Yui's hands. They always felt so soft and warm like a hug. Our hands always seemed to be like magnets, never apart. It's always impossible to let go, even when she's not with me, I still feel the creases and fingerprints where Yui's hand should be.
"I'm sorry." Yui apologised, letting go of my hand.
"Don't apologise, it's not your fault." I took it again.
I looked down at the mountain of stairs. Yui often struggles to walk on flat ground, let alone a staircase of this length. She held on to the barrier and she held on to me as we climbed slowly. After making it, we were both tired.
"Why does this coffee shop even have two floors?" She asked seriously, making me giggle a little bit which killed her serious expression too.
We didn't really have to go to the top floor. However, Yui and I always used to sit on this one table by the window, it had a view of the street and we'd watch the clouds, the people, the cars and the time go by. She didn't remember it, but I couldn't bare to let her leave without recreating this memory.
I showed her to the table. "Pretty view." She said, taking her seat.
I left her for a moment to get the drinks, but not coffee, neither of us liked coffee. Instead, two strawberry-cream frappes.
"Your hair." I stated, examining the braid that came over her shoulder.
"Yeah." She giggled. "I fancied a change."
The light from the window reflected on her face, presenting details like her eyelashes and the pinkness of her cheeks. I ensured to continue falling for these small details before I could fall no further.
Yui looked at me deeply, as if she was expecting me to say something.
"Um," she smiled. "Are you going to explain why you brought me here?"
"Yes." I answered. "I wish to make you aware of why I'm going to miss you such a painful amount when you leave."
Yui continued smiling. "Okay," she giggled. "But we both get 5 things to talk about."
"Good." I sighed. "Or else I'd be going on forever."
I sipped from my cup before speaking. "The first thing that I will miss about Yui Mizuno-San,"
"San?" Yui interrupted.
"Yes, San." I giggled. "I will miss her laugh. It's so refreshing and impossible to ignore. It's..." I looked up from my drink to see the smiling Yui. "So beautiful."
The pinkness of her cheeks became bolder. "Your turn." I said.
"Well... How could I not mention the dimples?" Yui began staring at my cheeks. "They're almost as deep as my love for you."
For her to say such a thing made my face heat up and my body unable to move apart from my heart which wouldn't stop beating.
I tried to ignore whatever reaction my body was showing and got up from my seat and offered my hand out to Yui who took it. We left the building and on the way home, I began to speak again. "The second thing that I will miss about Yui Mizuno. How her hand fits so perfectly with mine."
Yui responded swiftly "The second thing that I will miss about Moa Kikuchi. How she never lets go." She sighed happily, holding my hand tighter.
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"Are you sure you'll survive?" I asked jokingly, pulling away slowly from Yui's hug.
"I'm sure. It's only a week and then we'll have more time together before I officially leave Japan." She answered.
I kissed Yui quickly on the lips before I left through her door and headed home for a week. I wanted to spend as much time with her before the following 3 weeks were up, but my parents told me that I needed to care for my education too. After all, I couldn't trouble Yui's parents by living in their house so much.
To be honest, it wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be. Especially since we messaged and called almost 24/7. My mother would often ask me to turn the vibration off on my phone since she couldn't bare the constant buzzing. Yui seemed to be doing okay too, until the 5th day.
"Hello, beautiful." I said after answering my ringing phone which displayed Yui's name.
She did not answer me though I could hear her breathing heavily.
"Yui?"
"I can't leave. I can't. Why am I doing this, Moa?" Yui stammered. "I'm so scared."
"Yui? What's this all of a sudden? Has something happened?" I asked as I used both hands to hold the phone to my ear as they began shaking.
"Everyone's packing, Moa. Packing up every memory that we left in Japan. I'm so scared, Moa." Her voice faded out as I could almost hear the tears falling down her cheeks. "What if I never come back?"
"Don't say that." I whispered, trying to sound as calm as possible. "You will come back. And- and if not, I'll come and to see you."
"I need you now"
"You know I can't-"
"Please."
I looked at the clock. 7:15pm.
"It'd take me until 9pm to get to you." I complained lightly.
"You're right, I'm sorry. I just feel so alone." Yui struggled to speak over her crying. She was usually the emotionally strong one but not tonight. It broke my heart to listen to Yui cry without doing anything about it.
"You think you could stay strong before 9pm?" I asked, getting up from my seat.
"Yeah." Yui sniffled. "Thank you."
"9pm." I said before ending the call.
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A/N
The previous chapter was just supposed to be cute and I hope y'all can now see that I, Nicole, now plan to come in like a wrecking ball and dramatically destroy whatever story I have created. I wrote this at like 2am but I've checked grammar so only the fox god knows if there are mistakes.
