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Sometimes we make great sacrifices to achieve what we want. Our happiness. Therefore, men are the most selfish creature that has ever walk on Earth.
Chapter 2: The Sun Consumes Us All
His sun.
That's the only description he could think of whenever he heard her name.
The sun.
The central point of anythingness in the universe where nothingness to everythingness revolves around.
Just like his own world, it revolved around her.
It was funny because he did not even remember when all these things happened. He did not remember assigning her to be the fix point of his life nor making his world go around her. No, he did not. He did not choose this.
But he guessed it made sense anyway. It was not like the entire mankind chose the sun to be the central point of the universe. Heck, men did not even know that their lives revolved around the sun till Copernicus proposed it then Galileo proved it.
But it was that day when he first saw her again after years of not even seeing a simple glimpse of her hair. No, it was not. It was even earlier than that. It was the day when he saw her taking refuge at the same shrine as he was. It was the same shrine that sheltered them where he looked at her whenever she wasn't looking his way just to bask with her presence and to memorize everything that there is in her that he knew she was his center point.
She was his sun. She was the sun that he could not escape.
Everything just kept coming back to her no matter what he did. She was there whenever he looked even at the most peculiar place and sometimes, though he would not admit it, there was this part of his heart that would ache just to touch her, that would race whenever she got closer and that would soar whenever she called his name.
She was ethereal and whenever she called his name, she was a goddess but after all, how could she not be? She was the brightest star in the universe. Everything paled against her. Even him.
Others hated her for being so blessed with her brightness. Oh, how he despised them for being so low and callow that they would hate her for their mere jealousy. Yet, on the other side, people coveted her. They dreamed of her becoming theirs. They dreamed to have her. They dreamed to touch her.
Just liked him. Just liked how he dreamed of wrapping his manly fingers around her. Just liked how he dreamed that she will be his forever.
Yet she's not all loveliness. She hurt him so too. She hurt him so dearly too even when he knew he deserved it. His fingers were filled with burns by touching her.
Because he touched her with uncertainty and doubt and the sun did not appreciate it so she turned her back on him and let the others reached for her again.
The race began and he was left with his cloudy mind and doubts. It became his downfall.
He watched her shone brighter than anyone else there was to compare. He watched her develop into something indescribable. He was amazed. He was in awe of that amount of will, determination and pure hearted heart that did not even need to do anything to make the others move around her. She was an extraordinaire yet she did not even know how much she was affecting the others.
Because she was their central point too. She attracted them just like how she attracted him.
Like the moth towards the fire. The blazing fire that she was. Lethal yet beautiful.
Beautiful but not flawless. She had her flaws and she knew it too more than anyone else. She had her darkest hours too. She, too, goes down from time to time yet she continued to rise up. She continued to reclaim her throne in that universe and prove the others how wrong they were about her.
She continued to rise up stronger and wiser every time. Her mistakes triggered her evolution. Her evolution towards something even more magnificent and that was what made her perfect.
He wondered then if the sun was also forgiving. He wondered if the sun will pardon him if ever she was.
He knew the sun was not to be hurt at all cost yet he did. He did and he regretted it. He knew how foolish he was but all he wanted was to be able to reach for her again.
He wanted to touch her so badly and seeing anyone touch those luscious skin made him wanted to break someone else's jaw.
How was that that she could bring both the best and the worst in people?
He envied her. He coveted her. He lusted after her.
He lusted after her light and pureness that her sweetness lingered in the corner of his tongue.
He wanted her light. That light that outshined anything else.
"But I am the one who understood you all along! Not her!" Narumi shouted at him, tears forming at the corners of her eyes.
"I know." He said calmly. "But I can't thing of anything else but her."
His sun.
The words pierce through Narumi's heart like a bullet faster than light.
How could he threw her like that so easily? She protected him and his heart all along. Always understanding. Always looking after it. Always cherishing it whenever it asked for . . . someone else.
"It's unfair."
"I know." He looked at her straight in the eyes. "But I can't do this anymore. Goodbye Narumi."
He crushed her just like how he crushed his sun before. But that's the things, she was not his sun.
And so he turned his back on her finally and stepped towards the other direction. The direction towards his sun. The direction towards her.
She called after him again.
He stopped. He hesitated. He faced her one last time.
She pleaded for him to understand.
He said no. Then walked leaving Narumi alone and broken.
The things he'd done for his sun and the things he'll do for his sun.
Unmeasurable.
Now that he was a freeman once again. Now that he was free to come running back to his sun, he will do it right. He will make the sun fall for him again like it used to be because he was her horizon.
He was her Kou.
Futaba gave a startled gasp as she stopped from walking. Her eyes were round and flabbergasted.
Touma immediately looked at her, concerned written on his face as he came even closer to her.
"What is it, Futaba?" He asked while placing a gentle hand on her arm.
Futaba blinked then looked back at him. "What was that?" She wondered in her mind.
She put on a smile on her face then said sweetly. "It's nothing."
Touma smiled back gently.
"If you're sure."
Then they resumed walking side by side around the mall with their linked hands.
But as they walked, Futaba could not helped feeling like something just tugged her heart earlier. What could it be?
She shrugged it off. It's probably just her imagination.
"You look tired. Is everything all right?" Touma asked her with a frown gracing his face.
She waived her hand like a sign of dismissal then pouted.
"Mou, you worry too much. I'm fine. It's just been a long week."
Touma laughed. "Yeah. Thank God the test week is over. How did you do?"
She sighed. "Probably failed history,again. I barely passed the last one."
"That's because you don't have any motivation or interest to study history at all. If you really study next time, then maybe you'll even get an A." Touma laughed.
She huffed. "I just don't enjoy talking about the past, alright? I prefer talking about the future."
Touma raised an eyebrow at her then smirked. "Oh, really?"
"Yeah.." She said warily because of Touma's smirk.
Touma then pulled her waist closer to his with his right arm and lowered his mouth close to her right ear.
"Then can you tell us what our future will be like?"
Futaba reddened.
Touma laughed out loud.
Futaba hit his chest for teasing her.
As they stopped inside a music store, Touma could not help but think how cute his girlfriend looked like. She was wearing a long pink skirt that reached the floor and a white loosed tank top with her hair braided to one side.
Too cute.
"Hey, Touma. What kind of song do you like playing?" Futaba asked while browsing different music keys of different composers.
Touma moved beside her. He was wearing a denim pants with blue shirt and black vest thrown on top of it and his black hat.
"I like playing different kind of songs to know my limits but I really like composing songs."
Futaba twisted her neck so fast that Touma was scared it was going to snap for a second.
"Really! Wow! You are really incredible, Touma!" She exclaimed excitedly as she gripped both of his hands.
Touma blushed so hard so he looked at the other side.
"It's.. It's not that hard, Futaba."
Futaba giggled. "God, you're so humble! I still can't believe I have such a talented boyfriend!"
With those words, Touma's heart flipped then soared that he could really hear the fast and loud beating of it.
His face was split in half by his wide grin.
"And I ..." He pulled her into a hug. "Can't believe that I have such an adorable, girlfriend."
He kissed her forehead.
It was her time to blush.
"Touma~" Futaba whined quietly as they were seating inside of the dark theatre.
"Yes?" Touma whispered as he tried to look at her through the darkness of the place.
"I don't want to watch this anymore. It's all about history." Futaba whined and Touma could really imagine her pouting as she said those words.
"Futaba, it's the climax. We can't just leave." He reasoned while kissing the back of her hand that was still linked into his.
"But Touma~" Futaba tried to persuade him again to leave but was cut of by Touma.
He kissed her on the lips.
"If you behave right now, I'll buy you 3 pounds of chocolate later." He bribed her through whispering.
She paused then thought of it for a second. Her eyebrows were scrounged up in deep concentration.
"That and 2 more pounds of candies." She proposed.
Touma raised an eyebrow then calculated in his head how much money he was going to loose again just for his girlfriend's sweet indulgence.
"Alright." He said finally as he finished his calculations.
"I guess I won't be buying the newest rock record out today." He thought with a sigh.
Futaba gave a quiet squeal beside him. "Yes! Thank you!"
He felt her shifted beside him and without him knowing, Futaba leaned towards him and gave him a peck on his lips.
He gasped a little. It was her first time initiating their kiss.
"Thank you so much, Touma." She said quietly as she moved back a little from his mouth to talk.
With that, Touma changed his mind.
Screw the money, Futaba kissed him. Oh! How cunning his girlfriend could be regarding her sweets.
He also ended up not paying full attention to the movie. Instead, he kept thinking of the girl beside him whose head was placed on the crook of his neck.
God! How he wished he could stop time right now and stay in there forever.
"Anything for you, Futaba." He whispered through his tender kiss on her hair. He heard Futaba's sound of contentment.
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