The Hopeless Love Life Of A Loser

Looking Glass

"Please welcome her to the class." The teacher had finished introducing Chrome Dokuro. She was quiet the whole time, and her eye refused to meet anyone's gaze. In Namimori middle, Tsuna was not the melancholic teen he is now. He was full of hope and cheerful uselessness he tried to use for good.

He tilted his head. Was he the only one who noticed how isolated she was being(feeling). She went to take a seat in the back. Coincidentally next to him and the window. He smiled at the eye-patch girl. "Hi."

She almost flinched. She never expected to be acknowledged. The world was always treating her like a looking glass. Transparent, always looking through her. Someone was actually looking at her, for her...

She mustered up the ounce of courage she had and faced him. Her mask completely dropped in an instant. His smile was... real. Something she had always wanted.

Tsuna clutched the doorknob to his room. He pressed his forehead on the door, not able to gain the strength to open it. Helplessly stranded in the hallway.

He didn't noticed it, but Yuni was peeking at him, from the small opening of her door. Onii-chan looked so sad and his eyes were bloodshot. He was crying earlier.

"...I want something real too, Chrome..."

She barely heard it, because his voice was weak and dry. She grew wide eyes. 'Then that means Onii-chan and Chrome...'

He opened the door. She heard him sigh with the mattress springs, as he collapsed on the bed. She quietly closed her door and left him to his thoughts.

Tsunayoshi stared at the ceiling. His forearm on his forehead. "I..." He gulped. He closed his eyes and tried. "I-I." He couldn't. He opened them, blinking out a tear. He slid his hand down to his face. He rubbed his eyes and took a breath. "I wanted to say yes so badly," a cracked pitch, "Chrome..." Letting that out hurt, even if he was the only one who heard it, especially because he was the only one.

"Don't worry." Boss led Chrome up the stairs. She didn't talk much. It didn't bother him. He could tell she was a kind person. Intuition. "Just let me talk to Hibari, first." Tsuna gave a useless cringe.

He opened the door to the Namimori middle school roof. "Hey Hibari."

The perfect didn't reply. He was sitting down, enjoying the quiet moment. Until he noticed someone extra. He glared at her.

Chrome squeaked a scared peep and instinctivly hid behind Boss. Her thin fingers clutched his shoulders, and she tried to peek around him.

Boss instantly heated up. No one ever trusted him so quickly. 'She feels so delicate behind me, like a porcelain doll.' Her breath tickled his ear, it was a natural fragrance of heat. 'She smells really nice too, like lavender with barely a hint of the rain. Wait a minute, I should focus on Hibari.' Tsuna almost went 'hiee.' Hibari was losing his patience. 'I don't want to be bitten to death!'

"H-Hibari, this is Chrome. I was kind of thinking, that maybe, she could start hanging out with us, up here?"

Tsuna smiled recalling the memory. It took alot of convincing, but Boss was able to wear him down. It also helped that Chrome was mute. "I want those days back." He rolled over on his bed and stared at the wall. Back then it was simple. "We really were friends..."