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Chapter 3: Too Many Tears!
I found myself wrapped in the arms of the quiet purple-haired girl covered in tears. She kept asking me if "it" was true, and she repeated my name quite a few times. I could feel her emotional distress just from our embrace, along with the tears streaming down her face and into my shirt. To comfort my dear friend, I held her back with one arm and ran my fingers through her short hair. "Tsukasa, what's wrong?" Tsukasa…You're so sweet, what can possibly break you down like this? What's going on? She didn't answer right away though. Instead, she kept weeping into my shoulder, and I kept hugging her, stroking her hair soothingly.
Soon, though, she looked up at me with those big puppy eyes. Desperation seemed to radiate from her face, but along with a tint of something else. Something like…hope? I melted down under her cute but sad gaze. "Y-Yuki-chan…Konata…kiss…" she stuttered.
I then knew exactly what she was talking about: the moment that Konata kissed me unexpectedly at the dentist's office. I broke down and cried myself. We went back into embrace and cried onto – or more like into – each other again. "I…I don't know, Tsukasa…I don't know…" I sobbed. We wept like that for quite a while. I'm not quite sure what Kagami-san was doing then, my mind was very mixed up at the time. Eventually we stopped crying and sat on the couch. I took out my handkerchief and dabbed my eyes. She looked at me with those beautiful puppy eyes again, and I felt a sad sympathy for the now red-faced girl in front of me. Sympathy and something else – was it…longing?
"Miyuki…is it true?"
Her face was still covered in tears. I took my handkerchief and dabbed her face dry, but tears still came down here and there. I looked her in the eyes, and for a moment I was able to see the true sophistication of dear Tsukasa. I've known this girl for so long, but never have I been able to see so deep into her personality. I saw mixed and mingled emotions: bliss, misery, doubt, hope. My hand already at her face, I brushed some hair out of her face and tucked behind her ear. "Tsukasa," I began, although I wasn't quite sure what I was going to say, "while I was at the dentist, before my mouth was numbed, Konata showed up at the office and…before I could do anything…" I couldn't keep the eye contact anymore and diverted my gaze, ashamed of myself.
I looked back, and Tsukasa was crying again. My heart throbbed, and emotions began to replace reasoning in my mind. What do I do? What do I do? I tried to pull her in for another hug, but she escaped and got up. I saw her begin to run away (probably into Konata-san's room – oh dear, this could've spelt trouble) and my mind went into full panic mode. Just before she left the room I got up and ran after her. Thankfully I'm much faster and more agile than dear Tsukasa.
I caught up to her and grabbed her by the waist. She cried and fought against me, but I held on nevertheless. "Miyuki, let go!" she sobbed. "Please, let…" I silenced her by turning her around in my arms and looking into her deep light violet eyes. I closed my eyes, leaned in, and placed a kiss on her lips. What am I doing? I thought. Why am I enjoying this? I shouldn't be doing this, but it feels so…right. She seemed to melt into the kiss and closed her eyes, putting her arms around me. I used one hand to stroke her short hair again. We parted lips and looked into each other's eyes.
"Tsukasa," I began, but this time I was silenced by the lovely Tsukasa kissing me. We stood like that, lips pressed against each other, arms around the other, my hand in her hair, for what seemed like ages, but was probably only a few seconds. When we separated again, I smiled down at Tsukasa, but heard something off to my side.
I glanced over and saw Kagami-san standing there, paralyzed in fright. Her eyes were wide open, her cheeks were deep red and her eyes were puffy. Wait, she was crying too? Hold on a moment…Kagami is…crying? Oh dear, this could get bad fast. Tsukasa turned to see what I was looking at, and became paralyzed herself.
The three of us stared at each other for what felt like an eternity. Kagami-san was the first one to move. A tear dropped off of her cheek and fell onto the floor as she backed up slowly. "Uh…Kagami-san," I began. She shook her head and turned around. Her fists were clenched, making it seem that she was holding some sort of emotion. I let go of Tsukasa and put my hand on her shoulder, but she shook it off and began to walk away. I was left helpless as I watched the purple-haired tsundere grew further and further from me. When she got to a certain point, she appeared to lose her cool temper and run instead of walk. She went into one of the rooms and slammed the door behind her, but my mind was too jumbled to know which one.
At this point I felt a sudden wave of emotional exhaustion come over me. I saw Tsukasa go to the room Kagami-san went in, but I was too tired to worry. I felt a headache forming, so I sat on the couch and laid my head on a pillow. The last thing I remember seeing was Tsukasa knocking on Kagami's door and Kagami yelling something back. From the look on Tsukasa's face, it must have been something serious or unexpected. Then, I blacked out.
Author's Note: Not bad, if I do say so myself. So far, I've had a new chapter out every day since this story's release. Think I can keep that up? Probably not. I mean, this weekend is a 4-day weekend, so I have lots of free time. After that, I don't know.
I was trying really hard not to end this chapter on crying again, things like that get boring after a while…right? I was gonna end it at Kagami's entrance, but I hate being too repetitive.
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