Disclaimer: I do not own Flame of Recca; they all belong to Nobuyuki Anzai. The ones that are mine are Aurora, Cassandra, their friend(s), and teachers, etc.

Chapter 7: Telling You That I Love You, But Failing

Soon the winter field trip ended, and Tokiya lived through it all, mostly the fact that Riya was still after him...much to his displeasure. And surprisingly Cassandra was helping him get away from Riya the whole time that they were on the field trip.

Now, she was still chasing after him...and he was getting annoyed by it, minus the fact that Aurora and Riya got into fights more often then they should have-that was the odd thing, because Aurora usually didn't get into fights at all. He just had to figure out why, since not knowing why was really killing him.

So he followed her, because Cassandra told him to keep an eye on her. And at the roof, that was when Tokiya heard Aurora and Riya yet again get into another argument.

"Why in the heck do you keep chasing after him?" She asked as Tokiya hid in the shadows by the door.

"Because it seems like you don't want him," Riya answered.

Aurora didn't reply.

"You're wrong," she said after some time had passed.

"Oh, really? Then prove it," Riya challenged.

"Fine, I will!" She exclaimed as Tokiya watched, surprised at what he heard.

"You have a week Aurora, if he doesn't admit that he loves you by next week Friday at 3:00, then you lose," Riya stated as she opened the door and walked down the stairs.

Just as Aurora was about to leave, Tokiya stepped out of the shadows and grabbed her arm, and as she spun around, he smirked as she smiled a deadly smile.

"So I guess you heard everything, even my confession?" She asked as he stared.

"Yes, but I'm not complaining," he admitted, whispering the answer in her ear.

"Make up your mind Tokiya, you have a week," she stated as she walked towards the door.

But she stopped when he asked, "So you're just gambling love on chance? Tell me why Aurora?"

She then turned around and replied, "Yes Tokiya, I'm gambling love on chance, because you may never know if love will ever come your way." Then she opened the door and walked down the stairs.

Aurora was gone before he could blink, and that was when he realized that he might just lose her forever. The truth started to sink in as he walked down the hall to his locker, and the one person he wasn't expecting to see, was standing there.

"What happened Tokiya?" Cassandra questioned as he spun in his locker combination.

"Well, they both got into another argument about me again, and Aurora is officially mad at me, plus Riya gave her a challenge," he answered truthfully in full detail.

"Explain the challenge, and the fact that my sister is mad at you."

He was silent for some time as they walked down the hall, but soon he was telling her what had happened.

"Well, the challenge is that Aurora has a week to make me admit that I love her, or else she loses, and she's mad at me because of what we were discussing earlier," he explained as Cassandra listened without saying a word.

"So what does it mean when Riya said, 'you lose'?" He asked as Cassandra smiled, but it was a sad one.

Please don't let it be what I think it means, he pleaded in his mind. But it didn't help when Cassandra said, "It means that she will lose you." That was when he cursed, and she stared.

By his reaction to her answer, Cassandra realized that Tokiya loved Aurora. And she was happy about that. Yet there was a problem, because how was Tokiya going to tell Aurora the he loved her? Besides, Tokiya had problems with that kind of truth, so what was he going to do?

"Better just ask him," Cassandra said to herself as they walked to Aurora's locker.

"By the way Tokiya, what are you going to do?" Cassandra wondered as they waited for Aurora, who was just coming out of class.

He sighed, defeated. "I guess I'm just going to tell her the truth, but I know that I'm going to fail just trying," he answered as Cassandra smiled, while Aurora took out her books out of her locker and acted like nothing happened, and for now, Tokiya wanted to keep it that way.

Now, he was trying to think of a way to tell Aurora the truth and he was having a hard time with it. "I know I'm going to fail just trying to do this," he said to himself as they left the school.