Sekai Romantica: After Story

All friends now

Misaki POV
I am so glad that we are all friends now. It will take me some time to trust Takano, but other than that, I am so happy. Me and Onodera are going to be best friends. I can see it now. We had similar thoughts when our lovers were... yeah.

"So, I think all four of us can agree that we are never ever going to go drinking together again." Said Onodera. The other 3 of us nodded our heads. Then suddenly Onodera looked at me. He started walking towards me.

"I'm curious, Misaki. What was your thoughts during that whole thing?" Asked Onodera. All 3 of them suddenly looked at me. I blushed with embarassment.

"W-well... i.... um." I began. I had to look away from Usagi and Takano. I looked directly at Onodera.

"I felt extremely lonely at Takahiros house, my older brother, and I was second guessing myself about basically everything. You?" I said. Onodera put his hand over my shoulder.

"Yeah that makes sense. I felt all of those things and probably amplified by like 10%. I mean, think about it. I saw them doing that like 3x." Said Onodera. He was totally ignoring our two seme lovers completely. I decided to play along.

"Yeah, but I saw them doing that at the very beginning." I replied. He squeezed me closer.

"Yeah, I guess that was pretty horrid for both of us." Said Onodera. I cleared my throat.

"Yeah. I am never going to forget that." I confessed. He exhaled.

"Me neither." Confessed Onodera.

"You forgave me pretty fast though." Said Usagi to me.

"Yeah. That's because I got lonely without you. And it took me a little while after that to forgive you. I knew I would back up into a corner with my thoughts if I continue being alone. Probably too far." I confessed to Usagi. "Too far" as in probably attempt suicide. I was not going to tell him that though. He must have realized though because Usagi looked at me wide eyed before giving me his famous bear hugs.

"I'm an asshole." Said Usagi. You kind of are.

"You kind of are." Said Onodera. I laughed out loud cause we were thinking the same thing. All 3 of them were looking at me like I was crazy. I stopped laughing. I itched the back of my neck nervously.

"I have a question~ ok, whatever, you did it to him when you were drunk because you were drunk, but why did you keep going?" Asked Onodera. Usagi looked away from all of us.

Seeing that he wasn't going to say anything, I answered for him. "He thought it was easier to keep doing it than to make me forgive him." I kept my eyes on Usagi the whole time.

"And yet you did both. I gotta say though, Misaki. You must really love him if you forgave him." Said Takano. All 3 of us looked at him, shocked that he spoke.

"What? A man can't talk?" Said Takano, defensively.

"Of course you can. We were just surprised that you started talking since you haven't yet. And to answer your question: I forgave him because he repeatedly shows me he loves me. And plus, I would have left by now before all of this happened if I hadn't loved him. He gave me plenty of opportunities." I replied. Onodera and Takano nodded. Onodera looked at Takano. Usagi looked happy at first, but by the end, he was looking at me like I actually might leave him.

"I feel the same way. That was part of the reason why I forgave Takano, too. And your also right when you said that I would be long gone by this point if I didn't love him. It would be very easy, too. I would simply quit the job, and move, and goodbye Takano. I told myself that countless times, but I ended up staying no matter how many times I said it because I truly do love him. And I wouldn't have forgaven him if he didn't have that much of a pained face. And I owe a huge amount of it to Yokozawa, Takanos friend. I mean, earlier on, he did keep me from realizing my true feelings, but now he pushed me into confessioning. Not literally, but he aired out some of those nasty thoughts." Said Onodera. Takano nodded, and then grabbed Onoderas hand. Usagi grabbed my hand. All 4 of us were just smiling and thinking about our lovers.

"I guess the whole situation brought both couples closer." Said Usagi.

"We don't want to hear that out of your mouth." The 3 of us said to Usagi. Then, all 3 of us started laughing because of the fact we all said said it at the same time.

We were standing in silence until Onodera said, "I love you, Masamune." Takano smiled at the fact Onodera used his first name. He squeezed Onoderas hand.

"I love you too, Ritsu." Said Takano. Onodera squeezed his hand tighter. I looked up at Usagi.

"I love you, Akihiko." I said to my big lover. He squeezed my hand, and looked down at me lovingly.

"I love you too, Misaki." Said Usagi.

"Hmm, that didn't sound that special." I said, acting sad. We all started laughing. Then, Usagi kissed me, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw that Takano and Onodera did the same.