Drizzles of a Symphony • Semi Eita

❥ fiftieth 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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I felt like I was standing alone.

I always stood alone. On my own two feet. Even when I stood beside my friends.

But over the past few months, I had become so used to having Semi stand beside me... Actually, a couple steps ahead, while he looked back a little at me.

It had always been like that.

I didn't think there was a hallway in Shiratorizawa where Semi and I hadn't walked at, that way.

He was always with me.

So, when I see him taking a couple steps ahead, walking to receive his graduation scroll, I felt my eyes tear up.

Just seeing his back, walking further and further away from me made me feel a little lonely on the inside.

I knew that if I told Semi how I felt, and the reason why, he'd probably lecture me on how I was starting to be too dependent on him. And he was right, since I admired people who were independent and worked hard for their own goals and dreams.

It wasn't healthy, how much I had grown used to him.

The fact that we would be together even in Tokyo, the fact that I could trust him... Those were the only reasons why I could control my tears before I collect my own scroll.

It was a simple piece of paper.

But that one sheet of paper had proof that my journey at Shiratorizawa Academy High School had ended.

Hichimiya was the one standing beside me, and she was bubbling with so much excitement that she was bumping into my arm every three seconds. She looked so happy, yet I fully noticed the reddened eyes of hers, while she glances at Tendou.

And while we stood, singing the school anthem for the final time, I knew that all of us, the entire senior batch students of Shiratorizawa had one thing going on in their minds.

How much we will miss this place, which we had grown fond of and considered as our home.

Our bags had been already packed. Desks cleared, duvets removed, cupboards emptied out. The little glow-in-the-dark stars were gone, and so was Hichimiya's string of polaroid pictures - most of them of Tendou making faces - that used to hang over her bedpost.

Our hearts slowly break when we lock our dorm rooms for the final time... And realise we have to return the key to the dorm mistress... The fact that we'd never have to open the room we'd been living and grown used to, for the past three years...

There was a lot of hugging. Some of my hair pins had come loose, group hugs, arms around my shoulders as we took group-selfies...

And finally, the vehicles start to arrive.

First, it was Kaizawa, Reon, and Kanzaki, who all got enrolled to the same college. They wave goodbye, boarding the bus. And not just them, but most of the others huddled at the gate board this bus.

Next was Aimee. My beautiful best friend of six years, who had gotten accepted to the college of her choice, at Kyoto. She stood, her suitcase neatly packed and locked, a side bag carefully aligned so that it didn't cause creases in her clothes. Her hair had grown out a lot this year, gorgeous black hair that matched her equally dark eyes.