"Love" "Dark" and "Breakway"

Pairing: UmiMaki

She thought she would've understood Maki by now, the past few months had seen their relationship grow closer and closer.

It was a little too closer in fact, and Umi wondered if it was wrong of her to mature this feeling of hers.

It was wrong of her to feel this way, when Maki only saw her as a good friend and senior.

It had escalated beyond her control, she realized, and she had to turn to physical methods to detach herself from the redhead that she had grow fond of.

Their job scopes for muse, however ensured that they would always have time to spend alone together, and on that day Umi found herself trapped within four walls of white.

Maki's smile was hardly ever there anymore recently, and when the last note faded into silence, Maki had snapped the piano lid shut.

"We should do it another day."

It was a statement, not a question.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw her senior walked out of the piano room, the tension in Umi visibly slacked.

She couldn't help but felt her heart clenched at the thought that she made Umi uncomfortable.

Umi had left in such a hurry that she left a sheet of lyrics forgotten, the wind had blown it to the floor.

The words were painful, sending stabs through her heart.

"I'm sure that I would've been better off ignorant"

"Holding such pain in my chest,
I smiled each day, not saying a word about it
and told myself to forget"

Umi was a cruel person.

The wooden door clicked shut as she walked out of the place they held many memories together.

Her feet stayed rooted to the ground however, and she was unable to leave.

Another piece had started, it wasn't a piece that she recognized.

It began with a Cantabile, and it reminded her of their happier times together, of when she just began to realize her feelings.

It reminded her of how she had sat beside the redhead, singing songs that only belonged to them both.

The lyrics she had written then, was full of love, the only place she could express how she felt.

She stood against the door, as the first movement ended, ending with a imperfect chord, the odd harmony striking through her heart as the notes reached her ears.

Then began a dark movement, the fluctuating volumes and changing tempos sending her heart into a frenzy.

It had felt like how she was left fidgeting every time she was alone with Maki, after she realized her fondness of the redhead.

When the piece ended with a suspended chord, time seemed to have stopped, the abrupt breaking left her heart pounding with pain.

It felt like dismissal.

Maki was in pain.

She could feel her presence as the senior entered the room.

The tears had blurred her vision, the liquid staining the sheets of lyrics left on her lap.

The elegant handwriting became something she never wanted to see.

There was a hug, the arms were slightly trembling, and it grew tighter as she cried harder.

"Do you.. Do you hate me? Did I do something wrong?"

She cried out, and those ambers eyes looked as if they were close to tearing up too.

"No… It's my fault."

"Then why have you been avoiding me?"

She turned around abruptly, her other arm slamming into the keys, the jarring sounds blared throughout the room.

"Because I love you too much."

And it was the first time she saw Umi cried, and she never want to see that face again.

The confirmation sent her heart soaring.

"Me too."

She leaned in for a kiss, the final movement ending in risoluto.

Note: cantabile - singing style, risoluto - resolving

The lyrics was for arifureta kanashimi no hate.