Forbidden Lovers (MewGulf AU)

🌞Chapter 28🌻

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Leaving behind the hustle and bustle of the festival, Mew went to a corner of a school building.

"This brings back memories..." he murmured.

He was looking at the Social Studies room. The one he had called Gulf to that day. The door was always left unlocked. He had thought since it was a festival it would be locked up, but the door opened when he tried the knob.

"Looks the same," he said as he went inside and closed the door behind him.

The classroom was as dusty as always. Mew's eyes narrowed as he recalled all the nostalgic moments, all the painful moments...there was the desk he had pushed Gulf down.

Just then, he heard footsteps out in the hallway. They stopped outside the door.

'Crap, if someone finds out I'm in here without permission, I'll get in trouble!' he thought.

Even though he graduated from there, he wasn't a currently enrolled student. This classroom was off limits to outsiders. Panicking, he hid himself just as the knob turned and Gulf appeared. Mew's heart pounded.

'Why? Why is Gulf here?'

Gulf walked a few steps into the classroom with an extremly tired look on his face. He sighed, put both hands on a dusty desk and stared into space.

"That's not true. He loved you too." Bright's words echoed in Mew's head.

At that moment, his cellphone rang. It was from Ice. What terrible timing!

Gulf realized it wasn't his cellphone, and looked around the classroom, confused.

"Did someone leave behind their cellphone? They're supposed to turn them off during school...kids these days never follow the rules," he grumbled, as he searched for the source of the noise.

Mew fumbled to turn his phone off, but Gulf was coming near him. He was hidden behind a bunch of rolled up maps in the back of the classroom. Gulf happened to peek behind that spot, and their eyes met. Gulf gasped, unable to move. Dead silence fell in the room.

At last, Mew regained his composure and grabbed Gulf's arm. He pulled Gulf towards him with all his might. They fell to the floor. The person he loved so much, whom he had mad love to so many times, was in his arms.

"Let go, Mew," Gulf uttered.

The lips he had kissed so many times were in front of his eyes.

"Teach, did you sell your car?" Mew asked.

"What?" Gulf asked back.

"Why?" Mew prompted.

Gulf continued his clueless act. "Why what?"

"Why did you sell it?" Mew asked.

"Because I didn't use it," Gulf finally answered.

"But you said you didn't just buy it to use for our dates!" Mew exclaimed.

Gulf had said he bought it to make things easier for him. It was all lies.

"Mew, your girlfriend's waiting for you," Gulf said quietly.

"Don't change the subject!" Mew cried out.

It was no use trying to run away now.

"I'm not." Gulf sounded tired.

"How did you know I have a girlfriend?" Mew asked.

"I met her in the hallway," Gulf told him. "You go to the same school? You make a good couple."

She was a gorgeous girl. That would usually be a compliment, but coming from Gulf, it deeply hurt Mew.

"We're not going out," Mew denied flatly. "She just say that."

"Don't be mean, Mew," Gulf chided. "I didn't know you're so cold."

"Who's the cold one?" Mew retorted. "You're the one who's being called, Teach. You changed your number right after I graduated."

That's right. There was no way Gulf loved Mew if he treated him like this.

"I don't love her," Mew continued. "I don't hate her, but she's just using me. Once someone better comes along, she'll leave me, that's it."

"...But you're dating, right?" Gulf wanted to know.

"If that makes you sleep better at night, Teach." Mew struggled to stand up. "My love life sucks anyway."

"Mew..."

Mew pulled up his sleeve, took off his watch and set it down on the desk. "I'm giving this back." He had treasured that watch.

"Goodbye, Teacher."

He had finally said the words he hadn't gotten a chance to say at his graduation. It had been too painful to say them then.

Everything had begun here, and now it ended here. It was appropriate. He didn't know why it started and ended just like the same way. Everything was so painful, he couldn't stand it anymore.

TBC