Just a Little While Longer || An anime love story

Chapter 43

This year, as expected, Ayato's class won for the Sports Festival. I mean it was obvious, they had the best sports people in their class while ours, just had...girls who's more into, other stuff. Not me or Arisa or Tsubaki or Harumi, just those other girls. It's not like it matters as much anyways.

     So it's Valentine's Day today and it seems every girl is excited, well duh, in Japan, it's the one day girls get to confess to their loved ones and give chocolates to. I wonder what'll happen with Tsubaki and Takeshi...😉

Tsubaki's POV

     Just the day before, Shay and Arisa came over to make chocolates with me. We decided, well, I decided that I'll confess to Takeshi-kun and these two are supporting me. I'm so excited, I mean the chocolate Shay makes, you cannot deny it, it's the best. She's working so hard on her future career and I'm so proud of her.

So now here we are, the day of Valentine's Day and I'm kinda not ready to confess to Takeshi-kun but Shay and Arisa told me to go for it. "B-but what if he—"

"No buts!" Shay takes her index finger to close my mouth as they both shake their heads. "You can do this! Yesterday you were so pumped up, you can't back down now!" Scolds Arisa. Getting all the nervousness in my stomach, I fall on my knees. "I can't, I can't!" I shake my head furiously.

Then I felt a hand on my shoulder, it was Shay. "Tsubaki, it's gonna be alright. I know Takeshi and I know he likes you too, I can see it in his actions. He's just not the type to speak up, it's up to you to decide what you do. Now we're not forcing you to do anything but just know that it'd be best to just go for it." Her smile showed kindness and I could feel the relief inside of me as some butterflies are fluttering away from my stomach. Smiling, I take a deep breath and nod. "I'll do it." I decide. Arisa and Shay breaks into an excited beam. "Yas! Go for it!" Arisa exclaims as I'm getting up. They quickly push me to go find Takeshi, almost making me stumble. "Geez guys!" I complain. They both gave a regretful smile. "Sorry!"

Arisa's POV

"Takuma-kun!" I quickly waved my hand excitedly when I spot Takuma. "Hey, I made you—" but before I could take out the chocolate Shay helped me with, I see that something was wrong by Takuma's face. "Something wrong?" I ask him confused. Takuma gave me an unsteady worried face. "Takuma...?"

"Have you seen Shay?" He suddenly asks. "What? Y-yeah, why?" I stare at him dumbfounded by why he suddenly asked for Shay. "Good, keep her out of Ayato's sight." He demands.

"What are you saying? Why?"

"Just do as I say, please. If she ever wants to escape, to find Ayato, stop her." He begs me. I stare at him still confused.

"What happened?"

"I can't tell you right now. For now, just, please, don't let Ayato see her or go near her." He orders and just ran off, leaving me all confused. What is going on...? No matter how confused I was, I couldn't not listen to Takuma, so instantly, I ran, looking for Shay.

"Shay! Shay! Has anyone seen Shay!?" But everyone I asked has told me that they haven't seen Shay yet. Suddenly, I find Tsubaki. "Tsubaki!" I shout her name. She quickly turns to me in a confused face. "What's up?"

"Have you seen Shay?" I quickly ask her. "She said she was going to go find Ayato-kun. Why?" Tsubaki answers. My face went alarm and I quickly explained to Tsubaki about what Takuma said to me. "What? But why?" She asks me as we start running off to find Shay. "I don't know, but the way Takuma gave me the look tells me that he's serious." I tell her.

I gasp when we suddenly spot a familiar girl. "Shay! Shay stay there!" I shout. Shay looked back at us running to her. "Guys? I was just about to go find Ayato, what's up?" She asks us. I quickly shook my head. "You can't!" I order. Shay flinches by my words. "Why?"