What The Future Holds For Us

Chapter 12: The class reunion

Akari's POV

Looking in front of me I got so many emotions. Memories began to flood in about all the things that make this class who it is. Everyone was overjoyed to see me, and I felt the same about them.

Nakamura was the first to greet me. She gave me the biggest hug, welcoming me to the reunion. I almost cried tears of joy walking around the campus, seeing everyone on the way.

Some of the guys were cooking a big dinner and I was thrilled thinking about it.

But when I looked over by the entrance to the building, I saw Karma and Nagisa talking together. Nagisa had cut his hair, he still looked super cute.

I have to go say hi to the both of them. I started to make my way over and made eye contact with Karma. He notices that I'm coming over to those two, and he immediately gets up and walks towards my direction.

"He's all yours..." Karma whispers as he passes me.

It's not like he didn't want to talk with me, but he wanted me to talk to Nagisa alone. Why of course he did. As he ran past me I turned around to see where he was going. He and Nakamura were watching with those faces that could haunt a ghost. Jeez...

Here goes nothing...

Nagisa's POV

Karma sure was in a hurry to go see Nakamura. I hope nothing has gone wrong—

"H-hey, N-Nagisa..." someone says, tapping my shoulder. I turned my head back to see who it was, and I was greeted with Akari.

She looked so beautiful. The black and maroon dress she had was perfect on her. She had let her hair go down, and had it gone back to the black it really was. She was a bit taller, too , roughly my height. She was blushing a tiny bit, and I was speechless when I saw her.

Eventually I was able to quickly stand up to look her properly in the eye. My cheeks grew as red as hers, and looking at each other was a bit of a challenge for both of us.

"H-how are you?" Akari said, looking a bit at the ground.

"I-I'm fine... thanks." I manage to say.

We just stood around for a few more seconds, neither of us knowing what to say. So I'll just make the first move.

I gave Akari the biggest hug I could possibly muster. At first she seemed as if she froze up, but she soon hugged me back. I squeezed her a bit tighter, as the good memories of us came flooding through.

I don't care if Karma or Nakamura are taking photos of this. I need to live in this moment.

After what might have been a comically long hug, we finally broke apart. Our arms were both still wrapped around each other's sides. My heart was beating faster, and Akari was looking at me with a smile, but almost holding back tears. Both of us are unbelievably excited to have the other with them.

"I missed you a lot..." I say.

"S-same here..." Akari said, brushing back some hair.

The two of us talked for a couple minutes, before Isogai came onto a speaker system to address the whole class.

"Hey everyone! I'm so glad so many of us were able to make it!" Isogai said, with a grin on his face. "Just a heads up, dinner should be ready in about an hour, so feel free to mingle until then!"

"You heard the big man, let's go say hi to some of the others." I tell Akari, hoping she will join me.

"That sounds like fun, we can go together." Akari said, with a wonderful smile.