Honoka and Maki were in the music room, sitting on the piano bench. As Maki was playing, Honoka heard how sour and wrong the notes were.

"Maki-chan? What's wrong?" Honoka asked innocently.

"I-It's nothing, Honoka," Maki said as she lifted her hands away from the keys.

That was not going to slide by Honoka.

She sighed. "We talked about this, Maki-chan. We have to learn to open up more. You know, talk about our problems."

The red-head shook her head. "I don't know if you would want to hear this."

"Of course I want to!" Honoka took a hold of Maki's hands. "If there's anything wrong with my girlfriend, I want to do anything to help her!"

Maki's tears fell faster after hearing Honoka's kind words. "You're too kind, Honoka."

"What?"

"My father…he found out about us. He wants us…to break up," she finally said.

"W-What?" Honoka said again, but for a different reason.

"He doesn't agree with our relationship. And mother agrees with him. Right now, I have to worry about school."

"T-That's okay! They're right!" Honoka desperately said. "I'll let you study! We…We won't hang out after school then! We have time during school. And it's almost the end of school!"

"I wish it was that easy, Honoka."

"They let you do idol practice!"

"And that's why they aren't too worried about that now."

"That's good! Right?"

Maki nodded her head. "They're more worried about who I'm dating."

Honoka looked at her girlfriend confusedly. "What's wrong with me, Maki-chan?"

"Nothing is wrong with you, Honoka. It's just the fact that you are a girl."

The orange-haired girl scrunched her face. "That's stupid! There's nothing wrong about that!"

"You and I may not see it like that, but my parents do." Maki stood up from the piano bench and walked to the window. "They're traditionalists. You know, a man and a woman should be married and have children."

"We can adopt! There's nothing wrong with that!" Honoka quickly stood up and turned to Maki.

"That won't stop the fact that they won't agree with our relationship."

"Then live with me and my family! They love you, and they are happy with our relationship!"

"I would love to, Honoka…But, I can't just disobey them. I have my future planned out, and they'll be paying for my university degree."

"Wait." Honoka placed a hand on Maki's shoulder. "You're saying that we need to break up because of money?"

"It's not just money, Honoka!" Maki raised her voice as she shrugged off Honoka's hand. "It's my future. I've been working hard at becoming a doctor, you know that."

"Of course I do! I've been with you since for two years, Maki-chan!"

"So, you know that this is important to me. I can't just throw it away after I've been working so hard at it."

Those words made Honoka's heart break, even further than it already was.

"So…we were nothing then? We worked hard at building our relationship, and now you're throwing it away?"

"I don't mean it like that! We have the future, Honoka!"

"But what about now, Maki-chan!" Honoka hugged Maki's waist and held her tightly. "I don't want to lose what we have. But…it sounds like you don't love me anymore."

"I still love you, Honoka!"

"Then why break up?! Because of your future? I want to be with you now and forever! And that's where my future is!"

Maki struggled to release from Honoka's embrace, despite the burning urge to return it. "You're in your third year, Honoka. You've thought about where you were going to go, right?"

"I did! But, it always had you in my mind! And now, I don't even know what to do anymore."

Maki was struggling to think of her words. "I…We…We can still have a future, Honoka. After university and everything, we can get together again."

"You're saying that while wanting to break up?" The orange-haired girl's hold was weakening. "Why can't we just be together-"

"I don't want to break up, Honoka! But…it's what's best for both of us. We can focus on our futures and we can be together again."

Honoka tightened her hug again. "Don't play with my emotions, Maki-chan. I love you. Tell me that you love me."

Maki placed a hand atop of Honoka's. "I do. I love you so much, Honoka."

There was a glimmer of hope that Maki wouldn't let her go. "Tell me that we don't have to break up. That we can have a future together starting right now."

Maki wanted desperately to say yes to Honoka. But, she knew that it would be better for them. Weighing the options, they would be able to see each other again once everything was finished. Once Maki finished her university degree, she would have control on her life. She liked her parent's line of work, and it would only benefit her by being a doctor as well. She and Honoka would live happily ever after, as they say. Maki would have credentials for being a very well-trained doctor, so she wouldn't need her parent's hospital for the money. She and Honoka would be able to live their life the way they wanted to. They would have a future together.

"We could have a better future, Honoka. We won't be apart for long. We-"

THUD!

Honoka wanted to regret harshly pushing Maki into the windowsill. She saw Maki clutching her stomach, writhing in pain.

But after saying I love you.

She just let her go?

"I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU, MAKI-CHAN!" Honoka yelled as she ran out the door and slammed it.

She kept running through the halls, wanting to leave the place. She quickly got her things and ran, tears filling her view. As she was about to leave the school gates, she collided into a person.

"Ow! God, what the hell?" A familiar high voice said. "Wait, Honoka?"

"Nico-chan?" She barely could say.

"I was going to talk you out, but you look awful. What's wrong?" Nico started to stand back up, but she was quickly held down by a whimpering Honoka. "Honoka?"

"It hurts, Nico-chan!" She said.

Nico didn't know what that meant, but she didn't want to leave Honoka in this state. "Alright, it's okay. Just follow me. We'll head to my apartment."

Without a word, Nico and Honoka made their way to the said apartment.

I hope you enjoyed the angsty introduction. I'm working hard to get more chapters finished, and I can see where I want this to go. However, despite having a week long break I need to focus on my school work.

Fair warning, this story is going to have some heaviness to it. I won't spoil what is going to happen (as I can see it, but I don't have it written out yet), but it's going to be much more dark than my other stories.

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