"You're . . . disbanding Bad Luck?"
He hadn't meant for it to sound like an echo, but the words reverberated around in his head, his mind unable to truly grasp what Shuichi was saying. The singer was going to break apart the one thing that had meant everything to him, even after the final split. To hear Shuichi say he was going to end it was rather mind-numbing.
"Yeah . . . It needs to be done. We're at a breaking point. If it doesn't happen now, it will at some other point and things might be too far gone to ever be healed. I don't want that, Eiri. They're my friends and they deserve better than that from me!"
"You deserve better from them, too," Eiri replied, his tone laced with irritation. If there was anything he did not miss about Shuichi, it was the vocalist's ability to turn things on himself and put all of the blame for whatever situation onto his own shoulders. There were times it didn't even cross Shuichi's mind that he might not be the one who needed to feel guilty, and it pissed Eiri off to no end when his former lover was in a mood like this. "Believe it or not, you're not the only guilty of whatever's been going on, you baka. When are you going to get that through your head?"
"They've put up with a lot of shit from me, Eiri."
"So? What else is new?" Eiri snorted. "You'd think by now they'd have gotten used to your theatrics and that they'd know when a relationship is affecting you and when it isn't."
"They do know when a relationship is affecting me," Shuichi murmured, his tone barely audible. "That's why they've been blaming you for my off-days. I've been seeing someone else, Eiri."