Wait For Me 🎈🌟

Chapter Five ~ Pinky and the Brain

Rui's POV:

It's Thursday now, and it's almost painful how slow the week is going by. As I leave my house, shutting the door after me, I'm jump-scared by my neighbor, Nene Kusanagi.

🎈: "Ah! Nene?"

She rolls her eyes at me, and turns to start walking. She hadn't asked to walk to school with me all week...so this was new.

🤖: "We need to talk."

I gulped and began to walk after her. What was this about? I hadn't left a confetti bomb in her room in nearly a year!

And I caught up to her, she began speaking.

🤖: "I heard about what happened yesterday. Why are you speaking to Tenma?"

I looked away from Nene for a second to think about that. Why was I talking to him? Well...I love him. That's why. I want to get closer to him a let him fall for me as well.

But if I told Nene that she would laugh in my face and tell me the obvious;

Tsukasa is way out of my league.

🎈: "Well...I want to make amends."

She gave me a look, like she was concerned for me. Nene has always been worried for me like that...and I appreciate it.

🤖: "Rui...he ruined your life."

She was right. Tsukasa was the reason that those bullies were picking on me anyways. If he hadn't gotten the whole school against me those two would probably have never known I existed.

But Tsukasa was different than anyone else. He wasn't just ruining my life and then ignoring me, like it originally seemed he was going...but he was trying to fix it. He got those homophobes off my back, he stopped giving me glares in the halls, and he even talks to me willingly! He may have ruined my life, but he was trying to fix his mistake.

🎈: "He's changing...and I want to give him a chance to learn. I'm surprised that he's even attempting to change, and halting his efforts might make him go back to harassing me."

Nene crossed her arms over her chest as she gave me a hurt look. The soft patter of our footsteps was the only sound for a second.

🤖: "He's changing?!? Rui, he's made you cut yourself into the hospital. He's made you make three suicide notes. He's made you attempt to kill yourself! You're delusional if you think that boy is changing.

As Nene brought all those things up, my heart sunk. Everything she said was true...but I still can't shake my love for Tsukasa. Tsukasa destroyed my will to live in the past, but in the present, he was my new will to live.

🎈: "No one changes if the people they hurt don't forgive them. I'm probably delusional, but Nene I love him..."

She stopped dead in her tracks, staring at me with wide eyes.

🤖: "Tell me you're joking right now."

🎈: "...I'm not..."

Nene took another second stare at me, before she stormed off, giving me the silent treatment. I knew she was just trying to make me realize that Tsukasa was a horrible person. Key word "was". Tsukasa was different. And if I told him all those things that his bullying lead to, he would probably cry and beg for forgiveness.

🎈: "Nene...please don't be like this!"

I raced after her, grabbing her shoulder and forcing her to look at me. She gave me an angry smack on the hand, but it didn't hurt much.