HeartBreak

Ann eyes go wide hearing Akira's voice so she spins around sharply; "A-Akira!? H-How long have you been standing there!?" "T-This isn't good dear…"

Akira had a blank look on his face but spoke venomously; "I've overheard you during your rant at my father…" The way Akira spoke made her flinch and she was about to speak but he puts his hand up stopping her; "Oh...don't worry, I don't give a shit about that especially since Arsene told me that you knew that my family had disowned me and you kept it a secret from me…" "Akira! I told you why she did it!" "Now tell me, when did you find out about it?"

She becomes scared causing her to shake; "S-since our h-hot p-plate c-celebration…" "Akira stop! You're scaring her!"

He clenches his fists and tears started forming from his eyes; "For that long…you knew about it and after all this time I told you how much I thought my parents loved me and you just agreed with me." "Akira! Stop this!" "Will you shut up!?" Ann seeing that he was about to cry, walks up to him slowly to comfort him but he pushes her away; "Stop pretending that you love me! You were hiding this information from me all this time knowing full well that I loved my parents." Tears starts streaming from his eyes; "What!? Was this some sick game that you and Sojiro came up with because you two thought it would be funny to hide the truth from me to hurt me because after all I'm just a criminal right!? Why should I be treated with respect!?" "Akira! Now you're just talking nonsense!"

Him pushing her away and accusing her of purposely hurting him as well as saying she was pretending to love him hurt her more than anything; "How can you say that!? I fell in love with you before I knew about your disownment! I never wanted to hurt you! I was just scared of telling you because I love you and I didn't want to see you hurt!" "Please believe her Akira!"

"You didn't want to hurt me!? Has it occurred to you that keeping this from me would hurt me instead of telling me right away!?" "I actually can't refute that…"

She looks at him in shock because he was right; "I-I…didn't even think about that…" She looks down and whispers; "I-I'm sorry…" "I-I should have thought about that..."

"Just stay the hell away from me!" Akira turns around and runs away.

Ann wanted to run after him but hearing him say that made her fall to her knees crying harder; "He's right…All I did was hurt him..." "Ann…it's going to be okay…"

Akira rushes downstairs as fast as he could; "How can she do this me!? Not only that, my parents disowned me…everyone does hate me…" "No one hates you!" "Bullshit! I'm going to talk to that bastard Sojiro! I know he wants to see me in pain and I'm going to find out why he hid this from me!" "Just…Just don't do anything stupid..."

Makoto hears someone coming down the stairs and sees Akira in tear;, "Akira? What's wrong!?" But he didn't stop running and rushes out the entrance door. "I never seen Akira-san cry! Did Ann breakup with him?" "No. Ann would never break up with Akira, she even told me that she would never leave him. Something else must have happened." She rushes upstairs.

School Roof

Makoto slowly opens the door to the roof and sees Ann sitting in the corner with her knees pulled up against her chest and her head on her knees shaking. She could probably guessed that she was sobbing so she walks up to her then puts her hand on Ann's shoulder.

Ann's head shoots up thinking it was Akira; "Akira!?" But sees that was Makoto making her sigh; "Oh...hey Makoto…"

"What happened? I saw Akira running away crying and now I see you sobbing." "Did you and Akira breakup?" "Anat!"

She looks away from her; "N-No, at least I don't think we did..." "Don't think like that dear..." She sighs again; "Akira's parents disowned him..."

Makoto gasps while covering her mouth hearing the sad news; "T-That's terrible! How could they do that!?" "No wonder why Akira was crying!"

She grits her teeth remembering Akira's father's attitude but looks back at her; "Because Akira's dad cares more about respect than his own son. I didn't talk to his mom though." "That man was terrible."

Makoto was close to tears wanting to help Akira through this; "Akira…I wish I can help you but I can't since its Ann's responsibility as your girlfriend..." She shakes her headl "Shouldn't you be comforting Akira right now?" "You are right, Carmen. That man does sound like an asshole."

She looks away again; "That's not the only reason he was crying…I kept it a secret from him since June…and called his parents behind his back…" "It was a bad idea to keep it from him…"

Makoto glares at Ann; "You kept it a secret from him!? For that long! Not only that, you called his parents behind his back! I was wondering how you talked to his parents without knowing their number you went through his phone without asking!" "Why would you do something like that!?"

"I-I was scared of telling him since I was afraid of what he'll do and I wanted to know the whole truth from his parents before I told him…But all I did was hurt him…" "It's going to be okay dear..."

She clenches her fists in anger and starts shaking confusing Ann in why she was angry; "You promised me that you wouldn't hurt him!" "M-Makoto-san?"

Getting up in anger, she starts glaring at Makoto; "I didn't do it on purpose!" "Don't start accusing her of anything Makoto!"

She walks up to her; "If you didn't do it on purpose; why are you here crying instead of being there for Akira!?" "Makoto-san! Calm down!"

"Because he told me that I pretended to love him! Why should I go after him if he doesn't think I love him!?" "Ann! You know that he doesn't mean that!"

Makoto was started to lose control of her anger; "Because he's hurting right now! Of course he's going to say stuff he doesn't mean and staying here crying isn't going to prove that you love him! Show him that you mean it even when he doesn't think you do!" "I see what you're doing now, giving her tough love." Anat whispers.

"I-I can't. He's mad at me; he told me that he wants me to stay away from him…" "Did you not listen to what Makoto said?"

Makoto realizes that talking wasn't going anywhere so she did the one thing that knew would work since it worked for Eiko.

*SLAP*

Anat and Carmen gasp when she slaps Ann

Ann backpedals holding her now red cheek in shock; "W-Why did you do that for!?"

"Because here you are making excuses for not showing your love for him because he said things that he doesn't mean that you, of all people, should know that! It's like when Morgana said all those things about Akira and he brushed off your hand! All you did was kneel down in sadness instead of stopping him from leaving and he died because of it! I wanted to stop Akira but I was too busy making you feel better! Because you're never strong for Akira when he's hurting! You're supposed to be strong for him like he does for us especially FOR YOU!" "I didn't think you would do this kind of tough love, its more than what you did with Eiko about that jackass..."

Ann just stands there looking down and thinks about what Makoto yelled. After a few minutes, she looks back at Makoto; "You're right…I'm never strong for Akira. I know he still thinks about what happened in his hometown and now his parents disowned him. Now, more than ever, he's alone and I need to be there for him no matter how much he pushes me away." She walks up to Makoto and hugs her; "Thank you for clearing my head bestie." "I'm proud of you dear."

She hugs her back; "Of course, but if you do something like this again…I will take Akira away from you." She chuckles "My, my, someone is confident."

Ann smiles; "The stern student council president making a joke? I didn't think that was possible." "Ooooo, do I sense a challenge?"

She lets go of her smirking; "Who said I was joking?"

Ann laughs; "We can always share Akira that would definitely make him happy." "That would probably be heaven for him, I think he deserves it."

Makoto smiles, "I wouldn't mind it." "I think he deserves it as well."

Ann glares at Makoto knowing she was being serious; "I was joking…" She goes to the door; "I need to go find Akira, I'm sure he's home right now." She was about to open the door but her phone starts ringing making her grab it out of her pocket seeing that it was Futaba calling her. She quickly answers it and hears Futaba sobbing; "Futaba? What's wrong?"

"A-Akira…S-Sojiro…had a fight…and…and!" "It was terrible! Dad found out about Akiree and Futaba-chan being Phantom Thieves and they started yelling at each other and Dad kicked him out!" "A-Akira said that he was going to the Metaverse to end it all!" She starts bawling her eyes out.

Ann's eyes go wide; "W-What!? I-I'll stop him, Futaba! Don't worry!" She quickly hangs up the phone and turns to Makoto; "Akira's going to try and kill himself!" "Why are we standing here!? We have to get going!"

"Oh my god! Go! I'll call everyone!" "Save him Ann!"

She nods and quickly runs out the door then downstairs to the school entrance. After she got outside; she starts heading to the subway; "Akira! Please don't kill yourself." "I don't know what I'll do, if you died…"