Sakura couldn't explain it for the live of her. The sickening drop of her stomach. The shaking hands. The dizziness. The feeling of complete and utter dread that surrounded her being.
That is, until she received a text.
Sender: Uchiha Itachi-kun
Receiver: Haruno Sakura
Body: Can you call me?
In her mind she knew exactly what he was going to say. It wasn't that he couldn't come to the beach with her because something came up. No. It was something worse, she could just feel it.
First off, they never talked on the phone unless it was something serious, Sakura was too nervous to start a phone call just to hear his voice. What if he thought she was being weird?!
This was all brand new for her. The summer after freshman year, just a few months after they'd met, and she didn't know what was normal and what wasn't.
But now?
Now she felt like something was about to come to a halt, mainly their relationship.
An hour later and she was pushing away the tears she had been crying since the phone call started.
They had parted with her saying, "At least we tried. I'm glad we can still be friends."
Because you see, for the carnation haired beauty, it mattered more to stay in his life and hurt, than to cut ties and never smile with him again.
So friends it was.
Friends.
Just.
Friends.
The tears ran like waterfalls down her face, she couldn't pretend. At least not right now. Not to herself. She couldn't believe it was all happening.
He had even been the one who, just a few days ago, reiterated them trying and waiting to see what happened when school started back up.
And now he didn't even want to try?
Nothing added up! He couldn't just care about her so much and then stop. He couldn't regret it and still think it was right! He couldn't get jealous of other guys when he didn't even want her.
He didn't make sense.
And right now, Sakura was too busy crying to care.