Generally, nothing would have made Captain Izuru Kira happier than spending his evening with Lieutenant Momo Hinamori. But today, the woman was nearly foaming at the mouth in jealous rage, storming around his office as if at any moment she may begin throwing furniture.
"Momo, please calm down..." Izuru was beginning to worry about her.
"How can you say that?! She was kissing him in public! He never even allowed me to call him by his first name in public!" She turned on her friend and pointed at him accusingly. "What is so special about her?"
"You know it has nothing to do with one of you being better than the other. Time passed. People change. He's more mature than he was when you were close to him. He's been through a lot that you didn't really pay attention to."
"But... He always tried to protect me and take care of me... He was always there for me, and when I finally get my head on straight and want him back, he's run off with some other girl while I wasn't looking! We grew up together, and he has only known her for a couple of decades!"
"She's made it clear she was interested him from the start, and you treated him like a child until a few weeks ago." Izuru leaned his cheek in his hand. He knew he was not saying the right things to calm her down, but he firmly believed at this point she wasn't planning to be calmed no matter what he said. He might as well tell her the truth and hope she didn't turn it in to a fight.
"That's not fair! She treated him like a kid when they met too!"
"She was a kid when they met. She treated him like an equal, which you never did, even when he outranked you. Did you really expect him to just wait for you forever? To never consider a relationship with anyone else? He still considers you a friend, Momo."
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