Chapter 12 Opening Up a Little More

After what had happened today I was exhausted. I didn't expect that to happen at all. It was five and pretty soon Syoaron was going to come home. I didn't feel like cooking. I'll just order pizza then.

(Sigh) I sighed and picked up the phone to call the pizza place.

"I'll have a large pizza with sausage and pepperoni. How much would it be?"

The pizza arrived before Syoaron got home, but then it was only 5:45. I didn't want to eat without Syoaron. I got into the hang of eating with Syoaron, and if I was to eat without him, then it wouldn't feel right.

I flipped through the channels and soon afterwards I heard the front door open and walked in Syoaron. He gave me a weak smile. He looked okay and nothing was wrong with him, but then he didn't have the face that he would always greet me with and the posture.

"Hi. You're home." I gave him a smile too. "I ordered pizza." I got up to the kitchen and got two plates. "Do you want some? If you don't is there something else you would want to eat?"

"No, I'll just have pizza. It's been a long time." I nodded and put two pieces of pizza on the table. He walked over to the table.

I did the same for me too. I was about to bite into my pizza when he spoke.

"I'm sorry about what happened earlier."

"It was okay. I should of have looked where I was going." I said without smiling.

"No it isn't. I didn't think Yuki would be…would be like that." He started staring at the pizza in front of him. "I always thought that she was as innocent as she looked. I've never seen here that way before. You want to know why I asked you to teach me how to cook?" Before I could even answer yes he had already started opening his mouth again. "I was planning to cook something special for her for our 3rd year anniversary this Friday, two days from now. But now, I don't know if I should do it still. I feel like I have never known her all these years at all." Syoaron stopped and turned his eyes towards me.

So all this time he asked me to teach him how to cook just for the girl he loves? That was really sweet of him, but I didn't think Yuki deserved it to tell you the truth. If I had never known Syoaron like this I would have answered that they both deserved each other and…wait. The way I thought about Syoaron back then and comparing it to how he is now was just the same thing with Yuki and her bad side. Syoaron had a side that I had never seen before until a few weeks back and Yuki also had a side that Syoaron had never seen before too. They both were the same.

I smiled back. "Give her a chance. Remember when we first met?" Syoaron's eyes opened up wide at first and then turned back to normal slowly. He nodded his head yes. "My point here is that…that…how should I put this in a nice way." Syoaron smiled looking more alive now. It was my turn now to look down at my pizzas. "I remember how you used to treat me before all of this. You were always so cold and then there was that one time when you slapped me. Then the time where you ignored my existence. But now, I see the other side of you, your nice guy side.' I gave a giggled. "Yuki has a bad side. You have a bad side. Even I have a bad side. Everyone's alike and sooner or later their bad side is going to be seen. I think that was Yuki's bad side that she was showing earlier on. I pretty sure when she isn't like that she treats you really good right? You should think more about the goods she have done for you and what you guys had been through. Was it enough to make you think differently of her?" I looked up to Syoaron and saw his expressionless face.

"I'm sorry." After eternity of silence he spoke and that took me aback. "I didn't know I was such an ass." I looked at him even more shocked. I had never heard him apologize before and the first person I heard him apologize to was me. But was he apologizing to me because of how hey he had treated me or for my advice?

"You…"

"Thanks." Syoaron cut me and I was speechless.

'Thanks? Thanks for what?' I asked myself.

"Thanks for listening and the talk. I'll think it over." I guess he was talking about my advice only then. He lifted his pizza and took a big bite out of it. "And I'm sorry for treating you so bad. It just never occurred to me that we would become friends."

"You're welcome." I took a big chunk of my pizza too. I thought back to what I had said and felt…disappointed. I didn't know why I felt like my heart had been dropped from a 100 story high building. I didn't want Syoaron to keep cooking for Yuki truth be told, but who was I to tell him to stop? The best I could do was telling him to give Yuki a chance. I smiled to myself. It was nice to know Syoaron was opening up a little more.

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