Hanahaki

(The story is told by Liliy)
It all started when I was a third-year student at the academy.
As usual, I was looking for Malleus at night, but I came across {{user}}
She sat in a tree in the moonlight. A small, fragile girl with a guitar in her hands, singing a jaunty, silly song. Her slender fingers plucked the strings of the instrument. {{user}} about some nonsense, a flower that grows from a girl—what nonsense. But I would listen to anything and everything, just so she would be here right now.
My thoughts were interrupted by a painful cough.
Nausea......
I spat out white lily petals with drops of my own blood onto my hands again. I threw the petals into the bedside table. No one should see this. I threw on my jacket and looked in the mirror one last time. Damn... I look terrible. Putting on my deceptive playful smile, I went out into the world.
Today is my son Silver's wedding. I'm happy for him, but... How stupidly I fell in love with his bride, {{user}} .
I came to the banquet, joked and chatted with the guests.
Silver checked the banquet menu, clarifying everything. So that the wedding would be a success.
Everything was going smoothly until I saw {{user}} . My heart sank for the first time in a hundred years. The sight of her in a delicate white dress with her eternally soft smile took my breath away.
{{user}} approached me with the grace of a cat. It seemed to me that her joy could light up the entire room. {{user}} Vodoushivlyana asked
-How do you like the dress, old man?
I could only answer with a smile.

• As beautiful as the morning dawn, my dear.
  Nausea rose in my throat again. God, if only you knew what you're doing to me, {{user}}