Just a Little While Longer || An anime love story

Chapter 54

-One Month Later-

It's been a month already since that tragedy had happened, honestly, I'm still not over it yet but I guess you can say I'm getting better and better as the day passes. One day as I'm walking home from school, I come across a black cat. "Awe, aren't you cute?" I smile. Bending down, I picked up that small, little cat. "Are you lost?" I gave a little pout. It purrs and suddenly licks me on the nose. I was surprised at first but gave a smile anyways.

Something about this little kitten reminds me of someone...reminds me of...Ayato-kun...He appreciates me being with him...and kisses me in return. He loved me, he cherished me, he trusted me, and what I did in return was...broke his heart...

The kitten suddenly reaches its arms out for me. Smiling at it, it reminds me of Ayato's warmth and embraces. It's reaching its arms for me as if it knew I was struggling.

"It's okay...I'm okay, because just remembering the good times with him makes me feel better." I softly assure the cat. Having our sweet time together, it's suddenly breaks apart when a voice rages out. "Yo! Shay!" That's when the little black cat jumps away from my hands and scurries away. "Awe, look what you did Sho, you scared the kit away." I pout standing up, knowing that the voice had belonged to Sho. "Ugh, never mind that, come home already stupid." He scold me.

Sighing in reluctant, I roll my eyes and walked home with him. "It's like I never get my free time no more, so boring." I complain. All Sho does in return is hit the back of my head. "Ow! That freaking hurts you abusive brother!"

"Mom told us if we don't get home by four then she'll make us clean up the entire house." Sho quickly runs off. "Hey! No way I'm doing that!" I gasp behind him, sprinting back and practically chasing after Sho.

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     That next day at school, there was this loud commotion during lunch. It seems one of the popular guy had just confessed to his crush. No way am I missing this! I squeal excitedly as I'm grabbed by one of the friends I've made here. When we got there, everyone was already crowded up, making it impossible for us to see the confession. That's when I saw a tree. "Let's climb!" I exclaim. Kei gasp in agreement and we climbed up a tree to be able to see.

     "The Oi Hanada confessing to a girl. It's so unexpected of Hanada-kun to do this, especially to someone whose not as popular too." Kei smiles excitedly. "Well, that does make a great story." I smile at the two couple below us.

     When we got back to our classrooms, Kei suddenly brings up a question. "Speaking of, have you had any boyfriends? Or having one right now?" She asks. Yumé, a classmate of ours and three others approaches us when hearing the question. "Ooh, I wanna hear about this." Yumé says as they're all interested. After settling down in my seat, I decide to tell them.

     "Well, I had one. But I broke up with him." I shrug as if it was nothing but the expressions of the girls showed otherwise. "He's your first right? Tell us about him!" Kei bites her lips in excitement.

     "Well, yeah. We grew up together and started dating when 10th grade kinda started. His name is Ayato, a basketball player and very popular in school. He was a player before dating me, played with literally every girl." I began. "And he changed because of you! That's so cute! Tell us more." Exclaims Yumé.

     "Well, like I said, we broke up, just a month ago. The day I moved here."

     The expressions they gave me told me they wanted an explanation on why I broke up with Ayato. "I didn't had no choice. It was like, he needed something better and I felt like a burden to him since there was this girl who his father wants him to marry once he finishes school. I mean, when I left him officially, he looked so freaking hurt." Taking a deep breath, I place my head on my desk, covered by my arms and continued on. "I made him a promise that I would trust him to fix all of that stuff up so that we could be together but...I guess I broke that promise. Ayato even told me that he planned to never break up with me and I gave him a couple bracelet for his birthday." I held up my arm for them to see. "I gave him the letter S which stands for me and mine A for Ayato."

     "You must really miss him right?" Kei sounded sympathetic. "Of course, but I had to leave him. I even made up a lie, telling him I found someone else." I sigh. "What did he say in return." A girl asks.

     "I ran away before he could say anything else. But...he's a great guy, remembering all the memories I shared with him makes me feel better even though I was the one at fault."

     "Whoa, what a touching story." A guy said. Realizing that, my head instantly shot up and all around me was our whole class listening to my story without me even realizing. "W-whoa! You guys heard everything?!" 😨

     "Yup." Kei nods. "Tell us more! Tell us more!" She shouts happily with clapped hands. "Like, your best friends. Arisa and Tsubaki was it?"

     "Oh, those two are the funniest! If you guys met them, you'd never get bored of them." And before I know it, I'm telling the whole class about my life back then, all the happy times and it made me happy, remembering all those happy memories.

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     So after school, on my way back home, I start remembering everything. My times with Arisa, Tsubaki, Ayato, Takuma, Takeshi, senpai, Yamato, everyone. Grandma, I feel so empty. I feel like I've made the wrong choice. I feel like I should've never left. But what choice did I have? School's about to end in a couple of months and...and...Ayato and Harumi...they'll...

     "Stop it Shay! It doesn't matter to you anymore. If you keep having theses thoughts in your mind, you'll end up being single for the rest of your life. But...it really hurts—no, if I don't have my mind on him, pretty sure I'll get over him as soon as possible. Ugh, stop talking to yourself."

      What I was feeling inside, it wasn't just pain, it was confusion. I felt both anger and sadness welling up inside of me. Everything was going right and before I know it, here we are. It felt just like yesterday when me and Ayato were happy, but now...now everything was wrong, everything felt wrong. Nothing felt right. But I made the right choice...right...? Ugh, I had to leave my best friends, this isn't right. But there was no way I can fix all of this, not anymore. Part of me wants to forget everything but another part of me wants to remember and start all over again.

     No Shay, just a little while longer, you can take this pain. Before you know it, you'll be happy again, even without the others here with you...right...?

     Lost in thoughts, I forget where I'm going and end up at a dead end. "The heck? How'd I even end up here?" 😐 Confused, I go back to where I came from but everything felt unfamiliar. "Which part of this place am I even in?" Just as I'm starting to feel scared, it gets worse when I'm approached by some guys. There was like literally seven or eight of them. "Give me all you got lady." One says.

     Getting scared, I start running off when I'm suddenly grabbed by the arm by one of them. "P-please, I'm just a school girl. Spare me!" I could feel the tears welling up through my eyes. Just as I'm about to scream out for help, the guy who had grabbed me shuts my mouth with his hand and they bring me to another alley. "Mmmh! Mmmh!" I try screaming for help but it just won't end up right since I'm being covered up. "Mmmh!"

      "Yah, stop screaming will you?" He commands. Stop screaming? Excuse me? "Ooh, look, she's crying already." They start laughing. He was right, I can feel my tears falling down my cheeks.

     "Of course she'd be crying right now." I hear another voice call. That's when the guy, two guys, starts beating up those seven or eights guys that stole me away when the guy who held me dropped me to the floor. "Don't go anywhere." One of the two guys says. "Where else am I supposed to go?" I question the guy. He just ignores me and kept on fighting. Those two had their backs turned to me so I couldn't see their faces but, something about them looked familiar. And the voice was familiar as well.

     By the time those two won, they finally turn their fronts to me. No way...