Drizzles of a Symphony • Semi Eita

❥ twenty-fifth drizzle.

 ❥ Soulmate AU; Where your soulmate gets a mark on his skin, the moment you fall in love with him.

• Semi x Een •

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My phone lets out a ring at 5.14 pm.

 It takes me a few seconds to realise that it wasn't a text; Semi Eita was actually calling me.

Takeru looks over my shoulder a bit in curiosity. He knew well enough that I wasn't very fond of talking to people over the phone due to my anxiety, so when he sees Semi's name on the screen, he lets out a low whistle.

"Oh shit bye." He whispers, and then he walks upstairs. Sighing, I tap the screen to pick up the call.

"Een."

I would have liked to say that I was able to keep my cool, to pretend that it didn't hurt me... and that I wasn't bothered by anything.

But what I heard Aimee whispering to Hichimiya a couple days ago was true, even I couldn't deny that.

'It's like, whenever you keep Semi and Een in one place, it takes a few minutes for him to make her cry.'

I had to try my hardest to hold the fact that all I wanted to do then was cry.

"I'm so sorry. I just saw your text... Thank you, Een."

If Hichimiya or Aimee were here to hear that, they would have immediately said so that he was lying.

But as they say, love made people blind, and even my glasses isn't enough to get me to see properly whenever it came to Semi.

"Oh..." I find myself saying before I end up letting out a sob. There is silence on his side of the call after which he lets out a sigh.

"Een..."

"Mmm. I'm sorry I'm like this."

"That's not the thing. When will you realise? I'm not trying to hurt you, Een." He whispers.

I am not sure what I can say in response, so I listen quietly to what he had to say, instead.

"Please stop crying. I was waiting for the right time to tell you this in person, but I think I need to say this right now... Otherwise, you're probably going to hate me." I can hear him chuckle a little.

"It's stupid, Een. It's so stupid, but you've become everything to me now."

I gasp at what he said, and it seemed like he heard me on account of how loud my gasp was.

"I know. It's stupid, but that's the truth. I don't know why, but I can't help it. I wish I could be with you right now, and I'm sorry I came to Tokyo without telling you."

"E-Eita, what are you doing in Tokyo? What happened, that you couldn't trust me enough to tell me?"

I hear a sigh on the other side of the line.

And after what Semi tells me, I take my phone along with me and go outside to flag a taxi.

•••

It was weird, how much I loved hospitals. Everyone hated them, some people even cried, and some were the happiest person on Earth when they get discharged.