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𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚛 - 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚊 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚍

Today's weather is gloomy and frigid, but your body is sweating like waterfalls despite the tip of your fingers being icy cold, and your body shivering under the thick blanket.

Everything felt heavy, including your eyes, which were also droopy. You can see your mother left the room with a bowl of soup in her hands and a worried expression.

You shouldn't have gone out to the department store in the middle of the night just because you need to clear your head after going to the game center with Hitomi and Shousuke that day. On your way back to your house, it starts to rain lightly. You should have found someplace to hide underneath and wait for the rain to stop, but being dumb and in a rush, you decided to dash back home as fast as you could instead.

Thinking to yourself that you'll take medicine before going to sleep just in case you get sick the next day, which didn't help at all.

Unfortunately, you still ended up catching a cold the next morning you woke up.

Your throat felt dry, and your nose is all runny and itchy, which annoys you to the point that you want to cut it off. Is that even possible though?

Glancing at the bunny plushie at the top of your head before reaching out to grab it, you snuggle against its soft fur before falling asleep. Ignoring that one person's face that pops into your mind, who always makes your heart flutter every time you think about him.

When you open your eyes once again, you are now standing in the corner of the old playground without people. But the laughter that echoes inside your ears makes the shiver run down your spine.

The surrounding felt light and hazy to your senses. It takes you a while to realize when everything clicks.

You're dreaming.

Looking to your left, you see a silhouette of a boy crouching beside a little girl who's the same age as him. You could hear the girl sniffle and hiccups with teardrops rolling down her cheeks. Everything is too blurry and muffled to be comprehended, it makes your head hurt.

Who are they?

You don't know, but they both felt very familiar to you.

The feeling of nostalgia hit you harder in the guts when you see something that you know very well, laying in the palm of the young boy.

It was your pencil.

The pink one with a cartoon bunny print on it.

Your breath suddenly caught inside your throat as you tried to recall back to that moment when you first got that pencil. However, nothing comes to mind at all. So you take a step forward, getting closer and closer to the two kids until you can hear what they're saying.

'It's from-....-Kun...--'

Even when you were close by, you couldn't get a good grasp of what they were saying. It was muffled and incoherent as if your brain didn't want you to remember that event.

And then, you woke up.

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Hitomi's face, which is uncomfortably close to yours, is the first thing you see as you open your heavy eyelids.

How did she-

"[Name]-chan! OH MY GOD, YOU ARE NOT DEAD- I was so worried you're gonna die and--"

Your ears hurt.

Hitomi shrieked and cried at your feet, she keeps wailing about how worried she was and how she thought that you were going to die from how ill and dull you looked after catching a cold.

Man, she's too loud.

Do you look that hideous when you were sick? Wait- How did Hitomi know where you live anyway?

"How-..."

God, you sound so awful.

Your voice is hoarse and light, and the dryness inside your throat causes you to wince and cough lightly into your palm. A glass of water is unexpectedly offered to you, which you gladly accept without glancing at the person who has saved your sore throat.

While gulping down the water, you glance to your side, only to meet eyes to eyes with Shousuke. Making you almost choke on the water that you are drinking.

"How did you know where I live?"

"I don't know either! Shousuke was the one who leads us here!"

What?

"Eh?"

You turn to look at the boy beside you who is now looking at the floor of your bedroom, avoiding eye contact.

𝚂𝚄𝚂

Maybe he knew your location from the teacher?

Maybe.

Yeah, maybe.

Your mind suddenly jumps back to your previous dream.

Who is that boy?

Why can't you remember anything about that event?

.

Whatever.

Thinking about it too much makes your head hurt.

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Note ;

HUAAAAASBSHSW I DON'T LIKE THIS CHAPTER.

I feel so drained out because of school even though it just started two days ago and I feel like dying ToT