𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧' | ᴡɪɴᴅʙʀᴇᴀᴋᴇʀ

6

300 yen and a panda keychain

Sakura showed her his test paper with a proud look on his face. Mei's eyes widened a bit.

64/70?! That's a huge leap!

Mei clears her throat when she tried to hide how impressed she was. Certainly it was better than the grade he got before. She managed to give him a tiny smile with no mockery in it.

"I'm impressed, but why exactly did you fail earlier? It seems like it was easy for you to get a good mark." Mei asked. Sakura turns his head away.

"I was...preoccupied." He admits without looking at her directly. Mei was still about to ask him something, but then he took something from his bag and quickly handed it to her before he left.

Sakura turns away, and waved. "Thanks."

Mei was left there with a brown paper bag with a cute bear logo. She opened it and saw 300 yen...and a cute panda phone charm. She felt her cheeks flush red when she closed the bag, but then opens it again to look at the cute gift.

It wasn't much, but Mei will surely treasure it every single day.

Sakura shoved his hands to his pockets as he walked down the road, his mind began to once again revisit the other days' conversation with Mei. He couldn't get his mind off it.

Up until now, he was still thinking about what she said the other day, when she talked about really happened between her and Toman.

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lashback
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"You're being manipulated." Mei spoke sternly as she stood behind the blonde male with a Toman uniform slung onto his shoulders. Mikey didn't utter a word.

She already felt something was wrong  the moment she saw the look on that Kisaki's face. Mei didn't trust him. And she didn't know what the hell he did to get Mikey to give him a position in Toman.

Mikey remained his back turned against her, he still didn't say anything.

It was just the two of them left in the shrine, everyone else had went home since it was getting late. But Mei took this opportunity to try and talk to Mikey, considering Takemitchy had also tried to talk to him but he didn't listen at all.

"I don't know it yet but something is up with that guy. He's affiliated with another gang and-"

"I want you to leave." He suddenly spoke. Mei felt her heart stop for a moment. She was so confused that she couldn't get her self to talk for a whole minute.

"Excuse me?" She wanted to laugh. Mei didn't know if it was just another one of Mikey's sick jokes but it sure as hell isn't funny.

Mikey finally stood and got closer to her, that look on his face, it seemed like he was looking at some random stranger. He no longer recognized her.

"When were you gonna tell me huh?"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Mei tries to remain calm.

"You're laundering money using our name! You really think I won't find out?!" He yells angrily at her. She'd never seen this side of him before.