// • BABY BLUE LOVE • // TASTE OF LOVE

// Minori Hayashi : ORIGIN //

MA BOY
Is it that hard to say I love you? It's just one phrase.
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One year before

"Why do you bother watching the replays of the fight?" He asked and sighed as I watched the newest hero vs villain fight.

"I just wanted to get an idea of how it would be!" I answer confidently.

Kenji slumps his back on my couch and rolls his eyes.

"I already told you. There no way YOU can be a hero." He laughs.

"Sure, you've got a quirk, but the actual talent? You could NEVER. Just give up." He says.

A lot of my friends used to ask me why I stayed with him even though he said all those mean things. But he wasn't always like this. In the beginning of our relationship, he was sweet, nice and supportive.

I think maybe part of me still thinks there's that good character in him, despite him always putting me down.

"I know but-" I stop myself from continuing my words. There's no point. This always ends in a fight.

"You're right. Never mind." I say giving in. I change the channel and put something else I thought he would like to watch.

I sat next to him watching him as he laughed from hearing another joke from another.

I love seeing him smile...even though he almost never smiles at me anymore.

I approach my hand closer to his hoping he would hold it.

"What are you doing?" He asks. I flinch nervously. "N-nothing..." I answer sheepishly.

We go back to watching TV in silence.

I couldn't help wonder how things got this way. How things changed as much as it did. He doesn't hug me anymore, he doesn't hold my hand.

He doesn't even answer my texts but he's active on all group chats.

I just don't know what to do.

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At school

"Minori !!" I turn to see my friend calling me. "Hey!" I say enthusiastically. She hugs me tightly.

"Don't hate me, okay!" She says, still hugging me. "Why would I hate you silly?" I giggle.

"Well..." she fiddles with her fingers unable to look at me in the face anymore.

After being her friend ever since middle school I know what she's going to tell me is nothing good. She acted the same way when she broke my favorite pen, used me as an excuse and lost my book.

I was expecting something bad but nothing was going to amount to what she just told me.

"I...kissed Kenji." She said.

I dropped the books I had in my hand and I could already feel the tears coming.

"You...what?" My voice cracked saying those words.

I'm shaking nonstop.

"It meant nothing! It kind of just happened..." she said.

Well, she's my friend and I don't think she's a liar. Maybe the kiss really was...nothing?

"It's okay..." I say sniffing my nose.

I walk away quickly trying to find Kenji.

Once I do I see him talking with his friends by the window.