About two months had passed since the incident down at the beach with Ayumi and, although it was hard for him, Yoshiki had learnt how to deal with it. The biggest problem was on this day every month, the exact day that the accident had happened whrn he always felt more depressed. He had tried many things to try and get Ayumi to remember him in the first one or two weeks but none of them worked and so, as much as it pained him to even try it, he decided to try and let her go. Easier said then done however, making Yoshiki's life a whole lot harder. He was trying though, it was hard to forget her completely, if not impossible and therefore, he just attempted to push thoughts of her to the back of her mind. At least he thought she didn't remember him...
Ayumi had forgotten him but now, a few months later, she could quite clearly remember his face and though she may be wrong, thought his name was Yoshiki. It had been about a week since she remembered this bit of information and so, she had decided to try and find him...no matter what
"...Yoshiki..?" Azumi asked her boyfriend who sat, completely zoned out.
"Hellooo...Yoshiki..?" she asked again, finally snapping him out of his trance like state
"Yeah? What is it?" Yoshiki asked clueless as to what Azumi was on about
"You were thinking of that night again, weren't you?" she asked, looking into his blank, expressionless eyes.
"Yeah...a bit..." He admitted
"I can't believe you're still hung up on that." Azumi said
"It was my fault. I could of warned her...before it was too late..." Yoshiki replied
"She's fine now though." Azumi pointed out
"Still, she shouldn't of had to go through that." Yoshiki said before Azumi's phone buzzed. She pulled it out and saw that she had a text from her mum telling her to come home. She replied with a simple ok before putting her phone away and standing up.
"It was my mum, she says I need to go home." Azumi said as Yoshiki began standing up as well.
"I'll walk you home if you want." Yoshiki said
"Okay." Azumi replied happily as they both headed towards the door, before heading down the stairs and out the apartment complex. The air was colder than usual and light rain fell quickly from the sky. Misty fog hung low over the town as they began the walk towards Azumi's house. I can't carry on like this, Yoshiki thought, I have to tell her it isn't right, in fact it's cruel of me to do this, I love Ayumi and I never have and never will see Azumi in that way. He had started a mental debate with his self and was so caught up in it, he didn't hear Azuni repeatedly calling his name.
"...Yoshiki...Yoshiki?" Azumi said, clicking her fingers in front of his face. In fact, he had been so lost in his own thoughts that he didn't realise he had walked straight past Azumi's house and was at least four houses down from hers.
"Sorry, I was just thinking..." Yoshiki mumbled quietly, trailing off towards the end.
"Let me guess about her? Do you even care about me? Because if you do, you surely don't show it! In fact you've never once thought about me, it's always her! Oh yeah and who's the one who keeps making you feel better, reassuring you it wasn't your fault? It's me! It's always been me, helping you and telling you it's okay, over and over again. I bet I was just a distraction wasn't I? You used me to try and forget about her! You...you idiotic jerk!" Azumi spat at him before running inside her house and up the stairs, tears streaming down her face.
"Well, I guess I deserved that. It would've happened sometime sooner or later." Yoshiki mumbled quietly under his breath to his self
"Kishinuma?" He heard a voice say behind him. He knew that voice, he could recognise it anywhere...
"Kishinuma Yoshiki? Is that you ?" They asked. He knew immediately who it was and as he turned around, he felt his heart skip a beat when he saw the small blue haired girl who stood before him
"Yes it is, Shinozaki." He replied to her question
"What happened? That night, down at the beach? I don't remember and it took a long time to remember your name but, now that I know, please tell me what happened? Who was he? The guy who pushed me?" Ayumi asked, her eyes glued down before lifting her head up and looking straight into his eyes as she asked the last two questions.
"Wait, pushed you?" Yoshiki asked, confused. He had figured that she had lost her footing and fell whilst she had been walking at the top of the cliff, he was never told that she had been pushed and he certainly never would've guessed that she was or that it was anything but an accident.
"...That's him..." Ayumi said, pointing a shaky hand at the slightly suspicious looking man who stood across the street. She was trembling in fear as he looked in her direction with an evil glare...