Behind A Smile

The Sad Culture Festival

Behind A Smile

Chapter 5

The Sad Culture Festival

*Mikori*

The culture festival, one of the most important day for all of the students in my school. The culture festival will be held untill the day after tomorrow.

Our literature club have 90 copies of our anthology. We are doing fine on our first day, on our second day, Ooji and Mira are fighting, and then they didn't want to help us to sell all of the copies. Then at the last day of the culture festival, we're almost running out of our anthology's copies, we've sold 80 copies.
Hiro and I are the one who are going to sell the rest of the copies

"Mikori, want to take a break?"
"yeah"
"Let's go" he said while holding my hands
'So warm'
"Huh? What is it?"
"No-no nothing"

We walked to the rooftop together, the sky looked so pretty, it's a beautiful autumn sky.

"so beautiful"
"Yeah it is, but you are more beautiful"
"..." i blushed
"Hehe, you look so cute" he said while holding my hand
"Oh hey Mikori, tonight, want to go dance near the bonfire tonight?"
"Eh?"
"If you don't want to just say it clearly, it's not like i want to dance with you or anything you know"
"I .. i want to"
"eh? SERIOUSLY?"
"Um yeah"
"Then wait for me in front of the club room, i'll go to the club room now , see ya"

*Hiro*

i can't wait, i want to dance with her, actually there is a rumour said if you dance with your lover near the bonfire in the culture festival at 12 a.m , your love will be eternal.

I want to have an eternal love with her, i love Mikori very much, i even prepared a ring for her

I hope she'll like it

At 10 p.m

it almost 12 a.m, i must finish my work fast.
suddenly someone came to the room
It's Fusaki, my ex girlfriend

"Hiro, mind it if i buy one of these?"
"I don't mind, it's 100 yen"
"Here it is, actually, want to dance together later?"
"No"
"If you don't want to-"

*Mikori*

It's already 11.30, i should go to the club room
I walked while thinking what might happen next
I laughed everytime i think of Hiro's face

When i opened the door, i saw Hiro's kissing with another girl, i believe it's his ex-girlfriend

"H-Hiro?" He stared at me for a moment
"M-Mikori?"
"... am i interrupting you two?"
"Of course!" His ex said to me and continues their kiss
".. sorry, i'll leave now" i said while running away from them. And i turned back to see if Hiro ran over me or not

There is no one there

It's the truth, i've to accept it, he never loves me, he is kind to me because i'm his fake girlfriend and i know it.
So why ..
Why am i sad..
Am i in love with him?
i cried in the corridor, i don't want anybody to see my condition

And one of the club member saw me.
It's Ooji

Ooji ran towards me, he looks worried, i almost ran out of my energy, i almost fainted. He carries me to the nursery.

"Hanaki what happened?"
"Nothing"
"Don't lie to me, just say it."
"Nothing, don't ask me"
"Is it Hiro?"
I kept silent when i heard that name, the name of the person that i love
" you know what. I don't know why even he hurts me all the time, even if he hates me now, i can't stop loving him. Just why ...." i cried and Ooji hugs me
"It's okay, don't worry, i'm sure Hiro has his own reason to hurt you like this. Afterall, Hiro's not the type of person that would like to see his loved ones getting hurts by his action" he said
"but .. he doesn't love me from the first, we are just fake couple"
"Huh? I thought that the two of you are not fake couple"
"..." i stared at his back .. in front of the door there is Mira who's shocked when she saw us ..

"M-Mira?"
"That's your realitonship huh? so the reason you reject me is because of Mikori ? .. i thought that you are my friend Mikori, you steal my crush, i don't want to talk to you anymore, sorry to interrupt you two" she said while running away , Ooji then ran over her

I am alone now. Alone in this room, crying alone, i don't have anyone who would like to cheer me up now, even my bestfriend isn't worried about me.

Am i that bad so everyone could leave me so easily?

I just want to be loved by the people i love. Is that hard?

The culture festival ends, i went back to my house and go to sleep immediately
I heard Hiro knocks my door for some time, but i don't want to open my door, i kept crying over the night, and become restless.

The next day i can't go to the school with my condition. I slept from morning to afternoon.

When i woke up i remembered all of the tragedies that happened yesterday. I cried again.

'I don't want to be alone .. so please don't leave me.. my important friends.. they are leaving me right now'

'If only i could trade all of my tomorrow for a single yesterday'

To be continued..

Sorry for the bad story, i don't have any ideas for this story, i only write it based on my imagination.
I'm going to end this story on the next chapter

Thank you and happy reading! ^^