Chapter 54
Off-Mood
Takeru trotted through the hall hurriedly. His eyes weren't reflecting the cheerful and calm look in his ocean blue orbs that he always had.
Hikari was the first to notice this. Seeing Takeru without his casual smile was a worrying sight for her. So, when Takeru was on the way to the class without looking around him, Hikari quickly caught one of his swinging arms.
They both stayed in silent.
"Takeru…" Hikari called. She removed the –kun suffix that she had usually used before. Just for this time, she thought that it would help.
"…" Takeru was froze. He wanted to draw his arm back, but at the same time he couldn't. He wanted to talk to her, but he was afraid that yell would be the one that come out from his mouth. So, he just kept his silent.
"… do you have some problem?" she slowly asked. Her grip slowly traced down and ended at Takeru's fingers. She timidly squeezed it, giving him a gesture that she was care about his condition now.
"… you can count on me…" she whispered, but every of her words caused Takeru to be more confused of what he should do. The things he had been thinking for this day were mixed again with Hikari's words, and soon… Takeru knew that he couldn't hold his own emotion.
"… Takeru, I-
"Let me go…" Takeru whispered back. He just hoped that with that, Hikari would let him go and he could set off and handle every of his problems quickly and had a good end. However, Hikari squeezed his fingers with a bit more force.
"Takeru… I-
"LET ME GO!" Takeru was utterly surprised to see him yelling at Hikari, even though he wasn't facing her directly. But, he knew well that it would hurt her a lot, so he turned his back and this time, he was the one who caught Hikari's arm.
Hikari was sobbing ; she didn't expect that her will to help her friends turned out to make her friends condition become worse. When she felt an arm snatched again hers, she turned back slowly, to see Takeru's cerulean eyes with its light back, and filled more with guilty.
"… sorry…" with his words, Takeru pulled the brunette girl in a friendly hug, which she returned bashfully. They just kept embracing each other only for a brief moment, before letting each other go with smile across their face.
Unknown by them, Daisuke was watching the whole scene while holding some tissues.
"Man, they are so sweet! I haven't ever realized it! They should play some romantic scenes for some drama!" a rant, mostly like mere and obvious statement was out from Daisuke's mouth.
Well, as expected.