~It was early Autumn~

The sudden rush of cold wind ripped one piece of paper from the Silver haired boys hand.

"Crap." the boy murmured to himself while frowning a bit.

He hit his forehead with his thenor* and thought to himself "Geez what a pain in the as* ", as he continued walking toward the direction that the wind blew his letter away.

Soon he stopped and bent over to pick it up. He didn't pay much attention to his surroundings.

"Yo." He heard a familiar voice greet him.

"Nn...Yo" He answered, a bit displeased, a bit confused and above all; startled. While still bending over to pick up the paper that was on laying still on the asphalt, stuck under the tip of redhead's shoe.

"What are you doing here this early in the morning?" The red head curiously asked the boy that was slowly lifting up his head and cleaning the dirt off the paper.

"I was just thinking about something and couldn't sleep" He finally looked up and met redhead's eyes. It suddenly clinched in his heart. He shifted his gaze away from the redhead's eyes to hide the sight of his pale cheeks slightly blushing. But then a second later, he fixed his gaze back to the other boys eyes and said arrogantly.

"What about you? Shouldn't you be training to improve your poor soccer skills? If you don't get any better, you will always stay beneath me." He had to keep his usual arrogant and overconfident act together.

"Whaa- ?!" The red head frowned at the response and responded back clearly annoyed.

"Yeah like I need to hear that from you, you just stole my lines". As the redhead finished his sentence and as he noticed that, after all, the silver haired boy was acting a bit weird today. There was this unusual atmosphere around him. As the silver haired boy was lost in his thought, Nagumo continued.

"Hey, aren't you gonna threw a few more insults at me like usual? Like how my hair looks like a tulip or something? *Altho it's flame* " He tried to sound arrogant and provocative, but in fact it was totally the opposite and it was quite obvious that he was worried about the silver haired boy.

At that Suzuno chuckled a little trying to hide the fact that that made him actually happy, and so he grinned back at the other boy.

"I didn't know you were a masochist." He stood straight with his hands crossed and a smirk on his face. In his left hand he held the paper between his index and middle finger with the contents facing his back so that Nagumo wouldn't pay much attention to the paper, then he combed his hair with his other hand.

Still slightly worried Nagumo grinned back to the overly confident boy and replied.

"Looks like its no use worrying about trash, heh." and then started walking past the silver haired boy. He stood in line and then he smiled and landed his hand on his rivals shoulder.

No words were necessary, it was like he was telling him "I don't know what happened to you or what threw you off the balance but keep it together I'm here for you."

Nagumo smirked behind Suzunos back and thought "You are strong, you will be fine." then he continued walking back to the orphanage.

After Nagumo walked away some distance Suzuno turned his head following the figure that was facing him with its back and slowly walking away.

Suzuno let out a deep sigh "Phew", "That was close" he thought to himself.

Then he shifted his gaze on the paper. It was a letter. With a sad expression on his face he read the letter.

~Same day, afternoon, in school, lunch break~

Suzuno packed up his books back into his bag as the bell rang announcing the lunch break has started. Instead of going to cafeteria as usual, he headed towards the roof. There, a long haired greenette was waiting for him. He sighed and started walking towards her.

"Gazelle..." She started. Her hands were slightly shaking but she tried to control them. "You see I..." She continued.

Suzuno stared in ground beside him with an icy cold, emotionless expression.

"I'm sorry." The icy cold expression he had has changed to a pained expression.

That got her stunned. In his eyes, the pain was reflected, pain of loneliness which she never expected to see face on.

"I can't return your feelings" He finished his sentence and looked straight at her.

She bit her lip trying to hold back the tears and under the shadow of her hair he could see the tears gathering.

"I-is it ...because I'm a part of Prominence? " She held on to the last bit of hope, even though she knew that Suzuno, already likes someone else to the point of breaking his mind, and that it was as well unrequired. She noticed that from time to time, other than acting arrogant he would secretly hold an expression of loneliness and hurt. As if he was missing something. She fell in love with that face of his, even though she knew it wasn't for her, the feelings that he harbored in secret.

"It's not like that...-" He tried to explain himself but she cut him.-

"Can't I replace her? The person in your heart?" She was desperate.

Suzuno gasped shocked, he thought he hid it well, so how? He shifted his gaze away, clenched his teeth and tightly closed his eyes and finally responded after a pause.

"I'm really sorry, even though I know it's impossible, it can't be anyone other than that person." Then he smiled gently "Because, I can't lie to myself about those feelings. "

She started crying but kept trying "I promise to make you happier, I promise to make you forget the pain so please give me a chance!" She plead but Suzuno walked away. "I'm sorry it can't be anyone other than him" He whispered, but she couldn't hear him.

~After the confession took place on the roof~

Both Nitou and Suzuno had left.

"Hmm... So that arrogant idiot has someone he likes so much to make that kind of face" murmured Nagumo as he was talking to himself about the incident that took place in front of him, but of course he stayed unnoticed. He was laying on the top of the entrance to roof, there was some space where he would climb on and drink his strawberry milk while waiting for the lunch break to end.

There have been many confessions that he accidentally happened to overhear, but this was the first time he kept thinking about.

"I see, so he already has someone in mind" He felt sharp pain tightening in his heart, feeling disappointed.

He squashed the empty tetra pak and threw it away.

"Ah this sucks" He closed his eyes and put a hand over his face while laying down facing the cloudy sky.