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Chapter 38: Your Eyes on Me! -Reunion-

An eyesore.

That was what Kyouhei had called me.

It was supposed to be peaceful. Konoha was supposed to invite Kyouhei to the classroom after school for a farewell. I knew Kyouhei hated the crowed so it was just between the four of us.

Yet, when I reached to where Konoha and Kyouhei were, I saw Konoha already holding Kyouhei by the collar.

Kyouhei was angry. I could tell from his eyes. He was genuinely angry. But it was impossible for him to be angry at the invitation. It just does not make any sense if he does. Something must have done it to him earlier! But what-

"Hikari-chan, please come to the classroom after school!"

"Huh? For what?"

"Well that's a secret~ But please come~"

"Uh... sure! Although I have to meet Kyou-kun after this for awhile but okay, I'll come!"

"Yes! Thanks! You won't regret it! I am sure of it!"

Don't tell me! Hikari? Was Hikari the source?! Is she the source of his anger? The one person in this world that Kyouhei had never went against before made him THIS angry?!

It was foolish of me.

Now... now is..

Instead of trying to ask him what was wrong. Instead of trying to understand him...

Now's my chance! Now's my chance to confess my feelings! Right now, there must be a huge gap between Hikari and Kyouhei! The one person that I know never seems to hurt him had hurt him! Surely he must be hurt!

I took it as a chance. A chance for something so foolish. So very foolish...

So I will confess! I'll promise him that I would never hurt him! I'll promise that I will continue to love him and to always be by his side! Surely it... Surely!

It will work!

I was even more foolish to thought of that. I had taken the advantage that was not even an advantage in the first place.

In the end, it brought to my own failure.

"Sorry but I don't date an eyesore."

Huh?

An...

An eyesore...? Me? An eyesore?

Too surprised to react to anything, the moment I saw Konoha starting to chase after Kyouhei, I reached out to him and hugged him with all my might.

In one part, it would look like I waa saving Konoha from doing something terrible. But I was truly in need of immediate of comfort. I need someone to cling to.

The fact that I made such an error in my actions, the fact that I took Kyouhei's and Hikari's turmoil with each other as an advantage, the fact that I was harshly rejected, the fact that I was merely an eyesore to the one that I love.... it hit me hard.

It hit me too hard to the point that I completely blocked out everything from the world outside my own. Outside my breaking world.

"Have you calmed down a bit."

Setting down the hot cup of chocolate milk down, Konoha sat beside me as he switched on the television. It was a displaying a programme on a live concert going on somewhere far from this neighbourhood.

I could feel that the silence that was envoloping the two of us was kind of awkward for Konoha as he was starting to shift around.

Breathing in, I started talking.