I snuggle up to Matsuri's warm body; I purposely ignore the alarm in an attempt to sleep longer. His body moves around as he tries to hit the alarm and stop the incessant beeping.

"Matsuri, I don't wanna get up... five more minutes..."

He brushes the hair away from my face and slaps my cheek lightly, "Sora-kun! Time to get up, what will Nanami say if he knows I haven't been taking care of you?"

"Nhh."

Matsuri smiles and I halfheartedly smile back. It's strange, lately I've been feeling something different towards Matsuri, it's as if something inside of me is saying, 'You aren't meant for him.' He's my first love it's supposed to work out though! He looks up and I can tell something is going on.

"Sora-kun, I need to talk to you." His eyes hold sadness and joy, only in Matsuri can those two things mix so easily.

"Matsuri, can't it wait?"

He sighs and takes on a more serious disposition, " Sora, our relationship can't go on any longer." He looks down and hides behind his hair.

"But... why? What's wrong with being like this! I like being with you!" I'm close to tears as I say this, Matsuri don't you see? You keep everything together, it's you who tells me who people are and how I know them. Without this I'd be lost.

He realizes that he has to put it bluntly for me to get it "You don't feel the same for me as I do for you, I can see it in the way you act around me." He keeps his head down.

"I-" I can't lie to him because it's true. I don't feel the same about him. "You're right, but maybe it's just a phase! These things happen with people all the time!"

"It's simple Sora-kun, people fall in and out of love quite easily, and there is someone who you are meant for and someone whom I'm meant for. Fairy tale romances aren't part of the real world."

I nod and look up at him. Before I can stop my body my arms reach around him and pull him close, my head in his pajama top and his arms resting on my back. I don't want to leave him.

"Friends forever?" I say as I lift my head back up, I see his eyes are shining. It's hurting him as much as it's hurting me.

"Friends forever."

The pain is still there but little do I know that someone will soon replace the empty space in my heart.

The next day Sunao arrives.