The Confession Tree

It was near 5:30 P.M. as a certain girl with white locks which turn teal at the tips cries and cries hard, making it rather hard for her to breathe. Well, of course she has a very good reason to cry this much.

"I'm really sorry," a flustered dark-haired boy says as he continues to hug her, guilty. He never thought she would cry about this kind of matter. "I never thought you'd believe it."

This only made her cry more as she felt her face burning both from embarrassment and disappointment.

It was yesterday when Hanako asked her while she was cleaning the toilet; he nears her ear, saying with a grin on his face, "Meet me at the practice garden in front of the giant tree tomorrow, Yashiro," he walks past her before saying, "I'll see you there."

That night, she couldn't sleep, thinking about various scenarios of her and Hanako under the Confession Tree. Yashiro knew herself that she shouldn't feel excited at all, keeping in her mind that Hanako wasn't her top type at all-by all means, he was even below average. But she just couldn't stop but feel happy.

After all, it would be her first-ever confession after waiting for so many years!

In the morning, while gardening with Aoi, she asks advices about what to do about it. She tells him how he was always flirty, has no sense of personal space, how he would always say that she should just be content that she has him, and especially his kiss on her cheek.

The purple-haired female just smiles at her sweetly and says, "Why don't you try on dating him, then? It might work brilliantly."

With her best friend's encouragement and the courage she also gathered up yesterday, she pumped her fists in the air as she walked down the practice garden.

Finally, the giant tree came into view and she noticed the boy, standing by it's side, his back facing her. She blushed and thought how he could really be cool sometimes, "Hanako-kun."

The said boy turned around with a big smile on his face, "Yashiro, you made it!"

Her heart beat quickens as he takes steps forward towards her and puts his hands on her shoulders, clamping her. And then, she finally heard the things she had waited and dreamed of all her life, "I love you, Yashiro!" Then he adds with a serious look on his face, "Please go out with me!"

Yashiro Nene felt like it was the end and also the beginning of the world as she feels her heart beating so fast, she thought it might burst right there and then.

This was it, her first-ever love confession!

Yashiro couldn't help but feel thrilled and excited as she thought of things she would do with Hanako if they ever start dating. Hanako may not be in her top type category or even above average in hotness-but still, she thought about it and realized that maybe a ghost boyfriend wouldn't be so bad and it'd be romantic, too.

So this is how it felt like to be confessed to.

Tears of joy soon swelled up in her eyes as she enjoyed her train of thought about their sweet future together. Until Hanako whispers in a hurried voice, "What are you doing? Turn me down."

Yashiro didn't understand what he meant by that; turn him down? After he also gathered his own courage to confess his love to her, he would just whisper to her to hurry up and turn him down? What a golden opportunity wasted. She whispers back in a confused voice, "Huh? What? But..."

With furrowed eyebrows, his face was written with impatience as he tells her, still in a hurried voice, "Hurry up!" He glares at her, "Yashiro, say 'I'm sorry'!"

Because of his impatience, she panicked, still in a bewildered state, and blurted out, "I-Im sorry," she gulped before saying, "I can't go out with you."