NicoMaki: Jealousy

07 - Tears

NICO'S POV

"I gazed at the large dome overhead. The Tokyo Dome. The place where it will all end. An end...for all of us...for me...for Maki-chan. Just looking at it makes me sick. I just...I just could not accept...our concert...there. It will be there on that damn place that we will say goodbye. That we...u's...will have our last...our final...concert. Why...why can't I get over it!?

I thought I accepted it, I thought I was ready for it. No it seems. Thinking it will be our last performance...I...

"DO YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN, MAKI-CHAN!?"

I shouted those words to the girl behind me. The two of us, on top of this building overlooking the dome. Face to face. Just us.

The moment had come...for us to talk. A long talk.

"Let's end this...here and right now!", I shouted.

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6:05 PM

I waited for her to say something. Anything! .... ...

Maki-chan did not say a word. She just stood there making a sad face like she is about to cry. Hmph, I won't fall for it. I can't trust her anymore...can I?

"Tsk...How dare you!? You're doing it again, huh? Have nothing to say, huh?!"

She stayed silent. She's getting annoying. I want to hear her voice, damn it! I'll keep taunting her till she does something.

"Come on! Maki-chan say something! Don't tell me you're mute!"

Not enough. I have to taunt her even more...

"...Maki Maki Mute! Maki Maki Mute! MAKI MAKI MUUUTE!!"

I could not take anymore. I've been trying to stay silent all this time. I've been trying to accept her decision. But the part of me that doesn't want to hold back now wants to make a move.

"Maki Maki Mute! Maki Maki Mute! MAKI MAKI MUUUTE!!"

All I ever wanted was for her to say that she still loved me, or something to calm me down. After that...maybe...just maybe...I will accept what has happened between them. Then...boom.

She slapped me.

MAKI'S POV

I slapped her hard. She was going too far with her words...what have I done?

I did not want to slap her, but I did. She was just sooo annoying! I no longer had control of myself.

Then, Nico-chan said:

"I wanted to slap you hard in the face that day when we were about to practice, you knew it was coming didn't you?"

I knew Nico...but you didn't...

"But...I never slapped you at the time...do you know why?"

Nico...why...

"BECAUSE I STILL LOVE YOU MAKI-CHAN!! I AM STILL ABSOLUTELY AND MADLY IN LOVE WITH YOU, MAKI-CHAN!!!"

I lost it. When Nico-chan said that...I started crying. How embarassing. I came here with a poker face expression, planning to eat up my pride and tell her my feelings without any setback. I came here expecting to be the tsundere Nico wanted.

But this time...it wasn't me anymore. It was someone else. A different Maki Nishikino. A different side of me I never knew existed...

"That's why...sniff...why...sniff...what the heck is wrong with my heart!!"

I cried again as she said that. At this point I felt really guilty. I no longer acted like the tsundere I was. At this point, I acted like a little girl...weak...powerless...This feeling...is way too painful...