Wait For Me 🎈🌟

Chapter Eight ~ Fragile Heart

Rui's POV:

I walked to school on Monday with Nene again, and she wasn't talking to me until I started to tell her about Tsukasa.

🎈: "He has BPD...he's not that bad, he just needs patience."

🤖: "And he's going to break your heart. It's only the second week of school and you think that he's changed? The second he does something, or you do something, your little world is going to crumble."

I bit my lip and looked away from her. Maybe she was right. He's definitely changing, but I'm not. I smiled with him around, yes, but I don't feel like I've found what I wanted...

I need more to get rid of this dark smoke around my thoughts.

🎈: "You're probably right, but it's not just him. I'm also not right mentally..."

Nene shot me a confused look. She knew that I was autistic and about all of my other problems...but she was very set in the idea that Tsukasa was the problem.

🤖: "You're better than he is, definitely. He can't even regulate his emotions anymore, but you can. Even if you're unstable...he's worse."

🎈: "I disagree. If he does one thing to hurt me, I might hurt him even worse...I'm bad at knowing how to handle people..."

Nene sighed, and waved a hand dismissedly.

🤖: "I don't get paid to be your therapist. But I'll listen if he hurts you again."

🎈: "That's rude...you're my friend, you should be able to help me with something like this."

🤖: "Maybe...but I think this needs more than my poor judgment."

...

School wasn't anything special, besides at lunch I continued my chatting about my robot with Tsukasa and Emu, until Nene showed up. Nene made me stop, saying that "I'll talk her ears off". Meanie :(

🌟: "Well, the drama club auditions are today."

🍬: "Oh, yeah! Tsukasa-kun has been hoping for the lead!"

I smiled at that softly, looking down at my lunch. I picked apart most of it, just eating the fruits and meats...avoiding vegetables is my talent.

🤖: "Oh? I'll be surprised if he does..."

🌟: "Hey! I practiced so much for this!"

As my friends kept bickering, I couldn't help but feel so happy. My life was finally coming together. I had a lovely boyfriend, my best friend, and a new friend who happily listened to all of my rants.

Everything was getting better.

Tsukasa's POV:

I gave my audition everything I had, my heart and my soul. And when it was over, I felt so proud of myself. I've come so far. I made up the whole Rui situation, I can get the lead role in the school play, and I've made more friends.

But during one of other auditions, the lights suddenly malfunctioned and began blinking. Rui seemed pretty worried about it, saying that they could heat up and burn out if they kept it up, and that might ruin the play...so the stage crew began trying to fix it.

I just went on stage where Emu was watching them try to fix the problem.

🌟: "Did they find the problem?"

🍬: "They think that it's something to do with all of the connections to other lights that got messed up, so they are trying to find the issue. I think it's this one, here..."