Hi! I'm alive! I'm not dead! It's just that past few weeks have been hectic. First, I had to go back to Korea to attend my Grandpa's funeral, visit my now-widowed Grandma, and take care of after method of the funeral. Then I come back to school, make up my week's worth of homework, and bleh. It's just been bleh (then I had my writer's block).

Well, this is short continuation of 'A Love Passed'.

Note: Really nothing…

'A Kiss to the Rose'

He gave a delicate kiss to the flower. In a way, the flower described his love painfully well. Like the thorns that stuck out from its stem, memories of it stung him.

It was beautiful and pleasing to the eye when it was alive and labeled the 'queen of flowers' and the flower of love. The hopeful feeling he used to have. But then, you begin to notice that flowers never have a long life.

The flower has to wither sometime. The once delicate and elegant flower now had lost all beauty. It was withering away in the most unattractive way ever. Once lovely red pedals were falling apart, brown and fragile when touched even slightly. All its liveliness as a stunning flower had vanished.

But for him, it looked different. Although it had become a withered and ugly flower, he cherished it as if it was a treasure.

It was reminder of the love that he used to have. Of a love that couldn't have been told. But now, he passed all the memories of the once hopeful love to the rose. He kissed the dead rose for the last time and put it carefully between the pages of his old notebook.

But he knew, the love for the innocent youth will never be gone. It will just be changed over time into a deep respect.

He truly wished the couple happiness throughout their married life.

Then, he might be able to forget the pain.

I know it's REALLY, REALLYshort. I might as well as make this fiction thing a rec for my short KonYuu drabbles.

I had an inspiration when I listened to 'Kiss from a Rose' Piano version. Endlessly. The image of kissing a rose came from there. Wow, thanks for having patience with my writing! Thanks for reading!

P.S. The sequel thingy of 'Self-Inflicted Scars and a Kiss' is in writing! I finally had the inspiration to write it! Thanks for the reviews!