By the Bridge: Yuzuru Nishimiya X Reader

2. Bright Night

It's morning. Well, more like afternoon. I can see the sun shining through the blinds. It's 2:16 PM. I woke up an hour ago but I don't feel like getting up. I can't fall back asleep so I'm just laying here. I was thinking about reading, but my manga is on the other side of the bed. I need to get up anyway. I'm going to hang out with Yuzuru today. I don't know what I would even wear. I wanna look good, but I don't wanna look like I tried too hard to get ready. I'm just gonna wear a t-shirt and sweatpants. Right when I get up, then I'll change.

It's almost 4:00 PM and I still haven't moved. At this rate, I'll never get up. I need to move. I don't want to make Yuzuru sad. Wow, bold of me to assume Yuzuru wants me to show. I mean they are the ones that asked to meet up? No, no one wants to talk to me. It's probably a prank. Yeah, a prank. I should go. Yeah, but why? Just to walk around for a little with someone? Their gonna die one day anyway, there's no reason to make friends. They'll all eventually leave anyway. But I still want to meet them. I don't know why. I guess I kinda want to hang out with them. I want to know why they were crying yesterday. I want to know them.

The next thing I knew, I was asleep. I was asleep for 3 hours. It's now 7:00 PM. I'm screwed. I'm supposed to meet with Yuzuru in an hour. I need to piss too. Fuck. I don't want to. Okay. How about this, when I get up, I can have an entire box of cereal. Yeah, okay. Not worth it. But I'm still gonna get up. I have to meet Nishimiya. I have to talk to them.

It was hard but I finally got my ass out of bed, I put on some pants and walked to the door. Ugh now I have to put shoes on. The only shoes I have are laced. Tying my shoes is so much work. Maybe if I got some slides I would go outside more. Ok whatever I'll just leave them undone. That took too much effort in itself. There's no way I'm gonna brush my teeth or hair. Eating is too much work. Too much useless shit. Well actually those things aren't useless. They're actually the few things I have to do in order to take care of myself. It's just not fun.

And so I stepped outside and went down a hell of a lot of stairs. Nishimiya better not have bailed on me. I almost tripped on the fucking stairs. I could have died, guess that would've been for the best anyways. Looking up at the sky I notice some stars. I don't see those too often. And its not too dark yet, but they're still shining bright. I looked down at the Bridge. Yuzuru is sitting against the railing. They look up and me and wave with a warm smile.

"You're late, I said to meet me at 8:00 PM, it's 8:23 PM." "I'm barely late at all." "You were 20 minutes late." Who cares. Yuzuru looks pretty good, they're wearing a t-shirt and shorts, plus a zip-up black sweatshirt, but they still manage to look nice. Like really nice. I bet they would look good in anything with their cute round face and intimidating eyes. Their confidence really pulls it all together. They look so cool leaning against the railing with their hands in their pockets. I keep accidentally looking in their eyes and immediately looking away in case they catch me.

"So what are we gonna do?" I said seriously curious. "I don't know." WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN I DoN't kNoW?! You invited me to come out here at a time where I could be sleeping. This is my precious time and you don't even know what you want to do? "Wanna just chill?" They said in a completely serious way. "A lots been going on so I just want to relax a bit and talk." "That actually sounds nice. I don't get to talk to people a lot. I haven't gone to school in a while and I don't plan on going anytime soon," I say. "I haven't gone to school in a while either," they say as if they were disappointed in themself.

"Why don't you go to school?" I ask. Their face turns to the ground. "Well I have to take care of my older sister. Shes deaf. Shes been bullied a lot in the past so I basically try to protect her." Yuzuru continues to stare at the ground as they kick some pebbles. I think they're trying to avoid eye contact with me which is understandable considering the seriousness of the topic.