Just a Little While Longer || An anime love story

Chapter 19

No, no please! I begged inside my head. Yuki and Hana just chuckles and just as she's about to squeeze my foot to make me feel pain, I heard a familiar voice. "Let go, or we'll break you." Yui-senpai showed up with a serious mad face along with some other girls, some of them were my classmates, and some weren't, but I could tell that I knew them.

Hana and Yuki had a surprised face but then started chuckling. Yuki pulls her hand away from mine as Hana lets goes of my hands. "Well, well, you have bodyguards now?" Yuki teases me. "This won't stop us." Hana adds to my friends. "Let go, or we'll break you." Yui-senpai repeated. "Yes, yes, you said that." Yuki rolls her eyes.

"Then do it." Comes another familiar voice. It was Ayato, followed by Arisa and Takuma. Hana and Yuki pauses when they saw him and gave a glance at each other then back at Ayato. "No." Hana smirks and all of a sudden, I feel a big shock of pain that won't go away and felt that Yuki had squeezed her hand on my swollen foot and I screamed in pain 😖. Yui-senpai quickly grabs Yuki's hand away and slapped her hard and as Hana was about to stop her, the other girls stop Hana.

Ayato ran up to my side as I felt tears streaming down my face. The pain hurts so badly. "Shay—"

"It hurts! It hurts!" I screamed repeatedly, tears still forming up😭. I grabbed into Ayato's arms and cried, feeling the pain from my foot. I was gripping his clothes as well. A nurse quickly comes in when someone got her and ran by my side. "Keep holding her Ayato, I'll examine the foot." She said as I kept crying in Ayato's arms.

Hours had probably passed by when I lied on the bed, feeling a bit calmer and waiting for Ayato to get me when school ends.

"It wasn't just Yuki's fault." I started when Ayato came as we walked down the hallway. I'm leaning against him for support. "What do you mean?" He asks. "It was also my fault, I was clumsy to sprang my foot." I sighed but before Ayato could protest, I added. "And worse, I forced myself to race for the track team. Sensei and some others told me to not force myself, but I didn't listened. I thought that the team would be disappointed in me if I had lost the race, so I pushed myself, I added force in my foot. I won, but lost at the same time. Gosh I'm hopeless."

"Shut up, no you're not. You did it for the team, it could've healed faster but Yuki made it worse." He protested. "If I never forced myself, it would've already had healed." I argued. "But no, I was foolish."

"Even if you didn't entered the race, Hana and Yuki would still find a way to hurt you. Shay stop blaming yourself, that will only bring you down. You're gonna be alright, everyone was so proud of you today." Ayato assures me. "Thank you Ayato." I smiled.

     Several days had passed since that day and my foot got a lot better. I could walk by myself again without hanging to anyone or anything.

     One night, I was out alone sitting on a swing in a playground, staring up at the stars and just thinking about random stuff. "Shay?" I heard a voice suddenly called behind me. I jump in shock but when I turned around, it was Ayato. "A-Ayato, you scared me. What are you doing out here?" I asked curiously.

     "Shouldn't I be asking you that? It's not safe to be out at night alone." He says with a worried tone. "Then stay with me." I offered with a smile, gesturing him to sit on the swing next to mine. Ayato sighs and sat down on the swing. "Something up?" He asks while staring at the stars.

     "No." I shook my head. "I'm just...thinking."

     "About...?"

     "Us, I guess." When I said that, Ayato turns to me confused. I smiled at him. "You've always been there for me, there's barely a time where I can do something for you." I explained. "What are you talking about? You being with me is enough." He says in a serious tone.

     "Ayato..." I go sadly. "What would happen if I left you?" I asked slowly. "What? You're not planning on to right?" He asked surprised.

     "No, of course not, it's just a what if. What would you do?"

     Ayato goes quiet for three-ish seconds. "Then I'd never let you." When he says that, he starts walking over to me. "Even if it can seem impossible, I'll never let that happen, nothing is impossible for me." Ayato bends down in front of me. He speaks as he looks up to me while I look down at him.

     "You're always in my life and I can't ever imagine a life without you. You're my girlfriend, and most importantly, you're my best friend, I would never let you go...Shay, I'd rather die than do that." His voice was firm and serious, but also calm. I stood there not knowing what to say, so Ayato leans up to me, his forehead touching mine. My face started heating up, my whole body was.

     As he closes his eyes, leaning more forward, I knew that was the moment so I let my eyes close as well and felt his lips on mine. We were...kissing. Ayato...

     He gave me a long lasting sweet tenderly kiss. So this must be how it feels to kiss... I thought to myself. When Ayato pulled away, the first words that came out from me was, "I'm glad you're my first." Ayato chuckles by that. "I'm serious, you're my first friend, my first boyfriend, and...my first...kiss." When I said kiss, I touched my lips.

     "I'll steal all of your firsts everything." He smirks. Whoa, does he also mean, but that mean marriage first—what?! I'm too young! I blush bright red thinking about it. "What are you thinking about? Don't tell me—"

     "No!" I shouted as I cut him off. "How did you know I was going to say whatever I was going to say? Unless you were actually thinking about it." Ayato chuckles with a smirk. 😏 Just as I was about to cover my face from embarrassment, Ayato grabs my hand from preventing that. "Don't, I wanna see your face." He tells me.

     "N-no, it's probably too red." I protested. "Even if it's too red, I still like it. I like every expression you give me, it's cute." He smiles, and after I could say anything else, he shuts me up with another kiss. "A-Ayato..!" I said covering my mouth when he pulled away. He seems to be enjoying this. But instead of saying anything, Ayato-kun just leans in close for our foreheads to touch and smiles so I gave him a smile in return.

     Just a little while longer, I want to be with him more...