Karma: After Story

Conflict Time

When Nagisa ran off that morning, Karma felt something in him break. He started to regret getting too intimate with Nagisa. Admittedly, he'd gotten too comfortable at that point. Everything just seemed to flow so... nicely. Nagisa questioning it prompted him to want to say something. I love you. But those words never came out. Cuddling him was one thing, but kissing him was something else. Karma was an idiot, he should have realised he was making Nagisa feel uncomfortable. That's the only reason he could have to have run off like that.

Karma had invited Nagisa over to find a way to confess to him, but that obviously didn't go well. What was he going to do now? Nagisa wasn't responding to his messages and it was honestly starting to piss him off, even if it was unreasonable.

Nagisa I'm sorry for what I did.

Please talk to me.

There wasn't much else for him to do. He had the whole Sunday free but spending the whole day sulking to himself would be pretty pathetic. Although, he really wasn't feeling in the mood for anything. Karma ultimately decided to open the LINE group chat for 3-E and mindlessly scrolled through. There was talk about how Karasuma and Irina's wedding was just around the corner. They were exaggerating; they'd only recently gotten engaged, it would take at least a year before they got married. But good for them, things were progressing well for the two unlike Karma and a certain someone. It was depressing, really, but at the moment, all Karma wanted was for him and Nagisa to remain friends. He'd made a mistake avoiding him just a couple years back, he'd gotten scared. Yet when he reunited with Nagisa in E class, he still found himself gravitating towards the boy. Karma had only recently realised his feelings for him, but perhaps they were there all along and he just never noticed.

Karma decided it was best to be productive and started studying – it was going to be a while before midterms but it was a lot better than pathetically thinking of Nagisa. He'd learnt his lesson – that studying was important – from his time in 3-E, after the humiliation that was the first term's finals. Despite everything, his mind would still occasionally drift to Nagisa – prompting him to frantically check his phone and see if he had gotten a reply. The day continued with that exact pattern, without much else happening. At one point, Karma had considered talking to Okuda again but decided against it. It was already getting late when he thought of it and he didn't want to bother her when she might have been busy preparing for school the next day. Deciding that was enough studying for the day, Karma head off to bed.

School. Yeah, another day of that. That meant another day of teasing Asano, but what didn't help was that Asano seemed to love interrogating Karma – none of this was any of his business. Why did he care?

"Akabane," Asano stared coldly into Karma's eyes, "you're getting distracted again."

Karma was not in the mood. He averted his gaze, hoping to avoid answering him.

"Did something happen between you and Shiota?" Asano continued in pursuit.

Shut up. Shut up. Why do you care? Karma was really getting mad now. He really didn't understand why Asano was so curious about him and Nagisa.

"You do realise that you could easily solve everything if you just t-" Karma didn't want to hear any more of it. He grabbed his bag and stormed out of the classroom, not before glaring at Asano.

"Oi! Akabane!" the teacher called out. Karma was done – he'd decided staying would do him more harm than good. Skipping wasn't unusual for him, he shouldn't have come in the first place. Karma made a detour to his favourite drinks stall to buy some strawberry milk before he left the school. Sipping on his milk, he knew exactly where he was headed. Keisetsu Daigaku Fuzoku High School, Nagisa's school. Karma was ready for confrontation, he was going to stand in front of his school until lessons were over for the day. Well, maybe not stand, but he was going to sit there and wait. There was no way Nagisa could avoid confrontation like that.