"Would you stop that?" Sana turns to me, half angry and half annoyed.
"Stop what? I'm not even doing anything?" I put my phone down, smiling.
"You are Mitang." She says pointedly, crossing her arms. God would she just stop calling me that? I..can only handle so much?
"Tell me what it is then?" I challenge her, taking a step inside her personal bubble.
"Those photos. I know they came out bad, so delete them." She huffs, puffing her cheeks out. And if it was anyone else who did that I would have been annoyed, probably outright cringed, but it's Sana and the universe knows how weak I am when it comes to her.
"I won't delete them, besides you don't look ugly in them." I reassure her, because really she should know by now that I'll only ever find her breathtakingly beautiful.
"Let me see then?" Sana closes the distance between us and I feel my knees weaken at how close she is to me, her soft light jasmine scent engulfs me making my entire being relax. Can I stay here forever?
"Nope." I pull my hand away before she can grab my phone, "Ahhh~ Mitang~~" she whines like a child and I almost cave. Almost.
"I won't let you delete these. They're precious." I say and my honesty must have shocked her because her eyes widened ever so slightly.
"Mina." She calls me by my name and I know that I crossed that line again.
"I'm sorry...I..I'll get rid of them." I clench my fist.
"It's fine." Sana sighs, looking around the empty streets of Tokyo, trying to avoid looking at me.
"Sa..."
"Babe!" A voice calls out to Sana and I straighten up, taking a few steps away from her, back to my rightful place.
"There you two are! We've all been looking for you." Momo smiles at us, her hand automatically finding Sana's, "You guys good to go?"
"Yeah we're good. Right Mitang?" Sana looks at me, her eyes pleading and I swallow, "Yeah.."
I follow the two back, with Sana glancing back at me every now and then, checking to see if I'm still here and really I wish she'd stop that too.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5" I count and when they make the right turn going towards the hotel, I stop. Counting down from 10, because before whenever I disappeared, she would always come back to find me...but now..
"5,4,3,2..." I pause hoping that things really haven't changed, "1, 0." But once again I'm proven wrong. And just like that damn Ed Sheeran song..everything has changed...everything but my love for her.
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"Mitang, jeez where were you?" Sana runs back to Mina, who was distracted by the single flower growing by the sidewalk.
"Oh..I was just admiring this flower." Mina smiles at her best friend.
"The only flower you should be admiring is right here." Sana points to herself causing the 13 year old Mina to laugh out loud.
"Stop being silly, Satang." Mina laughs.
"Are you saying I'm not as pretty as that flower?"
"No, but you shouldn't compare yourself to this flower."
"Why?"
"Because...there's a lot of flowers out there, but there's only one Minatozaki Sana in this world." Mina replies nonchalantly.
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"10, 9.."
"Mina hurry up!" Sana runs back to Mina right when she started her countdown.
