𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐂𝐫𝐲 [ᴄʜɪꜰᴜʏᴜ x ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ]

XII

Reflections
The Neighbourhood
00:59 ━━━⬤──────── 04:04

"I guess I had to say goodbye eventually to our silly little puppy love, but ouch. That hurts, [Y/n]."

Those words. Those god-forsaken words that he let linger in her head made her want to bust her eardrums just so she wouldn't hear his voice ever again.

To think that she used to like him. Him of all people.

That idea was not so surprising. [Y/n] fell for people too hastily, not giving her heart a chance to beat for the right person — but... Kojiro changed. Her heart did beat for him before.

Key word; before.

Now all she could see in the reflection of his eyes were pure broken shards of a mirror... Not herself.
Not anymore.

She wasn't the one to lose feelings for him first, he was the one who did.
And it broke her fragile heart to a thousand little pieces, barely picking them back up when she found her infatuation in Chifuyu.

Honest, loyal, calm, logical and considerate. What [Y/n] could conclude from spending all these past months with Chifuyu is that he was everything that Kojiro wasn't.

Seeing that Kojiro went right back to where he was, aiming the bat at Ryusei, the [h/c] haired girl's stomach twinged and she stared with wide pupils, some of her hair covering one of those eyes.
"I'm sorry, Ryusei." Kojiro swung that bat and whacked Ryusei's shoulder, making the boy let out a loud groan in pain.

"As your close friend, I can't allow you to get all lost and confused like this." Those dark circles under Hishi's eyes darkened, making his eyes look dazzling with that iron grip on the baseball bat.

Thwack after thwack, Kojiro was ongoingly striking that bat across Ryusei's face until he was dripping with blood, his lips parted.

Chifuyu was constantly yelling out curses for Kojiro to stop but nothing could make him budge.
Eventually, he had to get to the source itself so he gritted his teeth and his muscles tightened. "Hey!! Ryusei, what the hell are you playing at?! Wake up! You don't have the balls to let a guy like that play with you like this..."

"Shut.. up." Ryusei huffed through his peripheral vision and became hazy. As a matter of fact, he looked like he was about to faint any second. It infuriated [Y/n], she couldn't see her brother like this and she knew damn well that her word wouldn't do anything to stop Kojiro.
"..This is... A problem between him.... and me... You stay out of it."

"Goddamn it, Ryu, We talked about this! For heaven's sake, you can't be still hung up on this mindless 'problem'!... Seriously—"

"Be quiet, [n/n]!"
The brother snapped, raising his voice, compelling her to draw her lower lip between her teeth and let the tears sting at the corners of her prim eyes.
"Nothing. You know nothing..."