Unrequited love

8 year old Medea Eckhart was sitting on top of a tree branch in her school field, as all the other kids were playing with one another, whilst the black haired girl stared at the scene being unfolded in front of her.

“Hey! Stop it will you?!”

“Or what? You’re going to tell your mommy?”

“Come on! You know her ‘sweet mother’ abandoned her!” Medea quickly turned around to where the sound was coming from. There she sees a young girl about her age, with blond hair, being picked on by a group of boys cornering her.

Her albino snake, Kaburamaru, slithered his way to his master’s shoulder and hissed his tongue out near her ear.

“Hm... You do that. But don’t scare the poor girl.” The girl simply ordered her pet as the white serpent slithered his way down from the tree to the group of bullies, sneaking his way up to one of the boy’s leg.

It took few seconds until Medea hears the boys screaming, crying and running away as Kaburamaru stared curiously at the blond girl in front of him. But to the black haired girl’s surprise, the blond didn’t react nor flinched at the presence of Kaburamaru in front her.

Medea then jumped down from the branch and appeared in front of her snake and girl.

“You okey?” She simply asked as she turned around to the frightened girl. The blond nodded her head and Medea pulled her hand out to her. The sandy eyed girl looked at the out stretched hand and placed her own hand on top of Medea’s, in which she pulls her up from the ground.

“T-Thank you!” Medea raised a brow at the girl as she tilted her head to the side.

“Why are you thanking me for?” Medea asked and Roxanna stared at her.

“The…snake. I assume that they’re yours…?” Medea’s heterochromatic eyes looked at kaburamaru and hummed, placing her hands on her hips.

“Hmm… I guess you’re right. But Kaburamaru doesn’t bite, you can pet him.” Kaburamaru slithered to his master’s arm and looked at the girl.

“Kabura…maru? That’s a beautiful name! Oh—I’m Roxanna Callista, by the way. But you can call me Roxanna or Roxiee!”

“Medea Eckhart. Medea is just fine...” The black haired girl simply replied.

Roxanna then leaned her face near to the girl, humming. This took Medea by surprise as she took a step back.

“Your eyes..” Roxanna said and Medea just looked away.

“My…eyes..? What about them?” the girl asked.

“They’re pretty.” Roxanna smiled, complementing her new found friend’s eyes. “E-eh..?”

“They’re pretty unique! Amazing even! I never really see someone with such beautiful eyes before!” Roxanna complimented and Medea could feel her cheeks turning red. But due to the bandaged mask she was wearing, Roxanna couldn’t see the girl’s face.

“Alright then! Mediee, let’s be friends, okey?” Roxanna smiled and Medea slightly nodded her head, and that respond was enough for the young blond to beam in pure happiness.

But that was years ago. Medea Eckhart has been feeling butterflies in her stomach every time she sees Roxanna. She kept feeling her heart pounding every time she sees the blond girl. But at the same time, she;s sad.

She’s sad to know that Roxonna’s love was for another.

Sad to know that Roxanna won’t look at her the way she looks at him. And Medea knew that he too felt the same way towards her.

Why couldn’t she just open her eyes and see…?

See on how the way she makes her happy.

See the way on how she was the person to make her laugh.

See the way on she was always there for her.

She was always there to protect her. To protect her smile. She was able to save Roxanna and Jeremy. She knew that Roxanna wanted nothing more but to be reunited with her long last brother. Despite them being not being blood related, she still looks up at the white haired boy and accepted him as her brother.

Everyone watched as Roxanna and Cassis got together. And it pains Medea to know that the person she has been loving for is now with another. But, she knows that there was nothing she could do. She let it happen. She let the pain in her chest continues.

And Dion noticed this. He has been telling the girl to confess. To let the feelings out, so she won’t feel that much pain no longer.

“Medea—“

“Don’t even start with it, Dion” the girl cutted him off and turned around, her eyes now teary.

“Why…Why couldn’t she noticed me…? I love her…I really do, but..” That’s when the tears started running down her face.

“Is love…Always this painful..?” She questioned as she grabbed the blond’s collar and shaked him.

“Tell me! You know what it feels! You’re with Penelope so you know what it feels! Just fucking tell me!” She shouted. Her shaking stopped and her grip on the male’s collar weakens.

“Was I…Never always this good enough..?” Dion couldn’t just see his friend in such state hugged her. It was his first time seeing his cousin crying like this.

“It hurts…Dion, it hurts…”

2 years passed and the girl is still in love with Roxanna. Despite her cousin kept telling her to just confess and let it all out, she just desided to let the pain affect her.

As she was just walking down the rainy street, she sees her cousin and a girl with slight pink hair and green eyes under the rain. Then she sees a group of guys with a gun in their hand and Cassis hiding in the shadows. Her eyes widened. She figured on what was going to happen. She knows what is happening.

Kaburamaru hissed at his owner and the girl let out a sigh.

BANG

BANG

BANG

Cassis was ready to set his life on the line but the pain never came. His dark eyes opened and noticed a figure in front of him. His eyes widened at the familiar girl in front of him and the guys with guns ran away. His teeth gritted in anger at the group running away and Medea placed a hand on the tall male’s shoulder and the blond looked at her.

“Keep Roxanna safe for me, yeah? Don’t make her mad or sad…She means a lot to me..” Medea panted under her breath, as she was now having difficulty in breathing, and fell down on the wet ground.

Cassis was alarmed as he sat down on the ground near the girl panicking with Kaburamaru now on the ground with him.

“O-Oi! Keep your eyes open okey?! Roxanna is not going to be happy if she sees you like this!” He scolded, as tears were threatening to fall down his eyes.

“Roxanna…She’s an amazing girl...I’m…I’m really loving her…I loved her too much that…that I would even place my life on the line for her..” Cassis just listened to her confession and he didn’t care. What matters right now was saving his friend’s life. Dion and Psyche both were able to call the ambulance, but once they arrived, Medea Eckhart had passed.

Hours later, Roxanna bursted into tears once heard that her best friend was now gone. She didn’t wanted to believe it. They were just hanging out with Penelope this afternoon. What went wrong?

Roxanna cried in front of her friend’s dead corpse as she screamed, asking why she left. Why she broken their promise with one another.

“Mediee! Y-You said you would open yourself a mocha shop, knowing how much I like them! You…you said I will be your guest of honor, right?! S-So wake up! Wake up! Wake up!” Roxanna wailed. After a few minutes or so, she walked out on the room and her eyes darted towards Dion. Stomping her way towards him, she slapped him right at the face.

“YOU KNEW DIDN’T YOU?! WHY DIDN’T YOU SAVE HER?! TELL ME, DION, DAMNIT!” Roxanna shouted and Cassis walked beside her and hugged her to his chest.

Dion was frozen. He never actually knew that this would happened. No one did.

10 years later, a woman with beautiful blond hair and sandy eyes stared down in front of the familiar tombstone, as she placed a purple hyacinth.

“Hey there, Mediee!” The woman smiled, as she began to talking to her friend about her day.

“I…never really know you felt for me that way, actually..” Roxanna looked down on her lap and took a deep breath and looked back up at the stone. There she sees a familiar snake and the woman smiled.

“Hey, Kaburamaru…” Kaburamaru looked at the grown woman and hissed his tongue out, a way of greeting the familiar. Then the snake looked back at his master’s stone as slithered around it.

“I know…I miss her too..”

“One day, if I am reborn again as a human, I will tell you my feelings myself. But now, I want you to live your life to the fullest.” Medea said, as she sat in front of her friend and first and last love.

“Live your life with Cassis and love him to the fullest. Don’t fight with one another. I don’t like it, and don’t forget about me.” Medea continued, and stood up.

“Cause seeing you happy and smiling is just enough for me to be satisfied.”