𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣 { 𝙨𝙖𝙗𝙤 | 3 }

Chapter 39:Breaking hearts

Arabella pov
"Arabella?"
I turned, and found both Taiyō & Tsuki standing there.
"Oh hey. Whats up?"
Taiyō shifted nervously. "I..I-I mean, we need to talk to you."
"Oh, what about?"
"We can't talk about it now," Tsuki said. "we three need to talk in private. We'll talk about it after class."

Before I could have any input, they both walked off. In my head, I was pondering about what they wanted to say to me, and if its anything bad.

'Oh jeez, I hope I didn't upset them somehow. Guess I'll never know till I talk them.'

Our next class came in. I guess since those two approached me earlier, I suddenly felt like I was being watched by them both. Whenever I helped a student our, I couldn't help but feel like look over my shoulder each time.

Later, when we were getting towards the end of the lesson, I pulled out so that 'I could go to the bathroom'. I ran back inside, and went inside a bathroom. I sat down on the clean ground, and raked my hand through my hair.

"Jesus....keep yourself together. Its only talking, right?" I mumbled to myself.

'It could be about anything! But then...why would they want to pull me out afterwards. Why are all these thoughts so mumbled & jumbled, that I can't even think properly?! God, you need to take a breath, and stand back for a moment.'

Shakily, I stood up, and went over to the tap. Cupping my hands, I ran some water into them, then splashed my face so that I could cool down. I stared at myself in the mirror.

'Look at you. You're stressing over absolutely nothing. They're probably asking me to cover them, since there have been even more people going out & doing missions for Dragon-san. God...you're acting like a drama queen.'

"I better go..." I whispered to my reflection.

I rushed back outside, and found that the class was just finishing off. Minutes later, all the kids left, and now it was only us three. First we cleaned everything up, then the two boy cousins & I sat up against the wall, staring up at the sky.

"So....what is it that you both wanted to talk to me about?" I asked.

Suddenly, they were both standing in front of me. Their eyes were staring down at me with a emotion that I could not specify, but it looked like that they were glowing as they stared at me. They both stayed like that for a moment, before Tsuki finally sighed.

"I know that this will all seem out of the blue to you." He started off.
"But we really have to tell you this, Arabella." Taiyō said seriously.
"Y-you guys, whats going on, you're both kind of freaking me out here."

They both looked at each other, as if they were deciding whether or not they should go ahead. But Tsuki being Tsuki, he nods at Taiyō, indicating that they'll say what they want to say.

"Arabella, after this, we don't want you to hate us, or to think any less of us. We still want to be friends."
"Can you both just tell me whats going on-"

"Arabella, we love you."

Everything became silent as I tried to get through my head as to what they just said to me. I stared at them with disbelief written all over my face. Then suddenly, tidal waves of emotions crashed onto me like a tsunami. I was shocked, confused, sad & slightly angry in one sullen sponge lump. I was shocked because of their confession, confused as to why they both came to tell me without arguing with each other, sad because I know that this will muck up my friendship with them, and angry.....and I don't know why I'm angry myself.

Slowly I stood up, and held my hand over my heart (which was beating ridiculously fast). Swallowing the sticking saliva in my mouth, I pushed away my nerves, and let out what I wanted to say.

"You both.....what?"

"Arabella, we both love you." Taiyō repeated. "To bits."
"We couldn't keep it down..." Tsuki said quietly, but loud enough for us to hear.

My other hand thats on my side, was clenched into a fist. It felt like I was holding all of my emotions in that one fist, so that they wouldn't see it on my face. I closed my eyes, and took calming quiet breaths so that I could think this through.

'They....they shouldn't have told me. They weren't thinking with their brains, they were thinking with their hearts.'

"Taiyō, Tsuki....you both should know by now that I won't ever think of you both like that."
"I know, but-

"Now that you've told me...there are going to be complications with our relationship. I'm not saying this because I think that this will happen, I'm saying this, because I know that it will happen. Now don't get me wrong, I appreciate the fact that you both think of me like this, but you both know..that my heart belongs to Sabo." I cut them both off as they were about yo say something. "To avoid us going back to strangers, I propose that we act like this never happened, okay?"

"Arabella...." Taiyō said with a heartbroken voice.
Tsuki sighed. "You're right."
Taiyō looked at him with surprise. "W-what?!"
"We should never have told you how we really felt about you, Arabella. And for that, I'm sorry-we're both sorry."
Taiyō bit his lip, and finally looked at me. "I'm sorry."

"Its okay, you don't have to be sorry. I like the fact that you both pursued to tell me. I like you both, but not in that way. Now...I'm sorry but I have to go now, Sabo is waiting for me. Thanks for the talk."

We both said goodbye to each other, and then we went our separate ways.

'My heart is beating so fast, I feel like I suddenly have billions of emotions pounded into me like omochi. But..I will be fine.'

I found Sabo in the commons, drinking some tea. As if he sensed my emotional state, Sabo had quickly sculled his tea down like he was in a drinking contest, and rushed over to me. I gave him a confused state as to why he had hugged me so suddenly.

"Sabo? Are you okay?"
He pulled away, and cupped my cheek. "I should be the one who's asking that to you."
"What do you mean."
He slid his thumb across my cheek. "You're crying."