35 - Vignette -Post Game
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(Listen to 'Another Heart Calls' by All American Rejects while reading for more feels).
What Matters
"We should break up."
"...I...I think so too."
The silence that followed was sharp enough to pierce the both of them.
It wasn't working out.
They weren't working out.
In every break up, no matter what anyone says, there's always a reason - there's always something or someone to blame.
Maybe it was the distance that planted the gap between their feelings. Though both Neku and Shiki studied in Tokyo, they were on two sides of the city. If you asked them, neither of them could say which of them stopped replying to the calls.
They'd say they were both busy
Busy, busy, busy.
Too busy for Shibuya, the busiest town in the world.
Then there were the fights. Instead of looking forward to the calls they missed so much, they dreaded it. Who knew how loud voices could go even while on the phone.
Or maybe it was that girl who kept hanging around Neku. No, it was that asshole who was trailing around with Shiki all the time. Oh? Well, Neku didn't have to study with that girl in his flat. But Shiki was the one who had spent her whole day alone with that bastard. Yes, but it was Neku who had forgotten that it was her birthday.
"Do you hate me?" The boy turned his darkened blue eyes to her.
She met them, and her voice did not waver a single bit, "no. I could never hate you."
No, of course she didn't. He didn't either. They never considered the third party that they spent time with romantically, and they both knew this was how the other felt too. But still. They still felt hurt.
Hurt, hurt, hurt.
And right now, they were hurting even more.
"...are we still friends, then?" Shiki asked quietly.
"What else would we be?" She lowers her gaze - he didn't say yes.
"Partners."
She quickly looks back at him. He had no doubt in that.
Shiki half-smiles. "Yes, we always have that."
And maybe that was all that mattered, even if everything else had broken in two.
A/N: Tadaa! And this time it was angsty -shot-. Well more bittersweet than angsty, I think. Ahem. Anyway imma dedicate this chapter to I'll Break Your Heart who's my new Neshiki loving friend~ I love meeting people who love my OTP -shot- That being said, go check out Costume by her! More Neshiki goodness (that isn't angsty, this time).
And woah owo 150+ reviews! You guys are awesome! I'll work hard to continue on spreading the Neshiki love!
Thanks for reading!
- Dina (19/9/2013)
