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END IT WITH TEARS

Author: VEEWRITES
last update Last Updated: 2025-04-24 16:04:31

Yuki’s POV

I felt heavy. So heavy.

Like my whole chest had been filled with cement, and someone left me sinking at the bottom of some endless, dark ocean. I laid there, my back flat against my tiny mattress, staring up at the ceiling like it could explain why everything had gone so wrong. My mind was… nothing. A complete abyss. Blank.

I couldn’t think.

I couldn’t feel.

I couldn’t even see properly — everything looked foggy, like my eyes had turned into glass.

It felt like a dream.

A dream I’d spent years carefully stacking, one fragile piece at a time, and today it just… cracked.

Shattered.

And in the fallout, I couldn’t even tell where my heart used to be.

Why?

Why did it have to go down like this?

Why did I let it happen?

I planned to run, to leave before anyone really got hurt.

I never wanted to break anyone.

Not him.

But it hurt… it hurt so much because I saw it in his eyes — Creed, that mixture of confusion and betrayal and something way worse — like I wasn’t even human to him an
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