Hey its me! TsukiyomiAlikutoMissaWatusi! I know i said not to expect stories from me, but I felt inspired! This is a really short story. Altogether its 3,011 words with four chapters. But even though it's small, I hope you can enjoy it as much as possible!

ONWARD!

PROLOGUE

****flashback****

I guess this is it. It's now or never, I thought, building up my confidence as I walked over to him.

I never thought I'd actually get the chance to do this.

"Uhh… Ikuto…" I said to him, a bit nervously.

"What's up?" he said with a smile, reassuring me about what I was about to do.

"Could you come with me for a sec?" I asked with a smile. Just get it over with!

"Sure, I guess." he said. I turned and started walking up the stairs and towards the hallway-away from the noise of the crowd of our class's loved ones that came to celebrate our 8th grade graduation.

When we got there, I stopped and turned around abruptly.

"Well Ikuto, I guess I'll make this short and sweet." I told him, crossing my arms over my chest. I wasn't looking him directly in the eye, more like at his neck. He nodded and said nothing, waiting patiently for whatever I was about to say.

I took one last deep, calming breath, and then I took a chance.

"I love you."

…

He was very silent. Just standing there with his mouth hung open and a very light blush on his cheeks. I looked to him and smiled, knowing very well that that glance could be the last time I see him for the rest of my life.

"Well," I started as I turned away, not wanting to look again because I might break down, "I must say that I'm glad to get this off of my chest. Maybe now I can move on through my life in peace." As I walked down the hallway, he said nothing, too shocked for words. Just as I was about to turn, so that I'd be visible to the crowd below, I said still not looking back at him, "Close your mouth, you'll catch flies." I walked away.

Well, I thought, that felt good! A lot better than I thought it might.

I had spent the entire night before this thinking about Tadase and Ikuto. I thought about their good points and their bad. All the things we had done together. Unfortunately, I also thought about the fact that I'm in a completely different social class than them. I don't really care, actually I couldn't care less, but it's the other people I worry about. If I got together with either of them there would always be people trying to tear us apart. So I laid there in my bed, going over what had happened in the past three years that I've been in school with them both.

The sadness I endured two years ago while I watched Tadase give Saaya his Valentines Day gift, and watched her give him his. I was so disgusted with her! She gave him M&M's! HE DOESN'T EVEN EAT CHOCOLATE! He broke up with her this year. But Saaya was perfect! She might have been a year older than us but since when has age mattered? She was athletic, smart (She was the second in the class for grades last year like I am this year), great personality, and so kind to everyone! (Unless that person had something to do with Tadase.) But then I find out from my friend Rima that he likes me? I can tell that he does but this was proof!

I also remember when I first found out that Ikuto was dating Kotone… I cried for so long! It was awful. And then this year I hear he's dating Utau? She's my friend and I know for a fact that she's not the type that would date someone. MUCH less someone like Ikuto. But when I narrowed it down to the very basics of my friendship with each of them (I am friends with both of them at least. I know they at least like me as a friend), I realized that not only had I spent more time with Ikuto, but I realized that we had a lot in common and when we spoke, we got along really well (most of the time…) So all in all I realized that I really love Ikuto.

Ahh Ikuto. Dear Tsukiyomi Ikuto. He was a pain in the ass with all his perverted comments and jokes. He was always getting my hopes up, and I'll tell ya, if I didn't love him as much as I did, then I'd say that I'm glad to be rid of him. But he brightened up my school days, left me thinking to myself, Did he really do that? He always gave me something to look forward to every day at school. He had me wondering what he might do the next day. Would he talk to me? Would we laugh together? Would he ever return my pencils?! Even though he's an inch or so shorter than me, he just… became a part of my regular life without me even noticing. He's something I wish I never had to let go.

But still…I can't believe it's the end…

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