Arc I: Unrequited Love
Chapter I: Melancholy
Character: Haruhi Suzumiya
I told myself that I'd never fall in love with anyone, that love was just a mental illness. I had no time for such meaningless feelings; I had to follow my dreams. And even if I were to somehow fall in love with someone, it'd be with some supernatural being who'd spice up my life.
But then… Why am I in love with you, Kyon?
You're nothing special, just your typical, everyday guy who complains and slacks a lot. You never even try to put time and energy into achieving something. You're a flirtatious pervert who has nothing better to do than stare at Nagato and drool over Asahina.
… Those are the lies I keep telling myself. In truth, you're none of those things; there's more to you than anyone else I know.
You'd revived my dreams when I began to lose hope in them. You'd inspired me to go on the adventures I had always wanted to. You've helped me make friends I never would have had. You gave the time to hear me and understand me. You showed me what true friendship was.
You made me happy.
It's because of your compassion, care, and understanding that I have fallen in love for you
… I've realized there's nothing I am that could possibly propel you to have the same feelings as I do. I've been a loud, obnoxious, demanding, and self-centered jerk to you from the day we met.
I'm starting to see all the mistakes I've made, all the times where I've gone wrong. I was so blindly caught up in trying to find joy in adventure that for a long time, I failed to realize my happiness lay with the people around me. My friends were the ones who made my life worth living, so I will try to change.
Still, what's done is done, and I there's nothing I can do to change how you feel about me. I'm just glad you are still with me, still my friend.
But still only a friend.
So I put on my façade of cheeriness and continue life as normal so you won't know of my hopeless love for you. I lie to myself because it eases the pain of having you be so close to me, yet so far from me.
And even though you'll never share the same feelings I have for you,
You will always be the one.
A/N: This was actually a real challenge for me to write. I had to make the actual content of the story around 400 words short, yet it still had to contain enough detail to satisfy. It also had to make sense. I personally am not too thrilled with how this turned out, but that's for you to decide. Hopefully my other entries for this will be better. And yes, I know, it's a little bit melodramatic, but then again, what isn't? On another not, I'll try to keep the content of A/N's to a minimum too. Still…
Total words in the story content in this chapter: 404. Makes me wonder what I'm missing…
