I tried texting Yuri all weekend, but she never responded.
I decided to try again before the festival.
"hey"
...
"are you awake yet"
...
"cmon i know you dont sleep in this late"
...
"answer me? plz?"
...
I give up.
But just as I set my phone down, I receive a message from an unknown number.
"d2lsbCB5b3UgcHJvbWlzZSB0byBzcGVuZCB0aGUgbW9zdCB0aW1lIHdpdGggbWU/"
That's odd.
I wonder what that means.
Oh well.
I get up and leave the house.
I enter the school.
"Alright, it's festival time!"
I see Ive staring up at me with fear in his eyes.
"Wow, you got here before me? I thought I was pretty ea--"
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"EYAH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!"
What the hell...?
What the hell??
Is this a nightmare?
It...has to be.
This isn't real.
There's no way this can be real.
Yuri wouldn't do this.
Everything was normal up until a few days ago.
That's why I can't believe what my eyes are showing me...!
I immediately begin to vomit, running out of the clubroom.
Just last week, on Friday...
I told Yuri I would be there for her.
Then why...?
Why would she do this...?
How could I be so helpless?
What did I do wrong?
Ive.
If I had pushed him out of the club from the beginning...
None of this would have happened.
Yuri would remain my girlfriend.
She would still be alive!
This is my fault--!
My swarming thoughts keep telling me everything I could have done to prevent this.
If I just spent more time with her.
Walked her to school.
And read with her instead of that monster...
...Then I could have prevented this.
I know I could have prevented this!
Screw the Literature Club.
Screw the festival.
I just...lost my girlfriend.
Someone I trusted more than anyone else in the world.
She's gone forever now.
Nothing I do can bring her back.
This isn't some story where I can go back and rewrite the ending.
I had only one chance, and I wasn't careful enough.
And now I'll carry this guilt with me until I die.
Nothing in my life is worth more than hers...
But I still couldn't do what she needed from me.
And now...
I can never take it back.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never...
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Strawberry (A Natsuri Fanfiction)
RomanceYuri Yoshika and Natsuki Muramoto have been best friends for ages. After a while, they slowly begin to fall in love. What happens when they finally express their feelings?
