Sakuno only froze where she sat. Her mouth was sour and her eyes ached, close to crying. She didn't know what to say. She had no words. Her friend, her typically level-headed friend was red. Suna was furious as he scolded her, ran away with the emotions she herself should have been downing in. But she couldn't. She just didn't know how to hate the man she's been in love with for over half a decade.
"Why are you doing this?" Suna asked her for the hundredth time that afternoon. "Ryuzaki-san," He sighed, trying his hardest to quell the heat in his nerves. "You don't deserve this. So, why are you letting him do this to you?"
A tear fell from her eye, and nearly choking up, she managed to utter.
"Because he's sorry."
Suna forced a dry, humorless laugh.
"You deserve better than this, Sakuno."
"You don't understand." She told him. "We can make this work. We always do." Then, she looked up at him pleadingly. She was at an absolute loss of how she should feel, of how she should act. "He apologizes. I forgive him." She said, forcing a poor and unconvincing smile, trying to reassure the enraged young man before that her everything was fine. Knowing she wasn't getting through to him, Sakuno finally broke into a defeated sob. "I just love him so much. I don't know what to do anymore."