Chapter 1

"Asahina, wait up!" I yelled while trying to catch up to her. "Why do you keep leaving so darn early? If we are dating then is it too much to ask to at least let me know when you are leaving." She just kept walking and looking straight like nobody said anything. "Can you at least answer me, please?"

"Why would I need to answer you? If I do it's not gonna solve anything. You will just ask me more questions." Asahina answered in her regular tone of voice that hid almost all of her emotions.

I was getting annoyed of this. I took her hand and kept walking. I didn't need to mention that she could let go if she wanted to. She already knew that. To my surprise, she didn't let go. She did the exact same thing as last time. She intertwined her fingers in mine. "Yamato, may I ask you a question?" she asked.

"Yeah, of course you can." I was surprised she asked. Normally she would just ask the question instead of seeing if it was alright.

"You do know that I didn't only date you because I felt bad for you right?" I was shocked that those words actually came out of her mouth.

"Yeah, of course I know that." I was really curious why she asked. But I wasn't about to mention that to her. "I mean after all, you're not really that type of person.

"Yamato, I l-," that was all she got out before Yasunobu interrupted us by yelling, "hey, over here." I must admit that I was pretty irritated at that moment. After a few seconds he caught up to us and asked, "So, what's up with you guys? Oh, wait, were you to about to confess to each other?" It didn't take long for Asahina to respond to that question.

"Of course not. I have no feelings for Yamato at all." That made my heart drop quite a bit.

"Oh sure, that is why you two are going out." Yasunobu was just pushing it now, I wouldn't be surprised if Asahina just kicked him right in the face. "Just admit it Suzuka, you are in l-," was all I heard before she actually did, out of my surprise, kick him.

"That is what you get for messing with Suzuka's love life." Miki said. "Hello there guys, what's up?"

"Nothing really," I stated while still a little irritated at Yasunobu.

"Don't worry about him, I'll get him out of here," she said while dragging him away.

I was gonna ask what Asahina was about to say earlier but was afraid she would get mad at me. "Yamato," she said while breaking me from my thoughts. "May I continue from earlier?"

"Yeah of course." I honestly didn't know what she was gonna say, but I wanted to know.

"I was gonna say-" she paused, "that I am in love with you." That really made me jump. I didn't know what to say. Just the fact that she said that was shocking enough. What was I supposed to say now? I was completely lost for words. "So?" Just that one word broke me from my trance. It was weird, I knew exactly what to say.

"I love you to Suzuka." She looked at me strangely. "What, did I say something wrong."

She shook her head, "No, it's just that you called me by my first name." How did I not notice that? I did call her by her first name. After a few seconds I noticed that she was crying. "Are you alright? Suzuka is everything alright?"

She nodded. "Yes, everything is fine. I'm just so happy." She smiled at me. She was so beautiful at that moment. And even more to my surprise, she fell into me and hugged me, meanwhile crying on my shoulder. I lifted her chin up so she was looking at me. Unfortunately she noticed that people were looking and she quickly jumped back, wiped the tears off her face, and walked away.

Later during lunch I thought that I should find her and talk to her about earlier, just to make sure she wasn't joking with me like she was on that bridge with the fireflies. It took me a while, but I finally found her. And what do you know, she was practicing her high jump. I looked at the bar this time and noticed, in was set at 180 cm. There is no way she is gonna make this, I thought to myself. It was 2 seconds, just 2 seconds. But to me it felt like an eternity, just watching her, in the air, hovering over the high bar. She actually made it.

She noticed me looking at shouted, "Hey, what are you looking at." She said it in a sarcastic tone, but I was so surprised that I didn't notice. "Are you alright? You don't look that great." I noticed she was right. I was feeling dizzy and light headed. She came up and put her hand up to my head. "You've got a fever. You should go home and rest."

"Yeah, I will," I responded. Unfortunately as soon as I turned around I fell over unconscious. The last thing I remember was her voice screaming my name.