Disclaimer: Pot doesn't belong to me. Too sad, isn't it?

Rating: T

Summary: short side story to "Goodbye My lover" explaining why Tomoka and Sanada's parents hated Sakuno.

A/N: English is not my first language; feel free to point out the mistakes I made.

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Tomoka's reason for hating Sakuno : (Tomoka PoV)

As far as I remember Sakuno and I have always been friend. The best friend ever according to our family.

We spent all our free time together. She was the shy one and I was the hyperactive one. A good team. Shopping, cinema, babysitting my brothers, playing tennis…, we did everything together.

We were the official cheerleaders of Seigaku tennis club and we were invited to help at the Invitational Camp. It had been a good opportunity for us to earn a little bit of money. Ryusaki-sensei promised to pay us because the tournament was to be broadcast on TV. She said there was no reason that TV would make money out of it and not us who worked to help the players train.

Everything started to go down when her grandmother had a heart attack during a coaching session. She spent most of time at the hospital looking after her grandmother. Well I could understand that her family came first but she could have gone out with me during an afternoon.

Suddenly she left the Invitational Camp. I had to drag her to see the matches. I knew it had something to do with one of the player who did something wrong to her. I discovered his identity when he played with Atobe-san.

After this tournament Sakuno and I were close again. I mean we spent our time together and when her grandmother was released from hospital we organized a huge party. She was happy so I was happy too. We tried to catch Ryoma-sama's attention only to be glared at by Tezuka-senpai and him.

Suddenly she began to receive flowers from Sanada Genichirou. It was his way to apologize for what he did to her. She got so many bunches of flowers that she gave me some of them.

Then she has been invited to a restaurant and she spent the night at his place. When she explained me the reason I laughed. It wasn't the first time that Sakuno forgot her keys when going out.

I knew that she became friend with Sanada-san. There was nothing wrong with this friendship because she spent an equal amount of time with both of us.

I remember when we went to see Harry Potter. We were queuing and she saw him. She went to him and asked him which movie he wanted to see. Well they talked a little bit and then she came back dragging him behind her.

After the movie he bought us something to drink and we chatted. Sanada-san wasn't the horrible guy people said he was. He could almost compete with Ryoma-sama.

On Friday afternoon she used to go to Rikkai Dai. They usually spent this day together. I wasn't jealous because Sakuno was mine the rest of the time.

Everything changed on a Friday afternoon. She has been attacked in the street and he saved her. They confessed their love for each other and well I became less important.

When we were together it was Genichirou this Genichirou that. She kept talking about him. She has never been so lively before. The shy girl became more confident.

Saying that I was happy would have been alie. She did nothing to attract to him. I did anything I could to attract Ryoma-sama but he never acknowledged me.

When she came back from Sanada's 16th birthday party I knew that something was wrong. She was weeping and she told me that his parents didn't want to see her around their son any longer.

I thought that their relation came to an end so we discussed this problem and she told me that she loved him more than her own life. She even told me that she would do anything to see him again.

I was jealous. Jealous of her. Jealous of their relation. Jealous that a shy girl could attract such a charismatic man. Jealous that she spent more time with him than with me even if his parents were against their relation.

I hated myself for having such horrible feelings. Little by little I began to think that Sakuno wanted his money, that she didn't really love him.

I tried to repress these feelings but they were way too strong.

When she announced me that she was getting married with him at the end of their studies something snapped in my mind. I insulted her, telling her plenty of nasty things, calling her a whore.

She tried to explain me everything but I didn't want to hear what she had to say. She insisted and I slapped her yelling that I didn't want to see her or hear from her ever again.

She left, holding her right cheek, tears rolling down her face.

I guess I should have apologized but I was too proud. Now it's too late. I knew it was too late when I saw her at her grandmother's burial. She looked at me and then looked at Sanada-san who spoke to one of his friend. This man came to me asked me to leave. I left and swore to myself that I'll never try to see her again.

I was the one who destroyed our friendship but she was the one who refused my attempt to rebuild it.