The sun was setting and night will be approaching soon.
We decided to go home for the day. I was the first to get out of the ocean before the others.
Kou handed me a towel to dry off and I had already put my clothes back on.
"Mimi, me and Nitori have to go now," Momo said to me.
"Yeah. When we bumped into each other, we were actually on our way back to our college," Nitori explained.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Please, don't let me hold you up," I said with a smile and took a step back.
Momo placed his right hand on my cheek and leaned down a little to kiss my forehead before leaning back.
He smiled at me, "I'd do anything for you any time, Mimi. See ya! Let's go, Nitori!" he said and ran off.
"Hey! Not so fast! And Miyuki, I'm sorry about his intimate behavior. We'll make it up to you somehow! Hey, Momo, wait up!" Nitori said and ran off, but not before giving me a quick hug.
I looked down with a closed eyed smile and chuckled at the two, 'Room mates in high school and still room mates in college..'
"Miya-chan, I have to go, too. I need to go..talk with someone," Rin told me, putting back on his white shirt and red hoodie.
"Okay. I hope you--!"
Rin bent down to kiss my right cheek and that's not what made me surprised, but..I felt his tongue secretly, quickly lick my cheek, too.
Standing there, staring up at him until he began to walk away with a smirk only I saw, my cheeks turned cherry red and I looked at the sand.
"H-he's still the same...Such a tease." I turned to Kou, "Are you not going with him?"
"No, we still live separately. I'm living with Seijuro now," she said it as if it was normal.
I dramatically looked to Rin's fading figure by whipping my hair, then back to her. "And he's okay with that?"
"Yeah. He trusts Seijuro. They've been friends for quite some time," she told me in a matter of fact tone. "Anyway, I'll be off!" she said and ran off.
"Aren't you going to walk home with me?!" I shouted after her.
"You got the guys with you!" she shouted back.
Stiffening up at that, I rubbed my hands through my hair and laughed with closed eyes.
I put the clip back in my hair and into its original hairstyle, then flicked my hood back up over my head.
"Let's go, shall we?" I asked before walking ahead.
~Tiny Time Skip~
Approaching my apartment building, I added a little pep in my step, hoping to sneak away without the guys noticing due to talking to each other.
'If they insist to stay to watch over me, they're highly mistaken. Yes, I still have the old me inside, but I acquired some new traits..'
"Gonna go without saying goodbye to us, Miyuki?" I heard Haruka question.
I stopped in my footsteps, "..Good night. I'll see you guys tomorrow."
"No hug?" Nagisa asked, probably with a pout on his face.
Inhaling slowly, I quickly exhaled, then turned around to give them a group hug before swiftly entering the apartment complex's double doors.
~Small Time Skip~
After taking a shower, changing into a white tank top and black shorts, and eating a pepperoni-meatball pizza, I lay awake in my bed...
Thinking of earlier events.
'I didn't want to be rude, but I wasn't going to fish bait tonight...It's been five years, perhaps they don't act like that anymore, not that it was bad or they forced themselves on me, but...'
"...They'd trap me in this entrance..a entrance I let myself be put into. That does not mean I do not love them as friends. Damn..I'm confusing myself."
(I have nothing to say...Um, hope you're enjoying the story!)
