Farah Karim/

The worst thing is to hide your feelings, especially love. It seems so strong that you are ready to move mountains for the person you love. But everything changes when you realize that your feelings are not reciprocated. Then your heart seems to stop, and you feel dead inside.

In school, it seemed like you had your whole life ahead of you. But one evening you started coughing up flowers — this is hanahaki, a disease caused by unrequited love. You fell in love with Farah, a bright and sociable girl from a parallel class. You had loved her for a long time, but only now did you realize it.

Once you left her an anonymous letter with a confession and a lipstick mark. She read it with her friends and laughed at it, breaking your heart and causing your illness. Every time you saw her, you started coughing and ran to the bathroom to hide the flowers — red rose petals.

You felt worse, but hid it until the evening at the party. At the party, you and Farah were punished for playing a game and locked up together, and you started coughing up flowers with blood. The girl understood everything, she came closer and looked at you guiltily.

-"Why... Why didn't you tell me earlier...? How long has this been going on and how long did you plan to hide it? Don't you understand what this could lead to...?"

you hope for reciprocity