When love and hate collides 11

Confessing can be a bad thing

Miyu woke up the next day feeling very weird. She stared at her weird room mate who woke up earlier. "That's weird" His bed was neatly tucked in which made it more weird. "I forgot, his room is so neat and tidy." Miyu finally stood up, a bit groggy. She looked outside and saw those bad guys in handcuffs. "Serves you right." She said before changing her clothes and going out to find the others.

"Hey Kanata, how's Akira doin?" Kanata snapped at Santa's question. Why would he suddenly ask something like that? "Why?"

"Nothing, I just remembered that her family came from here in Okinawa."

"Oh yeah" He said as he picked up another dish. "So how's she? She's still your childhood friend after all."

"Well, I don't know. We haven't had our communication since last year."

"we haven't had our communication since last year." Miyu heard the last lines of what Kanata said. "whoo... so what do we have here."

"Is that so? I miss her already." Santa said while he continued washing the dishes. "it's been a long time... come on Santa, seriously, why would you ask about Akira?"

"Nothing... hey! did you confess your feelings to her?"

"No... we had a fight even after she left."

"You're so stupid you know that? But honestly, you still loved her don't you?" Kanata grew more serious than before.

Miyu's heart was beating fast and she didn't know if it'll explode. She placed her right hand on it while catching her breath.

"I think so..."

"yeah, after all those years but because she's your first love right."

"Santa, did a rock hit your head last night?"

Miyu walked away confused about her weird feelings. "What am I feeling? I shouldn't be feeling this way. He loved that Akira, so? What's with it anyway? Darn this!" She said at the process of heating her chest. "Ouch! It hurts."

"Hey Miyu! What happened to you? You seemed to have run some kind of a marathon." Christine said surprising her. "Oh Chris... it's you."

"So, what happened to you?"

"Uh nothing, you see I just woke up that's all. I'm just a bit groggy every time I wake up." She said as she pretended to yawn. "Oh."

"Uhm, Christine... do you happen to know someone named Akira?" Miyu asked hesitant at first but she was really curious as to who that Akira is. "Oh Akira, Kanata's friend?"

"She is?"

"Yeah, I mean they've been friends ever since they were little. I even thought that she was his sister. They've known each other for a very long time until Akira's family decided to go abroad and settle there."

"Really? Isn't she coming back?"

"I don't know, but I guess Akira made a promise to Kanata that she'll come back for him. But it's been 4 years since then and she never came back." Christine said as she and Miyu came to a stop at the villa's terrace. "I never thought he had someone special."

"yeah, me too. I mean, he's known to be a woman hater when he entered high school you know."

"I noticed."

"he never seemed to like me you know." Christine said kinda looking sad. "You've been with Kanata ever since you were little right? And that's why you knew Akira as well."

"Yeah, Kindergarten, we moved here at Heiomachi and then I knew them both as well as Santa. Since then, we've been together but Kanata was obviously closer to Akira than anyone else."

"But I thought he also loved you, the time he met an accident?"

"No, it just seemed that way though because I made it look that way. I just forcibly placed myself in the middle since I really liked him a lot. I fell in love at first sight you know. And since that time, I made him like me I mean, I did everything just for him to notice me but all he saw was Akira but I couldn't blame Akira... She had everything. She was beautiful—"

"but you're beautiful too"

"But I'm not as kind as her... no one hated her, as much as I want to but I can't. She's someone whom you'll really love for some unknown reason." Christine stared at the ground, at the verge of crying. "I never knew that it was like that."

"don't you like Kanata too?"

"Me? Of course... 'yes' NOT! Why would I like that dog?" Miyu received a chuckle from Christine. "You make me laugh; you're the only girl who would say that." With that, Christine walked away and left Miyu standing alone. She stared at the workers who were setting something up in front of the beach.

"What're they up to?" She decided to check up on the workers their so she made her way down. She approached an old man and asked what they are doing.

"Well, Anju said that you kids are leaving first thing in the morning tomorrow, so we arranged these fireworks as a sign of gratitude."

"We're leaving? But we still have 3 days left!"

"That's what he said... maybe because of what happened he was scared that it might happen again."

"That old man's such a kill joy. Hey gramps, can I help?" Miyu said as saw what the others were doing. "Alright, but be careful with them." Miyu started working. At first, everything she did was rubbish but she got into doing it and learned. "Nice work Miyu... you know, you should sometime visit my brother. He's doing a lot of fireworks these days for New year."

"Really? In Heiomachi?"

"yeah... he's an old man but I bet he'll love your work."

"Sure." Just then, Aya and Nanami came running towards Miyu. "Miyu, we've been looking all over for you."

"Why? What happened?"

"Christine locked herself inside their room and said that she never wanted anyone in her life anymore. She also said something about ending her life."

"Just now?"

"No, 1 o'clock, 4 hours ago."

"What! 5 already? Sorry gramps, I gotta go."

"Christine! Open the door."

"No! leave me alone!"

"Chris.! It's me Kanata, will you please open this door!"

"Have you tried the keys?" Miyu asked. "Yes but all of the furniture I think is blocking the door."

"Alright dog, what did you do now?" Miyu asked as she stood in front of Christine's room. "Me? I didn't do anything to her."

"Hey Christine, will you please come out already?"

"No! I told you guys give me some time alone!"

"But how will we know that you won't do anything bad."

"I won't"

"You know, I think we should just leave her be for a while." Miyu said as she tried opening Christine's door. "Yeah, I think so." Nanami said before leaving with Aya. Now, it's the two again.

"You know, what did you do to her?" Miyu started when kanata walked down the stairs. "I didn't do anything to her; I haven't even talked to her."

"Yeah! That's the problem."

"What!"

"You aren't talking to her. You're ignoring her like she's not even here." Miyu raised her voice but Kanata remained calm. "and what would I tell?"

"Anything? Look Kanata, I thought you were gonna confess your love to her? But all of a sudden you're acting like you're through with her." Miyu said as she walked ahead of kanata. "I am not, who told you about me confessing something to her when there's nothing to confess!"

"She loves you so much Kanata and you failed to notice that throughout the years that you've been together!" Kanata didn't reply. "How could you be so cruel?"

"Me! How could you speak so much about feelings when you don't even have one?"

"You call me numb? What do you think? Oh yeah! Maybe you're right! I'm just a girl who doesn't know anything about that thing? Because I haven't had a real love and because there's really no one out there make me look like a person who doesn't have any feelings!"

"Why not!"

"Maybe you're the one who doesn't have any feelings! What are you, acting all blind just because you don't love Christine!" Miyu was now completely shouting at him. "I can't berate my feelings for that matter. You know, I just wished that by the time I woke up from that sleep, I wish I just forgot about everything and never had these feelings. Because if it's so difficult for you then it's harder for me!" Kanata spat back, really angry for some reason he don't know.

"Kanata, you can't survive living with those feelings for your past because it's your future that you should concern yourself with!"

"And who gave you the permission to talk about my past!"

"You're still waiting for her aren't you? Because you loved her and even if it took Akira forever, you'd still wait for her!" Kanata stared at her with wide eyes. "You don't even know if she already has a life while you on the other hand couldn't have one because your life is your past!"

"Don't ever talk to her that way because you don't know her!"

"And I don't know you! You know Saionji, I thought I saw something in you. I thought I fell in love with that guy inside you but I was wrong. That person was just my imagination!"

"Miyu... you—"

"Yes I love you and I guess I wasn't really meant to have any feeling that's why they gave me the wrong person to love!" She screamed, she shouted... she didn't know what she was feeling that moment. She was really hurt... and she had to run. Kanata fell on the sand and buried his face on his knees. He messed up with his hair like a crazy person and kicked no one in particular. He stared at the dark blue sky while stopping his tears to fall.

"Ouch... that hurts you know." Nanami said as the three of them stared at the whole drama the entire time.

"I thought they were having their normal fights but this was for real and I never saw the both of them get so furious like that." Santa said while staring at the two go their separate ways.

(Miyu)

Miyu walked far from Kanata. She walked there aimlessly not knowing what to do next. "Stupid feelings." She thought about what he said earlier. "Yeah, I'm numb... I'm stupid, I'm an idiot. Why would I love a dog anyways?" She said as she wiped her eyes trying not to cry. "Everything I do is wrong... even these feelings are a great mistake. He's right, I'm dense... dense, dense, dense, DENSE!" She was completely crying her heart out. "He's always watched out for me... he's always taking care of me and... and he never leaves my s-side when... when I n-need him... a-and h-he said he's never gonna l-let something... bad to happen... to me." Miyu talked to herself while crying. She stared at the dark sea in front of her and cried out.

"And what did I do? I just made everything worse!" She shouted before hiding her face in her palm.

(Kanata)

"Yeah she's right. I'm cruel... smirk I don't have any feelings at all!" He was laughing miserably. "Kanata you bastard! You said you loved her but why do you keep on hurting her? huh!" He covered his face as he continued laughing but little did he know that he was already crying.

Just then, a series of fireworks appeared on the sky and everyone was clapping and enjoying the show.

(Miyu)

"I love Okinawa!" Miyu sobbed and stared at the fireworks with a tear-stricken face. "Hey, I made that!" She pointed towards the sky.

(Kanata)

"I love fireworks..." He remembered what Miyu said once and laughed out even more. "Enjoy the show." He rested his head on his palm to recover from what happened.

(Miyu)

Miyu gazed at the wonderful sight before her before she cried noisily again. "waaaaaa! The sob f-fireworks' so b-beautiful sob waaaaaaaaaa!"

Miyu)

"You bastard, stand up and say sorry..."

"Why would I? it's her fault anyways!" Kanata argued over himself like a real crazy person. He took a handful of sand and threw it away. "Argh! I hate it."

"I'm so...sorry Miyu" He said to no one in particular before letting his tears fall down.