AN: i'm so sleepy

Chapter 7

"Y,you're joking right?" Tomo asked, a small smile trying to work its way onto her face.

"No, I'm not joking. I think we should break up."

"Like… a break?"

Momo shook his head. "No, Tomo-chan. I think we should really break up."

Tomo stood there, staring up at Momo with wide eyes. So it was true.

Tomo didn't know how to feel anymore and her body just reacted for her. Without further thought, she threw herself at Momo, wrapping her arms around him and sobbing into his chest. There was no way this was real, this wasn't. Momo was right here and he was hers. She was sure of it. She felt Momo's strong hand softly nudge her shoulder and his voice soften as he spoke to her.

"Tomo, I have to go."

Tomo didn't let go. She only clung tighter.

"Tomo-chan, you're not making it easy!"

"It's not supposed to be easy!" Tomo sobbed, turning her wet stare towards him. "How could you do this to me!?"

"Tomo-chan," Momo sighed, apparently exasperated. He softly pushed her aside and walked to open the door.

"Takeshi! Please!" Tomo fell at his feet and he proceeded to walk out and closed the door behind him, not heeding her pleas.

She sobbed on the floor, unable to gather herself. This was all so stupid. Why was she crying so much over someone so stupid as Momo. Still, she felt cheated. She spent 3 years with him and they just ended like it was nothing. Momo gave no thought to this? How could he be so heartless? It wasn't like there were any true warnings of this happening. If this was about the pregnancy thing they could have easily talked. It just wasn't like Momo, or at least that's what Tomo thought.

"Oneesan," a small voice called.

Tomo lifted her head from the ground and turned her head to see her two younger brothers looking at her with concern. Tomo sniffed and wiped her eyes with her sleeve.

"You two can play games now. I'm finished with the living room."

Tomo stood up and walked pass them and made her way up the stairs. She didn't want them worrying about her. She closed the door behind her and then dived onto her bed, hiding her face in her pillow. She cried herself to sleep.

Tomo wasn't asleep long before her cell phone began to ring. Tomo groaned, lifting her had from her pillow and looking over to her desk where her phone was buzzing. She sat up slowly, stretching and then getting up to get the phone. She could tell by the ring tone that it was Sakuno. Tomo wasn't feeling any better. Her heart was heavy and miserable. However, Tomo knew that this was a happy day for her best friend so she didn't want to sound to down when she answered. Tomo let out another sigh and hoped Sakuno wouldn't be able to tell she'd been crying. She answered the phone.

"Hello?"

Tomo's voice cracked under the forced cheer.

"T,tomo-chan--" Sakuno's voice came out strained.

Immediately, Tomo sensed something was not right. She took a quick glance towards her clock and noticed it was only five minutes until nine.

"Sakuno-chan?" Tomo asked. "Are you ok? Aren't you on your date?"

A sob broke out through the phone.

"Tomo… Tomo chan!" Sakuno replied, gasping and sobbing at once. "Oh Tomo-chan I… id-- ot… oh Tom-o… Yuu--k--n-nn. mus… must! ha…hate me!

Tomo couldn't even begin to make sense of the blubbering string of words that spilled over the phone and into her ear.

"Sakuno! Calm down! Please, I can't understand!"

Sakuno sucked in air heavily, trying her best to stop crying but it didn't help. She could not stop crying no matter how much she tried.

"Sakuno, where are you?"

"H--ho-ome," came the troubled reply.

"You stay there ok! I'll be right over!" Tomo chan said.

"P,ple--Tomo-chan! Can… I," there was a loud gulp on the other end and then Sakuno continued more clearly. "Come over there?"

"You want to come over here?" Tomo asked.

Sakuno managed to sob out a yes. Tomo was skeptical about having the girl journey to her place in her condition but she finally told Sakuno she was welcome. Sakuno blubbered out her thanks and hung up the phone.

Tomo set her phone down on her desk with a shaky hand. Sakuno was really torn up about something and it couldn't be good. Not with her in that state. Tomo felt her heart tighten and twist in pain. How could such a nice day as this end so horribly. Whatever Yuuta did to Sakuno Tomo was sure of one thing: he would pay. Tomo felt the tears stinging against her eyes and tumble down her cheeks. She couldn't believe she still had tears left to cry. Tomo felt an anger well up in her chest and she wiped the tears away with enough force to leave stinging red marks on her cheeks. Tomo had to be strong. It wouldn't help Sakuno at all to see her this way. Whatever it was that happened to Sakuno was important and she wasn't going to burden her best friend with her own problems.

Not now. Now she had to help her friend.

Tomo made her way down the stairs to wait for Sakuno to arrive. She was impatiently pacing the hallway, looking towards the door expectantly. If her brothers noticed her odd behavior from where they sat on the living room floor, they pretended as if they didn't.

Minutes crawled by that seemed like hours but soon enough the doorbell chimed and Tomo rushed to it speedily and flung it open. Sakuno stood there, her cheeks and eyes red from tears. She still wore her dress and from her date but her curls, which were so full and luxurious earlier, had now fallen flat against her head.

Tomo let her in and Sakuno obliged. Tomo led her friend to her room, away from the curious ears of her brothers and sat them both down on the bed.

"Sakuno-chan…" Tomo began.

They both sat in silence a while, Tomo looking at her friend's worn and tired face and Sakuno staring down at her own lap. Neither said a word. Tomo stood and went to her closet to pull out some pajamas Sakuno could borrow and then a brush from her desk. She then returned to her seat on the bed. She placed the pajamas in Sakuno's lap.

"You're staying here tonight so wear these. I'll brush out your hair after you change," Tomo said, plainly.

Sakuno placed her hand over the pajamas Tomo gave her, her eyes never leaving the soft pink fabric. Her lips quivered as she whispered, "Thank you."

Tomo out on a forced smile that Sakuno didn't see, as she refused to lift her head. Sakuno's shoulder began to shake and again she broke out in a terrible sob. She raised the pajama to her face and cried into them, wetting it with her tears.

"Sakuno! Tell me what's wrong!" Tomo pried Sakuno's hands from her face and the pajamas fell to the comforter of the bed. Tomo held Sakuno's hands in hers.

"Yuuta-kun… he… he must hate me!"

"Sakuno-chan! That can't be true! What happened?"

Sakuno leaned forward and buried her face in Tomo's neck. Tomo felt her self getting angry again, though she couldn't really place why.

"Sakuno chan?"

Sakuno lifted her head and sniffed, wiping her eyes with the back of her hand.

"I'm sorry. You'll probably think I'm over reacting!" Sakuno apologized when she caught her breath.

"I won't find out until you tell me!" Tomo exclaimed, sounding a little harsh.

"I'm sorry. The date was really going well until we got back to my house… but then--"

Tomo listened to every word Sakuno said and digested every detail. It's funny how one can be so sad and broken only to feel angry and vengeful the next. And yet, that's exactly how Tomo felt that night. With every word said Tomo felt her fist clinch tighter and her anger grow. She couldn't believe that Yuuta Fuji and she would make him pay.

-to be continued-

AN: you'll find out about yuuta and sakuno's date next chapter. anyway... thanks for reading please review. i need sleep now.