DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN AO HARU RIDE, THE SERIES BELONGS TO ITS RIGHTFUL OWNERS. I DID HOWEVER COME UP WITH THIS STORY.
THIS IS MY FIRST TIME STORY WRITING, PLEASE BARE WITH ME.
Heading to the train station, I kept wondering, did Kou feel the same way? Does he love me? I can't tell, it bothers me so much! What if he liked Yuuri more? Did he even know? What do I do? He always seems so emotionless, so uncaring, but yet so caring at the same time. As he occasionally spoke, I fumbled with the buttons on my blue coat, deep in a whole other thought. What if Kou didn't love me?
"Yoshioka-san, you've been silent ever since we left the school grounds. Something wrong?"
"Ah? No, just thinking over this thing I stumbled across today...nothing much!?..."
"Oh."
Ever since he didn't show up at the park for the festival long before in middle school, I've been waiting for a chance like this. A chance to be closer with him, and I felt I would never get that chance. However, since school started, since I've met him again, I felt that I could go back to how things were, a second chance! Earlier, I doubted that I could go back, like hitting a rewind button, but I feel I'm getting closer, just a little more effort on my part.
But, there is still the issue of did he feel the same way? There was one way I could test and see... I could see the stairs to the Aohoraido train platform ahead, just five blocks away. I could say I forgot something, and see if he got off to willingly go back with me. Then I would know, I would love him. If he doesn't get off, I would give up.
The stairs were empty, and the sun was setting in the distance. The steel rails of the northbound line rattled, the noise was accompanied by the sound of steel wheels on steel rails making contact, the whooshing sound of the accelerating train, and the ever growing hum of the electric motors, as the train departed the station. It seemed louder and was as if this departure rattled the rails and platform stronger. Somehow, although I knew everything would go as it normally did, somewhere deep inside me, felt a slight hunch that something was going to go wrong today, horribly wrong. I really hoped Kou would get off the train when I test his care...I really hoped. I really don't know what I would do with myself if he didn't get off...
