Oblivious Heart - (A Male Reader x Rinko Shirokane Fanfiction)

Chapter 25 - Ponder

Rinko's P.O.V

I don't understand....

The other night, I went home unable to process what just happened. I ended up crying myself to sleep because I didn't understand why he wasn't happy.

Perhaps Anon-kun was trying to make me realize something....

I don't know anything about love. I've never fallen in love before, and I don't know what it feels like to fall in love with someone or how to return someone else's feelings.

Perhaps I've been too rude to Anon-kun...

"Rinko? What's up? You don't seem well?" Imai-san asked.

"Ahhh sorry... I'm fine, Imai-san..." I replied.

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"You've been feeling out of it ever since we started practicing Shirokane-san." Yukina-san came up to us and asked.

"Rinrin... did something happen last night?" Ako-chan asked.

Would it be okay to seek help from everyone here...??

What am I saying.... this is Roselia...

"Everyone... I have something I want to ask..." I said.

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I spent the next few minutes telling them about what happened last night.

"Where can we find this person?" Hikawa-san said with a resentful look in her eyes.

"Hikawa-san?!" I was surprised.

Hikawa-san then stood up and took the spotlight.

"You both may need to calm down and think about this. I'm sorry to say this but... What Anon-kun did was the right thing." Imai-san said.

"Lisa?" Yukina-san was curious as to why Lisa could say that after hearing what happened.

But it's okay... I want to understand as well.

"Rinko here might be trying to give Anon-kun a chance at his unrequited love for her. But Anon-kun wanted to avoid that." Imai-san said.

"But why...? I want to know why..." I said.

"Because Anon-kun didn't want you to regret things later on Rinko." Imai-san said.

I still don't understand...

"Think about it this way, if you end up giving him a chance and after thinking for a while that you can love him, who would end up getting hurt the most when the moment comes when you don't actually love him at all?" Imai-san said.

"But Shirokane-san wouldn't give him the chance until she isn't sure of her feelings!" Hikawa-san said.

"You're perfectly correct Sayo. But the problem is he felt that Rinko's approach was out of pity." Imai-san said.

"Rinko, you shouldn't have promised something like that if you wanted to be respectful of Anon-kun's feelings. There's no harm in learning how to love someone, because it works. But if you really want to respect Anon-kun's feelings, then you should've turned him down the moment he confesses instead of scurrying around even further." Imai-san continued.

That's exactly what I did back then.... a few months back....

Hold on... what exactly changed?

Why couldn't I reject him immediately last night?

Why... did I want to give him a chance...?

"But Rinrin was trying to be nice right? She wanted to give a chance right?" Ako-chan asked.