Chapter 7

*Trigger Warning

As Hana and Nina walked down the hot, miserable heat, they went into MoonBucks to get a nice, refreshing coffee. Surprisingly, there were cold iced coffees in bottles on the shelf. Hana and Nina both grabbed one for themselves. As thirsty as they were, they both chugged the ice-cold coffee down their dry throats.

"EEHaaaa~<3"

As hot as they both sounded after finishing their bottle, coffee dripped down from their mouths to their chests, slipping down into both of their cleavages, giving them both a small shock from the cold—letting out a small, frisky sound.

They both looked at each other lustfully, but stopped as they were always getting too close in heat. As both of them awkwardly looked away, their eyes both sharply glanced at each other, gazing at each other's bodies. In the corner of Hana's eye, she suddenly saw rose petals—a huge wall of them—but something was protruding out of the ground.

As Hana alerted Nina to what she had just seen, Nina also turned around frantically, looking at the beautiful walls of roses spread across the building. They were both amazed at how lovely it looked. As they came closer, their hearts sank. Their eyes widened. They weren't roses at all. In fact, they were human remains shaped like roses. All of these "roses" were human parts shaped like petals—ears, mouths, and teeth.

All of a sudden, things got too quiet. It became eerie. They both got scared for the first time. They both leaked a bit due to being shocked and scared. For the first time, they felt fear again.

They slowly walked away, holding hands, turned away, and never looked back. While walking away, they felt a shiver down their spine. It felt cold all of a sudden, even during the heat of summer.

"Hana... what was that..." Her words sounded scared, trembling with each one. For the first time, I had ever seen her this scared before.

"I don't even know..." Nina calmly—Hana replied back. Both girls had remembered what fear felt like after being numb from the infectious incident they were forced to live in. 

Hana and Nina, both from shock, held their mouths. They had just realized how horrid the smell was after coming back to their senses. The smell was like rotten flesh, rotten eggs, and fish mixed together—no words could describe the horrible stench coming off from the wall. It was even worse how the coffee shop was right in front of it. They both couldn't handle the smell. Both their cheeks puffed up like pufferfish. They soon realized what was about to happen, their eyes widening, making these croak-like sounds from their throats. But it was too late. They both looked down at the floor, regurgitating everything they had eaten—all over the floor.

Soon, from the outside, the petals—the roses—started to laugh and chatter, as if it was watching them. Both of them continued to leak from being scared. Creating a mess— a mess on the floor— and their little happy accident only added to the already horrid smell. Both of them got up and ran away. They didn't look back at all this time. They didn't care at all that they were still wearing those skimpy bikinis. None of that mattered at this point. These weren't zombies at all. It was something else.

Fear came across their faces, hyperventilating and running away—both of them. Hana held Nina's hand tight, never letting it go. This was the moment her mom had talked about—about having friends. It was at this moment she realized just how important friends are. 

Nina stops, and Hana looks back at her. both frighten what they saw. Nina still in shock, " Hana what was th----" 

" OREEEEGHHHH" 

Nina still in shock, leaves mess all over the floor from running to much and the thing she saw back there. Hana quickly runs up to her, and hugged her tight.

"I'm sorry these things are happening to you. I'm sorry," she said.

All of a sudden, she screamed,

"GOD, IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED?! I HAD DEBT! I HAD NO OTHER CHOICE! I WH*RED MYSELF OUT TO EARN MONEY!"

Both of them collapsed onto the mess Nina had created. It became eerily quiet again.

As the sun began to set, both of their eyes widened in fear.

In the distance, they heard it again.

The Roses were on the move toward them.

You could hear their painful, rubbery laughter, as the finish laughing, you can can hear the echo through the building like nails scratching the surface of the metal, growing louder as they got closer.

Terrified for their lives once more, they scrambled to their feet and started running.

This time, Nina let go—and ran with her, not because she was forced to, but because she wanted to.

" I got this" she stammered.

Both girls ran down the street as the night followed them. As nightfall enveloped them, they looked back in terror to see the wall of roses transform into a 7-foot tall, rose-like monster. The face of the rose had a grim smile, gazing back at them warmly. It had a massive bust, its legs were enormous, fused with multiple victims' mouths, legs, and ears, and its waist was shaped like an hourglass. It began to walk with huge strides.

Hana and Nina, both terrified for their lives, ran into a small shed they had spotted while running. Nina collided into the back of the shed, and Hana followed but tripped in the process, scraping her knee. Hana quickly shut the shed door and locked it. The shed began to smell horrid due to the mess they had made earlier, with the sweat adding to the foul stench. They both couldn't handle the smell any longer, and they let out waste from their mouths in the corner.

They both collapsed on the floor next to each other, embracing one another. As the night followed them, they could hear the rose outside laughing and mocking their screams and nightmares. The rose began mocking their vomit sounds, repeating them again and again. In shock, both of them covered their mouths, trying to swallow it down. The rose outside quickly kicked the metal shed door, staring at them. Both of them, overwhelmed, made another accident, creating a puddle around them. The stress had knocked them out cold.

Here is the corrected version:

The next day, the horrid smell awakened both of them, still shocked to see the monster outside looking at them. After all this time, the predator had never left its prey. Both of them crawled to the corner of the shed while the eyes of the rose followed.

"What do we do?"

"What do we do?"

"What do we do?"

"What do we do?"

Both of them murmured, their eyes sunken, their hearts pounding less, about to experience death. But something caught both of their attention. They peeked out the window past the rose's eyes and saw something far away. They weren't sure who it was, but they saw two girls who looked exactly like them. They were in a trance, possessed by the smell of the rose. They were in a psychosis. Shocked at how this had even come to be, they looked at each other, confused.

Growl—their stomachs growled loudly, hungry and desperate. Hunger pushed them to an act they never imagined, one that made them sob even as they did it. The rose watched, amused. They would die sooner if they didn't eat. As they continued to swallow it back into their stomachs desperately, the roses laughed—cruel, endless laughter mocking their plea.

The laughter they once shared.The sexual tension that danced between them.The playful teasing back and forth.

All of it was gone.

Silence crept up on them in the warm shadow as the stench rose. But it no longer affected them. No more tears, no more crying, no more wailing. Just dead silence.

Nina leaned against Hana's shoulder, limp and motionless beside her. But something still lingered—something long forgotten: hope.They saw a shadow move—too quick for the eye to catch.Then, they heard it.The rose screamed in pain.

The hope they had clung to for so long had finally paid off.

A girl appeared—pink hair flowing, a lollipop resting in her mouth as her tongue wrapped around it in a slow, luscious swirl. Her bust, comically large like Hana's, bounced as she stepped forward. to the, Nina, despite everything, smiled with a sadistic, perverted glint in her eyes like a predator looking for food—but the weight of what they'd been through still remained etched in her expression.

The pink-haired girl leaned forward, her E-cup breasts dangling boldly as she grinned.

"Your lord and savior has arrived," she declared, proclaiming herself the one chosen by God.

Ai then told them to eat this. She brought out bread and fruits. Both of them raised their arms and took the bread and fruit from her, chewing it down. For the first time in a long while, they had eaten real food—not something out of a horror movie.

"Here's some water too!" Ai offered, handing them both a bottle. They both chugged the water down their throats, as if it were a drug—it felt so good. They both experienced ecstasy from drinking the water.

In unison, both of them asked, "Where can we shower?"

Ai-chan happily propped them up, despite Hana and Nina being dirty and smelly. That didn't bother Ai-chan. She was just glad that she had found new allies. With a smirk, Ai-chan lifted both of them and began showing them the way to the bathhouse a few miles down.