Chapter 18: Rumors and Confessions

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"I loved you before I was born. It doesn't make sense, I know. I saw your eyes before I had eyes to see. And I have lived longing for you ever since. That longing entered time as my body. It grew as my body waxed and waned. I know the longing will outlive this body. And when you asked me for how long I have been in love with you, I realized that I didn't know the answer. After all those years I just stopped counting, because my love for you seems timeless. I have loved you all my life. Even before we met. Part of it wasn't even you. It was just a promise of you. It feels like I have waited my whole life for this exact moment I didn't know I was before, but I know it now; I was waiting to meet you, to know you, and to fall in love with you. I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything; maybe we're from the same star. I want to love you wildly. I want to love you against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragements that could be. In the future, if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again, fall in love with me..."

- Keisuke Baji




Nana's POV (14th January 2006)

It had been only four days since the 27-year-old adult Takemichi went back to the future after completing his mission and almost ten days since Kisaki and Hanma were kicked out of Toman. Now with those two out of the way, to me, life came back to normal. There was no stress, no burden. After New Year's, Mitsuya and I went back to school again and were getting ready for our middle school graduation which was going to happen this upcoming spring in April. Others like Keisuke, Chifuyu, Hakkai, and Emma were about to advance from 2nd year to their 3rd/final year in middle school. Manjiro and Draken were also about to graduate from middle school, but they weren't exactly thinking of attending high school, unlike Mitsuya and me.

And in school, where it was just only two months left before my middle school graduation, student life suddenly became hectic as hell - from final exams and high school admission tests to taking preparation for the graduation ceremony and everything, I never found myself so busy and concerned in life.

"Graduation is coming up soon... Any plans and ideas about which high school you guys wanna go to?" a brunette girl beside me spoke up as we were eating our lunch at the cafeteria; her name was Kyoko Hori. 

Kyoko was this tall, slim girl, known to be cute and pretty by most of our classmates with mid-back length chestnut-brown hair with bangs swept to the right side and possessed golden-brown eyes

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Kyoko was this tall, slim girl, known to be cute and pretty by most of our classmates with mid-back length chestnut-brown hair with bangs swept to the right side and possessed golden-brown eyes. She was normally a very energetic and popular person who always created a happy atmosphere around herself and was a hard worker in all aspects of her life. Although when nervous or embarrassed, she tended to switch to a violent state. She was also known to be the very jealous type when at times girls flirted with her boyfriend, Izumi Miyamura, to the point where we started calling her the "Ice Queen" or the "Goddess of Jealousy". 

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