Chapter 37
I saw the stream of light flowing through the slit between the curtains into my eyes; reluctantly I wake up and roll over. As I lay in bed the stream of light next to me I wondered what was going to happen today. Tsukushi had to wake up at sometime or another, the engagement had happened, there was no turning back.
I see Soujiro in the corner of my eye on the sofa, asleep with a deeply furrowed brow. It's no wonder why though, his fiancée was sleeping in the next room with another person who happens to be one of his best friends.
I think of Shizuka, she cried herself to sleep last night. I think she really loves Rui and Tsukushi which makes it all the harder that neither of them love her more than they love each other. Her two best friends, pillars of support withdrawing at the same time. I see her sleeping face with traces of last night's tears on my right; how I wish I could be the one she wanted to kiss the tears away.
I arise from the mornings musing and move on to the shower.
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We're sitting in the café Tsukasa, Shigeru, Soujiro, Shizuka and I poking about through our breakfast spread, minds clearly elsewhere; the two empty seats at the table in particular. There is an awkward silence all around as I sip my orange juice, I see Soujiro fidgeting in his seat waiting to be allowed to see her.
Suddenly he gets up and announces, "I don't know about the rest of you, but I can't sit here anymore."
"And what do you think you're going to accomplish by barging into that room now?" asked Tsukasa.
"Closure. If she wants to leave me, I'd rather she do it now. The looming cloud is killing me, what is she doing in there, what are they talking about. I'm going crazy!" exclaimed Soujiro.
"Then we should all go," I hear myself say.
