𝕄𝕠𝕕𝕖𝕝 ~ 𝕂𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕤𝕒𝕥𝕠 𝔸𝕪𝕒𝕥𝕠 𝕩 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕣 [𝕄𝕆𝔻𝔼ℝℕ 𝔸𝕌]

[23] Comforting Boba

(A/N! thank you for all the suggestions! A lot of you suggested Scaramouche, but I don't really want to add a new character this far into the book, but since so many of you wanted to see him I decided to start a new book about Scaramouche!)

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You recognized the voice immediately. It was Ayato.

You turned around about to leave to find somewhere else to spend the night. You didn't want to see him right now and wanted to escape his sight immediately. Before you had the chance to leave, Ayato grabbed onto your wrist. 

"Y/n wait," Ayato said in a soft tone. 

"Look, I get you here to explain the situation with Yae...your ex or whatever, but I'm not interested in hearing about your relationship issues." You told him. 

Ayato wouldn't let go of your wrist, "and I'm here to explain that I have never dated Yae in the first place."

You rolled your eyes, "yeah, right, how am I supposed to believe that? Yae was talking about a date that you guys went on..."

"And you believe her over your own boyfriend?" Ayato sighed, "she can call it a date all she wants, but I only invited her to the mall to help look for a gift for you. I never go shopping, let alone go shopping for someone else. So I decided to ask Yae because we were old friends." 

Finally, Ayato let go of your wrist, expecting you to stick around and talk a bit longer. 

"So she wasn't your ex?" you questioned. 

The blue-haired boy shook his head. "no, we were never in a relationship. We used to be close friends, though, but we had some complications in our friendship that drifted us apart." 

Before you had a chance to respond, Ayato pulled you into a tight embrace. You held back your tears as you didn't want to cry anymore today. There were still a lot of missing pieces with Ayato and Yae, but the fact that there wasn't any cheating involved made you feel so relieved. 

"Ayato," you muttered, hugging him back. 

He pulled back from the hug when you said, "what do I do." 

"What do you mean?" he asked.

Before answering you closed the door to your apartment and walked over to the living room to take a seat on your couch. Ayato sat beside you waiting for you to respond.

You took a deep breath, "Yoimiya hates me, hates us," you corrected. 

Ayato gave a surprised expression, he wanted to hug you again, but he seemed unsure if it was a good idea.

"After running out of the hospital I went to Yoimiya's house... she kept telling me to leave. Sara was there too. I can't believe she was hanging out with Sara of all people. She use to bully me every day in school. Now Yoimiya ditched me for that bully!" you explained with uncontrollable tears streaming down your face. 

Ayato was unfamiliar with Sara bullying you, it's something you never bothered mentioning. Especially since she stopped bullying you shortly after the Kamisato siblings attended your school. 

You expected Ayato to pull you into another hug, but instead, he got up from the couch. He walked into the kitchen and opened the fridge to pull out two cups of boba tea. He walked back over and handed one to you. 

"I'm sure you haven't eaten or drunk anything since running away from the hospital, so drink this, it might even help calm you down." Ayato insisted while handing you one of the cups of boba. 

You didn't respond with a thank you, instead, you began slurping the boba down. You didn't realize how hungry you were since you took a sip of the drink. You had been too focused on other problems to realize you were hungry. You began sipping the boba very quickly, you forgot to chew the boba pearls. 

Ayato looked intrigued, "slow down you might--"

...Choke

Before Ayato had a chance to finish warning you, you began to grasp for air as you choked on some boba pearls. Ayato panicked and was preparing to do something to help, but before he could, the pearls that were caught in your throat moved down. 

He sighed with relief, "what I was going to say was to slow down or you might choke, but I guess you had to figure out the hard way." he said, "are you okay?"

You nodded before taking another sip of the boba. 

Despite everything that just happened today, the boba was very comforting. It helped clear up your head a bit. Everything suddenly felt a lot less overwhelming. 

"Thank you for stopping by..." you muttered then realized something, "how long have you been here?"

Ayato scratched the back of his head, "I looked all over town for you, but once we couldn't find you I figured I should just stay here. I knew you'd come back to your apartment eventually. The others were with me, but it was getting late so I told them to go home." 

"Oh, you didn't need to wait all that time, besides... I wasn't sure if I would come back myself anyway," you said quietly. 

"Where did you go?" Ayato asked.

"To the park in the middle of town, but I ran somewhat deep into the woods and curled up by a tree. I wasn't sure how long I was there, but at least several hours. I didn't really want to leave, but I didn't want to fall victim to another obsessive stalker." 

"Speaking of that, how are your wounds feeling?"

"A little sore, but that's because you hugged me a little too tight." 

"I'm sorry I forgot--"

"Don't worry about it, I have bigger things to worry about..." you sighed, thinking back to your encounter with Yoimiya earlier. 

"How about you worry about these things tomorrow?" Ayato suggested, "I'm sure you're tired, so why not get some rest? We can figure this out tomorrow, together." 

You were about to take another sip of your boba until you realized it was empty, "I don't know if I'll be able to fall asleep, but I can try." 

"I can stay here with you if that helps." 

You blushed a bit then hesitantly nodded. You were so glad things were cleared up between you and Ayato. 

The two of you got ready for bed, but no matter how hard you tried you couldn't clear your head from Yoimiya. That made it impossible for you to fall asleep. After a couple of hours of trying to fall asleep, you left your bedroom trying not to wake Ayato. You stepped outside of your apartment for some fresh air. 

I hope I don't lose Yoimiya...

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