"Maki-chan?

"Hey Maki-chan?"

"Hey Kayo chin I'm not sure she's listening to us?" the cat like girl looked at hanayo with a concerned look on her face. "yeah, maybe she's mad at us? Though im not 100% certain of that but it's not like her to space out so maybe we should give her some space?" the brunette-haired girl tried to signal for rin to follow her out of the classroom, but instead but rin had a different idea she wanted to get maki's attention so she creeped up behind the red head who was obliviously staring out the window.

"NNYYYAAAAAA" Rin yelled as she jumped and latched on to maki's side. Maki turned to face the girl mildly annoyed that she had just been jumped on. "Do you need something?" maki's tone wasn't a pleasant one but it wasn't one rin hadn't heard before she was actually expecting her to be a bit angrier then she was. "me and kayo chin were a bit worried about you... You've been spacing out a lot over the past few days are you okay? Maki just stood there looking at her two friends for a bit then she smiled "no I'm fine why wouldn't I be I was just thinking about whats next for me now that graduation is over."

Rin took her answer without question but Hanayo still felt something was off but she didn't wanna push this issue any further and piss off her friend needlessly " me and Rin are gonna head home now. Wanna walk with us". Maki gave the issue some thought but she really wanted to be alone right now. "Nah im gonna head to the music room for a bit it's our last day as students so I wanna linger for awhile, guys can go on without me." with that the two girls headed out and started on their way home and maki started down the hall towards the music room.

Once she got there she sat down at the piano. But she didn't play anything she just started to reminisce, she immediately thought back to her first encounter with Honoka when she saw her through the window on the music door, or back to all the fun she had as a part of muse she really enjoyed her time with them as 9 it was special to her. While thinking back on her time with muse her mind mostly started to drift towards her time she spent with Honoka, the time she spent with her senior is something she cherished more then anything else, she loved the time they spent at her vacation houses ,or she spent at Honoka's house even the times she spent shopping with her though to her all of those felt like dates... Not that she would ever admit to that and even if she wanted to she couldn't her senior graduated last year and despite a few messages here and there she hadn't heard much from Honoka. She felt sad when muse disbanded and they had to go their separate was but when the former second years graduated maki felt her heart rip in two. She didn't want Honoka to go away but she knew she couldn't stay but she at least wanted her to stick around in Tokyo but Honoka has already decided on a rural college away from the city and maki didn't wanna get in her way.

After hours of thinking maki decided it was time to head home so that's what she did. The school was quiet and empty all she could hear was her footsteps as she walked down the hall she walked past their former club room, she wanted to stop and take one last look but she knew that would on bring back more memories so she decided against it. once she reached the entrance to the school she grabbed her outside shoes put them on slid the second pair into her bag and headed towards the gate. She continued to walk past the gate she noticed someone standing by the gate, but she didn't have much time to react the figure she saw immediately pounced her!

" Heeeeeyyyyy maki- chan its been while hasn't it? Though I suppose its my fault for the lack of communication hehe... sorry, about that so how have you been?" maki was shook wasn't really sure what to say, she wasn't expecting to see the ginger haired girl let alone right outside the school. "he..h..heyy Honoka why are you here I thought you were off in college?" maki said while twirling her hair she had a slight blush on her face "well I was but I took a break from classes your parents invited me to come to your graduation sooo here I am!" she wasn't exactly sure she heard her right. "Honoka was at my graduation earlier? Why didn't I see her? Did the others now she was here? If so why didn't they say anything?" maki had so many questions but her thoughts were interrupted "Sooo maki I ran into Hanayo an Rin earlier as they were leaving, I got to catch up with them but when I asked them where you were they said that you decided to stay behind and that you've been spacing out... Are you okay?" she took a moment to respond 'I can't exactly tell her that I was thinking of her all week? That would be weird right? Besides she likely doesn't feel the same way it has been a whole year after all"

After fighting with herself she decided to answer her question with another question. "Hey Honoka where did you sit when you came to the graduation, I don't remember seeing you I would've said something." Honoka tilted her head with her finger on her lips like she had to think about it shortly afterwards she responded "I didn't take a seat I stood at the door of the auditorium I was pretty nervous about seeing you again after all this time..." maki as abut confused at to why she was nervous she decided to ask "how come you were nervous tho we're friends?" Honoka had a slight blush on her face which didn't go unnoticed by the red head but she also noticed she looked a little sad. "well, I kinda left for a whole year without much contact or anything we got really close during our time in muse but we got even closer in the year to follow we spent soo much time together maki... and I missed you so much but I needed to focus on my studies because... well..umm nevermind please forget that last part."

Maki was a red as a tomato maybe even more so she felt so embarrassed hearing honoka say that but she felt a bit sad too she wanted yo know what else Honoka was gonna say... "hey Honoka I missed you too... Like a lot, however I understand the focus on your studies I mean this is your future you're working towards." maki knew she had to try and find out what Honoka was gonna say. "so can you tell what it was you were gonna say? It wasn't orange outside anymore the sky was starting to turn black. There was a brief silence but then maki spoke up "well its getting late wanna come back to my place for the night?" Honoka nodded her head and the two started walking.

There was around 5 minuets of silence before Honoka spoke up "maki I really am sorry for being gone for so long but I decided to study business instead of music, as you know my family owns a candy shop a small one but I wanna expand it and make it bigger I wanna create a candy franchise myself... at first I didn't want to but the more I thought about it the more this makes sense for me I wanna be successful maki really really do but not for the money or anything like that..." maki stopped walking and Honoka did too she was confused why would she want to make a successful candy franchise but not be doing it for the money? What else was there to become successful for? Honoka started to speak again "maki I wanna be successful for you..." her voice was cracking a bit and tears started flow down her cheeks. "i love you maki and I have for a really long time but I just couldn't say anything I mean look at us we're in two different social structures entirely... I wanna be someone that you can be proud to be with, someone you can depend on and someone who wont hold you back.. Soo I wanna build my life towards that goal I wanna become someone you can love back and I know telling you all this now wont change anything but I needed to say it, I wanted to tell you for so long and it hurt to leave things how they were and not speak anymore so I came back today to clear things up."

Maki wasn't really sure what to say she was blushing like crazy after hearing Honoka's confession, this felt like a dream one she never wanted to wake up from no matter what. but at the same time she was sad, Honoka was crying and that hurt her she never wanted to see Honoka cry she had always tried keep her happy. She knew she had to say something or Honoka will feel even worse and the thought of that mad her heart ache " Honoka its okay you know I never saw you as inferior to me actually quite the opposite you've always made me happy you were always there for me even when I didn't think I needed anyone. You're the best thing that ever happened to me, there's a lot about my life I wish I could change but meeting you in the music room that day and everything we've done together since then id never change that Honoka... I wouldn't trade you for anything... you're selfish and an idiot and you always dragged me around with you but that's what I love about you.." maki didn't finish speaking she immediately ran and gave Honoka a hug she held her for a bit she was still crying so maki decided to kiss her, Honoka wasn't expecting it but she gave in after second and kissed her back it

It was a brief moment around 15 or 20 seconds before the two ended their passionate kiss after catching her breath maki continued speaking " I love you, you stupid idiot so don't you ever forget it" Honoka gave maki another kiss much shorter this time but once they parted it was Honoka who spoke first "i love you too and I promise I won't forget never even if I lost my memories now I would remember how you feel and I return how I feel about you aswell" she said with a big smile while wiping away the tears. Maki was hiding her face because how much she was blushing then she felt her pocket vibrate, it was her parents "shit its 7:30 that's past dinner time, c'mon we gotta hurry before they kill me" Honoka nodded they both started sprinting towards makis house. Both were extremely happy with how things tuned out for them, however Honoka won't be making a great impression her new girlfriend's parents if she gets her super late

Sorry if the story isnt that great its my first time writing one of these I like writing stories and I love honomaki however my grammar and punctuation are lacking a bit so please bear with me