Haru Onodera sighed as school ended. "Are you excited Haru?" She glanced over at her friend Fuu. She gave a little smile. "Of course!" She stood up and grabbed her bag. "Tomorrow is our last day as second years." She grinned. Fuu was her friend since the first day of her high school career. She glanced over to side, seeing the empty seat that Paula usually took. She looked quickly to the door seeing her leaving. "Paula!" She shouted as she ran up behind her. Paula gave a slight irritated sigh.

"What is it?" She asked, stopping to look back at Haru.

"I just thought the three of us could walk home together." She gestured to Fuu who was following behind her. "Our last day as second years." She grinned at her.

Paula rolled her eyes and continued walking forward. "I guess, it won't be terrible to walk home together. This will be my last chance to do that with you guys?"

Haru gave a little chuckle. "We'll be able to walk to home together next year."

Paula shook her hear. "No..this is my last year here."

"Whaaaat?!" Haru stopped with her a look of disbelief. "Wh..wh..what are you talking about? Your last year here. We still have a whole other year ahead of us." Paula had been one of the few people besides her sisters group of friends, she had grown close to. Losing her made her feel like a family member was moving away

"Yeah, this is black tigers last year here. If' black tiger's not here then I don't really have a reason to continue staying here. I'm going to go back to America with the rest of the beehive group." She said as she continued walking ahead.

"bla..oh..Tsugumi." She gave a thoughtful look, recalling what that particular person looked like. "Oh yeah..it's Kosaki's last day too." She gave a heavy sigh. And it's Raku's last year as well. She looked down as she thought about her prince. She had spent that last two years around all her sisters friends, but now they were moving on to colleges. Some of them like Chitoge and Tsugumi were leaving the country, and others like Ruri and her sister were moving to different towns. Raku was staying close, having found a college that was really close by. She had made many unforgettable memories with them all, but those days of everyone hanging out were over.

After a little while, and separating from Fuu and Paula, she made it back to her place. She walked into her house. "I'm home!" She called out.

"Welcome home!" Her mother's voice called out from the kitchen.

Haru dropped her bag and took off her shoes, going into the kitchen. "Are you making supper?" She asked standing on the other side of the counter. Her mother shook her head, checking pots and pans on the stove. "Oh..some more sweets?" She smiled and grabbed an apron.

Her mother looked up at her. "Oh no Haru. That's perfectly alright. I'm making something for you and your sister." She gave her a smile.

"oh." She stopped with the apron and slipped it back off. "Then I'll be in my room if you need me." She said heading over to her room. She stopped by her sisters room, hearing someone talking. With the door cracked open just a little she caught a glimpse of her sister on the phone. "Kosaki~" She said pushing open the door a little. She smiled brightly at her. Kosaki gave her a small smile and waved to her. She continued talking on the phone with who Haru assumed was Ruri, as they talked about graduation tomorrow and things they should be doing. She went over to her sisters desk, which was scattered with information sheets about different colleges. There were two in the middle of the desk. One, which was a great place to learn to cook and the other was the same college Raku had mentioned he was going to. She closed her eyes for a moment. Her sister had been going after this boy Raku since her junior high, but nothing had come of it. As hard as she tried to hook them up, setting up situations for them, she would usually always end up being caught in between them. She wanted her sister to be happy, but something she had always kept secret from her and from him, as much as she tried, as much as she wanted to best for the two of them, it had always pained her to see the two of them together. She loved Raku, all the times someone had been there for her when she needed someone the most.

"Alright, I'll see you tomorrow then. Bye Ruri." Kosaki hung up the phone and turned to her sister. "What brings you in here?" She gave her a smile as she sat on the bed. Haru opened her eyes and turned to her, offering her a bright smile.

"I was just wondering if you knew what mom was making us." She grinned and pulled out the chair to the desk.

Kosaki chuckled a little. "She said she was keeping it a secret." Her smile faded a little as Haru looked back at the desk, looking over the the sheets. As Haru moved one of them she found a letter. Kosaki got up and took it. Haru looked up at her. "You got accepted into a college?"

Kosaki gave a nod, holding the letter close to her body. "It wasn't my first choice, but I did get accepted." She looked up at her. "I'm going to learn how to make better sweets so that maybe I can help this place out a little more." She smiled and then sat down. With such happy news Haru wondered why she looked so depressed.

"But..Raku isn't going to be there is he?" Haru asked softly, watching for her sister's reaction.

Kosaki put the letter back down and stepped away. "No..he won't be there. He got accepted to a closer school. He's going to become a civil servant he says. He's always wanting to help people." Haru gave a small nod and looked down at the floor.

There a moment of silence, as both of them thought about a life without Raku, a life without all their friends constantly around them. "Are you going to confess your love to Raku tomorrow?" Haru asked without looking up.

'Wh..wh..wh..what!...what..what are you asking? I..I..couldn't...I shouldn't..." Kosaki's face turned bright red at the thought of her asking him such a thing. She rubbed her arm. "We're going far away from each other..we wouldn't be able to see each other that much and we'd be busy with school." She said softly, sitting back down on the bed. She was hopelessly in love, but with so many others and with the two of them going to be so far away, Kosaki just couldn't imagine the two of them actually being together.

"What if someone else went out with him?" Haru asked, her stomach tightening as her heart started to race. What if I...went out with him? She thought to herself.

Kosaki looked up for a moment. "I guess..if...they were happy who would I be..to stand in their way." She said softly. She felt the pain in her chest, the same pain Haru felt when she tried to set them up, the pain of losing the one you loved.

"Kosaki! Haru! You're surprise is ready!" Their mother cried out to them.

"Be there in a minute!" Haru cried back. Haru looked over at Kosaki. "I have to go change..but I'll see you down there." She gave her sister a smile and got up, heading to her own room. Kosaki followed behind her and started down to where their mother was. As Haru closed the door, she slumped against it and buried her face into her knees, the pain returning to her chest, the confusion running her mind. What should I do..What should I do? She thought to herself as she closed her eyes, listening to her own thumping heart.