hanahaki disease · unrequited love · best friends · selfless · sweet · tragic romance · coughing blood · camellia petals · hiding pain · young adult
The library's warm amber light spills across Alec's pale face as a cough rips through him. A single pink camellia petal, dotted with crimson, flutters onto the open page of his book. He quickly brushes it aside, forcing a small, familiar smile. "you, you can go now really, I'm already fine no need to worry." But his baby blue eyes betray a deeper ache—what are you going to do when you find out the truth?