Chapter 14

Lianna couldn’t explain how happy she is now. She still couldn’t believe that she is in the same car with him, going to somewhere far from the place she used to be.

"Are you okay?" Hazaki asked, noticing that she is so silent.

"I... I'm fine... I just can't believe I am going to the Palace of fog." She stuttered, feeling a bit nervous now. She is too excited that she got speechless to everything.

"Is it your first time to go in a palace?"

"Yes. And I am pleased to be with you."

He smiled.

"It's my first time to invite someone there too."

She blushed. If she was the first person to be invited by him in the palace, it would mean that…

"Am .... I ... that special?" she takes a look at him, waiting for his answer.

She doesn’t know but with his silence, it felt like … he doesn’t want to answer her.

The car turned in the left side where an empty road appeared before her eyes. This is the road to Hakku Mountain. Both sides from the road are empty. There are no inhabitants and the air is cold. It was at the moment where she was looking somewhere when he offered him blindfold.

"Sleep for a while. We still have twelve hours travel.”

"Thanks." she accepted the suggestion and put on the blind fold.

She rested her head to the window of the car and closed her eyes. After series of imagining how the palace would look like, she fell asleep and woke up still in the middle of the travel.

She moved a bit for more comfortable position and sighed. "How many hours is still remaining?" she asked, still in blindfold.

"3 hours."

Silence engulfed them and she didn’t speak. She wanted to get back to sleep but she couldn’t. She had had enough. And then there is this thing that just crossed her mind.

Confession.

Would it be convenient to confess her feelings in this kind of moment? She knows that it might be inconvenient but she wanted to be honest with him before she couldn’t have the chance to confess anymore. She wanted to be real to him and tell him what she really feels towards him. She wanted to know… if there is chance of her to him.

"Hazaki...." she mumbled, hearing her own hear beat because she is starting to feel suffocated with the thought of telling him her feelings.

She heard him hummed and she gulped, thinking about changing her mind but then she also wanted to grab this chances, specially, that there is only the two of them now.

.

.

"I like you."

As soon as she let it out, she regretted it after a second. It feels like she can’t breathe. She feels so hot all over. Thanks to the blindfold that kept her eyes closed.

"Are you awake?"

She felt the breaking of her heart into pieces. He is a yandere! He knows whether she’s wide awake or not by just his power! Is he playing dumb because it was her? Because she is told him her feelings.

"I'm wide awake, Hazaki."

Silence poured again. Maybe he doesn’t want to talk about it.

“If you don’t like me, then why, Hazaki?” she turned her head to him, although she could only see the darkness because of the blindfold. She knows she was being bold but she wanted to know what he really thinks of her.

"I don’t want to hurt your feelings, Natsuka."