My Revelation {Mikayuu}

Tearaway. [16]

Following Yuu was an easy feat. He was strangely oblivious to my presence as he left school grounds, following the sound of rushing waves. I kept away from him, still drenched in sweat from when I had desperately ran back from work.

Okay, I didn't have this situation entirely under control. There was a slight possibility I had lost Yuu.
"Wonderful." I groaned quietly, scratching at my bandage.

Wandering around aimlessly at this point, I often found myself staring at the silhouetted terrain in the sky.
I wonder what my life was like up there.
As that thought ran through my head, my hands skirted across the trunk of a tree. I then thought, it didn't matter what life I had led before. I knew in my heart that this was where I belonged. Earth was the home I needed.

A girl's voice shouting is what alerted me that there was something wrong. When it continued, I distinguished it as Min. The scent of salt water told me I was near. Yuu's quiet voice stuttered in response to her words. Neither of them were easily deciphered until both of their figures came into view.

Min was visually angry, walking towards Yuu. No- not angry. She was frustrated. My friend was looking at her with wide eyes, in shock or fear, as he stepped back from her. Black hair was rustling in the growing wind, tears from two different emotions threatening to spill. Min's bam was to me, Yu by the ledge. I longed tiresomely to know what they were talking about that day.

"Tetsuya is worried about you! He's worried about you keeping everything a secret from him! Mika doesn't even know about your mom!" Min was shouting, choking on angry tears. Yu's hands were slightly lifted as if contemplating reaching out to her.
"I- I can't-" he began quietly, the Korean heiress cutting through his words.
"No excuses. You need to stop keeping everything to yourself!" She snapped, taking another step towards Yu, who all but lept back.

His shoe caught on the ledge of the cliff. I could hear the ground chipping. Then he was gone, Min's reaction too late as she reached out, shouting after him. I knew their fingers skimmed against each other before he was fully plummeting, her face buried in her hands.
Yuu wasn't screaming or shouting. As if he had already accepted it.

A switch turned on in me, of intuition before logical thinking. My feet were carrying me past Min's panicked figure and over the edge, where I fell down after Yuu, who had his eyes closed, bracing for impact.

Hey, don't I not know how to shift?

That was a thought that should have gone through my head as I gazed at the ruby gem that flickered in the setting sun. My hair flew around my vision rapidly, Yu steadily growing closer- along with the ocean. I was reminded of how we had met as my right hand outstretched to his limp left hand.
How the ocean had filled my lungs with salt water.
How I had truly thought that I was going to die, drowned in such cold and dangerous waters.
That my life was going to end without anyone truly knowing me.
Not even myself.

I imagined a scene like that as I intertwined our fingers, his acting through his unconscious state to grip my hand. Our heads would break through the water, and I would swim down with him to the bottom of the ocean, where we would perish.

No.

We were going to live.

I pulled his body close to me, our hands still intertwined as I closed my eyes tightly, our heads closer to the water than our feet. I could hear the roar of the wind mixing with the rapid waves of the ocean, vision showing me nothing but black.

We were going to get through this.

The wind was knocked out of my chest through a sudden impact.

Together.

• ♛•

"Aww, Orpheus won't let you out tonight?" Corinna whined through my phone wistfully. He didn't necessarily prohibit me from seeing her. Because he didn't know I still met with her.
"Unfortunately." I sighed. She laughed.
"You talk so formally, it's the most bizarre experience to me and my poor American lively hood." She explained through a bout of carefree giggles. I grinned, glancing to the phone resting on my vanity, her voice emitting from the speaker as I pulled my night dress over my head, blonde hair prohibited from interfering by being placed into a loose braid.

"Since we can't meet up tonight, why don't you tell me about your brother?" Corinna asked, phone now to my ear as I climbed into my bed.
"I've told you about him already. Don't you get sick of it?"
"Not really. I like hearing you talk about him. You sound really happy when you do." She said, seeming to recall a memory of hers.

"Alright, then." I murmured, bringing up an image of him to my mind. His birthday was going to be passing soon.
"Let's see... He was the kind of serious person that you would be threatened by at first sight, with his narrowed gaze and emotionless lips. But that's only when he was thinking hard about something or working. At almost all other hours of the day he would be smiling at the servants and helping me with any difficulties. He was really serious, now that I think about it. Maybe I just knew the side of him that was smiling and joking around. But he was really loyal to me, Corinna." I mused to my lover as she listened.
"Of course he was. Even I know what he's done for you." She said quietly.
"I'm sure he would have done something great. Not just for his people. Maybe for all of us."
She hummed on the other side. I knew she was working while talking to me.

"I think so, too. But so can you, Lorelei." She said. I could envision her, writing on stacks of paper, brows furrowed in concentration as she spoke those hushed words.

"Really?" I asked in shock.

"Of course. If I can deal with the American government, you can change the way the world works."

"I love you." I sighed, grinning to the ear at her words.

She was quiet for a moment. Working, I knew without a doubt in my mind.

"I love you too."

I love you, but I am not as great as my brother was.

No one ever was.

No one ever will.

Not even me.