Out of all the stars in the sky, you still shine the brightest... (akikasa)

chapter 2

(akito pov)

{One week ago}
"Who are you texting?", i asked toya, who seemed very focused on his conversation.

Toya blushed slightly and looked away, the embarrassment in his face was highly noticeable, it was useless for him to try and hide it.

"Ah, it's... Its just a friend of mine", he replied, brushing off the question like it was nothing.

"Lemme see that", i said just before snatching the phone out of his hands.
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Me: btw thanks for inviting me, i really enjoyed the performance :)

<3: no problem ☺️, thanks for coming it really meant a lot to me

Me: i had a lot of fun with you today, i hope we can get to hang out more often, if you want to of course

<3: i would love to, im looking forward to spending time with you again ❤️

Me: hehe im looking forward to it too ❤️❤️
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I looked at the phone in confusion, i had no idea who this "<3" person could be or why they were flirting with toya.

"Who the hell is this guy??", i asked, just before toya snatched the phone back.

"None of your business", he replied, before putting the phone away from me.

"I didn't know you had a girlfriend, you never told me"

Toya looked offended by my comment, apparently i said something i shouldn't have.

"Its not my 'girlfriend'... Its just a friend of mine, i already told you... Plus its not like you need to know everything about my life", his reply felt strangely cold, even for him.

I looked at the ground a bit offended by his cold response.

"well your girlfriend or not, whoever that was seemed very 'affectionate', i mean you two were even sending heart emojis and stuff"

"I can send heart emojis to whoever i want..." He mumbled under his breath, loud enough for me to hear.

"Sure whatever..."
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As i snapped back to reality i noticed all three of my singing partners looking at me like they were waiting for me to say something. I remembered what had just happened and to be honest my silence after such an intimate confession was very awkward. Toya tilted his head a little pointing at the two girls beside me, taking this as a hint to say something to them, i panicked a little since it was just now that i realized they had been staring at me zone out for a while now.

"A-ah, eh congrats i guess", i blurted out, immediately regretting my choice of words since it felt very insensitive towards them, even for me.

kohane awkwardly smiled at me as a sign that she got the intention but that i could have phrased that better, toya buried his face in his hands, clearly annoyed at my lack of tact and an just raised an eyebrow at me.

i really wanted the earth to swallow me and bury me 6 feet underground right now.

I had never been good at expressing myself or expressing feelings in general. i had been told i was insensitive and blunt many times before, and most of the time i didn't even mean it, stuff just turned out that way and my stupid ass ruined it as always.

I remained silent again. I wanted to disappear so badly right now, i knew i fucked up this time. An rolled her eyes and sighed, she seemed a little annoyed but used to it so she just stood up and dragged kohane along to do more cringy karaoke leaving me and toya alone on the table.

"Congrats i guess", repeated toya, that look on his face looking way too familiar to my liking.

"I-i panicked okay?!", i awkwardly blurted out, i felt my face burning as my cheeks turned bright red.

Toya sighed in annoyance, clearly this was not the first time he had to scold me for my stupidity.

I let my arms rest on the table before burying my head inside, i let out a long groan in both anger and embarrassment, i hated the fact that this had not been the first time i made things awkward because i couldn't handle the fact that I did not know how to react.

"Toya, why am i like this"
"Why cant i just be happy for them?????, why is it so damn hard for me to just say "congratulations" and be happy?"

Toya found this funny apparently.
He chuckled a little at my current state of distress, i was about to say something but a loud and horrible sound came from behind, we both looked back to see an loudly singing a love song to kohane, we were lucky that the café was closed to the public right now because that was just straight up horrible.

I looked at the time and noticed it was 8 pm already, i stood up and told toya i was going to be leaving now since it was late and we had school tomorrow, he found weird that i actually cared about school for once but the truth is i just wanted to leave.

I said goodbye to the others, who were so focused on their singing they barely noticed i was leaving.

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(Shinonome household, 8:23 pm)

After a while of walking i finally reached my house, the lights were on but nobody seemed to be downstairs. I figured my parents had gone out again, they've going out a lot lately.

When i walked towards my room i noticed ena's lights were on and the door was closed, meaning she was either drawing or doing homework, i thought of going and telling her i was home and maybe asking about where were our parents right now, but I remembered she gets all angry at just my sole existence so i left her alone and went straight to my room.

It wasn't until now when I realized how tired i was, I didn't even change clothes, i just straight up went to my bed and fell asleep in a matter of minutes.

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