threw himself at her side crying big fat tears, "oh, my Kokomi! It will be okay, you will have that surgery and forget all about that idiot whoever he is". "so the doctor told him" Kokomi thought with a sigh.

But when she went over what he said she panicked, she didn't want the surgery! She began to hyperventilate in fear, the thorns in her lungs making it more painful. Makoto seeing that his sister was upset ran out the door to go and get the doctor. Saiki cannot believe he actually made it Throughout the day, it has been nonstop moping and moaning about Teruhashi not being in school.

"who knew one girl had such a big influence?" Saiki thought fed up from today.

He decided to go see Teruhashi again today, to check on her condition.

He ducked into an alleyway so no one could see him and teleported to the hospital, once there he quickly turned invisible. He walked toward where he knows Teruhashi's room is by reading the minds of the doctors and nurses in the hospital. He entered only to find that her condition had only worsened.

He knew the thorns in her lungs would grow more each day, but Saiki did not expect them to grow this quickly. Through reading Teruhashi's charts it seems that within the 24 hours that he had been away she had seemed to improve, but within the last 4 hours, her condition took a nosedive.

Makoto sat next to Kokomi clutching her pale clammy hand. Her previously white hospital bed is now splattered with blood and covered with pink rose petals.
Kokomi's face was deadly pale. Her lips were parted, gasping for breath. Looking into Kokomi's mind he found how she got to this point. She had begged Makoto in her broken voice to not make her have the surgery.

Saiki never realized how strong Kokomi is, she is willing to go through all of this pain and possible death, just because she does not want to lose her love for him.

While Makoto's head was bowed, hand still clutching Kokomi, Saiki did the first thing that came to mind that he knew would help her.

He turned back time on her body by one day, the thorns in her lungs retreated slightly, giving Kokomi more room to breathe.

She gasped for breath, with more room in her lungs, she took a deep breath.