Kagura and Sakaki sat together in front of their laptop, in the middle of the afternoon. As Sakaki seemed to absentmindedly stare into space; Kagura grumbled with an intense level of irritation. On the screen in front of her Kagura could see a picture of the man reported to be Sakaki's boyfriend. And she was incredibly jealous.
"So this is your boyfriend?" Kagura asked Sakaki.
"Yeah," she responded with a distant voice.
"But, wh-why is he so hot?" Kagura cried in agony.
"Look who you're talking to," Sakaki replied. "Did you really think that I would have some hideous looking boyfriend? He was one of the few people who could even hope to match my standards."
"Why are you always like this now?" Kagura asked. "You never used to be so stuck up and arrogant."
"I didn't notice," Sakaki said in a bored voice, "I'm not even sure you aren't just imagining that I've been acting that way." She then decided to ask her friend a question. "So you said before that you're not sure if you like Tomo, as more than a friend. Did you ever decide on that or what?"
"How can you think of bringing that up right now?" Kagura cried in anger.
"Are you kidding me?" asked Sakaki. "It seems like a fairly logical topic to bring up when you're looking at a picture of my boyfriend."
Kagura merely gave a monosyllabic growl in reply. The tomboy then kept looking through the various pictures on her friend's FaceBook page until she came across something that puzzled her. What she had found was a picture of Sakaki's boyfriend standing next to another man. Something about the situation seemed familiar to her but she couldn't be sure of what it was.
"Are you jealous?" Sakaki asked her friend.
"Why would I be jealous of you and your stupid boyfriend?"
"I should have known you were jealous from the moment you glared at me after seeing his picture!" Sakaki exclaimed in amusement. "It never occurred to me that you swung both ways," she added, with a sly grin.
"Shut up!" Kagura snapped. "That's the stupidest thing I ever heard! I only swing for gi— I mean guys!" She then looked down at the ground in embarrassment. "Promise you won't tell anyone what I just said, alright?"
"Fine," Sakaki sighed, "even though that would be a lot more fun."
Kagura's face contorted into a mixture of mild anger and extreme irritation. She then asked Sakaki, "What kind of friend are you?"
"This coming from the same chick who can't remember to help me pay the rent?" she asked Kagura. "If I didn't know any better I'd say that you're not doing so well yourself in the congeniality department."
"Why are almost at each other's throats every second of the day?" Kagura exclaimed.
"I think you're exaggerating a bit," Sakaki said, before taking a big, bored yawn. "I don't see why you make such a big deal out of everything. Now that you're starting to freak out over how awesome my boyfriend is I'm starting to think you need to get back into the dating scene. You're starting to worry me."
"What do you think I've been trying to do?" was Kagura's rhetorical response. "Do you know how hard it is to co— I mean find a cool guy? It's pretty terrify— that is difficult."
"You see that's what I don't get," Sakaki told her friend, "If all of your friends know that you're gay, but still like you, invite you to various events and want to hang out with you, why don't you just come out privately? I mean publicly yeah, that might be too much. Then again, I really don't have any idea what it's like to be in that position."
"I'm sure you know a lot about various positions," Kagura quipped.
"You fucker," said Sakaki, "there's a difference between having a boyfriend and being a fucking prostitute!"
"I wouldn't know; I really don't have any idea what it's like to be in different positions."
As soon as Kagura finished her comment she noticed that Sakaki's eyes burned with an unassailable anger. In a mere moment she noticed her friend's fist coming towards her face. Kagura managed to half dodge the blow so that her nose remained unbroken but her face hurt pretty bad and she fell to the floor.
Standing over the prone body of her friend Sakaki screamed, "How dare you make fun of me and my boyfriend? Don't ever make fun of him or I will destroy you! You have no idea what it was like to be me when I was young, and it'll be a hell of a long time before I ever tell you about it!" Sakaki then gulped in shock. She stood still for a moment before bending over to help Kagura back up. With tears in her eyes she then turned around and left the apartment.
Kagura was still in shock about what had happened just a few seconds ago. She noticed how quiet their living place was whenever one of them wasn't there. There was normally the sound of either happy laughter or irritated bickering. The two of them might have a nasty fight but they usually made up quickly. They were still together. Now as Kagura sat on the couch alone she knew that something had changed.
Sakaki had always acted quietly, almost unseen. She was nervous, shy and it was difficult to get her to respond to just about anything. When Sakaki had started acting so differently Kagura had merely found it to be irritating. The tomboy had written it off as something a bit trivial, not too worrying. She couldn't even say for sure when these changes had started to take place. It seemed as if one day Sakaki had simply exploded as being louder, more obnoxious, and meaner. However it was clear that something was fundamentally different about the girl who was Kagura's best friend. But Kagura didn't know what had really caused these things to happen, and she needed to stop it before everything went too far.