Saiki looked up ahead, the sun setting in the horizon still not believing that his powers had come back. There was no way of getting rid of them, but then again wasn't this better?
Wasn't this the way its suppose to be?
He had thought that maybe being without them life would be easier, and in no way, shape, or form was that the case, but there was one thing, he finally understood why everyone was so in love with Teruhashi.
Her face was so perfect, so symmetrical. Sure, he could see the images of her face and body through people's thoughts but being able to see it so clearly with his own eyes was a religious experience.
Who knew that blue haired girl would be that perfect?
Obviously he already liked her, like he liked his other friends, and yes he was overly judgemental towards them but that was just the way he was
Would it be bad if he were to really get to know her? Well, them.
Without invading their thoughts?
Everyone was like that, right? They were selfish in their own way, even when he himself was like this. Besides, they had all changed since they first met. No one stays the same forever.
And in reality Teruhashi truly loved him, in her own sadistic way.
She could not stop thinking about him, daydreaming about being with him.
Why would someone as perfect as her would want to be with him?
Yes the time she realized it was a made up thing, but clearly now that years have gone by and she waits patiently for him truly shows that she is head over heels for him. Was love that bad?
He didn't care before, but now a constant tingly feeling in his chest had made him change his mind.
'Oh well, I'll find out Monday'
He continued walking until he reached his house, where he found his mother with a coffee jelly smiling towards him.
Across town Kokomi laid in her bed thinking about Kusuo.
She closed her eyes and imagine a scene where they were alone just sitting together in the park
She grabbed the pillow and put it on her face, screaming
Why was he immune to her?
She was the perfect girl after all, everyone wanted her.
Why then, why did he not want her?
She wanted him so badly, she just wanted to grab his hands, maybe hug him… maybe grabbed his face and..
She got up all of a sudden feeling hot and her cheeks super red.
She wanted him to love her. She wanted to experience love, but only with him. He was perfect for her, after all opposites attract.
She was the perfect pretty girl, he was average - but! In her eyes he was the most perfect man in the world, and that's all she deserved, right? She deserves to have the most perfect man in her eyes and that's what saiki is.
She was popular and nice, and she talked to everyone, Saiki was a quiet guy, nothing special, most of the time he was in his own world.
Maybe, she could go to his house tomorrow, after all his mother and her had agreed to cook together, maybe she could even stay for dinner and spend more time with him.
The way he looked at her that day a couple of weeks ago, she could not get over it.
It was like that was the first time he had ever seen her.
How could he not notice how beautiful she was?
Maybe for him it wasn't about beauty but about what was inside, maybe for him what matter was her true self.
She got up from the bed and looked at herself in the mirror
Yes, she was the perfect pretty girl, but not for Saiki.
What did she have to do to truly show him that she was perfect, but perfect only for him.
She knows how to do house work, she knows how to work in school
She knows all the basics to have a good life in this time and age. She could make him happy if he let her.
What even made him happy?
She turned away from the mirror horrified.
She didn't know, maybe it was a lost cause, maybe this is the reason why god hadn't giving her the opportunity to be with Saiki, because she hadn't bothered to know what made him happy, truly happy, putting aside the sweets.
THE SWEETS!
That was the answer
She looked back to the mirror with a happy face.
That was the answer she was going to feed him as many coffee jelly as she could, and she was going to start seeing him for who he was, without wanting him to say 'oh wow', she had decided to give up with that fantasy, she was done imagining how he would react, and she was going to start to see how he really reacts to her, even if the real way of how he reacts hurts her.
This was the way to do so, even if she gets her heart broken.
'I love him' she said to herself, still standing in front of her vanity mirror. 'I'll do it right this time. This is our last year together. I don't want to lose this opportunity, because it might be the last. All I have to do is be myself and show him that I can be the one."
The next morning Kusuo got up and decided to just spend the day at home relaxing.
His mother and father were going to go out on a date the whole day, after all today was the 15th anniversary of the first time they laid eyes on each other.
Jeez, they were so in love it was sickening.
How could someone be in love so much? Doesn't love slow down after years?
Yes, they had their huge quarrel but they finally came to show their true feelings thanks to him.
He wondered how love truly felt. Yes, he knew what it was and how it makes people act like zombies, but how did it feel?
How did it feel to feel it?
Maybe Teruhashi was the answer?
No.
She was going to get her way with him, and he didn't want that.
He sighed, looked around and lay down in bed again
She had changed. She was not the person she was when she first fell for him.
'All this voices in my head" Kusuo said "My parents are gone and I can just sleep in and take a break" he grabbed his ring and slowly fell asleep
Kokomi walked towards his house with all the ingredients for the cookies she planned to make with his mom, and she also had coffee jelly just in case Kusuo's mom had something to do like last time, after all the reason she was going to his house was to see him and really try to win his heart, she is in love with him after all.
He was so perfect, that beautiful pink messy hair, and his amazing violet eyes…
"Oh, how I wish I could see those eyes without his green glasses" she muttered under her breath getting close to Kusuo's house
When she finally arrived to his house she looked closely to the name in the house so she didn't ring the wrong bell like last time.
"Please god let him be home" she said looking up at the sky, the flowers falling around her. The scenery was truly beautiful.
She rang the bell.
Nothing happen, she looked around her nervously, maybe they weren't home
She waited.
No one came to open the door for her.
She sighed feeling defeated.
Was god not listening to her today? Maybe he was on break… she couldn't rely on him anymore, she had to work hard to get Kusuo.
As soon as she started walking out of their front yard, Kusuo started opening the door, still sleepy, rubbing his eyes.
She turned around and the biggest smile formed in her face.
She ran to the door looking at him, her heart going at a hundred miles per hour, she couldn't muttered anything. This was the first time she got to see him like this, and it was just the two of them.
All of the sudden she felt her face hot, and a wind came making the cherry blossom petals fall on her and past her
The contrast of her beautiful blue hair against the soft pink of the flowers made Kusuo realized who was the mysterious person who ran the bell and woke him up.
He stared for a moment getting a glance of her beautiful symmetrical face, in all of her beauty, her lips curling up trying not to say anything, her eyes looking to the side, her face red and flustered.
Was he dreaming?
Why could he see her angelic face?
Did his powers disappeared again?
And why was god being like this to him?
"I came to bake cookies with your mother!" she said smiling nervously
He started to take the ring off his finger
'Oh dear! I know I came to see him, but why did he have to answered the door? Why? I'm more nervous now!'
Kusuo put the ring back into his finger making the world around him seem normal. He needed to experience this like a normal human, even though he wasn't normal at all, but somehow he felt the need to do so.
'Come in' he said telepathically, but it didn't work she just looked stayed there still looking to the side
And then he realized she couldn't hear him, or the fact that his mother was not at home, and she wasn't going to be there the whole weekend
"Mom's not home" he said instead, in his usual not-bothered voice
"Oh" Kokomi said "well I brought coffee jelly if you'd like to have some"
Kusuo looked at her with his usual dead stared
"Come in" Kusuo said opening the door
Kokomi smiled and happily entered the house, she couldn't believe her luck, after all god did love her.
"I not only brought coffee jelly, I also brought cake as a sign of gratitude. Would you give this to your mom? And let her know that I will come another day to bake the cookies with her"
Kokomi was just happy to see him, his sleepy face still there. He was so perfect, everything about him.
"Thanks" Kusuo said heading towards the kitchen to put away the cake.
That was enough for today, right?
They had many more days where he would experience this?
It was a good thing that she had headed towards his house whenever his parents weren't there. Like this he could use the ring freely and securely. He didn't have to worry about anyone coming in the house, he knew for sure his parents were coming on sunday night, he could have the whole afternoon with Kokomi to experience this love business.
'But to feel love, I also have to fall in love… or I could just see how she acts towards me"
He turned around, looking at Kokomi
"Would you like to stay and watch a movie?" he asked
Hearing this made Kokomi's heart stopped
Was she dreaming this?
What was going on?
Is this the real Saiki?
She must be dreaming. This has to be a dream, the real Saiki would never ask that.
Or maybe this was god working his way to help her, of course, that had to be the reason.
She smiled and looked at him tiling her head to the side "Yes! That would be fun!"
Kusuo looked around and grabbed a coffee jelly and a piece of cake for her.
He passed by her side and headed towards the living room, she didn't move just looked at him with a shy smile
"Come" he said offering her the cake
She grabbed it from his hands, making their fingers touch.
This truly was a dream for Kokomi
Was this going to go her way? She hoped so, her dream was finally going to come true, she could finally have Kusuo Saiki, she could have the opportunity of having Kusuo's arms around her, and finally feel his love, and to finally hear him say 'oh wow' but it needed to be sincere, and it had to be over something that no one ever before had said it.
But she knew, she knew he would do it.
She would make him fall for her, even if that was the last thing she would ever do.