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

Chapter 7 (wtf am i doing with my life)

(Toya pov)

(Wednesday, kamiyama highschool, one week after they all went for breakfast)

Akito hasn't spoken to me since last Saturday.

Thats odd. He usually sends me like 10 daily texts and freaks out when i don't reply.

Is he mad at me? Why would he be??

I tried asking Rui-senpai for advice but we couldn't figure out why he seemed upset...

I tried talking to him but his responses were very confusing, he just kept replying with stuff like "well what do you think?" "What do you think i would be upset about??".

I thought maybe something happened at home but he never answered...

Its true that we had distanced lately... but it makes no sense as to why he would just randomly start ghosting me.

I don't remember saying anything that could possibly upset him... only thing that has changed between us is that I haven't been able to hang out as often as we used to...

But I don't think im ready to tell him why I haven't been able to hang around as often... its too soon for me to tell anyone...

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(Akito pov)

Its been a week already since that very awkward breakfast...

No matter what happened I just couldn't bring myself to talk to toya after that...

He seems very happy hanging out with his new best friend, so why would he need me anyways??

Plus i bet his horrible excuse of a father likes that idiot better than he likes me.

I didn't feel like seeing anyone today, so i went to the rooftop since anyone barely went up there.

But of course he just had to be there as well...

Tenma why? Why do you do this to me??

WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE ?!

He seemed to have noticed my presence by the way he turned his head to look back at me, he seemed tired and almost upset, he had also been coming to the rooftop way too often lately...

I wonder if something happened to him...

He was standing in front of the fence looking down at the field where the rest of the students usually were. He looked at me directly in the eyes without saying anything. His face was paler than usual and his eyes had bags under them, his expression remained unfazed and he didn't say anything, i had no idea why, but for some reason i just couldn't look away from him... almost like he was asking for help with his stare.

Tsukasa kept staring at me like he was about to say something but we both remained quiet in this strange staring contest we seemed to be in. Eventually he looked away from me and went back to whatever he seemed to be observing from up here, i took this as a sign to get closer and try to speak to him, after all it was just the two of us again.

"Hey"

He remained unfazed. He looked at me through the corner of his eye but it took a few moments until he finally replied.

"Hi..."

There was some clear awkward tension between the two of us, usually by now he would have said something to either annoy me or drag attention towards him, it felt weird to see him like this but somehow it also felt... somewhat calming..?

"Are... you okay...?", i tried asking. None of this was our normal behavior, usually by now he would have already cracked some weird ass comment on how amazing he is or some judgemental comment about me that would have been funny in other circumstances.