It was the first day of school at Kisargi Academy and Today was finally gonna be the day that Yoshiki Kishinuma would ask out his beloved crush, Ayumi Shinozaki. All kinds of thoughts raced through his mind, as to what she would say, and how she would think of him after he asked her. He rolled out of bed and stared out the bedroom window of his small apartment, still thinking about what would happen. Would this be the day that he had dreamed of for two years? He could only hope that. As he got dressed, he thought of all the memories he would share with her if they dated, and how he would give anything for this to happen. He continued to quickly eat breakfast and rush to school, as he'd been running late. As he ran towards the sidewalk leading up to Kisargi, he stopped in his tracks, seeing who was in front of him - it was Ayumi. He walked towards her and greeted her," hey Shinozaki."

"Oh, hey Kishinuma, excited for the start of a brand new year of school?"

"Not really..." Ayumi gigled and waited for him to continue, looking around as if she was looking for someone. "I wanted to know if I could ask you something."

"Sure, I'm all ears." Yoshiki's heart started to pick up pace as he knew he had to ask her the question. He stared into her beautiful blue eyes as butterflies filled his stomach. His muscles started to tense up, and finally, the question came out.

"I've known you for a while, Shinozaki, and ever since you saved my future by stepping in at the gym storage room, I've grown to notice what an amazing person you are. I've liked you for a really long time, and I wanted to know if you'd be my girlfriend." He let his words sink in, and stared at Ayumi until she replied. Her face looked shocked at first, but once the question sunk in, she had a somewhat angry expression on her face. Yoshiki was confused.

"How dare you ask me out, Kishinuma!? Don't you know I like Mochida?" A hard slap hit him in the face, and then she pushed him down, using all of her force. "Look at you, you're a delinquent, and I'm the class rep. I'm way out of your league and I can't even believe you thought this would work! Is that all you want, are you done wasting my time?" Yoshiki sat on the ground in complete silence. "I'm leaving, see you in class."

"Bu-bu-but wait," Yoshiki said with great sadness. "Ayumi..."

Ayumi turned around and gave him a cold look. "Don't use my first name." With that, she turned back around and continued towards the school, leaving Yoshiki all alone on the ground, beside himself. He stood up, and turned away from the school, heading back home. He felt too embarrassed to show himself after what just went down. He knew Shinozaki would tell Satoshi Seiko, Morishige, Naomi, Satoshi, and Mayu. He didn't want to deal with it, and figured he'd just skip the first day.

Arriving at the door of his apartment, Yoshiki let out a deep sigh and walked into the room. His apartment wasn't very big, it included a living room, a small kitchen, a bathroom with a shower, and a small bedroom. Stepping into a small greeting area, he began pacing in a space between the kitchen and the living room until falling down on to his knees. He couldn't take that Ayumi denied him, and in such an aggressive way. He found himself sitting up against a wall his hands covering his face. The fact that she had to bring up Satoshi hurt the worst. He just didn't know what Satoshi had that he didn't . Yoshiki wanted answers - answers he might not never get.

Thinking about this made tears run down his face. It was the worst pain one could imagine. In all of Yoshiki's years of feeling pain, rejection, and hatred, this pain was unbearable, and there was only one thing he knew that might help him. He went into the kitchen and opened up a cabinet above the refrigerator. He continued to pull out a bottle, taking off the lid of the bottle, he took a long drink. He continued doing this until the bottle was empty of its yellow liquid. The bottle read "Irish Whiskey" and it was almost half full. After drinking what was left of the bottle, Yoshiki began to feel dizzy, and stumbled around for a bit. Finally, he turned around and fell to the ground, his vision slowly fading away until he fainted...

Satoshi Mochida sat in fourth period Math class, a worried look on his face. He leaned over to Ayumi, one of his friends who sat beside him, and whispered,"I'm worried about Yoshiki. I haven't seen him all day and its fourth period. Have you seen him today?" Ayumi sat in silence for a second and then looked back as Satoshi.

"I saw him earlier before school, but haven't seen him since. Why would you be worried about him anyways? Stupid delinquent asked me out this morning. Can you believe it? He probably went home all depressed that I rejected him."

Satoshi stared at her in disbelief, waiting for the class to end so he could talk some sense into her. How could she destroy him like that? Considering how she talked him down so much in class, He figured she didn't go easy on him. A few minutes later, the bell finally rang, and the class rushed out the door, glad that the first day of school had finally come to an end. Satoshi, Ayumi, Seiko, and Naomi all walked out together two by two. Once they were outside the classroom Satoshi stopped Ayumi to talk.

"How did it happen?" He asked boldly.

"He asked me and I said no," she replied.

"Bullshit," Satoshi said quickly after her statement. He knew she was lying. If it went that way, Yoshiki wouldn't have skipped school because of it. "Now tell me how it went down.

"Fine," Ayumi sighed, not wanting him to find out. "He said a speech about how he loved me since I saved his future, and how he's grown to notice what an amazing person I am. Finally he asked me to be his girlfriend."

"And what did you say?" Satoshi replied, impatiently.

"I told him that I was class rep and that he was just a delinquent and that I was way out of his league. Then I went on to tell him that I like someone else." This followed by a long pause. She wondered if she was of the hook or not. Satoshi stood in silence for a few seconds, and then replied.

"Then what did you do? I know that wasn't it. What else did you do?" He was angry. He didn't know what made her go so hard on him this morning.

"I slapped him," she replied. Disappointment filled Satoshi's face and then he let is head fall into his hands. "And then I shoved him to the ground. Followed by me telling him that he was wasting my time." Satoshi's head was still in his hands and he looked up with a shocked, but frustrated look on his face. for a minute, he just stared at Ayumi, trying to process what she just said.

"I'm going to go see him," he stated, with no emotion in his voice. Ayumi could tell that he was mad. "Why do you have to give him such a hard time?! He tries so hard to be nice to you and you just knock him down. Are you coming to apologize or not?"

"I guess I'll go and apologize," she said blankly. Satoshi nodded his head and then began walking down the halls of Kisargi, turning left and right around different corners, leading him to the exit, Ayumi not far behind. If it made Satoshi happy with her, she didn't mind apologizing to get on his good side. So that's why she went with him.

Walking down the last hallway, they had finally reached the exit. Satoshi held open the door for Ayumi as she walked through. Satoshi lead her down the sidewalk to Yoshiki's apartment. It was a few minutes away from the school, but they didn't mind the walk. There was a gentle breeze that blew against Satoshi and Ayumi's hair, blowing it to the right. There was a nice silence all the way there. It was calm, but after a few minutes of the silence, they had reached Yoshiki's apartment. "We're here," Satoshi said coldly.

"Alright," Ayumi started. "What's the plan?"

"What do you mean, Plan? We just go in there and see if he's ok." Ayumi nodded at Satoshi's response and the couple started walking towards the entrance of the complex. Soon after they'd reached Yoshiki's door. Satoshi knocked powerfully, but not angrily. He just wanted it to be loud enough for Yoshiki to hear. The two stood in silence, waiting for him to answer, but nothing happened. Losing patience, Satoshi turned the doorknob and entered the apartment. Ten feet away laid a passed out Yoshiki, lying on the floor with an empty bottle of whiskey just a few feet away from him.