Naruto
Trying to tell a childhood crush who recently agreed to go out with you that you are no longer interested in them as anything more than friends is about the hardest thing you can imagine. How was I supposed to begin? I had been watching my orange slushie melt as I thought, nearly forgetting that Sakura sat across from me. When I looked up I was surprised to see Sakura looking straight at look on her face made me nervous. She had something up her sleeve. I felt almost as though I had stepped into battle, only I believed that this had the potential to be far more life-threatening. Suddenly it clicked that I hadn't told her that I had no interest in her anymore. So why was she giving me that look? I cleared my throat and looked up into the bright summer sky, begging the Lord Almighty for the right words. Once more I looked into those hateful emerald eyes.
"Sakura, I don't know how to tell you what I am feeling." I murmured, not sure how else to start. I sat back in my chair and closed my eyes for a second. Then I leaned forward abruptly grabbing my slushie and gulping it down all in one big motion. She stared at me, and that smile remained pasted to her face. She only gave that smile when she was lying. She had lied too many times before.
"Is it love? I will go out with you, Naruto!" The excitement in her eyes competed with the anger that was always there, that hatred for life that never left. One day, it would kill her. I hoped that day never came, or that she could learn to control the anger before it overwhelmed her completely. Her personality or obsessive need for attention may never allow the day to come when she could truly be a person, living by what she thought and not what society or her peers thought. I had to do it, say the inevitable.
"Sakura, I have something important that I have to tell you. You dwell to much on the little things. You are over-all to angry to even function without hitting or otherwise abusing someone else. I used to think that was cute, but I have grown up now. I have realized something very important. You can't live angry! Look what it did to Sasuke, and it will do that to you. The anger controls you Sakura, and I am honestly sick and tired of being its victim. Maybe it will consume you, and maybe not. I don't know what will happen to you, but in this world, a world that has over-all treated you kindly, you have no right to be so freaking hateful!" I paused for a second, looking at Sakura but not seeing her. Then I stood up to walk away. I had been too harsh, most likely. However, she has been walking over me for years and now it was over.
