can you keep it a secret?

『 valentine's day special 』

a year later after the four's loss,
the day of her death, february 14, or mostly known as valentine's day.

all students we're filled with cheers, as they expected chocolates from others, except for four other people.
the one's who we're most close to shiro, hinata, kageyama, kokoro, and yachi.

as all four of them sat down in their respective classrooms, some of their classmates would ask whos their valentine.

"hey kokoro, who's your valentine?
you've been more close to hinata-kun, is it him?"
"what are you talking about? we're just friends...and i dont have one."
"really~~? but your so cute how come noone would ask you to be their valentine??"
"even if someone did ask me, i'd say no either way."
"pfft so cold."

the same did for the others.
some of their classmates would ask who their valentine was, but they said there was noone.

the four was also a bit sad, because the school quickly forgot about shiro..
its only been a year, and they didn't even talk about her. but they couldn't blame them..because she never had that much friends. they only cared about her looks.

kageyama was excused with many love letters after he opened his shoe locker.
he attended in all confessions, but rejected all of them.
kageyama was a bit selfish, because he didn't think of their feelings, but he was too stuck in thought about shiro's death.

it had been dismissal.
the four was lost in thought and couldn't keep up with the lectures.
as the four walk together in thr hallways,
the students judged all four of them, since alot of the school knows that they hang out with eachother.
the students whispered about why they we're so cold about valentines day, most of them we're their classmates.

"why are they so cold about it?"
"did they get rejected?"
"nobody probably gave them chocolates.."
"its just chocolates, whats there to be sad for..?"
"but i heard kageyama-kun rejected all the girls who gave love letters to him..and they said he didn't give a damn about it either.."
"how cold-hearted! couldn't he have just rejected them nicely??"

"hey"
hinata said, with a scary look on his eyes.
"do you...remember sasume shiro?"
"sasume shiro? who's that?"
"isn't she the transfer student?"
"you mean the one that die-"
"yeah she died."
kokoro said with a serious look.

"she died february 14, valentines day, today. coincidence right? the day she died really just had to be on valentines..
just so we're clear, we we're only cold to some of you because you kept talking about valentines when you couldn't even stop and think about shiro.
the same with the ones who we're close to her...i dont care if your not close to her, or you dont know her, but im pretty sure their was an announcement about someone dying here who studied in this school.
they even mentioned her name.
but i just wished you could've given just a bit of sympathy to her, if you did, it could've made me happy."

after kokoro disowning them, they left school and went to different stores.
even though they had a gloomy atmosphere earlier at school, they had began to smile again from searching different types of stores.
they we're going to flower stores, and chocolate stores.
kokoro had remembered what shiro told to her before..

"shiro chan, whats your favorite flower?"
"flower?"
shiro looks around at the garden pots.
"ah, a sunflower!"
"a sunflower? i didnt expect that, i thought you'd choose daisy's or roses.."
"well i like sunflowers!
since it reminds me of someone~"
shiro said happily while smiling.

kokoro then told the others about shiro's favorite flower, and the other two had no choice but to look at hinata.
hinata was confused.

"w what?"
hinata looked left and right.
"nothing"
both kageyama and yachi said as they looked away.
"h huh"

the four had also picked out shiro's favorite chocolates.
though shiro has a very cheerful personality, and the one that looks like she likes sweets, she actually likes dark chocolate.
the four bought a separate pack of milk chocolates, since all of them didnt really like dark chocolate.

the four take a taxi all the way to the memorial graveyard.
when they finally arrived, the inhaled and exhaled at the smell of flowers surrounding everywhere.

shiro's grave was at the top hill with a big beautiful tree on the middle of it.
shiro's grave was beside her mother's grave.
the small leaves would fall down at their grave every once and awhile.
it would've been much prettier if the trees had bloomed to cherryblossoms.

when they arrived at their grave, they washed the tombstone with clean cold water, and put the sunflowers beside her.
the same with shiro's mother, hinata remembered about shiro's mother talking about tulips every once and awhile, so he thought of buying her flowers aswell.
the same with bating her tombstone with the clean water.
the four prayed to them silently and all of them had happy smiles in their faces.
yachi poured the two green tea in a old special cups that was always in shiro's house.
she placed the cups infront of their tombstones, as steam came out of the cup.
kokoro took out the box of chocolates, and kageyama placed down a mat.
they sat down and ate the chocolates with them.
kageyama took the pack of dark chocolates and placed it infront of shiros tombstone.
he opened it and took one.

"thank you for being apart of my life, for making me feel a new feeling i've never felt before, and for being my first love."
kageyama whispered.

he ate a piece of dark chocolate in the box, he had felt that shiro was just infront of him, giving him a piece of her chocolates, and asking how they tasted, with a smile.
kageyama...he had a smile nobody had ever seen before.

it had been an hour since the four chatted together, and told stories to shiro and her mother as many months came by.
they had laughs, past memories, and was filled with joy.

it was time for them to leave, and when hinata was left behind the hill, and all three of them we're calling his name, he had talked to shiro one more time, and said...

"happy valentine's day, shiro.."

a cold breeze greeted hinata, and he had closed his eyes and felt the cold wind.
the trees small leaves circled around hinata, and flew away.

a/n :
since shiro's death in on valentines...
i decided to make a special chapter!
this will be the last time i will update this book, since its already completed.
but i thought it would've been a good idea to know what happens in shiros first death anniversary, so this is what i made.

lou luo/sirra