I found you in April

Love Birds

Over the next few months, Kaori and Kousei's bond grew stronger and deeper. They kept competing in multiple competitions across the country and won the hearts of each and every person that had listened to them perform. Their passion and love for each other continued to shine through their music. They had also learned to master the art of using their own imagery in their performances. They had learned how to use each and every part of their bond. Every performance was an improvement on the last.

They had went on to win the National Championships. They beat everybody they competed against but, honestly, they never cared for competition. They were both doing what they loved most with the one they loved most and that was all that mattered to them.

Before they knew it, it was Kaori's birthday! 

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Kousei's POV

Oh God! It's Kaori's birthday tomorrow! What do I do?! I can't ask her! I want to surprise her like she surprised me! But how can I figure out what she wants?! It isn't that I don't know her well enough. I think we know each other too well honestly! A few months ago, I would have been able to use our bond to figure out exactly what she wanted but she's trained herself with it in a way I haven't been able to. She can sense when I'm trying to read her and, somehow, she blocks me off. I could probably find a way to get her to tell me though...
That's it! I've got it! I'll make her tell me.

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She was next to me in the bed still asleep. She looks like an angel. God, I am so lucky. I might be dying but at least I have her by my side. I'll fight for as long as I can to be with her. I love her with every fiber of my being.

The bond can actually do a lot. No matter how far away we are from each other, it works. The whole mind-reading thing only works when we are close to each other but we can talk to each other from anywhere. Imagine it as a weird kind of voice messaging but in the best way! We can also "hug" each other. That sounds like a lie but it actually feels just like when she was in the hospital and she hugged me from behind. I could feel her. She was there. I worry a bit about what will happen when I eventually have no choice but to go. It worries me. I don't want her to go back to being the person she was when we met. I hate imagining her like that. I do have to keep those thoughts to a minimum though as she likes to read my mind a lot of the time and when she comes across something that has upset me, it upsets her too.

It's a cruel fate. The dying boy who would do anything to live, anything for her, he wantes to live for her.
And the living girl who wanted to die, but she found him. She will live for him but she would follow him anywhere. Even into death itself.

That is the thought that frightens me more than anything. If she ever done anything drastic because of me, I wouldn't be able to live with myself. If she did it after I had died, I wouldn't be able to face her in the afterlife. I can't think about that now though. My main purpose, my mission, right now is Kaori. 

She's all that matters.

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I turn over in the bed to face her and decide I'll give her a taste of her medicine. A man needs his privacy after all! I do my best to put myself in a state of shock and act as if something has happened. Really, if she thought about it, she would realise she wasn't feeling pain so it wasn't anything serious but Kaori gets so worked up and worried when it comes to me that rational thought goes out the window.

I get up but she can sense what I'm going to do before I even do it!

"No you don't Friend A!"

I'm shocked when she answers so suddenly and I actually hurt myself. I stubbed my toe on the edge of the bed and clumsily fall on top of her. Coincidentally, our lips meet and we stay that way for a bit, savoring each other's company.