Warning: overly clichéd plot

Chapter 3

Just like in the anime, Ryoma and his family moved to Japan once he turned 12.

And I, of course, stayed in the US with my family.

Never have I felt any more despaired than this.

You could say that I, Chiyo Takaharashi depends too much on her childhood friend, Ryoma Echizen, probably even more than I would have allowed it to be, and the mere thought of him leaving me hurts too much and it sucks, a lot.

The fact that I have no other friends beside Ryoma made it even worse.

When I first heard (from my mom) that Ryoma is soon going away, to Japan no less, I was livid.

Funny how me already knowing it beforehand still makes it no less depressing for him to just leave.

I kicked at his front door, stomping angrily at him. Demanding for him to say something nice to cheer me up, anything, which ended up with me sprawling on his floor, mouth gaping and trembling all over.

He rushed to my side in just a matter of second, his arms tightly gripping into my shoulder,

I gasped at the lack of air,

No.

My vision blurred.

Am I dying?

I could feel tears streaming down my face,

Am I really going to die?

I could hear a slight sound of rope snapping in the back of my mind,

No. I don't want this.

No, no more.

"Chiyo!"

He was speaking to me,

"Snap out of it!"

Ryoma was speaking to me.

I could see Ryoma speaking as he moved his mouth to form a collection of words that is so similar yet so distance at the same time.

What-

I panicked even more, throat clenching as fear started to grab at me.

What is he saying?

He cursed.

"Chiyo, where is your inhaler?" He pronounced each words clearly, giving enough pause in between words

Oh!

It's in my bag!

I'd tried to say that to him, but couldn't find enough air to do just that.

My eyes shifted across the room to where my bag is. He'd noticed.

He dashed off, grabbed my bag, probably tearing it off in the process, then he ran back to me again with my inhaler in his hand.

He non-so-gently shoved it to my face.

I almost cried out in relief as I gladly welcomed the sweet air.

Then I glanced at Ryoma.

He was leaning on the wall, his hat covering up his face as he continued to look down on his feet.

After a moment of recollecting myself,

"We'll, I, didn't really expect that attack." I laughed nervously, cheek warming up at the uncomfortable silence between the two of us.

"Thanks."

Silence.

Gee, thanks for the silence, I feel loved

"Don't get me wrong though! I'm still kicking your ass for leaving me!" I declared at him.

Still silence.

I fidgeted.

"Sorry, I didn't really expect that, really."

More silence.

Wow, I think that he thinks I'm a talking cactus now, seeing as how he decided to ignore me all along.

Or maybe I'm just that annoying that he just had to ignore me? Okay, that makes more sense.

"Go home." His voice was bland.

I blinked in surprise.

What?

He then began to walk away from me.

"No."

He stopped.

"No. I know that I'm annoying, alright." I bit my lips, "I'm useless, overly awkward, no friend loser who talks about unicorns too much than general people's likings, I have emotional issues and a pain in the ass disease that makes me gap like a fish whenever a seizure comes!"

I trailed off, eyes stubbornly focusing on the ground as tears started coming out like a Niagara falls.

I sobbed. "B-but if you want, really want to get rid off me, then you should do more than this! Cause I'm a stubborn idiot and that stubborn idiot doesn't believe that you want her to go home right now!"

Silence, again.

Eugh, I hate this silence.

"Y-you know, I won't be moving even if you said so!" I sniffed.

Ryoma was still facing the other way, with his back in front of me.

Then, THAT jerk face,

Oh, that idiotic, overly arrogant, shitty guy left.

Yep, he freakin left me, the girl who just almost died, behind.

Gaping stupidly at his now-gone form, I screamed banshee-style at him "You must be joking!"

Turns out that Ryoma still has that tiny bit of human heart left for me I guess, since he did come back.

With melons.

Yums.

It almost made me forgive him, almost.

I took a big bite into this precious green guy and suddenly all was forgiven.

Damn this guy knows how to bribe.

It was quiet that night, none of us was talking as we sat by each other's side with a plate of melons placed between us.

The silence was very much like bathing in a bath of warm water, It was comfortable.

"I'll be back."

I looked up at him and found him already staring quietly at me, cool and composed- just like always.

"No."

He was still staring at me, probably waiting for my explanation for the "no" that I just threw at him.

"I'm not going to wait on you."

I stood up, snatched the melon off his hand, took a large bite, then grinned.

"I'll come and get you myself."

I looked down at him as he stared at me from his sitting form,

"It's a promise." I swore

The day of his departure came just as quickly as the news had traveled.

This day would certainly not be the last.

I looked at him and grinned.

with puffy eyes an all that,

"The promise is still on."

He stared at me.

I stared back, eyes twinkling in excitement.

"Mada mada Dane"

Oh, it's on.

He smirked.

SMIRKED at me!

It's on, Ryomashit.

It's so on.

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