Hair clip • Chifuyu Matsuno

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"You can't get up, you'll collapse again!"

A mother runs to a girls side, holding her as she almost trips across her tangled legs.

Ill and barely even alive, she pushes past her mother, attempting to continue walking forwards.

"I have to see him again..."

She fall to her knees before she could take another step, her mother bringing up a hand to cover her mouth. She couldn't do anything to save the girl. The only help she had was gone.

The girl still persisted, saying he was alive and that she wanted to see him one last time before she left.

He was dead. And soon, the girl too.

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You had dreams of a girl you'd never seen before.

You watched as a person stuck in the corner of the room, not able to peel their eyes away from the scene playing out in front of them.

It happened randomly, and it scared you of how real it felt. It was as if you were actually inside the house and not in a dream.

"Breakfast!", Jouta runs past your room, the smile in his voice evident.

You shake your head from the dream you'd woken from, tossing your legs out of bed and rubbing your eyes.

It was all a dream at the end of the day.

Nothing more.

Chifuyu weakly sniffs as he turns the page of the romance manga, tears covering the black and white filled papers. Peke J was used to this to say the least.

Chifuyu cleans his face up, cheeks still a red color as he walks down the stairs in his school uniform. His mother had left him breakfast on the table, no note as he was aware that she had gone out early due to her job.

What had he dreamed about the previous night?

That was the first thing he writes in his journal every morning now, many words misspelled as his half-awake self tried its best to remember what his brain came up with today. Chifuyu reminded himself to check what the dream was after he came back home from school. He'd forgotten what he'd wrote.

On his walk to school, Chifuyu couldn't stop himself from admiring the changes in the leaves, a golden orange mixing with the greens. They looked welcoming.

When Chifuyu walks into school, the first thing he finds is Baji who had been rummaging through his backpack with his hair slicked back and large glasses crooked on his nose. Chifuyu accompanies Baji to his class, Baji waving frantically before sitting in his seat and trying to finish his coloring page before the class started.

And as Chifuyu is walking to his own class, he sees you.

Except you weren't you. He knew it was you but it didn't look like it was. You looked different. New hair, old clothes, and a ragged appearance in general.

"Chifuyu!"

You were in front of him, the old appearance now gone, replaced with the look he'd loved oh so much. Chifuyu feels his heart drop, did he sleep for too little? He may be seeing things but he swears he slept for a good 8 hours almost everyday!

"Good morning L/n," Chifuyu says with a smile, watching your smile slightly drop.

"Your eyes look puffy, you alright?"

Agh.. Chifuyu forgot about that. He should've fixed that before he left.

The blond reassures you, walking by your side down the hall to your class as you bickered and enjoyed each others company.

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It was like your lungs were filled of stone. You couldn't breathe, labored breaths heaving from your mouth.

And then suddenly you were sharply inhaling through your nose, leaning off the hand supporting your cheek as the teacher up front mumbles about the homework.

The dream didn't feel like a dream. A nightmare, you'd like to label it as instead.

You considered telling someone-- anyone, about it. But the ache in your chest told you not too; in fear that someone would just tell you to get over it and leave you in shame that you wasted their time for nothing.

This wasn't nothing, though.

This was a recurring dream-- nightmare.

You couldn't get it out of your thoughts no matter how tight you shut your eyes when you see- feel- the sensations that the girl in the dreams had gone through.

As if you were the girl.