ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ

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Falling in love was something I didn't expect to happen to me, but it somehow did, "Azume-san, I'm... I'm in love with you! Please go out with me!" a boy bowed as he handed me a box of chocolates. I gulped and refused the chocolates, "I'm sorry, but I'm not really interested in being in a relationship" I turned and walked away. A girl with straight A's and a mild reputation in Shōgakkō High school, Kiyori Azume, a 16-year old that other people believe has a normal and amazing life. Well, that's not true, my home is a small house, the outside walls are brown and the door is scarlet red with a gold bronze silver handle. I live with my father. My mother died 6 years ago in a car accident. After my mother died, my father started drinking, making him an alcoholic, and out of the ordinary, he would put his hands on me, leaving bruises and cuts. The only people who know about my situation are my childhood friends, Tetsuya and Yumi Satō. They live alone together a few blocks from my home and their parents go on business trips very often.

I walked through the hallways heading towards my classroom when a voice startled me. "Well well well, if it isn't little Ms. Perfect Princess" I looked behind me and saw a tall male, with short black hair and bright cyan-blue eyes, he was known as one of the 4 prince charmings of our school, and a student with straight A's. He's nice to other students but not to me, Yukio Okamoto, "I thought I told you to stop calling me that" I turned towards him and crossed my arms. "Why? It suits you, Princess" he smirked as he called me that name in my ear. I pushed him away and turned then continued walking, I don't get why he hates me. We were getting along when we were in grade school but all of a sudden since the beginning of high school, he's been rude towards me. As I stood in front of the door to my classroom, I slide the door open and found Tetsuya and Yumi sitting at their desks close to mine in the back of the classroom. Tetsuya sits in front of me while Yumi sits next to me on my right, "Oh Kiyori! Where were you?" Yumi asked, "Gomen, I had to deal with some trouble" I giggled nervously as I slid the door close. "Another love confession?" questioned Tetsuya, I nodded and scratched the back of my head, "Lucky, I wish I was the popular girl in the school, then I would have no trouble looking for a boyfriend" whined Yumi. "You can take my place..." I sat down at my desk, "... I'm not interested in things like that". Taking my notebook from my bag, I went through the pages, "What are you looking for?" asked Tetsuya, "The funds for this year's school festival, Inoue-kun needs them to write down how much we should spend". "Ah Uta, I actually bumped into him earlier when I came, he was talking to this really pretty girl and she seems most likely to be Uta's girlfriend", Tetsuya knew I had a crush on Inoue-kun since we were 1st years. "Okay, I'm happy for them if they are dating" I replied, the door slid open and a male with dark brown hair and red-orange eyes, his eyes were beautiful as the sunset. "Afternoon! Azume-san, and afternoon to you two as well Yumi-san, Tetsuya-san" smiled the male, "Yo Uta", "Hi Inoue-kun!" They greeted him. "Azume-san do you have the funds for this year's school festival?" asked Inoue-san, "I do, I have the funds for last year's too so if all goes well we can be able to save up more if we manage to use this much amount of money for the school festival if you want we can raise more money by doing a donation to the school", "Hmm, If we do that it's most likely we can get twice as much than what we have now, but the risk is, how are we going to get people to help us?", I smiled and look at Tetsuya and Yumi. "Our cooking club can volunteer to sell sweets!" Yumi raised her hand, "And my art club can make posters for the advertising" Tetsuya added. "Well we will take this to the student council meeting" replied Inoue-kun, he looked at me and smiled as he patted my head. "Good work, Vice-President, we don't have a meeting today but we do have a meeting tomorrow at 7:00 a.m." he mentioned, I nodded and handed him the notebook.

He placed his left hand on my hands as he took the notebook with his other hand. I looked at him, I blushed a little bit. "You know it's not polite to touch someone without their consent, it's considered sexual harassment", we looked towards the voice and found Okamoto-kun standing at the entrance of the classroom door with his 2 friends. "Stop saying non-sense Okamoto-san, there is no reason for you to be in our business" stated Inoue-kun, "Well if it's something private, you should've done it in a private place, this is a classroom" Okamoto walked past Inoue-san then sat at his desk that is 2 desks away from me on the right. "Pay no attention Inoue-kun, you should get going, class is about to start" I slid my hand away from him, and slightly bowed. He bowed then excused himself out of the classroom, I glared at Okamoto and sat back down at my desk. "Awe I'm sorry, did I make your boyfriend leave?" Okamoto and his friends chuckled as I ignored them. "At least there is someone who can admire my hard work instead of looks' ' I stated, the boys looked at me as I sat there writing down notes, "Whatever you say, Princess".