It had been around four weeks since the incident. I had managed to move out and get a job at the local bookstore. I was enjoying my new life. My new job. My new apartment. I was fine. Or… At least, that's what I thought, until I looked out the window. There, with big bold letters was HIS name. Oh god, why did you have to do this? Why did they have to write his name right outside of my job? Why did you have to break my heart? I thought back on what had happened just a few weeks ago.
"Oh I can't wait!" I practically sprung up the stairs and up to my boyfriend's room, ignoring all the stares from the other guys, who, if I stopped, would tease me for life. It was our 1-year anniversary and he was taking me out to dinner. He said that he'd take me to the most fancy restaurant in the city, because I deserved nothing less, but honestly I could go anywhere as long as he was with me. With a smile plastered on my face I made my way to knock on his door but stopped immediately when I heard another female's voice come from inside. Shocked and unsure of what to do I just stood there and stared.
"Oh, Eisuke!"
"What?" I couldn't believe my ears. That was definitely a female's voice and there's no way that's me, because I'm standing right here! That means that there's another female in there, alone with Eisuke and it doesn't exactly sound like they're enjoying a game of poker. I can't believe it. I'm so glad that there's no one else here because if there was then they would be able to hear the sound of my heart breaking. Tears started to form and threatened to fall any minute.
But you know, I could be wrong, right? It could all be a misunderstanding. Maybe I jumped to conclusions. Even though I knew what was going on, I didn't want to believe it. I tried everything to convince myself that Eisuke wasn't cheating on me but it didn't work. I grabbed the doorknob. I had to see. I had to know. I twist the doorknob and slam the door open.
"Oh, shit!" Eisuke hurriedly tried to cover himself and the other female but it was too late. I saw everything. "_, what are you doing here so early?" He straightened up.
"I-I wanted to come e-early, since it's our 1-year a-anniversary…" I managed to choke out before my tears made it impossible to speak.
"Who is SHE?" the other female asked and pointed at me. "I thought you had broken up with her?"
"N-no I-I" he struggled to answer her.
"Weren't you going to break up with her, like, two months ago?!"
Two months ago. So this has been going on for that long, huh? Wow, I'm an idiot. I can't believe I didn't see this coming. I mean, what did I expect? Women always surround him. I should have know that this was going to happen. But I had faith in him. I believed his words. I believed him when he said he loved me. I believed him when he said that he was never going to cheat on me. I believed in him but he still broke my heart… And on our anniversary no less.
"_, I can explain!" he pulled his boxers on and ran over to me.
"Don't bother, Eisuke." I said. "I'll come back for my stuff tomorrow." I turned around and ran down the stairs. I had to get out of there. My tears blurred my vision and before I knew it, I was in someone's arms.
"Hey _, what's wrong?" A surprised Soryu looked down at me but I just pushed him away and continued to run.
I can't believe he did that to me… Even after a whole month, it still hurts. Tears streamed down my face. Dang it! I still cry every time I think about him. I hurriedly dried the tears away but not soon enough for no one to notice.
"_?"
"Huh?" I turned around and saw Soryu standing there with a book in his hand. "S-Soryu, what are you doing here?" I stuttered. Oh no. I hope he didn't see me cry. I don't need this right now.
"I had some free time and thought I'd buy a book." He showed me his book and I suddenly remembered that we were in a bookstore and I was, indeed, working here.
"Oh, of course." I looked away. God, this is really embarrassing. There was an awkward silence between us before Soryu decided to break it.
"Do you work here now?" he pointed at my uniform.
"Ah, yes. I had to find a new place to work since I quit my last job because… you know…" I trailed off. I had a really tough departure, if you can call it that.
I came back the next day, when Eisuke was at work, and packed all my stuff. The other guys had heard about what had happened and tried to cheer me up. It didn't work though, but I appreciated the thought. I was just about to leave when the elevator door opened and the devil himself walked in. Everything was going according to plan until he walked in. There was an awkward silence in the room and everyone could feel it. I decided to end the silence by picking up my suitcase and walk out. Just when I was about to get in the elevator Eisuke grabbed my arm and pleaded "Please don't go." I didn't even look back at him when I answered "I don't want to see you again. I don't want to hear about you again. And to be honest, I wouldn't even care if you got hit by a truck. I just want to forget about you, Eisuke. You mean NOTHING to me anymore." I could hear the other guys gasp right before the elevator doors closed.
"Yeah, of course." He awkwardly scratched his neck.
"How are the other guys doing?" I asked. I really wanted some good news. I miss the other guys, after all, I did spend a little over a year with them.
"They're doing good."
"Good. And you? How have you been?" I knew that it had only gone a month but I still wanted to know. I cared about these guys and I wanted to know that everyone was ok. He looked a little surprised at first but then he just smiled.
"I've been ok."
Wow, he smiled. He actually smiled. This was the first time I had ever seen him smile like that. It was kinda cute. "Wait, whoa there. Back the fuck up, self. You're not supposed to think like that." I was scolding myself when Soryu's voice startled me back to reality.
"_, how have you been? Are you ok?"
He looked at me with worried eyes and for some reason I started to blush. "I've been doing good." I couldn't tell him that I spent most of my nights crying in front of a mirror and eating chocolate ice cream…
"Are you sure? You don't look too good…"
"I'm fine, Soryu. I'm fine." I wasn't fine. Not at all. "I'm fine." I repeated. "I'm fine… I-I'm f-fine…" I couldn't control myself anymore. I lost it. Tears, I didn't even know I had, poured down my cheeks and I started to shake. I sobbed loudly and tried to hug myself to stop the shaking. Soryu stepped forward and hugged me tightly against him. The soothing feeling of his warmth calmed me and after a while, I stopped sobbing and simply let the tears stream down my face freely.
"_, come with me. I think you should talk about this to someone, I'll be more than happy to listen to you."
I looked up at his warm and kind face. Soryu… This isn't fair… Being all kind and cute like that…
